About the Palefsky Collision Project

For three weeks each summer, the Alliance Theatre assembles a diverse group of teenagers to “collide” with a source text under the guidance of a professional creative team.

For the first two weeks of this dynamic project, ensemble members unpack the source text, engage in an intensive series of theater workshops with guest artists, converse with subject matter experts, and express their unique reflections upon these experiences through daily creative writing exercises.  These reflections are then woven together to create a new piece of theater inspired by the source text, but perceived through the ensemble’s utterly unique and contemporary prism.  The third and final week of the program includes a rigorous rehearsal process that culminates with final performances at the Alliance Theatre.

Now in its 25th year, the Palefsky Collision Project has empowered nearly 500 teens to create theater, for and about themselves, as collaborative, creative, and confident young artists.