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Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Cultural & Ethnic Awareness, Single Organization Support, Theater
Mission: To promote Hispanic culture and foster cross-cultural understanding between the Spanish- and English-speaking communities of our region via Spanish-language theater and bilingual theatrical activities. La Luna's educational program, Experience Theater, has the mission to (1) expose children to bilingual theater, (2) explore areas of cultural and ethnic heritages; (3) provide positive Hispanic role models to students, (4) provide students with a safe environment in which to explore areas of self-identity, and (5) engender a life-long interest in theater.
Results: The Experience Theater program has been in operation since 1996, and has reached out to well over 10,000 area school children through in-school performances, bilingual workshops and classes, our annual Young People's Poetry Marathon in Spanish and in-school residencies.
Direct beneficiaries per year: Elementary and secondary schools in Washington, DC, Northern Virginia and metropolitan Maryland.
Geographic areas served: Washington DC metropolitan area
Programs: The experience theater program presents plays in spanish in a traveling theater format to more than 10,000 youth and children in the district of columbia. It exposes students to theater in spanish, explores cultural and ethnic heritages, provides hispanic role models to students, develops cross-cultural understanding, provides students the opportunity to explore their identity, and engages them in live theater in hopes of promoting theater, arts, and cultural appreciation.
the international theater festival provides access to the district of columbia and surrounding residents to plays produced in latin america and spain. The festival brings top quality theater to the area in spanish with simultaneous interpretations in english. The six week event brings together latin america's finest actors, musicians, directors and technicians in the dc area. By spotlighting well-known subjects and authors, teatro de la luna introduces new generations to live theater. The children's festival is a fiesta for the entire family.
every year teatro de la luna produces two adult or family oriented plays performed at the gunston theater in arlington virginia. These plays are directed by the in-house director mario marcel, and english translation is available for the guests. Teatro de la luna offers a monthly series of play readings performed by professional actors, as well as training for upcoming actors. Main stage productions promote and foster hispanic playwriters and make their work accessible to the non-spanish speaking community.
Teatro de la Luna was founded in 1991 as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide the Washington capital area –both to its Spanish-speaking community and to its English-speaking community as well – with a source of high quality theater as seen from a Latin American perspective.
