THEATRECAST

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas live from EdTechTeam's Illinois Summit featuring Google for Education with keynote speaker Jeffery Heil. Jeffery shares how to foster student choice, voice and agency with your students. Jeffery explains how he used student video projects to helps his students find their voice and agency while working as a teacher Toussaint Academy of the Arts and Sciences.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome The Digital Human Library's Leigh Cassell to discuss the World Festival of Children's Theatre. For the first time in North America, 300 children from 6 continents and 22 countries will flood Stratford, Ontario for the 14th World Festival of Children’s Theatre (WFCT). The WFCT is one-of-a-kind event that brings the world’s children together to share each other’s stories and culture through theatre. This year’s theme is “My World, Our Planet” and performances will take place from June 5th-14th, 2016.

Join Nick Cusumano as he welcomes Donna Lynne Champlin, a tour-de-force Broadway actress, and regular on the CW's "My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend." Find out how Donna Lynne has transitioned from New York to Los Angeles having just finished her first season on The CW's innovative musical TV show"My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" Donna Lynne will share about her accomplished career as Broadway actress working with Theatre greats such as: Carol Burnett, Hal Prince, Patti LuPone, Blair Brown, Emily Skinner, and so many more.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as the welcome Tara DeFrancisco, master extraordinaire of all thing Improv. Tara will share the her adventures of life on the Improv stage ,touring the world with HERE the improvised musical, teaching, her new television show on LOGO, opening an Theatre and so much more.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome James Sanders founder of BreakoutEDU. Breakout EDU creates ultra-engaging learning games for people of all ages. Games (Breakouts) teach teamwork, problem solving, critical thinking, and troubleshooting by presenting participants with challenges that ignite their natural drive to problem-solve.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Rushton Hurley. Rushton will discuss ways of getting the creative best out of students. He will share about NextVista's eduvideo and service video contests, and its English Language video library project. Rushton is the founder and executive director of Next Vista for Learning, which houses a free library of videos by and for teachers and students at NextVista.org. His graduate research at Stanford University included using speech recognition technology with beginning students of Japanese in computer-based role-playing scenarios for developing language skills. In the 1990s his work with teenagers at a high school in California led him to begin using internet and video technologies to make learning more active, helping him reach students who had struggled under more traditional approaches.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome returning guest Matthew R. Kerns and Meghan Shook-McCarthy, founders of The DramaClubStl. The DramaClubStl offer a variety of theatre classes for children and youth include DramaClubStl- Discovering the Magic of Theatre -Theatre Class for Kids on the Autism Spectrum. Matthew and Meghan will share their experiences of creating Theatre with their students.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Jedi Adam Watson, a digital learning coordinator, who contributes resources to StarWarsinthheClassroom.com website and who is experienced playwright and director. Adam will share how you use Star Wars in his classroom while studying Shakespeare. Adam will also discuss his experiences in Theatre as playwright and director. 

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Google Guru Extraordinaire- Eric Curts.  Eric will share how Theatre affected his path becoming educator and what Theatre skills he uses everyday.  Eric will also some great tips for using technology in your classroom.

Join NIck Cusumano and Danielle Filas as the discuss some of the recent audience blunders involving cell phones on the Broadway.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Kendra Augustin and Patricia Cardona Roca founders of the Leela Theatre Festival in New York. The purpose of the Leela NYC Theatre Festival is to give actors a chance to play roles that go beyond their type: accent, age, skin color, size, gender and sex orientation to show the audience a reality that is not always portrayed in the media, theater or film.   http://www.leelanycfestival.org/

Nick Cusumano joins Danielle Filas live from Broadway in New York City. Nick shares ways of getting discounts for Broadway shows. Nick and Danielle discuss ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) conference that Nick will be attending.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas discuss the importance of Theatre teachers developing their own PLNs (Personal Learning Network). Australian Drama teacher and blogger Karla O of the Drama Teacher's Network Blog joins Nick and Danielle to share her insights of using social media to build your your PLN.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Rosalie Tenseth, actor, writer, producer of the award winning short Failure Groupies. Rosalie, an actor and acting coach also, will share about making films in order to give her students the experience of being on a professional film set so they’d understand the structure of how they fit in as an actor on a set – have the film experience on their resume, get reel to showcase their work for possible representation and gain exposure to other filmmakers at film festivals.and more.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as Nick shares how to use Google Forms Add on DocAppender by Jesse Spevack and Andrew Stillman of New Visions for Public Schools. Nick and Danielle discuss ways to use the DocAppender for peer feedback and more.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as the welcome Guest Jess Eisenberg and Kendra Augustin of the 365 Women a Year playwrighting project. http://365womenayear.wordpress.com/ This international playwriting project involves over 200 playwrights who have signed on to write one or more one-acts about extraordinary women in both past and present history. The project’s ambitious yet focused goal is to write women back into the social consciousness as well as empower and promote female playwrights around the country. Bio: Jess Eisenberg grew up playing piano pieces written exclusively by white men, going to see plays exclusively by white men, and wondering in history class ‘where are all the women and people of color who did incredible things?’ It is incomprehensible that in 2015 we are still asking where all the women are or if there’s anyone other than white men who have written or composed. After co-founding Prologue Theatre Company in Chicago, Jess researched for a season based on female painters in history. There was a profound sense of loss. Our canon is a lie, when the names and works of so many are lost to us forever. She knew she had to keep writing about all of these women, thus in 2014 this project was born. Close friend and colleague, Gina Scanlon, quickly joined the fold and helped co-found the projects as it is today. They never could have imagined that number of playwrights who would join the mission in such a short amount of time. There are now hundreds of playwrights from around the world writing pieces and 365 is in its second year.

Get involved with a global partnership between edtech4theatre.com’s and TheatreCast host Nick Cusumano and dramateachersnetwork.wordpress.com’s Karla O as they share how to celebrate Theatre on a Global stage. Learn how to earn digital badges as participate in the fun activities planned for your students. World Theatre Day 3.27.15- Join the Celebration at http://worldtheatreday.info

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they explore the need for making specific choices in monologues and ways of developing the moment before for monologues and scenes.

:Join Nick Cusumano as he welcomes Jeffrey Bradbury, founder of Teachercast.net. Jeff is a man who wears many hats: conductor of operas and musicals, orchestra teacher, Google Certified Teacher, podcaster and the father of triplets. Listen in as they discuss casting musicals, conducting live performances, opera vs. musicals, and incorporating Ed Technology into the Performing Arts. Jeff is a highly respected educational consultant. He has presented at ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) as well as other nationally recognized conferences, and was one of the founding organizers of edcampNJ. In 2013 he was honored to be the Keynote speaker at the Pearson Authentic Learning Conference. Additionally the TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network has served educational and medical conventions across the country by providing on site live broadcasting to thousands of educators each week. Jeffrey Bradbury, the creator of TeacherCast.net and TeacherCast University and is a speaker, writer, broadcaster, consultant and educational media specialist. Jeffrey Bradbury is the Director of Orchestras in the North Brunswick Twp School District where he teaches Music Theory and Music History as well as directs a wonderful high school orchestra that he is very proud of. In 2012, Jeff was recognized as one of top 50 educators using social media at the first ever Bammy Awards. He was also selected as a Google Certified Teacher.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they discuss all the 21 Century skills Theatre provides to students. Nick and Danielle look in detail at the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (www.21stcenturyskills.org).

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Whitney Christiansen, a Theatre teacher in Eminence, Kentucky. Whitney will show how she uses Renaissance Faire experience with her students. This past year, one of students collaborated with her to create a modern version of “Everyman,” (the medieval morality play,) and two years ago they also created a play based on common misconceptions people hold regarding the medieval era, called “Mythconceptions.” On top of their stage shows, the kids also create their own characters, which they then use to populate our fictional Scottish town of Briarwood.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Catherine Rinella. Catherine is is a radio host and producer, a sound designer for various theatre companies, and a voice over and performing actor

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they share ways of making grading more efficient in the Theatre and Film Classroom. Nick and Danielle discuss the use of Google Forms, Flubaroo, Super Quiz, Google Classroom, and Kahoot.

Join Nick Cusumano as he welcomes Darren J Butler, director of The Miracle Worker at Helen Keller birthplace, while they discuss Camp Courage. The mission of Camp Courage is to offer hands-on learning experiences similar to those encountered by Helen Keller from an early age through adulthood. Camp Courage will introduce participants to the arts and to nature programs wherein the children will learn though senses other than sight. Camp Courage will ultimately advance these children to a higher level of achievement, both academically and socially, and encourage these children to “Be Like Helen.” The camp will be held annually in Tuscumbia, Alabama on the grounds of Ivy Green- Helen Keller’s Birthplace.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they help you prep for the beginning of school. They will share ways of improving the start of the school year and season. They will also share what they learned at the Educational Theatre Association Conference.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas live together from the Educational Theatre Association Annual Conference, as they welcome John Prignano from Music Theatre International. John Prignano is the senior operations officer for MTI. John shares the great resources and their commitment to customer service that MTI has to offer. John tells Nick and Danielle how got started in the business of show and all the different positions he has held at MTI. John also shares updates that will be coming to MTI website.

Join Nick Cusumano as he welcomes Fred Stuart, the director of marketing, for Theatrical Rights Worldwide. As agents for the authors, TRW grants live stage production rights.They also provide the authorized performance materials required to rehearse and present these musicals, in addition to innovative products aimed at helping the artistic and commercial value of those presentations.Fred explains the process of how to licenses a musical from Theatrical Rights World Wide. Fred shares titles from their catalog for perfect for high schools and community theaters to produce to such Spamalot, Curtains, All Shook Up and more. Fred enlightens us on how TRW has been on the for front of incorporating technology resources for their customers into improve the production process such as electronic perusals and musical resources.

Join Nick Cusumano as he welcomes Jack Parkhurst the head of Nebraska Wesleyan’s Theatre Department as the discuss creating ensembles in Theatre. Jack Parkhurst is a Professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University. He taught for many years in secondary schools where he was fortunate to direct five musicals on the main stage at the International Thespian Conference. For the last several years he has been teaching Acting and Directing at the University level. He has taught in medium, large and small university settings. Jack directs professionally, is a member of the Directors Union and regularly responds for both the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and the Educational Theatre Association. He has provided countless workshops at state and national conferences.

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Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome recent Nebraska Wesleyan University Graduate Cameisha Cotton. Cameisha will discuss her training and her future plans to head to New York City to begin her career.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they discuss ways of developing a Theatre season for your school. They share resources on find scripts, assessing your talent base and ways of creating a balanced season.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas discuss the vast resources to bring performances and videos about Theatre to screens and to your classroom. Many resources for your Theatre classroom are shared.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they discuss all things Kevin Spacey. Kevin Spacey just released “NOW in the Wings on a World Stage” -a documentary of the production of Richard the III he starred in and produced with Sam Mendes directing which toured the world. Nick and Danielle discuss all the great things Kevin Spacey is doing to promote Theatre and the Arts.

Join Nick Cusumano as he welcomes the incomparable Judy Rodman- who is multi-talented in all things vocal. Judy Rodman is a recording artists, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, podcaster, record producer, backup singer, voice over artist and so much more. Listen as Judy shares techniques to make the voice best it can be in all different performance arenas such as the stage, recording studio, concert halls, and clubs. Be sure to listen for tips and tricks to help you through when you lose your voice.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Mari as they welcome Ben Gorman and Kelly Lynn Hogan as they celebrate the The Bard of Avon’s 450th Birthday. Join us as we share all things Shakespeare. Tons of resources and techniques to use to help you with the performances of Shakespeare’s plays.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they discuss ways directors can run the perfect audition. Nick and Danielle share ways making your auditions with perspective actors efficient and engaging. Selection of scenes for auditions, the callback process, and other audition topics are discussed.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Darren J Butler- Artistic Director for “The Miracle Worker” at Helen Keller’s Birthplace. Darren shares his friendship with playwright William Gibson, the history of the production and what it is like performing The Miracle Worker where the historical events actually occurred. Darren also shares his experience as playwright, songwriter, screenwriter and educational consultant and content creator.

oin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Educational Theatre Association’s Craig Branch. Craig is one of EdTA’s Educational Programs Managers. He shares all the exciting events EdTA has for thespians and teachers including the International Thespian Festival and EdTA’s annual conference.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they show some easily ways to publicize your productions using online tools such as LucidPress, Canva, PicMonkey, Pixlr and more.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Amy Rose Marsh, literary manager for Samuel French Inc. Samuel French Inc. is one of oldest play publishers in the U.S. Enjoy the show, as Amy Rose shares insights to the play publishing business and all the great work Samuel French Inc. is doing.

Join Nick Cusumano & Danielle Filas, as they share Google Tips and Tricks live from the EdTech Team’s Illinois Summit featuring Google for Education. A great time had by all as Nick and Danielle were able to be in the same room and at the same time as they share their love for Google.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they reminisce about the first year of TheatreCast podcast. Nick and Danielle discuss how TheatreCast podcast was started. They highlight some of their favorite episodes and guests.

“What Are the Odds?” that Theatrical Maestro Hunter Bell would be able to join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as a guest on TheatreCast. Join us as Hunter shares stories of life on and off the Wicked Stage. Learn how Hunter Bell and others helps creative individuals work through their writing process with the “Die Vampire, Die! ” Workshop. Fight the” Meh” in your life, as we explore the creative process with its ups and downs as Hunter entertains us with stories of creating new works.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome, educational media producer and lifelong learner- Marty Keltz.

oin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as as they welcome Karla O Australian Drama Teacher and author of the Drama Teachers Network blog as they discuss ways that the Arts matter. They also share ways to be an advocate for the Arts in Education in your local community.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome elementary school teacher, Melissa Tackett. Melissa shares with Nick and Danielle how she uses the life skills she learned in Theatre in her classroom now. They discuss the list created by Lewis Catron, theatre professor and playwright, “What Theatre Majors Learn: The Advantages Theatre Major Have For All Jobs.”

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they share some great tips to take the chill of off cold readings. Nick and Danielle discuss quick script analysis tips, offer some advice on what to do when a director gives you direction during an audition and more tips for making auditions easier.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome costume designers Carolyn Speicher and Beatrix Cusumano. Carolyn and Beatrix share ways of making thrift store finds into period stage costumes. The ladies also share websites and books that can help researching period and costumes easier. Listen and find a treasure trove of tips and tricks for costuming your shows on a budget. You will also find out how Nick met his wife Beatrix.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Google Certified Teacher and English Teacher- Kevin Brookhouser. Kevin and Danielle debate over the demise of Lady Macbeth; Did she commit suicide or did Macbeth kill her? Kevin also shares strategies for teaching students Shakespeare, his screencast video on iambic pentameter, and his 20% project grmr.me.

Join Nick Cusumano as he welcomes his former student, Chad Bauman, the new managing director of the Milwaukee Rep. Chad shares with Nick the responsibilities of managing director of a Regional Theatre. Chad discusses in work at the Arena Stage and his involvement with its production of Next to Normal before it headed to Broadway.

Join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as the welcome Google Certified Teacher and Trainer Sean J. O’Neil. Sean shares how he created http://www.shakespearecast.com/ with his students at the beginning of the podcast boom. Sean and Danielle also share their experiences of offering acting and Shakespeare advice on Google’s new Helpouts.