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Hi Esteemed Colleagues.  Our district is in the middle of combining multiple programs and that is requiring us to readdress some procedures we have set-up.  One thing of discussion is how the season is selected.  Up to now I have gone back and forth between allowing students to nominate and vote versus ...

Thank you!  We were struggling with this exact issue yesterday and now I found something to help in our discussions today. ------------------------------ Keenan Shionalyn Math and Theatre Instructor Kingston WA ------------------------------

We are effected by this as well.  All of our wireless mics are in that range and were fairly recently acquired (5 years ago) before I started.  All 10 microphones we have PLUS the 3 official school microphones are going to be illegal soon.  We are in a rural enough area that we could likely get away ...

What a great question.  At my school the Theatre club has a very high LGBTQ group of students so it is a question we tackled head on.  We have now removed ANY question about gender identification on the forms because honestly they are acting and that is the point.  We have two questions on the forms ...

We use Multiplay for sound cues and StageConsole for our lighting cues via USBDmx.  We essentially run everything from my laptop as we don't have a formal system. ------------------------------ Keenan Shionalyn Math Instructor/Drama Advisor Kingston WA ------------------------------

Personally, I think it comes down to equity.  If you charge a fee you are limiting access immediately.  To many students, especially in difficult financial situations, having to discuss that situation with an adult in order to get access to something they want to do is prohibitive.  Many just avoid the ...

Thank you all for your suggestions so far, we are checking a few of those out already.  Language is not an issue as this will be a student opt-in show with parent permission for content. ------------------------------ Keenan Shionalyn Math Instructor/Drama Advisor Kingston WA ---------------- ...

Hi there, This is something new for us this year as well.  Our students can now letter in Drama so we had to meet atheltic eligiblity requirements, and for many of our drama students this has been a struggle.  We do understudies for that reason, but to be honest we don't have enough students for it.  ...

This year we are attempting to hold an intense actor's workshop for our more advanced and aspiring actors to help develop stronger characters, relationships on stage and stage movements.  We already have a rough plan of how we are going to approach this with different acting styles, but have been struggling ...