Service Description

Creative Drama for Kids is an exciting and imaginative journey for young actors, building communication skills, sparking the imagination, inspiring empathy, and nurturing creativity. Students will create a storytelling ensemble by playing developmentally appropriate theatre games, collaborating, and dramatizing familiar stories. FPCT Creative Drama for students in grades 1 - 5. 12: 30 pm - 1:30 pm Saturdays, October 4 - November 15 (No class October 25) Teachers: Zipporah Brown Gladden, Marianne Angelella, Larry Malkus Zipporah is an actor and a teaching artist with a B.A. in Theatre. Zipporah has worked in theatre education since 2012 with Baltimore CenterStage's theatre summer camp and Young Playwrights Festival. In addition, she has been a teaching artist for the Summer Arts and Learning Academy with Arts for Learning, MD since 2018. You may also recognize her as Mrs. Claus from FPCT's Corner Carol. Zipporah is excited to teach this year's class! Marianne Gazzola Angelella is a creative drama and theatre teacher with over 25 years experience. Marianne currently teaches drama at the amazing Baltimore Lab School where she is also an arts integration specialist. She is MSDE certified, K-12, in special education and theatre - and a graduate of Young Audiences of Maryland Teaching Artist Institute. Prior to working at Lab School, Marianne was a freelance teaching artist teaching creative drama, play production, play writing, and more for Spotlighters Theatre, Everyman Theatre, InterAct Story Theatre, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Childrens’ Theatre Association, Pumpkin Theatre, and more. Fells Point Corner Theatre is her home both as an actor and a teacher. FPCT is where she took her first acting workshop and was guided to teach by her beloved mentors, Beverly Sokal and Marley Willard. She is a proud member of Actors Equity Association representing actors and stage managers nationwide. Larry Malkus has been teaching Improvisational Acting (Short and Long Form) and Sketch Comedy Writing since 1990. He received his B.F.A. from Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y. in 1989 and has been active in Baltimore's theater community ever since. Larry is also an experienced stage combat (hand-to-hand, fencing) teacher and choreographer. He currently teaches at Baltimore's Gilman School.