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

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

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

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

Congratulations! You're now reading the first words I, Connor Shields, college graduate has written. The former college student known as Connor Shields has vanished and won't ever be seen again (I don't think it's a lie this time but check back in a few years lol). If I thought last year was a roller coaster, this year puts that to shame. Student teaching is not for the weak but I truly can say that it was an absolute blast and I wish I had more time with my students, CT, and