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Kevin R. Free (standing at center), director of education at Queens Theatre in the Park, is pictured with students from Maspeth's P.S. 153, along with their coordinator and the teaching artists from the CentreStage performing arts program. With their performance of their original play, The Mixed Up Teenager Talent Show, the students closed the show last Thursday, June 11. Shown from left: (front row, kneeling) Claire Baker, Julia Klepadlo, Monica Lorens, Julio Gutierrez, Theo Lukes, Michael Krumbine, Kainat Rehman, Taric Lyazghi; (middle row) Christopher Terrano, Jocelyn Palacios, Valentina Torrealba, Andrew Tscherne, Luis Escobar, Kelly Zdanuczyk, Sakina Ali, Jennifer Villani; (back row) Lorraine Berenholtz, coordinator; teaching artists Vanessa Cohen and Bonnie Pipkin; Charmaine Swasey, Joseph Keller, Victoria Michalska, Deirdre Rouse, Emmanuella Reina, Kyle Campbell, Izabela Balawender, Sky Rivera and Kerwhin Valette. (photo: Bill Mitchell)