Chris Espinosa-XYZ

Students buzzing around like bees! Kings and queens fracturing fairy tales! A melodramatic storytelling performance! This is what you can expect (and more) when Chris EspinosaXYZ bursts into your classroom with his over-the-top drama and bins of costumes. His sessions are laugh-out-loud funny, but Chris is serious about providing drama experiences that support any state standard. He even has lessons in SOCIAL STUDIES (character-driven civil rights monologues), SCIENCE (acting like a Rube Goldberg machine to understand force/energy/motion), and MATH (Shakespearean Geometry). Chris always motivates a new level of student creativity and participation. Even your quietest students will want to perform! It will surprise and amaze you. One teacher wrote, "Chris Espinosa provided an engaging week…His exuberant personality hooked the fourth-grade students...The connections we made with him and the artistry we experienced have left a lasting impression." After a visit from Chris, many schools have experienced higher scores on state-mandated tests. Chris is a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist and a Certified Arts Integration Teaching Specialist; he has presented hundreds of assemblies and arts-integrated residencies at elementary and middle schools throughout Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. He's an actor, writer, director, and producer with over 30 years of experience.