Putting on a Play Festival
1:28
Grades: 6 - 12
Video Description: Artistic Director Taylor Gruenloh speaks to the challenges of putting on a festival of plays and why certain logistical choices were made.
Type of Video: Segment*
Unique Video ID: Theatre-115**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- Use the video as part of a scene festival unit with your theatre students. Have students create a scene festival to produce for others in the school or the community at large. What insights do they gain from this artistic director’s experiences in putting on play festivals?
- Use the video as part of a career exploration unit in theatre. What new ideas about working in theatre do students learn from this artistic director’s experiences?
*Segment videos are short excerpts edited from interviews or interactive programs that offer flexible and differentiated ways to use the rich content included in the full-length conversation.
**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.
