ASK NOT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR THEATRE DEPARTMENT... BUT WHAT YOUR THEATRE DEPARTMENT CAN DO FOR YOU

​In this collaborative workshop targeted towards teachers and school administrators, Mrs. Joy Ferrara will lead conversations on how to grow a theatre program to affect change with staff and students in their school district.

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Joy Ferrara has been an educator for more than 23 years.  She taught in the Commack School District for 10 years and became an Assistant Principal at Hauppauge Middle School in 2003.  Since 2010, Joy has been the Hauppauge High School Assistant Principal and has been an advocate for the Hauppauge Theatre program.  Working directly with Ruthie Pincus, Hauppauge’s Theatre Director, Joy has brought real-time school issues to the theatre students and charged them with creating relevant monologues and short vignettes to inform and engage the faculty and student body. 

​STAGE THE CHANGE
Is co-sponsored by Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post and Hauppuage Public Schools. Programs are made possible with funds from the Arts Reach Fund at the Long Island Community Foundation and The Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Huntington Arts Council.

HEARTS (Helping Enrich the Arts of Port Washington) - Fiscal Sponsor

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