Valuing Process Over Product: Producing Theatre in Educational Settings

HowlRound: Having spent the better part of the last ten years actively working in theatre education, I have witnessed first hand more methods than I can count for teaching theatre to youth. I have worked with high school teachers who do not allow their younger students to be onstage until they have reached upperclassmen status with two years of theatre classes under their belt. I have also worked with teachers who have no problems casting freshmen as the leads in their spring musicals.