APPLIED & INTERACTIVE T h e a t r e G u i d e |
There are many training and development opportunities for people who want to work in the various applied and interactive theatre formats described throughout this website. Training organizations range from short workshops organized by specialized theatre companies to full-featured university degrees.
On a different level of training and development, some professional theatre groups use Forum Theater techniques, Sociometry, improvisation, role-playing, or other techniques covered by the Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide to specialize in human dynamics and/or human resource training for corporate or organizational development. Some groups have been especially active in international settings.
Top : Training and Development
- American Alliance for Theatre and Education - The American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE) has gained a reputation as "the national voice for theatre and education" in the United States. AATE networks cover all levels from pre-kindergarten through university. (Added: 17-Mar-2003 Hits: 2077 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 2) Rate It
- Drama Therapy Program at NYU School of Education - The Drama Therapy Program at New York University prepares students at the Master's Level for a career as a drama therapist. The Program is offered by the Department of Music & Performing Arts Professions at the School of Education. (Added: 15-Mar-2003 Hits: 1938 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- School of Playback Theatre - The School of Playback Theatre offers comprehensive training for playback theatre, a form of personal improvisational theatre, valuing story, ritual, and community. (Added: 14-Mar-2003 Hits: 2121 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- act.if training - Personaltiy and confidence coaching based on acting skills for private and corporate clients located in Ireland. (Added: 6-Jul-2005 Hits: 493 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- All Stars Project - A non-profit, non-traditional production house that has been creating innovative theater since its founding in 1981 by Dr. Lenora Fulani and Dr. Fred Newman. A special focus of All Stars productions is the use of performance and performed activity to promote human growth and development. (Added: 18-May-2003 Hits: 700 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 2) Rate It
- Antic Mind - Arts Based Training - Provides a host of arts-based training packages for corporate training designed not only to educate but to encourage real change within the workplace. Antic Mind Theatre Company also offers an extensive repertoire of plays and workshops for in-school performance, including works by Shakespeare as well as plays on bullying and drugs. The company has has a successful record of working with community organisations, particularly in the UK. (Added: 22-Dec-2004 Hits: 610 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 3) Rate It
- Ariel Group, Inc. - The Ariel Group is an international leadership training firm that provides classroom-based, experiential learning workshops to senior level business executives using techniques from the theatre. (Added: 7-Jan-2006 Hits: 459 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- ATHE Focus Group: Theatre and Social Change - TASC seeks to recognize the role that theatre with a conscious social perspective has played in the history of world theatre. Serving as a focus point for studying those theatres that have created theatre-making processes that can serve as model processes for social change, TASC seeks to incorporate discoveries made in historically ignored cultures and provide a network through which those making and/or studying political and otherwise socially active theatre can share work, theory, and support. (Added: 31-Mar-2003 Hits: 849 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Beth Lapides' Un-Cab Lab - Un-Cabaret creator & performance artist Beth Lapides uses stand-up comedy techniques to help writers, comics, artists, actors, and others find their own authentic voice onstage. (Added: 27-Jan-2006 Hits: 399 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Canadian Creative Arts in Health Training and Education eNews/journal - Free internet scholarly journal focus on creative arts and applied methodologies including drama, ethnodrama and other arts applications. Theatre practitioners may subscribe free. (Added: 27-Aug-2006 Hits: 414 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Center for Applied Theatre Research - In November 1998, Griffith University Council (Brisbane, Australia) established the Centre for Applied Theatre Research. The mission of the Centre is to investigate the theory and application of all manifestations of drama and theatre in the widest range of settings: including artistic performance, community and vocational settings; lifelong education; and to promote their most effective application in those settings. (Added: 4-Apr-2003 Hits: 807 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Centro di Formazione nelle Arti Terapie - Italian art therapy centre based in Lecco since 1994. Advanced studies in Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Dance Therapy and Drama Therapy are all available. All studies are accompanied by practical placements in the respective area of specialization. (Added: 8-Dec-2009 Hits: 230 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Charlo Seychell - Charlo Seychell has a vast experience is drug-abuse prevention work and youth work, and serves as the Director General of PATH - European Youth Without Drugs, a European network for young people. He also provides Forum Theatre training in Malta. (Added: 17-Jun-2003 Hits: 1438 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Coaching Web Success - Life coach web solutions includes life coaching domain registration, web hosting for the life coach and web design for life coaching websites. (Added: 18-Oct-2004 Hits: 497 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- CragRats - Delivers motivational training programmes, event management and hospitality services, social responsibility projects, educational programmes and multimedia initiatives. Acknowledged as the most successful pioneer of learning and audience engagement in Britain today, CragRats inspires positive and inspirational development across a wide range of social and professional groups. (Added: 24-Jul-2003 Hits: 608 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 2) Rate It
- DramaResource - Drama Resource provides a selection of drama games and techniques useful for a wide range of applications including rehearsals and classrooms as well as a free newsletter and occasional one-day workshops with a professional theatre director. (Added: 23-Apr-2007 Hits: 345 Rating: 8.67 Votes: 3) Rate It
- Freedom Trainers - A group of organizing trainers around the United States specializing in organizational change and development with a focus on community building. Assisting organizations, groups and individuals dismantle oppression through trainings at the personal and organizational level. (Added: 15-Jan-2004 Hits: 626 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- GTC Dramatic Dialogues - Since 1995 GTC Dramatic Dialogues has offered a series of interactive theatrical programs on issues of vital importance to students. These programs allow students to talk back, engaging them directly in dialogues about date rape, diversity, or substance abuse. Short theatrical scenes taken directly from campus life show behavior related to the topic of the program. Following each scene there is a moderated discussion or "talk-back" between the actors (still in character) and the audience. (Added: 15-Mar-2003 Hits: 828 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- INAC theaterakademie - This Berlin-based theatre academy makes use of internationally recognized teaching methods. Their philosophy is to create a training in which the study of voice and movement are equally as significant as the study of acting. Those components form an integrated training based on the techniques of Brecht, Meyerhold, Stanislavski, Vachtangov, Johnston, Rodenburg, Newham and Linklater. (Added: 11-Dec-2009 Hits: 159 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Institute for Social Ecology - Established in 1974 and incorporated in 1981, the ISE is an independent institution of higher education dedicated to the study of social ecology, an interdisciplinary field drawing on philosophy, political and social theory, anthropology, history, economics, the natural sciences, and feminism. ISE's campus is located in Plainfield, Vermont. (Added: 27-Apr-2003 Hits: 550 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Integrated Movement Studies - A faculty team of internationally recognized movement educators that offer Certificate Programs in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies, Introductory and Advanced Workshops, and a variety of customized professional services. Their work together over the past 30 years has contributed greatly to the evolution of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis material and helped to establish it as one of the most comprehensive systems of movement description and understanding available today. (Added: 2-Dec-2004 Hits: 505 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- International Federation for Theatre Research - Exists to promote collaboration and the exchange of information between individuals and organisations concerned with theatre research. To this end the Federation supports conferences and publications and assists its members in all such activities and projects. (Added: 10-Apr-2003 Hits: 763 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- International Order of the Sword and the Pen - The IOSP is a world-wide organization dedicated to the international exchange of information on "staged combat" for theatre, film and television. Based on the principle that staged combat is an art form unto itself, the IOSP combines the study of both historical and present-day socio-cultural influences with theory and specific techniques in order to better inform and explore all aspects of violence in performance. (Added: 4-Feb-2004 Hits: 526 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- International University - IUGTE is the non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 2000 by the group of experts in the field of social science, culture and art. IUGTE was established with the purpose of exploring the bridge between world theatre traditions and contemporary performing arts, developing international programmes, promoting multicultural dialogue, supporting the freedom of creative expression and tolerance through the acquaintance with the diversity of world traditions. (Added: 27-Feb-2007 Hits: 313 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- International University Theatre Association - Established at Université de Liège (Belgium) in 1994 to develop and promote recognized post-secondary activity in theatre training, creation, research and theoretical and practical research, throughout the world, at the level of university or higher studies. The IUTA is present in every continent and has members in over fifty countries. (Added: 10-Apr-2003 Hits: 602 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- International Workshop Festival - The IWF presents an annual Autumn Festival of workshops, talks, presentations and demonstrations for professional perrforming artists. Workshops are led by practitioners and teachers renowned in their particular field both internationally and nationally and come from a variety of performing arts disciplines and backgrounds. IWF also presents a series of community workshops, talks and presentations specifically aimed at the residents of Southwark and Lambeth, in the UK. (Added: 29-Dec-2004 Hits: 489 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- InterPlay: Interactive Theatre for Dialogue - InterPlay uses interactive and applied theatre exercises, dialogue activities, and performance to stimulate dialogue about challenging issues. Dialogue workshops for youth and adults, "Train the Trainer," and programs for businesses available. The website includes an archive of theatre and dialogue games. (Added: 22-Mar-2005 Hits: 886 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Intuitive Learning Systems - A non profit organization devoted to furthering the philosophy and teachings of Viola Spolin throughout the United States and the world. They do this through specialized workshops, public perfomances, and distribution of Viola Spolin’s written and recorded works. (Added: 23-Jun-2003 Hits: 622 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Jill Turner - 'Empathic Improvisation' is a systematic use of empathy - responses to feelings and reasons for feeling, to develop meaningful story and character. (Added: 15-Oct-2006 Hits: 454 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies - Movement is the essence of life and movement in all its forms is what LIMS studies and teachs. The Certificate Program is a unique and wonderful experience, allowing you an in-depth study of Rudolf Laban's incisive thinking about movement and Irmgard Bartenieff's revolutionary applications of his theories to the body. Your learning will be not only academic, but also experiential, for LIMS believes that doing is fundamental to understanding and integrating. (Added: 31-Jul-2003 Hits: 573 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Learn It Live - Theatre-based corporate training company founded in 1992 by Tina Smagala, specializing in the design and delivery of high-impact learning workshops and special events. Learn it Live offers two innovative approaches: Theater-Based Training (TBT) workshops and Entertainment Learning™ presentations for special events, like sales conferences and business meetings. (Added: 14-May-2004 Hits: 685 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Life Theatre Services - The Emmy Award winning Life Theatre Services team creates unique, customized interactive education and training solutions for the real world. Engaging dramatizations on topics like work and health issues to customer service and corporate ethics. We serve a variety of clients including non-profits, corporations, education, and the hospitality industry. (Added: 20-Jun-2006 Hits: 416 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 2) Rate It
- MA in Applied Drama - University of Exeter (UK) - designed for people who wish to further their understanding of the uses of drama and theatre, in education and in other community contexts. The course contains a balance of doing and reflecting to allow participants to advance their own practice and theory. (Added: 3-Apr-2003 Hits: 726 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Management Leadership Training - Custom designs a management development training course for large multi-national organisations as well as the small business based around their exact requirements. Founded by leading trainer and executive coach Sean McPheat. (Added: 10-Aug-2004 Hits: 595 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- MondoChallenge - UK-based charity sending volunteers to various third world countries in Africa, Asia and South America. Some of the volunteers use theatre as a method of teaching. MondoChallenge has seen the benefits to many children when they are able to either learn through performance or have fun whilst participating in a short play in the aftermath of a tragedy such as the Asian Tsunami of 2004/05. (Added: 22-Mar-2005 Hits: 464 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Omega Institute for Holistic Studies - Through workshops and retreats, Omega has been a pioneer in exploring, teaching, and embracing new ideas since 1977. Holistic health, psychological inquiry, world music and art, meditation, and new forms of spiritual practice are at the core of what Omega stands for. (Added: 27-Apr-2003 Hits: 629 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Organizational Theatre - Organisational theatre is the dramatic analysis of a business project, its description by a theatre text, its representation by a play and its follow-up. If we take this process as the product and not only the representation, we find ourselves equipped with a very sensitive management tool perfectly apt to analyse, develop, accompany and implement business projects. This changes the perceptions of the organisation. (Added: 16-Mar-2004 Hits: 722 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Pact Training - Evolved from a group purely focused on criminal justice matters to addresses many human dynamics issues, including diversity, harassment, leadership styles, and team-building. They have not lost touch with their roots, and are still one of the principal trainers for the NYPD's Emergency Services. (Added: 31-Mar-2003 Hits: 640 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- ParaTheatrical ReSearch - The ParaTheatrical ReSearch website documents the ongoing development of a paratheatre medium created by Antero Alli that combines techniques of theatre, dance, song and Zazen meditation to access, express and embody the internal landscape in private ritual labs, live performance, videos and public lectures. (Added: 25-Jul-2008 Hits: 212 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Performance of a Lifetime - Created by Fred Newman, every Performance of a Lifetime program focuses on learning and practicing the skills of improvisational performance, and applying them to the many challenges of the business world and workplace. (Added: 18-May-2003 Hits: 641 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 2) Rate It
- Performing the World - An international community of people who recognize performance as a powerful developmental activity for social-cultural transformation, coming together at the end of 2000 when plans were finalized for an annual multi-disciplinary conference. Open to performers, educators, artists, scholars, therapists, health and helping professionals, business professionals, youth workers, activists, community organizers, this is a community for sharing, creating and collaborating. (Added: 22-Jul-2003 Hits: 703 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Psychodrama Training Institute - The Psychodrama Training Institute of New York City offers a professional training program in psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy for mental health professionals. (Added: 13-Mar-2003 Hits: 1633 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Puppetools - A community of educators and professionals focused on applying play in communication. (Added: 14-Aug-2007 Hits: 261 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Rational Madness - UK-based award-winning organisational theatre company that produces plays for organisational settings. (Added: 13-Aug-2007 Hits: 275 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Roving Classical Commedia University* (Totally Unaccredited) - Teaching collaboratively, Hovey Burgess and Stanley Allan Sherman together with guest performing artists results in the rediscovery of classical Commedia dell'Arte for the student and gives them a firm grounding. (Added: 30-Jul-2006 Hits: 358 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Sales Negotiation Training - Innercents specialised in executive coaching, leadership training and corporate coaching. The company also offers leadership management training and sales negotiation training. (Added: 19-Jun-2008 Hits: 221 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- SPACE Media Arts - Provides affordable open-access training, editing and digital imaging facilities in London for artists, local people and community groups. Space Media Arts also co-produces innovative and high-impact events developing social awareness of media technologies in the local community such as Bow Wireless and the Wireless and Mobile Technologies Workshops. (Added: 23-Jan-2005 Hits: 456 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- SPAZIO 14 - Teatrincorso Spazio 14, theatre company and training centre in Trento, Italy. (Added: 15-Apr-2005 Hits: 448 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- speakingwithoutfear(TM) - Eliminate your fear of public speaking permanently in four or less one-hour phone sessions. (Added: 30-Dec-2003 Hits: 534 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Spiral Workshops - La Rioja, Spain - Theatre workshops for teachers and theatre professionals in La Rioja, Northern Spain. Workshops in acting, directing, devising, design and music led by highly experienced theatre professionals. All course taught in English and available as intensive sessions or in packages combined with cultural activities. (Added: 14-Nov-2003 Hits: 535 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
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