Speak like the President
In after-school residencies, Ford's Theatre teaching artists use oratory to help students build speech, writing and leadership skills. In year-long after-school programs, students learn skills for self-expression using the words of Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and others to learn the tools of rhetoric and oratory.  As they progress, students write and deliver their own speeches. They perform on the Ford’s Theatre stage and take trips to hear oratory in action.

For more information on funding or engaging in this residency, email the Education Department, with "Speak like the President" in the subject line.

Click Here to watch videos from our special oratory programs.

All students in Ford's Theatre Oratory Programs perform a Spring Program of historical and original oratory onstage at the Theatre.

Ford's Theatre Society thanks the Walmart Foundation for supporting a National Pilot of our Oratory Program.

Speak like the President is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

For information on how your school can participate in our Special Oratory Programs, please email the Education Department or call (202) 638-2941 ext. 537.