Teacher
Peggy Pettitt has enormous professional experience and training in directing storytelling/playmaking workshops. She teaches a step-by-step process of creating, writing and performing original material. Skills she imparts help one transform life experiences into rich theater. And new meaning is gleaned from cultural traditions and history, folklore, songs and improvisations.
Partnering with a wide array of organizations, she has helped scores of diverse groups present their own original stories as both theater and storytelling performances. She also works extensively with drama therapists, social workers and educators in public schools.
Both in the U.S. and abroad, Ms Pettitt has worked at numerous schools and educational institutions. Her teaching experience extends, as well, to such facilities as homeless shelters, prisons, drug treatment centers, VA hospitals and both senior and adolescent centers. Additionally she has ample experience working with the emotionally and physically disabled and their families.
She currently teaches Self-Scripting at New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing.
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