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Schools are Fun and I Missed Them!
The past few weeks I've been working in two new educational programs at the Walnut: Adopt-A-School and Residency. Adopt-A-School is partnership with K-8 Philadelphia public schools where curriculum is designed to meet the Arts Education needs of the host school, teaching students about subjects such as Improv and Dance. Residency is a program where each school gets a different program depening on what their needs are! Residencies can be consisting of subjects like Improv, cre
Connor Shields
Oct 23, 2025


Bears and Presidents Means It's Outreach Season!!!
The past two weeks have consisted of me getting to be a stage manager on two of Walnut's Touring Outreach Productions: "Bears Tonite!" and "Grace for President." Bears Tonite! is about the Bear Family Band working together to overcome their fears and prepare to perform on the Flip Durango New Years Eve Extravaganza Show! Grace for President is about a fifth grader, Grace Campbell, running for the president of the fifth grade class and is based on the children's book "Grace fo
Connor Shields
Sep 20, 2025


Winter in Summer: I Love Frozen
This past weekend consisted of the final performances for Camp Walnut 2025 and I had the absolute pleasure to work with a dream team on an absolute dream show - Frozen! I got to be the assistant director to Lindsay Marcus as our fearless leader and the campers were fantastic! I have wanted to be in Frozen ever since the movie came out twelve years ago so this past summer was like a dream come true. Getting to choreograph songs like "Love is an Open Door," "In Summer," and "Fi
Connor Shields
Aug 4, 2025


The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Theatre Edition
Today marks the end of my first week as the Education Apprentice at the Walnut Street Theatre! I started the week with off running a one week camp for students aged 5-7. I had a wonderful Assistant Teaching Artist in Juliet Barton. We had the students perform "Maybe" from Annie and "Bare Necessities" from The Jungle Book in addition to demonstrating different characters created by the students, showing off different theatre terminologies, and play a few theatre games. I've be
Connor Shields
Jun 27, 2025


Guess Who's Back? It's Me! (Because I Never Left)
I graduated four weeks ago on Wednesday, May 14th. Graduating meant I'd be done with Rowan and done with student teaching at GCIT. It was a very happy and bittersweet day. However, on Thursday, May 15th I got to start a new job - being the long-term substitute teacher for the classes I student taught! That means I essentially took three days off and then came back, only this time I'm without my wonderful CT. It's been a crazy and chaotic month: I moved out of Glassboro, commu
Connor Shields
Jun 20, 2025
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