San Francisco Youth Theatre
SFYT @ Casa Doulas, 3106 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
About
San Francisco Youth Theatre offers theatre arts creation, education, and performance where participants can act, dance, sing, direct, write, paint, and take part in storytelling. The program includes year-round skill-building classes, performance ensembles, and internships that range from preschool storytelling to professional touring productions. It creates high quality theatre that speaks to the unique sensibilities of youth and offers the community an arts space where diversity is embraced and celebrated.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
San Francisco Youth Theatre is a community arts organization founded in 2014. The organization’s mission is to transform youth and communities through accessible opportunities in theatre arts creation, education, and performance. All SFYT programs are accessible to any student regardless of their ability to pay. The program develops and sustains an anti-racist curriculum designed to amplify the voices and arts practices of BIPOC youth, offered in students’ home languages, including ASL, and works to strengthen inclusive hiring and compensation practices to increase leadership, staff, and artists from BIPOC communities. SFYT focuses outreach on youth from historically underserved and historically marginalized communities with limited access to high quality arts education and is dedicated to being an agent of equity and justice.
San Francisco Youth Theatre is led by Founder and Director Emily Klion. One student describes SFYT as a place that has led to many friends and confidence, and another describes SFYT as community, home, and a place to be themselves. SFYT states that it is bringing theatre fun to the community in summer 2024 and that it listens to the voices of the community and responds decisively to racism and anti-Blackness. The organization recognizes that the area now known as San Francisco is the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, acknowledges benefiting from living, working, and learning on this traditional homeland, and affirms the sovereign rights of the Ramaytush Ohlone as First Peoples while paying respects to their Ancestors, Elders, and Relatives.
Last updated June 19, 2026.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
San Francisco Youth Theatre is a community arts organization founded in 2014. The organization’s mission is to transform youth and communities through accessible opportunities in theatre arts creation, education, and performance. All SFYT programs are accessible to any student regardless of their ability to pay. The program develops and sustains an anti-racist curriculum designed to amplify the voices and arts practices of BIPOC youth, offered in students’ home languages, including ASL, and works to strengthen inclusive hiring and compensation practices to increase leadership, staff, and artists from BIPOC communities. SFYT focuses outreach on youth from historically underserved and historically marginalized communities with limited access to high quality arts education and is dedicated to being an agent of equity and justice.
San Francisco Youth Theatre is led by Founder and Director Emily Klion. One student describes SFYT as a place that has led to many friends and confidence, and another describes SFYT as community, home, and a place to be themselves. SFYT states that it is bringing theatre fun to the community in summer 2024 and that it listens to the voices of the community and responds decisively to racism and anti-Blackness. The organization recognizes that the area now known as San Francisco is the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, acknowledges benefiting from living, working, and learning on this traditional homeland, and affirms the sovereign rights of the Ramaytush Ohlone as First Peoples while paying respects to their Ancestors, Elders, and Relatives.
Last updated June 19, 2026.
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