Educator Press​

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"The room of quiet children in ties and plaid jumpers was transformed into a band of young troupers eager to display the acting chops they had developed in their weekly drama classes with Burgess."

-- Martha Woodall, Philadelphia Inquirer 

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"What we've tried to do is look at every side of a complicated subject," said Brandi Burgess, community and education outreach coordinator at Wolf PAC. "A big part of this play is about being teenagers in 2016, and how do we process trauma, how do we process crisis? And also, how do we exist in a room together with all of our social media? What assumptions do we make about each other? And what I think is great about having 14 unique playwrights is that all of our characters have such unique voices." 

-Alexandra Villarreal, Philadelphia Inquirer

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“Theatre is so adaptable to uniqueness,” Burgess said. “In a world where individuals with autism have to adapt every day just to survive, I love the idea of having a program that instead adapts to them.” 

-Maggie Heffernan, Generocity

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“We want to be able to offer something that adapts to each student where they are,” said Burgess. “Living with autism means you’re adapting every second of the day. The intersection of theater and autism so lends itself to developing those social skills (such as) empathy, flexibility, transitions. Life is full of transitions and shifts and that can be challenging and the theater, (going) from one exercise to another or one scene to another, to have a full picture beginning middle and end, and often it’s changing in the moment.”

-Linda Stein, Mainline Media News

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Personal Advocacy
​"Brandi Burgess shares what it's like to come out to the whole world at once"
-Elle Magazine