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Meet Actor and Teaching Artist Pedro Bayón

Headshot of Pedro Bayón. He has short dark hair and a trimmed goatee mustache. He wears a white v-neck sweater.

Actor and Teaching Artist Pedro Bayón

Summer Camps are in full swing, but before they started, School and Community Program Manager Amanda Hestwood sat down with Pedro Bayón, a long-time teaching artist with SteppingStone Theatre for Youth who has also acted on the Park Square stage, in The House on Mango Street (2014 and 2016), Elliot: a Soldier’s Fugue (2015), most recently in Full Circle Theater Company’s Atacama. As the two theatre companies come together, it is exciting so see how many artists and community members have connections to both organizations!

Hear some of Pedro’s stories about the creativity of young people and his favorite part of summer camps! (Be sure to listen at 3 minutes if you want a smile!)

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