Theatre in Our Schools:
'25 Workshop Series

AATE is pleased to present an ongoing community conversation series focused on bringing awareness to the importance of theatre education in our schools.
AATE Members can access recordings of
completed sessions below:

CLICK HERE FOR 2021-2025 WORKSHOP RECORDINGS
*note you will be prompted to sign into your AATE account

Upcoming Sessions: 

So You Wanna Be a Scholar:
Turning Your Conference Session/Workshop into an Article

Wednesday, October 1st at 7 pm (EDT)  Register HERE

How can theatre artists, educators, and administrators contribute to research and scholarship in theatre education? In this workshop, we will discuss how to turn a conference session or other workshop into an article for publication. We will engage participants by facilitating writing strategies in order to begin drafting the outline for an article. This session will be facilitated by the research and scholarship network but we encourage participants from all other networks who are curious about how to document and share their work--whether from a conference or beyond--to attend this writing workshop in order to amplify and ignite new voices in research and scholarship.

Jonathan P. Jones, PhD is a graduate from the Program in Educational Theatre at New York University, where he earned both an M.A. and a Ph.D. He conducted his doctoral field research in fall 2013 and completed his dissertation in spring of 2014, Drama Integration: Training Teachers to Use Process Drama in English Language Arts, Social Studies, and World Languages. He received an additional M.A. in English at National University and his B.A. in Liberal Arts from the NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Jonathan is certified to teach English 6-12 in the state of California, where he taught Theatre and English for five years at North Hollywood High School and was honored with The Inspirational Educator Award by Universal Studios in 2006. Currently, Jonathan serves as Program Administrator for the Program in Educational Theatre and the Music Education Program at NYU Steinhardt. He serves as editor for ArtsPraxis (a peer-reviewed journal emphasizing critical analysis of the arts in society), on the editorial board of Applied Theatre Research and Youth Theatre Journal, as well as Chair of the board of directors of the American Alliance for Theatre & Education (AATE). Jonathan is recipient of the 2024/25 Steinhardt Teaching Excellence Award, as well as he was awarded the 2025 AATE Book Award for this book, Assessment in the Drama Classroom: A Culturally Responsive and Student-Centered Approach.

 PAST SESSIONS

You Can't Erase Where it Comes From: Using Ethnodrama to Explore Racism and Anti-Racism in Musical Theatre and Opera

Wednesday, March 12th at 8 pm (EDT) 

In this virtual session, Morganne Evans will dive into using the arts-based research technique of ethnodrama and how she is using it to uncover the topic of racism and anti-racism in the theatrical vocal performance space. In this presentation and discussion, Morganne will speak towards her approach to collecting data and highlight what has come up in her research of this topic thus far.

Morganne Evans (she/her) is an arts-administrator, intimacy director, and artist-researcher based in New York City. She has taught and performed in Orlando, Atlanta, and New York, and recently completed her certification training in Intimacy Direction for live performance through Intimacy Directors and Coordinators. Morganne is currently the Senior Manager of Workforce Development Programs at The Public Theater and serves on the board for AATE. She holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies (concentrations in Theater, Sociology, and Humanities) from the University of Central Florida, as well as an MA in Educational Theatre from New York University. Currently, she is in the process of earning her doctorate in Educational Theatre for Colleges and Communities at NYU Steinhardt.