The Possibility Project

The Possibility Project The Possibility Project empowers young people to rewrite their narratives and transform their lives

Our casts of young people write, produce, and perform their own shows on the issues that matter to them the most, using the power of performance to build a more just and peaceful world. Find us on YouTube: youtube.com/possibilityproj
Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/possibilityproj

This June, become a Mission: Possible fundraising champion. 🖤Help create spaces where young people can build community, ...
06/04/2026

This June, become a Mission: Possible fundraising champion. 🖤

Help create spaces where young people can build community, share their stories, and create change together.

Here's how it works:
1️⃣ Set up a personal fundraising page
2️⃣ Share it with your friends, family, and network
3️⃣ Help raise support for NYC's young people

No fundraising experience needed.

Last year, Mission: Possible champions raised over $50,000 to support TPP’s programs.

This year, we want even more people to join us.

✨ Get involved: http://bit.ly/4ek5NN6

"The Possibility Project is a place where you face your reality — the good and the bad — and turn it into a message thro...
06/03/2026

"The Possibility Project is a place where you face your reality — the good and the bad — and turn it into a message through teamwork and collaboration.

You can create hope.

And hope guides the way to change." - The Possibility Project Participant
MISSION: POSSIBLE launches June 11 ✨

Help us keep building the future for our young people 🖤

Get involved: http://bit.ly/4ek5NN6

After every show, young people take the questions behind the work into the community.For “At Ease,” the cast started con...
05/29/2026

After every show, young people take the questions behind the work into the community.

For “At Ease,” the cast started conversations about military recruitment and what it means to serve in the military - speaking directly with community members in Harlem to hear their perspectives.

This is what a Community Action Project looks like at The Possibility Project.

Youth-led.
Justice-driven.

Rooted in the belief that young people’s stories have the power to change the world🤍

NYC tracks an enormous amount of information about court-involved youth.Arrests. Detention. Probation. The cost of confi...
05/27/2026

NYC tracks an enormous amount of information about court-involved youth.

Arrests. Detention. Probation. The cost of confinement.

And while data from the Prison Policy Initiative shows a decline in youth confinement, those numbers still fail to answer the most important question:

What do young people need from their communities to grow, especially after system involvement?

At The Possibility Project, that question guides everything we do.

For 25 years, young people have come to The Possibility Project to tell the truth about their lives.They’ve turned real ...
05/25/2026

For 25 years, young people have come to The Possibility Project to tell the truth about their lives.

They’ve turned real experiences into music, theater + community 🎶

They’ve stepped onto stages across NYC and shown audiences what's possible when young people are trusted with their own stories. 🎭

To everyone who has been part of this: thank you 🤍

Here’s to the next 25 ✨

🎬 'Know How' Trailer: https://vimeo.com/74177082/76d43cd6ec
🎬 'Know How' Movie: https://tinyurl.com/ymn5a8tv

Meet Alex Batres, Artistic Director of our Youth Justice Program.Alex was a Possibility Project participant himself as a...
05/23/2026

Meet Alex Batres, Artistic Director of our Youth Justice Program.

Alex was a Possibility Project participant himself as a teenager in 2010. After returning as a staff member in 2020, he now works alongside young people involved in the NYC justice system.

This year he directed AT EASE, an original musical drawn entirely from their lives and visions for change.

The lessons our young people learn in rehearsals and onstage last a lifetime. Alex is proof of that.

At The Possibility Project, young people are trusted with their own stories. They turn those stories into powerful theatre that changes hearts and minds, and sometimes, they come back years later to help the next generation do the same. 🤍

May is Foster Care Awareness Month.In 2015, our young people in foster care premiered a film about what it's like to gro...
05/21/2026

May is Foster Care Awareness Month.

In 2015, our young people in foster care premiered a film about what it's like to grow up in foster care.

'Know How' was written and performed entirely by young people with lived experience in the foster care system. The film screened at 19 festivals, including in London and Madrid, won 11 awards, and was shown multiple times at NYC’s Administration for Children’s Services.

Their stories mattered then, and they still matter now.

Know How is available to watch now 🤍

🎬 Trailer: https://vimeo.com/74177082/76d43cd6ec
🎬 Movie: https://tinyurl.com/ymn5a8tv

The question we get most often: do they have to have experience?No. And that's kind of the point.The real barrier was ne...
05/18/2026

The question we get most often: do they have to have experience?

No. And that's kind of the point.

The real barrier was never ability. It's trust. Trust that the room is safe enough to say something real.

A young person walks in guarded. Doesn't say much. Then, slowly, something shifts.

Not because we pushed them. Because we waited.

The job isn't to change them. It’s to build the kind of space where they can show up as they are — and grow from there.

Do you work with young people in foster care?The Possibility Project is scheduling non-competitive auditions for our Fos...
05/16/2026

Do you work with young people in foster care?

The Possibility Project is scheduling non-competitive auditions for our Foster Care Program and looking to partner with agencies, social workers, case managers, and organizations who work with youth ages 15–21 who are currently in or have been in foster care.

No experience needed.
No talent requirement.
Just a willingness to show up.

If someone comes to mind, we'd love to connect. 🖤

'This Time Matters' closed this weekend.Since October, these young people showed up every week carrying different storie...
05/13/2026

'This Time Matters' closed this weekend.

Since October, these young people showed up every week carrying different stories, different challenges, and different ideas about who belonged in the room.

They listened to each other.
They built trust with each other.
They worked through conflicts.

And then they stepped on stage and shared their stories with a theater full of people, showing the reality and hope that young people embody.

Thank you to everyone who showed up, supported, and believed in our young people and their work. 🖤

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