Choreography Credits include: Matilda(CCMT) Dancing Lessons (Center REP), Freaky Friday (Center REP), Billy Elliot, Gypsy, The Music Man (Shellie Award) Les Miserables (CCMT) 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Center REP) Sweet Charity (Center REP), Xanadu (Center REP, Shellie Award) Joseph and the Amazing. Red Hot and Cole for Role Players Ensemble. Directing Credits Include: Matilda, Billy Elliot, Gypsy (Shellie Award), Joseph and the Amazing., A Chorus Line (BATCCA), OKLAHOMA! (Shellie Award), 42nd Street, and Guys and Dolls all for Contra Costa Musical Theatre. She was lucky to have studied and trained with her grandmother, Lareen Fender at The Ballet School Performing Arts. Jennifer Perry has been teaching Ballet and Theatre classes for over 32 years. Jeffrey's favorite roles include Marley ( A Christmas Carol, 18 years), Hamlet, Schmendiman ( Picasso at the Lapin Agile), Jud ( Oklahoma), and Beverley ( The Man Who Came to Dinner). He has been an Education Director for Marin Theater Company and a teaching artist in schools for TheatreWorks, Calaveras Rep, and Utah Shakespearean Festival. He has been a teacher with The Harker School in San Jose for 22 years. Jeffrey Draper has been a teacher and Co-Education Director for Young REP with Kerri Shawn for 27 years. Kerri has a BA in Theatre Arts and Speech from San Francisco State University. Some of her favorite roles include Josie Hogan in Moon for the Misbegotten, Jane in Fallen Angels, Maggie in The Shadow, Cookie in Rumors, Julia Gibbs in Our Town, Hannah Jelkes in The Night of the Iguana, Ann Landers in The Lady With All the Answers, various roles in Angels in America, Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol and Shirley in Shirley Valentine. She was an artist in residence for twenty-five years for the Eugene O’Neill Foundation’s Student Days at Tao House and received the Eugene O’Neill Foundation’s Artistic Award as well as nine Shellie Awards for Artistic Achievement in various performances as an actress and supporting actress. Kerri is a resident actress with Fantasy Forum Actors Ensemble, and has performed with PlayGround, Marin Theatre Company, Contra Costa Musical Theatre, Diablo Actors Ensemble, Town Hall Theatre Company, and Center REP over the past four decades. She also teaches classes in Acting, Writing, Improvisation, Building A Character, Scene Study, and Vocal Production for Young REP and The Ballet School Performing Arts. Kerri Shawn has served as Co-Director of the Young REP Summer Theatre Training Program with Jeffrey Draper since 1995.
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