Mission

The Story Pirates celebrate the words and ideas of young people. Our original arts and literacy programs create confident, literate students equipped with a variety of tools for written, verbal, and artistic expression and improve the relevance and effectiveness of in-school and after-school learning. We help to build strong communities that celebrate the value of young voices from diverse backgrounds, and our students learn self-expression skills that they carry into adulthood.

What We Do

“We show up at your school and we say, ‘This next story is by you’ and we point at you in the audience and you’re in a huge 500 seat auditorium and the room just erupts. You stand up and your jaw drops and then these actors on stage, they put on the story that you wrote. And they say, ‘We thought what you wrote was important enough to show to everybody. And we’re going to go to other schools and we’re going to show them your story too. And if you want to bring your family into mid-town Manhattan and see it in a professional theatre, we want to do that too’ .”