David Green Named Executive Director of Carol Channing Foundation

David Green has been named the Executive Director of The Dr. Carol Channing and Harry Kullijian Foundation For The Arts whose mission is to restore the arts to our nation's public schools and to insure an arts education for every child in America.

Carol Channing is best known for originating the roles of Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello Dolly, for which she won the Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical. She received the Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award Nomination for her work in the film Thoroughly Modern Millie starring Julie Andrews and an Emmy Award for her 1966 television special An Evening With Carol Channing. In 1981 she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame and in 1995 received the Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. She was granted a doctorate in fine arts by The California State University, Stanislaus in 2004. Carol and her husband Harry founded the Dr. Carol Channing and Harry Kullijian Foundation for the Arts in 2004 to advocate for arts education as part of the standard curriculum in all public schools throughout the United States.

"As a founder of two of the nation's most respected and renowned high school arts conservatories I have seen, firsthand, the transformation of young people who are given the opportunity to experience an arts education. Even those who have no desire to pursue a career in the arts are changed forever from the experience." says Green. "Every child should have the opportunity to pick up a paint brush, sing in a chorus, perform in a play, hold a musical instrument in their hands, dance ... no child should be denied the chance to find and express their personal creativity."

David Green has staged and directed over 200 musical and theatrical productions for both educational and professional theatre and with such stars as Debbie Reynolds, John Raitt, Betty Garrett, Stephanie Zimbalist, Carol Burnett, Bob Hope, Ray Bolger, Jonelle Allen and Liberace. He has written and directed seven PBS television specials and served as the Artistic Director for the State of California Department of Education's Distinguished School Awards for ten years. He was recently named one of the top ten reasons so many "stars" come out of Orange County by Orange Coast Magazine. Mr. Green's alumni include Tony nominee Matthew Morrison (GLEE and The Light In The Piazza) , Stephanie Block (Wicked, 9 to 5), Krysta Rodriguez (The Addams Family), Lindsay Mendez (Everyday Rapture and Grease), Anneliese vanDerPol (Vanities) and Scott Barnhardt (The Book of Mormon), to name a few.

For more information on The Channing-Kullijian Foundation for the arts visit www.channingarts.org.

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