Emily Ditkovski
Drama Techniques, Theatre Making
Locations
Dublin, Louth, Meath, Wicklow
In-person workshops?
Yes
Online workshops?
Yes
Contact details
Email
Website
Skills and workshops
Skills and workshop facilitated
Acting
Audition Preparation
Commedia dell’arte
Creative Writing
Ensemble Work
Introductory Drama
Improvisation
Mask Work
Script and Text Analysis
Shakespeare
Verbatim Theatre
Devising
Directing
Dramaturgy
Forum Theatre
Playwriting
Stage and Production Management
Workshops as Gaeilge?
No
Age range facilitated
12-15, 15-18, 18+
Artist biography
Emily is a theatre educator, arts researcher, and arts administrator with over twenty years’ experience using theatre as a tool to empower young people.
Emily holds a B.F.A. in Drama and an M.A. in Educational Theatre from New York University, and an M.A. in Arts Administration from Columbia University.
She began her teaching career using theatre for social change in the South Bronx, Washington Heights, and Sunset Park, New York through the Children’s Aid Society and The Young Women’s Leadership Institute with participants aged 12-19.
While in graduate school at NYU Emily focused her studies on social justice theatre, leading her to study abroad at Trinity College and to the Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed, Rio where she studied with Augusto Boal.
For twelve years Emily was the Director of the Williston Theatre at the Williston Northampton School in Massachusetts where she taught theatre to students ages 12-19 and led all aspects of the programme including hiring, budget oversight and curriculum development.
In 2023 Emily received her masters from Columbia University’s arts administration programme where she researched the power of educational theatre to catalyse social change.
Emily relocated to Dublin in August, 2023.
Emily holds a B.F.A. in Drama and an M.A. in Educational Theatre from New York University, and an M.A. in Arts Administration from Columbia University.
She began her teaching career using theatre for social change in the South Bronx, Washington Heights, and Sunset Park, New York through the Children’s Aid Society and The Young Women’s Leadership Institute with participants aged 12-19.
While in graduate school at NYU Emily focused her studies on social justice theatre, leading her to study abroad at Trinity College and to the Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed, Rio where she studied with Augusto Boal.
For twelve years Emily was the Director of the Williston Theatre at the Williston Northampton School in Massachusetts where she taught theatre to students ages 12-19 and led all aspects of the programme including hiring, budget oversight and curriculum development.
In 2023 Emily received her masters from Columbia University’s arts administration programme where she researched the power of educational theatre to catalyse social change.
Emily relocated to Dublin in August, 2023.
Education and qualification
EDUCATION:
MA Arts Administration Teachers College
Columbia University
MA Educational Theatre
New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Communication, and Human Development
BFA Drama with Honours
New York University
Tisch School of the Arts
ADDITIONAL TRAINING:
-Scuola Internazionale Dell’Attore Comico, Directed by Antonio Fava, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2019)
-Double Edge Theatre, Open Training, Ashfield, MA (2018)
-Improv 101, The Upright Citizen’s Brigade, New York NY (2015)
-Level I Training Lab, Tectonic Theatre Project (2013)
QUALIFICATIONS:
Director (participants ages 12-19)
Directed approximately 42 plays and musicals with young people that provided student actors, designers, and technicians with hands-on opportunities to practice their craft with a focus on the creative process, enlarging students’ world view, facilitating and encouraging ownership, trust, collaboration and peer-leadership.
Acting, Directing, and Playwriting Teacher (student participants ages 15-19)
Twenty years experience teaching acting, directing, and playwriting. Curriculum included methodologies of Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, Anne Bogart, the study of Shakespeare, American realism, Commedia dell’Arte, Wayang Kulit, and Kabuki, practices of Augusto Boal, Michael Rohd, and Tectonic Theatre Project.
Theatre Teacher (student participants ages 12-14)
Twenty years experience teaching and developing curriculum that uses theatre devising to address social-emotional development, forge interdisciplinary connections, and build theatre skills.
MA Arts Administration Teachers College
Columbia University
MA Educational Theatre
New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Communication, and Human Development
BFA Drama with Honours
New York University
Tisch School of the Arts
ADDITIONAL TRAINING:
-Scuola Internazionale Dell’Attore Comico, Directed by Antonio Fava, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2019)
-Double Edge Theatre, Open Training, Ashfield, MA (2018)
-Improv 101, The Upright Citizen’s Brigade, New York NY (2015)
-Level I Training Lab, Tectonic Theatre Project (2013)
QUALIFICATIONS:
Director (participants ages 12-19)
Directed approximately 42 plays and musicals with young people that provided student actors, designers, and technicians with hands-on opportunities to practice their craft with a focus on the creative process, enlarging students’ world view, facilitating and encouraging ownership, trust, collaboration and peer-leadership.
Acting, Directing, and Playwriting Teacher (student participants ages 15-19)
Twenty years experience teaching acting, directing, and playwriting. Curriculum included methodologies of Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, Anne Bogart, the study of Shakespeare, American realism, Commedia dell’Arte, Wayang Kulit, and Kabuki, practices of Augusto Boal, Michael Rohd, and Tectonic Theatre Project.
Theatre Teacher (student participants ages 12-14)
Twenty years experience teaching and developing curriculum that uses theatre devising to address social-emotional development, forge interdisciplinary connections, and build theatre skills.