Possible Career Paths Career paths that people I

Possible Career Paths Career paths that people I idolise have taken.

Emily-May Roebuck Emily-May is the current head of Y-not, the learning disability drama class for young people. Emily-May specialises in Music and SEND students. She studied music at the Birmingham Conservatoire, doing an undergraduate. She then did lots of voluntary music work, in various community music settings, mental health, vulnerable adults, SEND and homeless mainly around Birmingham.

…Continued She was working for Birmingham Music Service as a teacher but went to part time so that she could do more SEND work. Emily-May and her friend created her own partnership working together delivering music to SEND schools and freelancing in community music, working on the pediatric units and dementia wards. She then did a post graduate certificate in music and SEND- which is called Sounds of Intent. This is a framework tool for mapping progression through music specifically used for SEND students.

Y-not Arts She then magically landed her job at NMPAT, when the Reach the Stars Team started. She started working as one of the other helpers/teachers at Y-not, and took over when the founder Nicola Taylor wanted to take a step back from things. She now runs Y-not with a great team (!) and influenced the drama group to take a lot more of a music route within sessions. https: //www. facebook. com/YNot. Arts 12/videos/583356072111330/? t=9 https: //www. facebook. com/YNot. Arts 12/videos/742137342619761/? t=5

Working with Emily-May at Y-not Arts is a Power. Point 2013 foot in the door of the right direction for me, I am meeting lots SEND students and teachers and learning how to one day do it myself. Richard Hayhow, Open Theatre

Richard Hayhow is the founder of Shysters, a learning disabled theatre company. He studied at Aberystwyth University. For 25 years Richard Hayhow has promote the creativity of people with learning disabilities through the performing arts, confounding pre-conceived notions of learning disability and what people with learning disabilities can achieve. In 1997 Richard set up theshysters. theatrecompany to train actors with learning disabilities: within a few years the company gained a national reputation for its performance work. As Chief Executive Officer of shyster. inc, Richard was responsible for disseminating the shyster methodology as widely as possible, particularly in regional special schools where he is using it to have a significant impact on children's learning and development and to influence teaching practice across the curriculum. Richard is now as Director of Open Theatre Company, which he has run for 22 years, to pursue many of the same goals. OTC's is focussed on Birmingham and the West Midlands and much of its work is developed in partnership with Birmingham Hippodrome. OTC engages regularly and over sustained periods of time with 400 young people with learning disabilities each year on drama projects and performance work. In addition to this, Richard has worked extensively as a freelance theatre director, writer and consultant. He has directed a number of large-scale community plays in towns and cities across the country including Lincoln, Bridlington, Hereford, Woking and Worcester. He has worked with the Belgrade Theatre, Birmingham Rep, the Birmingham Hippodrome and York Theatre Royal, often directing large-scale productions involving integrated professional and community casts, and the shysters. These have included the Millennium Mysteries and the Mysteries 2003 performed in Coventry Cathedral ruins, a ground-breaking production of A Midsummer Nights Dream, featuring the shysters as the mechanicals, and Pinocchio with a combined cast of professional actors with and without learning disabilities.

Open Theatre is a current theatre for learning disabled students, which was created through Shysters in 1990. Richard Hayhow is the director of the company now, and runs many workshops all over. Open Theatre are renowned for doing things differently and creating shows through play and non verbal workshops.

I would really like an opportunity to work Power. Point 2013 with Open Theatre after University and continue to grow my learning with teaching and creating. Ruby Kent