| ELISE FORIER (Assistant Professor, Theatre for
Youth) received her initial professional training at the Arena's
Living Stage, in Washington, D.C. and went on to direct and create
arts and theatre programs at such diverse organizations as the City
of Tucson, LimeLight Children's Theatre, the Whidbey Island Center
for the Arts, the Arizona Arts Commission and Tacoma Actors Guild.
A professional playwright, Forier has had plays and musicals produced
all over the country, in New York and Los Angeles, as well as such
far flung places as Jonesboro, Arkansas and McCall, Idaho. She has
won playwriting awards from the Columbia Entertainment Company,
the Bonderman/IRT/IUPUI Children's Theatre Symposium, the Seven
Devils Playwrights Conference, Artist Trust/Washington State Arts
Commission, and others. She has twice been invited to develop her
works at the National Playwright's Conference at the Eugene O'Neill
Theatre Center. Forier received her M.F.A. in Playwriting from the
University of Arizona and has directed and taught Theatre Arts in
elementary schools, high schools and colleges throughout the country
for more than a decade. She spent five weeks in New York City this
summer studying physical theatre skills and period style at the
Actor's Movement Studio. This year she will be developing (with
composer Tina Lear) two new original family musicals --Valerie
and the Bear, with id Theatre in New York, and Bread and
Roses, with the Salt Lake City School of the Arts. At Central,
she will be directing a workshop production of Mama Tomcats
Flying School, a new play for young people by Spring Hermann,
and also the annual Youth Theatre Tour production, The Adventures
of Don Quixote.
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