As a teacher for the Program in Educational Theatre, Dr. David Montgomery is a specialist in drama education, theatre for young audiences, integrated arts, and student teaching.  His research interests include drama pedagogy, process drama, arts partnerships, teacher education and directing.  David was a professional actor before becoming a full time middle school teacher in Brooklyn, New York. He also worked as a k-12 drama specialist for Project Arts in Queens, New York, and the Educational Arts Team in Jersey City, New Jersey.  David's study, Living an Arts Partnership: The Experience of Three Middle School Classroom Teachers in a Drama Residency, won the NYU Steinhardt Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2007, as well as the Distinguished Dissertation Honorable Mention Award from the American Alliance for Theatre Education (AATE)in 2008. He helped start and currently advises the program's graduate degree in Teaching Theatre and Social Studies (ETSS), and is currently collaborating with New York City Social Studies Teachers on developing drama-infused curricula to be documented in a book, Teaching American History, edited by Dr. Robert Cohen and Dr. Diana Turk.  David is the artistic director for the New Plays for Young Audience Series at NYU, which is dedicated to developing new plays for young people every summer.  Through working with the playwright, a dramaturg, a director, and a cast of actors, new plays are developed and performed for young audiences at the historic Provincetown Playhouse. David has directed theatre productions for the program as well, including Folktale Journey: Old Stories Told in New Ways, Stories From the Magic Lake, Kindertransport, and The Giver.  As an actor-teacher, David was employed by The George Street Playhouse and The Shoestring Players, two theatre groups based in New Jersey dedicated to bringing quality theatre to young people.  David has coordinated a variety of conferences at NYU, and he continues to present workshops and papers at numerous international conferences. He also helps manage the study abroad courses offered by the Program in Educational Theatre in London, Dublin, Brazil, and Uganda.