Initiatives

The Jonathan Levy Child Drama Symposium: Ethics and the Representation of Childhood in Performance, Pedagogy and Popular Culture

1. Naomi Aldort: Transforming parent-child relationships from reaction and struggle to Freedom, Power and Joy.
2. Morgan Blue: Powerful Silence: The Work of the Child Victim in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
3. Elaine Carol: MISCELLANEOUS Productions:  Representations of Culturally Diverse, At-risk and Experiential Youth using Interdisciplinary Performance in Inner-City and Suburban Vancouver, Canada
4. Ken Cerniglia: Using Popular Culture to Help Children Represent Themselves:
5. Dan Cook: The Ingratiating Child: Conundrums and Questions in the Commercial Depiction of Childhood (Images: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3)
6. Drew Chappell: Julie's Summer Album: Representation of Childhood in/and the Internet (a play and a paper) (Script)
7. Sharon Chappell: Can't We All Just Get Along? Teaching Young People about Sameness and Difference through Children's Literature
8. Lorenzo Garcia: Title TBA
9. Oona Kersey: Who's (Whose) Indian? Performing Race and Heritage in The Ramona Outdoor Play
10. Kristin Leahey: "The Child Respondent Method: A Play Development Praxis for Theatre for Young Audiences"
11. Laura McCammon: Title TBA
12. Ruth Mercado-Zizzo: City Spotlights Curriculum
13. Meredith Ott: Child-Actor Ethics: The Use of Children in Complicated Play
14. Pamela Sterling: Middle School Madness
15. Mary Stokrocki: Creativity as Misrecognition: Examples of Collaborative Teaching Performance