AATE 2025 National Conference

The field of theatre education is growing in rich soil, thanks to the expanding influence of voices traditionally marginalized or silenced. Scholar/practitioners such as David Valdez (Beyond “Decolonizing the Syllabus”) and Sherrell D. Luckett et. al. (Training theatre students of colour in the United States), among others, are adept at transforming personal experiences into reflections that illuminate links between theory and practice, links that make us think. AATE’s Youth Theatre Journal and a new book comprised of chapters written solely by K - 12 classroom theatre educators and teaching artists (tentatively titled The Teachers of Color Writers’ Collective and co-edited Jo Beth Gonzalez and Martin Rodriguez) seek more new voices. This writing workshop engages representatives of the global majority who want support and guidance in crafting narratives into writing that profiles aspects of theatre education from their unique, and too often excluded, vantage points. This session is devoted to generating ideas for the Teachers of Color Writers’ Collective book chapter topics and YTJ submissions, and building connections between new writing partners. Examples of writing partnerships (among other possibilities) include pairings such as: a classroom practitioner with scholar, an experienced practitioner/scholar with a classroom practitioner, two classroom practitioners with a scholar/advisor.