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
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The Young Shakespeareans is expanding rapidly, with new program offerings for ever more children of differing ages, skills, and interests.
Each step requires Teaching Artists, Equipment, Costumes, Backdrops, and other production materials.
Your generosity funds our ability to serve more students throughout
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Young Shakespeareans in the future.
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The Young Shakespeareans is fiscally sponsored by Community Partners,
a 501(c)(3) non-profit and tax-exempt U.S. corporation, ID 95-4302067.
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