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Melissa Kate

Melissa Kate Miller is an international recording artist, songwriter, stage and voice actress, writer and poet. As US Managing Director for Artfully AWARE, founder of the Benched Players and leader of the cabaret blues act, The Melissa Kate Project, she draws from a varied background for her students.

Miller guides her students in developing their creative and critical-thinking minds through theater, creative writing, poetry and song. She believes a fully practiced creative mind is the path to scientific inquiry, mathematical discovery, historical curiosity and most importantly, to navigating a successful future.

Miller holds a BFA in Musical Theater from SUNY Fredonia. She has worked with many arts-in-education programs including Community Action Organization and Arts in Education of WNY. She' s also served stints as a teacher and choreographer at many area schools and taught workshops at the Lancaster Opera House for teens and kids.

Miller' s work with special education and "at-risk" students has also shaped her approach to teaching the arts. She believes in the power of the arts to transform. By working side-by-side with teachers and students, she hopes to help them all unleash their best selves. Overall, she strives to engage and awaken skills in aesthetic learning for students and teachers, both locally and globally.


Art Forms:
Literary

Programs

Poet' s Intensive add to wish list

In this residency, learners can have several opportunities to explore the possibilities of poetry and write their own poems, in different ways. Students will use their senses to increase their descriptive capabilities. They will realize the strength of their ideas, the imagery they create, and how best to use them effectively in their poems. In some workshops, Melissa can incorporate music, rhyming, syllabic and poetic forms along with learning about the styles of other poets and discovering new ways of communicating. Clean rap, slam, and freeform poetry are deconstructed to find the intelligence behind their themes and what patterns emerge. Students write in each of the workshops. Editing and sharing are practiced along the way. The entire residency consists of ten possible workshops, each focusing on a different experience. Less may be chosen and/or individualized according to students' and teacher' s needs.

This program can be tailored to suit an adult audience and is available as a professional development workshop.

Grade Level:
3-12
Workshop cost (back to back):
$184.00