YSF’s Annual THE BIGGEST SHOW 2012 Event On October 20

YOUNG STORYTELLERS FOUNDATION

TEAMS UP WITH THE CAST OF FOX’S SMASH HIT “GLEE” TO REINFORCE ARTS EDUCATION IN LA PUBLIC SCHOOLS




Cast To Perform at YSF’s Annual THE BIGGEST SHOW 2012 Event On October 20
 
With Special Guest Stars Trevor Donovan, Chelsea Kane, Juliette Goglia and more stars

Cast of Fox TV’s smash hit GLEE teams up with nonprofit organization Young Storytellers Foundation to reinforce arts education in LA public schools. The organization brings mentors from the entertainment industry into public school classrooms to work with students one-on-one as they imagine, develop and write their own short screenplays. At the end, the stories are then transformed into an opening night of stage performances, performed by Hollywood actors called “The Big Show.”  This year, the following four students will get their stories/scripts performed by the stars of GLEE ---David Verba / Edison Language Academy - Santa Monica; Miyu Masato / Linwood Howe Elementary - Culver City; Adrian Hernandez / Walt Disney Elementary - Burbank; Siena Trenton / Willows Community School- Culver City

Performances by:
Dot Marie Jones- Glee
Kevin McHale- Glee
Naya Rivera- Glee
Max Adler- Glee
Dean Geyer- Glee
Becca Tobin -Glee
Juliette Goglia- That’s So Raven _Trevor Donovan- 90210_Iqbal Theba- Glee
Chelsea Kane – Fish Hooks, Dancing With The Stars

Saturday, October 20, 2012 6:00pm

Willows Community School, 8509 Higuera Street, Culver City, CA.

Young Storytellers Foundation YSF is a non-profit program that runs during the school day. They work in Title 1 schools in Los Angeles - which are schools that have a very high percentage of free or reduced price breakfast and lunch which is a key poverty indicator. Each school chooses ten students per session that they feel could benefit from the program (shy children, English language learners, children struggling with ADHD, etc) and those students are paired with 10 professionals from the entertainment industry (actors, writers, agents, development executives). The students and mentors meet for an hour a week for 7 weeks - during which the students each write their own short screenplay. Every idea and word is theirs - the mentors are there to provide encouragement and structure. In the final week, actors from film and television come to the school to perform each script in a performance called The Big Show. The actors audition for the students, the students cast them, and each student sits on stage in a seat of honor to see their script performed. Last year they worked in over 30 local schools and more than 700 students completed an original screenplay (http://youngstorytellers.com/).