viBe Theater Experience (viBe) provides girls (ages 13-19) and young women (ages 18-24) in New York City with free, high quality artistic, leadership and academic opportunities. viBe works to empower underserved teenage girls to write and perform original theater, video. Since 2002, viBe has produced over 50 original productions, 7 CDs of empowering music, dozens of printed publications,podcasts and video clips-- all written, created and performed by NYC teenage girls about the real-life issues they face every day. Through listening to viBe's music, cheering in viBe's theaters, reading viBe's scripts and downloading our performances, thousands of young and diverse audience members have re-thought what teenage girls canachieve, what artistic performance is about and whom it is for.