Adele is a poet/teacher living in Silver Spring, MD. She received her BA & MFA in English Literature/Creative Writing at the University of Maryland. She's a professor at Montgomery College, Teaching evening classes for UMGC, and is a poet in at the Arts in Education Program with the Maryland State Arts Council. She's been published in Gargoyle, So to Speak, The Maryland Poetry Review, Smartish Pace, The Lucid Stone, Scribble, and more. Books: Refracted Love, Freshwater Pearls, The Moon Lighting, & Look Ma, "Hands" on Poetry (collection of creative writing workshops for students).
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801 Ellsworth Dr
Silver Spring, MD 20910
United States
Leila Cabib is a professional cartoonist, illustrator, and animator. Her clients include The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Gannett newspapers, Time-Life Books, and many other publications and organizations. She has written and illustrated two nationally syndicated comic strips. She has been teaching cartooning in after-school programs for 29 years and cartooning and animation as an artist in residence in elementary, middle, and high schools (grades 2-12) for 20 years. Her students’ animated videos have been honored with several national awards and shown at international film f
Young Artists of America at Strathmore (YAA) is a non-profit educational organization offering world-class musical theatre training to young performing artists in a professional and nurturing environment. Our students perform fully orchestrated works of musical theatre in state-of-the-art venues such as the Music Center at Strathmore, where we are an Affiliate. Through the creative process, we give students skills and confidence to “find their voice” on the stage and in life.
John Morogiello has been a teaching artist in Maryland since 1997, offering residencies in playwriting for students in grades 3 and above that integrate curricular subject matter with performance and dramatic story-telling. His plays (including Engaging Shaw, Blame It On Beckett, and The Consul, The Tramp, and America's Sweetheart) have been produced off-Broadway, in Europe, and at some of America's premier regional theaters. John is also the artistic director of Best Medicine Rep Theater Company in Gaithersburg.
Why are we here?
To entertain. To bring joy. To foster community and learning through shared laughter. To lighten our shared burden of existence for a short while.
Why comedy?
Broadly defined and properly presented, comedy encompasses all of the human experience. It can make us laugh and make us cry. It can bring joy and it can bring anger. It makes us think and makes us forget. It exalts and ridicules. It can divert, and it can focus. Comedy levels life’s playing field.
Why theater?
Kiti Gartner & the Drifting Valentines is a band out of Washington DC who play western swing, rockabilly, old country and some jump blues. Their influences include music from the 1940s and on, including almost everything that came out of The Quonset Hut and RCA Studio B in Nashville, Sun Records and Bakersfield. Kiti Gartner (vocals and rhythm guitar), Zachary Sweeney (lead guitar), Steve Wolf (upright bass), Brian Alpert (drums).
The OCEAN Celtic Quartet (Jennifer Cutting on button accordion & keyboard, Christine Noyes on vocals, & guitars, Sean Heely on fiddle, voice, and harp, and Steve Winick on vocals and percussion) play music packed with pure pan-Celtic pizzazz, putting their unique spin on traditional songs and Cutting’s original compositions, from soaring ballads and stirring sea chanteys to blazing fiddle and accordion tunes.
Silver Spring Stage, founded in 1967, is a community theatre with a mission to present the best in contemporary plays at affordable prices. Our theater facility is located in the Woodmoor Shopping Center in the Four Corners area of Silver Spring, Maryland, and we draw audiences from throughout the DMV area. In recent years we have produced plays that seek to embrace the diversity of our area and expand our reach to new artists and audiences.
InterAct Story Theatre is a theatre for young audiences and multidisciplinary arts-in-education organization based in Wheaton, Maryland.
Round House Theatre is a leading professional theatre in the Washington, DC area. Each year, Round House produces a series of new plays, musicals, and modern classics, welcoming more than 50,000 people. We serve more than 5,000 students annually at the Round House Education Center in Silver Spring, at our theatre in Bethesda, and in schools throughout the DC-metro area. Our Education and Engagement programs promote accessibility by offering year-round free and reduced-cost programming for students of all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels.