Actor/teachers are available to travel to your school or organization and work with teachers and students. Packaging discounts are available for residencies and touring shows.
One-day Workshop - usually 4 or 5 forty-five minute sessions with different classes.

Residencies - vary in length from 4 - 15 weeks. Several classes, typically from the same grade level, will work with an actor/teacher to create a project that they themselves will perform.

Teachers' Workshops - help staff become more effective and creative in teaching drama and literature. Sessions range from 1-4, 90 minutes in length.
Subjects Available:
Shakespeare's Life and Times
Stage Combat & Fencing
Acting
Any of Shakespeare's 37 plays
Playwrighting
Will & Company artists offer both long and short term residencies on theatre. Workshops include Acting, Shakespeare’s life and times, Shakespeare’s plays, Swordplay and Playwriting. Many long term residencies tie theatre to a core subject like History, Language Arts or Science. Following is a list showing the variety of recent workshops:

RECENT RESIDENCIES


Huntington Library – 5 session residency for 4th graders entitled All the World’ s a Stage. Explored Shakespeare, studied the First Folio in the library’s collection, used theatre games and reading aloud (Shakespeare’s quotes and tongue twisters) to warm up the voice and body. Toured the Shakespeare garden and drew pictures of the flowers mentioned in Hamlet. Performed staged pictures of Hamlet.

Pearblossom Elementary – 15 session residency for 4th 5th and 6th grade tying theatre to subjects taught currently in each of the classrooms. Themes explored were conflict/resolution, the Birth of a Nation, Ancient Civilizations and Improvisation. William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar was the unifying subject. At the conclusion, students presented a series of staged pictures that told the story of Julius Caesar and added dialog from their improvisations to the tableaus.

Granada Elementary – 15 session residency for 6th and 7th grade ESL students. The residency had students choose a Historical character from their classroom studies. Each student created and performed a monologue based on research and imaginative exploration of their character.

Campbell Hall Elementary – 2 sessions with each age group K through 6th Grade exploring the characters and story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A similar residency program was taught in 2000 for a production of The Tempest.

Alpine Elementary – 15 session residency for 4th through 6th grade tying theatre and language arts. Students explored a conflict through writing exercises and improvisations. At the conclusion of the program, students presented self written, directed and acted scenes. Students, staff and parents then attended an evening performance of Romeo and Juliet.

Gibson Elementary – 15 session residency tying theatre to language arts for 4th through 6th grades. Students developed animal characters during the first half of the program, then gave a speech on a day in the life of their animal character. At the conclusion of the final 8 sessions, students presented tableaus of fairy tales that include animals as the main characters.

Marshall Fundamental – 10 classes on acting and swordplay to grades 6 - 12, two hour and a half teacher workshops, and three performances of each of the following plays were presented: The Three Musketeers, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Odyssey.