Megan Cramer BioMegan Cramer is currently the Arts Integration Specialist at The Galloway School, following six years serving as their Upper Learning Theatre Teacher. Born and raised in Atlanta, and a proud graduate of Henry W. Grady High School, she spent 15 years living, working and making theater in New York City, most notably as the Associate Artistic Director of The 52nd Street Project. Ms. Cramer was also the Middle School drama teacher at Avenues: The World School in Manhattan, where she produced and directed bilingual theatrical productions, and guided the entire 6th grade class through writing and staging an original musical adaptation of "The Phantom Tollbooth."
In 2008, she founded an annual playwriting program at Grady High – the Grady Playmakers Workshop-- an intensive curriculum for high school students that culminates in a staged reading of their work, featuring professional Atlanta actors. She has built on this model and implemented it at the Alliance Theatre Summer Camp and with Georgia Film Academy's Dramatic Writing 10-Minute Play Competition. She has been involved in numerous artistic and theatrical ventures including providing guidance and support to beginning non-profit theatre organizations, touring teen Shakespeare productions to Marfa, Texas and Banff, Canada, and traveling to Madagascar with Zara Aina to make an original play with Malagasy children. Ms. Cramer received a B.A. degree in theater from Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC). Beyond the world of teaching and directing, she performs as an actor in Atlanta with Actor's Express, Marietta Theater Company, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Synchronicity Theatre, Horizon Theater Company, Woodstock Arts, and the Alliance Theater Company; and in New York City with Prospect Theater Company and Blessed Unrest. All of Megan's work is focused on bringing out each individual's voice and instinctive talents. Whether she is working with children, teenagers or adults, she encourages everyone to remember what it is like to "play," and how to structure that sense of play into a cohesive and exciting original piece of art. |