Students who earned a superior in a musical theatre category at the 2018 Michigan Thespian Festival are eligible to audition for a unique collaboration between META and MSVMA. Sixteen students (8 from META and 8 from MSVMA) will be selected by a panel of judges to perform in a 15 minute Les Miserables medley at the May...
The playwright workshop at Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy on October 21 was very rewarding for the fourteen students who attended. David MacGregor, a published playwright who is on staff at Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Theatre, gave students valuable information about writing, getting published, and even having their p...
META member Lori Hathaway was inducted into the Educational Theatre Associations Hall of Fame during the 2017 national conference. Established by the Association’s Board of Directors in 1990 to recognize those members who have made outstanding contributions to theatre education. Lori and fellow META board members, Anne...
The 2018 Playwright Academy Cohort met for the first time F2F at the 2017 Leadership Camp. Under the careful direction of the sage advisory, Mr. Applegate. This merry band of writers began a year long journey to workshop their plays. The next meeting is scheduled for October 21, 2017.
The adult and student leadership of META met for two days in Silver Lake, Michigan. Our camp theme was "An essential piece of the puzzle" stressing that we are all an integral part of our troupe, community and school. One hundred fifty seven attendees from across the state of Michigan planned ways to positively impact...
META sponsored its first trip to the Big Apple this June. Fifty one thespians attended Broadway shows, workshops with industry professionals and hit the sites of New York city. Future trips are planned.
