Professional Development Workshop

Creative drama helps students develop creative thinking skills, empathy, teamwork and a positive self image. Our Professional Development Workshop helps educators learn creative drama activities that are easy to implement in the classroom and will help their students cultivate important life skills in a fun & engaging way.

Our professional development workshop is highly customizable to meet your school or district’s needs. Contact us to learn more.

Meet Your Instructor

Ms. Dodge is a children’s theatre director, producer and teaching artist. For over 20 years, she has worked with public and private schools, community centers, youth theaters, summer camp programs and park districts to create quality theatre education programs for students of all ages.

Brenda is also a professional actress who has worked in theatre, commercials and television throughout the Midwest and Southern California.

Brenda has a degree in Theatre, with a minor in mass communication, from Illinois State University. She resides in Franklin, WI with her husband and two children.


Resource Material: Character Kids the Book

From Founder & CEO Brenda Dodge comes a dynamic book of children’s theater games that focuses on building social and emotional skills for elementary aged students.

This no-prep resource will help classroom teachers, Teaching Artists, camp counselors, play therapists and more bring creative drama activities to their students in a fun, fast and effective way.

“Using this resource is what students will remember about your classroom - the empowerment, the confidence, the self-awareness, and most importantly, the joy of being part of a strong community.”

- Lindsay C. Elementary Educator