Playwriting Project 2015

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Verified Non-Profit

The Description

The Playwright’s Project
Carol Cabrera, 9th Grade Humanities

*The above photos are from last year's Playwright's Project! :)

Driving Questions:
How can we connect with our humanity, and convey it honestly in writing?
How can we work together to create honest pieces of theatre that can change a room of strangers into a connected groups with an authentic, shared experience?

Anchor Texts:
Romeo & Juliet

Final Products:
*Individual:

-Each student will create a notebook of free-writing and brainstorming inspired by Oulipan activities and Peter Elbow theories of creating writing.

-Each student will create and revise a one act play. Each student will submit their one act play for feedback from theatre professionals through the CA Playwright’s Project, submitting their pieces for possible professional production in the 2015 Festival of CA Playwright’s Project Plays: http://www.playwrightsproject.org/programs.htm#Contest

*Group:
Students will work together to build an evening of theatre to be presented to the community.

Out of the 50 plays that are written in our class, we will read and analyze and work together to choose 5-10 pieces to produce together as a class (depending on length of pieces).

Roles & Budget Breakdown
Roles that will be available for the second aspect of the project:

*Directors ~Run by students/no funds needed

*Playwrights (if a playwright’s work is chosen, they will be given chances to edit their work as it is being created by the director and actors)~Run by students/no funds needed

*Actors~Run by students/no funds needed

*Scenic Design and Construction~Student Run $200 for scenic elements/designs for all plays

*Costume Design and Construction~Student Run $60 for fabric/second hand purchases for all plays (most of this will come from students' homes/closets)

*Lighting Design and Construction~California State University Technician Run $55/hour  for 8 hours + tip for student workers $520 

*Sound Design and Board Operation~student run/no funds needed

*Stage Managers/Marketing/Production~Student Run $50 for postcards/mailing/posters/pens & other stage management material/color versions of program/etc.  

See what students' wrote in a week's time in my class last year! 

http://www.amazon.com/If-anthology-original-Cabrera-Playwriting/dp/0692220941

 

Back Up Plan

If I don't meet the goal, I will likely put the money towards publishing and lower the amount of theatre that we watch in the evenings. 

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About the Creator

My name is Carol Cabrera. I am a singer-songwriter, an actress, a director, a playwright, an avid reader, a lover of comic books, but at heart, I'm a teacher and I always will be. I am in my first year teaching at High Tech High North County, in my second year as a project based learning teacher, in my third year as a full time teacher, and in my fifth year as a classroom teacher. I am extremely interested in the creation aspect of education. I seek to blend the real world into the world of my classroom, to extend my walls so they don't end at the square footage marked Room 129. I seek to explore the vast terrain of our universe with my students, but at the same time, I'm curious about what happens when we ask students to isolate their thoughts, and see what they can create from the vast amount of wonder that exists in their own heads. I am most interested in creative writing, and in how that writing can be brought to life, so playwriting and theatre is a natural fit for my interests.

Investments (1)

$10

Whitney Conkling

9 years ago