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​Based in Chicago, Illinois.  GO HAWKS!



ABOUT US

Elephant & Worm is a Chicago-based educational theatre company that creates innovative, interactive programs for kids that combine leadership training, theatre, literacy, and media arts.

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Four arts educators named Joseph Lewis, Daniel Sherer, Judith Lesser, and Erin Schultz founded E&W in 2009.   They had spent years together touring the country performing educational vaudeville shows in elementary schools.  

 

While on the road they witnessed first-hand the struggle to maintain arts education programs in public schools.  It was clear that kids needed new ways to develop their imaginations through the arts.  So Elephant and Worm created a way to use the media production process as an arts education curriculum for kids!

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We believe that the best thing we can do to make the world a better place is listen more to our children.  We give them the tools to refine their ideas and hone their communication skills by combining literacy, theatre, and media arts education.

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