Bridget Palmer

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Bridget Palmer has been specializing in children’s theater classes, camps, and productions for over 20 years. She directed Santa Rosa Children’s Theater from 2007-2021. In 2016, she co-founded A Theater For Children, a community theater company specializing in shows for young audiences. Miss Bridget has worked in school settings as a Drama teacher in numerous locations and joined Luther Burbank Center for the Arts as a Teaching Artist in 2019. Miss Bridget weaves her love of dance, costumes, nature, and singing into her work whenever she can. Most of all, she loves to help kids find their voice and courage, and to develop imagination, empathy, and collaboration skills. She is so happy that she gets to play with hundreds of children each year and loves the excitement of performance projects which culminate within 6-10 sessions.

Miss Bridget has extensive training as a children’s theater director. She grew up acting on the stage, studied Theater as an undergraduate, and pursued advanced studies in Theater Directing at UC Berkeley. She also completed the LBC’s Kennedy Center Teaching Artist professional training, as well as several other Arts Integration professional development trainings related to Drama, Movement, and Storytelling. Miss Bridget helps children become high performers through acting-based activities.

Miss Bridget also loves to laugh and spontaneous creativity, so she created 6th Street Improv, an adult comedy improv company, and ran it at the 6th Street Playhouse from 2008-2013, so she could perform and bring more laughter to her community.

Miss Bridget also loves writing for actors. In 2018, she wrote her first play for children: Alex & The Magic Staff, with an anti-bullying theme. She is currently working on her second play for the stage, The Good Enough Girl, and a screenplay called Amazing Grace about a teen environmental activist on the Gulf coast fighting to protect her community from plastic pollution.

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Shining a Light on History Through Puppetry

Program description

Help your students develop a love for history as they explore the emotions sparked and actions taken by individuals in a historical period of your choice. With its play of darkness, color, and light, shadow puppetry provides a stimulating medium for the students’ self-expression, imagination, empathy, and creativity. In this residency, students choose a historical event to dramatize and

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Bridget Palmer

bridgetpalmer@me.com

Program Detail

Program type: Residency

Artistic Discipline: Literary Arts, Storytelling, Theatre

Subject: Language Arts, Performing Arts

Population served: Grade 01, Grade 02, Grade 03, Grade 04, Grade 05, Grade 06, Grade 07, Grade 08, Kindergarten, Pre-K

Bilingual: No

Qualifications

Two or more years of educational programming experience: Yes

Connects to State and or Common Core Curriculum Standards: Yes

Provides tools to assess student learning (workshops and residencies): Yes

Conducts ongoing assessments of program quality: Yes

Provides scholarship and reduced fees: Yes

Maintains general liability insurance: Yes

Performs criminal background checks on staff with youth contact: Yes

Criminal background check(s) available: Yes

Three letters of recommendation / references available: Yes