About Us

The 2010-2011 ITC Ensemble 

Founded in 2007, Interactive Theatre Carolina is comprised of a group of student actors and professional educators that use original scripted and improvisational material to facilitate discussion and education around health, wellness, and social justice issues.

ITC has served over 15,000 students since its inception, reaching audiences with performances and workshops on such pressing and critical issues as sexual assault and alcohol, body image and eating disorders, and race relations and diversity.  ITC has worked with prominent campus organizations, faculty, staff, and groups in the larger triangle community. Some partners include:

• Carolina New Student Orientation
• Carolina United
• Duke University
• Carolina Women's Center
• UNC Greek Life
• School of Social Work
• School of Nursing
• Black Student Movement (BSM)
• LGBTIQ Center
• Project Uplift
• and classes within numerous departments including Drama, Public Health, Women's Studies, and African-American Studies

Through the powerful medium of live performance, ITC engages audiences in dialogue around complex personal and social issues. By presenting realistic scenarios on stage drawn from actual student focus groups, audience members are able to relate the issue in question to experiences from their own lives.  Unlike conventional theater, with ITC audience members become a part of the drama on stage.

Based Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, ITC operates around the belief that when audience members actively interact with the subject matter, they are more likely to examine or change their own preexisting beliefs.  Augusto Boal, calls this type of theatre a “rehearsal for life.”  If, in a safe theatrical scenario, audience members can collectively brainstorm solutions and try out ideas to complex personal and social situations, then they will have greater tools and skills to do so in real life.

Contact us:itc@unc.edu