Regina Ress (Adjunct) BS in English from Carnegie Mellon University, M.A. in Theatre from Villanova University, Certificate in TESOL from The New School University; is an award winning storyteller, actor, teaching artist, and educator who has brought storytelling to students, teachers, after-school staff, and parents in NYC, across the US, and as far south as a Quechua village in the mountains of Peru. Regina was a High School English teacher and has been a Teaching Artist for over 15 years in grades K-12. As an actor, she has appeared on Broadway, on tour and in regional theatre. She has told stories professionally across the US, including The White House. Ms. Ress has performed and given workshops in Spanish in Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil and Spain. A certified ESOL teacher who teaches English to adult immigrants in New York City, Regina is the recipient of a 2004 National Storytelling Network grant for her project Voices from Washington Heights: Immigrants Tell Stories About and From Their Homelands. Her work with “at risk” populations includes two years in an after school program for CAYR (Creative Alternatives for Youth at Risk) through Arts Horizons in Newark, New Jersey, a weekly workshop for teens at a JINS shelter in Cape May, New Jersey, and a performance and workshop (co-leader) at York Women's Correctional Institution, CT, and Baylor Women's Correctional Institution, DE with The Avodah Dance Ensemble. In the aftermath of 9/11, under the auspices of Mercy Corps, she facilitated workshops for adults on the issue of children and trauma. After the massive Tsunami in December 2004, she helped create StoryTsunami, an international series of storytelling benefits for relief and she produced a StoryTsunami benefit at The Provincetown Playhouse. Regina Ress has been a Board member of the NY Storytelling Center for a decade, and is the NY Metro Liaison to the National Storytelling Network which, in 2003, awarded her an Oracle Award in Regional Leadership and Service. Professor Ress teaches a graduate course on storytelling for the Program in Educational Theatre and produces the storytelling series at The Provincetown Playhouse which features national and international storytellers. She has published numerous articles, including: Once Upon a Time… In the Language Classroom; Tantagora Magazine, 2007, Love at First Sight; Parabola Magazine, 2005, The Holocaust, Littleton, and Our Children; Storytelling Magazine, 1999, A Matter of Cultural Survival; Storytelling Magazine, 1997, A Storyteller Tells Her Story; Carnegie Mellon Magazine; 1994, Inanna as a Woman of Power; The Quest Quarterly Journal; 1990. . Educational Theatre Faculty: Regina Ress
Regina Ress (Adjunct) BS in English from Carnegie Mellon University, M.A. in Theatre from Villanova University, Certificate in TESOL from The New School University; is an award winning storyteller, actor, teaching artist, and educator who has brought storytelling to students, teachers, after-school staff, and parents in NYC, across the US, and as far south as a Quechua village in the mountains of Peru. Regina was a High School English teacher and has been a Teaching Artist for over 15 years in grades K-12. As an actor, she has appeared on Broadway, on tour and in regional theatre. She has told stories professionally across the US, including The White House. Ms. Ress has performed and given workshops in Spanish in Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil and Spain. A certified ESOL teacher who teaches English to adult immigrants in New York City, Regina is the recipient of a 2004 National Storytelling Network grant for her project Voices from Washington Heights: Immigrants Tell Stories About and From Their Homelands. Her work with “at risk” populations includes two years in an after school program for CAYR (Creative Alternatives for Youth at Risk) through Arts Horizons in Newark, New Jersey, a weekly workshop for teens at a JINS shelter in Cape May, New Jersey, and a performance and workshop (co-leader) at York Women's Correctional Institution, CT, and Baylor Women's Correctional Institution, DE with The Avodah Dance Ensemble. In the aftermath of 9/11, under the auspices of Mercy Corps, she facilitated workshops for adults on the issue of children and trauma. After the massive Tsunami in December 2004, she helped create StoryTsunami, an international series of storytelling benefits for relief and she produced a StoryTsunami benefit at The Provincetown Playhouse. Regina Ress has been a Board member of the NY Storytelling Center for a decade, and is the NY Metro Liaison to the National Storytelling Network which, in 2003, awarded her an Oracle Award in Regional Leadership and Service. Professor Ress teaches a graduate course on storytelling for the Program in Educational Theatre and produces the storytelling series at The Provincetown Playhouse which features national and international storytellers. She has published numerous articles, including: Once Upon a Time… In the Language Classroom; Tantagora Magazine, 2007, Love at First Sight; Parabola Magazine, 2005, The Holocaust, Littleton, and Our Children; Storytelling Magazine, 1999, A Matter of Cultural Survival; Storytelling Magazine, 1997, A Storyteller Tells Her Story; Carnegie Mellon Magazine; 1994, Inanna as a Woman of Power; The Quest Quarterly Journal; 1990. . Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions - 35 W. 4th Street, Suite 777 - New York, NY 10012 - 212 998 5424
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