https://www.sarahpleydell.com/teaching daily 0.75 2023-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1623954860791-6SMDGSLJIYWFGLE7MPY4/20141221163114_00021.jpeg Teaching - Make it stand out My grandmother in her Montessori classroom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1563979456773-RWEYX9UB4B04HSMBTA6F/Photo+Apr+13%2C+12+01+10+PM.jpg Teaching - Sitar Arts Center Sitar engages children and teens in Washington, DC with the highest quality visual, performing and digital arts. Sarah provides professional development for their early childhood program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1563979372249-24F941D6A06LDNPJYUYL/IMG_20181206_182625877.jpg Teaching - New Directions New Directions is a three-year postgraduate training program for clinicians, academicians, and writers who want to develop a richer understanding of modern psychoanalytic perspectives and apply it to their own work. Sarah is a creative writing instructor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1623957103363-H4154GTZHFFTR8WP93XE/politicsprose.jpeg Teaching - Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway: Reading, Writing, Workshop Hosted by Politics & Prose, Washington’s premier bookstore. Registration is available here. Join novelist and professor Sarah Pleydell and author Michaele Weissman for a three-part deep dive into the context, craft, and continuing impact of Virginia Woolf’s prescient post-World War I novel, Mrs. Dalloway. Published 1925, Woolf’s masterwork speaks to the concerns of our time as few novels do. A slender novel focused on a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upperclass woman, no longer young, who is hosting a party, Mrs. Dalloway focuses on the very stuff of life—Virginia Woolf’s life and our lives too. Employing floating points of view, Woolf delicately, deftly, addresses the inner and outer experience of her characters. Among the topics Woolf examines are: the brutalizing impact of World War I; madness and sanity; the relations between men and women; same sex love; social dissolution and the possibility of social change. All this, in the context of a beautifully written, sometimes humorous novel celebrating the desire of humans to gather together. Prior to the workshop, students are asked to read the novel. In class discussions will focus on the historical, social, and psychological contexts from which the novel emerged, as well as its craft and artistic power. A close in-class reading of selected passages will facilitate these explorations. In-class writing exercises are designed to help students, as readers and as writers, to fathom the “how-to” of the novel, including the techniques Virginia Woolf employed to capture character from the outside in and from the inside out. The in-class writing prompts are designed to encourage students to experiment—not the production of polished copy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1623955311738-J11DM10XSE13NC97F31Y/71Q3R4RR2BL._SX312_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.gif.jpeg Teaching - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1563978886241-INVK8CT3LK3KJ8QGQLC7/r88VoU5h-Ed8P9s-QMbJ23zekp1iOHO83hYqkQSU1lgfuCsBmYXGM2v_0VWhNRFE0CNDpzxTTEn_oOlGNncR7OFpzmT0Mnfn_vzv0N1bsJPggmVNynj4WHQ2Lsp92-tPR9xMswBJzcl0a-s5fM7S2GT6CidwrXORjO8WQbPIbVAgWGQdquBZFMI18FmsMGPqHwgMXKpm1gNSJI4U1gPJ7HAiRYA.jpg Teaching https://www.sarahpleydell.com/writing daily 0.75 2021-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1562253973634-ZS9Z3BAMZCW73EPG61VV/414%252BYrb9p2L._SX322_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg New Index https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1553973193210-R2NVW66D5C72J0BNHQLF/71Q3R4RR2BL._SX312_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg New Index https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1622130233087-TUSRJZLW4KR6D39OWJWB/nice+head+shot.jpg New Index https://www.sarahpleydell.com/performance daily 0.75 2023-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1622133480014-MARWZ1YXAKXPU99TMCJO/tempImageAjpO2g.gif PERFORMANCE - Make it stand out Newspaper clipping about our adaptation of Dutchman’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1622134087562-U03SZBZU1VT1BTAS3LG2/IMG_1097.jpg PERFORMANCE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1553974903771-QHDWN5HHKROV7IQOLZE5/dancerevolutionary-mag.jpg PERFORMANCE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1622133704939-J0HMHIMBBGHHR9198NOO/IMG_1103.jpg PERFORMANCE - Make it stand out Playing Pirate Jenny in the Threepenny Opera at Columbia Station https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1622132944288-U8Q3XX6CZF0P78F7GF4W/Ibetter+R+and+J+programMG_1101.jpg PERFORMANCE - Make it stand out Program from the LeobTheatre, Harvard run of Romeo and Juliet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1622223631398-39AAGXYI2HV5T26LMNE5/Screen+Shot+2021-05-28+at+1.30.42+PM.png PERFORMANCE - Make it stand out Life in a covered wagon as described first-hand by Etta’s grandfather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1622131477411-BQ65TC7NJ9C16YJ9RVVW/etta%2Cjt%2Cme.jpg PERFORMANCE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1622131285159-NE8PBND55JAW0V97FDX3/Etta-1.jpg PERFORMANCE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1622131759147-O3ETBLDPSABZOR1N1E50/dugout.jpg PERFORMANCE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1622132672757-B3DZGAX57HEJIQCDKHDQ/puerto+rico.jpg PERFORMANCE https://www.sarahpleydell.com/home-maple daily 1.0 2025-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1553976661348-6T5RVWHWHIG5DL1PWSIK/387716_10152218793010068_571613235_n.jpg Home - WRITING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1563978130413-K3H552K5DLNZOSMVN5S4/IMG_20160620_194632373.jpg Home - TEACHING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d673d3560c30fd87214f4/1736781543511-98INO55EEYXWLE8NUX00/Screen%2BShot%2B2025-01-13%2Bat%2B10.17.52%2BAM.jpg Home - Christ House Documentary A documentary collaboration with residents at Christ House: "One Day, One Way". 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