Rise of the Superhero
Date : Monday, July 21, 2025
July 21 – August 25, 2025
(Six Selected) Mondays, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Mondays, June 21 – August 25, 2025
7:00 PM–8:30 PM On Zoom
$275 / $250 for Theater J Donors and Subscribers
Registration Deadline: July 18, 2025
Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! This class is an exploration of how Jewish immigrants created the most famous superheroes in the world, a dialogue about superhero stories as a revolutionary response to current events, and a deep dive into how pop culture became our way to speak about the unspeakable.
Hester Kamin (she/her) has served as Director of Education of six theatres around America and is proud to conceptualize and lead Theater J’s first education program. She is a director, choreographer, and writer, and her play about Holocaust survivor Sabine Van Dam, In Flight, toured to more than 7000 people and was honored with an ArtWorks Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Hester is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (Phi Beta Kappa) and Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has had the opportunity to be a theatre artist in France, England, Norway, Hawaii, and Samoa. She is currently in her second year at the Fred Rogers Institute, where she is studying the nature of curiosity. Learn more at www.hesterkamin.com.
Schedule
The Berlin Diaries
Synetic Theater’s The Immigrant
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