The Young Shakespeareans
ALISON KORMAN Artistic Director / Founder
Alison is an entrepreneur and classically trained actor who, after working in Mexico and Senegal, returned to New York City's Metropolitan Opera and 92nd Street Y before founding her own arts management company, Korman+Company. During 25 years procuring and producing $5 million annually in still photography, she simultaneously performed off-Broadway and in various theatrical venues abroad. Living in Los Angeles since 1997, she has served as an Account Director for the Taproot Foundation, performed for hundreds of schoolchildren with the LA Assistance League’s Nine O’Clock Players, and began teaching Shakespeare to Title 1 elementary school children in South Los Angeles in 2009. She conceived the idea for The Young Shakespeareans Program in 2010, officially founded the organization in 2017, and has developed its curriculum in the conviction that unleashing the awareness and potential of Title 1 public school children transforms their lives while serving the broader community. Alison continues to perform in theatre, film and television. She received her degree in Special Education and Foreign Language from Washington University in St. Louis.
of John Adams Middle School
CARRIE GIBSON
Carrie is a professional actor, singer, and writer of screenplays inspired by true incidents. She has founded two theater companies which toured nationally to schools and communities with original, character-driven work focused on social issues. She has appeared in television series including "Bones", "Scream Queens", "Superstore", and "Jane the Virgin", and enjoys a recurring role on the Netflix comedy "The Politician". Carrie joined The Young Shakespeareans as a Teaching Artist in 2018, co-directed "Macbeth" at West Vernon Avenue Elementary School, "Romeo & Juliet" at John Adams Middle School, and looks forward to co-directing "A Midsummer Night's Dream" there in Spring 2021.
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