The Garage Theatre Group, a non profit professional theatre company and youth conservatory in collaboration with MarbleJam Kids will be offering an acting and improvisation workshop called Peer Vision, for teens age 14 - 21, at the Garage Theatre located on the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck.

Peer Vision Improv and Acting Workshop is an inclusion program that allows for the integration of acting techniques and exercises with improvisation in a highly supportive non competitive environment for both kids on and off the autism spectrum. Peer Vision aims to support students particularly with challenges in social skills to help build more effective interpersonal relationship skills amongst peers.

Michael Bias, Founder and Artistic Director of GTG, who will be teaching the workshop says, "This is a new and innovative approach to inclusion so I look forward to exploring more and working with MarbleJam Kids."

The workshop is slated to begin September 23rd for 10 weeks of 90-minute classes. For more information and to schedule an appointment for interview, please contact Michael Bias, Artistic Director, at 201-569-7710 or via email: gtgmb@aol.com . Enrollment is limited.

For more information about The Garage Theatre Group you can visit their website at www.GarageTheatre.org.  

Each year The Garage Theatre Group continues to inspire, nurture, and impress by providing quality instruction and professional theatrical productions. The Garage Theatre Group was founded in 1993 with the goal of aspiring young artists to reach beyond their own perceived limitations. This foundation has also allowed for the best inclusive opportunities to our most vulnerable youths, particularly those with social deficiencies.

MarbleJam Kids, is 501c3 a non-profit charity dedicated to bringing creative arts therapy and enrichment to individuals on the autism spectrum. The organization has received a grant from the. Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation to launch this program. More information about MarbleJam Kids can be found at www.marblejamkids.org.

MarbleJam Kids extends a sincere thanks and gratitude to Garage Theatre Group for the opportunity to further our mission to provide creative outlets for individuals on the autism spectrum and related developmental disabilities.