Andrew Kircher

SPACE students are exposed to a level of performing arts that is far more complex, engaging, and challenging than theater students, even in the New York school district. Unbeknownst to me, I was being exposed to performance and rhetorical methods most would call avant-garde; the puppetry skills really helped in my sold-out off-Broadway hit, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang (which featured puppets and rock & roll), and I was even able to teach a Public Theater Director a Plains Native American drumming song, including the song’s meaning and history, that I learned when I was eight years old at SPACE camp.

— Andrew Kircher, SPACE Alumni