D-Tours
D-Tours is a partnership with the San Diego Unified School District and beyond to bring LGBTQIA+-themed shows to middle and high school campuses across San Diego Unified School District and community centers and other performance venues across San Diego County. This traveling program provides an important opportunity to meet the students where they live and work with a powerful performance exploring LGBTQIA+ themes and issues, providing exposure to the theater arts for youth from a broad spectrum of socioeconomic backgrounds. D-Tours reaches hundreds of students annually in San Diego County and is provided FREE of charge to schools.
At Diversionary Theatre, we believe it’s important to provide students from diverse backgrounds with the opportunity to experience live theatre, as well as have access to content that explores LGBTQIA+ themes and issues. That’s why we created D-Tours, which allows us to connect with schools and students otherwise unable to participate in our Student Matinee series or other programming we offer as a way to ensure that educators across San Diego have the opportunity to provide their students with this unique experience.
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Generously supported by:
US Bank Foundation
Irma Cota
Allison Rossett & Sue Reynolds
D-Tours
The Dan Kitrosser Show is Cancelled!
By Dan Kitrosser
Show dates, times, and location coming soon!
About the show: “We demand that the Dan Kitrosser show be cancelled!” That’s what a group of teenagers said in unison into a microphone on the final night of a high school semester abroad in Israel, in the year 2001, at the height of the Second Intifada. Now, armed with a tattered red journal, a keyboard, and a prayer, solo performer Dan Kitrosser pieces together that moment in history—bombs exploding, sexuality unfolding, and the lingering question: was he too much, not enough, or just really, really annoying?
Meet the Artist
Dan Kitrosser is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and storyteller. He cowrote the screenplay for WE THE ANIMALS which premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2018, winning the NEXT: Innovator Award, Best Narrative at OutFest 2018 and is nominated for 5 Independent Spirit Awards and a GLAAD Award. His plays include TAR BABY (First Fringe Award, Edinburgh Fringe, and an Amnesty International Citation for Excellence), DEAD SPECIAL CRABS (monologues published in Smith & Kraus Best Men’s and Women’s…) and THE MUMBLINGS (optioned for TV series by FOX).
Questions? Email Wilfred Paloma, Director of Education & Community Engagement
Thank you to all who joined us for D-Tours 2024!
QUESTIONS?
Reach Out to Us Here
Fill out this form with any questions or comments you may have and Diversionary Theatre’s Director of Education and Community Engagement, Wilfred Paloma, will be in touch with you shortly.
Alternatively, you can call us at
(619) 220-0097 x 109.
About Our Education and Community Engagement Programs
Arts Education is thriving at Diversionary Theatre, and our programs spread the seeds of understanding and tolerance around our unique mission as the third oldest LGBTQIA+ theater in the country. Watch this video to learn more about each of our education programs.
By sharing LGBTQIA+ stories with our community we bring stories that need to be told, directly into people’s lives. We provide a safe place for all students, and we are excited to extend a lifeline to our LGBTQIA+ youth who may not have the support at home or at their school. We are giving people permission to be who they are, and for many this might be a life saving experience.
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All of these programs are only made possible by the generous support of our donors and our community.
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