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Co-founder Elana Lagerquist, Executive DirectorThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view itElana Lagerquist is a teacher and teaching artist in San Francisco. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in Theatre Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a master's degree in Educational Theatre from New York University. She received her multiple subjects teaching credential with Cross-cultural, Language and Academic Development (CLAD) emphasis through San Francisco State's Muir Alternative Teacher Education program in 1997. She has taught second and third grade at Alvarado, John Swett, and Sunset Elementary Schools and has been a tenured teacher with the San Francisco Unified School District. While in New York pursuing her master's degree, Elana worked with The Creative Arts Team as a teaching artist in the New York City public schools as a part of the Annenberg Challenge grant for school reform through the arts. Elana has presented staff development workshops for artists and teachers at various seminars for arts and education organizations including Performing Arts Workshop (PAW), Young Audiences, KQED-SPARK, Arts Education Funders Collaborative (AEFC) and SFUSD arts professional development workshops, UC Berkeley Public Service Center, and the Tennessee Arts Academy. Elana serves as Diversity and Outreach Chair with the Arts Providers Alliance of San Francisco. As a teacher, arts administrator, and teaching artist, Elana is dedicated to working with all students and teachers to integrate the arts into the core curricula. Co-founder Carrie PaffThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view itCarrie Paff has worked as an actress and teaching artist in New York City, London and San Francisco. Most recently, she has taught theatre as a means for empowering young people with Word for Word, Berkeley Rep, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Brava! for Literacy, Leap...imagination in learning, Richmond District After-School Collaborative, and New Conservatory Theatre Center, as well as independently at various Bay Area elementary schools. Carrie served as Education Director for San Francisco’s Magic Theatre from 2004-2009, directing the Young California Writers Project (YCWP). In New York she was a playwriting mentor with the 52nd Street Project and spent three years as an actor/teacher with The Creative Arts Team (CAT). She taught theatre at the University of Thessaloniki’s Summer Language Institute in Greece, and will be a visiting professor in the summer of 2010 at Sookmyung University in Seoul, Korea. Carrie is also an award-winning actress. Her credits include A.C.T., Marin Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, Center REP, Woman’s Will, Word for Word, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Leicester Square Theatre in London. Film credits include Presque Isle and Opal's Diary, as well as the educational films This is Macbeth and This is Hamlet. She holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Women’s Studies with honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a master’s degree in Educational Theatre from New York University. |