(Red Bank, NJ) Two River Theatre Company, eager to expand its educational programs now that the opening of the new theatre has been set for May 2005, has hired Kate Cordaro as its Education Coordinator. Ms. Cordaro will be instrumental in creating new programming for children and young adults, collaborating with area schools, and helping to introduce theatre to a whole new generation. The goal is to make TRTC a place where children can explore their creativity through the arts, learning more about themselves and the world around them.
Next year TRTC will offer a new program for advanced theatre students, The Play’s the Thing: An Exploration of Professional Theatre, with twenty-five high school students being granted yearlong scholarships in acting, theatre design and technical theatre. Additionally, Kate will oversee a new program offering free classroom visits by professional artists to area schools, and summer classes in the new Marion Huber Theatre (TRTC’s 2nd stage).
“I’m excited to join TRTC as so many educational initiatives are being created,” said Ms. Cordaro.
Ms. Cordaro has been a professional teaching artist, actress, and director. She was classically trained at the prestigious Stella Adler Conservatory through New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and was the recipient of the 1993 Stella Adler Outstanding Achievement Award. Ms. Cordaro has performed professionally in theatre, commercials, radio and film. Her favorite roles as an actor include Lady Anne in Richard III (at the Folger Theatre in DC) Dorine in Tartuffe, and Yara in Atom and Eve (with director Ken Page), and she particularly enjoyed working with noted director Moisés Kaufman in In The Winter Of Cities. Kate was also featured in Janeane Garofalo’s short film Housekeeping, which premiered at the New York Comedy Film Festival.
Ms. Cordaro is uniquely qualified for the teaching post, having taught acting, scene study, monologue workshops, Shakespeare, and audition technique for seventeen years with organizations such as the Roundabout Theatre Company in NYC, The Play Group Theatre in White Plains, NY and Act One Theatre School in Pittsburgh. Because of her extensive experience in the auditioning process, Ms. Cordaro was asked by her alma mater to audition NYU Tisch Undergraduate Drama candidates for the last four years.
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