STAR Theater for Social Change

About STAR: The S.T.A.R. Program (S.T.A.R.) is a nationally recognized, adolescent health promotion model that employs original, peer-developed, musical theater to assist young people in identifying and clarifying the health and social challenges they face, help change negative or unhealthy attitudes, and promote healthy behaviors. S.T.A.R.’s mission is to utilize the performing arts to educate young people about physical and emotional health and sexuality, promote healthy attitudes, build risk reduction skills, link youth with health care and social services, and to impact on behaviors that threaten to undermine their healthy development. The program also helps parents and professionals to better understand and more effectively communicate with young people. S.T.A.R. works in collaboration with schools, health care providers and community organizations in low-income communities across New York City.

STAR is a program at The Directors Company. The Director’s Company is an award-winning director driven not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals. For nearly thirty years, The Directors Company has supported new theatre artists and their projects in the development of original theatre works from inception to production. Broadway: Irena’s Vow. Off-Broadway: Terms of Endearment, A Better Place, Jericho, Murder in the First, Poetic License

STAR at The Directors Company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression.