Rockland Youth Theatre Brings Creative Opportunities

Rockland Youth Theatre encourages kids to create, team-build, and be inspired through theater they create from the ground up.

Wendy Gross Baker wants to empower kids. At her new venture, Rockland Youth Theatre, kids are encouraged to create, team-build, and be inspired through theater they create from the ground up. “In my experience working with youth,” she says, “where kids really feel empowered is when they have a piece in the process.”

After thinking about and developing the program for a few years, Baker, founder and director, recently opened Rockland Youth Theatre with her first class, a sixteen-week course open to middle school students who want to get hands-on experience, build important life skills, and expand their knowledge of theater arts. Focus lies on the entire process and experience of theater-making as a group, Baker says, as opposed to focusing on just the end product.