Professional Learning Series

For Educators

Theatre Teacher Professional Learning: Intimacy Direction, Costuming with Body Positivity, and Stage Combat

 
Thursday, October 16th, 8:30 am-2:00 pm at La Jolla Playhouse
Cost: $75

Calling all middle and high school theatre teachers! Please join us for an invigorating and hands-on professional learning experience around three topics which allow you to guide your students into safe, supported, and healthy creative practices. We will provide lunch to all participants. Please wear clothing comfortable for movement and plenty of water to drink.

Intimacy Direction for School Theatre Programs with Kandace Crystal
This hands-on workshop equips middle and high school theatre teachers with foundational tools in intimacy direction to help create safe, sustainable, and consent-forward rehearsal environments. Learn best practices for staging moments of closeness, setting boundaries, and fostering student trust—essential skills for today’s classroom and stage.

Costuming Basics for All Bodies with Jennifer Ables, La Jolla Playhouse Costume Supervisor
This inclusive workshop offers theatre teachers practical tools for costuming students of all body types and abilities with care and confidence. Explore foundational design strategies, body-positive language, and supportive practices that honor students’ comfort, identity, and self-expression on stage.

Stage Combat Safety for Student Performers with Jordan Miller
Learn the essentials of safe, age-appropriate stage combat for the classroom! This workshop equips theatre teachers with best practices for choreographing and rehearsing combat scenes, emphasizing safety, consent, and storytelling to ensure a supportive environment for all students.

*Please note this workshop is not a la carte and your registration covers all three workshops

Registration opens on Wednesday, July 23. Questions? Email: [email protected]
 


 

About the Instructors

Kandace Crystal (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate theatre maker with a BFA in Acting from Florida State University and a Teaching Artist at Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, Inc. Select intimacy credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Old Globe), Ripped (Loud Fridge Theatre Group), The Addams Family (San Diego Junior Theatre). She hopes to continue advocating for safe spaces and reducing harm in our industry. Feel free to keep up with her journey on social media, @KandaceCrystal on all platforms.

Jordan Miller is a local actor, director, fight choreographer and teacher, co-founding and being President of Theater For Young Professionals, a private acting school and youth theatre in La Mesa, CA (www.typsandiego.org). Since moving to San Diego in 2009, he has appeared in numerous productions at Cygnet Theater, The Old Globe and is a Company Member and Resident Fight Director with Lamb’s Players Theater. Outside of San Diego, he worked as an actor and stunt performer on several feature films in Los Angeles, spent a year in the medieval jousting show The Tournament of Kings at Excalibur Casino in Las Vegas and travelled internationally as a Principle Singer with Holland America Line.

Jennifer Ables is the Costume Supervisor at La Jolla Playhouse, where she has been leading the costume department since 2018. Prior to joining the staff at LJP she spent 10 years as the Costume Director at Dallas Theater Center. In addition to managing costume teams, Jennifer has worked as a costume designer, cutter/draper, painter/dyer, and wig and makeup artist at various theaters nationwide and holds a MFA in costume design from Florida State University.

La Jolla Playhouse Tech Theatre Summer Intensive for Theatre Educators

La Jolla Playhouse Tech Theatre Summer Intensive for Theatre Educators

Registration for the Summer Tech Theatre Intensive is now closed. Please plan to join us in Summer 2026. To be notified when the program is open for enrollment, please sign up here.

You have multiple options to choose from:

Option A: $239

So, You Need to Put on a Show: One-Day Workshop
Monday, July 21, 2025. 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

  • This workshop is for the brand new theatre teacher, the accidental theatre teacher or director, or an experienced teacher who needs some new ideas.
  • Are you feeling lost or overwhelmed when you think of all the steps needed to put on a production for your program? We are here to help!
  • Join us as we help unpack the basics of planning, producing and creating a production. Bring your show ideas and let’s talk!

 

Option B: $239

New Theatre Teacher 101: One-Day Workshop
Tuesday, July 22, 2025. 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

  • Are you starting a program from scratch? Are you replacing a teacher? Are you needing some fresh ideas?
  • This workshop will focus some of the secrets and shortcuts in creating a new program or ways to successfully transition from another teacher to you.
  • Topics include advocacy, transition, creating leadership potential with students and creating a new program reality for your students.
  • We will also focus on units of study for your classes that are new teacher friendly and tried and true activities. Curriculum will be standards-based. Assessment techniques and tools are addressed.

 

Option C: $599

Three Day Technical Theatre Intensive
Wednesday – Friday, July 23 – 25, 2025

  • Hands on experiences in Theatre safety, set design and construction, props, costumes, projections, and technical theatre curriculum.
  • Demonstrations and conversations with La Jolla Playhouse professionals.
  • Guidance on lesson planning and curriculum development.
  • Behind the scenes at La Jolla Playhouse and rehearsal processes.
  • Intensive begins at 9:00 am on the 23rd and concludes at 5:00 pm on the 25th. Detailed schedule will be sent closer to the start date.

 

Option D: $899

All Five Days of Program: All included above.
(You may also choose Options A, B, or C in any combination)


 
Locations:
Programming will take place at La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037. Housing is not provided for this intensive, but there are plenty of hotels and Airbnbs in the area. Lunch will be provided daily for participants.

It is our preference that you purchase your options with a credit card through the website, but if you need to purchase your spot with a purchase order, please do the following:
Email: [email protected] with the following information:
Your name, your email, your phone number, your school, your address, which option(s) you would like to attend. For invoice: Name of person receiving invoice, email, address, school district, phone number.
Please note: All purchase orders must be filled no later than July 1, 2025.


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