Facilitation CV
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RICHARD KAY Facilitation CV |
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Freelance drama workshops for various schools as well as work through the following companies/organisations:
Creative Partnerships - Priory Woods and Beverley Special Schools, Middlesbrough Using drama to help understand and express emotions among students with little language and communication skills. Helping a group of mixed age students with special needs to understand and express emotions (in line with Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) through the use of drama and dance. For this project I collaborated with a b-boy specialist and we devised a new story in which the students explored the expressing of emotion through mime, improvisation, dance and limited language. This project also incorporated staff training and the creation of a resource pack.
Creative Partnerships - St. Mary’s Primary, Selby Exploring the positive impact that drama can have on children that are underachieving or from vulnerable groups with the intention of increasing attainment and self-belief.
Creative Partnerships - McMillan Children's Centre Hull In this project I was working with children aged 3-4 and their parents, both in the nursery setting and off-site in a woodland area. The project focused on exploring natural surroundings and nurturing imaginative play through, or inspired by, storytelling. As a performer I encouraged interactive telling and sharing of stories, both established and improvised. This project had a great emphasis on evaluation, both written and visual (in the form of photographs and video which I edited) and it is hoped that the combined evaluation will create a support pack/research tool for the future.
Creative Partnerships - St. Georges CofE Primary, Middleton St. George Examining the telling of stories in a range of environments based on the principles of multi-modality. One class worked towards a performance of Roald Dahl’s Red Riding Hood, incorporating music from Sondheim’s Into the Woods which I arranged for various instruments. Another class looked at the filming of a TV scene; they scripted, filmed and edited their own scene, identifying areas of the school as shoot locations. A third class explored the themes from their set book (Kensuke’s Kingdom) and devised an outdoor promenade performance of short scenes depicting those themes
Stagecoach Teaching drama to a further stages group and co-directing a production of "Success", a National Theatre New Connections play, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Teaching singing to early stages.
Stagecentre Delivering "Play for a Day" workshops in various primary schools as well as co-writing and directing a pantomime in a week at Barmby Moor Primary.
Bigfoot Delivering themed out-of-school drama club at Appleton Roebuck Primary and a term of creative PPA cover at Holy Trinity Primary, Ripon.
Crossroads Devising and delivering workshops offering an "insight into professional theatre" for children with special needs and young carers across the country.
York Theatre Royal Term of workshops for 16-25 year olds; culminating in a devised performance based on A Christmas Carol.
Providing cover for other practitioners and co-delivering schools workshops based on current productions.
Other Employers:
The University of Birmingham Working as Studio Manager, including teaching the first and second year Stage Management options.
City of York Council Supply LSA work at Applefields and Hob Moor special schools
S.N.A.P.P.Y. Group Leader of playschemes and Youth Project Leader, including writing and directing a pantomime for staff and young people.
For more information or to discuss availability please contact me at richard@richardkay.net
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