Packed full of games, Activities and exercises, this book is designed to be a Drama teacher\'s best friend.
But after a devastating set back due to a serious illness, made the difficult decision to leave her teaching career to fulfil a dream of opening her own theatre school and becoming a writer..
Alongside her teaching commitments she examined for GCSE and A-Level practical exams travelling around the country.
In 1996 she took up a Drama and English teaching post at a school in South Yorkshire where she stayed for nineteen years heading up a successful performing arts department.
In the early nineties Joanne studied Performing Arts in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire gaining a BA Hons, and went on to study for a PGCE in Drama and English at Bretton Hall college.
She started writing when she was a teenager, and continued to do so through to adulthood, although it took nearly two decades before she allowed anyone to read anything she\'d written.
About author(s): Joanne Watkinson is a forty-six-year-old writer from Yorkshire.
As well as featuring Drama games to use in the classroom, this book contains thorough instructions, valuable advice and useful Activities to use in the teaching of improvisation and devising for small and large groups and working with script.
Written by a Drama teacher with over twenty years\' experience which includes heading up a performing arts faculty in a secondary school, GCSE and A-Level examining and presiding as the principal of a successful theatre school, as well as being a published playwright and having her work featured in the 2019 LAMDA Acting Anthology.
Packed full of games, Activities and exercises, this book is designed to be a Drama teacher\'s best friend
