Sally Bailey
I believe that the arts and creative expression are natural inborn abilities of all people and everyone should have the opportunity to experience them and express themselves. I am a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT) and Board Certified Trainer (BCT) for Drama Therapy. I have always been fascinated by the brain and agree strongly that the arts and neuroscience have important healing connections.
Sally Bailey, MFA, MSW, RDT/BCT is a Registered Drama Therapist and Board Certified Trainer for Drama Therapy. She worked with recovering substance abusers and people with disabilities of all ages in the Washington, DC area for over 10 years.
Currently, Sally is a Professor Emerta of Kansas State University. For 25 years, she was the Director of the Drama Therapy Program and a member of the Gerontology faculty at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. She has also directed the Barrier-Free Theatre, an acting troupe of adults with and without disabilities -- for 25 years. Her book Barrier-Free Theatre: Including Everyone in Theatre Arts – in Schools, Recreation, and Arts Programs – Regardless of (Dis)Ability was the recipient of the American Alliance for Theatre in Education’s 2011 Distinguished Book Award.
A past president of the North American Drama Therapy Association, she received NADTA’s Gertrud Schattner Award for distinguished contribution to the field of drama therapy in education, publication, practice, and service and the 2018 NADTA award for Teaching Excellence. In 2007 she was given the Distinguished Service Award in Arts and Disabilities, recognizing outstanding support for the arts and children with disabilities presented by Accessible Arts, Kansas City, KS and the Kansas State Board of Education.
Current books published include The Drama Therapy Decision Tree: Connecting Drama Therapy Interventions to Treatment, editions 1 and 2 (co-written with Paige Dickinson), Drama in the Inclusive Classroom, and Creative Arts Therapy Careers
For more information on accessible theatre, drama for people with disabilities, and drama therapy in general, visit her website: www.dramatherapycentral.com