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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · 16h

Routledge pushed back our preorder date BUT this will still be shipped by my birthday!

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The Theatre Artist's Guide to Consent-Based Pedagogy: Supporting Young Students in Performance and Production

The Theatre Artist’s Guide to Consent-Based Pedagogy introduces a Consent-Based Pedagogy designed to fuel young students’ cognitive, emotional, and artistic growth by promoting students’ agency and cr...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Sep 5

Every good thing this society half-assedly started due to COVID should've been not just continued but constantly improved upon; but too many of y'all have The Fear, & those programs remind you of the thing that scared you.

So instead you burn down your house 'cause your basement made spooky shadows

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's kind of amazing that we showed we could cut child poverty in half for roughly 100 billion/year (absolute peanuts in a 7 trillion dollar budget), did it for a year, and then just stopped doing it.

Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · Sep 4

The food security report is out, and it's bad news: 13.5% of households were food insecure in 2023, up from 12.8% in 2022. This is what happens when you abruptly end "pandemic" supports that should have been there all along.
www.ers.usda.gov/publications...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

A tweet from Morgan J. Freeman states:
“FACT: Venezuela is NOT a major producer of cocaine.
They do not have large cocaine factories.
They do not produce fentanyl either.
What Venezuela does have is the world’s largest oil reserves.”

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · 3d

I am ceaselessly dismayed by the frequency & fervency of MAGA canvassing in SoCal.

Like, I politely said “no thanks,” please don’t scream at me about voter IDs. No sir, I’m not a traitor; I’m just tryna get bulk TP at Sam’s & avoid your foolishness.

Kids selling camp fire candy are more mature.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 3d

The answer to corruption is publicly financed campaigns.

This should be the biggest takeaway from NY’s mayoral race.

Thanks to public financing, corrupt oligarchs are about to lose the mayoral race.

Our piece for @thenation.com based on our new book MASTER PLAN — pass it on: LeverNews.com/book

The Nation story on publicly financed campaigns

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · 5d

You guys I never realized how stupidly giddy I look while leading workshops.

I guess enjoy my job a little.

A short nonbinary femme with curly hair wearing jeans, a black tshirt that reads “theatrical intimacy education” and glasses stands in the midst of a circle of students, smiling gleefully while explaining something.

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A Catbus on Elm Street @hayao.lol · 8d

none of these mfs will ever move anywhere because the "tax" is so minimal THEY DO NOT EVEN NOTICE IT

Dave Lee @davelee.me · 8d

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · 9d

CSUF's Theatre Education Program is crowdfunding for future cohorts of theatre educators! If you have a few dollars to spare and would prefer to send them towards high quality arts education rather than to an evil corporation...

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Future Theatre Teachers

Help Cal State Fullerton raise $4,160 for the project: Future Theatre Teachers. Your gift will make a difference!

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · 9d

CSUF's Theatre Education Program is crowdfunding for future cohorts of theatre educators! If you have a few dollars to spare and would prefer to send them towards high quality arts education rather than to an evil corporation...

fullerton.scalefunder.com/cfund/projec...

Future Theatre Teachers

Help Cal State Fullerton raise $4,160 for the project: Future Theatre Teachers. Your gift will make a difference!

fullerton.scalefunder.com

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NoxyMeArt @noxyme.bsky.social · Feb 17

Couldn’t say it better myself.

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · 21d

The man said WE TOOK THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AWAY.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · 21d

Masked, armed men in street shoes. Not military, not police. Unbeholden to the constitution or oversight.

Secret Police pepper spraying a pastor. This is the USA.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 22d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · 23d

Theatre education fuels critical thinking & emotional intelligence, but we so infrequently fuel theatre education in return… your two-dollar donation unleashes future theatre teachers to empower young artists!
fullerton.scalefunder.com/cfund/projec...

#theatresky #teachersky #theatre #edusky

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 24d

UVA Faculty Senate with a clear statement of values: facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-o...

Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" | Faculty Senate, U.Va.

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · 23d

Theatre education fuels critical thinking & emotional intelligence, but we so infrequently fuel theatre education in return… your two-dollar donation unleashes future theatre teachers to empower young artists!
fullerton.scalefunder.com/cfund/projec...

#theatresky #teachersky #theatre #edusky

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · 27d

CSUF’s first cohort of student teachers in the Theatre Education Credential program could use your help! Fuel equitable theatre education by donating via CSUF’s October Crowdfunding program… even two dollars helps!
#theatre #education #teachersky #edusky

fullerton.scalefunder.com/cfund/projec...

Future Theatre Teachers

Help Cal State Fullerton raise $4,160 for the project: Future Theatre Teachers. Your gift will make a difference!

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Scribe Playwriting Competition @scribeplays.bsky.social · Aug 7

Greetings, playwrights! We're accepting play submissions for the 2026 Scribe Playwriting Competition. Submit your one-act and full length plays at: scribeplaywriting.weebly.com

#playwriting #playwright #playwrights #theater #dramaturgy #theatre #writingcommunity #writing #theatersky #theatresky

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tru @thetrudz.photo · Aug 8

I don’t trust anyone—least of all technologists—who try to convince ppl that the worst part of being an artist is the process of learning how to make art and making it…versus…let’s see, wage theft, labor exploitation, plagiarism, online harassment & being fed into the machine by billionaires.

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · Aug 8

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · Jul 30

If #ATHE2025 were in person I’d tell you with a smile, but it’s not so here’s a …skeet…

CONGRATS on starting a new series with Routledge! I’m super excited to see what you and Will put out!

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · Jul 30

Marissa Barnathan responds, inviting us to consider: the impact of director's emotions (delight) on staging; process & personal experience in production; support & resources directors don't know we need; the integration of Michael Rohd's work in directing; audience resistance to engagement & risk.

AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · Jul 30

Alex Mallory examines the possibility of creating utopic community within the scope of a performance event through voluntary artist/audience exchange that is mutually vulnerable and mutually giving. She demonstrates practice-based ontological examination of the possibilities. #TheatreSky #ATHE2025

A slide from Alex Mallory's presentation, citing Jill Dolan's *Performance in Utopia*. The quote reads "Utopian performatives are moments of performance in which utopia is 'done' in the intensity of exchange between performers and spectators and among the audience." a second quote reads "it describes the process of feeling together over obvious differences, inspired by an intensely present moment of theatre." The slide also features an image of a black actress seated on milk crates onstage, surrounded by an ensemble of performers in contemporary costuming who appear to be supporting her.

A series of vibrant images that feature an audience-engaged performances. Each image features a white femme actor in black short s and a white shirt, in front of a handmade primary-colored bright backdrop with photos on it, directly addressing seated audience members. In each image, she holds a white-and-black composition notebook. Above the images, text reads "Invitation: let the audience change the art"

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · Jul 30

Roblyer argues for a "career ecosystem" with a training model that distributes tools and knowledge and expertise, rather than functioning through mystique and concepts of inexplicable brilliance. He offers a new tool for teaching directing: deconstructingdirecting.com #ATHE2025 #TheatreSky

Deconstructing Directing | Enhance Your Directing Skills Today

Explore the *FREE* Deconstructing Directing library for professional theatre directing resources, training, and insights tailored for community and educational theatre directors.

deconstructingdirecting.com

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · Jul 30

Andrew Roblyer challenges traditional considerations of theatre & the "upstream / downstream" perception of regional, Bway, community, & educational theatre in the US. He highlights the sheer number of directing jobs "upstream" before offering a new model directing training. #ATHE2025 #TheatreSky

Roblyer presents, arguing for considering "upstream" source of future directors as those working in community and educational theatre that will eventually possibly flow "downstream" to regional and broadway. In the image, Roblyer, a white person wearing a forest green shirt and glasses with an undercut, is in the foreground. In the background, an image of a forest stream with arrows indicating the downstream/upstream ideas described above.

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