Maddie Grissom
The Rose Theater
2019 - Current
Teaching Artist Fellow | Teaching Artist
Duties: Teaching, Acting, Directing, Accessibility Committee
Teaching
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Every Single Child (ESC) Programing
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Partnership with Omaha Public Schools (OPS) that every student grades kindergarten through 5th grade gets one experience with The Rose throughout the year.​
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K - 50 minute Creative Movement residency in the classroom
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1 - come see a show at The Rose
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2 - 2 day Readers Theater residency
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3 - Full Day workshop at The Rose, learning about Technical Design and Acting
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4 - Metro Tour show in their "classroom"
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5 - 3 day American Revolution residency
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Trained on a lesson plan and replicate to multiple classrooms throughout the year.
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Redesigning every residency to be done virtually due to Covid restrictions.
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Redesigning the American Revolution and Creative Movement residencies to reflect BIPOC voices and experiences.​
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Pre-K Curriculum Enrichment​
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Pre-Ks who sign up for the Enrichment program get to see 2 shows, one Tour and on at The Rose, and receive a pre- and post-show workshop relating to the show.​
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Planning and teaching the workshops to 2 schools with 7 sections of pre-schoolers overall.
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School Year Classes
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Co-teacher for different age ranges. (pre-k through high school)
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Role Drama, Acting, Creative Drama
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Lesson planning, lead teaching units, and co-teaching the classes.
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Summer Camps
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Due to Covid restrictions, the Summer 2020 Classes went digital!
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Lead teacher on all of my classes, assistant teaching were the college summer interns.
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Planned the week long, themed summer camps, production camps, and script work camps.
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Directed a 3 week production of Wind in the Willows with 5 actors.
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Created a final sharing video each week for the classes to have. Videos ranged from 10 - 45 minutes.
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Theater Club
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After School programming for Middle School students​
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Hour long theatre lessons, twice a week.
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Arts at Home Videos
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Weekly 10-20 minute videos created at the beginning of quarantine.​
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Themed around Character Development
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Lesson planned, recorded, edited
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Check them out here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zospPluvGkU&list=PLIEdMWLL3Y72rKZpcqkyVTR3jzLFUxG9p
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Acting
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Bucket of Blessings - Monkey
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As part of the FirstStage Series geared towards audience members 2+​ and for young people who may need a wiggle-friendly performance.
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- Land of Peas - Puppeteer, Queen of Peas, Sis​
- Metro Tour for pre-schoolers. Learning about Nutrition, eating healthy, and trying new things.​
- Mysterious Case Files of Silver Cash Money Detective - Nancy​​
- Pre-Recorded, digital production for 4th graders. Learning about Saving, Budgeting, and Money wise decisions​
- How to Build an Ark - Frog, Naked Mole Rat
- World Premiere, playwright Ellen Struve ​
- See more about my acting under the "acting" tab.
Directing
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Shrek The Musical Jr.
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Inclusive, ASL interpreted​
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Started in person, switched to digital production 2 weeks before opening.
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Due to legal reasons with MTI, we had to devise a Shrek "Between the Scenes" show for the students to act in.
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Watch the final product here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrM1U_X4AYA&feature=youtu.be
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Wind in the Willows
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Digital, 3 week production camp​
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Rehearsed and recorded on Zoom
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Students designed costumes, backdrops, and props
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Helped edit the production and adding sound cues
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Digital, Inclusive, ASL interpreted​
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Rehearsed and Recorded through Zoom
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Lead design projects for costumes, props, puppets, backdrops, and makeup.
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Edited the final product.
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Watch the Final Product here! https://www.youtube.com/embed/uUiWSgIUBcc
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Accessibility Committee
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Grant Writing
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Working Inter-Departmentally to continue to make The Rose inclusive and accessible.
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Adding a Tech Cart and Video Tour for students with mobility difficulties to access the same information their abled-bodied peers get to see on Tours.
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Sensory-Friendly Performances
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Providing Sensory Kits​
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Supervising a Sensory Friendly Q&A session after the show
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Providing "warnings" during the show with a glow stick in the front row
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Social Stories
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Creating and writing Social Stories for each show​
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Filming and editing a general Social Story for Covid-Aware shows
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Captioned Performances
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Utilizing Keynote to project a PowerPoint presentation to audience members wanting closed-captioning.​
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Examples of Work
Scene Work for Young Actors Lesson Plan
Toy Story Syllabus