Audio-Described Undesirable Elements: Generation Rise

This digital performance of Undesirable Elements: Generation Rise includes audio description.

This production, commissioned and presented by New Victory in 2021, features five young New Yorkers who share their real-life stories of what coming-of-age in New York City was like while navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. This production was developed through Ping Chong and Company’s* documentary theater-making process.

*Please Note: Ping Chong and Company is now Pink Fang.

About the Recording:

• Running Time: 70 minutes
• Accessibility: This performance includes audio description. It also includes captions in English, Arabic, Spanish, Korean or Chinese (Simplified). Click the closed caption symbol in the video player above and select your preferred language to include captions. This performance is also available with ASL interpretation or without audio description.

How to Use This in Your Classroom:

• Pair your viewing with activities, unit plan brainstorms and handouts from the New Victory School Tool Resource Guide for Generation Rise.
• Further your learning with New Victory Arts Break activities inspired by the show that focus on monologues and devised theater.

Additional Credits:

• Sign Language Interpretation provided by Hands On
• Sign Language Interpreters: Frenchetta Perez Kilpatrick, Justine Rivera, Aisha Simpson
• Director of ASL: Alaina Drake Mitchell
• Audio Description provided by VocalEyes
• Written by Nadine Beasley
• Audio Describer: Melissa Rojas