Best Medicine Rep is a 501c3, nonprofit, professional theater company that specializes in new comedies. We are dedicated to the artistic, educational, and cultural development of the Gaithersburg and Montgomery Village areas of Maryland.
About this Organization
Why are we here? To entertain. To bring joy. To foster community and learning through shared laughter. To lighten our shared burden of existence for a short while. Why comedy? Broadly defined and properly presented, comedy encompasses all of the human experience. It can make us laugh and make us cry. It can bring joy and it can bring anger. It makes us think and makes us forget. It exalts and ridicules. It can divert, and it can focus. Comedy levels life’s playing field. Why theater? Story is that which gives comedy context. It is what allows empathy and purpose. Performed stories (theater) provide for the communal experience, the shared joy of laughter that we seek to achieve. Theater brings a community together, eliciting pride and engagement, a sense of ownership and cooperation. We believe that the comic theater is the cure for what ails us.Services/Opportunities
Best Medicine Rep offers playwriting residencies to students in grades 3 through 12. Integrate the general curriculum with playwriting and performance to reach those students who prefer a more kinesthetic approach to learning. Over the course of 6 - 7 days, students will learn the elements of writing plays, from creating characters to conflict, resolution, plotting, and basic acting techniques.
Featured Work
Photos
Featured Work: Photos
Engaging Shaw
Videos
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Virtually Teaching
The second episode of our pandemic web series, Virtually Teaching, in which Gerald deals with a helicopter mom.
Booking
Booking Price: $2,001-$5,000
Booking price is $70 per class session. Depending on the number of classes, the cost could be less than the price quoted above. To book one of our playwrights for your school or after-school program, email us at bestmedicinerep@gmail.com.
The plays can either be written on paper or they can be composed on a computer, based on the technology available to your school. Final scripts should be on paper for rehearsal purposes.
Counties where we may travel without restriction: Montgomery; Prince George's; Frederick; Howard; Baltimore County; Baltimore City; Anne Arundel.
We are eager to travel to other counties, but would require overnight accommodations.
Josephine Luster, 5th grade teacher, Chevy Chase Elementary School, Montgomery County, josephine_m_luster@mcpsmd.org
Corela Tamagnini, middle school teacher, Baltimore County Public Schools, ctamagnini@bcps.org