This webinar occurred on Thursday 28 May 2020.
This session will introduce Act 1 of Pretzel Theatre. We are a temporally fluid global youth theatre company. Our aim is to connect young people across the globe to engage with each other through drama. This session highlights the use of digital technology and skilled facilitators in bringing together young creative artists from different cultural, social, economic, national and linguistic backgrounds to create performance.
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Speakers:
- Man Cheung, DoReMi Dramatic English, China
- Juliet Cottrell, Hawkes Bay Youth Theatre, New Zealand
- Eva Knight, Rocky View Schools, Canada
- Jo Lee, Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Mark Pluckrose, Great Torrington School, UK
Man is a PHD candidate from Monash University in Melbourne Australia. He is based in Shanghai where he teaches drama in English to students and teachers. He writes and produces children's theatre.
Juliet Cottrell, Dip. Teach, B.Ed, Masters Applied Theatre and Drama Education (Hons), has 30 years teaching experience in primary drama, teacher training, theatre for young people, teacher professional development and Arts immersion programs in schools with a focus on enhancing literacy. She co-owns a performing arts school in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
Eva Knight is a Drama Specialist at Rocky View Schools in Alberta, Canada.
Jo Lee is Director of Performing Arts at Cranleigh Abu Dhabi. She was the founding Drama teacher when the school opened 6 years ago and was the school’s director of the award winning “Water in the Desert” Opera project, staged at NYUAD. Jo has completed a Masters in Drama in Education at Trinity College, Dublin and specialized in supporting non-drama-specialists incorporating Drama into their teaching pedagogy. This led to her producing the first entirely Arabic spoken play by a British International School in the UAE, following the journey of Moroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta. Jo was nominated for the GESS ‘Innovative Teacher Award’ for her work with Drama and Arabic. Jo proudly presented about this topic at the World Alliance for Arts Education in Frankfurt in November 2019. It was at this conference that she became a co-founder of Pretzel Theatre.
Mark Pluckrose is the Subject Lead for Performing Arts (Drama and Music) at Great Torrington School and the Director of Pike and Musket Productions, a theatre and film company for young people.
