• No Child...

  • By: Nilaja Sun
  • Narrated by: Nilaja Sun
  • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (602 ratings)

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No Child...

By: Nilaja Sun
Narrated by: Nilaja Sun
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Publisher's summary

Ms. Sun is a charming, cash-strapped teaching artist put in charge of a rambunctious group of 10th graders at a public school in the Bronx. While directing her students in a play, Ms. Sun must lift them up while everything around them is falling apart.

Written and performed by acclaimed playwright Nilaja Sun and based on her eight-year experience with arts education in New York City, No Child is an inspiring, multi-character solo show that examines America’s broken school system - and reveals the life and love that fill every classroom.

©2021 Nilaja Sun (P)2021 AO Media LLC

About the Creator and Performer

Nilaja Sun’s Obie Award-winning solo piece No Child… was directed by Hal Brooks and was also originally commissioned and produced by Epic Theatre Ensemble. It transferred to the Barrow Street Theatre in 2006, where it played for over a year in a sold-out run. The production returned for another run in 2011. For her creation and performance of No Child... and its subsequent international tour, Sun garnered 20 awards in addition to the Obie, including a Lucille Lortel Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards (among them the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award for Outstanding New American Play), a Theatre World Award, the Helen Hayes Award, two NAACP Theatre Awards, and the soloNOVA Award for Artist of the Year by terraNOVA Collective.
Sun’s play Pike St. was originally commissioned and produced by Epic Theatre Ensemble and had its world premiere at the Abrons Arts Center in the Lower East Side, which was followed by an international tour at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Pillsbury House, Detroit Public Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Hartford Stage, as well as Edinburgh, Scotland, and Melbourne, Australia.
Her TV and film credits include Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, BrainDead, 30 Rock, Law & Order: SVU, Unforgettable, Louie, The International, Youth in Oregon, and Rubicon.
A native of the Lower East Side, she is a Princess Grace Award recipient, and has worked proudly as a teaching artist in New York City for 20 years.

About the Director

Hal Brooks is a Brooklyn-based freelance director and has been artistic director of the Cape Cod Theatre Project since 2012, as well as associate artistic director of the Ojai Playwrights Conference since 2010. Regional credits: Heisenberg (American Conservatory Theater), Residence (Humana Festival) The Whale (Denver Center), Tigers Be Still (Dallas Theater Center), Six Years (Humana Festival), and Be a Good Little Widow (Old Globe). Off Broadway: Nilaja Sun’s No Child..., Will Eno’s Thom Pain (based on nothing), Sharyn Rothman's By the Water (Manhattan Theatre Club), Mona Mansour's Urge for Going (Public Theater), and Alena Smith's The Bad Guys (Second Stage). Brooks was also the artistic director of the Obie Award-winning Pearl Theatre Company. He is a member of LCT Directors Lab, a Drama League Fellow, and a recipient of the NEA/TCG Program for Directors. He has been a lecturer at Yale College since 2010.

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This is an Awesome book !

I read it twice and my son had to read it as well. Great read.

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Very entertaining

The author did an amazing job capturing the wide range of characters in a high school classroom. The story had a very good flow.

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No Child Left Behind

I wasn’t sure about this when it started but I kept with it and was glad I did! You never know what kind of impact you have on others so don’t give up on anyone is what I take from this story.

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Play within a play within a play

Beautifully narrated, each character's voice and background was clearly distinguished. I really enjoyed the read!

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Fantastic

I love it from start to finish. I’m from the Bronx NY. It hit close to home.

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astounding

a great short read. I loved hearing the different voices. it made me sad it made me cheer. Highly recommend

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MADE ME THINK

I really enjoyed this. It also made me think a little more about my privileged white status and the upbringing I had.

POWERFUL presentation. I was really pulling for the “kids”. Also, made me appreciate teachers a little more and that is saying something.

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Just not my style of reading

This story was supposed to be there about a school of basically delinquents and their problems in adventures I guess you would call it. When the narrator talked, it made me feel like I was in the kitchen sitting there listening to gossip. That’s just the frame That she put me in. I did not finish the book.

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Amazing

Honestly it was an important commentary on the state of education in our country. Teachers do important work and not all of it is about test scores

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superb representation of inner city teaching!

absolutely loved this interpretation of a teacher's struggle while trying to add value to teaching in the inner City yet it really resonated with me because I did teach for America on the east coast and had a similar experience. I am an African-American woman and I feel that they are a huge gaps in the education system but meanwhile I want to do all I can to help my community and students who look like me. I thought the voice actor was excellent and did an awesome job representing the multifaceted levels of characters and voices. love love the story and I hope more audiobooks are created similar to this one.

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