Artists-in-the-Classroom

Take advantage of the unique opportunity to have a theatre professional (actor, director, designer, manager) come into your classroom.

The Artists in the Classroom program is a custom-made program bringing professional artists to your classroom for hands-on, highly interactive learning sessions. This program was created to align with Indiana Academic Standards guidelines for grades three to twelve and to intensify the combined theatre and academic experience in your lesson plans. Areas of study: Language Arts, Performing Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Life Skills and Music.

Helping you make more of your field lesson

The Play’s the Thing!
For the play you are attending
Your students will learn more from their theatrical experience by participating in The Play’s the Thing. Equal emphasis is placed on both IRT’s production concept and the text itself through activities and a discussion of themes, characters, dramatic structure, and the production process. Both the pre- and post-show sessions encourage critical perception and analysis. A highly interactive program!
Fees: $75 per session. See special pricing listed with student matinees.

Breaking Down Barriers
This is an examination of sources of conflict and intolerance using elements of drama. The students and their characters will affect change and solve problems. The teaching artist will lead your students through interactive exercises, which have them identifying themes of gender, race, age, ethnicity, and status.
Fees: $85 per session

Crafting the Critic’s Voice
This program now encompasses more curriculum standards!
Students receive:
Reading, writing, analysis and discussion of actual nonfiction and informational texts by and about theatre critics and their profession. How to evaluate a production and write a review. How to look at the artistic, technical, and practical components that influence what they will see on stage. A guided discussion about how the audience can better appreciate and understand the director’s concept and the playwright’s message.
The program includes packet of materials for pre- and post- session activities.

Example standards: 9.1.2, 9.2.1, 9.2.4, 9.2.6-8, 9.3.3, 9.3.5, 9.3.10, 9.3.12, 9.3.13, 9.4.1-12, 9.5.2, 9.5.3, 9.5.7, and 9.7.13
Fees: $95 per session

Enter on the Write Foot
Good writing and good acting both require artists to get to know their characters, to “walk a mile in their shoes.” In this workshop, students will examine shoes and make inferences about the characters who own them. Hands-on observation, prewriting and writing, led by a professional writer, will provide students with the foundations they can use to build longer narrative pieces.
Fees: $85 per session

Theatre Arts: A study in…
If you want a class on ANY theatrical element or a class to customize a study unit using drama for enhancement, this is the program for your study unit. Call us to discuss your ideas!
Fees: Vary