TE'A & YOU

TE’A Performance

Book a live, theatrical performance of Under the Veil in your community. Bring the talented young artists and musicians of the TE’A Company NYC to your organization to perform this timely, provocative, and original theatrical performance piece.

The TE’A Project offers a fresh, constructive, experimental approach to theatre for social change. Under the Veil: being Muslim (and non-Muslim) in Amercia, post 9/11 integrates a cutting-edge, insight approach to conflict resolution with interactive, documentary-style theatre. It brings to the stage the everyday clash of cares and threats that divide Americans from each other in the wake of 9/11, and functions dramatically to foster the curiosity, insight, and compassion audience members need to understand and transcend those barriers.

TE’A Performance Plus

Enhance your experience of Under the Veil and deepen the curiosity, insight, and self-reflection the performance inspires. Book a post-performance, small-group TE’A Deepening Session with an artist of the TE’A Company or a TE’A Master Class with Radha Kramer, the creator and Director of the TE’A Project.

TE’A Deepening Sessions – 90-minute TE’A Deepening Sessions enable groups of as many as twelve individuals to engage with an artist of the TE’A Company and to deepen their conversation about the questions and insights prompted by the performance of Under the Veil. In addition to discussing the clash of cares and threats dramatized by the characters in the play, the TE’A artist will use theatre and insight activities to engage the participants in a process of deepening and self-discovery.
TE’A Master Classes – Three hour TE’A Master classes are specifically tailored to the questions, concerns, and needs of the individuals in your organization. Topics include: the TE’A difference in theatre for social change; the insight approach to conflict transformation; how to conduct an insight conversation; and the Third Act: peacebuilding and post-performance facilitation.

TE’A Performance Mentorship

Help to build peace in your own community by mounting a performance of Under the Veil on your own stage, with your own actors, with your own Director, and with the mentorship of an artist from the TE’A Company.

Under the Veil is not just a play to be mounted on a stage. It is a play created by artists who participated in a TE’A Process designed to help build peace and to deconstruct the conflicts created by the misunderstandings and feelings of threat generated by the events of 9/11. To mount a performance of Under the Veil is to engage in that process and to bring it to your audiences.

When you engage a TE’A Performance Mentorship, you not only secure the rights to perform Under the Veil, you secure the assistance of a TE’A Performance Mentor – an artist of the TE’A Company – to help you do so. Through a series of conversations, exercises, and Q & A sessions, the TE’A mentor will introduce your cast and your artistic director to the TE’A Process, to the insight conversations that generated the scenes and the characters in Under the Veil, and to the Third Act – the process of facilitating a post-performance dialogue with your audience that deepens the curiosity and insights sparked by the performance.

TE’A COLLABORATION

Engage Radha Kramer, the founding director of the TE’A Project, to help you bring the TE’A Process to your community. Engage a TE’A Process Consultancy to help your community to creatively and constructively address the social and cultural conflicts that prevent community members from living together with mutual understanding and respect.

The TE’A Collaboration will provide the education, training, and personal support you need to:

Form a TE’A Company of your own;
Conduct insight conversations with key members of your community and discover in dramatic detail the everyday clash of cares and threats that divides the members of your community from each other;
Create a high-quality, documentary-style performance piece based on those insight conversations, dramatizing the conflict that divides your community and the insights that can transform it;
Design and carry out a peacebuilding strategy for the Third Act – the post-performance discussions and TE’A Deepening Sessions that foster and strengthen the curiosity and insights generated by your show.

For more information, visit our TE'A Collaborations page.