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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Beginning in South Los Angeles in 2008 at the behest of LAUSD administrators Emma Rodriguez and Robert Baker, the Program was initiated at Nevin Avenue Elementary School under Principal Denise Pratt. Now serving as an LAUSD District Director, Dr. Pratt remains an avid TYS supporter and proponent encouraging the Principals in her charge to bring the Program to their schools.

Nevin Avenue

Elementary School

1569 East 32nd Street

Los Angeles, CA, 90011

West Vernon Avenue

Elementary School

4312 South Grand Avenue

Los Angeles, CA, 90037

John Adams

Middle School

151 W 30th Street

Los Angeles, CA, 90007