Kelly Thomas-Sanders

7393 F.M. 1288 South
Bellevue, TX 76228-3053
940.928.2031

E-mail: thomas.sanders@sbcglobal.net

Discipline: Theatre Arts - Drama

Participants: Early Childhood, Childhood, Adolescents and Adults

Settings: Pre-K and elementary schools, parks and recreation centers, libraries

Availability: Central OK; year-round

Kelly Thomas-Sanders has served on Oklahoma Arts Council’s Artists-in-Residence roster since 1991 and has been involved with more than 100 productions developed by the children with whom she has worked. A residency with Kelly teaches students that there are many artists involved with theatre - writers, actors, designers and many more, showing students that there may be a place for them in the arts. She inspires the seeds of creativity by offering them new ways to express a story. Students may take different roles in her residency, working together on distinct aspects of play production. Some may write a play as a group through improvisation, while others create scenery, props and costumes to create a performance for their school and parents.

Arts Learning Goals

• Learn the playwrighting/skit process
• Experience the many facets of theatre art
• Learn to work as an ensemble
• Exercise dramatic structure and/or comic