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Expo 2025: an editor's experience

D&T editor Claudine Nightingale reports back on all the theatrical happenings at this year's Music and Drama Education Expo and Awards.

Honor Haskins (right) leading her popular non-verbal theatre session
Honor Haskins (right) running a session at the Music and Drama Education Expo 2025 - JAMIE HODGSKIN

This year's Music and Drama Education Expo (MDEE) and awards ceremony was a strange mix of old and new for me. As this is my second time in the post of D&T editor, it was also my second time at MDEE: the first was the inaugural expo and awards ceremony back in 2013. I found it remarkable to see how much the event had grown and developed in that time, and the extent to which drama had become a truly core element of the workshops, CPD sessions, and exhibition area. I was in my first week as editor at the expo but, as I was returning to the role, I also found a raft of familiar faces visiting or presenting to greet and reconnect with. Seeing the passion and enthusiasm of the teachers and practitioners attending was truly inspiring.

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