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Beyond the Blueprint: Conceptual Set Design with/for Neurodivergent Minds TBABekah LaCoste Building a Thriving Theater Program from the Ground Up TBAEmily Garven Creating Theatre across Generations: Undergraduates and Older Adults with Dementia TBANorah Swiney Creating Theatre Curriculum that Opens Dialogue and Facilitates Change TBAThomas Kazmierczak • Jenna Messina Encouraging Dialogue through Interview-based Theatre and Storytelling Projects TBAJulia Reimer Making Connections Through Story Drama TBAMichelle Gram Giesen New Guard Panel: Competitive Educational Theater: Helpful or Harmful? TBASam Briggs New Guard Panel: Feelings Forecast: Social and Emotional Learning In-Practice for the K-8 Drama Classroom TBASam Briggs New Guard Panel: The 2025 Courageous Cadence: Performing Justice Through Spoken Word Poetry TBASam Briggs New Guard Panel: The Pandemic, Precarity, and a Pedagogy of Hope: Learning from Public High School Theatre Teachers’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic TBASam Briggs Playwriting Workshop: Adapting Classic Literature to Script for Theater TBAMarie Kohler So You Wannabe a Scholar: How to turn your conference presentation into a journal article TBAJonathan P Jones Stages of Freedom: Jewish Narratives in American Theatre TBAAlevia R-Plyam Using Drama as a way of Processing Grief TBALexi Bresnan

AATE 2025 National Conference

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