Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce that Greg McCaslin has joined the company as Director of Education.
Greg McCaslin has had an extensive career in the fields of arts and education. For ten years from 1997-2007, Greg McCaslin was Director of Programs for the Center for Arts Education (
www.cae-nyc.org), where he is now a Senior Program Consultant. The Center for Arts Education is a collaboration with the New York City Department of Education, the United Federation of Teachers and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The primary goal of the Center is to serve as a catalyst for school improvement and reform in and through the arts, and to play a major role in the restoration of arts education in the City's public schools. As Director of Programs, Mr. McCaslin was responsible for developing and implementing the Center's programmatic activities including the New York City Partnerships for Arts and Education grant program as well as related meetings, conferences and publications.
Mr. McCaslin is an instructor in the Nonprofit Management Program of the Milano Graduate School at the New School. He has also served on the Program Council and board of the Partnership for After School Education (PASE). Prior to his service at the Center for Arts Education, Mr. McCaslin was Director of Education and Information at the New York Foundation for the Arts.
“I am thrilled that Greg will be leading ‘Education @ Roundabout’” stated Executive Director
Julia C. Levy. “Over the past 12 years, this program has grown into a $1 million plus effort with a mission to impact the quality of teaching and learning in our city’s public high schools by using theatre throughout the curriculum to address such issues as literacy, interdisciplinary instruction and behavior management. I can’t think of a more qualified or dynamic individual to lead this program to the next stage of its development.”
“Given Education@Roundabout’s outstanding record of achievement, I am delighted to be joining the team,” stated Mr. McCaslin. “I look forward to building on Roundabout’s leadership role infusing theatre into the work of educators and the lives of young people.”
Education @ Roundabout Overview
As one of the country’s leading not-for-profit cultural institutions, Roundabout is committed to serving the needs of both the theatre community and the community at large. “Education @ Roundabout” was founded in earnest in 1996 with lead funding from the Empire State Partnership, an initiative of the New York State Council on the Arts under the leadership of Chairman Earle Mack. Since then “partnership” has become the key principal by which the company has developed its work in the public schools. Education@Roundabout focuses on in-depth sequential programming created in collaboration with principals and teachers to meet the specific needs of their school and most importantly their students. In 2002, this mission led to Roundabout being selected among the first round of proposals to create new small schools as part of NYC’s Department of Education’s New Century High School Initiative. Today, Roundabout is the lead partner in two schools, Bronx Theatre High School and Brooklyn School for Music and Theatre. In addition, Roundabout has school-wide partnerships with five additional schools and works with 6,750 students, 280 teachers from 109 schools located in each of the five boroughs of New York City through a variety of other programs including Classroom Partnerships, Professional Development Workshops for Teachers and Principals and Theatre Access. Roundabout also extends its work beyond the classroom through its after-school programs, Voices and Student Production Workshop, and its Career Development Program which offers internships to high school through graduate school students in all areas of theatre management and production.
Roundabout Theatre Company is one of the country's leading not-for-profit theatres. The company contributes invaluably to New York's cultural life by staging the highest quality revivals of classic plays and musicals as well as new plays by established and emerging writers. Roundabout consistently partners great artists with great works to bring a fresh and exciting interpretation that makes each production relevant and important to today's audiences. Roundabout’s mission is to combine affordable subscription prices and excellent customer service with a wide variety of quality production that would not ordinarily be seen in a “commercial” setting.
Roundabout Theatre Company currently produces at three permanent theatres each of which is designed specifically to enhance the needs of the Roundabout's mission. The off Broadway home, the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre's home to the
Laura Pels Theatre and the 62-seat Black Box Theatre, with its simple sophisticated design is perfectly suited to showcasing new plays while the grandeur of its Broadway home, American Airlines Theatre, sets the ideal stage for the classics. Roundabout's Studio 54 provides an exciting and intimate Broadway venue for its musical and special event productions. Together these three distinctive venues serve to enhance the work on each of its stages.
Roundabout Theatre Company's education programs are made possible, in part, with support from The Aeroflex Foundation, American Airlines, American Theatre Wing, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust, Theodore H. Barth Foundation, Books of Wonder, The Center for Arts Education, CIT, Citi Foundation, Con Edison, The Council of the City of New York, Ford Motor Company Fund, The Hearst Foundation, The Heckscher Foundation for Children, City Council Member Oliver Koppel, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Mellam Family Foundation, Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Newman's Own Foundation, New Visions for Public Schools, New York State Council on the Arts, The New York Times Company Foundation, The George A. Ohl Jr. Trust, One World Fund, The Picower Foundation, Richmond County Savings Foundation, The Rudin Foundation, Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, The Starr Foundation, State of New York Department of State, The Michael Tuch Foundation, Verizon Communications, and
Walt Disney Company.
Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2008-2009 season includes
Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons, starring
Frank Langella, directed by
Doug Hughes; Rodgers & Hart’s
Pal Joey, starring
Stockard Channing,
Christian Hoff &
Martha Plimpton, directed by
Joe Mantello;
David Rabe’s Streamers, directed by
Scott Ellis,
Lisa Loomer’s Distracted featuring
Cynthia Nixon, directed by
Mark Brokaw; Steven Levenson’s The Language of Trees, directed by
Alex Timbers;
Henrik Ibsen’s
Hedda Gabler, starring
Mary-Louise Parker, directed by
Ian Rickson;
Christopher Hampton’s The Philanthropist, starring
Matthew Broderick, directed by
David Grindley and
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, starring
Bill Irwin and
Nathan Lane, directed by
Anthony Page. Roundabout’s sold out production of
The 39 Steps transferred to the Cort Theatre on April 29th, 2008.
Roundabout Theatre Company’s critically acclaimed Broadway production of
Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men is currently booking the third year of its multi-award winning tour. Twelve Angry Men is directed by Tony-nominated director
Scott Ellis (Curtains).
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