Theater for Dessert

Theater for Dessert presents, “The Italian Cure,” bringing European adventure and romance to the Lapham Room at the PWPL on Tuesday June 11th at 7 p.m. This is Theater for Dessert’s second performance venture after last year’s highly successful production of “The Crime Club” wowed our audience of friends and family.
Theater for Dessert, a program from Books for Dessert, offers adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) the opportunity to bring books to life while learning theater skills. This ten-week program will have participants learning the tools of the actor, from acting and vocal warmups to rehearsal and performance.
Elise May, Program Director for Theater for Dessert, is a Teaching Artist with original award-winning Arts-in-Education programs (Storytime Theater, Expressive Elocution, Multicultural Voices, Creative Readers - an arts education inclusion program and winner of the 2017 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award) that use theater arts for communication empowerment and community development with all populations.