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Julie Coppens

Director of Outreach and Engagement,
Educational Theatre Association

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Director of Outreach and Engagement,
Educational Theatre Association
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RE: One Teacher in Search of an Author

Posted By Julie Coppens 08-09-2016 12:29
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Thanks for the great tip, Ginny -- and the article you're looking for is from the Summer 2015 TT, "Devising a Diversity Play" by Wendy Duke. Good luck! ------------------------------ Julie Coppens Senior Associate Editor - Dramatics Juneau AK ----------------------------------------------- ...

RE: New holiday show ideas

Posted By Julie Coppens 07-12-2016 13:13
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Here's my own seasonal favorite, "The Christmas Doll" by Joan Cushing: http://www.joancushing.com/musicalsDollSynopsis.html It's an especially good choice if you've got lots of girls. We staged this very successfully in Juneau, Alaska, with a young cast (kids age 8 up to high school age), a ...

One week left to apply for the Thespian Playworks Dream Team!

Posted By Julie Coppens 05-23-2016 13:11
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Join the Thespian Playworks/Musicalworks Dream Team Experienced stage managers, designers, and technicians have until June 1 to apply for the Dream Team--so get on it! This select group of students shadow and assist the professional Thespian Playworks/Musicalworks staff at Festival and help ...

RE: Middle School Mystery

Posted By Julie Coppens 04-13-2016 15:57
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We just published Eric Coble's wonderful adaptation of "Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars" in February. Has 13 speaking roles plus extras, fine for a middle school cast. Licensed by Dramatic Publishing. Good luck! ------------------------------ Julie Coppens Senior Associate Editor - ...

RE: One Act with mountain feel

Posted By Julie Coppens 04-13-2016 14:44
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So it's more prairie/Dust Bowl than mountain, but I love "The Storm in the Barn" by Eric Coble, an adaptation of the award-winning graphic novel by Matt Phelan, which we published in Dramatics in March 2013 -- and it might have the American roots flavor you're looking for. Potential for large cast, some ...

RE: Musicals with few male parts

Posted By Julie Coppens 03-02-2016 14:55
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I'll make my perennial pitch for "The Christmas Doll," a wonderful Dickensian-style musical by Joan Cushing, published in Dramatics in 2011 and available from Dramatic Publishing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgEOgCRZccY ------------------------------ Julie Coppens Juneau AK

RE: Dramatics magazine seeks comments on student directors/designers

Posted By Julie Coppens 01-27-2016 13:54
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Hello again, and THANK YOU for all the great comments! Wrapping up the article now, think we've got enough to go on at this point, but if you've got more stories to share, go ahead -- it's a subject I'm sure we'll return to in the future. Great to know that so many of you are giving your students these ...

Dramatics magazine seeks comments on student directors/designers

Posted By Julie Coppens 01-19-2016 10:31
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For an upcoming issue of Dramatics, we're looking at the growing phenomenon -- at least that's our sense -- of student directing/designing at the high school level. At my own high school in the 1980s, there was no thought of students actually directing or designing a major production (not merely assisting/shadowing ...

Dramatics Summer Theatre Directory: Call for Submissions

Posted By Julie Coppens 11-10-2015 18:59
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Dramatics Summer Theatre Directory: Call for Submissions

Posted By Julie Coppens 11-10-2015 18:59
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Hello from Dramatics magazine, where we're gearing up for our annual Summer Theatre Directory of learning, performance, and work opportunities for high school and college students and their teachers. It publishes in January 2016 (as with the College issue, we've sped things up a month to give readers ...

RE: Contemporary pieces for high school

Posted By Julie Coppens 08-12-2015 14:33
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Hi, Rebecca! Good for you for seeking out contemporary material to reignite your program. I have to put in a plug for some plays we've published recently in Dramatics -- have you been getting the magazine? Your parameters describe many appealing titles, such as Dominic Orlando's fun "Treasure Island" ...

RE: Dark or Horror One Act Suggestions?

Posted By Julie Coppens 07-31-2015 11:24
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Several of our Dramatics magazine commission plays would fall into the dark category -- maybe we just inspire that kind of mood among playwrights?? I'm thinking of Dominic Orlando's "The Welkin" (sort of a zombie/vampire mystery with teens on a camp-out), published in the January 2012 Dramatics, which ...

RE: Secret Garden musical

Posted By Julie Coppens 07-28-2015 18:49
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Thanks to everyone for sharing your experiences with this show -- so many great examples of theatrical problem-solving, with such beautiful results! I'm wrapping up the article now, so drop a line if you have more to add, especially any words of advice (or warning) for troupes attempting productions ...

Secret Garden musical

Posted By Julie Coppens 07-24-2015 14:33
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September Dramatics spoiler alert! Sorry to give away the subject of an upcoming article, but I'm on deadline and looking for comments from directors and students who've staged the Lucy Simon/Marsha Norman "Secret Garden" musical at their schools recently, or who might be planning it for the upcoming ...

RE: Short Scripts for Grades 2-5 and 6-8

Posted By Julie Coppens 07-24-2015 14:29
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Hi, Raymond! Did you see Robert Kauzlaric's "Lions in Illlyria," published in the May Dramatics? Your 6-8th graders would have a fun time with that, and you could certainly expand the cast as needed (I threw together a successful staged reading of this here in Alaska using a dozen or so actors age 8 ...

RE: Treasure Island or As You Like It?

Posted By Julie Coppens 01-28-2015 09:30
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Hi, Jessica! Good problem to have, I think -- congrats on having this opportunity to keep a good thing going. As much as I love "As You Like It," I do need to make a pitch for the wonderful "Treasure Island" adaptation by Dominic Orlando that we published in Dramatics last year: http://editio ...

Rehearsal scenes from Playworks 2013

Posted By Julie Coppens 01-13-2015 14:00
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#Playwriting #Grants #Dramaticliterature #InternationalThespianFestival #Awards

Playworks deadline 10 days away!

Posted By Julie Coppens 01-13-2015 14:00
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Four. That's how many student playwrights get a free ride at the Thespian Festival each year -- and coincidentally, that's how many scripts have been submitted to Playworks so far. Four. Now, typically we receive the great bulk of Playworks submissions (perhaps a hundred in a good year) right ...

RE: Shrek has been a challenge

Posted By Julie Coppens 11-03-2014 13:10
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Fascinating discussion -- and a possible article for Teaching Theatre, I think. We might be bugging some of you for comment! One thought that occurs, looking at the original post (about producing Shrek "on the heels of" The Color Purple): Are schools just producing too many big shows these days? ...

RE: Secret Garden accents

Posted By Julie Coppens 10-16-2014 18:49
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There are some decent, inexpensive dialect programs available on Audible.com -- my daughter and I enjoy Paul Meier's "Accent Your Character" series, although more for entertainment than actual instruction. I haven't listened to this one, but it seems targeted to the right area (Yorkshire) for the "Secret ...