work being done with boston school students, we have invited urban improv actors and educators merrill perkins and zack stewart. welcome to urban u merrill, let me start with you. take me through it. how this all works. >> well, the kids come into the room. usually, it is a classroom of somewhere between 15-25 students. they come in. and there are five actor educators there. we take turns performing. a scene for them. we sing a song. a song... something like "use it's fighting the only answer" and then we talk about the issue. violence prevention and trying to think about alternatives when you are in a conflict. to actually going to violence. >> zack, who benefits from this program? in your view? >> so we work with a number of boston public schools. we have partnered with them. we are mainly based in the roxbury aa. dorchester, and roxbury. we also go out across the state to other schools. and we can tailor-make a scene about an issue that any school is working on. we can come to you and sort of give you a workshop and in response to something your community is dealing with. so we see a number