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Seth Cohen

Palos Verdes Peninsula High School

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RE: American High School Theatre Festival to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Posted By Seth Cohen 05-05-2024 14:23
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2025, will be my fourth time traveling with AHSTF to perform at the Fringe. Like others have said, everything is taken care of. You can customize your trip to a degree (additional days, selected workshops, etc). The price is more expensive than booking on your own, but it is not astronomical, and there ...

RE: Graduation Cords

Posted By Seth Cohen 02-24-2024 12:45
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Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, Rolling Hills Estates CA For many years anyone who wanted to do cords did them. About ten years ago admin cracked down because it was getting ridiculous allowing only Honors Societies and 2-3 other programs to continue using cords. We have always done cords for ...

RE: Graduation Regalia

Posted By Seth Cohen 02-01-2021 13:15
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I agree with much of what others have said. A few years ago our school disallowed the wearing of cords except for Honors societies and two other specific groups on campus because things were getting out of control with various regalia. Most years I have 10-14 seniors who have been inducted into our society, ...

RE: Access during COVID

Posted By Seth Cohen 06-27-2020 12:58
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I stayed out completely for about two weeks, then as weeks went on I was going in more and more. The last few weeks of virtual classes, I was just in my space all day - easier for me to concentrate and do work between Zoom calls. (Honestly, I got more grading done my first day working on campus than ...

RE: Edinburgh Fringe Fest

Posted By Seth Cohen 11-19-2019 11:06
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Arden We have taken Don Zolidis' The Seussodyssey with 21 kids and 2 other adults and Evan Placey's Girls Like That with 16 kids and 1 other adult. Two VERY different types of shows. I work with the students who are going on the trip to pick the type of show and give them a fair amount of input ...

RE: Edinburgh Fringe Fest

Posted By Seth Cohen 11-18-2019 10:40
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I must second Ray's response. I have travelled with students to Edinburgh with AHSTF twice, and am starting to gear up to go again in 2021. It is definitely a lot of work, but I think it is 100% worth it. ------------------------------ Seth Cohen Redondo Beach CA --------------------------- ...

RE: Request from Flooded School - Total Loss

Posted By Seth Cohen 08-23-2016 11:30
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Heidi I too teach at my alma mater and cannot imagine the loss of our space and everything inside. I am meeting with my Thespian Board this afternoon and we will put together some materials. Please post an address to where we can send support. Seth ------------------------------ Seth Cohen ...

RE: Southern Oregon Summer Program

Posted By Seth Cohen 05-20-2016 11:44
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I completed the program in 2014 and cannot say enough good things about SOU. The program is focused on Directorial Analysis, concept development and all disciplines of design for production. I have a decent background in technical theater but I still found an incredible amount of value with this ...

RE: Age appropriate message on posters?

Posted By Seth Cohen 02-05-2016 16:34
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When necessary, we will just drop a PG-13 logo on the lower corner of the poster. ------------------------------ Seth Cohen Palos Verdes Peninsula High School Rolling Hills, CA

RE: Length of shows

Posted By Seth Cohen 10-28-2015 10:51
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All of our plays and musicals used to run Thurs-Sun for two weekends, but we found it was tough to get people to show up for a Thursday opening night. For us, the second weekend is crucial because so much of our advertising is word of mouth from people who have seen the show. The last five years ...

RE: Choosing A Play... Democracy Or Hierarchy? High School

Posted By Seth Cohen 09-25-2015 10:38
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I have had ups and downs in show choices over the years. What I have done is I put together a list of shows. On my own for our Fall plays, and compiled with our choreographer for the spring musical. I then send out a survey to my students each Spring asking them to rate (not rank) those shows. ...

RE: Warmups

Posted By Seth Cohen 08-16-2015 21:38
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Josh I feel much the same way. I was not trained with class warmups and show warmups were limited. Coupled with limited time and the constant class interruptions I have been very limited. I was planning on trying to incorporate warmups into classes in a small way this year, this will definitely ...

RE: The Breakfast Club - Does anyone have a script adaptation of this?

Posted By Seth Cohen 08-16-2015 13:41
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There isn't a published script. I produced a student production of it 15 years ago and we watched the movie and wrote the lines down. Recently a community theatre near us produced it, though I don't know their source. This got my students interested in doing their own production and they could not ...

RE: Busy students

Posted By Seth Cohen 04-25-2015 14:02
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I teach at a 'high achieving' school - which means that the students are over-worked and expected to manage AP classes, extra-curriculars and many with part-time jobs. I have adjusted my approach to rehearsal schedules year to year, shown great leniency to my students who are involved in band, choir, ...