TIGER`s - Plymouth State University

PERFORMANCES
I’ve Got Your Back! (K–4) (5–8) or (K–8)
Together, let’s stand up to bullying, raise
awareness, empower bystanders, and seek positive
solutions to make our schools places where all
children thrive.
“It’s always fascinating to me to see the power of theatre in
terms of delivering a message and what a strong impact it has
on kids’ and adults’ minds and actions. Thanks so much. We are
proud to be a TIGER school!”
Sara Pennock, School Counselor
Morristown Elementary School • Morrisville, VT
Let Your Star Shine! (K–6)
Encouraging young people to accept themselves
and others by promoting self-esteem.
“TIGER performances are an effective and very powerful way to
start the discussion in a school community about civility, empathy,
and the prices and consequences of bullying and meanness.
Students who experience TIGER take the lessons to heart.”
Dr. Malcolm Smith
Founder and Director, The Courage to Care Leadership Institute
NEW!
Powerful Hig
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Alex’s Story (8–12)
Helping upper middle school
and high school students deal with
choices, questions, and concerns
about drugs, tobacco, and alcohol.
Winner of the 2015 Communities for Alcoholand Drug-Free Youth Community Partner Award.
In an effort to meet the needs of
New England high schools, TIGER,
in collaboration with CADY, Inc.
(Communities for Alcohol- and Drugfree Youth) and the Partnership
for Drug Free NH, has created
a unique performance featuring
professional actress Teghan Kelly
and Alex Berry, a NH teen in
recovery from heroin addiction, one
of our nation’s worst drug problems, affecting thousands of
youth and adults throughout the country. After Teghan ‘tells’
Alex’s story, the ‘real’ Alex joins her onstage for a Q+A, creating
one of the most powerful performance experiences, based on
a true story, that schools have ever encountered.
Don’t miss ‘Alex’s Story’ this season! Limited bookings available.
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Helping children understand what it takes to make
and be a good friend.
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“The performance was wonderful! Students and staff talked
about how much they liked it all afternoon and even the next
morning! The TIGER performers do a wonderful job balancing
humor and sending an important message.”
Beyond Borders
Suzanne Pyszka, Principal
Maple Avenue Elementary • Goffstown, NH
“He’s more than an expert. Randy
Armstrong is a virtuoso of versatility.”
Randy Armstrong (K–12)
New Hampshire Magazine
Founder and Director,
The Courage to Care Leadership Institute;
Educational Director, TIGER
Dr. Smith is a primary author of New
Hampshire¹s effective anti-bullying law,
and one of the nation¹s leading experts
on bullying, incivility, and peer victimization among children.
Dr. Smith works to ensure that TIGER¹s messages and
content are based on solid research that gets results.
His companion program, Courage to Care(TM), is used in
hundreds of middle schools across the nation to stop
bullying by teaching empathy, compassion, and caring.
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Student Workshops
Post-performance interactive
student workshops offered in classrooms
following the performance to reinforce
concepts introduced in the production.
Teacher &
Parent Workshops
Professional development
workshops offering strategies for a more positive,
caring, and empathetic school climate available
for teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and
community members.
Through an engaging educational and
entertaining musical presentation
performed on a vast array of
instruments from around the world, acclaimed musician Randy
Armstrong addresses social issues exploring diversity, respect,
cooperation, eliminating prejudice, and peace making.
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Our NEWLY redesigned classroom materials carefully align
the Common Core State Standards with ASCA (American
School Counselor Association) National Standards. All of
TIGER’s engaging and relevant pre-performance and postperformance activities and lessons, as well as our online
resources, strongly emphasize:
• A wide range of Common Core English Language Arts
Standards that stress critical-thinking, problem-solving,
and analytical skills;
• The use of higher-order thinking questions to prompt
engaging discussions around real-world issues and scenarios,
stressing the importance of kindness and good choices;
Full Bio: RandyArmstrong.com
•Other twenty-first century learning skills, such as:
communication, collaboration, leadership, responsibility,
flexibility, adaptability, taking initiative and self-direction,
and social and cross-cultural skills.
Juried artist for the NH State Council on
the Arts — Arts in Education Program &
New England Foundation for the Arts Touring
Program (NEST).
For information on Graduate Programs in Integrated Arts,
contact Dr. Trish Lindberg at plindber@plymouth.edu
or call TIGER at (603) 535-2647
Assembly performances and hands-on
drumming workshops available.
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Real experiences of children
and young adults brought to life by
professional actors through music,
theatre, and dance.
Online
post-performance
materials will
support your
effort to reduce
bullying in YOUR
community!
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Performances
TIGER recognizes that ongoing support and communication with
our TIGER schools is an important piece of our program.Therefore,
in an effort to support our school and community partners, TIGER
e-mails online curriculum connections, tied to the Common Core
Standards, to all organizations booking TIGER, to be distributed to
teachers, support staff, administrators, and parents.
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Just Between Friends (K–6)
MALCOLM SMITH, PhD
Online Curriculum
Connections Tied to the
Common Core!
In collaboration with:
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TIGER’s
Four-Paw Approach
ONGOING SUPPORT!
Online
Curriculum Connections
TIGER is a proud recipient of a generous gift
from The Common Man Family of Restaurants
as well as support from the following:
• Chris Maki Foundation
• Church of the Holy Spirit, Plymouth, NH
•Kohl’s
• New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
• Norwin S. and Elizabeth N. Bean Foundation
• Plymouth General Dentistry
• Route 3 Storage
• Samuel P. Hunt Foundation
• Tom and Susan Stepp
•Target
ThankYou!
• TIGER Angels
• The Xilinx Corporation and Captain Samuel Douglass Academy, Brookline, NH.
Relevant and inspiring online curriculum
connections for administrators, educators, and
students tied to the Common Core Standards.
The Best in Educational Theatre
for Schools and Communities
Theatre Integrating Guidance,
Education, and Responsibility
Five Exciting Performances!
Seen by more than 400,000 children
across New England
For Elementary,
Middle, and High Schools
Created from the writings of
New Hampshire children and youth
Touring Since 2002
Performing regionally, nationally,
and internationally
plymouth.edu/TIGER
One performance (up to 300 children). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Two performances (same school or district, same day). . . . .
Three performances (same school or district, same day). .
One parent or one teacher workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
One parent and one teacher workshop
(same school or district, same day as performance). . . . . . . . . .
Student workshop* (1–5 workshops) price/workshop. . . . . . .
Student workshop* (6–12 workshops) price/workshop. . . . . .
$825
$1,550
$2,250
$ 425
Following
performances,
TIGER offers 30-minute
student workshops specific to
each performance, allowing students, teachers, and
school counselors to interact with actors to explore
topics further. Children let their inner “roar” out through
role-playing and “hot-seating” the actors they have just
seen perform in an engaging and enriching exchange.
In addition, after-school and evening workshops offer staterequired bullying training and professional development to
teachers and thought-provoking informational sessions
for parents.
$ 775 $ 75
$ 65
* Each student workshop can accommodate a maximum of 25 students.
• Payment is due two weeks prior to the performance date.
• Mileage will be charged for travel from Plymouth, NH to
performance location.
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The NH Public Television pilot, “TIGER Takes on Bullying” won the
2013 Emmy® Award for best produced “Children/Youth Program”
from the Boston/New England Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Artistic Director: Tour Manager:
Educational Director:
Workshop Director:
Musical Director:
Online Coordinator:
Assistant Tour Manager:
Assistant Musical Director:
Assistant Production Manager:
Educational Consultants:
Composers:
Contributing Writer:
Illustrator:
Program Consultants:
Trish Lindberg, PhD
Pam Irish
Malcolm Smith, PhD
Bethany Nelson, PhD
Tom Dowd
Timm Judas, MEd, CAGS
Richard Moses, MA
Hannah Judas
Cara Levanti
Nicole Habib, MEd
Dawn Bechtold, MEd
Randy Armstrong
Tom Dowd
Jeff Lines
William Ögmundson
Kenneth Roberts
Bridget Hoarty
Max Judas
Elizabeth Brochu, MEd
Gary Goodnough, PhD
Gail Mears, PsyD
Debra Naro, MEd Clarissa Uttley, PhD
TIGER Cast Members
Hannah Judas
Eric Schroeder
Michaela Goodell
James Gleich
Caralivia Levanti
David Weeks
Chelsea Merritt
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TIGER would like to thank the many young people
throughout the state of New Hampshire and beyond
who contributed writings for our performances.
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TO BOOK TIGER
OR LEARN MORE CONTACT:
Pam Irish, TIGER Tour Manager
Plymouth State University
17 High Street • MSC 38
Plymouth, NH 03264
Tel: (603) 535-2647
Fax: (603) 535-2879
tiger-psu@plymouth.edu
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“All of their faces
light up when I
mention TIGER.”
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TIGER has performed at the state level for
the New Hampshire Department of Education,
regionally for the New England Theatre Conference
(NETC), and nationally for the American Alliance
for Theatre and Education (AATE). Internationally,
TIGER has also performed for the National Drama
International Conference at Durham University
in Durham, England, the International Festival of
Children’s Theatre (ASSITEJ) in Cairo, Egypt, and
most recently, at the 2013 IDEA World Congress in
Paris, France.
(Special district-wide bookings and rates are available.)
— Sophie, student, Gilford Elementary, Gilford, NH
Based on the anonymous writings and stories of
New Hampshire school children and youth, TIGER
performances incorporate live actors, theatre,
dance, and music to engage school audiences from
K–12 in a 45-minute assembly-length production.
Following in the tradition of PSU’s award-winning
ETC (Educational Theatre Collaborative),
TIGER offers the very best in theatre for all
ages. A TIGER performance seeks to transform
thoughts, feelings, and behavior to help both
children and young adults envision and understand
their own power in resolving difficult issues.
In addition to performances, TIGER also offers
professional development (taught by Plymouth State
University faculty) for teachers and parents tied
to the Common Core, as well as engaging student
workshops in individual classrooms following
performances. Back by popular demand, TIGER will
continue to offer online curriculum support to all
schools booking TIGER at no additional charge.
WORKSHOPS
Booking Fees
15
TIGER (Theatre Integrating Guidance,
Education, and Responsibility) is a powerful
and exciting collaboration between the integrated
arts and counselor education graduate programs at
Plymouth State University. A professional educational
theatre company, TIGER helps children, young
adults, schools, parents, and communities deal
positively with bullying and other social issues and
concerns facing youth in schools today.
“ My heart always jumps when I hear
TIGER is coming to our school.”
TIGE
About TIGER
— Sara Pennock, School Counselor
Morrisville, VT
TIGER is produced in
collaboration with
Plymouth State University,
Plymouth, NH.
“We are fortunate to have TIGER available to our schools, and hope
that many of you are able to take advantage of the performances
and workshops TIGER has to offer our school communities.”
— Virginia M. Barry, PhD, NH Commissioner of Education