This report represents the views and insights given in interviews with five educators. While we cannot argue they are representative of their peer educators, their experiences do provide insight into the various types of contexts Roadside could enter into with its online content. Participants interviewed taught a range of different courses at different levels including High School, Undergraduate, and PhD and MFA.
Roadside Theater User Context Study: Educators Cohort
Part of BETSY! The Appalachian--Puerto Rican Musical

BETSY! tells the story of a Bronx jazz singer forced to confront her twin Spanish Caribbean and Scotch-Irish roots. Her dilemma stirs up the ghosts of six generations of American women, and musical currents spanning four continents.
BETSY! premiered April 9-26 at the Pregones Theater/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in Manhattan (304 W. 47th Street).
- About: Betsy!
- Photos: BETSY! in Development (2006-2008)
- Video: Betsy Goes to Jazz School, in Development (2008)
- Audio: Betsy! Music in Development with Nashville Jazz Workshop (2003)
- About: Pregones Theater & Roadside Theater
- Betsy's Family Tree
- Video: Betsy! Slideshow, in Development (2006-2008)
- Betsy! Performances in NYC Spring 2015
- Music: Three Minute BETSY! Sample, in Development (2006-2008)
- Guest Editor Description
- History of BETSY! Collaboration
- Photos: Behind the Scenes with BETSY! (2015)
- BETSY! Scholars' Circle
- BETSY! - Collaborating with Legendary Jazz Pianist Beegie Adair
- LET’S TALK about BETSY! (February 12, 2015)
- BETSY! Scholars' Circle - January Web Conference (2015)
- Bios: Creative Team Betsy! 2015
- BETSY! 2015 Events
- BETSY! Blog Series at HowlRound
- Beyond Cliché: Dramatizing Our American Identity
- Constructing a Bridge Culture
- Embodying the Universal in the Particular: An Actor's Experience
- Stories, Human Flourishing, and Spaces of Abundance
- I Can Hear You: Cross-Cultural Music and Complicated American Identities
- Empathy in the Gaps: Encountering Disagreement in Intercultural Performance
- Message from the Appalachian Mountains
- BETSY! 2015 Events
- BETSY! 2015 Press Release
- Detours, New Directions: Students Imagine New Endings for BETSY!
- A New Outlook: Students Share BETSY!-Inspired Media
- Photos: BETSY! (2015)
- BETSY! Scholars' Circle - April Web Conference (2015)
- Photos: BETSY! Circle of Scholars Meeting (2015)
- Documenting the Creative Process Behind BETSY! (2015)
- IA-BETSY! Institute Q&A with Dudley Cocke and Rosalba Rolón
- Review: When Puerto Rico Meets Appalachia
- The Music of BETSY! - an interview with Ron Short and Desmar Guevara
- BETSY! Scholars' Circle - May Web Conference (2015)
- BETSY! 2015 Playbill
- Two Video Links: BETSY! Performance 2015