FEATURED PRESENTATION
"Poor Theatre" Samuel French Playwright Conversations with Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee Sarah Ruhl
Jerzy Grotowski edited by Owen Daily "Poor Theatre Conventions" by Justin Cash Paul Sills Reflects on Story Theatre by Laurie Ann Gruhn |
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Reader's Theatre as Outreach
Kelley, Laura C. "Building An Audience: Community Outreach Benefits Everyone." Teaching Theatre 14.4 (2003): 1-6. ERIC. Web. 14 Apr. 2015. Describes incorporating a community outreach program. Notes that it is a smart and reliable strategy that theatre artists - onstage and backstage alike - can use to engage their audiences and build stronger ties to the community in which they work that go beyond just filling seats. Niagra University Reader's Theatre Summer Program |
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Reader's Theatre use in the Study of Medicine (Bioethics) University of California, Irvine "Third-year Family Medicine students put on a reader's theater in partnership with the Regents Point retirement community in Irvine. At first, students and Regents Point residents discuss issues of significance to both groups: aging, disability, memory loss, cognitive impairment, patient-doctor relationship, stereotyping of older patients, communication barriers, end-of-life issues and healthcare for individuals at this stage of life. Second, through the medium of theater, participants have the opportunity to reflect more deeply on their differing perspectives..." A Guide to Developing A Medical Reader's Theatre Program (MRT) by Johanna Shapiro, Ph.D. Professor of Family Medicine East Carolina "The Readers' Theater (RT) program at East Carolina University is co-sponsored by the Department of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies at The Brody School of Medicine, coordinated by Todd L. Savitt, PhD; and by the ECU College of Nursing with the coordination efforts of Melissa Schwartz Beck, PhD, RNC-OB and Bob Green, RN, CNM. Students audition each semester to join the cast and read the part of a character in a medically-related short story that has been scripted by our adapter. Students perform these stories in traditional readers' theater style, seated or occasionally standing, at the front of a room, reading aloud from a script (no memorization needed), and using their voices and facial expressions to enhance the words..." University of Montana "National Rural Bioethics Project. This project, housed at The University of Montana, was established to create a formal mechanism for sustained bioethics-related research and program development in rural communities and rural healthcare settings... By exploring how rural healthcare providers and residents identify, discuss, and resolve ethics-related issues that complicate the delivery of healthcare, this effort will help establish a foundation for ongoing ethics-related research in rural settings. Project activities are designed to benefit health and human service personnel, recipients of healthcare services, formal service networks, and the general public." |
Texts and journal articles relating to Medical Reader's Theatre Universities and collegeswith active Reader's Theatre Programming
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Project Managers Bios
Bentleigh Nesbit is a senior BFA performance major from Midlothian, TX. She has been previously seen on stage at UTA, Artes De La Rosa, and Kids Who Care. After graduation Bentleigh plans on pursuing her masters degree in directing and eventually plans to own and operate her own children's theatre.
Bentleigh Nesbit is a senior BFA performance major from Midlothian, TX. She has been previously seen on stage at UTA, Artes De La Rosa, and Kids Who Care. After graduation Bentleigh plans on pursuing her masters degree in directing and eventually plans to own and operate her own children's theatre.