{"id":186809,"date":"2026-02-21T00:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186809\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:12:07","slug":"callie-prendiville-johnson-on-theater-empathy-and-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186809\/","title":{"rendered":"Callie Prendiville Johnson on Theater, Empathy, and Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Callie Prendiville Johnson is The Electric Company Theatre\u2019s co-artistic director (a role she shares with her husband, Brian). She sees theater as a way to educate students and adults about Fullerton\u2019s history, and as a means of tackling real-world issues and values in an entertaining setting.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/quotes-ocm-0226-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167198\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"  \/>Credit: Irvin Rivera<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we consume stories, they inform the way that we think about the world more than a lesson (would).<\/p>\n<p>I think kids are naturally really empathetic, and theater is such a great empathy builder and empathy tool.<\/p>\n<p>We want the people who are on our stages to reflect our actual community that we\u2019re a part of, which is very diverse.<\/p>\n<p>Anything that brings people physically together into the same room, to laugh and cry about the same thing, is a good use of our time.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re passionate about providing opportunities for students who might not otherwise see a play if their class didn\u2019t take a field trip (here).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Callie Prendiville Johnson is The Electric Company Theatre\u2019s co-artistic director (a role she shares with her husband, Brian).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-186809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}