On this episode of the Teacher-Gamer Podcast, Zach chats with Shawn Thomas O'Docharty, a globally recognized creative leader and cross-cultural producer. With an impressive career spanning over 25 years and numerous countries, Shawn shares his insights into creating transformative experiences through performance, design, education, and storytelling. Discover how playfulness and creativity can empower adolescents to build life skills, resilience, and confidence in their formative years through.
"This is the misunderstanding of acting: that you remove yourself to enter a role. As a real actor, you are always yourself. You need to be connected deeply to yourself."
Shawn helps us understand how Stanislavski's "magic if" keeps us in ourselves as we play a role "to create a stable place for the work can happen. No one is able to take the risks and try new things or new characters or situations or scenarios if they feel unsafe, if they feel like that can't go into those deep parts of themself, and that is the place of the teacher ... The Dungeon Master is like the director on the set."
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-Sevan Reznichek for the intro music -YOU (band) for the “Little Man” song - with the duel saxophones - in the intro, check their album “Freedom from the Known” -John Schroeder for the “Switchfoot Slide” song - in the intro and outro, check his album “Surf the Solar Winds”
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