Ask Not What You Can Do For Your Arts Dept...
But What Your Arts Dept. Can Do For You

In this collaborative workshop designed for teachers and school administrators, Joy Ferrara will lead a discussion on expanding theater programs to inspire meaningful change among staff and students within your school district.​

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Joy Ferrara has been an educator for more than 28 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 former 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 Stage the Change, Inc.
The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and Hauppauge Public Schools.
Stage the Change programs are made possible with funds from the
Arts Reach Fund at The New York Community Trust, Long Island; The New York Community Trust 
and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the
​Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
This work is supported by Long Island Grants for the Arts through funds provided by the office of the Governor and the
New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council. 
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