Attention Veterans, spouse and dependents! We are looking to have this performance on November 17th, so it will be a quick process for applications, interviews, and rehearsals. We will be choosing a maximum of 10 performers from the application submissions.

SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION TODAY TO BE A PART OF THIS MOMENTOUS EVENT!!!

Here is the link for participants to apply for the Telling: USF St. Petersburg.

Telling: USF St. Petersburg Participant Application

Telling Project History:

Since 2008, The Telling Project has produced 42 original performances in 19 states in which veterans and military family members stage their stories of military life for their communities, bridging the civilian/military gap during a time of ongoing overseas conflict. Veterans and veterans’ family members step forward as performers, a coalition of community partners is assembled, and after interview, performance training, and rehearsal, the ‘performers’ tell their stories of service to their communities.

Telling Project Mission:

With less than one percent of the population serving in uniform over the last eleven years of war, contact between civilian and military populations in the US is at historic lows. Through performance, The Telling Project facilitates meaningful contact between veteran and civilian populations on a community level. For military and military families, greater insight into their experiences facilitates re-connection with civilian society. For civilians, the dismantling of stereotypes surrounding veterans dispels anxieties arising from sensational depictions of veterans in the media and allows communities to benefit from the skills and experience that veterans offer to a community. No less important, a human understanding of military service fosters a stronger connection to community, to nation and to the world at large. Theatrically, Telling performances pivot on the expectation that matters not acknowledged in the outside world can be engaged within the performance space. This allows performers to explore aspects of their experiences and selves that they are unwilling or unable to otherwise, and audiences to be receptive of this exploratory process and what it reveals.

Student Veterans Organization

University of South Florida St. Petersburg

President Kaitlyn Mollo

Vice President Anthony Cook