Teaching

Adapted Theatre for Children with Autism and Developmental Delays Mission: 
Shakespeare Sports believes that that theatre is for all and that the lessons in theatre are equivalent to equal access for learning along side same age peers.  We offer interactive online theatre for individuals and schools that serve the I/DD (intellectual and/or developmental disabilities community). Our programs will support all neurodiverse people.  Adapting Shakespeare is at the core of Shakespeare Sports Theatre Company’s work with working with individuals with autism and their family because working with families means that the individuals gain more exposure to plays that are most important as well as working on social emotional lessons intertwined with language development.

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Adapted Theatre for Children with Autism and Developmental Delays Mission: 

Shakespeare Sports believes that that theatre is for all and that the lessons in theatre are equivalent to equal access for learning along side same age peers.  We offer interactive online theatre for individuals and schools that serve the I/DD (intellectual and/or developmental disabilities community). Our programs will support all neurodiverse people.  Adapting Shakespeare is at the core of Shakespeare Sports Theatre Company’s work with working with individuals with autism and their family because working with families means that the individuals gain more exposure to plays that are most important as well as working on social emotional lessons intertwined with language development.

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Quince leading as Chopping Wood from Cast of Midsummer Nights Dream 2022

Photos above by Basil Rodericks

programs

Adapted and Interactive Theatre for neurodiverse populations​

30 Minute workshops and shows for community-based settings

Example of programming is two 30 minute interactive sessions rehearsing for interactive show with a cast.  The purpose of the sessions are to rehearse for playing the games in scenes with actors in the interactive show.

Additional options are to have one teaching artist teach the rehearsal for a class for two sessions, learning about a play through the characters.

Original Hunter Heartbeat As You Like It

Rosalind Heartbeat Hello

Orlando Heartbeat Hello

Celia Heartbeat Hello

Touchstone Heartbeat Hello

Rosalind Heartbeat With Faces

Orlando Heartbeat With Faces

Celia Heartbeat with Faces

TouchStone Heartbeat WIth Faces

Rosalind Love Notes

Orlando Love Notes

Celia Love Notes

Touchstone Love Notes

Celia Wind a Clock

Celia I Jump

Touchstone I Jump

Rosalind Moody

Orlando Moody

Rosalind / Ganymede Wooing

Orlando / Ganymede Wooing

Pericles Online

2019 Heartbeat Hellos

2019 Heartbeat with Faces



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July 2023
In April I was a guest on Stage Whisper Podcast - Listen please.  I talk about my approach to learning Hunter Heartbeat on my own and what that was like and accessibility for children with autism through adapted theatre.  Thank you again to Andrew for interviewing me.  Thank you to Jay for inviting me to express interest in the podcast.

April 2023
Excited to share that Shakespeare Sports has been invited to join with an organization in New York City for next year 2024 in a Saturday recreation program for children and young adults. I plan to share the organization name and details planned for spring / summer for Hunter Heartbeat games in scenes and will hopefully share more details sometime in September.

March 2023
Here is the updated page on the Shakespeare Sports page with original Hunter Heartbeat As You Like It.  Very grateful to the actors who gave of their time and made suggestions that I took to heart and made part of the games in scenes that is from As You Like It Act II scene iii.  We hope to play with children with autism and developmental delays in recreation programs.

November 2022
Today, Sunday November 20, I held a workshop with a cast worked on games in a scene from my adapted Hunter Heartbeat As You Like It in development in our second rehearsal. The second rehearsal, responding from advice from one of the cast members of the workshop, I focused on teaching the games in each scene. In the workshop I focused on games in the scene that is in the forest with characters Orlando, Rosalind, Celia and Touchstone.  Some of the games were published from Hunter Heartbeat, and some from the online Pericles games and there was one or two invented games that are a response to the actions in this play As You Like It. In the script I have noted all references.

Because what I am working on is the have a number of short videos for Play at Home Hunter Heartbeat As You Like It, I could have called each cast member individually, however decided that between calling each cast member individually, it was more of a collaborative process to teach each actor the game for the character and then to ask cast members to then play along with the cast member, so it was a fun experience for all.  

My next steps for this scene that we worked will be to adapt each game for each actor so that we will be creating Play at Home Hunter Heartbeat As You Like It games, for students and caregivers to practice games from the play in preparation for an interactive show. The next rehearsal is currently being scheduled for next month, when I should have each game adapted from the script for each actor. From this work I will have the recorded games for Play at Home and and adapted scenes (or a script of Hunter Heartbeat As You Like It) that could then be further adapted depending upon the needs of the students in each class.

July 2022
Thank you to a school from YAI,  for Hunter Heartbeat scenes from Mechanicals, which we renamed Workers from 1/7 to 2/17 in the elementary school, where we met once a week for six weeks.  This past week I gave an overview of the whole play of Midsummer Nights Dream to the class.  Students look forward to the interactive show with Shakespeare Sports cast, and our cast, in turn, looks forward to giving their Mechanicals Hunter Heartbeat show on August 4th. 

March 2022
HAPPY WORLD THEATRE DAY!!! Glad to be among the list of Creative Learning Grantees to bring theatre to schools and communities in NYC.

Many thanks for the grant from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.  The grant of $2,000.00 will go to pay for artist fees.  We at Shakespeare Sports are humbled for the grant and especially in light of the organization for which we respect and admire the work from which it is from.  We have enjoyed the process of preparing games in scenes for individuals with autism and Developmental Delays for social emotional games and language development.

Thank you for the grant from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.  This was the first grant that Shakespeare Sports has applied for and received and that I as a member of the Shakespeare Sports collective have applied for and received.    At the time that I am writing this about the grant, that is now history of the work of adapted theatre for Shakespeare Sports, it is during the pandemic and schools activities are largely not able to be scheduled.  We made ourselves available in the spirit of gathering our resources and giving interactive lessons teaching characters from the adapted games in scenes from Pericles for individuals in a day hab and a high school.                   




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