{"id":7692,"date":"2019-09-04T12:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T12:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2021-07-12T20:20:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T20:20:03","slug":"toting-a-tony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/2019\/09\/04\/toting-a-tony\/","title":{"rendered":"Toting a Tony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image=&#8221;7702&#8243; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;150px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][vc_row_inner row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1567088804018{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: rgba(24,41,87,0.8) !important;*background-color: rgb(24,41,87) !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Toting a Tony<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;150px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#7eb1dc&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"rev-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Madeline Topkins Michel \u201977<br \/>\nA drama teacher receives a top accolade for her unconventional and inclusive approach.<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;25px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7712\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7712\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Michel-Cropped-1-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Michel-Cropped-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Michel-Cropped-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NO DRAMA, PLEASE: Michel says she prefers the wings to the spotlight when it comes to her role as a drama teacher at Monticello High School in Charlottesville, Virginia. \u201cI like the kids to take control.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Madeline Topkins Michel \u201977 took the stage at the Tony Awards ceremony in June to receive the 2019 Excellence in Theatre Education Award, she quickly asserted that the award wasn\u2019t hers alone\u2014it also belonged to her diverse group of drama students at Monticello High School in Charlottesville, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis award is for all of the students who have found their voice and who speak for themselves, their families, and their community through theater and playwriting,\u201d she told the audience at Radio City Music Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Michel heads Monticello\u2019s drama department, but she came to theater through a side door. An English major at Rochester, she later earned her teaching certification in math and English and as a reading specialist.<\/p>\n<p>She took a job with the Baltimore school district and discovered that the classroom is an inherently theatrical place. When faced with skeptical or unmotivated students, she made her class dramatically compelling. \u201cReally early on, I realized the value of theater in teaching,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>She also coached National History Day teams after joining the staff at Monticello. Students compete by carrying out historical research and presenting their conclusions in the format of their choice. Michel\u2019s teams opted for play performance\u2014and when they brought home national gold medals two years in a row, Monticello\u2019s principal decided it was high time that Michel taught drama. Michel is modest and wry about where her career has taken her. \u201cI\u2019m really not a theater person\u2014despite the Tony Award,\u201d she laughs.<\/p>\n<p>But she\u2019s ardent about inclusive theater. A drama program should reflect the makeup of a school\u2019s student body, but that\u2019s not what often happens, she says. \u201cIf you have a group of kids who represent the entire school, then what you get on stage is an energy that\u2019s completely different from what you find at most schools. Everybody\u2019s got a backstory\u2014an interesting backstory\u2014 and then everybody learns from everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a teacher, she prefers the wings to the spotlight. \u201cI like the kids to take control,\u201d she says. She helps them stage, choreograph, and direct works that speak to them. And they craft new plays, too. This summer, Michel was working with two groups, each writing a play that they were aiming to have in production this August.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in 2017, the Monticello drama program staged student Josh St. Hill\u2019s one-act, rap-narrative play, <em>A King\u2019s Story<\/em>, which examines a community\u2019s response to violence. Student Courtney Grooms wrote the play <em>Necessary Trouble <\/em>in 2016, about responses to a high school student attending history class dressed in a shirt printed with the Confederate flag. Last fall, the program performed student Kayla Scott\u2019s play <em>#WhileBlack<\/em>, about gentrification and the racial profiling she experienced in her hometown. Monticello brought home awards for the production from the Virginia Theatre Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen my kids do a show that really has an effect on an audience, people come up afterwards to hug the actors and the playwright,\u201d says Michel. \u201cThese were issues they were thinking about and were disturbed by, but they hadn\u2019t seen them dramatized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The key to creating an inclusive theater program is patience, she says. In her classroom, \u201call that\u2019s expected of you is to do what you\u2019re comfortable with. And sometimes it takes a while for people to get comfortable. I have to be willing to let somebody sit in my class and observe for as long as they feel necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michel says that taking part in drama builds students\u2019 confidence and presentation skills, something they can carry with them in any endeavor. But it\u2019s not skill building that really motivates Michel or her students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s that sense of meeting people who are different and building community,\u201d she says. \u201cNinth graders are there with 12th graders, and I don\u2019t distinguish you by your experience or your reading level or the classes you\u2019ve had before, or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The stage is somewhere everyone belongs, Michel says. 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