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Meg received her MFA in Performance as Public Practice from the University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance in 2007, and is a company member of Austin-based Rude Mechs. There she served as the co-director of their education program, Grrl Action, from 2008 to 2010, advancing girls’ self-efficacy and resilience through original […]

  The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) is excited to stage its next performance: Nonviolent Acts: The Peace Plays! Nonviolence Acts: The Peace Play Festival! is the culminating production of The Manton Avenue Project’s Play-it-Again program, an after-school playwriting course held at MAP’s Clubhouse in Olneyville. 4th grade playwrights are each writing a play about the […]

OLNEYVILLE, THE OPERETTA! comes to AS220’s Black Box November 30 through December 3. Performances are Thursday and Friday at 7pm, Saturday and Sunday at 2pm.  GET YOUR TICKETS HERE! The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) is excited to stage its next performance: Olneyville, The Operetta! Olneyville, The Operetta! is the culminating performance of The Manton Avenue Project’s TAG TEAM […]

The Manton Avenue Project’s mission is to nurture the unique potential of young people living in Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood, one of the city’s lowest income neighborhoods, by unleashing their creative voices and uniting them with professional artists to create original theater.

Through our long-term, after-school playmaking programs, The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) sparks an ever-expanding sense of possibility by building each child’s capacity for personal and academic success. MAP gives young people tools to become tomorrow’s creative thinkers and community leaders. Studies tell us that after-school arts programming improves kids’ academic and social skills, and MAP believes that […]

Emily Lewis holds a BA in English, and community and organizational studies and an associates degree in foreign language. Emily is a highly regarded actor in Rhode Island. Notable roles include Frankie from Frankie and Johnie in the Clair De Lune, and Ivy in August, Osage County, both at Second Story. Emily has acted in numerous productions […]

The Manton Avenue Project’s company of actors, designers, directors, dramaturges and classroom assistants come from a pool of incredibly talented volunteers who are involved in Providence’s lively performing arts community in many capacities, and work with other local groups like Elemental Theatre, Wilbury Group, Strange Attractor, Gamm Theatre, and Trinity Repertory, to name a few.

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