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Shifting Ground on College Campuses: Exploring the Undergraduate ModelPurple Crayon Players of Northwestern University, AATE 2010
www.purplecrayonplayers.com
Evaluating your undergraduate setting… Considering starting or expanding a TYA-dedicated group in your undergraduatesetting? Purple Crayon Players of Northwestern University began with a tour in 2005and has expanded to include diverse forms of outreach and experimentation.
1. What are the conditions? Consider:
a. Challenges – what will hinder?
b. Advantages – what will help?
2. What structures can help you succeed?
a. Mission (motivational)
b. Model (theoretical, structural)
c. Means (financial)
d. Method (operation and evaluation)
e. Mainstay (basic)
3. Who will help you succeed?
a. Collaborators (peers, non-profits…)
b. Supporters (mentors, funders, audiences…)
Don’t forget...
This is an experiment.o Draw inspiration, dream bigo Note when “student” opens doors o Welcome and apply feedback
This takes continual effort.o
Be visible and talk it upo Put in time and thoughto Demonstrate appreciation
This is extremely rewarding!o Celebrate success, milestoneso Take note of the skills you acquireo If it’s not fun, evaluate and change
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Shifting Ground on College Campuses: Exploring the Undergraduate ModelPurple Crayon Players of Northwestern University, AATE 2010
www.purplecrayonplayers.com
Get involved with Purple Crayon: how you can be a "player"!
Come to our shows
Whether it's an original adaptation or a TYA classic, Purple Crayon Players produces
high quality work throughout the academic year. Our 2010 - 2011 season includes twomainstage productions, two special projects, and an annual festival of new plays. Thelineup features everything from plays by Laurie Brooks and Suzan Zeder to our ownadaptation of the French film Le Ballon Rouge (The Red Balloon) and a new play forvery young audiences by Ramon Esquivel. Visit our website for details.
Book a tour
Are you a schoolteacher in the Chicagoland area? If so, check out our wintermainstage and spring touring production, Doors by Suzan Zeder. Our touring shows arefully mounted productions, which include comprehensive and detailed study guides, a
post-show discussion, and the option of a pre-show workshop with the cast and crew.Tours are an inexpensive way to integrate the arts into your school's curriculum. Findout more, including available tour dates in April and May, on our website.
Check out our internship program
Do you know any high school students in the Chicagoland area who are eager to learnmore about theatre? If so, consider recommending Purple Crayon Players' first everinternship program, which will be held in the fall of 2010 in conjunction with ourmainstage production of The Wrestling Season by Laurie Brooks. Internships will beavailable in both acting and production, and interns will have the opportunity to work
directly with talented Northwestern University artists to explore theatre and the themesfound in The Wrestling Season . Applications are due October 1, 2010.
Submit to PLAYground
Attention playwrights! Our annual spring PLAYground festival is now acceptingsubmissions. Fresh, unpublished play submissions must be sent [email protected] by December 10, 2010. If chosen, you will receive astaged reading of your script at Northwestern University, workshop time with students,and dynamic feedback from post show discussions, audience surveys, studentdirectors, and cast members.
Share feedback / networking opportunities
Purple Crayon Players exists to fill a unique void in the world of theatre for youth, and inorder to do so, we continually seek opportunities for growth and development. If youhave feedback on our programming or opportunities for collaboration, employment, ornetworking, we hope that you will reach out to us! Please visit us online atwww.purplecrayonplayers.com or email us at [email protected].
