FRANK INGRASCIOTTA



Frank Ingrasciotta

TEACHING ARTIST / PLAYWRIGHT / DIRECTOR / ACTOR

44 McKinley Avenue, White Plains, NY 10606

Tel: 917-742-5819 • E-mail: fidirector@ - Website:

PROFILE

Award-winning Teaching Artist, Arts Educator and Staff Developer with over 15 years experience integrating common core curriculums with theatre arts, improvisation, playwriting, filmmaking, and creative writing. Experience teaching culturally diverse populations (K-12) with gifted, at-risk youth, emotionally & mentally challenged, visually impaired, and homeless. Strong interpersonal skills, experience in classroom management.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

SUNY PURCHASE COLLEGE, Purchase, NY (2002 – Present)

- Acting & Musical Theatre Workshop Adjunct for adult continuing education program. Program & Stage Director for Summer Acting Institute Youth Theatre Program.

ST. JOSEPH REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, Montvale, NJ (2012 - Present)

- Resident Stage Director / Drama Teacher for an award-winning theatre youth drama program. Responsible for conceiving & directing mainstage drama & musical productions. Instructor teaching acting, monologue writing and scene study.

LIFETIME ARTS, NYC (2011 - Present)

Workshop Facilitator for the Creative Aging Program conducting Memoir Writing, Playwriting and Performance residencies in libraries and senior living facilities to mature populations.

ARTS WESTCHESTER, White Plains, NY (1999 – Present)

- Conducted artist-in-residence programs for school districts throughout the county. Staff Developer for roster artists. Artist-in-Residence for all schools in the Greenburgh and Mount Vernon School Districts as part of the Artist & Teachers Together Federal Grant and AEMDD Federal Grant. Have built a film library of over 30 movies that infuse playwriting, acting & filmmaking into grade curriculums. The movies are now a teaching tool for future incoming students.

YOUNG AUDIENCES NEW YORK -- TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE -- ARTSGENESIS, INC. -- LeAp – Learning through an Expanded Arts Program -- DREAMYARD DRAMA -- WINGSPAN (1999 – Present) - Teaching Artist & Staff Developer for all the above listed arts organizations conducting residencies & teacher staff developments incorporating theatres, playwriting, creative writing, filmmaking into the common core curriculum (elementary, intermediate & high school). Residencies at New York City area schools -- PS 5, 9, 52, 91, 107, 152, 154, 156, 197, 159, IS 231- Queens, IS 43-Brooklyn. Williston High School, Deer Park High School (Long Island)

MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE, Purchase, NY (2010 – 2012)

- Adjunct teaching a undergraduate course in the Business of Show.

VALHALLA HIGH SCHOOL, Valhalla, NY (2005 – 2012) -- MANHATTAN EAST SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS (MS 224, NYC) (2002 – 2003) -- RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY, Ridgefield, CT (2004)

- Program Coordinator / Drama Teacher / Stage Director for all above listed schools teaching middle & high school students. Responsible for conceiving & directing mainstage drama & musical productions. Acting Coach preparing students for performing arts high schools & college auditions.

MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER, White Plains, NY (2003 – 2012)

- Drama & Improvisation Teacher to youth theatre program.

WESTCHESTER BOCES (2000 – 2005)

- Workshop Facilitator for the Young Authors’ Conference & Young Authors’ Editing Day, a creative writing & revision workshop for high school students. Drama Teacher at PVC Middle School in Croton-on-Hudson, NY. Teaching Artist for Ardsley Middle School conducting a program revolving around the play 12 Angry Men.

Frank Ingrasciotta Resume – Page 2

GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE, New Brunswick, NJ (2001, 2002, 2003)

- Teaching Artist & Performer for Diva/Gentlemen’s Solo Performance Festival, a community based educational program serving intermediate & high school students from the New Brunswick, NJ school system. Students work with professional theatre artists conducting same-gender workshops in memoir writing promoting creative self-expression for performance. Directed theatre’s mainstage performance of student’s work. Program coincided with writing & performing my own solo production of Blood Type: RAGU, where I portrayed over 30 characters based on my experiences growing up first-generation Italian-American.

EDITH WINTHROP TEACHER CENTER OF WESTCHESTER (2004 – 2010)

- Faculty Member conducting teacher training workshops.

KID’S SHORT STORY CONNECTION (2002 – Present)

- Short Story Writing Instructor teaching teens writing, editing & critiquing techniques.

INSIDE BROADWAY (Broadway’s Arts Education Organization) (1997 – 2001)

- Ass’t Development Director & Writer of theatrical programs introducing the Broadway theatrical experience to NYC public school students. Assisted in researching grants. Artist-in-Residence & Staff Developer in NYC schools teaching immigration as an embodying emotional experience. Workshops with at-risk East New York high school youth using theater/improvisation as tool to teach job interview & empowerment skills.

STAR THEATER / Mt. Sinai Hospital's Adolescent Health Center Aids Program (1997)

- Six-month residency as Associate Educational Director using theatre as a tool to teach sexual health issues to adolescents. Directed improvisational acting scenes & organized rehearsal workshops for STAR Theater's interactive theatrical school performances.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, WORKSHOPS & AWARDS: SUNY/Empire State College - B.A./THEATER ARTS-IN-EDUCATION. Workshops: Elder Share of the Arts, Irondale Theatre Ensemble, SPARK Family Arts Forum, Artsgenesis Teachers & Artists Institute. Graduate Certificate - Commercial Theater Institute's Producing Seminar. Two Years Acting Training in Meisner Technique with William Esper. HB Studio Acting: Sandy Dennis. Published in From Medusa to the Sky by Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Recent recipient of Arts Award presented by the Westchester Arts Council for outstanding Performing Artist & Arts Educator for the county. Letter of Recognition for outstanding achievement by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Writer/Performer of critically-acclaimed show Blood Type: RAGU. Winner of the United Solo Award for Best Comedic Performance. Member of Actor’s EQUITY, SAG and AFTRA. Computer skills, fluent in Italian, Own a car.

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download