Vanessa Lafortune Email & Phone Number

A native of Santa Fe, NM, Vanessa is a theatre artist and educator, enthusiastic about fostering social-emotional learning through drama-based pedagogy. With a previous career in management and administration, her goal is to combine both vast skillsets into a career in arts program direction-- bringing arts education programs to communities in need.A classically trained actor-turned-teacher, she got the teaching bug working at Theatricum Botanicum in Los Angeles as an assistant in their summer Shakespeare camp, and since focused her passions into working with young people in underserved populations of Los Angeles and Boston. In Los Angeles, she worked with Inner City Arts on LA’s Skid Row, bringing arts programs to children of the LA Unified School District. Currently, she is a teaching artist with Company One, with residencies in Boston Public Schools. She has also served as a teaching artist for Beyond the 4th Wall in Cambridge and Actor’s Shakespeare Project. She received theatre training at PCPA-Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA, and holds a BA in Theatre from Santa Fe University of Art and Design. In May 2021, Vanessa earned her M.A. in Theatre Education and Applied Theatre from Emerson College, with special attention to community engagement and activism through the arts.

Listed skills include Performing Arts, Theatre, Improvisation, Musical Theatre, and 12 others.