Dramatic Stages
Offering students, parents, and school staff the stage to practice new roles, develop new perspectives, and generate creative solutions around challenge and change.
FREE MASTERCLASS
Social & Emotional Learning with a Dramatic Flair
There has never been a better time to fuse theater arts with social and emotional learning to build resilience in children, teens, and adults. Creative drama is used as a protective factor that can offset the stressful and often traumatic impact of the past year.
Dramatic Stages workshops focus on skills you can use to build your Middle or High School child’s resilience through engaging, creative programs harnessing theater arts to teach and transform.
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Dramatic Stages Programming:
Play
Experience theater games and activities that teach invaluable life skills and fun ways to de-stress, connect and create.
Practice
Learn research-based positive psychology tools that promote resilience and well being. Then put them to the test in real time to fully understand the benefits.
Take Away
Leave feeling calm and revitalized, with resources and creative ways to engage your child in healthy behavior. (and maybe yourself too!)
“Tell me and I’ll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I’ll understand.”
— Chinese Proverb
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“I was blown away by the Dramatic Stages program. The students were thoroughly engaged. It was creative, insightful and thought-provoking.”
— Guidance Counselor, Manhattan High School
Our Team:
Emilie Ward
Co-Founder
(Licensed Creative Arts Therapist)
Emilie, RDT, LCAT, was a 2010 recipient of the National Association of Drama Therapy Research Award. She has served as Senior Drama Therapist and the Director of Training and Research for ENACT, training and mentoring teaching artists and leading workshops, for over 18 years. In addition, she has developed and led workshops at national conferences in education, drama therapy, and arts-in-education. Emilie co-founded and co-facilitates the therapeutic theatre company, Drama Lab: Real People Doing Real Theatre.
Jose Aranda
Co-Founder
Jose holds an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College and a BFA in Acting from North Carolina School of the Arts. He has performed at the Signature Theatre, Greenwich Street Playhouse, Washington Square Theatre, City Center, Teatro Mexico, Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, and the 14th Street Playhouse. Jose has taught acting at Manhattanville College, Brooklyn College, North Carolina School of the Arts summer session, and voice at Brooklyn College MFA program. He has worked as a Teaching Artist in NYC for the last 13 years, teaching social and emotional skills to "put-at-risk" youth.
“I was in a really tough place this year and Emilie & Jose really helped me reshape the way I was thinking to see the big picture and to look at the more positive side of things.”
— High School Student.
“Dramatic Stages helped me a lot. It helped me learn how to communicate better, organize myself and look at things differently. I feel more confident.”
— High School Student
“This program really helped me to come out of my shell. I feel more confident and comfortable. Plus I had a lot of fun!”
— Middle School Student
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