NextGen stops by Teaching Artist Training at Columbia University!

This week NextGen students had the opportunity to observe and participate in part of CSC’s training for their teaching artists. The teaching artists consist primarily of current third year grad students at the M.F.A. Acting Program at Columbia University, with a few alumni of the program thrown in. Many of the teaching artists will also be starring in the upcoming Young Company production of The Tempest.

The teaching artists will be training for their positions all week, and the NextGen students observed only a piece of their training. They stopped by for a section of training devoted to sharing different theater games. This part of training required the teaching artists to think of a game they knew, and come up with a way to share the game that was engaging, while still accomplishing the goal of the game. The teaching artists were extremely happy to have the input of NextGen, who were able to test out the games that the teaching artists brought, and give them feedback about how they could improve the game, or improve the way in which it was taught.

The teaching artists also gave each other feedback on their games, and the group together tried to brainstorm ways in which games could be changed to reflect the themes in The Tempest. The students had a blast trying out all the different games, and couldn’t wait to bring some back to their friends, and to have experience with them when The Tempest workshops come to their schools.

Coming up soon is the first TEEN TAKEOVER performance of A MAN’S A MAN, in which the NextGen students will be helping to run the event, look out for them if you are attending! The performance will feature $10 tickets and a talkback with the artists, on Sunday, January 19^th at 3pm at CSC. To book your tickets for TEEN TAKEOVER check out: http://www.classicstage.org/nextgen/ for more information!