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).