Cecily O’Neill is an international authority on process drama

Process drama

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 and the arts in education

Arts in education

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. She works with student

Student

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s, teacher

Teacher

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s, directors, and actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

s throughout the world, leading drama workshops, speaking at conferences, and carrying out research. She is an Associate Artist

Artist

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 with the Unicorn Theatre

Unicorn Theatre

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 and a visiting lecturer

Visiting scholar

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 and examiner

Examiner

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 at several universities in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, the United States

United States

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, and Australia

Australia

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Dr. O’Neill is the author

Author

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 and editor

Editing

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 of several influential books on drama including Drama Worlds, Worlds into Words: Learning a Second Language through Process Drama, Dorothy Heathcote

Dorothy Heathcote

Dorothy Heathcote MBE was a drama teacher and academic who used teacher in role as an approach to teaching across the curriculum in schools and later in other settings...

: Collected Writings on Education and Drama, Drama Structures, and Drama Guidelines. She is Series Editor for HarperCollins

HarperCollins

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’ popular series, Plays Plus, Classics Plus, and Short Plays Plus.