>> Company Process
As Artistic Director of the Living Word Project, Marc Bamuthi Joseph works closely with a select group of writers and performers, ranging in age from 19-25.
Our process includes engaging young artists who first take part in a mandatory “apprenticeship” – a year-long opportunity to observe and learn the process of developing work from concept to completion. Living Word Project apprentices are provided with the opportunity to create work of their own, under the mentorship of Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Completed works are then toured nationally as a part of the Living Word Project Repertory.
Over the course of a season, the Living Word Project:
> Formalizes programming & master classes for Youth Speaks writers demonstrating great promise
> Forges new performance language by providing access to literary performance
> Facilitates the creation of unique, cutting-edge work based in the “word,” but not limited by it
> Provides emerging writers & performers with opportunities for their work to be developed and presented through a guided mentoring process
> Premieres new work from nationally established & emerging voices (particularly in spoken word and hip hop theater)
> Educates audiences about the possibilities & artistic merit of new forms / genres of the literary arts
> Informs audiences that there is a social impact when historical elements somehow go “missing” from traditional high school texts
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