Streetwise Actors

Streetwise Actors allows young people to participate in creative drama and showcase their newly learned talents by performing in retirement homes and long term care facilities. Creating live theatre, onstage or backstage, is empowering, fosters self-esteem, teaches cooperative teamwork and by entertaining seniors who may otherwise be unable to see live theatre Streetwise Actors brings benefits to those both in the morning and in the evening of their lives.

Executive Director:

David Nash is an award winning Community Theatre director, producer

and stage manager with anHonours Diploma in Addictions & Community

Service. David has directed ten successful productions at theOakville

Centre for the Performing Arts ,including The Gin Game,The Winslow Boy

and Over My Dead Body, The Importance of Being Earnest and The

Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).

Learn more about David here

Code of Conduct

Streetwise Actors is a 'safe place'. No individual is considered to be more important, more special or more worthy of respect and consideration that any other. Participants are requested and required to treat one another with respect, courtesy and consideration and without prejudice of any kind.

Illegal substances are not permitted in rehearsal studios or performance venues nor is the use of alcohol or tobacco products.

Violence of any kind, physical or verbal, actual or implied, is not permitted nor is the possession of offensive weapons.

Participants are reminded that the success of any production requires the commitment and presence of all cast and crew members and that absence should only be for unavoidable reasons.

A message from Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Halton:

Streetwise Actors is a unique program that Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton is excited to be a part of. This program is filling a specific need that we at Big Brothers Big Sisters see every day; self-esteem development and teen programming. It is this age range where programming for teens typically tends to drop off. Teaching teens acting skills is teaching them so much more than simply how to play a character. Among a long list of things, it teaches them the importance of commitment, punctuality, team work and most importantly self-confidence and self-esteem. It is with your support and with the support of Streetwise Actors that these teens will be provided with the opportunity to develop themselves and take part in something that they would never otherwise be able to. To you, this project may seem like a bunch of kids putting on a play, but to these kids it is a way out…a way to escape the realities of life and for a moment take an opportunity to do something fun, something for themselves and maybe find something that they excel at.