educational Outreach PROGRAMS
Future PAGES Project
The Future PAGES Project is a program dedicated to providing students in grades 4-12 the opportunity to experience theatre and writing in a new way, with participation in a state standards aligned, creative writing workshop at partner schools, and a live theatrical performance at Theatre Lab.
Each partner school is provided with a curriculum guide with supplemental information for lessons plans, activities, and class projects, as well as rubrics for grading.
Following the workshop and show, students from partner schools are invited to submit their own original true story inspired by the semester's theme. The submissions are evaluated, and 2-4 students from each school are invited to join our 6-week writing intensive, where they will turn their original stories into performance pieces, and work with local industry professionals to design, produce, and perform their own original show.
Thanks to generous funding from the Heckscher Foundation for Children, the workshop, performances, and intensive are all offered at NO COST.
Timeline:
Workshops begin in August, and field trips take place in September. New partners can schedule their trips as early as May of the preceding school year.
How to get involved:
Email carrj@fau.edu for more information or to set up your workshop and field trip.
LabRATS
Theatre Lab's high school Education Outreach program, LabRATS, brings together upper-level high school students to form a company of young artists to experience theatre making in a unique way.
Students selected by their teachers will be invited to attend an evening with the playwright of each of Theatre Lab’s three mainstage productions where they can discuss the process of creating new work and how the play they are about to watch came to life. They will then see the play and reflect on their experience.
Throughout this process, students will participate in a series of writing workshops led by a professional playwright and Theatre Lab Teaching Artist where they will gain the skills and inspiration to create their own original monologues, scenes, and short plays. This process will culminate in a professional staged reading of their work at theatre Lab’s New Play Festival in April.
Timeline:
Students are invited to join LabRATS in October; the program begins in November and runs through April of the following year.
How to get involved:
Email carrj@fau.edu for more information or to set up your workshop and field trip.
Teaching Artists Institute
Theatre Lab’s professional training program provides FAU MFA candidates with a 6 week seminar in the spring of their first year where they will explore an introduction to grant writing, learn how to build a state standards aligned Curriculum Guide which will provide enrichment resources for partner schools, and how to connect with partner schools. They will also learn to present a workshop, how to scaffold it for grade levels 4-12, and how to successfully manage a classroom and engage students.
The following fall, these students will have the opportunity to join a Theatre Lab Teaching Artist to shadow and team teach writing workshops, assist with the creation of the Future PAGES Project production, and will complete the course with the skills and experience necessary to secure gainful employment as a Teaching Artist for students in a wide range of ages and still levels.
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