Nicolas Shannon Savard

Category: Teaching

  • The key to teaching thesis writing: you’ve gotta have SASS!

    The key to teaching thesis writing: you’ve gotta have SASS!

    I’ve been teaching writing to high school and university students for over a decade. One of the parts of essay writing, or any form of argumentative writing, really, that I’ve always found most challenging to teach: the thesis. Perhaps, it goes back to the frustration I had as a student, where sometimes I would be…

  • Sound Design Fieldtrip

    Justin, James, and I took a field trip to the Lake Erie Nature Preserve to record some raw audio for the sound cues in the show.

  • Beyond “The Surgery”: A Trans Storytelling and Creative Workshop

    On November 5, I had the chance to lead a creative workshop as part of the 2022 Trans in the CLE Symposium, hosted by the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland. THE WORKSHOP The main purpose of this storytelling workshop was to provide an opportunity for trans and nonbinary participants to connect with one another through…

  • Pedagogy in Process

    Pedagogy in Process

    a trans-queer artist educator’s musings and reflections as they navigate the classroom, the rehearsal room, and the academy

  • Navigating my queerness in the youth performance workshop space

    Nicolas Shannon Savard April 23, 2019 Over the past two years, Be the Street has been a place where I’ve navigated across a wide spectrum of how “public” I am about my queer identity. Although in my first year as a facilitator I was “out” at the University, I was hesitant to make my transness…

  • A Place for Us: Private and public expressions of self

    Nicolas Shannon Savard April 23, 2019 Who is the Be the Street program for? Who are the workshops for? Who is the final performance for? Is Be the Street a public or a private space? These are the questions that are lingering with me as I reflect on the differences between the content of the…

  • What is Be the Street?

    What is Be the Street?

    Nicolas Shannon Savard, April 23, 2019 Be the Street is a community-based performance project based in the Hilltop neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The program was piloted in 2016 through an Ohio State University Arts and Humanities Discovery Themes Grant and was led by a team of faculty researchers including Ana Puga (Theatre/Spanish and Portuguese), Harmony…

  • A Look into Performance Workshops at the Hilltop Library

    Nicolas Shannon Savard March 1, 2019 **All participants have been given pseudonyms in the following workshop description. We had a relatively large group including some returners as well as some new faces. As usual, we began the session with our check-in “Bam, Pow!” Martin took the lead in explaining how the check-in worked to the…

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