A growing home for learning
Every ATM production opens another way into theatre. Our free study guides, accessible digital toolkits, workshops, Uneven Minds, and other learning initiatives invite educators, artists, libraries, community groups, families, and curious people to go deeper.
Study Guides & Toolkits
Study Guides help you explore the work. Toolkits help you do something with what you discover.
- 16 Study Guides for context and inquiry
- 16 Toolkits for practice and participation
- Free and available online
Workshops & Residencies
Flexible theatre experiences support voice, story, ensemble, imagination, Shakespeare, improvisation, and performance-making.
- One day to six weeks
- Adaptable to participants
- Designed for community settings
Inquiry & Development
Uneven Minds and access-centered learning initiatives create space for sustained artistic inquiry, experimentation, and development.
Education Leadership
MKM Riddell
Actor · Director · Theatre Scholar · Visual Artist
As Education Director, MKM guides Arizona Theatre Matters’ growing educational life, bringing together theatre scholarship, practical artistry, visual imagination, and decades of experience supporting adults with disabilities.
She directed Jeanmarie Simpson’s Heretic – The Mary Dyer Story, which launched in Colorado and toured for ten years. Her lifetime of theatre practice and scholarship shapes an education department grounded in curiosity, artistic rigor, and human possibility.
Education at Arizona Theatre Matters keeps growing.
New resources are created alongside the work and remain freely available online.