ARTIST REPRESENTATION

Drama.Focus Arts Consulting Group represents several highly-experienced, expert professional Associate Artists. Our Associate Artists are teachers, administrators, freelance and recently retired. They are experts in their field: knowledgeable about student needs, the school system and the power of drama and dance. All have much to offer students, teachers and others, through creative workshops, resources and residencies. See if our artists match your needs through imaginative programming and sharing.

We can provide you with workshops on topics including

Script and play development, from conception to production
Specific drama/dance topics, such as role-play, tableau, dance skills, improvisation, and many more
Theatre production topics, such as low-cost lighting, spectacular sound
Program development, review and implementation: drama, dance, television/media
Assessment and evaluation theories and methods
Special programs, such as "The Phoenix Experience", "The Doors Project", and others
Ministry Priorities, such as Literacy, Learning to Eighteen (Student Success), Anti-violence and Safe Schools
Cross-curricular applications, including Social Studies/History and Language Arts/English

DAVID ARMOUR

Teacher, Director, Workshop Leader
Collaborator (with Warren Robinson) on numerous award-winning play scripts, adapted from classic texts
Drama teacher for over 25 years.
Sears Drama Festival District Coordinator
Co-founder, Gairbraid Theatre Company, Goderich, ON
Concerned with theatre as a social institution

JANE DELUZIO

Educator, consultant, administrator, writer
Dance, Drama and English educator; currently vice-principal
Project Leader: Grades 9, 10 & 11 Dance Course Profiles
Master of Arts (Drama); Dance Specialist, Drama Specialist; certified in Junior, Intermediate and Senior divisions
Awards: Outstanding Achievement (TDSB Anti-Racism policy); Human Rights Award; Award of Merit (Metro Toronto Police Services)
Numerous pre-service and in-service workshops: York University, OISE/UT, Reading for the Love of It, Ontario Library Association, Toronto District School Board, National Drama, CODE.
Teacher-trainer: literacy through drama and dance, Tallinn, Estonia 2002 – 2004
Writer/consultant: "Side by Side" literacy texts (Gage) and teacher's guide

PETER MANSELL

Educator, consultant, storyteller
Workshop leader across Ontario on using drama in the classroom
Instructor, AQ drama courses, summer session, Stratford
Writer of various articles in Ontario & British Columbia drama teachers' magazines
Past-Chair, Waterloo DSB Drama teachers Association
Workshops for the Anglican Diocese of Huron on the uses of drama and storytelling
Diocesan storyteller and guest preacher at various Anglican events
Drama textbook writer (pending)

PETER MOORE

Educator, writer, consultant
Numerous provincial and regional conferences, including CODE (Council of Ontario Drama & Dance Educators) and CACS (Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies)
Writer, ADA 2O Course Profile writing team
Brock University (part time), Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, 2006 - present
Co-author, "A Handbook for Program Planning in Dramatic Arts"
Workshop topics include multiple intelligences, evaluation, drama and history, social issues, games, self-esteem, decision-making, violence and substance abuse
OTF Summer Institute facilitator and MET subject-specific workshop writer/leader
Recipient of two Drug Awareness awards for presentations to the community on substance abuse

STEVE RUSSELL

Educator, media artist, consultant
Consultant for implementation of Television Arts programs
Project Leader, ADA 4M Course Profile
Writing team member, ADA 2O Course Profile
Former Drama coordinator for a major Ontario school board
Awards: 1997 Award of Excellence (TVO/Ontario Teachers' Federation) for creative use of innovative teaching methods in the classroom; 1996 "Best Youth Program" (Ontario Cable TV Producer's Association)
Workshop leader: topics include improvisation, Commedia Dell'Arte, blacklight theatre and many others

JIM SCHAEFER

Director, Playwright, Producer, Actor in Canadian theatres
Director, Dramaturge, Team Leader: five Distillery Arts Outreach projects for children in at risk communities with teams of multi-disciplinary artists in Toronto, ON., 2004 – present.
Artistic Advisor to the Canadian delegation at IDEA 2001 (Bergen, Norway)
Drama Facilitator, Canada Summer Games, London, On., 2001
Leader of 42 educational theatre projects and workshops in Austria, Germany, Britain, Antigua, India, Cuba, United States, Newfoundland, Manitoba, Ontario, Yukon, and New Zealand
Director of 15 plays at Fanshawe College Theatre Production Program, St. Thomas, ON, 1997- present.
25 Ontario Arts Council "Creative Artists in the Schools" projects
Producer, founder, director, playwright
Lecturer, Drama program, Dept. of English, University of Western Ontario for 9 years