Susanna Pitzer

School Visits

I love working with people of all ages on exploring their creative gifts. My background as a writer, illustrator, actress, and director, has put me in a wonderful position of being able to work with students on multiple artistic levels.

I work to help students feel comfortable with creating and learning, and to see that they all have marvelous gifts.

See My Workshop List and School Visit SCHEDULE BELOW.

Contact me to set up a visit at your school.

My Workshops include:

Book Talk:
Reading one of my books to the school or to specific classrooms, followed by a group discussion of the book and how books are written and illustrated. Also includes a question and answer period.

Writing with Pictures:
A wonderful workshop for the early grades, but equally fun and informative for older kids. Children learn about illustration and story structure through creating a book using their own drawings and few, if any, words.

Creating a Book - Story and Pictures:
Students will write and illustrate their own books. This workshop includes writing stories, drawing illustrations, and creating books.

Creative Workout! --Stretching the Brain:
A workshop filled with fun exercises that use art, acting, and music as tools for increasing the depth of creativity.

Improvisational Acting as a Writing Tool:
Students will work in small groups to improvise scenes. They will perform these scenes for the group and then commit them to paper in the form of a story or short play. Plays can be woven together and rehearsed for a future performance.

Story Structure:
Work with students to write and edit their own stories.

Workshop will deal with story ideas, structure, character, genre, voice, and all the elements of a good story.

I'm also Happy to Create Workshops Specific to the Needs of Your School.

**Workshops can be tailored to address the current curriculum of your school or a particular classroom.

2008 Schedule - where you'll find me or my work

January 10 - OPAL online Interview

February 10 - Chocolate Auction - Artwork Auction to Benefit Baldwin, KS Arts Council

March 17 - Reading 'New Children's Play' for Visible Theatre, NYC

April 19 - Young Writer's Conference, Emporia, KS

April - Reading "Traveling Through Dreams" - South Junior High, Lawrence, KS

April 26 - Seem to Be Players Show - "Puss and Boots"

May 12 - Fox Run School, Norwalk, CT

June - "Hope through Community" - Benefit Art Auction - CCIL, Chicago, IL

Sept-Oct - "Clucky, the Brave Little Hen" -- The Stone Barns, NY

September 7 - Warwick Children's Book Festival, Warwick, NY

October 21 - Keystone State Reading Association Luncheon, King of Prussia, PA

November - "Grimm Sisters" -- South Junior High, Lawrence, KS

2007 Schedule:

January 31 - February 2 -- Workshops -- Bay Laurel Elementary, Calabasas, CA

February 7 -- Workshops -- Hands On Explorers, Baldwin, KS

February 27 -- Workshops -- Ox Ridge School, Darien, CT

April 12 -- Library Tri Conference -- Topeka, KS

May 18-20 -- Author Panel -- R.E.A.D. (Reading Education Assistance Dogs) Confernce - Salt Lake City, UT

June 1 -- Everybody Reads Week - P.S. 87, NYC, NY

October 5-6 -- Kansas Book Festival, Wichita, KS

October 6 -- "Cinderella" -- First Saturday Players, Lawrence, KS

October 9 -- Playwriting Workshop, Southwest Junior High, Lawrence, KS

October 10 -- Reading "Grimm Sisters" -- Young Actors Class, LAC, Lawrence, KS

October 14 -- Reading & Workshop -- River City Reading Festival, Lawrence, KS

October 15, 16 -- Writing Workshops -- Vinland Elementary, Vinland, KS

October 17 -- Reading "Grimm Sisters" -- Young Actors Class, LAC, Lawrence, KS

October 18 -- Reading & Workshop -- Marion Spring Elementary, Marion Springs, KS

October 24 -- Acting Workshop -- Southwest Junior High, Lawrence, KS

October 24 -- Reading "Grimm Sisters" -- Southwest Junior High, Lawrence, KS

October 25 -- Reading "Ghastly Hall" -- Seem to Be Players, Lawrence, KS

October 27 -- "Cats & Bats" -- Seem to Be Players Show, Lawrence, KS