SouthWest StageWorks

In a way I've never meant before, congratulations on making it through the 19/20 school year!  Usually when we say that as teachers, there's an air of both legitimate congratulations and mundane commiseration that we've made it through another school year: Learning and growth happened (yay!), tedious boredom endured (well, not everything is exciting), challenges overcome, and limits both met and pushed.  That said, all of this has a sense of 'one more down, x more to go'...just one in a string of the like.  Regardless of our successes, there is often this sense of it really being nothing all that special...after all, people do it everyday, right? Enter 2020 saying 'hold my [insert beverage of choice]'.  There is nothing at all normal or mundane about getting successfully to the end of this school year.  None of our traditional measures work right now.  There were no grades to boost (or destroy) our egos, keep us motivated, or overwhelm us.  There were no

In This Time... Words matter.  Anyone who knows me, and has had to endure a long-winded in-person or multi-character typewritten spiel on anything from breakfast that morning, to the minutiae of a Marvel movie, to the justification for an assignment (see below this post), knows that words matter to me greatly, and that it can take me a long time to find the right ones...especially on something as big as the things we are experiencing right now.  And yet...they're failing me in my desire to find what feels like the 'right thing' to say about this moment where the myth of equal rights and protections in our country have been laid bare in a way that has resonated bigger and more intensely than it has in a very long time. Ultimately I'm a small person in a small corner of the country's whitest major city.  I have been, and remain, phenomenally privileged in my life in every way.  I have had little to no practical exposure to bias, to bigotry, to hatred, or to violen

From the emails...make sure to do your diligence in deciding whether this is an option for you! j. ----- SSTI Tech Online: Growing Together, While Apart Sold Out Hit Adds Another Session SSTI Tech, our one-of-a-kind summer program geared toward aspiring tech theatre professionals, has just added an additional session for Summer 2020! In response to Covid-19, SSTI has converted all of our programs to online alternatives for Summer 2020. Our reputation for quality programming and educational opportunities has resulted in  three sold out sessions in four days . We've changed countless lives over the years, and we're not letting Covid-19 stop YOU! With an army of elite educators, fresh off a semester of online teaching, we're hitting back with SSTI Online! We've developed an online curriculum that targets specific, achievable educational goals that can be measured by our staff in this new medium.  Th