Teachers’ Professional Development Workshop

Facilitated by award-winning playwright and secondary teacher Megan Twycross, Writer of STUCK (selected for 2026 VCE Drama Playlist)

In line with her VCE Drama Playlisted production STUCK, Megan Twycross will offer a professional development workshop for teachers. Megan shares her years of experience as a theatre maker and teacher to help unlock students’ potential. 

Part One unpacks ways to analyse STUCK to support students in preparing for their written SAC and end-of-year exam.

Part Two focuses on how the performance technique of ‘scripting’ can be better used to drive students’ success in Drama, Unit 4, Outcome 2--The Solo Performance. 
Megan will also show how to use key conventions and dramatic elements to generate strong performance content. She will provide a template for students to structure their performance piece 
- a tool for students to use whilst editing and rehearsing their piece, allowing room to document what works and what doesn’t.  

Megan Twycross is a highly valued playwright/ director and arts facilitator currently living and working in Warrnambool, Victoria. She graduated from University of Melbourne Arts (Honours: Theatre Studies/ Creative Writing). She has been the recipient of the Australian Plays Transform Erin Thomas Regional Playwriting Fund, and presented her work at La Mama (La Mama Explorations, 2024) and Brisbane Festival.

She is the founder of the Warrnambool Theatre Lab, Theatre Facilitator at disability arts organisation Find Your Voice Collective, and represents the National Institute for Dramatic Arts, facilitating NIDA Connect courses for young people from Southwest Victoria. Megan has spent 15 years in the education sector and currently teaches at Warrnambool’s Kings College.