Photo of Deen with youth participants at the BosTEEN Directing Workshop at the Mattapan Teen Center in Mattapan, MA.
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Company One BosTEEN Directing Workshop Worksheet
In July of 2014, I worked as a member of the Street Team for Company One (C1) in Boston. As a member of the Street Team, I proposed an event to C1 intended to turn the first Wednesday performance of a production, a historically low sales night for C1, into a night that welcomed youth artists and youth organizations from across Boston. From 2014 to 2016, I produced eight BosTEEN Artist events in Boston. Over time the programming became an independent event from our productions and a staple event for youth to learn about theatrical production and network. Below is a worksheet I developed for a BosTEEN Directing Workshop hosted in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of Boston's Mattapan Teen Center. 
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Hyde Square Task Force's syllabus for the Teatro en Acción course at Margarita Muniz Academy
In September of 2019, I was hired as teaching artist by Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF) in Jamaica Plain, MA. This was HSTF's first year hosting an in-school Teatro en Acción course at the Margarita Muniz Academy (MMA). As this was the founding year, I spent a majority of my time designing a curriculum with the support of HSTF for MMA. MMA was a Spanish bilingual pilot school that placed an emphasis on Latin American Studies and culture. There are three work samples below. 1. The syllabus below shows a portion of the three unit curriculum I created during my time as a teaching artist at HSTF.
2. Next, I've attached an Afro-Latinx aesthetic guide, students in the theatre classes at MMA co-developed so we could share a common language when discussing Afro-Latinx art, music, dance, and theatre. We created this list by observing and analyzing the work of Afro-latinx artist artistic disciplines.
3. Finally, I created worksheets like the one below once we made a switch to virtual learning as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. This worksheet asks students to analyze the script Water By The Spoonful using the Afro-Latinx aesthetics we created as a group.
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