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The Utah Shakespearean Festival, Teaching Artists, and Outreach Programs Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Theses and Dissertations 2011-12-16 Towards a Better Use: The Utah Shakespearean Festival, Teaching Artists, and Outreach Programs Karen Marie Kidd Brigham Young University - Provo Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd Part of the Film and Media Studies Commons, and the Theatre and Performance Studies Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Kidd, Karen Marie, "Towards a Better Use: The Utah Shakespearean Festival, Teaching Artists, and Outreach Programs" (2011). Theses and Dissertations. 2863. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2863 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Towards a Better Use: The Utah Shakespearean Festival, Teaching Artists, and Outreach Programs Karen Marie Kidd A thesis submitted to the faculty of Brigham Young University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Rodger D. Sorensen, Chair Megan Sanborn Jones Wade Hollingshaus Department of Theatre and Media Arts Brigham Young University December 2011 Copyright © 2011 Karen Marie Kidd All Rights Reserved ABSTRACT Towards a Better Use: The Utah Shakespearean Festival, Teaching Artists, And Outreach Programs Karen Marie Kidd Department of Theatre and Media Arts Master of Arts Teaching Artists are an important component of the Utah Shakespearean Festival’s Education Department’s outreach touring program that visits K-12 schools throughout Utah each year. However, the Education Department could be using Teaching Artists in different and better ways to help K-12 teachers infuse theatre into their curriculum. This work looks carefully at the outreach offered by the Utah Shakespearean Festival’s Education Department and then compares it to the outreach work being done by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Based on the analysis of the three festivals, assessment benchmarks are identified to aid the Education Department in evaluating their use of Teaching Artists and suggestions are made to help them strengthen their outreach programs through the creation of a Teaching Artist training program that would allow more Teaching Artists to work in Utah K-12 schools. The work concludes with ideas for lesson and unit plans for Teaching Artists of various levels to use in the K-12 classroom that align with the State Common Core Standards for Language Arts that were adopted by Utah in August, 2010. Key Words: Benchmark Assessment, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, K-12 Outreach, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, State Common Core Standards, Teaching Artists, theatre lesson plans, theatre unit plans, Utah Shakespearean Festival. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Jason Kidd & Company for patience and support during this quest for higher education. Rodger Sorensen for his insight, understanding, and tireless efforts. Katie Boyer for her patience and willingness to help with the paper process. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Towards a Better Use: .................................................................................................................................... i ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................................................... ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................................................ iii TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................................................... iv TABLE OF FIGURES ....................................................................................................................................... vi CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 1 NEA: Shakespeare in American Communities .......................................................................................... 3 Layout of this Project ................................................................................................................................ 5 CHAPTER TWO: THE TEACHING ARTIST ........................................................................................................ 8 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Why the K-12 Classrooms Need Teaching Artists ................................................................................... 13 Qualified TAs and Outreach Programs .................................................................................................... 17 Teaching Artists Teaching Teachers ........................................................................................................ 21 Teaching Artists and the USF Outreach Program ................................................................................... 25 CHAPTER THREE: SHAKESPEARE, TOURING & TEACHING ARTISTS ............................................................ 26 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 26 History of the Utah Shakespearean Festival ........................................................................................... 26 The Beginning of a K-12 Education Emphasis ..................................................................................... 29 Michael Bahr and the USF Education Department ............................................................................. 32 Have Production, Will Travel: The Touring Show............................................................................... 39 iv The Teaching Artists of the USF .......................................................................................................... 45 CHAPTER FOUR: SAME IDEAS, DIFFERENT APPROACHES ........................................................................... 46 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 46 History of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival ........................................................................................... 47 The OSF Institute ................................................................................................................................. 48 The OSF Outreach Today .................................................................................................................... 50 OSF Teaching Artists ........................................................................................................................... 55 History of Shakespeare Santa Cruz ......................................................................................................... 55 SSC Outreach ....................................................................................................................................... 57 The Professional TA and SSC ............................................................................................................... 58 Much Is Being Done ................................................................................................................................ 60 CHAPTER FIVE: BEST PRACTICES & BEYOND .............................................................................................. 61 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 61 Best Practices – Strengths and Weaknesses ........................................................................................... 61 Identifying Benchmarks .......................................................................................................................... 67 Looking to the Future .............................................................................................................................. 86 CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................ 87 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 87 Creating a TA Training Program .............................................................................................................. 90 Looking to the Future .............................................................................................................................. 92 APPENDIX .................................................................................................................................................... 94 Unit & Lesson Plan Ideas ......................................................................................................................... 94 BIBLIOGRAPHY .......................................................................................................................................... 100 v TABLE OF FIGURES
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