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Arden Thomas

Teaching Artist, Theater,
California Educational Theatre Association

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Teaching Artist, Theater,
California Educational Theatre Association
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RE: keeping make up sanitized

Posted By Arden Thomas 02-23-2021 13:20
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Thank you for all this extremely helpful information! ------------------------------ Arden Thomas ------------------------------

keeping make up sanitized

Posted By Arden Thomas 02-21-2021 23:33
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I sent make up kits home with acting students for our upcoming unit on stage make up. The Mehron make up kits will be returned to the school for use with the theater shows. I know how to sanitize the brushes and sponges, but do you worry about germs passing onto the make up as they use it? Like, do they ...

RE: teaching artists paid $300-$500/hour

Posted By Arden Thomas 06-17-2020 13:27
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Hi! It's $300-$500 per teaching artist *per session* not per student. So if there is a group of 15 students it's still $300-$500 per teaching artist. But if there are 3 teaching artists on the panel ... it's $900-$1500! I got an email from another teacher on EdTA reminding me that if I want an expert ...

teaching artists paid $300-$500/hour

Posted By Arden Thomas 06-16-2020 17:28
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Hi folks, I was excited to learn that the Tectonic Theater Project is offering Zoom Moment Work and student workshops for productions of The Laramie Project. However, I've learned that they charge $300-$500 per teaching artist per hour. While on the one hand I'm thrilled that teaching artists are valued ...

RE: Improv/Acting: Need A Zoom Guest Speaker/Instructor? CsZ Shows!

Posted By Arden Thomas 06-16-2020 17:20
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Hi BJ - I'd love to chat about being a guest in my Improv classes in September. My guess is that we will still be Zoom-ing then. I'm in Pasadena - athomas@sequoyahschool.org. Also i would love to watch a recording of the Beverly Hills High School Sophomore Drama Lab Improv Comedy Show - any chance ...

Bard College's Mad Forest: WATCH IT!!

Posted By Arden Thomas 05-25-2020 00:19
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I hope you can watch the Bard Theater production of Mad Forest -- the last show is this Wednesday May 27 at 3pm est. MIND BLOWN. The technology is incredible -- they literally re-wrote Zoom code to be able to do it! You will not believe your eyes. So beautiful, gorgeous video, set, and sound design, ...

Phantom of the Opera streaming now for 48 hours only!

Posted By Arden Thomas 04-17-2020 14:12
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nINQjT7Zr9w From Phantom of The Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011), Cameron Mackintosh produced a unique, spectacular staging of the musical on a scale which had never been seen before. Inspired by the original staging by Hal Prince and Gillian Lynne, this lavish, ...

your favorite app for communicating with students?

Posted By Arden Thomas 04-10-2020 20:42
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I need an app to exchange text messages, rehearsals times, and other info with my actors and parents. I tried Remind 101 but it doesn't allow students to respond back. What else works really well? Thanks!! ------------------------------ Arden Thomas Sequoyah High School Pasadena CA ---------- ...

RE: Hanging black curtains for entrances and exits

Posted By Arden Thomas 11-20-2019 00:42
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I figured it out! Trial and error!!! ------------------------------ Arden Thomas Sequoyah High School Pasadena CA ------------------------------

RE: Edinburgh Fringe Fest

Posted By Arden Thomas 11-19-2019 09:20
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This is an amazing idea! I'd never have thought of it. What are some of the shows people have taken to the Fringe? And how many kids and other adults go with you? ------------------------------ Arden Thomas Sequoyah High School Pasadena CA ------------------------------

Hanging black curtains for entrances and exits

Posted By Arden Thomas 11-19-2019 03:01
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Can someone please explain to me how to hang black curtains so that actors can't be seen entering and exiting on the UR and UL entrances at the corners of a cyc? Seems like they'd need to be hung in two layers so that if someone is coming through, the audience can't see through the opening behind the ...

RE: Spring Awakening - touching a nerve on campus

Posted By Arden Thomas 09-18-2019 03:15
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I actually don't agree with this mom's comment about what she sees as the show's take on authority!! It might be that it's too dark, and that we should just do a concert of songs from the show. It is a show about trauma; maybe it can be traumatizing to young people who are learning to navigate their ...

Spring Awakening - touching a nerve on campus

Posted By Arden Thomas 09-18-2019 01:14
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Can you share some more thoughts about doing Spring Awakening at the high school level? I've read everything about SA on this forum, but I'm still not sure how to respond to a mother who is raising quite a ruckus on campus about our production, scheduled for April.  I have a core group of students ...

Spring Awakening - orchestral score for student performers

Posted By Arden Thomas 09-11-2019 14:51
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Has anyone done Spring Awakening with student musicians performing in the band? I'd like to get our students practicing right away and I'm wondering if we could borrow your score soon, as the rental doesn't start till two months before the performance date and the kids need to start practicing right ...

RE: Radium Girls - did you LOVE love love it?

Posted By Arden Thomas 09-01-2019 11:44
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I love everything that you all are saying about this! You're so good. Thank you!! ------------------------------ Arden Thomas Sequoyah High School Pasadena CA ------------------------------

RE: Radium Girls - did you LOVE love love it?

Posted By Arden Thomas 08-30-2019 23:53
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I think part of my actors' hesitation is that we are 10 girls and 3 boys and the play - though named Radium Girls - is largely about the men. The girls die off and the men take most of the roles, and even have the last word. This didn't sit well! I think it could be terrific from a theatrical standpoint ...

Radium Girls - did you LOVE love love it?

Posted By Arden Thomas 08-30-2019 18:31
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I chose Radium Girls for my play this year, and I have 13 actors. The six 9th and 10th graders like the show, but the seven Seniors don't like it at all! They just cannot get jazzed up about it. They have done Big Fish, Peter and the Starcatcher, AntigoneX, Twelfth Night, The Real Inspector Hound, and ...

RE: Large cast comedy One Acts

Posted By Arden Thomas 08-21-2019 01:44
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How about All In The Timing by David Ives, or The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard ------------------------------ Arden Thomas Sequoyah High School Pasadena CA ------------------------------

RE: essays, articles, books chapters - Contemporary US Theater

Posted By Arden Thomas 08-17-2019 17:17
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Someone recommended to me the following book with essays that might be good for this class: 100 essays I don't have time to write : on umbrellas and sword fights, parades and dogs, fire alarms, children, and theater / Sarah Ruhl ------------------------------ Arden Thomas Sequoyah High School Pasadena ...

essays, articles, books chapters - Contemporary US Theater

Posted By Arden Thomas 08-15-2019 00:40
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I'm teaching a 5-week seminar class for high school seniors in Contemporary US Theater. I think we'll read one play each week, with the focus on plays that deal with contemporary issues through the lense of the family. Plays include: Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar, Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes, ...