What teachers are saying.

“[Working with the AAE] was WONDERFUL.  Aside from it just being an entertaining and refreshing experience for the remote classroom monotony, it gave us all a lot of guidance about how to read our parts, and a reference point to use when figuring out how a certain scene should be performed.”

— Stephanie Ketcher, English Teacher

“[I loved] the enthusiasm for theatre generated by the teaching artists. The students caught the fever… Thank you for bringing some light to an otherwise dark year - we need more of this!”

— John Smith, English Teacher

“You showed us that the show can still go on, even on zoom. My students were engaged and are now excited to try to continue creating theatre online.”

- Rehea Gomez, Theater Teacher

What students are saying.

AAE’s Virtual Workshops

“[I was surprised by] how much I would want to participate. I am someone who hates to participate unless I get a grade and doing these workshops brought out the extrovert in me and I was loving it.”

“I'm a shy and nervous person, but Kea and Peter made me feel comfortable and I was surprised to be actually look forward to the zoom calls”

“I like how we learned all these creative acting skills. I especially like how we learned how to take boring home backgrounds, and make them spooky using our creativity to best fit the setting and mood of Macbeth.”

“They always had such fun activities and somehow made me smile.”

“[The workshops] were all very creative and it was not just worksheets about the play we actually got to be in the play even though we aren't together.”

“I didn't think we would be able to do stuff that was so much like real theater.”

AAE’s Virtual Performances

“The performance surprised me the most. I didn't really understand how it was going to work out at first but then when AAE performed it was just really good.”

“People need to see more things like this and be inspired.”

“It's really interesting to learn about the different aspects of acting and to see how people are still performing theater during this time.”

“I enjoyed the diversity of the characters not only in ethnicity but also in sexuality because that is not usually represented in plays. The acting was very well done and the entire thing was very enjoyable.”

“I told a couple of friends about it while watching it. I thought I wouldn’t enjoy it, but the plot and the acting was amazing.”

“What surprised me was how well the result of the Macbeth zoom performance came out. I definitely had lower expectations and they blew it out of the park.”