High School Manager
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THEATER DIRECTOR * THEATER INSTRUCTOR
Theresa Norman-
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Goodwin
United States
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(Peer)
President
River Theater Company
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New England Classical Academy (Peer)
Lisa Sweet
Claremont, NH, United States Aug 2009
Coordinator
Theater/Art Instructor Claremont Homeschool Cooperative
Founder and developer of drama and art program at NECA, a private classical school. Currently in abpadu@r.postjobfree.com
third year of position, teaching drama weekly to grades 1-6 and twice weekly to grades 7-12 and art
weekly to grades 1-12. Director of the Drama Club, and production playwright/ director for original
production of "th Phantom of the Opera", "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" and playwright/ (Peer)
Dr. Adrienne Major
director for "Arabian Nights."
Assoc. Prof. of English and Drama;
Dept. Co-Chair
River Theater Landmark College
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Charlestown, NH, United States May 1994 - Present
Board Member/Director
Co-founder of a community non-profit theater company that produces plays, offers classes and
workshops for ages 8 through adult and helps preserve the heritage of the Town Hall theater and
the plays of Charlestown playwright Charles Hoyt. Responsible for board assignment, directing
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shows and producing needs.
Claremont Homeschool Cooperative
Claremont, NH, United States Jan 2009 - May 2009
Instructor: Shakespeare
Taught weekly session on Shakespeare to 12 homeschool students between the ages of 12 and 17,
focusing on Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Students read the play, were assigned roles, did
beginning text analysis, and rehearsed the play and presented it to a live audience. Emphasis was
placed on understanding Elizabethan words and approaching the story as actors.
Northern Stage
White River Junction, VT, United States Sep 1997 - Aug 2003
Director of Education/Lead Instructor
Founded, ran and taught classes at professional theater company for students ages 7 through
adults. Responsible for creating after school classes and vacation programs, maintaing $80,000
annual budget, hiring instructors, writing and proofing brochure copy, handling class registrations,
supporting mainstage education programs, writing studyguides, selling and organizing school
matinees, coaching young members of the professional company and representing the education
program to the community. Also served as a residence artist of theater and Shakespeare at
numerous schools including St. Mary's School (Claremont, NH), Academy School (Brattleboro, VT),
Crossroads Academy (Lyme, NH) Rivendell Academy (Orford, NH) and Lebanon High School, NH,
Hartford Middle School (Hartford, VT) and Mt. Ascutney School (Ascutney, VT).
The Grammar School
Putney, VT, United States Feb 2002 - May 2004
Theater Director
Retained for three years, and invited back for 2010, as the director of the annual spring middle
school musical. The production is part of the school curriculum, involving each member of the
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seventh and eighth grade of this small, private school. Past productions include Grease, Jr., Bugsy
The Crucible at Fort No. 4 Sept.
Malone Jr. and Oklahoma! The production is fully staged and open to the public and students are
2011
double cast in order to focus on developing in depth-roles.
New England Classical
Academy
Riverside Middle School
Springfield, VT, United States Sep 1997 - Jun 2003
Drama Director
Selected to create, run and direct middle school drama club and productions. Students were taught
acting, play production, new play development, and produced five fully-budgeted plays of The
Tempest, Integrity, Play the Part (original script), The Lion, The WItch and the Wardrobe, This
Could be Murder and The Secret Garden.
Springfield High School
Springfield, VT, United States Feb 1999 - May 1999
Director
Invited to direct The Crucible with high school drama club, continuing to work with students who had
previously been under direction at the middle school.
Fall Mountain Regional High School
Langdon, NH, United States Sep 1998 - Jun 1998
Teacher: Theater, Art King Lear, 2008
Established school's first acting class for grades 9 through 12, focusing on introductory acting skills
and classical acting, employing a program of "page to stage" where the students focused on
producing a production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Also taught freshman level beginning
art class, focusing on still life drawing, perspective, negative space, different mediums of art
including textile, charcoal, pen and ink, and watercolor.
Green Mountain Theater Festival
Chester, VT, United States
Acting Instructor
Recruited to teach two two-week acting sessions for students in grades 3-5 and 6-8. Students
explored acting in short adaptations of fairy tales and one act plays, with an emphasis on comedic
technique.
Union Street School
Springfield, VT, United States Feb 1998 - Apr 1998
Artist In Residence: Theater
Invited to lead a five-week residency for 9 classes, K- 6 and teach fundamentals of theater.
Students explored voice, puppetry, creative movement, improvisation and dramatic poetry. Each
class worked on a short script developed by the instructor.
Guilford High School
Guilford, CT, United States Feb 1995 - May 1995
Director
Directed fully staged production of Guys and Dolls for renowned high school drama club.
The Rushmore Festival
Woodbury, NY, United States May 1993 - Aug 1993
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Assistant to General Manager/Company Manager
Hired to assist General Manager of professional summer theater and arts festival held at the
Charles Rushmore Estate in Woodbury, NY. Responsible for day-to-day running of festival,
inlcuding coordinating transportation and housing arrangements of guest artists, overseeing interns,
and assisting with rehearsals and set-ups of productions and events.
Northern Illinois University Theater Arts Department
Aug 1992 - May 1993
Graduate Assistant-Theater Instructor/Stage Manager
Awarded graduate assistantship and taught Intro to Acting for non-majors and Introduction to
Theater for 143 liberal arts students. Created and developed lesson plans on acting, history of
theater, live demonstrations by members of the theater arts department, critiques of local
productions and scene work. Also served as producer and advisor for student directing series,
overseeing both undergraduate and graduate directors on independent projects and coaching their
development as directors. Served as Stage Manager on productions of Speed-the-Plow, A...My
Name is Alice, Titus Andronicus, and the Fall Dance Concert.
Jorgensen Auditiorium, University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, United States Aug 1989 - May 1990
Publicity Intern
Awarded internship in the Publicity department for professional theater on the UConn campus,
responsible for developing original flyer for student programming, assisting with ads for season
program and contracts/promotional materials for guest artists and performers and other related
tasks.
Education
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, United States Sep 1986 - May 1990
Bachelor of Arts, Individualized Directing
Obtained degree as an Individualized major comprised of Theater, English literature, Art History and
Philosophy.
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL, United States Sep 1990 - May 1993
Master of Fine Arts, Theater Directing
Shakespeare & Company
Lenox, United States Jan 1998 - Feb 1998
Month Long Acting Intensive and Teacher Training
Received advanced training as an actor and theater instructor of Shakespeare.
Courses Taught
NORTHERN STAGE
2010
Shakespeare Residency, South Strafford Middle School, VT
2008
Summer Shakespeare Intensive: Merchant of Venice
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Shakespeare Residency, Lebanon High School, NH: Romeo and Juliet
Shakeseare Spring Intensive: Scenes and Monologue
Adult Acting
2007
Shakespeare Residency, Hartford Elementary School: Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare Residency, Lebanon High School, Romeo and Juliet
Summer Shakespeare Intensive: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare Residency, Mt Ascutney School, VT: Much Ado About Nothing/ Romeo & Juliet
Period Style: Greeks through Chekhov
2006
Adult Acting
2005
Adult Acting
Shakespeare Residency, Lebanon High School, NH: Romeo and Juliet
Summer Shakespeare Intensive: Twelfth Night
Shakespeare Spring Intensive: Romeo and Juliet
Page to Stage: When the Playwright Makes It New with Dartmouth Professor Peter Saccio
2004
Summer Shakespeare Intensive: The Tempest
Hollywood in Vermont Film Intensive
The Acting Company Summer Theater Intensive: Crow and Weasel
The Acting Company Spring Intensive: The Crucible
Shakespeare Spring Intensive: Fools
2003
Page to Stage: Shakespeare with Dartmouth Professor Peter Saccio
Theater Residency, St. Mary's School, Claremont, NH
Summer Shakespeare Intensive: As You Like It
The Acting Company Summer Intensive: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
Hollywood in Vermont Film Intensive
Shakespeare Spring Intensive: Villians, Rogues and Theives
Children's Ensemble Theater: The King Stag
Children's Ensemble Theater: Mr. Toad's Mad Adventures
2002
Children's Ensemble Theater: The Time Machine
Shakespeare Summer Intensive: The Winter's Tale
Shakespeare Spring Intensive: Royal Chaos
Radio Plays
The Acting Company Summer Intensive: Dark of the Moon
2001
Children's Ensemble Theater: Bugsy Malone
The Acting Company Summer Intensive: Aladdin
2000
The Acting Company Summer Intensive: The Illusion
1999
Shakespeare Spring Intensive: Midsummer Night's Dream
The Acting Company Summer Intensive: Bartholomew Faire
Additional Eight week course each season for Acting for ages 8 through 18.
RIVER THEATER
Charlestown, NH
2009
Improvisation for Young Adults
2008
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Voices from the Dressing Room Walls: History and Writing of Old Town Hall
Workshops: Shakespeare, Improvisation
WORKSHOPS
2001 "Making A Grand Entrance" THISTLE, S. Stafford, VT1
1999 "A Bit O' Th' Bard", New England Theater Conference, Killington, VT
1992 "Making A Grand Entrance" High School Workshop Day, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
"Essence Movement" Illinois Theater Association Conference, Naperville, IL
"Essence Movement" Illinois High School Theater Festival, Illinois State University
Directing Credits
PROFESSIONAL THEATER
NORTHERN STAGE
White River Junction, VT
2002 The School for Scandal (Staged Reading)
2000 Little Women
1999 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Greater Tuna
1998 Lettice and Lovage
CANDLEWOOD PLAYHOUSE
New Fairfield, CT
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
1992 Oklahoma! (Director Jeff Lee)
Gypsy (Director Stephen Schwartz)
Mame (Director Karin Baker)
Singin' In the Rain (Director Newton Cole)
Peter Pan (Director John Clonts)
REGIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL THEATER
RIVER THEATER COMPANY
Charlestown, NH
2011 The Crucible
2010 13 Scenes for Halloween: Boo! (Codirector)
2009 Peter Pan (codirector Mike Wright)
2009 Twelfth Night
Murder Is In The Air
2008 A Trip to Chinatown (Staged Reading/Tour)
2007 A Midnight Bell (Staged Reading)
The Phantom of the Opera (Original Adaptation)
2004 A Christmas Story
1997 As You Like It
The Birth of the Son
Eleemosynary
NEW ENGLAND CLASSICAL ACADEMY
Claremont, NH
2012 The Phantom of the Opera
2011 Arabian Nights
2010 Medieval Mystery Christmas
2010 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
VERMONT THEATER COMPANY
Brattleboro, VT
2008 King Lear
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2005 The Winter's Tale
1998 A Midsummer Night's Dream
1997 The Firebird ( Original Adaptation, Touring Children's Theater)
THEATERWORKS NEW MILFORD
New Milford, CT
1994 Equus
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
DeKalb, IL
1992 The Heidi Chronicles
The Maids
1991 A Haunted House (Original Adaptation)
Pizazz
No Exit
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
1992 As Is (Director Patricia Lin Ridge)
1991 Speed-the-Plow (Director Gary Mickelson)
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE
Springfield, MA
1990 The Dining Room
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
Storrs, CT
1989 I'm Dreaming But Am I?
1988 God
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
1989 As You Like It (Director Tom Gruenwald)
THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Putney, VT
2005 Grease, Jr.
2004 Bugsy Malone, Jr.
2003 Oklahoma!
RIVERSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL
Springfield, VT
2004 Bugsy Malone, Jr.
2003 The Secret Garden
1999 This Could Be Murder
1998 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
1997 Integrity and Play the Part (Original Play)
The Tempest
SPRINGFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
Springfield, VT
1999 The Crucible
GUILFORD HIGH SCHOOL
Guilford, CT
1995 Guys and Dolls
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Acting Credits
PROFESSIONAL THEATER
NORTHERN STAGE
2005 The Shrew Tamer (World Premiere) Widow/Ensemble
2003 12 Angry Men (Staged Reading) Judge, Guard
The School for Scandal Mrs. Crabtree
1998 The Front Page Mrs. Schlosser
REGIONAL/COMMUNITY THEATER
RIVER THEATER COMPANY
Charlestown, NH
2009 A Trip to Chinatown (Staged Reading) Mrs. Guyer
1999 Steel Magnolias Shelby
1997 The Birth of the Son Zelomye
1997 As You Like It Celia
VERMONT THEATER COMPANY
Brattleboro, VT
2010 Hamlet Gertrude
1997 Much Ado About Nothing Ursula
1996 The Doctor in Spite of Himself Lucinde
SOUTHERN VERMONT THEATER FESTIVAL
Wilmington, VT
1998 A Bit O' Th' Bard Kate, Dromio
THEATERWORKS NEW MILFORD
New Milford, CT
1994 Sexual Perversity in Chicago Deborah
SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS
New Milford, CT
1993 The Diviners Goldie
SPRINGFIELD COMMUNITY THEATER
Springfield, VT
1996 Bell, Book and Candle Queenie
WALPOLE PLAYERS
Walpole, NH
2004 Crazy for You Patricia Fodor
SIOCHAIN THEATER COMPANY
New Haven, CT
1994 The Shadow Box Beverly
1993 The Face on the Bar Room Floor Bella Yukon
THE SOMETHING PLAYERS
Hamden, CT
1991 The Tempest Ariel
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
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1993 The Gentleman Caller Madame
Cherry Orchard 1989 Libby
1992 As Is Hospice Worker
1990 The Foreigner Froggy LeSeur
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
1989 Drive In Bobbi
1989 The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant Sidonie
1988 Bus Stop Elma
1988 The Birth of the Son Angelus
VOICE OVERS
2002 Commerical "Claremont Ford," "Radiant Floor Heating," "Gift Shop" with Tim Guy
1997-present Telephone Operator Voice, Sperry Group/McNamara Designs, Walpole, NH
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