Creative, hands on professional learning for educators, teaching artists, corporate professionals and school leaders.
Our Professional Development workshops lead participants through interactive, experiences that use theatre tools such as improvisation, collaboration, design thinking, and embodied learning to strengthen leadership skills, classroom culture, and instructional practice. Led by Playhouse professionals, these workshops move beyond theory and focus on active skills that can be applied immediately in classrooms, rehearsal spaces, and organizations.
To book a professional development workshop, or for more information contact us at education@cincyplay.com.
An experiential, high energy leadership workshop rooted in improvisation and collaboration.
Participants explore leadership through movement, improvisation, and real time problem solving. This workshop emphasizes presence, adaptability, and trust, helping participants build confidence and guide groups through uncertainty with clarity and creativity.
Participants learn to foster openness and innovation through “Yes, And” leadership, read and respond to group dynamics in the moment and strengthen communication through active listening and presence. The workshop develops trust building, shared ownership and mutual support within teams.
Artist centered strategies for cultivating safe, focused, and inspired learning environments.
Designed for arts educators, this workshop reframes classroom management as creative leadership. Participants explore how to balance structure and freedom while supporting student expression, collaboration, and shared responsibility in classrooms, studios, and rehearsal spaces.
Creative, student centered solutions for building sets and props on a budget.
This hands-on workshop focuses on turning budget limitations into opportunities for creativity. Educators learn how to use low cost and recycled materials while engaging students as collaborators in the design and building process.
Participants explore how to create visually impactful designs using inexpensive materials and break large concepts into student-friendly projects. They will learn to balance durability, safety, and aesthetics while building student ownership and pride through collaboration and adapting designs to different spaces and resources.
Align artistic processes with academic standards to deepen learning.
This practical workshop helps educators activate the arts to support core classroom content. Participants explore how movement, drama, visual design, and other artistic processes can clarify, extend, and enrich existing curriculum while increasing student engagement.
Participants learn to identify connections between arts practices and academic standards, design arts integrated lessons that support curriculum goals, engage diverse learners with multiple points of access and assess learning outcomes in arts integrated instruction.
