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Leadership in Theatre Education & TYA
Teaching work with Young Artists
- with University Students -
with
Educators
Teaching
Artist Resume (PDF) -
Past Workshops, Residencies and Classes
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Leadership in Theatre Education & Theatre for Young Audiences |
Roundabout Theatre Company New York, NY (2006 to Present)
Director of Education (2007-Present)
Overseeing programs that reach more than 5,000 students and teachers each
year in six major areas including classroom and
school-wide partnerships, career development,
professional development, after-school programs and
theater based programming for subscribers and others.
Education Program Manager
(2006-07)
Operational Manager for Education Programs that reach more than 5,000 NYC
students, teachers and administrators each season
Roundabout
website. |
ASSITEJ-USA:
The United
States Center for the International Association of
Theater for Children and Young People
(2006 to Present)
Board Member
Contributing Editor & Writer to NEXTblog (Link)
Contributing Writer to TYA Today
Committee Member for Naming, NEXT, Ann Shaw Fellowship Committees
ASSITEJ-USA website |
CityKids Repertory Company (Artistic Director)
New York, NY (2005-2006)
Director of productions and New Work development
for company of performers ages 13 to 20
Created and performed original work throughout NYC and beyond with venues
including US Open, Soho Playhouse, Tribeca Film
Festival, Chelsea Museum
CityKids website |
Seattle Children's Theatre
(Director of Educational
Outreach)
Seattle, WA
(1996-2000)
Developed &
taught workshop and residencies curriculum to Pre-K to
12th, college level, teachers, and docents
Mentored a staff of 30 Teaching Artists and Program Coordinator;
collaborated with 30+ staff
Created and maintained program budget; prepared monthly, quarterly and
annual fiscal statements
Accomplishments: The program reached more than 18,000 students and
spanned more than 400 sites in 75 cities
SCT website |
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Teaching Work with Young Artists |
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Mile Square
Theatre (Education
Associate);
Hoboken, NJ. (2003 to 2006)
Author of
Othello Study Guide
& post-play discussion format for high school students
In collaboration with
Hoboken Historical Museum:
On The Waterfront Workshops (grades 5-12)
City Animals Workshops (grades pre-K-5)
History of Hoboken:
The First 75 Years Workshops; The Second
75 Years (Age 2 through Grade 6) |
Arts Horizons;
New York, NY (2004 to 2006)
Macbeth & Jacobean England: Putting History Into a Frame
Residency, IS 77, NYC: Ridgewood, Queens.
(2006)
Romeo & Juliet Residency, IS 129, NYC: Bronx. (2006)
Hamlet Residency, White Plains
High School, White Plains, NY. (2005)
Original Play Residency, PS 2, NYC: Bronx.
(2004-05)
Midsummer Night's
Dream & Shakespeare's London: Putting History
Into a Frame, PS 46, NYC: Bronx.
(2005)
Words, Poetry and
Characterization Residency:
Literacy through Drama, Parsons JHS,
NYC: Flushing, Queens.
(2005)
Professional Development: Classroom Management
through Drama
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Wingspan Arts; New York, NY (2004 to 2005)
After-School Drama Club
at PS 192 . 4th & 5th grade
students. (2004-05)
Millennium High School
(Guest Teacher)
at After-School Drama
Club (2004) |
George Street Playhouse; New Brunswick, NJ. (2003)
The Divas and Gentle Men Project Residency, Paul Robeson Middle School. Spoken word performance on the topic of identity. |
Roundabout Theatre Company; New York City, NY. (2003)
Invited
participant, Summer Theatre Training Institute |
McCarter Theater; Princeton, NJ. (2003)
Spring Acting Sampler
(grades 4 to 9) |
Algonquin Arts; Masaquan, NJ. (2003)
Midsummer Night's Dream
Workshop
(7th grade, Matawan)
Improvisation
(At-risk youth, Asbury Park)
Acting
& Theatre (Assisted living tenants, East Brunswick) |
Seattle Children's Theatre's Drama School.
Seattle, WA. (1996 to 2003)
Creative Drama
(preK to 2): Treasure Trunk, Dramatic Imagination, Exploring Shakespeare
Acting
(grades 3-12): Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Levels
Specialty Classes
(grades 7-12): Improvisation, Shakespeare, Dialects, Play Development |
Seattle Children's Theatre's
Education Outreach Program;
Seattle, WA (1996 to 2001)
Individual Workshops:
Creative Drama,
acting, Shakespeare, mask work, mainstage productions
Visual arts
based:
Ancient Egypt, Leonardo da Vinci, Marc Chagall,
Kurdistan.
Residencies:
Words of MLK, Jr., Shakespeare, Playwriting, History of
Theatre.
Educator
training:
Pacific Lutheran University, Monroe School District,
Seattle School District
Docent training:
Bellevue Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, Seattle Art
Museum. |
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Theatre Training Program;
Washington, DC. (1995 to 1996)
Intermediate Level Acting
(grades 5-6)
Acting Skills and Paul Lavrakas' The Golden Goose.
Intermediate Level acting (guest teacher,
grades 7-9) Mask work.
Advanced Acting (co-teacher, grades 5-8) Status, mask work and text from
Spoon River Anthology. |
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Additional
organizations
Youth Theater Northwest, Mercer Island, WA
Studio East, Kirkland, WA
Northwest School of Theater Arts, Bellingham, WA
Whatcom Day
Grammar School, Bellingham, WA
The
Children's Theater of Arlington, VA |
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Teaching work with
University Level Students |
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Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
Theatre History Teaching Assistant. New Brunswick, NJ. (2002, 2003)
Created & taught curriculum to undergraduate students in weekly discussion of plays from 1600 to the present. Led review sessions, created & graded tests. |
Pacific Lutheran
University.
Guest Lecturer, "Using Drama in the Classroom".
Tacoma, WA. (1998, 1999)
Workshops for final-year
Education majors on how to incorporate creative drama techniques
into their curriculum. |
Western Washington University.
Teaching Assistant, Acting Courses. Bellingham, WA (1993 to 1995)
Coached and evaluated scenes, led daily warm-ups and assisted faculty. |
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Teaching work with
Educators |
Arts
Horizons
"Classroom Management
through Drama Techniques" Professional Development at PS
146, Queens for Arts Horizons, NJ.(2005) |
Seattle Repertory Theatre
"Bringing Theatre Into the Classroom" Seattle, WA. (1998 to 2000)
With Education Director Andrea Allen, taught classroom teachers each summer about using theatre/drama in their classroom curriculum. Week-long, 40-hour active seminars with teachers of grades K-12 from Seattle Public Schools.
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Seattle Children's Theatre
"Educator Training Series" before every mainstage
production, on using creative drama to explore the content of the
production the classes would see at SCT
"Exploring Literature through Drama Techniques"
Professional Development for Monroe School District,
Seattle School District
"Cross-curricular Drama Techniques" In-Services
Snohomish School District |
| EDUCATION |
| MFA, Directing. Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University; New Brunswick, NJ. 2003. |
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Directing faculty:
Pam Berlin, Israel Hicks, Amy Saltz, Hal Scott. Acting:
William Esper, Deborah Hedwall.
Clown & Michael Chekhov: Lenard Petit. Movement: Loyd
Williamson. Stage Combat: J. Allen Suddeth. |
| Speaking Shakespeare with Patsy Rodenberg (National Theater, London); New York, NY. 2003. |
| BA, Theater Arts (Acting and Directing). Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. 1995. |