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Testimonial #3: Donald P. McGarry, Lead Software Systems Engineer for the MITRE Corporation

Testimonial #3: Donald P. McGarry, Lead Software Systems Engineer for the MITRE Corporation

A teacher that touched my life.....Arts education provides the opportunity for all walks of students to be able to explore their own strengths and weaknesses in an open and free…

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The First 100 Stories Campaign: National Arts in Education Week September 11-17

The First 100 Stories Campaign: National Arts in Education Week September 11-17

In July 2010, Congress designated the second week of September as

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The First 100 Stories Campaign: Testimonial #2

The First 100 Stories Campaign: Testimonial #2

Testimonial #2: Keith Johnston, co-founded the Creative Arts Team’s College/Adult Program  My Uncle Calvin from Jamaica taught me how to play guitar and draw. He admonished me for my fear…

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"The Arts Saved My Life" An Interview with Keith Johnston

"The Arts Saved My Life" An Interview with Keith Johnston

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The First 100 Stories Campaign: A Testimonial from Edie Falco!

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…

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First Online With Fran

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

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

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

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?

Why Teach Playwriting?

This column was written for wordplay the Young Playwrights Inc.

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Current News! Meeting Eve Ensler.

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.

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

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

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

Selections from "The Vagina Monologues

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Not-For-Profit Teaching Experience

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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