6.42 A Conversation with Andrew Geha
This week Jimmy talks with New York teacher Andrew Geha. He talks about immersive theatre, intimacy direction with high schoolers, and the power of theatre for a community.
www.andrewgeha.com
Shakesplosion at Youth Plays!
Andrew's Recommended Resources:
Colleagues- talk to people, find your mentors
Arts Administrator
Andrew Geha is an award-winning playwright and theater teacher. He has worked at Friends Academy, a Quaker school in Locust Valley, NY, since 2001. His musical featuring LGBTQ+ teens, Standing in the Current, was one of the winners of AATE’s 2018 Unpublished Play Reading Project. In Dreams, I Am Invincible, a play about bullying, was the 2018 winner of the New England Theatre Conference’s Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Acting and a Master's Degree in Educational Theater, both from New York University. His work has been produced internationally, including a five-star production of We Didn’t Have Time to Be Scared, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
