Jeffrey Harr's guest appearances

Jeffrey Harr

The Drama Teacher Podcast

Allison Williams

Elaine Stritch

Stephen Gregg

Clint Snyder

Ken Preuss

Ruth Wareham

Janice Harris

Jana Beck

Kerry Hishon

Christian Kiley

Steven Stack

Annie Loffredo

Matt Webster

Lindsay Price

Bradley Walton

OwlTail

Episode 79: Playwright Jeffrey HarrJeffrey Harr is a English Teacher with a sparse theatre background. He was handed the student one act play festival with no guide or instruction. How did he turn the festival into a mostly student-written venture? We also talk about the universal and relevant high school themes explored in his play Stereotype High.Show Notes	Stereotype High by Jeffrey Harr	Using Arts Statistics (article with printable infographic!)Episode TranscriptWelcome to TFP, The Theatrefolk Podcast. I am Lindsay Price, resident playwright for Theatrefolk. Hello! I hope you're well. Thanks for listening.Today, we’re talking plays, talking playwrights. I’ve got Jeffrey Harr who is the author of Stereotype High – a new play in the Theatrefolk catalogue – and we are really happy to have this script in our catalogue. Not only that, it is a big full-length play, and then some of the vignettes from that play have been pulled out and they are on their own as ten-minute plays. We’ve never done this before for a script and it’s really great to be able to offer this.And the script deals with one of the most universal and relevant themes of what it means to be in high school, and to be a teenager, and that’s being labelled, right? Once you’re put in a box in school, it’s really hard to climb out, and this is particularly true of students who do things that some folks and – I’m putting it right out there – adults who don’t want to admit that teens do certain things, right? You know, take drugs, have sex, or – you know, God forbid! – swear. But the point is that teens do this because teens are human beings, and teens want to experience things, and they falter and they fail just like adults do. They do human things.What I like about Stereotype High is that the characters are trying to fight their way out of the box that life, or society, or environment has put them in. So, you can find out more about Stereotype High in the show notes which you can find at theatrefolk.com/episode79. Okay.So, Jeffrey, Jeffrey is an English teacher with a sparse theatre background who was handed the Student One-Act Play Festival at his school with no guide or instruction and you’ve really got to listen in to learn how he turned the festival into a mostly student-written venture and how he encouraged his students to write by starting to write himself. Love that.Okay. Here we go.Lindsay: All right! Hello everybody! I am here today and we have a playwright that I’m going to you today on the podcast – one of Theatrefolk’s new authors – we have Jeffrey Harr. Hello, Jeffrey!Jeffrey: Hi there!Lindsay: And Jeffrey has a full-length that he has published with us called Stereotype High – which we’ll get into the nitty-gritty of that in a little bit – and then a whole bunch of very short ten-minute plays with some awesome titles such as You’re Cosplaying My Song and Master of Puppets and we’ll get into those as well.How are you, Jeffrey?Jeffrey: I’m doing really well. Thanks.Lindsay: Awesome! And tell everybody in the world where you are.Jeffrey: I am in beautiful Kent, Ohio – home of the black squirrels.Lindsay: Okay. Now, who are the black squirrels?Jeffrey: We have, like, one of the largest black squirrel populations on the planet.Lindsay: Oh.Jeffrey: I know.Lindsay: Really?Jeffrey: Pretty cool.Lindsay: Is it cool though?Jeffrey: They really are. They’re quite nice and friendly. I know, some people are probably freaked out by that but they’re pretty cool.Lindsay: You know, we have squirrels, and the thing that always amazes me about them is that the noise that they make – which always seems very nervous – and this nervous shriek that comes out of a squirrel which I always, when I see them in a tree and there’s this nervous twitching little animal making these noises, ah, it just makes me want to write a twitchy, nervous character.

Episode 79: Playwright Jeffrey Harr Jeffrey Harr is a English Teacher with a sparse theatre background. He was handed the student one act play festival with no guide or instruction. How did he turn the festival into a mostly student-written venture? We also talk about the universal and relevant high school themes explored in his play Stereotype High. Show Notes 	Stereotype High by Jeffrey Harr 	Using Arts Statistics (article with printable infographic!) Episode Transcript Welcome to TFP, The Theatrefolk Podcast. I am Lindsay Price, resident playwright for Theatrefolk. Hello! I hope you're well. Thanks for listening. Today, we’re talking plays, talking playwrights. I’ve got Jeffrey Harr who is the author of Stereotype High – a new play in the Theatrefolk catalogue – and we are really happy to have this script in our catalogue. Not only that, it is a big full-length play, and then some of the vignettes from that play have been pulled out and they are on their own as ten-minute plays. We’ve never done this before for a script and it’s really great to be able to offer this. And the script deals with one of the most universal and relevant themes of what it means to be in high school, and to be a teenager, and that’s being labelled, right? Once you’re put in a box in school, it’s really hard to climb out, and this is particularly true of students who do things that some folks and – I’m putting it right out there – adults who don’t want to admit that teens do certain things, right? You know, take drugs, have sex, or – you know, God forbid! – swear. But the point is that teens do this because teens are human beings, and teens want to experience things, and they falter and they fail just like adults do. They do human things. What I like about Stereotype High is that the characters are trying to fight their way out of the box that life, or society, or environment has put them in. So, you can find out more about Stereotype High in the show notes which you can find at <a href="http://theatrefolk.com/episode79" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">theatrefolk.com/episode79</a>. Okay. So, Jeffrey, Jeffrey is an English teacher with a sparse theatre background who was handed the Student One-Act Play Festival at his school with no guide or instruction and you’ve really got to listen in to learn how he turned the festival into a mostly student-written venture and how he encouraged his students to write by starting to write himself. Love that. Okay. Here we go. Lindsay: All right! Hello everybody! I am here today and we have a playwright that I’m going to you today on the podcast – one of Theatrefolk’s new authors – we have Jeffrey Harr. Hello, Jeffrey! Jeffrey: Hi there! Lindsay: And Jeffrey has a full-length that he has published with us called Stereotype High – which we’ll get into the nitty-gritty of that in a little bit – and then a whole bunch of very short ten-minute plays with some awesome titles such as You’re Cosplaying My Song and Master of Puppets and we’ll get into those as well. How are you, Jeffrey? Jeffrey: I’m doing really well. Thanks. Lindsay: Awesome! And tell everybody in the world where you are. Jeffrey: I am in beautiful Kent, Ohio – home of the black squirrels. Lindsay: Okay. Now, who are the black squirrels? Jeffrey: We have, like, one of the largest black squirrel populations on the planet. Lindsay: Oh. Jeffrey: I know. Lindsay: Really? Jeffrey: Pretty cool. Lindsay: Is it cool though? Jeffrey: They really are. They’re quite nice and friendly. I know, some people are probably freaked out by that but they’re pretty cool. Lindsay: You know, we have squirrels, and the thing that always amazes me about them is that the noise that they make – which always seems very nervous – and this nervous shriek that comes out of a squirrel which I always, when I see them in a tree and there’s this nervous twitching little animal making these noises, ah, it just makes me want to write a twitchy, nervous character.

Playwright Jeffrey Harr