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AATE - American Alliance for Theater and Education

• The mission of American Alliance for Theatre and Education is to promote standards of excellence in theatre and theatre education. We achieve this mission by disseminating quality practices in theatre and theatre education, connecting artists, educators, researchers and scholars with each other, and by providing opportunities for our membership to learn, exchange, expand and diversify their work, the audience and their perspectives.

• The Alliance for Drama Education is a self-governing, not-for-profit, nonpartisian and non-sectarian organization

• Welcome to the Australian Drama Studies Centre. Here you will find information about the teaching, publishing, research, conferences, and professional organisations which the drama teaching staff at the University of Queensland are involved in.

• We are an organisation that provides a forum for the exchange of information on research and study in drama; encourages and promotes dramatic performances and the writing of plays; exchanges ideas on the nature of the discipline (drama studies) and the methods of teaching and organisation that are appropriate to it; protects the interests of drama studies by voicing those interests wherever such activity seems appropriate.

• DRAMA AUSTRALIA is a national peak organisation of  state and territory drama education associations in Australia,  until recently it was known as NADIE,  the National Association for Drama in Education.  As such, Drama Australia does not have direct members from the Australian drama education community but members of each state and territory association are automatically members of Drama Australia. Members exercise their rights through member associations.
• Its members are:
• ACTDA - Australian Capital Territory Drama Association 
• Drama Victoria - Drama in Education Association of Victoria 
• DramaWest- Association of Drama Educators Western Australia
• EDA NSW - Educational Drama Association New South Wales 
• Drama Territory - Northern Territory Association for Drama in Education 
• QADIE- Queensland Assocation for Drama in Education 
• SAADIE - South Australian Assocation for Drama in Education 
• Drama Tasmania (formerly TADIE) - Educators of Drama in Tasmania.

• The Educational Theatre Association is a nonproft theatre arts service organization, founded in 1929, whose mission is to promote and strengthen theatre arts programs in the educational system.

• is a national organisation, founded in 1988. Its aims are: 

to make the methodology of drama in education available in schools and in general educational practice; to promote childrens' and youth theatre activities; to act as a representative on behalf of groups and people working in these areas

• This site is just getting underway.  IDEA is the international umbrella organisation for Drama/Theatre and Education.  The site is available in Spanish, English and French.

• Peer Educational Theatre Groups in Presenting Sexuality, Rape, and Other Neglected Issues. This paper is meant to explore and explain what goes into peer education programs that involve theatre.

• National Drama is a professional association of Drama Educators. Its membership includes teachers, lecturers and students, advisers and consultants, workers in Theatre in Education and theatre for young people and education officers attached to theatres and museums. It is predicated on an inclusive view of drama practice and is open to anyone working in drama within an educational context. 

• The New Zealand Association of Drama in Education - the Tasman doesn't really need to keep us apart these days.  Check out their newsletter and other information via their site.

• QADIE is committed to providing professional support to teachers of drama in Queensland through publications, professional development, networking and advocacy. 

• SCUDD represents the interests of Drama Departments in the University sector in the UK. It acts as a mediating body with institutions such as HEFCE and the Arts Council and is represented on and consulted by such institutions when matters of future policy are discussed and decided. It is concerned, above all, to promote the multi-disciplined areas of drama, theatre and performance.

• "We help communities throughout the world recognize the importance of their unique history or cultural heritage by creating ongoing theater productions that ennoble and enlighten, while creating jobs and economic opportunity, especially for rural areas. This home page provides ways in which you may become a World Communities Development Project."

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