New York City Foster Youth Have a Stage, Healing Space with "Foster Care Unplugged" [imprintnews.com]

Alison Cebulla 10/6/219:16 AM

By Madison Hunt, The Imprint, October 1, 2021

As Broadway reopens in New York City, a courageous and lesser-known group of actors also takes to the stage this weekend, after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.

Nine teens raised in government care are performing through Sunday at Brooklyn’s Mark O’Donnell Theater, their unfiltered and personal struggles presented in “Foster Care Unplugged, The Stage Play Part Two.”

The production, created with the financial support of the city’s Administration for Children’s Services and local charities, provides current and former foster youth the opportunity to “heal by acting,” according to its founder and director, licensed social worker and former foster youth Melody Centeno.

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