Teaching

Warming up before a performance!



Theater, Music, and Creative Writing in-school and after-school residencies and workshops available for elementary, middle school, and high school students, with curriculum specifically designed for each learning community, including parent/child workshops and family programs.

Theater Arts-in-Education 

Giving notes to young actors, helping them to think critically about their performances.

 

Some examples of past theater residencies and workshops:

Kindergarten Through Second Grade:
Showing Off My Creative Dramatics: Building Self-Esteem Through Theater
Telling the Story with Our Bodies: Using Creative Movement to Bring Books to Life
Bringing Books to Life with Music and Creative Movement
Creative Dramatics: Mother Goose in My Neighborhood
Creative Dramatics: Taking Fairy Tales from the Page to the Stage

Third Through Fifth Grade:
Mask Theater: Native American Legends

Creating a Choreopoem Through Image Theater
Creating Magic Onstage: Exploring the Real and Unreal Through Acting and Playwriting 
Performance Poetry 

Sixth Through Eighth Grade:
Mask Improvisation

Drama and Myths: Acting, Literacy, and the Study of Ancient Cultures
Drama Underground: Subway Plays
Performance Poetry   
Bringing to Life Short Plays from Around the World  
Know More Drama: Increasing Self-Esteem and Self-Knowledge Through Theater Skills

High School:
Playwriting 
Acting
Theater Games
Directing
Play Production (experience directing and producing full-length plays and musicals with high school students, as well as student-written and/or devised work)


 

Music Arts-in-Education 

Elementary music students in Brooklyn performing their original songs for their peers and families.

 

Some examples of past music residencies and workshops:

Kindergarten through Eighth Grade:
Music and Rhythm (using handheld percussion instruments)
Singing and Songwriting
STEM Songwriting: Writing Songs About Science
American Folk Songs
Songs to Celebrate Me and My Communities
Singing Songs from Around the World
School Rocks: Writing Songs to Show Off Our Learning and Ourselves
Jazz for Kids
Writing Songs for Mother Earth


Residencies and Workshops: Creative Aging

A new short story author reads her work at the culmination of a Writing Short Stories class.

 

Ongoing residencies and workshops available for older adults at senior centers, libraries, and other community-based organizations.

Some examples of past creative aging residencies and workshops: 

Writing Short Stories
Creative Dramatics 
Arts and Memory: Theater Improvisation at New York Memory Center

Professional Development Workshops

The DREAMSPACE workshop at the Face to Face Conference.

 

Professional Development Workshops available for educators and artists in how to develop curriculum and successfully teach theater, music, and creative writing  to K-12th grade populations.  Additionally, the DREAMSPACE workshop is available for a variety of professionals, encouraging creative new program development.