Nilaja Sun in No Child...
I know, I know. Education stories are so fascinating. But here’s another one.
I posted yesterday that Long Wharf Theatre’s a finalist for a $10,000 check earmarked for theater education programs, from the National Corporate Theatre Fund.
Today, the same theater’s announced that it’s getting $224,500 from the Werth Family Foundation to “fund the development of a substantially expanded in-school residency program.”
The money’s spread out over four years, and the programs will add three “teaching artists” to Long Wharf’s Education Department. The teaching artists help facilitate school trips to appropriate Long Wharf productions, present lectures and seminars and actually teach in the schools through residency programs.
Long Wharf presented a play on its Stage II about a teaching artist, Nilaja Sun’s autobiographical drama No Child…, in 2010.
Also, the Long Wharf’s Director of Education Annie DiMartino is a theater artist herself, running a youth summer theater program at the theater.
So these educational concepts should not be hard to grasp. Long Wharf preaches what it practices.
Nonie Newton Breen in Late Nite Catechism.
Great!