Interested in a BHCT School Residency? Call 605-394-2250 or email [email protected]
School Residencies
A FREE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAM
Thanks to support from the Sheldon Reese Foundation, BHCT is pleased to be able to offer, at no cost, workshops and short-term residencies to our local schools. The cross-curricular benefits of drama in the classroom are well-documented, and include improvement in critical thinking, collaboration, listening, communication, and emotional awareness. Our residencies are tailor-made to address the specific requests and needs of educators and their students. Teachers interested in inviting a BHCT teaching artist into their classroom should email [email protected] to start building a lesson plan custom made to fit their needs and goals. In addition to visiting classrooms, BHCT has also hosted classes and homeschool pods at the Performing Arts Center for on-site workshops.
SCHOOLS WE HAVE SERVED
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CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
CHILDREN’S HOUSE MONTESSORI EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL GENERAL BEADLE ELEMENTARY GRANDVIEW ELEMENTARY HERMOSA ELEMENTARY HORACE MANN ELEMENTARY MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY NEW UNDERWOOD HIGH SCHOOL PINEDALE ELEMENTATY CUSTER HIGH SCHOOL RAPID CITY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES |
RAPID CITY CHRISTIAN
ROBBINSDALE ELEMENTARY SOUTH CANYON ELEMENTARY SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL SOUTHWEST MIDDLE SCHOOL ST. ELIZABETH SETON ELEMENTARY ST. THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL ST. THOMAS MORE MIDDLE SCHOOL STEVENS HIGH SCHOOL WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL ELIZABETH SETON ELEMENTARY |
TEACHING ARTISTS
Dave DeChristopher is BHCT’s Education and Outreach Director. During his twenty-four years in New York City, he was a prolific artist-in-the schools, teaching with DreamYard, L.E.A.P., The Sewanee Writers Conference, Young Playwrights, and the Greenwood Theater Company. Before coming to Rapid City, Dave spent more than a decade in his native Toledo, Ohio, where he taught acting classes at the University of Toledo and led the International Baccalaureate in Theatre at Notre Dame Academy, also coaching its nationally ranked speech team.
Morgan Wilson is the Education and Outreach Assistant for BHCT and instructs the Musical Theatre course at Fusion Dance Studio. She has a bachelors degree in Musical Theatre, a minor in Music, and a certificate in Arts Administration. Morgan enjoys facilitating a creative environment, with a focus in collaboration, for students to grow through a variety of exercises to build on their skills in improvisation, devising, and the writing of theatrical scenes.
Merlyn Q. Sell is the Artistic Director for the Black Hills Community Theatre and has a Bachelors in Theatre and an M.F.A. in Shakespeare & Performance. Besides bringing the works of Shakespeare to life through performance, Merlyn specializes in workshops that emphasize reading comprehension, creative writing and problem solving, collaboration, and focus.
Heidi Dehn has a background in technical design and stage management. She has an exhaustive knowledge of the inner workings of a theatrical production and can walk students through the logistical requirements of theatre-making as well as the creative thinking required backstage.