How Teachers Can Better Engage Their Students with Rose Burnett Bonczek and Mike Flanagan: Episode 153

Relate w/ Patrick McAndrew

In episode 153 of Relate, we speak with Rose Burnett Bonczek and Mike Flanagan, who both just co-authored the book All The Classroom's A Stage. We talk about the value of applying theater skills to the classroom as a means to engage deeper with students, how theater skills are human skills, why we must collaborate to build more meaningful relationships, and why teachers must prioritize self-care. For any of you teachers tuning in, this is the episode for you!

You can learn more about Rose and Mike by visiting https://www.roseburnettbonczek.com/ and @mflanny1124. You can purchase their book at your local bookstore.

Rose Burnett Bonczek is a theater director, consultant, educator and author who has directed over 100 productions including Off and Off-off Broadway, regional and community theater, international festivals, and in education. For the past 17 years, she has been festival director of Gi60 (Gone in 60 Seconds) International One Minute Theatre Festival: US. www.gi60.blogspot.com. Gi60 annually produces 100 original one minute plays, streams and films each event, with plays available for viewing on the Gi60 YouTube Channel. Because live events were cancelled in 2020, Gi60 produced Gi60 Theatre Festival on Film, currently available On Demand at the Obie Award winning theater The Tank NYC, on their Cybertank platform. Ms. Bonczek served as director of the BFA Acting Program at Brooklyn College for over 20 years, and in 2018 she received the Excellence in Teaching Theatre in Higher Education Award from the national Association for Theater in Higher Education. She has co-authored Turn That Thing Off! Collaboration and Technology in 21 st Century Actor Training with Roger Manix and David Storck, Ensemble Theatre Making: A Practical Guide with David Storck, and One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre with Steve Ansell, all for Routledge Press.

Michael Flanagan is a theatre director and Instructor of Drama at Houston Community College. He is Associate Producer of Gi60 Live US Edition, the international one-minute play festival where, over the years, he's directed over 100 short plays. Michael has taught theatre and directed for colleges and universities such as The College of Mount Saint Vincent, Brooklyn College, Iona College, and Fordham University. Michael has directed productions Off-Off Broadway, for community theaters and at theatre festivals, as well as adjudicating performing arts competitions. He was the founding Artistic Director for the Roosevelt Island Shakespeare Festival and assisted in the development of The City Island Theatre Shakespeare Festival. As Assistant Director of Student Success and Assistant Chair of General Education at The College of Westchester, he used applied theater concepts and techniques to develop the curriculum of freshman seminar and other core curriculum classes. He also applied improvisation and theatrical concepts to the Student Success Coach Program. He holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from Brooklyn College.

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