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Administrative History

The New York State Theatre Institute (NYSTI) had several different educational/outreach programs that it conducted with teachers and students. Residencies were designed to extend the experience of a live theater performance, by using interdisciplinary lessons taught by NYSTI teacher/actors and teacher/technicians. Residencies were scheduled at the request of teachers for afternoons following morning performances. The Inservices program was a behind-the-scenes look at the making of NYSTI productions. Designed for educators, but open to the public as well, the two-hour Inservices program included presentations by the production's director, designers, and technicians, as well as a brief glimpse at rehearsal.

In addition to the school visits, NYSTI hosted a Theatre Arts School and a summer theater program. The Theatre Arts School was designed as a weekend program to teach children in K-12 about all aspects of theater arts, providing them with hands-on experience and instruction by teacher-artists. The summer theater program (offered variously at SUNY Albany, the Egg, and Russell Sage College) was a more extensive version of this, offering students experience in putting together a theater production - which would be staged at the end of the program - as well as experience in other theater-based creative activities such as set or costume design.