Playhouse Playmakers

Playhouse Playmakers is a new children’s education program at the Westport Country Playhouse, directed by actor/playwright/educator Evette Marie White and actor/songwriter/educator Stacie Morgain Lewis. The purpose of this program is to educate middle schoolers (grades 6-8) on the fundamentals of creating a play while allowing them space to develop as artists. In this six-week program, kids will come to understand the process of writing, revising, and rehearsing a play that they themselves originate as a group. Students will learn the foundations of playwriting, production and acting that will culminate with a performance on the Westport Country Playhouse stage that their friends and families will be invited to attend.

Program Details:

• The program runs from 1PM-4PM for 6 Sundays from October 13 – November 17.
• The invited performance will take place on the Playhouse stage on Sunday, November 24.
• The class size will be about 15 students in grades 6-8.

More about Evette Marie White:

Evette Marie White is an actress, poet, playwright and educator who has nurtured young artists for over a decade. She hails from Chesapeake, VA and she studied Musical Theatre at Howard University in Washington, DC. She has toured the world in Ghost the Musical and performed in a host of shows throughout the US, Asia, Australia and abroad. She currently teaches for Learning Through an Expanded Art Program (Leap) as a teaching artist where she has coached several New York City Finalists for The Next Narrative Monologue Competition at the Apollo Theatre hosted by Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company. She looks forward to seeing our young thespians soar!

More about Stacie Morgain Lewis:

Stacie Morgain Lewis is an actress, singer, songwriter, teacher and mom. She played Glinda in the Chicago production of Wicked. Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George (Frieda/Betty), Wicked (standby Glinda), Urinetown (u/s Hope Cladwell), Titanic. Off-B’way: Don’t Quit Your Night Job. National Tours: Titanic, South Pacific (u/s Nellie). Regional: LMNOP at the Goodspeed, The 39 Steps, No Way To Treat a Lady, My Fair Lady. Film/TV: Elephant Shoes, Blacklist. BFA Ithaca College. She co-wrote the children’s album Harmonize with Ben Cohn (the conductor/musical director of Dear Evan Hansen) and then went on to create Harmonize Kidz, an arts enrichment program that uses her music to teach social-emotional learning to elementary students. The curriculum has been implemented in school systems throughout the tri-state area. Stacie has performed countless concerts in and out of schools, and in partnerships with organizations such as Sandy Hook Promise (supported by Senator Chris Murphy), Melissa and Doug, Bank Street School for Children and the Broadway Inspirational Voices. www.harmonizekidz.com