Ken+Mizusawa

**CS34. Ken Mizusawa** – //Playwriting through Drama in the English Literature Classroom//

May 28 Saturday 9:00-9:45 PM HM 152

This workshop examines how playwriting can be effectively taught using drama-based strategies in the English Literature classroom, and how it may serve as a pedagogical tool to further the skills of literary analysis in our students. Affiliation/Bio: Dunman High School, subject head, language arts, mizusawa.ken@dhs.sg. Ken Mizusawa holds a BA (Hons) and MA in English from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Secondary) and an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Drama and Drama Education from the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently the Subject Head of Language Arts and English Coordinator of School-Based Gifted Education at Dunman High School, Singapore. In 2004, he was awarded the school’s “Most Innovative Teaching Award” and in 2005, “Most Outstanding Contribution (Individual) Award” for designing and implementing the interdisciplinary Language Arts curriculum, which teaches language in the context of literature, film, media, theatre, politics and philosophy. In addition to presenting papers and workshops at various national and international conferences, he regularly conducts Educators’ Workshops for the Asian Film Archive and writes and directs for the English Drama Society at Dunman High School. He is currently working on integrating playwriting and other forms of creative writing into the school's new English Literature Elective. His plays have been performed in “Singapore Short + Sweet”, a ten minute play festival and “Celebrate Drama!”, a youth theatre festival organized by the Singapore Drama Educators’ Association, and Shortlisted as well as Highly Commended in the “Plays for the Young Competition” organized by Playmarket, New Zealand's playwrights' agency and playwright and play development organisation. He is also a playwright member of Playmarket and completing his MEd in Drama at NIE.