Bond Street Theatre initiates theatre-based projects for conflict resolution, education and empowerment in critical areas worldwide.

Azerbaijan 
Community Drama for Peace

In February, Bond Street Theatre's Joanna Sherman, Michael McGuigan, Ilanna Saltzman and Meghan Frank traveled to Azerbaijan at the invitation of the US Embassy to conduct a three-week long program with students at the Azerbaijan State University of Arts and Culture. The program, Community Drama for Peace, is a perfect illustration of what Bond Street's work is all about: integrating theatre-making with conflict resolution, and providing communities with a platform to constructively discuss issues important to them and create a plan for positive social change. The play toured to five cities across the country.

A glimpse into the project thanks to filmmaker David Sotnik.

Now in Print! 

​Our photo book, A Decade is Afghanistan, is now available in our shop! The photos and quotes inside celebrate ten years of humanitarian-artistic work in the field. 
Cover Photo by Meghan Frank.

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Joanna Sherman's account about the lives of girls is in a chapter titled, "The New Storytellers of Afghanistan" in this beautiful new book, available from the University of Texas Press.

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Afghanistan
Youth-Led Community Improvement

Bond Street's youth-designed and led community improvement program in Afghanistan engages 375 youth in 25 provinces in creative, constructive activities that counter violence among youth and improve their communities. The program provides training and mentorship in creative problem-solving, communication, leadership and planning. The impact is immediate: the project raises the participants' status in their communities and has created new jobs for Afghanistan's growing population.

The Balkh Youth Vounteers teaching street working children.

Myanmar 
Theatre for Civic Engagement

Big thanks to the Theatre Communication Group for sponsoring our collaboration with    Thukhuma Khayeethe of Myanmar!  Once again we return to work on an unusual and fascinating project -- a dual-language production of Ben Jonson's Volpone. Our version blends western and eastern styles and characters to point out current political-social issues in Myanmar. 

Bond Street's recent Youth Initiative for Civic Engagement sponsored by the Open Society Foundation aimed at curbing the recent rise of sectarian violence in Myanmar. The project gave youth skills in problem-solving through theatre-based activities, and featured the importance of cooperation and peace. The shows reached monastery schools in Pakokku with post-show dialogue with audiences.

Thukhuma Khayeethe theatre group performing in Pakokku.

Women's Prison Program
Afghanistan

BST is conducting a Creative Arts Program for incarcerated women in the Herat Women's Prison in Afghanistan in collaboration with Simorgh Theatre. The program gives women a voice to speak out about the uneven judicial practices that imprison women on moral grounds. We thank the generous women of Dining for Women for their sponsorship.

Our hearts go out to the women in Herat Women's Prison.

Awards & Recognition

Otto Award for Political Theatre

BST has been awarded an Otto René Castillo Award for Political Theatre. We are honored to receive recognition for our years of creating theatre for social change around the world.

Pennie Ojeda, former head of International Programs at NEA, presented the Award to Mr. McGuigan and Ms. Sherman.

Lee Reynold Award

Artistic Director 
Joanna Sherman 
received the League of Professional Theatre Women's Lee Reynold Award in honor of Bond Street Theatre's work for social justice. 
Left, Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider presents Ms. Sherman with the Award at the March gala.

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