Elizabeth “Betsy” Modrzejewski Email & Phone Number

North Pole

www.thespiritedmrsclaus.com

Dallas, Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Execute pre-show and post-show engagement programs in conjunction with DSM’s Broadway season and other initiatives. Programs include pre-show lobby activities, post-show chat backs, master classes, etc. • Execute in-classroom, TEKS based theater lessons for students in grades PK-12. • Collaborate with DSM Education & Community Partnerships staff members on maintaining the curriculum, pedagogy, and culture of the organization. • Assist DSM Education & Community Partnerships staff in the development of lesson plans created for specific DSM community groups. • Strongly and positively represent DSM to other arts, education, and civic institutions to promote constructive working partnerships in the community.

Efficiently interviewed and evaluated incoming candidates to company standards to ensure quality. Communicated with remote teammates regularly to evaluate and improve the hiring process. Presented webinars. Proficient in use of Zoom video conferencing and Fountain hiring platform. Delivered mission driven educational service to local community by facilitating child-directed, outdoor, play-based learning classes. Engaged families in beneficial activities targeted at improving bonds and interactions, implemented developmentally and culturally appropriate curriculum for children, creating a positive and safe outdoor classroom environment. Enhanced sensory and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition and memory development by employing access to sensory rich environment including loose parts and open-ended play scenarios.

Flint, Michigan, United States

Responsibilities included oversight of FYT’s year-round Drama School which serves approximately six-hundred students each year from age three through grade twelve, coordinating and promoting FYT’s outreach program, developing curriculum-based Educators’ Guides to coincide with productions in FYT’s Learning Through Theatre series, developing existing curriculum while designing new initiatives and a myriad of other teaching and administrative duties. Designed FYT’s outreach brochure. (Completed Spring 2004) and co-designed The Shoah Project. (Theme: Using drama and theatre techniques to explore the events leading up to the Holocaust.) Designed and facilitated literacy, professional development and teambuilding workshops.

Dearborn, Michigan, United States

Designed educational programs as a member of an education team. Implemented hands-on educational programs.Selected Results: Designed the activity “Vertical Display Case”, a climbing wall activity that is part of the larger Lewis and Clark program. Introduced process drama techniques to new and existing programs. Developed materials to be utilized during Tech Treker summer camp.

Master'S Degree, Drama/Theatre For Young

Bachelor'S Degree, Theatre/Theater