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Encouragement for the New School Year
By: Zoe Dillard Published on: 20/07/2025As you prepare for the coming year, you may be excited about trying out new lesson plans, re-connecting with students, and anticipating the upcoming productions. Perhaps you’re greeting the school year with a mixture of joy and dread – no more sleeping in! Maybe you are a little hesitant to hand over your life again to the never-ending schedule required of most Theatre Directors. For a moment, reflect on not only how much you give to this job and its beneficiaries, but also how much you receive.
7 Steps to Smoother Show Auditions
By: Zoe Dillard Published on: 20/07/2025It being audition season for a lot of folks for their spring musical, I want to share some ideas about those famous auditions. The first is that, if you don’t already do this, you might consider doing a pre-audition read-through of the show, maybe more than one, so that your students can find out who all of the characters in the play are, not just the leads, and get to know just what it is, other than wanting to be in the show, to know who’s there, and what the storyline is, and if there are any problems that they could anticipate, or roles they haven’t thought about that they would love to have. If it’s a musical...
Gringa Frijoles
By: Zoe Dillard Published on: 20/07/2025Teacher helps foreign language students connect to theatre by tapping into their own stories, and bringing them alive, shared with classmates.
So You Had a Bad Day
By: Zoe Dillard Published on: 20/07/2025No matter what your career is, you’re going to have bad days. Sometimes, life is just hard and things suck. As a teacher, you are sheltered from the majority of the basic challenges in life; sign the contract and you’ve got a steady paycheck, health insurance, IRA options, opportunities for growth. You’re automatically part of a support system that is there for you, whether you realize it or not. You can collaborate, contribute and be creative every single day that you go to work. New Blog Post Description
