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Studio Coordinator for School of Rock (Oct 2021 - Present)
School of Rock helps aspiring musicians master skills, unleash creativity, and develop tools they need to thrive in life. Founded as a single school in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1998, School of Rock has become a rapidly growing international franchise with over 350 schools open and in development across 15 global markets. Since 2009, School of Rock has grown its student count from 4,000 to over 40,000. School of Rock offers a wide variety of music lessons, including guitar lessons, singing lessons, and piano lessons. School of Rock was awarded US Patent 10,891,872 in 2021 for its innovative music education method. School of Rock also has garnered the following industry awards: 2021 Global Franchise Awards Best Children's Service and Education Franchise; 2021 Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500 Top Children's Music Enrichment Brand; Franchise Business Review's Top 200 Franchises of 2021 and the "Best in Education Category"; 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine's Top 200 Franchise and the #1 Child Enrichment Franchise; and 2018 Forbes # 2 Best Franchise Medium-Level Investment Award and the #1 Music Franchise in America. To learn more, click here.
Fall Risk the Musical (Jul 2019 - Current)
"Fall Risk" is the first musical comedy about Cystic Fibrosis. Based on a true story by Nicole Sigur.
Gabriella Michaels, a quirky actress who just happens to suffer from a severe lung disease called cystic fibrosis, was just turned down by yet another casting agency because of her “height.” In the name of justice, Gabby decides to go undercover at Fantasy Theater to prove that the theatrical community is prejudice against disabilities. However, things grow complicated when she receives an unexpected callback as well as a contract for weekly experimental treatments. Now it’s up to her family to convince her which is more important. As hilarious as it is moving, this story shows that there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to a disability.
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Education Assistant for People’s Light (Nov 2019 - Jul 2020)
People’s Light makes plays drawn from many sources to entertain, inspire, and engage our community. They extend our mission of making and experiencing theatre through arts education programs that excite curiosity about, and deepen understanding of, the world around us. These plays and programs bring people together and provide opportunities for reflection, discovery, and celebration.
Their award-winning educational programs are designed for youth from a wide range of backgrounds, communities, and schools. We engage with youth to explore all aspects of making theatre: story and expression, connection with others, examination of self, and discovery of the world—all while having fun!
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Young Audiences for New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania, Arts In Education (Dec 2018 - Mar 2019)
The Artists in Education Residency Grant Program (AIE) places highly qualified professional artists in classrooms for 20 days or more during the school day through a program of residency grants. Any New Jersey public, private, charter or parochial school serving grades PreK-12 is eligible to apply.
The Artists in Education (AIE) Residency Grant Program brings unique, dynamic, in-depth arts education programs to schools across New Jersey. Since 1971, the AIE Program has been dedicated to bringing teaching artists and educators together in powerful long-term residencies to help students and teachers engage in and learn about the creative process.
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National Constitution Center, Living News (Jan - June 2018)
Living News a fast paced, up-close, theatrical performance introducing current and controversial issues to middle and high school students. This dynamic, 25-minute performance incorporates video, contemporary music and current news broadcasts, featuring three actors who bring the action right up to the audience. Audience members are encouraged to participate in the story. This popular program has been around for many years because it is a fan favorite with the National Constitution Center constituents.
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Iron Age Theatre and Juniper Productions, Marx in SoHo (May - June 2018)
The original voice in the one-man play by Howard Zinn is, of course, Karl Marx himself. In it, Marx responds to society and our relationships today - at times with fierce emotion, at times more dispassionately. The 2018 touring production is also the story of years of dialogue, conversation, and collaboration between the whole creative team – the historian and playwright, Howard Zinn; the director and producer John Doyle; and the actor and activist Bob Weick.
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Juniper Productions, Splinter and Crack (April - May 2018)
Truth may be absolute, but reality is subjective in Jessica Bedford’s new play, SPLINTER AND CRACK, a darkly comic, multi-generational drama that reveals how Rosemary, a hoarder and academic, experiences the world around her, and the family conflicts that arise as a result. In a play that explores the old adage, “if these walls could talk,” the audience is immersed in Rosemary' world, sharing her secrets as the structures around her begin to stutter, shake – and crack.
*Barrymore Recommended
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Breaking Through the Box Theatre Company, Bad Jews (December 2017)
Bad Jews is a dark comedy play by Joshua Harmon. After a beloved grandfather dies in New York, leaving a treasured piece of religious jewelry that he succeeded in hiding even from the Nazis during the Holocaust, cousins fight over not only the family heirloom, but their "religious faith, cultural assimilation, and even the validity of each other's romances.” Bad Jews was December 1-3 at the Louis Bluver Theater at the Drake.
STEAM+ Arts Integration Conference Program (July 2017)
STEAM+ Professional Development program was created to better prepare educators, students and governments for growing intellectual demands, student performance, and creative thinking. J Rêve International organized a STEAM+ Professional Development program in Washington, DC to encourage arts education advocacy for multi-subject educators. The program is also geared to serve as a platform for global educators to engage one another on issues relating to development, learning, and implementation of arts education. The program event ran from Friday – Sunday, July 28-30th, 2017, and was comprised of a series of roundtable workshops and panel discussions mainly on the arts and STEAM+ education. It featured a collaboration of interdisciplinary artists, policy-makers, and educators to deliberate and explore productive ways of incorporating art
themes into interdisciplinary education. J Rêve International took
the program beyond the Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Math. The + is being included to bring all educators in multi-
subject, multidisciplinary and encourage them to explore the arts
when teaching students in any discipline. Because of this program,
Nicole is trained to successfully integrate arts education into school
curriculum and local government programming to make arts education
and programs more accessible and inclusive to all people.