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Gallery
Discipline: Theater
Curator: Anne-Liese Fox | | CAITLIN CORRIGAN is a middle school teacher for teachNOLA and managing editor for Social Policy magazine. She co-founded ROiL, a theatre group for social change that operates in three U.S. regions. She has co-facilitated workshops for youths and created performance projects in Baton Rouge and New York. She is also a founding member of NOLA Playback Theatre and former community service worker for ACORN in New Orleans.
| | LLOYD DALY is an arranger, composer, and a member of NOLA Playback Theatre. He was commissioned by the Lindy Boggs Center for Community Literacy and the New Orleans Literacy Alliance for The 13 Lessons, a theatre work based on oral histories of those caught in the circumstances of illiteracy and the community champions and advocates who are committed to improving literary skills of fellow citizens. Daly is also a member of Bamboula 2010.
| | BRIDGET ERIN grew up in western Massachusetts and studied theater at Mount Holyoke College and the Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute. She relocated to New Orleans in 2003 and has appeared in plays at Southern Rep, the Marigny Theater, and True Brew Theater. She has also written and performed solo pieces. She is a founding member and regular performer with NOLA Playback Theatre. She is also a licensed massage therapist.
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| ENCHANTÉ FRANKLIN, a former NOPD officer, continues to serve her community through creativity and youth outreach as founder of Safree Inc., a social worker, and company member of NOLA Playback Theatre. | | VALENTINE PIERCE is a poet, performance artist, journalist, and graphic designer. In June 2006 she was the Writer-in-Residence at A Studio in the Woods. In 2007, her book of poetry "Geometry of the Heart," was published by Portals Press. She participates in a variety of events, including most recently, the "The 13 Lessons" at Ashé Cultural Arts Center and was a performer in Alternate Roots' touring production "Uprooted" which toured Katrina evacuee sites throughout the South.
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| ROSCOE REDDIX is a multi-disciplinary performer, arts educator, and administrator. He is a founding member of NOLA Playback Theater. Reddix directed the current touring Alternate Route’s production, Uprooted, and has performed all over the country. |
| KAREL SLOANE is director of the Jefferson Performing Arts Society's Cultural Crossroads and an artist educator, specializing in the design and implementation of curriculum since 1994. An award winning multi-disciplinary artist, her specialty is cross-curricula teaching, integrating the arts with core subjects. She graduated magna cum laude from Loyola University New Orleans in August 2003. She has designed curricula for the Discovery Museum in Connecticut, Louisiana Children's Museum, Jefferson Performing Arts Society, New Orleans Video Access Center in Louisiana, and the Mississippi Arts Commission. She has been honored by People magazine and Maybelline New York for "inspring confidence through education."
| | CHRIS WILLIAMS is an arts educator, adminstrator, and spoken word artist. He studied theater at NOCCA and performs locally.
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