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

Today has marked the end of another semester at the Walnut Street Theatre School. This time I got to work with a wonderful instructor, Manny River! We taught two classes: 101: Kids Acting for Ages 5-7 and 102A: Kids Musical Theatre for Ages 5-7. For the acting class, we performed a story based on characters created by the students. For the musical theatre class, we did a song and dance combo to Hakuna Matata from "The Lion King" and Under the Sea from "The Little Mermaid." It

This past weekend we closed the school-wide musical, Mary Poppins! This was my second time doing the show and I had an absolute blast getting to be on the production team. This was my third time assistant directing a show but the first time doing a musical and I'm so glad it was this show. I'll admit, when I first found out it was Mary Poppins I wasn't too excited (I remember back in high school thinking the show was too long) but this time around it flew by! I was also a mem