Patrice Baldwin

Patrice Baldwin FRSA is Chair of the Council for Subject Associations in the United Kingdom. She was President of the International Drama and Theatre Education Association (IDEA) from 2010–13. She was Chair of National Drama, the UK’s leading professional subject association for UK drama and theatre educators. She is the Director of D4LC (Drama for Learning and Creativity).

Overview
Baldwin was Chair of National Drama (the leading association of drama and theatre educators) for more than a decade (until November 2014) and was President of the International Drama Theatre and Education Association (IDEA) from 2010-13. She has been an Executive Council Member of the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE).

During the COVID pandemic, she was Oak National Academy's Subject Leader for Primary Drama and also delivered online training sessions for Drama and Theatre organisations in Australia, India, Turkey and New Zealand, as well as regular online sessions through National Drama (UK). In July 2022, she delivered workshops in Iceland, at IDEA's 9th World Congress. Baldwin was a primary school headteacher for eleven years and still works in schools on a consultancy basis for drama for learning, improving teaching, cultural and creative learning and primary curriculum development. She was an Ofsted inspector and a School Improvement Partner. For several years she worked as a BBC series consultant and scriptwriter for Let's Make a Story and also wrote scripts for First Steps in Drama and stories and dramatisations for Together, a BBC radio assembly programme for primary schools. From April 2000 to June 2011, she was the local authority arts adviser for Norfolk County Council Children's Services but decided to go freelance in June 2011. This enabled her to devote more time to working internationally and to developing 'Drama for Learning' in the UK.

Baldwin created Drama for Learning and Creativity (D4LC), a national school improvement initiative that was piloted in Norfolk in 2005 and was supported by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, Creative Partnerships and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts as well as Norfolk County Council and National Drama. She presented it at UNESCO's 2nd International Arts Education Conference in South Korea and in Taiwan and Newcastle at World Creativity Summits. D4LC is an initiative that links visiting drama specialists with pairs of non-specialist drama teachers in schools. Together, they work in partnership to use drama as a way of learning and teaching with whole classes. They evaluate and share the impact. More than 280 schools in Norfolk became "D4LC schools" from 2005-10 and other parts of the UK (Newport and Dorset) also set up D4LC based initiatives.

In April 2011, she became freelance, in order to focus more freely on her international work. She has presented at Conferences in Greece, Turkey, Iceland, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia, The Philippines, France, Norway, Sweden, Finland, New Zealand, Singapore, US and Canada, Argentina and Uruguay. She was a speaker at the 2008 and 2009 World Creativity Summits in Taiwan and Newcastle and keynote speaker at Drama Australia's 2011 Conference in Perth. She presented in June 2011 at the first Drama in Education Conference in Singapore and in 2012/13 at many Conferences, including in New Hampshire (January 2012), New Zealand (April 2012), Turkey (May and November 2012), France (May 2012), Iceland (August 2012), Canada (October 2012), Greece (November 2012), Sweden (January and May 2013), Hong Kong and Singapore (February 2013), Australia (March 2013) and France (July 2013). During 2013, she became the Cultural Leader in Theatre and Performing Arts, for Brock University, Canada.

Books

 * Stimulating Drama – out of print
 * The Drama Box and The Drama Book – out of print
 * Teaching Literacy Through Drama: Creative Approaches (co-written with Kate Fleming)
 * With Drama in Mind: Real Learning in Imagined Worlds
 * With Drama in Mind: Real Learning in Imagined Worlds (second edition)
 * The Primary Drama Handbook
 * School Improvement Through Drama
 * Inspiring Writing Through Drama (co-written with Rob John)
 * Process Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning (co-written with Alicja Galazka)