to thine own self be true
John graduated from Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh with a BA(Hons) Drama and Theatre Arts degree. He specialised in community theatre and directed projects with LGBT Youth and The Scottish Refugee Council whilst training. He worked on the creative team for Music Theatre Scotland along with Sam Hutchings and Gary Swan and later directed their opening production of ’3hree – a new musical’. He later gained his PGCE in Secondary Education. He became sole Drama teacher at Maxwelltown High School in Dumfries. Whilst in Dumfries he also worked as the community theatre facilitator at the Theatre Royal, directing and running workshops for the children’s and youth theatre. He is now sole Drama teacher at Knox Academy in Haddington, East Lothian.
April 21st, 2009 at 7:15 am
Hi John! I am from Australia, actually from Port Macquarie NSW Australia. I am the sole drama teacher at Port Macqaurie High School I teach Year 8,9,10,11,12 drama. I love drama and teaching so both together rocks! I just found your blog page by accident and read heaps of stuff. I love your energy! Most of the staff at my school is shall we say um … not! I must wave my flag in a big way to get things heard and to show what amazing students we have. I just directed romeo + juliet aussie style and flair, we went down to the Adelaide Fringe Festival in South Australia – second only to Edinburgh Fringe – it was amazing … Love to keep in touch and share ideas, resources etc … My name is Hamish Keddie – yes, my father is scottish born in Galashiels in the Borders!! I would love to teach drama in Scotland – one of my goals!! Anyway hope you reply. My email is hfckeddie@gmail.com Cheers!!! Oh, by the way I am doing a paper on how relevant verbatim theatre is to high school drama – any help/ideas – the Laramie Project sounded just awesome – would have loved to see it!!!