Theater Essentials Online is a library of video lessons for grades 7-12 led by local theater professionals. Designed to be completely flexible for in-person, hybrid or fully remote models of learning, each video lesson connects with state standards and includes study guides, student worksheets and other resources. 

Theater Essentials Online videos are designed to support select Nebraska state standards for the fine arts. Connections to standards vary according to the grade level and how teachers incorporate videos and accompanying worksheets into their existing curriculum goals. Please visit education.ne.gov/finearts for a full listing of Nebraska state standards for the fine and performing arts and glossary terms.

 

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Creating Stage Pictures with Marya Lucca-Thyberg

Join Marya Lucca-Thyberg, Freelance Director and Teaching Artist at Omaha Performing Arts, as she shares tools from her Directing Tool Box.  From creating stage pictures, using levels and learning directing tools!


Nebraska Standards for Education, Theater:

FA 8.5.1
FA 8.5.2
FA 8.5.3
FA 8.5.4
FA 12.5.1
FA 12.5.3
FA 12.5.4   

About Marya Lucca-Thyberg

Marya Lucca-Thyberg, a freelance, director, designer and teaching artist received her MFA in directing from University of Nebraska Lincoln and her BFAs in Theatre and Music Education from the University of South Dakota. Lucca-Thyberg has directed and designed for community, University, summer stock and professional theatres throughout Nebraska. In addition, she worked with the Nebraska Theatre Caravan as Education Coordinator and Director of the Caravan. Lucca taught with the University of Nebraska/Lincoln Arts Are Basic Aesthetic Education program, at Bellevue West High School for 16 years and is currently a teaching artist with OPA’s DISNEY MUSICALS in SCHOOLS program. She was honored to receive Nebraska High School Theatre Academy’s Lifetime Achievement in Education award and the Omaha Theatre Arts Guild Educator award in 2017. Her most recent directing credits include “Perfect Wedding”, She Loves Me” and “Our Town” at Bellevue Little Theatre where she will be directing “The Outsider” in May.  

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For questions or more information, please contact the Education Team at Education@O-pa.org. 

Sponsored by the Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, Sunny Durham Foundation and the Producers of Moulin Rouge! The Musical.