
Park District Programs
Youth Guidance After-School Program
PlayMakers Laboratory first partnered with Youth Guidance in the fall of 2015 at Skinner North Classical Elementary School. In 2018, we began partnering with Youth Guidance’s after-school programs at South Loop Elementary and Ravenswood Elementary schools. At the end of each after-school session, the PML ensemble returns to the school to perform a show entirely written by the students in the program.
Loyola Park (LP) After-School Program
Our Loyola Park (LP) after-school program in the Rogers Park neighborhood began in 2004. PML engages with the students and families in LP with our seven-week after-school program in the Spring, which also culminates in a PML show written entirely by students in the program and performed at Loyola Park. This after-school program was revived in the fall of 2022 and brought back to Pottowattomie Park (neighboring Loyola Park) supported by the Aldermanic Community Micro Grant for the 49th Ward.
“[PlayMakers Laboratory] made me feel happy, smart, proud, funny, and talented.”
–Miriam R., Graham Elementary