The First 100 Stories Campaign: A Testimonial from Edie Falco!
Frances McGarry, Edie Falco and Eve Terry"Fran McGarry and Eve Terry, perhaps unbeknownst to them, played a huge part in my path to my present career. Though I was just…
read moreFirst Online With Fran
The Arts continue to be cut from school curriculums across the nation. Despite arts advocacy groups’ efforts to prevent the decline of arts inclusion, the budgetary solution remains to be…
read moreLiteracy Builders 2011 Summer Workshop
August 11, 2011Literacy Builders Start September Strong Summer Workshop SeriesAugust 1 – 4, 2011Hampton InnCommack, New YorkThe professional development summer institute explored approaches, teaching structures, and provided field tested mini…
read moreDr. Nancy Swortzell
It is with great sadness to learn that Dr. Nancy Swortzell, mentor and co-founder of the NYU Program in Educational Theatre passed away July 31, 2011. She had a tremendous…
read moreLooking Back: Looking Forward
During the arduous and time-consuming process of preparing a professional website, I was forced to reflect on the scope of my work and contributions. Looking back, I tended to reduce…
read moreWhy Teach Playwriting?
This column was written for wordplay the Young Playwrights Inc.
read moreCurrent News! Meeting Eve Ensler.
Real Women Talk About Real Sex billed as an animated panel discussion about women and sex at the 92nd St. Y was anything but and sorely lacking in substance; fortunately,…
read moreCurrent News! Long Island Hair Salon Show.
30 at Four A Hair Salon Contest was held at this hip Manhattan-style club at Four Food Studio in Melville, Huntington. Thirty salons from Nassau and Suffolk competed for first,…
read moreClassroom Teaching Experience: K‐12
I knew from the very start that theater would be an integral part of my life. Growing up among 10 brothers and sisters, a “typical” Italian family as far as…
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