Dramaturg and Education Outreach Coordinator Mateo Hernandez discusses the worthwhile experiences and important discoveries made during the touring performances of The Smartest Girl in the World —
The time is 6:30 a.m. on a crisp fall morning in Austin, Texas, and the students enrolled in the Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) Tour course are meeting at the loading dock behind the Winship Drama Building at The University of Texas at Austin: actors in full makeup, stage managers loading the costumes and instruments into the U-Haul truck and everyone double checking that no one on the team overslept. Shortly thereafter we all pack into an assortment of vehicles and make our way to a local Austin elementary school. Once there, we check in at the front office of the school before making our way to the cafeteria to unload the set, costumes, props, television screens and instruments to then transform the fluorescent-lit, school color painted space into a stage for our production of The Smartest Girl in the World by Miriam Gonzales.
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