The UK Department of Theatre has developed several new Outreach and Education programs that directly impact students in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

• We are currently teaching an Outreach class called THEATRE IN DIVERSION. This course, which is led by Professor Nancy Jones, is a Service-Learning Class. UK Theatre students are working with at risk juveniles in this pilot program for Fayette County Courts. Through this program, high schools students are diverted from the court system by studying in a character-building program. In this case, theatre is being used to incorporate team building, increase confidence, learn about actions and consequences, and to develop values and character enhancing traits.  

• The Department of Theatre produced Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play and Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf in February 2008. As part of our Outreach and Education program, we offered two matinees for high school students on February 26 and 27. Seven hundred (700) high school students from across the region were on campus during those two days to see the performances.