It's official. I will be attending the Broadway Teacher's Workshop. Just received the email. It's been a busy week at the Elhai household in the theatre education department. The twins decided on schools (Hofstra and Carnegie Mellon) and Lindsey received word that she will have an Internship at Baron Hats this summer. Now mom is going back to classes too!
Next step is booking hotel and beginning to pin down all of the CHS Theatre alumni so I can meet with them and plan the BW style Workshops for summer 2012. So far, I will be working with DJ Gray (BW choreographer-Xanadu and Spelling Bee) on a broad plan for my workshops. Will also spend two days with Ana Rose Greene (Juniper Street Productions) as she re mounts Spiderman and gets Million Dollar Quartet and Billy Elliot ready for national tours. Need to pin down Eli Bolin (Story Pirates, Sesame Street Composer) on days. Waiting to hear from John Lee Beatty (12 time Tony nominated Set Designer) and Michael Alden (Tony winning producer). Michael is currently working on opening The King's Speech in London. So far I'm covering just about every area of theatre. Where are the CHS Theatre alumni in costumes?
Also working on the 21st Century Arts Skills Map and what these crazy kids need to learn and how I can better incorporate it into my theatre classes. This will be my spring homework.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
The Night before Festival
Tomorrow 1000 HS Theatre students descend on the Ontario Convention Center for the CA State Thespian Festival. This is a great chance to connect with several of my alumni who are bringing their own troupes and get them up to speed on my fellowship plan and sign them up to be guest artists.
I had an alumni who was in town from NYC come into a class last week to teach Improv-this is what she is doing for a living. She had a kick meeting the kids and giving them some insight into her training, the different types of Improv she does and how she continues to take classes and workshops herself. I'm looking forward to spending a day with her this July while I'm in the city.
Looking forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday-spring break for me. This means time to book my Broadway Teacher Workshop and assorted plans.
Free tomorrow-Sunday? Come out to Ontario OCC and see what 1000 Thespians (and their dedicated teachers) are doing. Workshops, Improvs, Scholarship auditions, Individual Events, Tech Challenge and more!
I had an alumni who was in town from NYC come into a class last week to teach Improv-this is what she is doing for a living. She had a kick meeting the kids and giving them some insight into her training, the different types of Improv she does and how she continues to take classes and workshops herself. I'm looking forward to spending a day with her this July while I'm in the city.
Looking forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday-spring break for me. This means time to book my Broadway Teacher Workshop and assorted plans.
Free tomorrow-Sunday? Come out to Ontario OCC and see what 1000 Thespians (and their dedicated teachers) are doing. Workshops, Improvs, Scholarship auditions, Individual Events, Tech Challenge and more!
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