Grades: K–12
Best Format: Short series / 2–3 visits
Focus: Improvisation, creative movement, character exploration, collaborative storytelling, and ensemble-building.
About Rose
Born and raised in Port Angeles, Rose Fredson-Ellis began her drama journey at Peninsula College before transferring to the University of Idaho, where she completed a BFA in Performance. After her formal education, Rose moved to Austin, Texas, where she worked as a teaching artist for Zachary Scott Theatre and project managed cultural performances and after-school programs for the company.
Rose later moved to Indonesia, where she completed a teaching course in Speech and Drama through the Singapore Ministry of Education and taught dramatic arts at both the Julia Gabriel Institute and Jakarta International School. Continuing her work in IB drama education, Rose served as both a PYP and MYP drama teacher in Harare, Zimbabwe, and at Vilnius International School in Lithuania.
After her time in Lithuania, Rose continued her facilitation work in Northeast England, producing professional performances in disability arts through Twisting Ducks Theatre Company. Rose is now the lead facilitator at Mosaic, where she teaches drama and movement.
What Students Can Explore
Rose’s workshops bring together movement, theatre, improvisation, and collaborative storytelling. Students are encouraged to think on their feet, experiment with characters, make bold creative choices, and take ownership of the stories they create. With more time, students can build technical skills and creative confidence, create original work, collaborate more effectively, reflect on their learning, revise and improve their work, complete larger projects, prepare for performance or exhibition, build stronger classroom relationships, and develop independence.
Students get the most from Rose’s teaching when: “We have established a safe and inclusive environment where they can step out of their comfort zones and share their own creative thinking to take ownership of the story.”
In Rose’s classroom, students: “Are often given open-ended improvisational prompts encouraging them to think on their feet and create fresh solutions collaboratively.”
Rose focuses on helping students: “Visualise the invisible and make bold out-of-the-box choices to experiment with characters they wouldn’t normally try.”
Students leave with: “My intention is that students always leave with a sense of wonder of ‘what is possible’ and a spark to carry on our stories to the next chapter in their own imaginations.”
Teaching Experience
General education classrooms, inclusion classrooms, self-contained special education classrooms, resource rooms, English Language Learner (ELL) classrooms, Highly Capable programs, and community-based learning.
Learner Needs Rose Can Adapt For
Students with IEPs, students with 504 Plans, neurodivergent learners, English Language Learners, students with physical disabilities, sensory accommodations, communication differences, mixed-age classrooms, beginning learners, and advanced learners.
Best Learning Environments
Auditoriums, art rooms, music rooms, flexible or open spaces, and small-group instruction.
Helpful Information + Teacher Support
Student age and grade level, class size, accessibility needs and accommodations or learning supports, a brief planning conversation before the visit, and teacher support with classroom management.
Contact + Artist Information
Email: fredson.ellis@gmail.com
Phone: 360-809-9835
