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Literacy 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…

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Dr. 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…

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Looking 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…

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Why Teach Playwriting?

This column was written for wordplay the Young Playwrights Inc.

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First Online with Fran

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Current 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,…

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Current 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,…

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Classroom 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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College Teaching Experience

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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Selections from “The Vagina Monologues

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Not-For-Profit Teaching Experience

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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