American Alliance for Theatre and Education
Connecting our Neighborhoods: Using Theatre to Discover our Common Ground

Conference Schedule as of 6/8/06
(This schedule is subject to change. 
Please check back often for updates and refer to your Conference Program for the most updated information)

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

8:00 AM – 11:00 PM  Pre-Conference (*pre-registration required)
Today & Tomorrow: DC’s Changing Face of Theatre & Community

Thursday, July 27, 2006

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM  Pre-Conference Continues (*pre-registration required)

9:00 AM  Registration Opens

11:00 AM – 2:30 PM  Paid Workshops  (*pre-registration required)
The Drama Spectrum: From Developmental Drama to Drama Therapy – Sally Bailey
An Introduction to Ethnodrama: Autoethnography as Monologue – Johnny Saldaña

11:45 AM – 2:15 PM  CTFA Medallion Luncheon

12:00 PM  Exhibits Open

1:15-2:30 PM Concurrent Sessions

LGBT Youth Theater: Challenges and Strategies
Session Chairs:  Brian Guehring, Education Director of Omaha Theater Company for Young People, and Brad Vincent, Instructor, New York University Program in Educational Theatre

An Extended Creative Drama Project: The Frogwarts School of Wizardry, Role-play and Creativity Camp
Session Chair: Amy Ressler, Great Midwestern Educational Theatre Co.

Chicago + San Diego = REALITY CONNECTED
Session Chairs:  Wendy Maples, San Diego Youth & Community Services; Kim Kohler, OMNI Youth Services

Critical Performative Pedagogy: Redefining Drama/Theatre Educating for the Glocal
Session Chair: Gustave J Weltsek Ph.D., University of British Columbia

Drama Imagination Styles:  Theory into Practice
Session Chair:  Helane. S. Rosenberg, Ph.D., Rutgers University

Character Interviews: Integrating Drama with Reading Comprehension Skills
Session Chair:  Lenore Blank Kelner, Interact Story Theatre, John F. Kennedy Center Nat'l Touring Workshops for Teachers

Integrated Arts After School Program: An Interactive Reflection
Session Chairs/Presenters: Sandra Levy, Lesley University; Michelle Kable, Arizona Stage University; Chiara Lovio, Arizona State University

Wake Up Your Warm-Ups: Rediscovering Games as an Integral Part of Teaching and Learning
Session Chairs: Aliza Mendelewicz, MA, and Leah Lees, MA, Student Educational Theatre, New York University

Creating and Ensemble with Cast/Class/Company:  A participatory experience for theatre educators who work with students of theatre, ages 5 through 95
Session Chair:  Gai Jones

Student Inspired New Plays
Session Chair:  Janet Stanford, Artistic Director, Imagination Stage
Participants:  D. W. Gregory, Playwright, and Kelly Cates, Director,

2:45 – 4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions

Tu y Me: Devising Bilingual plays with children, bringing heritage languages and English toe to toe
Session Chair:  Meg Wuerdeman, New York University

Girls' Leadership Through Theater: viBe Theater Experience and Dramagirls show how their unique programs encourage development in Initiative, Risk-Taking and Communication Confidence
Session Chairs/Presenters:  Dana Edell, Co-Founder & Executive Director of viBe Theater Experience; Brittney Ince, 17 year old viBe Theater Experience Alum & Co-Director of viBeGirlsInCharge Youth Leadership Program;
Dr. Susan Colon, Department of Communication, Media and Theatre Northeastern Illinois University; Megan Pahmier, Associate Director, the Redmoon Theater Dramagirls Program, Chicago, IL

New Neighborhoods = New Programming?
Chair: YiRen Tsai, Academy/Education Associate, First Stage Children’s Theater

Character Slam: Inside Out
Session Chair:  Lindsay Price, Playwright

Come on’a my house . . .         
Session Chair: Carole S. Miller, University of VictoriaParticipant:  Juliana Saxton, University of Victoria

Theatre in Education: A Model for Service Learning and Community Partnerships
Session Chair:  Glenda Hensley, Western Carolina University
Participant:  Claire Eye, Western Carolina University

Beyond Tableaux: Human Slide Shows
Session Chair:  Dr. Rosalind M. Flynn, JFK Center National Touring Workshops for Teachers, Catholic University of America
Participant: Lenore Blank Kelner, Interact Story Theatre, JFK Center National Touring Workshops for Teachers

Tarradiddle Tales by Flora Atkin – A performance by Adventure Theatre
Session Chair:  Carol Leahy, President Adventure Theatre
Presenters:  Adventure Theatre

Calling All Directors
Session Chairs:  Jeanne M. Hopson, Artistic Director, The Drama Workshop; Dr. Michael Pearl, Grandview High School
Participants:  Peter Loffredo, President, Connecticut Heritage Productions; Steve Barberio, AATE President; Dr. Harvey M. Miller, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Victoria (honorary member)

2:45- 5:30 PM Concurrent Sessions – DOUBLE SESSIONS

A Conversation with the 2006 Medallion Recipients
Session Chair:  Dorothy Webb, President, Children's Theatre Foundation of America
Participants:  Dr. Bella Itkin, Dr. Jonathan Levy, Dr. Joseph Robinette

Research Award Presentations
Session Chair:  Christine Warner

YTN Game Exchange
Presenters:  Peter Avery, Director of Education, TADA! Youth Theater; Andrew Harris, Director of Education, Stage One; Brian Guering, Education Director, Omaha Theater Company for Young People

4:15-5:30 PM Concurrent Sessions

Back That Thing Up or Should I Push Up on It: Using Theatre-in-Education to Explore Sex and Violence in Media Culture
Session Chairs: Alexia Vernon and Carmen Kelly, Creative Arts Team

Connecting Communities: The Young Native Playwrights Reservation Outreach Project
Session Chair: Thomas Dean Kellogg, The Mentor Artist Playwright Project (MAPP) and The Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA

Disabled Artists, Enabling Theatre Experiences
Session Chairs:  Kristen Link, Teaching Artist, Dare Family Services, Inc., Boston , MA ; M.A. Theatre Education, Emerson College; Mary ElizaBeth Peters, Watertown School District ; Boston Health Commission; The Learning Center for Deaf Children – Massachusetts . M.A., Theatre Education, Emerson College.

How to Write Winning Grants That Get Funding (Part I)
Session Chairs:  Sam Graber, President of Accompany Publishing, AATE Executive Board
(Treasurer); Dale Schmid, President of the National Dance Education Organization, Visual
& Performing Arts Coordinator for New Jersey

Measuring the Impact of Theatre on Education and Emotional Development
Session Chairs:  Catherine Hughes, IMTAL/Ohio State University; Talleri McRae, Special Gifts Theatre
Participants:  Jillian Finkle, IMTAL/National Children’s Museum, Kateri McRae, University of Arizona

Infusing Theater Across the Curriculum
Session Chair:  Carolyn F. Chryst, Ph.D. SUNY-Oneonta
  
Building and Designing with Stock Scenery
Session Presenter:  Julian Lazarus, AATE Maryland State Rep.

transfigured: Confronting hazing and homophobia through performance
Session Chairs:  Joe Salvatore and Sharon Counts, New York UniversityParticipants: Annette Cortes, J’nelle Bob-Semple, John DelVecchio, Daryl Embry, Lanny Kim, Blake McCarty, New York University

Whose Program Is This? Choosing Production Material with Young People in Mind
Session Chair:  Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, California State University at FresnoParticipants:  Joan Lazarus, University of Texas at Austin; Jo Beth Gonzalez, Bowling Green High School;Internship FairChairs:  Cheryl L. Kaplan, MFA, UTMB, Director of Theater Outreach and Education; Robyn Flatt, MA, Dallas Children's Theater, Artistic Director; Barbara (Bobbi) McKean, Ph.D., University of Arizona, Assistant Professor; Lori L. Hager, Ph.D., University of Oregon, Assistant Professor, Community Arts

5:30 – 7:00 PM Dinner on your own 

7:00 PM Opening Ceremony / Keynote Speaker – Richard J. Deasy    (Located at Round House Theatre-across the street from Conference Hotel) 

8:30 PM New Guard Mentor/Mentee Reception 

9:30 PM Playwrights Slam  

Friday, July 28, 2006 

8:00 AM Registration opens 

8:00 – 9:15 AM  Network Meetings 

9:30-10:45 AM Concurrent Sessions

Civic Engagement, Dialogue and Youth Theatre (Part I)Session Chair:  Amy Petersen Jensen, Brigham Young University Participants:  Megan Alrutz (co-chair), Jessica Decky Alexander (co-chair), Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, Doreen Feitelberg, Cheryl L. Kaplan, Shane Moreman, Joe Salvatore, Stephani Etheridge Woodson

Breaking Down Boal: Making Theatre of the Oppressed Techniques Accessible for Upper Elementary and Middle School Students
Session Chair:  Joan Lazarus, University of Texas at Austin
Participants:  Spencer Sutterfield and Rachael Miller, University of Texas at Austin

Drama Education: Two Points of View
Session Chair:  Manon van de Water, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Participants:  Henriette Coppens, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Mei-Chun Lin National University of Taiwan

The Complete Museum Theater (Abridged)
Session Chair:  Jillian Finkle, IMTAL/National Children’s Museum
Participants:  Paul Taylor, IMTAL/The Franklin Institute; Jim Murtha, IMTAL/The New Jersey Academy of Aquatic Sciences; George E. Buss Jr., IMTAL/Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts; Catherine Hughes, IMTAL/Ohio State University; Lynda Kennedy

Back to the Future:  A Comparison of the Most Produced Plays in Secondary Settings to AATE Award Winning Plays
Session Chair:  Laura A. McCammon, Affiliation University of Arizona
Participants:  Barbara Jo Maier, Northern Arizona University; John Newman; Megan Elliot, University of Arizona

How to Write Winning Grants That Get Funding (Part II)
Session Chairs:  Sam Graber, President of Accompany Publishing, AATE Executive Board
(Treasurer); Dale Schmid, President of the National Dance Education Organization, Visual
& Performing Arts Coordinator for New Jersey

Creating your Dream Residency
Session Chair:  Gillian McNally
Participant:  Linda Glaum

The Creative Process of Writing, Rehearsing, and Performing a One-Act Musical with Actors with Disabilities
Session Chair:  Carol Gulley, Director of AccessAbility, Imagination Stage
Participants:  Marilyn Bagel, Playwright; Claudia Bocock, actor; David Heiman, actor; J.P. Illarramendi, actor; Casey Hammeke, actor; Bruce Wallace, actor; Deborah Shankman, actor

Acting Right: Classroom Management and Team Building through Drama
Session Chair: Sean Layne, Focus 5 Inc

9:30 AM - 12:15 PM  Concurrent Sessions – DOUBLE SESSIONS

CTFA Spotlights the Achievements of the 2006 Grant Recipients and Announces Awardees for 2007
Session Chairs:  Robyn Flatt and Gayle Sergel:  members Children's Theatre Foundation of America Board
Additional participants will include the 2005 recipients of the Children's Theatre Foundation of America grants and fellowships.

Docu-Drama, Bullying and Homophobia: Theater As A Way In
Session Chair:  Dr. Edie Demas, Director of Education, New Victory Theater
Participants:  Jill Dunn, Associate Director of Education, New Victory Theater; Joe Salvatore, Assistant Professor, NYU Program in Educational Theatre

Devising TIE 2: More Questions and Methodologies
Session Chair:  Charles Adams, University of MN
Participant:  Alexia Vernon, Kaplan Center Administrator, Paul A. Kaplan Center for Educational Drama, CUNY/Creative Arts Team

11:00 AM -12:15 PM – Concurrent Sessions

Digital Filmmaking and the Drama Classroom
Session Chairs:  Troy Lanier and Clay Nichols - authors of Filmmaking for Teens (Michael Wiese Pub. 2005)

The Role of the Education Department in a Professional and/ or Youth Theatre Company
Session Chair:  Kristi Johnson, Education Director, SteppingStone Theatre for Youth Development
Participants: Peter Avery, Director of Education, TADA!; Andrew D. Harris, Director of Theatre Education, Stage One; Kati Koerner, Director of Education, Lincoln Center Theater

Using Museum Theater to Connect to the High School History and Literacy Curricula
Session Chair: Lynda Kennedy, Specialist in Arts and Core Subject Integration
Participant:  Christina Myatt, Theatrical Programming Coordinator, Putnam Museum

A Conversation With Doug Herbert
Session Chair:  Janet E. Rubin, Saginaw Valley State University
Participant:  Doug Herbert, U.S. Department of Education

Artistry in Practice: A Framework for Teaching Artists
Session Chair: Dr. Bobbi McKean, Ph.D. Theatre Education and Outreach, University of Arizona
Target Audience: Practitioner /Advanced

Microphone Techniques for Theatre Applications
Session Chair: David Mendez, SHURE Microphones

Using Improvisation with Young People to Establish an Ensemble that Values Acceptance and Confident, Creative Risk
 Session Chair:  Lisa Barker, AATE Member, K-8 Drama Teacher, and Actor with "Barrel of Monkeys"

The Drama Game File in Action!
Session Chair: Jonas Basom, President and Founder, Drama Education Network

Mosaic, A Performance by Quest Productions
Participants: Quest Productions

Playwrights Talk to High School Students
Session Chairs:  Joey Madia, artistic director/resident playwright, New Mystics Theatre Company; Sandy Asher, Playwright
Participants:  Max Bush, Freelance Playwright/Director; Barry Kornhauser, Fulton Opera House; John Newman, Highland High School

Civic Engagement, Dialogue and Youth Theatre (Part II – Closed Session)

Session Chair:  Amy Petersen Jensen, Brigham Young University

11:00 – 12:15 PM SIMULTANEOUS POSTER SESSIONS

Measure by Measure, How WBT Can Help Create a Social Online Presence
Session Chair: Sara Rofofsky, PhD Candidate, Touro University International

Service-Learning:  Connecting with your Community Through
Session Chairs:  Rozz Grigsby, Meghann Henry, Rebecca Podsednik, and Amanda Rowell, University of Central Florida

Role Playing and Board Games as Theatre and Theatre Pedagogy
Session Chair:  Ben Fisler, Otero Junior College, Arts Department
Participants:  Justin Michael Bestul, Bowling Green State University, Theatre and Film; Drew Chappell, University School Partnerships, Theatre (Youth), Arizona State University; Joseph Haughey, Western Michigan University, Department of English; Kevin Knott, Frostburg State University, Department of English

12:30 – 1:30 PM  Exhibitor Raffle 

1:30 – 2:30 PM  Lunch on your own 

2:30 PM  Buses depart for The Kennedy Center (*pre-registration required) 

3:15 – 7:00 PM  Kennedy Center activities 

7:15 – 8:30 PM  Dinner on your own (in Georgetown) 

8:45 PM  Monument Sightseeing 

11:45  Return to Hotel  

Saturday, July 29, 2006 

8:00 AM  Registration Opens 

8:00 – 9:15 AM  Network Meetings 

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM  Paid Workshops (*pre-registration required)
Arts Management – Maggie Boland
Creative Writing: Writing From a Sense of Place – Suzan Zeder & Jim Hancock 

9:30-10:45 AM  Concurrent Sessions

Somewhere Else:  A Devised Theatre-In-Education (TIE) Piece Inspired by Issues of Conflict, Community and Social Change
Session Chair:  Heather Stickeler, Ph.D. Candidate/Theatre For Youth/Arizona State University
Participant:  Jeremiah Neal, MFA Student/Theatre for Youth/Arizona State University

Moving Stories: Literacy and Drama for PreK and Kindergarten Students
Session Chair:  Laurie Magovern Thiebaut, Director of Education, Arena Stage
Participant:  Heather Benson, Literacy Consultant, AppleTree Institute & Ashley Forman, Arena Stage Teaching Artist

Connecting to Our Past:  A Look at Significant Historical Events and Pioneers in Theatre for Youth from the 1930s through the 1980s          
Session Chair:  Katherine Krzys, Arizona State University
Participants:  Elizabeth Moss, Brigham Young University; Drew Chappell, Arizona State University

Hand In Hand: A Model for Theater and Museum Collaborations
Session Chairs:  Lisa Agogliati and Donna Salamoff, Deaf Access Program Co-Directors, Imagination Stage
Participant:  Jillian Finkle, Manager of Theater & Early Childhood Programs, National Children’s Museum

Programs of the National Endowment for the Arts
Session Chair:  Janet E. Rubin, Saginaw Valley State University
Participants:  Sarah B. Cunningham, Director of Arts Education, National Endowment for the Arts; Janet E. Rubin, Saginaw Valley State University

Curriculum Collaboration: An Introduction to the creation and implementation of the New York City Department of Education's Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts: Theater PreK-12
Session Chairs:  Paul King, Director of Theater Programs, New York City Department of Education; Edie Demas, Director of Education, New Victory Theater
Participant:  Christina Marín, PhD,  Assistant Professor in Educational Theatre, The Steinhardt School of Education

Special Gifts Theatre and Open Circle Theatre Present Techniques for Teaching Students With or Without Disabilities
Session Chairs/Presenters:  Susan B. Field, Founder and Executive Director, Special Gifts Theatre;  Talleri McRae, Special Gifts Theatre; Arianna Ross, Education Director and Co-Founder, Open Circle Theatre

Collaborative Playmaking with CAT Youth Theatre
Session Chair:  Helen White, Creative Arts Team

Making a Splash with Vietnamese Water Puppetry    
Session Chair: Patricia Whitton Forrest, Publisher, New Plays Incorporated
Participant:  Joann Seigrist, Professor of Children's Theatre and Puppetry at West Virginia University, member of the West Virginia University Puppet Mobile Company

9:30 AM -12:15 PM Concurrent Sessions – DOUBLE SESSIONS

Bringing Text to Life
Session Chair: Tim McCarty

11:00 AM -12:15 PM Concurrent Sessions

Developing a Secondary Certification Degree: An Open Forum to provide Feedback and Discussion to Create the Perfect Program
 Session Chair:  Angela V. Farrand, Gallaudet University

Retratos: Portraits of Our World: Arts Education Through Collaboration
Session Chairs:  David Andrew Snider, Producing Artistic Director of Young Playwrights’ Theater; Karen Zacar­as, Artistic Director of Young Playwrights’ Theater, Roberta Gasbarre, Artistic Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Discovery Theater

Structuring Applied Theatre: Two entry points.
Session Chair:  Julian Lazarus, AATE Maryland State Rep

Women at War (In Plays)
 Session Chairs:  Ric Averill, Playwrights, Professional Theatre; Max Bush, Playwrights, Secondary
 Participants:  Sandra Asher and Mary Hall Surface

Shakespeare's Language:  2 Approaches
Session Chairs/Presenters:  Ro Willenbrink Blair, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania; Kim Wagner, Edinboro Uniersity of Pennsylvania; Meg Wuerdeman, New York University

Connecting Arts and Apostles: Combining Heathcote, Faith, and Process Drama
Session Chair:  Jennifer Karpel, University of Central Florida

An Introduction to Ethnodrama: Autoethnography as Monologue
Session Chair: Johnny Saldaña

12:30 – 2:30 PM  AATE Awards Luncheon (*pre-registration required)

2:45 – 3:45 PM  AATE Annual Meeting

4:00 – 5:15 PM Concurrent Sessions

Ahoj! Storytelling with Drama Leaders in the Czech Republic
Session Chairs:  Rives Collins, Northwestern University; Jaroslav Provaznik, Katedra v_chovné dramatiky (Dpt. of Drama-in-education) DAMU (Faculty of Performing Arts) Prague, Czech Republic

Ethics: Questions, Concerns and Problems within the field
Chair: Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Arizona State University
Discussion Moderator: Drew Chappell, Arizona State University

Theater in Silence:  Building Bridges and Inspiring Change
Session Chair:  Colleen McEvoy, Sign of the Times, Inc.  

Teaching English through drama in an ESL setting 
Session Chairs:  Kannie Chung, Hong Kong University; Suzanne Hermanocski, Hong Kong Institute of Education;  Jim Chan, professional puppeteer and puppet maker  

Classic Meets Contemporary: Parallel Lives/Parallel Worlds
Session Chair: Diane Goede Lutz, Beaver Dam High School
Participant:  Trina Tjersland

Investigating Media through Dramatic Activities
Session Chair:  Kristy Messer, PhD Candidate, New York University, Educational Theatre
Participant:  Tammie Swopes, Graduate Student, New York University, Educational Theatre

Opening Middle School Minds:  A Model of Student Theater for Social Change
Session Chairs:  Tracy Goetz and Kathy Shollenberger, Georgetown Day School

The Acting Conservatory at Imagination Stage: Developing a process-driven framework for working with young actors
Session Chairs:  David Markey, Director of Education, Imagination Stage; Madeleine Burke, Associate Director of Education, Imagination Stage

Harriet Tubman: The Chosen One – A Performance by InterAct Story Theatre
Session Chair:  Kelner, Lenore Blank, Interact Story Theatre

Beyond the Machine Game: Playback Theatre Short Forms
Session Chair:  Michelle Ebert Freire

What’s in your Head if Nobody Told you What Should Be?
Session Chair:  Rick Averill, Playwrights, Professional Theatre
Participants:  All playwrights in attendance who wish to share

The Drama Spectrum: From Developmental Drama to Drama Therapy
Session Chair: Sally Bailey

5:15 – 7:00 PM   Dinner on your own 

5:15 – 6:30 PM Celebrating Innovation and Innovators
Join us as we pay tribute to the outstanding contribution to our field of the late Lisa A. Barnett, Senior Editor, Heinemann Publishing. Lisa built Heinemann's drama education list, supported new authors, and commissioned the 'Dimension of Drama Series' with impressive titles by Dorothy Heathcote, Cecily O'Neill, Gavin Bolton, B.J. Wagner and many others influential thinkers, educators, and writers.

Cohosted by Heinemann Publishing and New York University 

7:30 PM  Performance of The Borrowers at Imagination Stage 

9:30 PM  Multi-Culturalism and Diversity Committee Meeting  

Sunday, July 30, 2006 

8:30 AM  Continental Breakfast 

9:00 – 10:00 AM  Keynote Speaker – Dorothy Heathcote

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM  Concurrent Sessions

Project Pitch
Rives Collins – AATE Programming Director
Talleri McRae – AATE Membership Director

What's the Point: Adolescent Experiences in the Exploration of Self
Session Chair:   Joseph Furnari, Teachers College Columbia University & Repertory Company High
Participants:  Sarah Ramos Frederick, Joshua Bermudez, Jade Carr, Carla Candelas, Francheska Guzman, Charmaine Mack, Janell Rivera, Emilio Rodriguez, Sumon Tewelde, Lesleigh Valette, Richard Washington, Jakiera White

TYA: It’s more than just Black and White
Session Chair: Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University
Presenters: Phyllis Wong and Crystal Mercado, Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University

Destination: Anywhere! - exploring history, cultures and the natural world through theatre
Session Chair:  Rachel Grossman Director of Education & Outreach, Round House Theatre

Imagination Quest: Bridging the gaps in K-12 education through arts-based teacher training
Session Chair:  Raina Ames, University of New Hampshire
Participant:  David Markey, Director of Education, Imagination Stage

Transformation:  Using Theatrical Make-up Techniques in the Secondary Education
Session Chair:  Rebecca Podsednik, Affiliation, The University of Central Florida
Participants:  Meghann Henry and Amanda Rowell, The University of Central Florida

Playwriting for Students: The Art of the Ten-Minute Play
Session Chair:  Laurie Magovern Thiebaut, Arena Stage, Washington, DC

The Rasaboxes:  Experimentation with Raw Emotion
Session Chair: Marcie Sturiale, Camp Broadway

We Are All Related/ Somos Un Pueblo
Session Chairs:  Alicia Pagán and Ga-Li - Arts Ed.Music, Storytelling, Diversity Workshops

Creative Writing: Writing From a Sense of Place
Session Chairs: Suzan Zeder and Jim Hancock

10:00 AM – 12:45 PM Concurrent Sessions – DOUBLE SESSIONS
           
The Silence at School / Discovering Common Ground Through Ethnographic Theatre
Session Chairs:  Brad Vincent, Instructor, NYU Program in Educational Theatre; Gordon Hensley, Appalachian State University

11:30 AM  – 12:45 PM Concurrent Sessions

Building an Ideal Community
Session Chair:  Jennifer Strycharz, New York University Educational Theatre Department

Classroom Management Takes a Bow!
Session Chair:  Desiree Hamburger, PhD Candidate, New York University

Middle Schoolers Unite:  An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692
Session Chairs:  Ms. Jessica Zaborowski, Drama Specialist, Ashland Middle School; Ms. Tammy Knoff, ELA Teacher, Ashland Middle School        

Performing Artist/Teacher/Student Identities through Research and Pedagogy
Session Chair:  Drew Chappell, Doctoral student, Theater for Youth, Arizona State University
Participants:  Sharon Chappell, Doctoral student, Curriculum studies, Arizona State University; Charles Adams, Doctoral student, Performance studies, University of Minnesota

Neighborhood Bridges: Fostering critical thinking, creative writing and community connections through drama and storytelling
Session Chair:  Maria Asp, Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis
Participant:  Jen Band, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte

Moving Beyond Division and Fear — Using Drama and Theatre Techniques to Empower Our Students
Session Chair:  Dr. Gustave Weltsek, University of British Columbia; Dr. David L. Young, Langley School District

Enlarging Ensemble in Youth Theatre
Session Chair:  Sarah Rinner, University of Texas at Austin
Participant:  April Gentry-Sutterfield, University of Texas at Austin

Self Discovery Through Acting
Session Chair: Carol Cadby, Cadby Productions/Yorktown H.S.

 1:00 – 2:00 PM  Closing Ceremony
Featuring reflections by:  Gloria Bond Clunie, Johnny Saldaña, AATE President Steve Barberio, and others

2:30 PM  AATE Board Meeting