Student Programs

Hyde Park Bank High School Performance Festival

Approximately 250 students in the AIS program participate in the annual Hyde Park Bank High School Performance Festival, in which they work with Court Teaching Artists in-class and after school to create their own productions of classic plays. Not only does the festival afford students the chance to demonstrate the skills they’ve learned during AIS performance workshops, but it also allows them to connect with their peers and venture outside of their immediate social circles. For many students, it is also the first time they will have performed on a stage of any kind, much less the stage of a professional theatre. Court hosted the third-annual Hyde Park Bank High School Performance Festival in January 2009.

For more information on the Artists-in-the-Schools program or the Hyde Park Bank High School Performance Festival, please contact Cree Rankin, AIS Director, at (773)702-6549 or

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