Erin Maxon Email & Phone Number

New York, California, England And Japan

Create and instruct professional development sessions with businesses and educational organizations. Coach in class facilitation tools and the use of arts in achieving social and educational goals. Current workshop offerings include “Positive Behavior Management for Arts Educators,” Community Building for Educators,” “Arts Integration Training,” and.

Various

I facilitate remote partnerships with The New Collectives. We are starting to spread our education work to other towns and schools beyond New York, and I help create those opportunities.

Brooklyn, NY

Led the “Young Collectives” education division of a burgeoning professional theatre company. Spearheaded fundraising efforts; hired teachers, interns, and teen counselors; coordinated region-wide scholarships; and refined avenues for further development. thenewcollectives.com

Bend, Oregon

Develop and market new education programming to school district. Write grant applications for further funding. Hire and develop/facilitate new training protocol for teaching artists. Particularly interested in working with Title 1 schools to provide in-school arts programming to those unable to attend or afford after-school programming.

Redmond, Oregon

Direct a public school’s before and after school program. Hire new staff people, market program to school and community members, and coordinate volunteers for program events. Personalize the teaching of standardized curriculum sent from corporate headquarters.

Greater New York City Area

Developed original curriculum with a team of teaching artists and theater professionals. Built lesson plans around Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” for public middle and high school students in New York City. Also served as Mentor Teaching Artist to a new drama teacher with the Arthur Miller Fellows Program. Project included working through Shakespeare with.

Mill Valley, CA

Design and implement art and drama curricula. Courses have included Physical Theatre, Scenework, Applied Drama, Original Play-making, Theatre Then and Now, as well as Play Rehearsal. Direct yearly school play featuring all grades as actors, technical staff, and designers.

Mill Valley, CA

Aid with new student recruitment and engagement. I contact applicants, organize tours and visiting days, and assist Head of School in overflow responsibilities.

San Francisco Bay Area

Teach drama games, investigative literary analysis, and collaborative theatrical staging to turn short stories and poems into theatre pieces. Engage students visually, aurally, and kinaesthetically with the texts to build skills for ‘unpacking’ literature. Focus specifically on work with underserved youth.

Z Space, San Francisco

Administered the Youth Arts program of professional performing arts company, Word for Word. Hired and trained teaching artists. Led professional development programming in positive behavior management, coordinated yearly budget, aided development team in grant applications, and served as public face for Youth Arts. This position was interim coverage of the.

San Francisco Bay Area

Trained volunteers and liaised with school staff to deliver science assemblies, festivals, and theatre shows to elementary, middle, and high schools throughout California. Taught small groups of children (age 4 to 8) in camp settings, and taught science and math concepts to large groups of up to 400, aged 6 to 60. Developed new science shows and festivals.

San Francisco

Act Out Science uses theater arts as a tool to make science come to life. Through drama/puppetry workshops, summer camp programming, and original science shows, we create space for enthusiastic engagement in a variety of scientific concepts. Act Out Science is made of a team of theatre professionals and science educators that offer participatory, hands-on.

San Francisco Bay Area

Co-directed a theater group dedicated to making new work in physical theater. Created and produced collaborative theater projects and workshops. Produced and managed crowd funding campaign, including video and photo shoot, and editing footage. Devised and facilitated in-depth intrinsic feedback sessions with audiences after each performance. Created.

Working with English teacher, Julia Daniels, to create original theatre curriculum to further literacy building, comprehension, and engagement in her classroom. The program involves an twelve-week residency in 9th and 11th grade classrooms and culminating projects and performances.

Design and implement drama and devising workshop series for Bay Area and Santa Cruz veterans. Marketing the program to veterans centers and individuals; partnering with local gallery space and venues to hold workshops and stage touring show. www.graftedcede.com; www.theatretemoin.com

Supported an emerging theatre company composed of refugee and asylum seeking young people. I helped train them in theatre skills using games and exercises, and focus on ways they can continue to use and take ownership over those activities. I also worked with the young people to devise their own piece for performance in October/November 2010.

Supported youth arts projects in association with a new National Trust site, Khadambi Asalache’s House, as part of the Cultural Olympiad scheme leading up to the 2012 Olympics. Worked to help the public navigate their experience with the house by creating public events, making a blog for the project, coordinating arts workshops with local groups (14 to 17.

Co-facilitate physical theatre and movement workshops with women aged 21 to 26. We avoid using vocal language and instead focus on the language of the body and sound. This project is part of a larger workshop scheme with the group, composed of refugees and asylum seekers, which will culminate in a celebration in May 2011.

Worked with children age 7 to 11, facilitating theatre activities accessible to people of all abilities and levels of "risk". I use beginning Makaton in workshops and inclusive teaching techniques championed by Chicken Shed Theatre Company.

Co-facilitate a community drama group with older adults aged 65 to 95. I create activities to suit the physical restrictions of the group, and work with their needs as well as stretch their self-imposed limits. I help devise theatrical pieces and songs, coordinate sessions, and lead evaluation efforts.

Led a collaboration between MA Applied Drama students from Goldsmiths College and Charity AFRIL, whereby applied drama facilitators lead drama workshops with young refugees and adult English learners. Awarded £1000 Goldsmiths Fund for my cross-arts project proposal, “Chomp!” that uses drama, photography, and food to explore ideas of “healthy” eating with.

Devised and co-facilitated a project using cross-arts methods to forge new connections between Eltham Park’s community groups, the architecture of the church space, and the larger Eltham community. The project culminated in an event featuring a collaborative exhibition of art, poetry, sound, and performance.

Edited and elaborated grant proposals and reports, developed new curriculum, facilitated teacher training sessions, advertised professional development programming, publicized performances, organized budgets, arranged strategic planning meetings, mentored advanced playwriting students, shadowed experienced Teaching Artists, and photographically documented.

Team-taught junior high school English language courses. Developed original curriculum for teaching primary school first-time English learners, focusing on drama games and activities, including staging of original play production, “Bad Fruit.” Acted as consultant in founding and training teachers for neighboring village’s high school level English-language.

Masters, Applied Drama: Theatre In Educational, Community, And Social Contexts

Dissertation, “Under the Umbrella: Finding Commonalities in the Specificities of Applied Drama." Completed advanced acting workshops in.

Bachelor Of Arts, Anthropology, Minor Theatre And Performance Studies

Activities and Societies: President of Photography Club 2003-20063.95 GPA, Phi Beta Kappa Honours Thesis, "Forming Little Citizens.

Semester Abroad, Madagascar Culture And Society

“Madagascar: Culture and Society” study abroad program; 3.88 GPA. Field research project, "Didactic Performance: Alternative Education in.

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