Theatre Education, Pedagogy, and Training

Teaching Theatre examines the challenges facing theatre training programs post-pandemic. Each episode invites theatre educators and practitioners into the conversation as they interrogate topics like collaboration, inclusive programming, and work ethic while offering up ideas, strategies, and solutions that can be incorporated into programs and classrooms.  

In Critical Stages in Malawian Contemporary Theatre, Fumbani Innot Phiri Jr. interviews established theatre artists from all backgrounds to explore the precarious journey of theatre in a modern world, define its problems, and find better solutions to sustain performing arts in a generation of motion pictures. Fumbani leads discussions with established performers, directors, and writers who are exploring ways to greet these challenges while their works inspires their communities.

The intimacy industry is under pressure. While many creatives and artistic leaders see the benefits of intimacy direction and coordination as specific care and technical support for actors, the industry itself has not yet created an equitable and inclusive training process for marginalized people. In this series, Ann James, founder of Intimacy Coordinators of Color (ICOC), interviews eight queer and global majority intimacy specialists about the joys and challenges they face in the industry. What emerges from this series of interviews is a complex, multifaceted range of approaches, training models, and innovations for the future of intimacy that actively decenter whiteness, colonization, and appropriation.

Theatre artists Tatiana Gil and Max Cerci speak on their experience working at the Theater Offensive as True Color Expansion Interns.

This blog follows the development of TCG's new Veterans and Theatre Institute.

A discussion on theatres and programs that offer free or discounted tickets to students.

Playwright Katie Mulley discusses her theatre exchange program in Shangai.

Reflections on pedagogy from students at the University of North Texas.

Isabella D'Esposito speaks on the common myths she hears while pursuing a Master of Fine Arts.

In Pedagogy Notebook, artists, educators, and scholars share their process and work in the classroom, as a resource for educators and scholars looking to incorporate Latinx theatre.

A series of posts that explore positive practices and principles to help keep our art mindful, expressive, and sustainable.

David Dudley looks at the different models of theatre education around the country through interviews, with the hopes that a new student will have an easier time finding the model that works for them.

A snapshot of today's high school theatre educators across the country sharing about what they do and how and why they do this work.

A discussion of the pros and cons of an MFA program.

Anne Garcia Romero and Alice Tuan share their wisdom on teaching playwriting.

A series featuring students sharing their vision for the future of the theatre industry.

A series on raising and engaging with the next generation of theatremakers.