TST Reflection 2016-2017

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2016-2017 Reflection Tractor Shed Theatre

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AUG 19, 2016

Teacher Spotlight: Molly Rice of St. Stephens High School

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We bring you another installment of our Teacher Spotlight series, where we chat with teachers from around the country, picking their brain about their theater program and the art of teaching theater. This month we spoke with Molly Rice of St. Stephens High School Tractor Shed Theatre program about her recent production of Jeremy Bloom’s ​Peter/Wendy​, where she finds design inspiration, and the importance of presentness in both theater and life. What made you decide to teach theater? Theatre literally saved me. I had a rough upbringing, and when I found theatre my junior year in high school, I had come home. Theatre took me off a very dodgy path, and fueled my creativity, and gave me a haven. I started off as an actor/singer, and found out that I was a director. I always wanted to teach, though. I had


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