Prof Bryan Stanton (they/them)

The first week answers a quiet question:
“Will I be safe here?”

Clear norms, low-stakes participation, modeled excellence, and private access check-ins do more for rigor than fear ever will.
#TeachingPractice #UDL

Theatre classrooms teach more than performance.

They teach collaboration, consent, listening, repair, and courage—skills students need long after the curtain closes.
#TheatreEducation #InclusiveEducation

Authenticity isn’t oversharing.
It’s refusing to pretend you’re neutral, robotic, or untouched by the world.

When we show up whole, students learn they’re allowed to exist fully too.
#QueerPedagogy #Belonging #Authenticity

Belonging isn’t a vibe.
It’s a system.

If students don’t know the rules, the norms, or how to recover from mistakes, rigor won’t land—it will punish.

Design first. Then demand excellence.
#Belonging #UDL

When we are forced to teach from the margins, our greatest tool is the By imagination. And the theatre, after all, has always been a rehearsal space for futures not yet lived.

Showing up as your full, real self in the classroom gives students permission to do the same. Teaching starts with recognizing the humanity and lived experience already in the room.

#QueerPedagogy #AuthenticTeaching #Belonging

The first week answers one quiet question:
“Will I be safe here?”

Belonging isn’t extra. It’s how rigor lands.

What’s your best first-week move?
#QueerPedagogy #UDL #TeachingPractice

Belonging isn’t a vibe. It’s a system and systems can be designed.

I use this mini Belonging-by-Design Audit to pressure-test my classroom/rehearsal room

Access, Voice, Safety, Representation.

Try ONE prompt this week. Reply with your experience.

#UDL #TheatreEducation #QueerPedagogy

Understood. Enjoy the trip. Text if you have a moment.

You’re here?

Honestly, I wish the paint/kilt outfit that Paul Caswell designed for Wicked were real. It’s my nonbinary vibe.

Tomorrow welcome Rosaline to @teachingwhilequeer.org

Join us for our inaugural conference.

Register at www.teachingwhilequeer.org

This is wild. When I started Teaching While Queer I had no idea what it would be come.

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For a long time I thought “professional” meant quiet.

Now I know: being visible, joyful, queer, and loud is the most professional thing I can be.

Here’s to all the educators reshaping what leadership looks like.
#QueerEducator #TeachingWhileQueer #GenderqueerVoices #AuthenticLeadership #BlueskyEdu

Rest isn’t optional.
For queer educators, artists, and caregivers—this weekend, I hope you find time to just be.
#QueerEducator #RestIsResistance

You don’t have to earn love by hiding yourself.

Tell me a story about when you were the only queer person in a room?

So a lot of what I do is focused on choice and options. I provide multiple ways of receiving information and multiple ways for students to share their learning.

Technical theatre folx: What’s one tool or technique you wish you had learned earlier?

I’ll start: Universal Design for Learning completely changed my approach to theatre education.

#TechnicalTheatre #TheatreEducation #Education #UDL

Being a queer educator isn’t just about surviving — it’s about building thriving spaces for our students and ourselves.
This week I’m sharing more about what that looks like. Stay tuned.
#QueerEducators #HigherEd #Authenticity

So tonight I sat down to write my thoughts on how theatre classes reinforce the binary and this is one of my main points in opposition to the idea that the binary is a systemic part of theatre.

Agreed and that’s a subject for another musing I’m working on. How theatre I supposed to be an inclusive space but has a tendency to reinforce gender norms and binaries.

Acting Classes as Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender and Nonbinary Students By Bryan Stanton, MFA

I’ve seen how acting classes can offer more than just artistic training—they can provide gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary students.

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#TheatreEducation #GenderAffirmingCare #LGBTQIA #InclusiveEducation #QueerPedagogy

Crafting Theatrical Magic: Building Worlds Through Theatre Design

I am publishing as an OER with the university work at so nothing difficult on that end. The hardest part about the writing process was condensing my quirky thoughts and teaching style into words. I focused on inclusivity with UDL.

Today I finished the first draft of the last chapter of a Textbook I’ve been writing. I still need to source images for three chapters but the writing is done. Wild.

I want to hear your story!

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