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Mission
The mission of MoveAbout Theatre is to present free, moveable theatre for youth and to enrich the community of San Francisco through our interactive performances.

Who we are
MoveAbout Theatre is a Bay-Area based teen theatre company, featuring student directors, actors, designers, and technicians. Each spring, we put on a production, providing free and interactive entertainment for the city. Auditions for the April show are held the previous December.

Founded in 2008, the company tailors the work to the location in which the show will be performed. The company is currently in its eighth season.

MoveAbout is not-for-profit and relies on donations and grant money to fund our productions. 

How we move about 
MoveAbout uses the various spaces within a larger location to set the scenes of the show. The actors lead the audience as the story travels around the area. 
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HISTORY

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Twelfth Night, 2014
Inspired by her trip to New York in 2008, sophomore Taylor Edelhart founded the MoveAbout Theatre to bring movable, outdoor theatre to teens in her hometown of San Francisco, a city that embraces the nontraditional. 

After her successful first show, Alice in Wonderland, in 2009, Edelhart directed two more productions, The Miser and Running Shorts, before her graduation from Lowell High School. Taylor now studies theatre at NYU and was a finalist for the prestigious Beach Blanket Babylon scholarship in 2011.

In 2012,  Natalie Girshman and Margot Pierluissi directed the company's first Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night's Dream in Fort Mason park. The company used Fort Mason the following year for The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Elisa Vidales and Lauren Taylor. The duo's 2014 show, Twelfth Night, used Ocean Beach and the adjacent windmill to originate a new take on an old world. 

In 2015, the company produced Agatha Christie's The Hollow in the Presidio. Directed by Avery Chung-Melino and Kali Kecskemeti, the company used the exterior walls  of the old Presidio Theatre in the Presidio as the backdrop for the show. 

​MoveAbout's 2016 production, Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, returned to the Fort Mason park. Directors Kali Kecskemeti and Kate Adler used vivid period costumes and detailed sets to re-create the social scene of 1920's England.