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Downtown High School

Lifelines in the Pipeline: Fighting Our Way Out

DEC 12–13, 2025

THE RUEFF at the STRAND THEATER at 1127 MARKET ST., SAN FRANCISCO

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Lifelines in the Pipeline: Fighting Our Way Out

DEC 12–13, 2025

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Dec 12, 2025 at 10 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. and Dec 13,2025 at 1:30 p.m.

Can our education system break free from fostering a “school-to-prison pipeline” and instead become a “school-to-liberation” pipeline? This semester, students in the Acting for Critical Transformations (A.C.T.) Project at Downtown High School investigated history, biological science, and statistics that reveal how a carceral mindset continues to shape schools—with or without police.

Lifelines in the Pipeline: Fighting Our Way Out is inspired by this exploration and the students’ personal stories. Together, they transform their discoveries into original theater pieces and an interactive educational experience for the audience. Join us in freedom-dreaming beyond the system—as we expose the pipeline and imagine true educational alternatives together.

Limited audience capacity. RSVP now to reserve your seats!

Written and performed by students in Downtown High School’s Acting for Critical Transformations Project Fall 2025

Directors: Sierra Gonzalez and Maurisa Thompson
Lobby Installations Directed by: Robert Coverdell
Co-Producers: Natalie Greene and Rebecca Ennals
Production Manager: Mike Anderburg
Stage Managers: Trinity Wicklund and Rylee Cagle
Choreographer: Antwan Davis
Lighting Designer: Charlie Mejia
Costume Design: Anelisa Armijo Montoya
Additional support: Andre Douglass, Amanda Boesen, Lucy Gosline-Ratliff, Sendy Santamaria, 826 Valencia tutors and volunteers, Rebecca J. Ennals, Adam Mendez Jr., and A.C.T. Costume Director Jessie Amoroso

Amazon, Bank of America, Bill Graham Memorial Foundation, California Arts Council, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, Hearst Foundations, Laird Norton Family Foundation, The Kimball Foundation, Koret Foundation, Rawley T. Farnsworth Fellowship Fund, San Francisco Department of Children, Youth & Their Families, The Sato Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Martin Tannenbaum/Gerald B. Rosenstein Estate, and U.S. Bank.