The Performing Arts workshop at SIJ aims to use drama as a means of fostering students’ skills of creativity, spontaneity, and collaboration, all of which are extremely difficult to achieve simultaneously in conventional educational institutions. Students participate in a series of games and exercises that work to enhance their confidence in front of an audience, their understanding of the elements of story, their ability to improvise and to perform convincingly as a fictional character. By the end of the workshop, the students will work together to write and direct an original