Little Red and the Wolf

This essay explores a pilot drama class at the historic Eastlake Park Recreation Center. The fall 2019 residency was founded by Sleeveless Acts, a company that was born in 2017 with a mission to join communities to co-create theater with radical imagination. Eastlake Park is the center of African-American history in Phoenix, hosting legendary figures over the last century including Booker T. Washington, Rosa Parks, and George Washington Carver. Sleeveless Acts began an ongoing partnership with Eastlake Park with the project Celebration Eastlake, a site-specific theatrical performance devised with and for community members. This short case study explores Sleeveless Acts’s drama class and co-facilitation methodology as well as providing a window into the young people’s process of devising an original adaptation of “Little Red Riding Hood” called “Little Red and The Wolf.” This case study also includes reflections on co-teaching pedagogical practices, shedding light on the power of student-centered learning in drama and education.