Drama Therapy

Dr. Sajnani, Christine Mayor, and Heather Tillberg-Webb published a new article on the role of the arts in the training of arts therapists.

The award is presented to graduating graduate students in recognition of extraordinary service, exhibiting the value of strong leadership in school activities.

"It is time for us to take responsibility and to take concrete steps to make MPAP an academic performance community where diversity and inclusion are indispensable and at the core of our teaching, training, and learning."

Dr. Sajnani organized a special issue of Drama Therapy Review related to drama therapy, technology, and new media.

The Drama Therapy program will host a therapeutic theatre festival called, "Drama Therapists @ Home" from May 1-3. The event will feature creative performances, followed by breakout sessions where care providers can reflect on the themes showcased in the performances.

The program worked with members of Penn South to perform a special adaptation of the hit Broadway musical.

Dr. Nisha Sajnani was invited by Christopher Bailey, Chair of the Arts and Health working group of the World Health Organization, to bring a drama therapy delegation to a special session of the 12th UN Convention on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Nisha Sajnani, PhD, RDT-BCT, is an associate professor at NYU Steinhardt and the director of the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions’ Drama Therapy Program.

The North American Drama Therapy Association has awarded Dr. Nisha Sajnani, director the Drama Therapy program, the Gertrud Schattner Award, the highest honor that the organization bestows.

Maria Hodermarska, Britton Williams, and Dana Trottier will invite participants to reflect on the theoretical assumptions and practices associated with two approaches to embodied supervision in drama therapy.

Dr. Nisha Sajnani will host a roundtable conversation about the emerging practice of tele-drama therapy.

In this roundtable discussion, researchers will present ideas and findings related to shared and specific mechanisms of change in the creative arts therapies with specific attention to core and meta processes in drama therapy.

We will meet participants of the film about their experience of the ethics and aesthetics of embodied supervision.

Trauma has a tendency to create interpersonal rigidity as survivors attempt to avoid and shield themselves from reminders of harmful lived experiences. Trauma-centered drama therapists Alicia Stephen and Erinn Webb will discuss...

Dr. Laura Wood, Dave Mowers, and colleagues will reflect on the CoATT approach in the context of recovery from eating disorders; an approach that combats sizeism as much as it supports specific members of the group.

Adam Stevens and colleagues will discuss the Black American Role Taxonomy, an approach to drama therapy grounded in role theory and practice which has been used, in this context, to explore internalized racism and promote self and...

Women over 50 face much change and turbulence. We also find ourselves in a stage of life that is uncharted, mired with negative bias and pretty much overlooked in developmental and psychological theories about aging. Dr. Cecilia...