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Framingham, Ma

Grades 5- Age 23 Executive Producer: Sue Ryan• Create and facilitate workshops on character, voice, vocal performance, improvisation, theatre history, and audition technique.• Responsible for all aspects of the production including staging, character, vocal, and physical work, spearheading conceptual design, and creating a fully realized production on a defined schedule and budget. Productions include: Wiley and the Hairy Man (Summer 2011) Children of Eden, and Charlotte’s Web.

Weston, Ma

Weston Drama Workshop Grades 5 to Age 23 Executive Producer: Sue Ryan• Manage a summer theatre program that seeks to bring affordable theatre workshops to area children and youth through a full season of productions.• Oversee and execute all communication, box office operation, casting, scheduling, fund raising, budgeting, publicity and marketing for a four show season.• Manage a staff of over 25 theatre professionals.

Grades 9-12 Artistic Director: Donna Wresinski• Served as the Director of two of the five main stage shows of the season, and Assistant Director for the MHSDG Festival Entry with casts upwards of 70 students. Productions include: Blood Wedding, That Was Then, This is Now, Guys and Dolls, Wiley and the Hairy Man, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.• Responsible for all aspects of the production including staging, character, vocal, and physical work, spearheading conceptual design with student designers, and creating a fully realized production on a defined schedule and budget.

Framingham High School Grades 9-12 Department Head: Donna Wresinski• Instruction of High School drama curricula as set down by Massachusetts Board of Education frameworks• High school curricula includes Acting One, Acting Two, Musical Theatre, Performance Workshop and Advanced Acting where students were encouraged to develop themselves as young actors through technical training, improvisational and exploratory games and activities, production work, playwriting, monologues, and scenes.• Designed and taught new curricula for the Performance Workshop and Advanced Acting Classes• Participated in extra-curricular Drama Company at Framingham High School as Director and Assistant Director• Co-chaired the 2010 trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a group of 75 students, staff, and parents. Spearheaded a $100,000 fundraising campaign.

Participating High School Grades 9-12 Chairman of the Board: Michael McGarty• Attend monthly meetings to make decisions about programming and organizational structure of the MHSDG Inc.• Serve on several committees throughout the year which include but are not limited to: Judge Review, Festival Review, Chairman of the Statewide Acting Scholarship Competition, and Chairman of the MHSDG Alumni Association.

Belmont, Ma

Belmont High School Grades 9-12 Director of Fine and Performing Arts: Bill Pappazisis• Served as the Director and Producer of four main stage shows of the season. Productions include: Ten: An Evening of Ten Minute Plays, West Side Story, The Chronicles of Jane: Book 7, James and the Giant Peach, and Let the Stars Shine: Broadway Night 2010 with casts upwards of 70 students. • Responsible for all aspects of the production including staging, character, vocal, and physical work, spearheading conceptual design with student designers, and creating a fully realized production on a defined schedule and budget.• Managed the budget and expenses for the year, resulting in a revenue of $25,000 more than we had at the beginning of the season, while still producing high quality productions.• Advised a student theatre company of over 150 student actors and technicians. Organized trips to a non-competitive Theatre Exchange and shows at the Opera House. Coached students entering into the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild contests for acting and playwriting.

Advisor: Gary Durham• Create and monitor a week of programming benefiting Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS in NYC raising upwards of $7,000 per year.• Oversee a board of directors responsible for chairing individual events and fundraisers. Including such events as: The Concert Gala, Date, Auction, Visions and Voices Outreach. • Nuture a professional connection and relationship with BC/EFA.

Store Manager: Jeremy Wood• A member of the sales and visual sales team for one of FORTUNE magazines list of “Best Companies to Work For”.• Trained in exceptional customer service workshops in order to create home organization solutions for customers.

Advisor: David Krasner• Oversee an executive and advisory board, directors and production staff of six to eight main stage shows a year to create a comprehensive and eclectic season throughout the greater Boston area. • Manage all aspects of the organization including: publicity and marketing, public relations, website operation, season selection, assembling production teams, creating programming and workshops, fundraising, and outreach.

• Manage and co-pilot a one year summer theatre program for area youth resulting in a production of Into the Woods.• Oversee and execute all recruitment, monitoring finances and tuition, communication, box office operation, casting, scheduling, fund raising, budgeting, publicity and marketing.• Manage a staff of 7 theatre professionals.

Teaching Assistant – Huntington Theatre Company, Boston, MA 2007-2008Advanced Scene Study Class grades 11 & 12 Teaching Artist: Mara Sidmore• Facilitated warm-ups and lead lessons in conjunction with a professional artist. • Provided critical response and feedback to scene work. • Nurtured an ensemble of young actors in a positive and creative classroom atmosphere.Intern – Huntington Theatre Company, Boston, MA 2007-2008Education Department Internship Education Director: Donna Glick• Worked in a theatre office setting for 10-15 hours a week. • Assisted in creating records for student matinees, lesson plans, and study guides.• Helped to organize and facilitate the Massachusetts division of Poetry Out Loud.

Master'S Degree, Arts Administration

Ba, Acting / Theatre Education

Magna Cum Laude