Center for Creative Learning
Cy Brown
Shakespeare Kids
BA Theatre
Cy Brown is the lead instructor for Shakespeare Kids, a Los Angeles based Educational Shakespeare Production Company. Not just a theater camp, our classes are a lot of fun, highly interactive, help build confidence, spark the imagination and allow participants to find their inner-voice. Our teachers are also actors and directors currently active in the professional world...
Our teachers are also actors and directors currently active in the professional world, they not only coach, but nurture students to bring out their best. We offer classes, camps and workshops and work with ALL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE! We are ever evolving, exploring and creating new programs, ensuring that our productions and curriculum are always engaging, educational and entertaining.
find out more at http://shakespearekids.org
Cylan Brown has worked for several years with the Kingsmen Shakespeare Co.’s educational tour and taught with the Sage Ridge Academy in Nevada. Favorite professional Shakespeare roles include: Hamlet, Romeo, Julius Caesar, Mercutio, Edmund, Parolles, Philip (King John) and Dromio of Syracuse with The Rubicon, Shakespeare by the Sea, Los Angeles Actors Ensemble and South Bay Civic Light Opera. Cylan received his Bachelor’s degree in Theater from Northern Arizona University, with a minor in English Literature.
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Creative Writing Through Role Playing Games!
Ages 11+
Homework: YES! Homework is required in this class. Please do not sign up if you are unwilling to do the homework which will allow us to play our game each week!
Join us as we apply creative story writing, character exploration and story telling through the vehicle of fantasy building tabletop role-playing! Join our EPIC adventure where we work to cultivate our abilities to weave our ideas into engaging stories that everyone can participate in!
This session we will us the legendary fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, which was created in 1974, and has millions of players worldwide! However, in our class unlike the online version of the game, the story and characters will be limited in scope. Our emphasis will be on The Heroes Journey, where a hero will emerge from a journey of trials and tribulations and temptations, forcing our heroes to question themselves beofre ultimately becoming a better version of self. To do this, anti-heroes will also be present, ultimately helping our heroes re-define themselves.
To play a Role Playing Game (RPG) players step into the boots of mighty heroes (and sneaky antiheroes) to create their very own stories. Cy has created a class to help students learn to develop their characters more deeply, develop more complex story lines, and have an audience to try out their stories and conflicts! Each student will create their very own character which will then embark upon a made-up adventure. Cy will be serving as the game’s referee and storyteller. He will create new and more complex problems to resolve and will also help keep the content of the game appropriate. Students will work as a group and do a weekly character writing journal and take turns updating the weekly story summary journal. Players use their imaginations as they embark on an adventure story from Cy's mind. Through character building, improvisation, team work, basic math, problem solving and pure random luck players will role dice and create their very own fantasy story with one another. Students will be learning logic and problem solving; this will be a creative adventure for all!
Please note: In the Huck usage of this game, we will not be allowing dark content.
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