Melanie White
Organization Details
| Name | Melanie White |
| URL | not provided |
Organization Description
| Mission statement | Melanie White has been teaching Shakespeare and theatre arts to students of all ages since 1990. In 2001 she designed and implemented a six month integrated Shakespeare residency at Green Hill School, working with juvenile offenders on a production of Julius Caesar in a program that was the first of its kind in the US. She received a Youth Arts Program grant from the City of Seattle to work with students from Inter-Agency school on Shakespeare’s As You Like It. She was a teaching artist for Seattle Repertory Theatre from 1999-2002, and has been the Shakespeare teaching specialist at University Cooperative School since 2010. Melanie has taught Shakespeare, Acting, and Masks & Identity for the City of Auburn and Second Story Repertory, and Shakespeare 101 for UW’s Experimental College. She worked as a teaching artist at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, Woodland Park United Methodist Church, and Highline Community College. Melanie has directed more than 50 professional productions and works as a stage manager for Teatro ZinZanni and on occasional corporate events. She holds an MA with honors in Contemporary Shakespearean Practices from the University of Essex in Colchester, England, and a BA in Theatre Arts from Brown University. |
| Service(s) description | Theater: Acting; Neutral Mask and Identity; Intro to Shakespearean Text; Creating a Character; Investigating Verse and Text; Stagecraft; Scenework; Exploring Iambic Pentameter; Shakespeare’s Life and Times |
| Program impact | not provided |
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