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Building Better People Productions presents  Feeling All the Feelings, our original show about emotions, for schools, libraries, and other groups (both in-person and virtually)! Our tour has been a favorite over the years, and we want to come to YOU next!

Laila is a 10-year-old girl who feels feelings so big, in fact, that she suspects they might be TOO big in other people’s eyes. She comes up with a way to express her emotions that seems to make everyone else happy. But will it work for HER? In this funny, emotional, interactive one-person play starring and written by Lynne Streeter Childress, Building Better People Productions explores the enormous range of kids’ emotions, the pressure they feel to be accepted, and the awesomeness that comes from feeling ALL of your feelings. Our play was written with the advice and input of professionals in child mental and physical health. Run-time: 40-minute show and 15-minute post-show workshop. Comes with a Teacher’s Guide.

Written by and starring Lynne Streeter Childress
Directed by Danielle Drakes
Costumes by Stefany Thomas
Photos by Rissa Miller
Logo by Darin Gilliam

Appropriate Grade Levels: PK-5

Curriculum Connections: Character education; Performing Arts; Language Arts

For more information about the show, or pricing, or to book a show, contact us at Lynne@bbpproductions.com or 443 906 0099.

Original production made possible by a Fall 2021 Mini-Grant from the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County

This April, you have two chances to see Bringing Back the Sun, BBPP’s original play for 0-6 year olds about teamwork!  It’s an interactive show full of music, movement and friendship. We will be performing a free show at the Riviera Beach branch of Anne Arundel County Public Library on Friday,  April 10, at 10:30 AM  and at The Chesapeake Children’s Museum in Annapolis on Monday, April 13th at 10:30 AM (Show is free with $8 admission to the museum for people over 1, and free for CCM members and all people those younger than one). These performances are a part of Anne Arundel County’s events for the NEA’s Big Read, a month-long celebration of community and these BBPP shows are funded by a Spring 2026 Mini Grant from the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County and a grant from the NEA and the Big Read.

Find out more about Big Read events in Anne Arundel County here, and get details about our Bringing Back the Sun shows below!

Bringing Back the Sun
created by and featuring Colie Aziza, Lynne Streeter Childress and John Sellman

Building Better People is so excited to be returning to the Kennard African American Cultural Heritage Center (KAACHC) in Centreville, MD with a performance of We Got It: A Show About Empathy on Saturday, February 21 at 1PM. It’s a part of their Black History Month celebration. It’s a free performance, made possible in part by an Arts in Education grant from the Maryland State Arts Council! Join us! For more information about how the KAACHC preserves the Black History of Queen Anne’s County, go to https://kennardheritage.com/.

Building Better People Productions has spent 2025 creatively spreading kindness and understanding through our shows and workshops. We thank you for your support, and we are giving you two more opportunities before the end of the year to be a part of what we do!

Help Us With a Year-End Donation

We’ve had a really great year here at Building Better People Productions, bringing our shows, workshops and residencies to more folks, all with the aim of using theatre to encourage empathy and other social emotional skills. We would love your help! You still have a few days left in 2025 to make a financial contribution to help us bring the happy into 2026. Make your tax-deductible donation at https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/building-better-people-productions

See you in 2026!

We are so excited to be performing our 1-person show about emotions, Feeling all the Feelings, at Children’s Theatre of Annapolis (CTA) on Saturday, May 10, 2025! CTA is an area institution for training talented young theater performers, and in their special sARTurdays series, they are presenting professional theatre artists in performances for the whole family. Building Better People is honored to be a part of this program, and we would love to see you there

In our show, Laila is a 10-year-old girl who feels feelings so big, in fact, that she suspects they might be TOO big in other people’s eyes. She comes up with a way to express her emotions that seems to make everyone else happy. But will it work for HER? In this funny, emotional, interactive one-person play starring and written by Lynne Streeter Childress, Building Better People Productions explores the enormous range of kids’ emotions, the pressure they feel to be accepted, and the awesomeness that comes from feeling ALL of your feelings. Our play was written with the advice and input of professionals in child mental and physical health. Run-time: 40-minute show and 15-minute post-show workshop.

Tickets are the wonderful price of $7 each, and can be found here!
You can find out more about what’s happening at CTA by clicking here!

Building Better People are honored to be performing We Got It: A Show About Empathy,  our long-running play for kids and families, at the Kennard African American Cultural Heritage Center  (KAACHC) in Centerville, Maryland, presented by the Kennard Alumni Association. The FREE performance is Saturday March 15, 2025, at 1PM. Light refreshments will be served, and donations will be accepted for Kennard’s Scholarship Fund. You can more information HERE, and to find more about the KAACHC, check them out here.

Our performance is made possible by an Arts In Education grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.

We Got It! A Show About Empathy
Performed by Building Better People Productions
February 15, 2025 at 1PM
Kennard African American Cultural Heritage Center
410 Little Kidwell Ave, Centreville, MD 21617
All Donations Benefit Kennard’s Scholarship Fund