SANTA MONICA PLAYHOUSE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

"to educate, enlighten, entertain"

Classroom & After-School
Theatre Arts Workshops

A series of once-a-week classes brings Santa Monica Playhouse educators to your school to share theatre arts as a means to help students build self-esteem and social consciousness, and to help them excel in performance skills, and also such study and life skills as teamwork, problem-solving, decision making, leadership, communication, negotiation, cooperation, research, language arts and meta-cognition. Students learn to use the creative process as a tool in their studies, as well as to help them face the challenges of daily living.

Curricula-Based
Enrichment Programs

Santa Monica Playhouse educators partner with a classroom teacher to develop and teach classes that use theatre arts skills as a foundation for research, reading, discussion and study. Students explore an area or field of interest that supports a particular portion of their curriculum. Past projects have included English (The Great Horn Spoon, the short stories of Sholom Aleichem, the world of Mark Twain, Shakespeare), Geography (U.S., European, world), History (The Gold Rush, World War II, Russia in the late 1800s) and Contemporary Issues (the environment, global warming, the homeless, peer pressure, cheating, bullies, school).

In-Service for Teachers

A one-, two- or three-day intensive for teachers, covering theatre arts skills that may be used in all areas of classroom study, as well as for theatre-specific programs.

All Santa Monica Playhouse Arts Education Programs are tailored specifically to the needs of your students and teachers (grades 3 through 12) and place special emphasis on fulfilling state standards in Theatre, Reading, Writing, Oral English Language Conventions, Music, History, Dance, Listening and Speaking.

Play-Building Residency

In a series of three one-week sessions, occurring during one semester (or distributed over two consecutive semesters), director/playwrights Chris DeCarlo and Evelyn Rudie will work with a maximum of twenty theatre students to develop an original play, from research and initial exploration to actual presentation, based on the issues which concern the project members as well as the members of their educational institution and their community.

call: 310-394-9779 ext 623

Santa Monica Playhouse, a not-for-profit 501 (c) 3 educational corporation founded in 1960, provides exciting and entertaining dramatic and comedic, classic and contemporary live theatrical productions, Family Theatre musicals, birthday and tea parties, theatre workshops and educational programming for young people, teens and adults, create-a-play classes and Mommy and Me events for pre-schoolers, daytime and after school classes and in-service in public and private schools, cultural exchange, international touring, and community outreach, as well as theatre rental space for productions, seminars, solo shows, concerts, recitals, lectures, meetings and more.