Teacher Information and Resources
Are you a teacher at OTHS or elsewhere? Would you like to include a West Park
Players rehearsal or production a part of your curriculum? Would you like to suggest
an upcoming production? Contact Robert Angelini at: director@westparkplayers.com.
WELCOME TEACHERS!We are proud to announce that the West Park Players will be presenting "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo as our Spring 2011 musical production. If you would like to include us in your lesson plan, please contact Bob Angelini at director@westparkplayers.com or review the links below for assistance!
http://www.online-literature.com/victor_hugo/les_miserables/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vhugo.htm
(after visiting the above sites, back arrow to return to Westparkplayers.com)
ReVision Theatre of Asbury Park
ReVision Theatre is a professional regional theatre company dedicated to producing invigorating theatre with a fresh new perspective reaching the diverse community
of Asbury Park and Monmouth County. ReVision Theatre produces reinventions of previously produced classics, overlooked or forgotten work in a new way, and new
work with a fresh voice. The company serves as a home for local artists and writers. ReVision Theatre also believes in the importance of theatre education and teaches children and adult theatre classes. ReVision Theatre produces readings, workshops, cabarets, concerts, and main stage productions. Recently, Latiana Gourzong, a recent OTHS graduate and West Park Player stage manager, worked side-by-side with a professional stage manager, director and crew in the critically acclaimed production of HAIR! at Asbury Park's Carousel. Latiana represented OTHS well and her professionalism and hard work gained her a fine reputation. MANY offers for future professional work in the theater were presented to Latiana. WAY TO GO LATI!
For more information on how you can become involved, click on the link below:
http://revisiontheatre.org
Congrats!
CONGRATS to Mr. George Ripley and Alyssa Berning for winning the Basie Award for Best Lighting Design in a Drama for Eugene O'Neill's - "Ah, Wilderness!"
Click this link to learn a little bit about the Basie Awards:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=14124630
WHY TEACH THE LARAMIE PROJECT?
(This is an excerpt from a Time Magazine website dedicated to teaching
“The Laramie Project.”)
“inTIME asked ReLeah Lent, a veteran educator and member of TIME Classroom’s National Advisory Board, how and why she would use The
Laramie Project film and print materials in her classroom. An English teacher
at Bay High School in Panama City, Florida, and a staff member of the Florida Literacy Reading and Excellence Project, Lent is co-author
of At the Schoolhouse Gate: Lessons in Intellectual Freedom (Heinemann,
2002).
One of our greatest challenges as high school teachers is to create thoughtful, independent learners who internalize classroom lessons so that they become relevant to the learner’s own world. The Laramie Project may well become
one of those experiences that will remain with students for a lifetime. In an era when students have seen it all, either in reality or vicariously, this material will,
I believe, touch them in places that they haven’t yet been touched. The film
and accompanying print materials have the potential to inspire students to ponder, explore, listen, empathize, stretch and respond. This type of powerful teaching tool, inherently relevant, may well elicit passionate responses.
Students may even come to view their most basic values, values that have been a part of their families and communities for generations, in a new light.”
"The Laramie Project" Teacher and Student Guides
http://www.time.com/time/classroom/laramie/
Please contact your department supervisor or Mr. John Lysko for more information on including "The Laramie Project" as part of your teaching curriculum.
Looking Back . . .
WERE YOU A TEACHER INVOLVED IN THE OTHS THEATER
ARTS IN THE PAST?
These were....
Mr. Tom Collins...Award Winning Set Designer
Mr. George Ripley...Award Winning Set and Lighting Designer
Mrs. Karen Olson...Vocal Director
Ms. Eileen Glynn.....Set Designer
Ms. Liz Baxter-Ripley.....Producer/Director
Mr. Thomas Darcy.....Actor/Technical Yelling Coach
Ms. Debra Sfraga...Conductor
Mr. James Soldo.....Conductor
Mr. Walter McAloon...Conductor
Mrs. Julia Davidow...Producer
Mr. Sean McDonald...Set Designer
Mr. George Conti...Talent Agent and Best Theater Patron
Mrs. Kathryn Miller...Theater Security
Mr. Michael Supko...Theater Critic (All Good)
Mr. Ernest Gardella...Actor/Director
Mr. Brian Boylan....Actor and School Custodian
Do you want to volunteer your time or talents to the Drama Club? Do you have
past experience on the stage? Are you are best known for your role as a tree in
the second grade. If so, you may be who we are looking for. Do you know anyone
else we left out above? If so, drop us a line at director@westparkplayers.com to
submit any staff names or corrections.