Stephen Kidd '97, a graduate student in theater at Brown University, is a volunteer counselor and program director at a free summer camp in New York for inner-city children living with AIDS. His one-man stage performance, "Sigh," is a tribute to one 13-year-old boy who, Kidd said, "opened my eyes to what's important in life."

"Sigh" interweaves monologues about a youngster dying of AIDS with an Ursula LeGuin story about a utopian city whose "perfection" depends on the continuing misery of one child confined to a dungeon. Kidd hopes audiences will come away with an understanding of the social alienation the AIDS kids feel "but maybe also lend a hand to help."

Kidd accepts donations at his performances for The Starfish Foundation, an organization that he and several Colby friends established to provide year-round mentoring and guidance for AIDS children. He also instituted--and ran-- The Run for Providence, a 45-mile ultra-marathon from Boston to Providence, which has raised $10,000 for the Starfish Foundation's efforts to provide Christmas gifts to underprivileged children in the Boston area.