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Melissa Leilani Larson on creating ‘SNAIL MAIL’ for students in grades 4-6
BY MELISSA LEILANI LARSON Click here to make your UTAHGIVES donation by 11:59pm on Thursday, April 30! Filipina playwright Melissa Leilani Larson’s award-winning plays have been seen on five continents. She has premiered seven plays at Plan-B Theatre, including two for young audiences: the Free Elementary School Tour of THE EDIBLE COMPLEX for grades 4-6,…
Read MoreArtistic Director Jerry Rapier on Asking Playwright Elaine Jarvik to Write About Great Salt Lake for K-3 Students
That Christmas, one of our family gifts was a world atlas. I pored over it, memorizing each page. I couldn’t get enough of Japan (where my birth family is from), Peru (my mom lived there in fourth grade), and Great Salt Lake (dominating the western half of the U.S. map). To a fourth grader who had never been to Utah, it was Utah.
Read MorePlaywright Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin on creating ‘EllaMental’
I wanted to give voice to children with “behavior issues” who often aren’t asked what they think or feel about the world around them.
Read MoreReFraming A Classic
A story began to form—an atypical day in the life of a small museum. Missing paintings, busloads of tourists, painfully shy docents, glorious music, art that comes to life …
Read MoreFirst-time playwright Laura Munts on creative aging
Creative Aging is an ongoing, life-affirming choice which is beautiful in its own way because as long as I realize I have a choice, I have a voice.
Read More14th Annual Edward Lewis Theatre Festival
Featuring a sneak peek of Carleton Bluford in Jenifer Nii’s FIRE!
Read MorePlaywriting With Young People Classroom Videos (for K-6 educators)
The following videos accompany our Playwriting With Young People playwriting curriculum for grades K-6, which is available here. To enable captions, click the CC button and select English.
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