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First 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…

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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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