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TheatreLink is a semester-long program where students study the play Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau. Participants collaboratively write a short play inspired by Skeleton Crew and produce a play written by a school located in a completely different community.
• Schedule: Semester-long
Manhattan Theatre Club leads TheatreLink and has produced seasons of plays and musicals for over five decades under the artistic vision of Lynne Meadow and the executive producing of Barry Grove. Manhattan Theatre Club productions have earned 31 Tony Awards, 55 Drama Desk Awards, 49 Obie Awards, and seven Pulitzer Prizes, and the company has produced over 600 premieres, including nearly 20% of all new plays on Broadway since it opened the Friedman in 2003. TheatreLink 2025 includes fourteen high schools from across the United States and in Greece, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Africa. The program is part of Manhattan Theatre Club, which describes itself as one of New York’s preeminent not-for-profit cultural institutions and a premier destination for both artists and audiences. The leadership team includes Artistic Director Nicki Hunter and Executive Producer Chris Jennings.
Teaching artists connected to TheatreLink and Manhattan Theatre Club include Carmen Rivera, a playwright and educator whose play La Gringa is part of the OBIE Award Winning Series “New Voices.” Joe White has performed Off-Broadway at Soho Rep, The Public Theater, West Side Arts Theatre, and Ensemble Studio Theatre, has TV and film credits including “Goodfellas,” “Law and Order,” and “Blue Bloods,” teaches playwriting for The Working Theater to New York City union members, and is an Acting Coach at Fordham Law School and a long-time teaching artist for Manhattan Theatre Club and TDF. Chris Ceraso is an actor, dramatist, and teacher who has premiered work by multiple writers, appeared on TV and in independent films, and is a long-time member of New York’s Ensemble Studio Theater and the Resonance Ensemble. Andres Munar is an actor, director, and teacher with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and a BFA in Theater from Southern Methodist University; he is a teaching artist through Manhattan Theatre Club’s TheatreLink program, has taught acting as an adjunct at Fordham University, and has been a Guest Teacher for INTAR Theatre’s Unit 52. Elia Monte-Brown has an MFA from The David Geffen School of Drama (Yale), an MS in Childhood Education from Pace University, and a BA in Cultural Anthropology and Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Southern California; she is a New York State certified teacher with over 15 years of teaching experience, teaches theatre at Lincoln Center Theater, BAM, and Manhattan Theatre Club, and is on faculty at NYU Tisch.
Last updated August 16, 2026.
• Schedule: Semester-long
Manhattan Theatre Club leads TheatreLink and has produced seasons of plays and musicals for over five decades under the artistic vision of Lynne Meadow and the executive producing of Barry Grove. Manhattan Theatre Club productions have earned 31 Tony Awards, 55 Drama Desk Awards, 49 Obie Awards, and seven Pulitzer Prizes, and the company has produced over 600 premieres, including nearly 20% of all new plays on Broadway since it opened the Friedman in 2003. TheatreLink 2025 includes fourteen high schools from across the United States and in Greece, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Africa. The program is part of Manhattan Theatre Club, which describes itself as one of New York’s preeminent not-for-profit cultural institutions and a premier destination for both artists and audiences. The leadership team includes Artistic Director Nicki Hunter and Executive Producer Chris Jennings.
Teaching artists connected to TheatreLink and Manhattan Theatre Club include Carmen Rivera, a playwright and educator whose play La Gringa is part of the OBIE Award Winning Series “New Voices.” Joe White has performed Off-Broadway at Soho Rep, The Public Theater, West Side Arts Theatre, and Ensemble Studio Theatre, has TV and film credits including “Goodfellas,” “Law and Order,” and “Blue Bloods,” teaches playwriting for The Working Theater to New York City union members, and is an Acting Coach at Fordham Law School and a long-time teaching artist for Manhattan Theatre Club and TDF. Chris Ceraso is an actor, dramatist, and teacher who has premiered work by multiple writers, appeared on TV and in independent films, and is a long-time member of New York’s Ensemble Studio Theater and the Resonance Ensemble. Andres Munar is an actor, director, and teacher with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and a BFA in Theater from Southern Methodist University; he is a teaching artist through Manhattan Theatre Club’s TheatreLink program, has taught acting as an adjunct at Fordham University, and has been a Guest Teacher for INTAR Theatre’s Unit 52. Elia Monte-Brown has an MFA from The David Geffen School of Drama (Yale), an MS in Childhood Education from Pace University, and a BA in Cultural Anthropology and Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Southern California; she is a New York State certified teacher with over 15 years of teaching experience, teaches theatre at Lincoln Center Theater, BAM, and Manhattan Theatre Club, and is on faculty at NYU Tisch.
Last updated August 16, 2026.
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