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About ALICE Arts

ALICE Arts engages a broad range of communities to create original performance and multimedia works that travel beyond borders of race, religion, culture and politics. We are most interested in giving voice to people whose stories are rarely heard, whether they are first-generation immigrants, refugees from the 9/11 wars, or military veterans.

ALICE employs a wide range of artistic forms, including raw storytelling, puppetry, circus, dance, music and sound design, and multi-media. We value ensemble work in which a performance is created over several years with a group of collaborating artists.

Because the arts are essential, ALICE provides arts education to thousands of Bay Area youth. We seek to narrow the disparity in arts education between children in well-endowed schools and those in lower socio-economic communities.

By bringing professional musicians, dancers, choreographers, theatre directors, actors, spoken word poets, writers, storytellers, painters, print makers, photographers and designers into the classroom, ALICE opens children to new ways of seeing their world, while teaching them that high artistic standards are synonymous with academic achievement.

Artistic Directors

Helen Stoltzfus and Albert Greenberg are the founders and co-artistic directors of ALICE Arts. They have been collaborating on original works of theatre for over 22 years. Prior to ALICE, they were co-artistic directors of San Francisco's internationally acclaimed A Traveling Jewish Theatre. Their plays have been performed worldwide, including the Los Angeles Theatre Festival, the Kampnagel Hamburg Sommer Festival, the Fool's Festival in Copnehagen, and the Baltimore International Theater Festival, traveling the globe from Toronto to Oslo, and from Prague to Appalachia. They have also brought their works to college campuses across the United States, from UCLA to Dartmouth, and from the University of Nebraska to the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Their plays have also been performed in major venues throughout the Bay Area, including the Magic Theater, the Eureka Theater and Intersection for the Arts. Their play, Trotsksy and Frida was part of the inaugural season at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

They have also collaborated with such artists as the late Joseph Chaikin, founder of the Open Theatre, writer/director, Martha Boesing, writer, Susan Griffin, and Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the Public Theater.

ALICE began as a grassroots arts education program. ALICE is an acronym for Arts and Literacy in Children's Education. You can learn more about our education program on the "Education" link.

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