We use theatre to build stronger readers.
Who We Are
Trinity Theatre Group is a NYC-based nonprofit that uses theatre as a tool to strengthen literacy, build confidence, and cultivate community among 2nd–4th grade students in historically underserved communities.
Through our flagship program, Trinity Players, students learn through Shakespeare—not simply about Shakespeare. Using performance, play, and creative exploration, students strengthen reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and communication skills while developing their voices as artists and storytellers.
Why Shakespeare?
Shakespeare’s language is challenging, and that’s exactly why we use it. Students encounter unfamiliar vocabulary, complex metaphors, rhythm, wordplay, and layered stories that ask them to slow down, decode language, and make meaning from text.
At Trinity Theatre Group, students explore that complexity through performance. They strengthen reading comprehension, expand vocabulary, analyze character and story, experiment with language, and develop their own interpretations. Shakespeare becomes more than something to study, it becomes a tool for building literacy.
And as students wrestle with stories of love, power, betrayal, ambition, and loss, they also find connections to their own lives. They discover that they can understand complex texts, make them their own, and use their voices to tell stories.
We don’t just teach Shakespeare. We teach through Shakespeare.
Founder & Executive Director
Psacoya Guinn is an arts leader, educator, and social entrepreneur committed to using theatre as a tool for learning, connection, and social impact. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Trinity Theatre Group and serves as Associate Artistic Director of Learning & Community Engagement at New York Theatre Workshop.
Psacoya founded Trinity Theatre Group with a belief that complex texts like Shakespeare should not be reserved for students who are already considered strong readers. Instead, they can be used as tools to help young people become stronger readers, writers, thinkers, and storytellers. Through Trinity, she has developed theatre-based learning experiences that use Shakespeare to strengthen literacy, social-emotional development, and creative expression for young people in historically underserved New York City communities.
Psacoya holds an M.S.Ed in Education Entrepreneurship from The University of Pennsylvania. Her contributions to the arts education and entrepreneurship field have been recognized with the Jacobs Foundation Education Impact Prize, and she is a Jacobs Foundation Social Entrepreneur Fellow and a 4.0 Tiny Fellow. In her spare time, Psacoya enjoys all things theatre and stays active with Peloton.
Learn more about Psacoya here, and/or email her at psacoya@trinitytheatregroup.org.
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