Are you teaching Stage 4 and 5 Drama outside your specialty area?
This hands-on workshop is designed to boost your confidence and skills in teaching Drama, even if it’s not your primary subject. Throughout the day, you’ll explore the core components of making, performing, appreciating, and programming Drama, all aligned with the curriculum.
Learn how to guide students through making, performing and appreciating dramatic art forms, and structuring a Drama program. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have practical tools and creative strategies to engage your students and bring the Drama curriculum to life in your classroom.
Venue: Danebank, 80 – 98 Park Road, Hurstville NSW 2220
Morning tea & lunch provided
Workshop Agenda
9:30 – 10:00 am: Welcome and Introduction
10:00 – 11:00 am: Session 1: Making with Georgia
11:00 – 11:15 am: Morning Tea
11:15 am – 12:15 pm: Session 2: Performing with Tim
12:15 – 12.45 pm: Lunch
12.45 – 1.45 pm: Session 3: Appreciating with Kelly
1:45 – 2:45 pm: Session 4: Programming with Alyssha
2.45 pm: Wrap-up and Q&A
Georgia Andreacchio is a Drama and English teacher who is currently teaching at St Mary’s Cathedral College, Sydney. She has served on the Drama NSW committee since 2021 and is currently the Vice President- Advocacy. On the committee, Georgia has published articles in the Drama NSW EMag regarding strategies for beginning teachers, the HSC Group Performance and play reviews. Georgia presented at a number of Drama NSW Conferences and professional learning events. These include Visibly Exclusive: The Presence and Growth of Drama for All’ and Drama is for Everyone- Advocacy Strategies’ at the 2024 Drama NSW Conference. She also presented at the Drama NSW and ETA combined workshop ‘Teaching Drama in the English Classroom’ and was selected for ‘Rebuilding the Profile of Drama and the Arts in your School’ discussion panel at the Drama NSW Conference in 2022. She has a Masters in Secondary Teaching and has conducted research on pedagogical approaches to increasing student autonomy in individual projects. Georgia has trained as an actor and developed student productions as a scriptwriter and director. She is also present in a number of rehearsal rooms of plays that have shown at KXT and The Old Fitz Theatre to engage in discussion with creatives prior to performances.
Timothy Martin has over 20 years experience teaching drama to primary and secondary school students and teachers. He currently works as a Drama Specialist Teacher for CAPTIVATE Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese, where he capacity builds teachers to use drama in their classrooms to engage and inspire student learning. Tim also writes and directs immersive student productions, bringing together young actors, dancers, singers and musicians. He has completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Theatre Performance) at The Wesley Institute, a Bachelor of Secondary Teaching (Drama & Dance) at UWS, and a Certificate IV (Performing Arts) at ED5. Tim is also a keen musical theatre maker – performing and directing with numerous companies around Sydney.
Kelly Young has nearly thirty years experience in classrooms in both NSW and the Northern Territory as a classroom teacher, Head of Department and Assistant Principal Teaching and Learning. Kelly has also worked at Sydney Theatre Company as Educational Programs Manager and is currently working at Santa Sabina College in Strathfield. Kelly is President of Drama NSW and has been a Vice President (2016) and Past President of Drama NSW (2017 – 2019). Her passions are facilitating the making, performing and critically studying of sophisticated, challenging theatre with students, bringing her many years of experience and deep knowledge and love for critical theory to this process. Kelly has a Bachelor of Arts from USYD and a Master of Arts from UNSW and where possible loves to write and perform her own work.
Alyssha Clarke is an enthusiastic and dedicated Drama Teacher who is currently the Head of Drama at The Kings School. She has a keen passion for Arts education and experiential learning as she believes it shapes an empathetic society that will shape the future. Alyssha has a wealth of experience working at various co-education and single-sex independent schools and is always looking for ways to bring non-western theatre styles into the classroom.
Alyssha has led the implementation of different teaching programs in various schools, with a passion for physical theatre. She has directed and produced multiple Plays and Musicals (including Shrek, Grease, Strictly Ballroom, Midsummer Night’s Dream and Fight with Your Might the Zombies of Tonight). She loves being a part of the Drama NSW committee as it allows her to interact with different members of the Drama community. In these interactions, she is always inspired by her fellow educators who help build resilient, positive, compassionate, and motivated students who have a love for learning. When not working backstage or taking amateur dance classes, Alyssha enjoys bushwalking and hikes and seeing live theatre.
Preservice Teachers: $150
If you are one of our registered preservice members, please contact the administrator for this ticket offer – administrator@dramansw.com
Members: $300
Non-Members: $380