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.

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KAITE BRANDT

Kaite is a professional director, actor, set and production designer, with extensive classical and Shakespearean training at the Antaeus Theatre Company in Los Angeles. Her stage credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Merry Wives of Windsor, Our Town, The Laramie

Project, and Noises Off. She is an accomplish singer with many musical credits. She has been helping kids of all ages find their voice teaching music, drama, dance, and the classics since 2006. Kaite join The Young Shakespeareans in 2018 to co-direct Romeo & Juliet at Normandie Avenue Elementary School.