Diana Jeanne Feldman is the Past founder and President of the ENACT Organization that served over 250,000 students over thirty plus years. She has combined the best of performance techniques and therapy to create her evidenced based method. She is a recipient of a five year Ford Foundation research award and winner of an eight year City Council award to work with students at risk of dropping out of school, Diana presents nationally and internationally and has published in the past three "Current Approaches to Drama Therapy" books. She holds an MA from New York University and is a board certified trainer.

DRAMA THERAPY APPROACH:

• ENACT Method

COURSES & TRAINING OFFERED:

• Introduction to the ENACT Method

• ENACT Method for trauma and special populations

• The ENACT intensive certification program

• ENACT Method Therapeutic theater

• Learn how to create an Enact method program in your school.

For more information about Diana and her course offerings, check out her website.

Maria is a former member of the NADTA board, and has served on the Ethics committee for over a decade, including a stint as Ethics Chair. In 2017, she was awarded the North American Drama Therapy Association Teaching Excellence Award and has received a number of Teaching Excellence awards during her time at NYU. For information about her research and publications, look no further than the NYU Drama Therapy faculty page.

CLINICAL POPULATION:

• Traumatic loss
• Addictions
• Disabilities

DRAMA THERAPY APPROACH:

• Role theory and method
• Theatrical Improvisation

COURSES & TRAINING OFFERED: As an instructor at NYU, Maria has taught the following:

• Introduction to Drama Therapy
• Internship in Drama Therapy Lab and
• Lecture Ethics in Drama Therapy
• Advanced Theories
• Research in Drama Therapy

Based in Brooklyn, New York, Maria works at New York University in the Drama Therapy program. She is the Clinical Assistant Professor of Drama Therapy as well as executive producer of the NYU Program in Drama Therapy's Theater and Health Lab's, As Performance Series. Maria is also coordinator of creative arts therapies for Project Common Bond.

Maria is a former member of the NADTA board, and has served on the Ethics committee for over a decade, including a stint as Ethics Chair. In 2017, she was awarded the North American Drama Therapy Association Teaching Excellence Award and has received a number of Teaching Excellence awards during her time at NYU. For information about her research and publications, look no further than the NYU Drama Therapy faculty page.

CLINICAL POPULATION:

• Traumatic loss
• Addictions
• Disabilities

DRAMA THERAPY APPROACH:

• Role theory and method
• Theatrical Improvisation

COURSES & TRAINING OFFERED: As an instructor at NYU, Maria has taught the following:

• Introduction to Drama Therapy
• Internship in Drama Therapy Lab and
• Lecture Ethics in Drama Therapy
• Advanced Theories
• Research in Drama Therapy

Located in New York, New York, Kate is Director of Therapeutic Activities, Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. She has an MA in Drama Therapy from New York University and is a graduate of the Institute for Developmental Transformations.

Kate is a former NADTA President, a former Training Director for the Institute of Developmental Transformations in both NYC and San Francisco, and has also taught this method in China, The Netherlands, Belgium and London. She has a theatre background and enjoys working with scripted materials as well as through improvisation. Kate went back to school to get her Masters' at 38 years old and has a special affinity to those who are transitioning from other careers.

CLINICAL POPULATION:

• Adults with SPMI (inpatient, outpatient)
• Adults utilizing therapy for personal growth
• Adults with trauma, personal loss and bereavement

DRAMA THERAPY APPROACH:

• Developmental Transformations (DvT)
• Role Theory
• Therapeutic Theatre

APPROACH TO WORKING WITH STUDENTS:

• Reviews coursework expectations
• Helps the student identify required classes
• Works with the student at their pace
• Emphasizes importance of both theoretical and experiential learning
• Expects accountability, while supporting curiosity, discovery, and a sense of humor

COURSES & TRAINING OFFERED: *Does not offer a class right now, but has taught:

• Developmental Transformations
• Principles of Drama Therapy workshops

Heidi is Community Coordinator of Mental Health at Claremont International High school in New York City. She works in private practice and has been adjunct faculty at at New York University, Lesley University in Massachusetts , Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, and Yeshiva University, in New York.

Heidi has an MFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon and completed Alternative Track training in drama therapy as well as becoming credentialed as Trainer education & practitioner of psychodrama (TEP) and is a Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP).

Heidi is a former NADTA board member having served as Education Chair for two consecutive terms. She was awarded the NADTA teaching excellence award (2015) and became an American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) Fellow (2016). Her research interests include: Trauma-Informed Drama Therapy Immigrant and Refugees, Trauma informed work in schools and systems and Role Theory in drama therapy and psychodrama.

CLINICAL POPULATION:

• Refugee children and adults
• Adults and youth with developmental disabilities
• At-risk youth
• Youth in residential programs & therapeutic schools
• Women and girls affected by violence

DRAMA THERAPY APPROACH:

• Psychodrama
• Sociodrama
• CANY model

COURSES & TRAINING OFFERED:

• Drama Therapy and Psychodrama workshops
• Implementation of applied theatre techniques with trauma-affected clients.
• Find out more at the Kint Institute in New York City

APPROACH TO WORKING WITH STUDENTS:

• Offers trainings in Mental health providers wishing to expand their skill sets in trauma and drama therapy
• Support students pursuing Drama Therapy Alternative Training (AT) certification
• Support Drama Therapists needing RDT CE hours
• Offers Psychodrama hours and training to those pursuing certification

Located in Brooklyn, New York, Sherry works in Private Practice and at The Creative Righting Center. She is Teacher of Drama Therapy and Poetry Therapy at Hofstra University. Sherry works at Kingsboro Psychiatric and is Facilitator of Drama Therapy Groups, Performance, and Writing Therapy Groups.

Sherry has an MA in Educational Theater - with independent study in creative arts therapies. She was apprenticed to Gertrud Schattner at Bellevue Hospital in the 1970's. Sherry is a Registered Poetry Therapist/ Mentor-Supervisor. She is interested in working with students who appreciate the use of stories, poetry, writing, and voice.

CLINICAL POPULATION:

• Psychiatric
• Normal Neurotics
• Senior Citizens
• Recovery

DRAMA THERAPY APPROACH:

• Approach is influnced by all major theorists including David Johnson, Renee Emunah, and Robert Landy

APPROACH TO WORKING WITH STUDENTS:

• Guides students in bringing their unique personalities to drama therapy practice
• Helps students discover which populations they feel most passionate about working with
• Helps students cultivate the power of imagination, empathy in pratice and how to support the enhancement of emotional range, coping skills and resilience
• Favors a creative arts multi-modal therapy approach

COURSES & TRAINING OFFERED:

• To learn more about webinars and intensive workshops in Story, Symbol, and the Poetic, check out Sherry's Blog and website

Nisha is the Director of the Program in Drama Therapy at New York University in New York, New York. She has an MA in Drama Therapy from Concordia University and PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (Drama Therapy, Applied Theatre, Community Economic Development).

For a full list of Nisha's publications, please click here: NYU Drama Therapy.

CLINICAL POPULATION:

• Displaced persons (refugees, asylum seekers, IDP)
• Mental health providers: Vicarious trauma and secondary traumatic stress
• Adults with Parkinson's Disease
• Anxiety related conditions across age spectrum

DRAMA THERAPY APPROACH:

• Therapeutic Theatre
• Developmental Transformations
• Playback Theatre
• Sociodrama
• Psychodrama
• Theatre of the Oppressed
• Role Theory and Method
• BASIC Ph EPR

COURSES & TRAINING OFFERED:

• NYU offers comprehensive training in drama therapy that is accredited by the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA)
• Graduates are eligible to become registered drama therapists with the NADTA and licensed creative arts therapists in the state of New York
• Offering several courses that are open to non-matriculating students including Alternative Training students. These include: Introduction to Drama Therapy for Non-Majors; Improv and Mental Health; Developmental Transformations; Introduction to Psychodrama