CTG Announces 2013 Theatre Educator Fellows
Five teachers have been selected for Center Theatre Group's 2013 Theatre Educator Fellowship program, it was announced recently at a celebratory dinner for the opening of August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" presented at the CTG/Mark Taper Forum. The Theatre Educator Fellowship program, created by CTG's Education and Community Partnerships Department and supported by a grant from JPMorgan Chase & Co., awards fellowships to educators who implement theatre in their teaching practice.
"By continually refining and refreshing the way they teach, our 2013 Theatre Educator Fellows are performing a great service for students in Los Angeles," says CTG's Education and Community Partnerships Director Leslie K. Johnson. "The summer learning journeys of these Fellows will be exciting and enriching, and Center Theatre Group is proud to provide this needed support."
The five selected Fellows are Melissa Weber Bales, a high school theatre teacher at Wildwood School in Los Angeles; Juan Carillo, anelementary school teacher at Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)'s Amanecer Primary Center; David Levine, a high school theatre and film teacher at LAUSD's School of History and Dramatic Arts; Elizabeth Rubino, a traveling elementary school theatre teacher with LAUSD's Arts Branch; and Alicia Wollerton, a teacher at Providencia Elementary School, part of Burbank Unified School District.
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