EDUCATION PROGRAMS
STAGING PRIDE: QUEER YOUTH THEATER
FREE AFTER-SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL THEATER PROGRAM FOR LGBTQ+ YOUTH

Staging Pride Fall 2025 Applications Open!
Are you queer or trans and between the ages of 13-18? Do you like theater, food, and excellent vibes? Look no further than Staging Pride: Queer Youth Theater!
Staging Pride is National Queer Theater’s free, after school youth program. In partnership with The Hetrick-Martin Institute, this program brings together young NYC artists to make new friends and explore queer culture through theater. Throughout the program, you will work with expert teaching artists to build new theater skills and to create an original show. Along the way, you'll go on field trips to Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, take part in masterclasses with professional artists (past guests have included Drag Race's Marcia Marcia Marcia and Yuhua Hamasaki), and explore the vital role of the artist activist in the on-going fight for LGBTQ+ rights.
Dinner and MetroCards will be provided at each class. What are you waiting for? Fill out the application and join us!
Staging Pride is made possible by the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Find Your Light Foundation, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.