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Amy Weinstein
Jessica Rothman
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Amy Weinstein Founder and
President of Students Live, Inc. has been
developing, creating, marketing and producing education
programs in conjunction with Broadway shows since 1998.
A leader and pioneer in curriculum based standards and
exciting and educational custom designed workshops and
presentations. Amy is recognized for her highly
effective creative presence within public and private
schools nationwide. Ms. Weinstein served as Education
Director of Tony Randall's Not-For-Profit
Broadway National Actors Theater (NAT) for the
past seven years, until Mr. Randall’s death.
She has been dedicated to arts and education for the
past twenty years. Graduating from New York University
with a degree in theater and communication, she began
her work early on as a theatrical talent agent and
casting director in Hollywood. Due to her expertise and
comprehensive focus on education, she was asked to teach
acting to at-risk teenagers with Jean Stapleton's
foundation, The Academy of Performing and Visual Arts
in East Los Angeles.
From Amy’s work with artistically talented and gifted
young people, she co-wrote and directed a musical play
entitled Second Chance, which toured as an
Equity TYA contract to over 350,000 students in
California and surrounding states. National mental
health experts recognized the play as an inspirational
arts model for crisis intervention, suicide prevention
and interpersonal issues amongst teenagers at risk
throughout the country. WGBH/PBS commissioned it for
adaptation to teleplay in 1996. Ms. Weinstein served as
a producer on the project. She also traveled and spoke
internationally to world class competitive athletes,
teaching presentation and interpretative performance
skills.
Ms. Weinstein continued to teach in the New York area as
an improvisation and acting teacher at the American
Musical and Dramatic Academy as a senior member of
the faculty, directing graduation showcases for
international musical theater students from around the
world. Ms. Weinstein has created study guides and
workshops in conjunction with NAT's Broadway shows for
46 New York City Public Schools specially selected to
receive, free of cost, NAT's education programs and to
experience the classics on Broadway. Recent shows have
included, Judgment at Nuremberg, starring
Maximillian Schell, The Gin Game, starring
Charles Durning and Julie Harris and Night Must Fall
starring Matthew Broderick. She hires, trains and
develops these programs with experienced teaching
artists and professionals in the theater, education and
film communities and builds bridges for students in New
York to experience the comprehensive, interdisciplinary,
social, cultural, political and personal values of
theater.
She currently works as a writer, director and producer
both on and Off-Broadway and created StudentsLive
Inc. for the sole purpose of facilitating the
large demand for her programs and services. Her programs
have gained national print and electronic press
attention including Court TV, CNN, The New York
Times, ABC, NBC, CBS and local media outlets for
their educational, entertaining and artistic value. Her
excellent relationship with leaders in the cultural,
social and political communities has helped tie the
Broadway community into new audiences and inspire a
greater understanding of the importance of theater arts
in young people's lives.
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