CoLab Senior Drama Workshops

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Year 12 drama students and teachers
Program Drama
Tags: Drama – Technical

The CoLab Senior Drama Workshops promote collaboration between NSW public school teachers and Year 12 drama students in preparation for their HSC drama group performance. 

CoLab workshops provide opportunities for teachers and students to bring together their diverse expertise to further develop and refine the skills needed to succeed in group performances. Students are supported to develop and refine their HSC group performance with HSC drama teachers and students from a wide variety of NSW public schools.

The group workshops also focus on building students' collaborative skills and teaching varied approaches to devising original theatrical works, a core component of the HSC Drama course.

Enquiries

Lily Ferres
Arts Coordination Officer
Phone
0460 924 458

Venue

Macarthur Girls High School

1-19 Macarthur Street
Parramatta NSW 2150
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Ku-ring-gai High School

403 Bobbin Head Rd
North Turramurra NSW 2074
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Nepean Creative and Performing Arts High School

Great Western Hwy
Emu Plains NSW 2750
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Workshop details

The CoLab Senior Drama Workshop program is implemented over 2 separate days:

  • Day 1: students participate in workshops with industry drama practitioners
  • Day 2: students participate in a performance skills workshop and spend time developing, refining and rehearsing their group performance piece to present to teachers and their peers for review and feedback.

2025 workshop facilitators

2025 dates and venues

CoLab workshop series A

Macarthur Girls High School, Parramatta
  • Workshop 1: Monday 5 May (Term 2 Week 2)
  • Workshop 2: Monday 26 May (Term 2 Week 5)

CoLab workshop series B

Ku-ring-gai High School, Turramurra North
  • Workshop 1: Tuesday 6 May (Term 2 Week 2) 
  • Workshop 2: Tuesday 27 May (Term 2 Week 5) 

CoLab workshop series C

Nepean Creative and Performing Arts High School
  • Workshop 1: Thursday 8 May (Term 2 Week 2) 
  • Workshop 2: Thursday 29 May (Term 2 Week 5) 

CoLab workshop series D

Virtual workshops
  • Workshop 1: Friday 9 May (Term 2 Week 2) 
  • Workshop 2: Friday 30 May (Term 2 Week 5) 

Time

8:30 am – 3:00 pm each day

Cost

  • $20 per student – students attending in person workshops
  • $15 per student – regional, rural and remote students participating in the virtual workshops
     
  • Schools will be responsible for collecting participation fees from their students.
  • Schools will be automatically direct debited for their participation in CoLab.

How to apply

School applicationsfor the 2025 workshops are now closed.

Students are required to complete an online permission and authority to publish form by Friday 4 April 2025 (Term 1 Week 10). Students are only permitted to attend with their students group and teacher.

Teachers, are required to collect their own excursion permission forms and follow their schools excursion processes.

All Arts Unit programs are inclusive. If support is required to participate in the CoLab Senior Drama Workshops, please email [email protected] so that we can assist.