Special Guest - Alexia Vernon, Director of the annual New York City Student Shakespeare Festival

Alexia Vernon directs The City University of New York’s Creative Arts Team’s (CUNY/CAT) annual New York City Student Shakespeare Festival, a mentor-model professional development program that coaches NY and NJ educators to use learner-centered devising and directing strategies to create short pieces of theatre fusing Shakespeare’s language and themes with student interests and curiosities. Discover how lives are being changed through this unique program of drama and education. To reach Alexia, visit her at www.AlexiaVernon.com. For the resources mentioned in the program go to http://liveyourcreativelife.blogspot.com/2009/06/resources-for-your-own-youth.html