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Leadership Bios
FOUNDERS:
Granville Wyche
Burgess
Granville
Wyche Burgess is the produced author of numerous plays, musicals, and
teleplays, including several specifically developed for children and family
audiences. His televised work, including an episode for "Tales From The
Darkside" and a stint as staff writer for the soap opera "Capitol," has
appeared on CBS, NBC, PBS, and NJN-TV, and in syndication. He was Director
of the Walnut Street Theatre School for seven years, teaching writing,
acting, and directing. Mr. Burgess has written, directed or acted in over
70 plays and musicals in New York and regionally, and is the recipient
of numerous awards, including an EMMY nomination, a CBS/Foundation for
the Dramatist Guild production award, and several grants from the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Mr. Burgess majored in History at Princeton University,
graduating magna cum laude. Access his professional
website at granvilleburgess.com.
Stephen Lawrence
Stephen
Lawrence has composed numerous award-winning songs and scores, including
over 250 songs for "Sesame Street," for which he received three Emmy Awards
for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition. His scores
for film include Bang The Drum Slowly (starring Robert DiNiro) and One
Summer Love (starring Susan Sarandon). He composed and co-produced the
title song and others for the Gold Album "Free To Be… You and Me". In
addition, he composed and produced the Gold Single "You Take My Breath
Away." For HBO he composed the score for the animated “Tale Of Peter
Rabbit” with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, starring Carol Burnett).
For Nickelodeon he composed the score for “The Wubbulous World Of
Dr. Seuss.” Mr. Lawrence creates the music and songs for Quill's Mr. History Musicals.
He graduated from
Hofstra University with a B.A. degree in Music. Access his professional
website at stephenlawrencemusic.com.
ADVISORS:
Professor James
McPherson
George Henry Davis Professor of American History at Princeton University
since 1962, was born in North Dakota, raised in Minnesota, and graduated
from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1958, with a Ph.D. in History from Johns
Hopkins University in 1963. He is the author of some dozen books on the
era of the Civil War and editor of a half-dozen more. His books have won
several prizes, most notably the Pulitzer Prize in History for Battle
Cry Of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1989) and the Lincoln Prize for For
Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1998).
Jolley Christman
Principal at Research for Action - research in K-12 education. Associate
Faculty - University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education, and
Associate at the Center for Urban Ethnography. Received the Ethnographic
Evaluation Award for excellence in the application of ethnographic procedures
to policy decision-making from the Council on Anthropology and Education
of the American Anthropological Association.
Jane Startz - CEO of Jane Startz Productions, original producer of "The Magic Schoolbus";
creative advisor
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