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“The Little Prince” story time at the Arboretum Barnes & Nobel THIS SATURDAY!

Join Paramount Education & Outreach Director, Jennifer Luck, as she leads story time this Saturday at the Arboretum Barnes & Nobel. “The Little Prince” is one of the great classic childhood stories!  Come celebrate the arrival of “The Little Prince” … Continue reading

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The Story Wranglers at ACL

A BIG ‘thank you very much’ to everyone who came out to write stories with The Story Wranglers!!!!!! Every story that was written was collected and could possibly be used for The Story Wranglers public show on December 19th at … Continue reading

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SUMMER CAMPS: Kids Perform on Our Historic Stages!

Hey, did you know that The Paramount is offering awesome summer camps for students? They are!!!  Camps for writing, acting, dancing, singing and cooking….well maybe not cooking….we’ll think about it. Make sure to check out our website and sign up … Continue reading

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Another Interview…

I interviewed Chrissy Shackelford, a resident Story Wrangler for The Paramount Theatre.  Here is what she had to say about Wrangling some stories. —————————————————————————————- Me:  Hello Chrissy Chrissy: Why, hello.  How are you? Me: I am well and how about … Continue reading

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The Story Wranglers AND CultureMap

CultureMap, Austin’s daily digital magazine, wrote a FANTABULOUS piece about The Story Wranglers’ public show that was this past Tuesday. (And don’t worry, take a deep breath, find one of those bags that they use in movies on airplanes to … Continue reading

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An interview…

We sat down with one of our resident Story Wranglers, Matrex Kilgore, and asked him a few questions about The Story Wranglers… ————— What is a Story Wrangler?  A story wrangler is a theatre maker (actors, teaching artists, improvisers) who … Continue reading

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The Adventures of THE STORY WRANGLERS

We will be having a public performance of our Literacy to Life program!!! After teaching creative writing residencies all over Austin and working with fabulously talented young artists to create new, thrilling, hilarious, weird, poignant, you-name-it stories, Paramount Theatre’s The Story … Continue reading

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New Semester

The Story Wranglers are so very very excited to begin the new semester!! Allison Elementary, Reilly Elementary, Hart Elementary & Brentwood Elementary ALL will be having Story Wranglers in their classrooms for seven weeks working on creative writing and artistic … Continue reading

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Video Clips from the Paramount Youth Theatre Performance

Please enjoy clips from our youth theatre performance on Saturday July 9.  We were exploring the budget cuts in schools, and the scenes below were based on interviews with people in the Austin community. Autism Budget Cut – Paramount Youth … Continue reading

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Literacy to Life wins the Impact Austin Grant!

Words can’t express how proud we are to have won the Impact Austin grant for $108,400 for our Literacy to Life program, a creative writing and theatre program for low income third grade students in Austin public schools. Impact Austin … Continue reading

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