Keely KC - Actor/Director/Playwright/Teaching Artist

This Teacher Appreciation Week, we’re celebrating the theatre educators who turn classrooms, black boxes, cafeterias, auditoriums, and borrowed rehearsal spaces into places where students learn who they are and what they can become.

The research backs it up: theatre education helps students build empathy, identity, relationships, and a stronger understanding of their place in the world. But theatre teachers already know that. They see it every day.

Thank you, theatre educators!

How is federal funding used to support theatre in your school?

The Arts Education Alliance has partnered to collect data about the use of federal funds to support the arts in K-12 education. Your stories are a vital part of our collective advocacy at the federal level, so we encourage you to share how federal funds (or the lack thereof) have impacted your programs through the survey 👉 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GCXZHCN

We aim to gather district and/or state-level responses from all fifty states — please complete the survey or share it to help reach that goal!

Come join us for Musical Theatre camp!