Sentences with phrase «drama teacher who»

Two former lovers reunite for a play by the drama teacher who first brought them together.

Except the movie seems like a poor pre-World War I story by Dan Stevens» old drama teacher who he had taken pity on — which is exactly what it is.

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It is teacher - intenstive for parents who are stretched for time, and it is specialist - intensive from the school model with separate teachers for so many of the subjects that make up what homeschoolers see as the beauty of Waldorf education — foreign languages, games and eurythmy, handwork, orchestra and voice and band, drama.

A parent will not be able to provide a reference; if the student has done paid or voluntary work, or has studied for qualifications such as music or drama exams, there may be a teacher or employer who can provide an academic or character reference.

One of my friends and fellow teachers, who had decided not to join my new endeavor, wrote me an email about how she was sick of the drama and how she was looking forward to moving on in our friendship.

Viggo Mortensen finds himself similarly trapped in a purgatorial state in Far From Men, David Oelhoffen's beautiful, melancholy drama about a French teacher named Daru (Mortensen) who runs a remote school amid the mountains in 1954 Algeria.

Davis, meanwhile, plays Nona, one of the school's few remaining conscientious members of staff, a ground - down teacher who still wants to take pride in her role as an educator, which in the reductive world of this movie makes her the teaching drama equivalent of the «Good German» in an old - school war movie.

The show follows members of a high school drama troupe as they prepare to put on the controversial musical Spring Awakening, under the tutelage of an inexperienced yet passionate teacher (Josh Radnor) who's basically stolen the department out from under its longtime chair (Rosie Perez).

Now Hulu is hoping to tease the drama out of that national doubt with «11.22.63,» a nine - part time - travel epic executive produced by «Star Wars» director J.J. Abrams and starring James Franco as Jake Epping, a writing teacher who goes back to the early 1960s to stop Oswald and change the course of history.

NBC's new drama «Rise» stars Rosie Perez as a high school teacher who struggles with being pushed aside when another teacher, played by Josh Radnor, makes a play for her job as head of the theater department.

NBC adapts the true story of a Pennsylvania teacher who transformed a high school drama program and its participants» lives in the new program Rise, which premières March 13.

But there are thrilling passages of presentation, of Bressonian presence, that need no backstory, or back - acting — I'm thinking of John Leguizamo as one of the more troubled teachers, Emily Tremaine as an argumentative and possibly horny student who can't understand why Stanley keeps his wife in the room typing up what's being said, and Dennis Haysbert as a lush - haired Ossie Davis in scenes with William Shatner (played with unlikely restraint by Kellan Lutz) taping a TV drama from 1976 based on the Milgram case.

At the recent press day, cast members Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Keiynan Lonsdale, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. and Natasha Rothwell (who plays the kids» drama teacher), along with director Greg Berlanti, talked about making this thoroughly entertaining and important movie.

Writer / director Lynn Shelton and co-writer Jay Duplass craft an intriguing, moving drama about the emotional bond between a man just released on parole after 20 years and his former teacher who worked tirelessly for his release.

Language: English Genre: Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Damien Chazelle Actors: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist Plot: A stern teacher helps mold a struggling young drummer who is working to become a top jazz drummer.

Late Bloomers (Unrated) Relationship drama about a retired teacher (Isabella Rossellini) who pressures her architect husband (William Hurt) to make concessions to age as they both turn 60.

Ellie opened up to reporters about what it was like having Jon Hamm (who guest starred on the Netflix series) as her high school drama teacher.

Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes review director Drake Doremus» drama about a middle - aged music teacher (Guy Pearce) who falls for a student (Felicity Jones)

Coogan is Dana Marschz, a failed actor with uncertain rollerblading skills and daddy issues who has found refuge as a drama teacher in a Tuscon Arizona high school.

The Country Teacher (Unrated) Romance drama revolving around a homosexual schoolteacher (Pavel Liska) who takes a new position in a rural region of the Czech Republic where he befriends a recently - abandoned housewife (Zuzana Bydzovska) in order to put the moves on her handsome, 17 year - old son (Ladislav Sedivy).

So my new year's wish is that for X, actors substitute Greta Gerwig, who made sure, in Lady Bird, that even characters as peripheral to the action as Stephen McKinley Henderson's mournful high school drama teacher felt like full human beings who could have wandered in from, or off to, their own movies.

With the school production in full swing, the drama teacher Carl Kapinas (Lane) goes into meltdown; Jason enjoys his new found attention a little too much, and things go from bad to worse for poor Linda, who in truth brought this whole saga upon herself.

What Goes Up (R for teen sexuality, profanity and drug use) Slice - of - life drama, set in 1986, about a reporter (Steve Coogan) sent from New York to New Hampshire to write a story about the hometown of ill - fated, teacher - turned - astronaut Christa McAuliffe who finds himself unexpectedly in charge of a classroom of dysfunctional students, including a shameless flirt (Hilary Duff), a repressed Peeping Tom (Josh Peck) and a scheming baby mama - to - be (Olivia Thirlby).

Steven Jackson - Winter, a drama teacher and longtime Spacey associate who headed the foundation's U.K. operations, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Whiplash, meanwhile, is an intense psychological drama starring JK Simmons (who won the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe for his performance) as a music teacher and Myles Teller as the ambitious young drummer he pushes to the brink.

MILLER»S GIRL by Jade Bartlett The story of a young precocious writer who becomes involved with her high school creative writing teacher in a dark coming - of - age drama that explores the often blurred lines of connectivity between professor and protege, child and adult.

Alan Arkin, who plays a drama teacher, has a funny speech about pauses in delivering dialogue.

Set largely in a drama school, featuring Kerry Fox as a diva - like teacher who tries to shape her student's raw talent, The Rehearsal, adapted from the novel by Eleanor Catton, demystifies actors and acting in order to reveal the moments where craft becomes art.

Around the Block (Unrated) Aussie drama, set in Sydney, about an aborigine kid (Hunter Page - Lochard) from a broken home who develops a love of acting with the help of his American drama teacher (Christina Ricci).

Miss Stevens, the directorial debut of Julia Hart (she had previously written the script for The Keeping Room), is a small but likable film about a teacher (Lily Rabe) who takes three of her students on a weekend road trip to a state drama competition.

The Inception star will make her directorial debut with this story about a teacher who chaperones a group of drama students.

Writer - director Sara Colangelo premiered her feature debut «Little Accidents» at Sundance back in 2014, and now she returns to the festival with her adaptation of Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid's drama, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a restless Staten Island teacher who takes special interest a five - year - old student's poetry.

The show starred Josh Radnor, continuing his trend of dramatic work, as a high school teacher who attempts to revitalize his down - trodden town by bringing a spark of life to the school's drama department.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

Phoebe in Wonderland (PG - 13 for mature themes and brief profanity) Elle Fanning stars in this modern fairy tale about a young girl with Tourette's Syndrome who finds a constructive way to channel her destructive, obsessive - compulsive urges with the help of a drama teacher (Patricia Clarkson) who casts her in a school production as Alice in Wonderland.

Australian Chris Lilley's eight - episode television series about high school high jinks features the comic actor (and writer and coproducer) in three roles: a snotty, sullen slab of disruptive id; an insufferably snobbish girl who's transferred from a private school; and the vain, flamboyant drama teacher.

Back for 2017 All these music events ran alongside the new Musical Theatre and Drama Education Show, which proved a great addition to the Music Education Expo, not only in providing many opportunities for cross ‑ curricular sessions in the event programme, but also for networking, both between the performing arts teachers who attended, and also with the many cultural education businesses and institutions on the trade floor.

At lunchtime there will be a «fireside chat» with playwright Mark Wheeller, who wrote «Too Much Punch For Judy», among other plays — a work which is extremely familiar to drama teachers all over the UK.

DRAMA IN ACTION was originally written for teachers of English who had little or no experience (and sometimes no inclination) to teach DDRAMA IN ACTION was originally written for teachers of English who had little or no experience (and sometimes no inclination) to teach DramaDrama.

Teacher recently spoke to Assistant Professor Katie Dawson, Director of Drama for Schools at the University of Texas at Austin, who successfully established the program in the United States and is now overseeing the pilot program in Australian schools.

To complement the production, The Company of Ten are releasing a teachers» resource pack and a series of behind - the - scenes videos on the creative process to assist students of Drama and Theatre Studies, who are asked to demonstrate an understanding of design, technical and performance elements as part of their course.

In my view it is enormously valuable to have a teacher within the school itself to coordinate rehearsals and events, liaise with other staff, follow up on children who have missed lessons (finding out if there is an underlying financial or family problem of some sort), meet with parents at the regular parents» evenings, arrange for permission slips for an event, work with the drama specialist / enthusiast on plans for a musical.

Plus, science and maths people who are interested in those areas potentially have very different opportunities in the workforce outside teaching to, say, teachers of physical education or drama.

Kali Palmer Eagle Ridge Academy Charter High School Teacher, Grades 9 - 12 «Ms. Palmer is our Drama / Theater teacher who goes above and beyond by providing opportunities for students to learn every aspect of the performinTeacher, Grades 9 - 12 «Ms. Palmer is our Drama / Theater teacher who goes above and beyond by providing opportunities for students to learn every aspect of the performinteacher who goes above and beyond by providing opportunities for students to learn every aspect of the performing arts.

Ellie Herman is a writer and English teacher, who taught Drama, Advanced Drama, Creative Writing, English 11 and 9th grade composition at Animo Pat Brown Charter High School in south Los Angeles.

Absent from observable factors are contributions teachers of highly specialized subjects make outside the classroom setting such as teachers of music, drama, dance, or physical education who interact frequently with various publics outside of the traditional school schedule.

For Miami - Dade teachers who do not teach FCAT subjects — such as P.E., chemistry or drama — their entire school's FCAT reading scores will be factored into their reviews for the 2011 - 12 school year.

They speak of teachers who had high expectations; fostered accomplishment; offered encouraging feedback; and generated surprise, even drama, in the classroom.

Who Should Attend: Wake County elementary classroom, music, dance, drama and visual art teachers in four - person teams with any level of arts experience.

LaPres, the drama teacher at Chalmette High, who is an alumna of Teach for America, said she philosophically supports the idea of holding teachers accountable.