Building empathy through theater with Jessie Wild

This is a  fascinating conversation. Jessie Wild guides her young drama students into building empathy through enacting powerful real-life stories. Have a listen, you won't regret it.

Jessie Wild is a mum, drama teacher, apprentice storyteller and lifelong enthusiast of learning (everything and anything). She became obsessed with both Shakespeare and Greek myth and tragedy at around 12 years old. The logical path seemed to be acting but having trained, first at uni then at drama school, she realised what she was most passionate about was the exploration period of rehearsals- the learning and growing. She toured extensively doing Shakespeare in UK schools and realised how powerful education in the arts truly is - hence her step into teaching. She is now a secondary school drama teacher of ages 11-18.
You can find her here on instagram.

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