ARTS EDUCATION

Believing strongly that Arts Education is a key component of a healthy and engaged civic life, Clements has worked in the field since 2016, from children as young as 4 to adult learners in college environments. His work has developed key skills in pedagogical planning, communication, facilitating and mentoring across a diverse range of students.

K-12 EDUCATION (4 - 17 years)

Clements is the Co-Artistic Director of What Will the Kids Say?, the education department at WWTNS? Through this role, he has worked with young people aged 5-17 in productions of the initiatives’ flagship theatre-for-young-audiences musical, the “Untitled Shape Show,” in Providence, New York and Toronto. Along with his colleagues at WWTNS?, he has also provided free arts education to young people at Central Falls Summer Camp in Rhode Island and at El Puente Presente Youth Leadership Center in New York.

Since 2017, he has also been a freelance Teaching Artists with Town Hall in New York, providing theatre programming for a range of public schools in New York, grades K-12, with clearance by NYCDOE.

COLLEGE EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING (18+ years)

In 2016, Clements returned to his alma mater, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and is an Affiliated Instructor at the Institute of Performance Studies. Clements works for Professor Elizabeth Bradley, the former Chair of the Department of Drama, and has assisted in teaching three BFA undergraduate courses (“Global Theatre Management,” “Theatre in New York” and “Self-Start: Artistic Entrepreneurship”) as well carrying out academic research, administration and student mentoring.

In 2020, Clements was invited to join the Adjunct Faculty at CUNY Queens College Department of Drama, alongside his WWTNS? colleagues. He co-taught “Introduction to Documentary Theatre,” an undergraduate BFA theatre course where students research, create, direct and present their own original documentary theatre pieces on a political, social or historical topic of their choice over a semester. Subsequently, WWTNS? were named Artists-in-Residence at the college for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years.

Later that year, the WWTNS? team was invited to become Adjunct Faculty at the Wuhan Institute of Design & Sciences in Wuhan, China. The team taught the “Introduction to Physical Theatre” unit of the “Dance Performing in New Media Art” course digitally to over 50 students per class at the Institute, creating the course curriculum, managing grading and assessments and collaborating successfully with translators over Zoom.

Clements has been a guest speaker as part of the NYU Liberal Studies “Knowledge Drop” series, as well as at Fordham University to the Production and Design students and at Ohio State University. He has also presented lectures in conjunction with the Alliance of Resident Theatres (A.R.T./NY).

Please contact Clements for teaching, lecturing and course planning queries.