Since 1962, UNCG’s North Carolina Theatre for Young People has performed live theatre for more than two million children in Greensboro, Guilford County, across the state, and throughout the region. Taylor Theatre, located at 450 Tate Street, was designed with young audiences in mind, and each of our 475 seats provides an intimate view of the stage. Building on our excellent reputation for artistic and educational programming, we offer our audiences plays drawn from contemporary literature, classics, and original works.      NCTYP offers outreach programs and touring productions bringing our expertise in theatre education and drama-in-education to area educators and community members.

Rachel Briley

Rachel Briley is in her eighth year as an Associate 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.

Ariana Moses

Ariana Moses is a second year graduate student in the TYP program at UNCG who originally hails from New York, New York. She holds a B. A. from Sarah Lawrence College with concentrations in the Performing Arts and Social Economics, and an M. A. T. in Elementary Education from Chatham College. Before coming to UNCG, Ariana worked as homeroom teacher for grades 3 and 5 in Pittsburgh, PA, and a math resource teacher for grades 1 – 3 in Northern Virginia. In addition to being a classroom teacher, she ran in-class and after school drama and music workshops for schools in Yonkers, New York, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, McLean, Virginia, and London, England. She also has worked as an actor and director and has run workshops for educators to incorporate drama into their classrooms. In her first year at UNCG she directed and tour managed the NCTYP tour show, Go, Dog. Go! This year she will be directing the NCTYP show, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. She is excited to have the opportunity to learn and grow at UNCG.

Catherine DiSanza

Catherine DiSanza is a second year TYP student originally from Austin, Texas. She has a B.A. in Theater Studies from Emory University, where she acted, designed sets, and developed new works. Her projects included the development and direction of a dramatic storytelling piece performed for children living in a homeless shelter. She spent a semester abroad studying commedia dell'arte at the Accademia dell'arte in Arezzo, Italy. During two summers she worked as a theater counselor at Victory Junction Gang Camp, a camp for children with chronic or life threatening illnesses. After college, Catherine completed a year long term as an Americorps Artist in Las Cruces, New Mexico where she taught drama courses, directed student plays, and integrated the arts into academics at Alma d'arte charter high school. As an Americorps artist she also participated in public art projects. Last year at UNCG, she co-directed East of the Sun, West of the Moon at the Canterbury School and assistant directed NCTYP's mainstage show Home on the Mornin Train.

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