Historical Society Director

Allen O’Reilly

Education Director/Director/Producer/Teacher

Salary requirements: $45K- $50K

Education and Training

Bachelor of Arts in Drama, Northern Arizona University, 1982 Alliance Theatre Acting Intern 1984-1986

Two Year Certificate-Actors Lab of Arizona, 1984

Certificate from the Weist -Barron School of Television and Film, 1988

Work Experience: Professional Theatre and Drama in Education Director of Education and Community Outreach Bay Street Theater 2018-present

Education Programs Manager-Cleveland Play House 2015-2018 Education Director, Georgia Shakespeare March 2004-2014 Artistic Director Young Audiences of Atlanta 1992-2004 Director of Education and Community Outreach Bay Street Initiated theater classes for the first time in the organization’s history. Responsible for the creation and administration of all camps and classes for children to senior adults both live and online. Monitor the online registration service for class and camp programming and create all content

Supervise the intern program comprised of current college students Coordinated the selection of the company’s first black-themed play A Raisin in the Sun, Fall 2019

Adapted Herman Melville’s Moby Dick for online production Fall 2020 Created and performed: A Midsummer’s Renewal! Scenes from Shakespeare. Summer 2020

Have built community outreach relationships with Sag Harbor School District, LTV Television, The Sag Harbor Whaling Museum, Christ Episcopal Church, United Methodist Church of Southampton, Eastville Community Historical Society

Education Programs Manager Cleveland Play House

Managed eleven of twelve education programs including: Cleveland Play House Engagement Programming-Inside CPH, Apprentice Program (12 administrative and production apprentices), Classroom Matinee Tour- ClassMat (Director 2015, 2016) CPH Theatre Academy 2017-2018

(Instructor, wrote all marketing copy), Student Matinees, (Coordinator)VSA

(Very Special Arts) wrote grants and was point-person for the initiative 2015-2018

Director of the Education at Georgia Shakespeare

Responsible for nine educational offerings both at the Conant Theatre and throughout the southeast. Functions include: teaching, directing, writing, editing, and coaching

Artistic Director Young Audiences

Worked with artists from all over the world on in-school education programming in the disciplines of theatre, music, dance and visual arts

Produced eleven years of SHOWCASE the annual Arts and Educational Booking Fair at Westminster Schools

North Atlanta High School, Holy Innocents School, SciTrek, and the Atlanta Civic Center

Produced all of Young Audiences fundraisers, including SUN FEST and Paradise Island 1992

Arts and Education

Georgia Shakespeare

Teaching- Coordinated and taught acting in the High School Conservatory 1992-2014

Taught and facilitated The Teen Ensemble 2004 to 2014 Conducted classes for adults including: Acting Shakespeare 101, The Acting Class, Shakespeare for Everyone, Private Tutorials. Director- Directed the following productions for Shakespeare Summer Shorts: Will’s Dream, Boot Camp Shakespeare.

Director- Family Classic Series: Jungle Book, The Emperor and The Nightingale, Mighty Myths and Legends! The Frog Prince Co-Director for Family Classic Series: Treasure Island, Robin Hood, Alice in Wonderland, Sword in the Stone.

Director High School Tour: Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet.

Director Elementary Tour: Miguel’s Shakespearean Adventure, Will’s World

Playwright- Miguel’s Shakespearean Adventure, Will’s Dream, Boot Camp Shakespeare, A Tale of Two Shrews, Will’s World. Residency Coordinator/Director 2004-2014

The Tempest, Creek View Elementary 2006, A Tale of Two Shrews Mt. Bethel Elementary 2006, Comedy of Errors, Garden Hills Elementary 2011, Much Ado About Nothing, Garden Hills Elementary 2013, Romeo and Juliet, Garden Hills Elementary

Workshop Presenter 2004-2014

Over eighty workshops presented throughout the state including: Intro to Shakespeare, Macbeth/ the Man, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet.

Associate Artist Georgia Shakespeare 1987-2014

(Resume available on request) acted in over sixty productions. Professional Director- 1992 –present

The Woman in Black, Educating Rita, Driving Miss Daisy, Red Clay Theatre Arts, Duluth, Georgia. Babes in Toyland Springer Opera House, Saint Joan (scene one), Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern, Standard Safety, The Great American Cheese Sandwich, Alliance Theatre Intern Lunchtime Theatre, Death and Taxes, Café Noir, Mystery Café, The Crucible, Twelfth Night, Bard’s Best! Oglethorpe University, Rumors, Georgia State University, Twelfth Night, Kennesaw State University Acting Teacher Alliance Theatre 1992-2012

Everybody Can Act, Acting Process, Acting III

Cleveland Play House 2017-2018

The Actor’s Gym, Voice it! Teen Scene, Speak the Speech! Committees: Atlanta Area Equity Liaison Committee 2001-2006 Program Committee, Young Audiences of Atlanta, 2004-2012, Advisory Committee, Theatre Gael 2007-present, Chair of Georgia Shakespeare Education Advisory Council 2006-2014, Cleveland Play House-Art Department (2017-2018)

References

Richard Garner,Former Producing Artistic Director, Georgia Shakespeare, **********@*****.***, 404-***-****

Jay Freer Director of Fine Arts

The Lovett School

******@******.***, 404-***-**** ext 1281

Scott Spence, Artistic Director Beck Center

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