www.cmu.edu/news: Melody Herzfeld continues to reap the benefits as the recipient of the Excellence in Theatre Education Award (EITEA) at the 2018 Tony Awards.
As part of her prize, Herzfeld, drama teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, hosted Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama Professor Don Wadsworth and CMU alumna Chante Adams, who presented a master class to Herzfeld’s students in mid-November.
It was the first time a master class was offered to an EITEA winner’s school.
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This is great! Outreaching to schools and coming to them to give them feedback is an amazing recrutiing and teaching tool I feel all theatre schools should use. Especially wanting to apply to a school whose name carries a lot of weight, like Carnegie Mellon, it is important to help let students know that it’s not this big huge scary thing. You’re there to showcase your talent like everyone else and you shouldn’t be afraid to do so. I think this tool will help create diversity within the classes as well, on both the design and performance side. It’s sad to say, but I wasn’t shocked at all coming in as the only black design and production freshman. I know so many kids of color who are scared to interview because they view big-named schools as a school where only white kids could attend and succeed. So outreach to different schools and programs I feel would help bridge that gap in diversity within the university.
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