Meet Professor John Newman

Dr. John Newman

   Contact information

     Email: john.newman@uvu.edu

     Office phone: 801.863.5079

    Office location:  NC 767 B

    Office hours: By Appointment

   Virtual Office (Teams): By Appointment

    Welcome Statement

Welcome to THEA 2100 Teaching Theatre for Children. The majority of the students in the class are Elementary Education majors but we also have BA Theatre Students majors and BS Theatre Education majors enroll. This online asynchronous course is designed to be as interactive as possible. The shell course has been created in collaboration with Teresa Love, who teaches and directs children's theatre and drama at both UVU and BYU, and Haley Anderson, who teaches arts education courses in the School of Education. We hope this course will prepare you to use theatre and drama as teaching tools in your future elementary classroom and to teach the Utah Core Standards in theatre in the elementary grades.

   Education and Experience

COURSE INSTRUCTOR, DR. JOHN NEWMAN: I am a Professor in the Department of Theatrical Arts at Utah Valley University, Coordinator of the BS Theatre Education program, and Director of UVU's Theatre for Youth and Education (TYE) Center. I have been teaching at UVU for the past twelve years, and previously taught and directed theatre for eighteen years at Highland High School in Salt Lake City. I earned my BFA in Teaching Theatre and M Ed in Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Utah, my MA in Theatre Teaching at the University of Texas, and my PhD in Educational Theatre at New York University. I direct main season and school touring productions for young audiences at UVU. I am also a published playwright and the author of Playwriting in Schools: Dramatic Navigation, which received the 2020 Distinguished Book Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.