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Rachel Briley is in her fifth year as an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She serves as the Artistic Director of the North Carolina Theatre for Young People as well as the director of the MFA program in Theatre for Youth. She came to North Carolina from Michigan where she served as the Director of Theatre Education at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan for four years. Prior to that, Rachel taught and directed at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. Rachel is a Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts teaching artist; she has conducted professional development workshops for in-service teachers and residencies for pre-school children in Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD; Arizona; and Michigan since 1992. She served on the board of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education for four years. Rachel has presented at numerous conferences nationally and internationally.
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 Jennifer Ridgway |
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Jennifer is a first year graduate student, earning her MFA in TYP. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Maryland in acting and feels fortunate to have developed such an awesome network of friends and colleagues in the DC metropolitan theatre community. She has worked professionally in all areas of the field but is most proud of her work with young people through organizations such as Kaiser Permanente's Educational Theatre Programs, the Smithsonian Institution's Discovery Theatre, Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Arena Stage, and Interact Story Theatre. Her work last year was tremendously exciting and rewarding. With Wolf Trap, Jennifer collaborated with pre-K teachers to develop and implement creative lesson plans that strengthened the classroom curriculum by engaging children in active, creative learning experiences. While serving as an artist-in residence with Arena Stage, she supported middle school students as they each wrote an original ten-minute play. And as a culmination of their work, the students collectively developed and showcased a theatrical production on Arena Stage's Fichandler Stage. Jennifer believes theatre strengthens communities and fosters imaginative and understanding people. She is thrilled to be part of the UNCG theatre community to continue her journey in this work. |
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Annika Pfaender |
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Annika is in her third year as a graduate student in the TYP program at UNCG. She comes to Greensboro from Chapel Hill, NC, where she developed an early taste for performing while attending Durham Academy. After graduation, Annika left North Carolina for Kenyon College, in Gambier Ohio. Annika spent her junior year of college in England, working backstage at Miss Saigon in London and attending classes at the University of East Anglia, as one of the most important experiences of her life. Infused with the spirit of adventure, Annika spent the following summer interning with the Summer Drama School at the Seattle Children's Theatre. She finished her senior year of college back in Ohio, where she adapted, designed and directed a puppet production of The Little Prince for her senior thesis in Drama.
After teaching drama at Chatham Hall, an all-girls boarding school in southern Virginia, Annika returned to Chapel Hill where she taught various drama classes for: Act One Act Now Community Theatre for Young People, Carrboro ArtsCenter, Raleigh Latin High School, Applause Cary Youth Theatre, The Raleigh Little Theater, and ArtsTogether PreSchool. In her six years of teaching, she has encountered a wide range of students, from toddlers to high schoolers, from home schooled children to Girl Scout troops. She assistant directed several productions with Applause!, with casts of up to 40 children. She has also designed costumes for Deep Dish Theater in Chapel Hill. She has spent the last two summers working with the Theatre 232 theatre festival here in Greensboro, coordinating educational outreach activities and directing the world premier of Red Beard's Revenge. Annika has a special interest in puppetry, which she got to indulge with the Planet Puppet program she developed for the Greensboro Children's Museum. The child of two scientists, Annika also is interested in integrating drama into science and environmental education. |
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