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
JANET LOEB
Janet Loeb’s passion is creating and leading programs in arts and culture, education, and philanthropic endeavors. With an MBA from Wharton, her experience in investment banking and consulting spans 3 decades. She has designed programs, taught, and administered grants in Art, Media Arts, and Technology awarded to Los Angeles Unified schools by the California Department of Education, the Autry Foundation, CBS, and Laurel Promenade Developers. Janet is the Project Originator/Manager/Curator for ArtHealingArtists founded in 2015 to create live, interactive “pop-up” exhibitions in which the public can experience an artist’s journey while learning about life-altering conditions from the artist’s personal perspective. Janet has served on several boards in the non-profit sector where her responsibilities included fundraising, community education, curriculum, and strategic planning. She has received several awards and honors for her leadership in the Los Angeles community and brings a unique perspective of financial savvy to creative and humanitarian endeavors.
