Educator
Sindy has been a teaching artist for over 10 years.
Her journey began as a camp assistant at the Musical Theatre Summer Camp at The PlayGround Theatre in Miami Shores, FL (now the Miami Theater Center) in 2009. In 2010, after graduating from Florida State University with a Bachelors in Theatre, she moved to Chicago for an Education Apprenticeship with American Theater Company. In 2017, Sindy moved to NYC for her Masters in Applied Theatre from CUNY School of Professional Studies.
Sindy completed her thesis on multilingual theatre in education titled ¡BE PREBEARED! TEATRO EN EDUCACIÓN – THEATRE IN EDUCATION: A Multilingual Project for Early Learners. She believes in the importance of creating multilingual and multicultural spaces that embrace and include the home languages and cultures of learners. She’d be happy to talk more about it!
Sindy has worked with ages 2 and up, with the youngest and the young at heart. Her work has led her to work with students K-12, early learners in Head Start and Language Immersion programs, housing rights community organizers, and fellow teaching artists.
Skills and Interests: Applied Theatre, Theatre in Education (TIE), Process Drama, Theatre of the Oppressed, Arts Integration, Aesthetic Education, Devising, Language Education, Teaching Artist Training
M.A. in Applied Theatre - Thesis Presentation - May 2019 - Photo by Michael Wilson
FEATURED
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Let’s Learn NYC on PBS
Story Reading and Theatre Activities with New York City Childrens Theatre
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Education as Liberation Podcast
Guest Interview on Multilingualism
Representation and the Role of the Multilingual Classroom pt. 1 WHBLE founder, Ah-Keisha McCants talks with Sindy I. Castro, actress, teaching artist and co-founder of Jugando N Play, a multilingual theatre for young audiences. Sindy talks about the power in engaging a multilingual learning community, and creating space for using languages as assets.
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Interview for PerformInk podcast Spiel Chicago
Teaching Artistry in Chicago!
This week, Smyra interviewed with Sindy Castro, actress and arts educator here in Chicago. Sindy is a freelance teaching artist currently working with 5 different organizations. We talk about the different kinds of work she does and about her new work in progress, Stories From My Mother, a devised piece of theatre exploring the relationships we have with our mothers.