Teaching Artist

Rhyme and Reason: Poetry Workshops

Have your students experience the beauty and joy of poetry while discovering the power of words. With my guidance, your students can unlock their own poetic gifts, crafting verses that resonate with depth, meaning and delight. We would write poems in forms such as limerick, sonnet, haiku and the blues. We would also use model poems by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and Susan Musgrave as guideposts for creativity. These workshops will have your students unleash their creativity and let their words dance on the page. while they discover the poet within themselves.

To Play is the Thing: Playwriting Workshops

Here students would embark on a journey towards becoming playwrights. With me as a guide, students will hone the craft of writing plays. We will use improv and role play to explore basic elements of acting. We will then transform those elements to the written page, where students will discover how to write dialogue, scenes, action, develop characters and explore conflict. Students will sharpen their dramatic writing skills and like a Phoenix their imaginations will soar. I would bring in scenes from plays such as “The Jungle Book,” “Squirrel Girl Goes to College,” “The Three Musketeers,” “Shakespeare in Love,” and “Milk Like Sugar,” to explore some of the dramatic elements.