BIO - Teaching. Television. Theater.
Kristie
has extensive experience in designing and implementing curriculum that
emphasizes the use of journalistic storytelling and theater arts to spark transformational change in adults and young people. She served as associate instructor at North Park University in Chicago, IL for 11 years where she taught various communication courses in journalism and theater.
Her background is in broadcast journalism with a B.S. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Her studies continued at the University of Illinois where she focused on adult teaching and learning and culminated in a Master's Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Kent State University, with a focus on social media and public relations.
Early in her career she spent almost a decade as a television producer in news, arts and documentary programming in Chicago with the PBS affiliate, WTTW, where she received an Emmy and Peter Lisagor Award for her work on Artbeat Chicago.
Along the way, she pursued a career in theater. She has worked with many comedic theater companies in Chicago and was an ensemble member of the Neo-Futurist Theater for several years as a writer, performer and director. During that time you could see her in Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 plays in 60 minutes) on most weekends and on tour throughout the country. As a physical theater artist, she served as a performer and supervisor of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit from 2005 to 2013. Most recently, she co-starred in CATCO Theater's production of Always...Patsy Cline in Columbus, Ohio.
Kristie is also a founding member and former Executive Director of Barrel of Monkeys, a wildly successful arts education program in Chicago that works to build literacy skills and self-esteem in children through writing and theater.
Her background is in broadcast journalism with a B.S. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Her studies continued at the University of Illinois where she focused on adult teaching and learning and culminated in a Master's Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Kent State University, with a focus on social media and public relations.
Early in her career she spent almost a decade as a television producer in news, arts and documentary programming in Chicago with the PBS affiliate, WTTW, where she received an Emmy and Peter Lisagor Award for her work on Artbeat Chicago.
Along the way, she pursued a career in theater. She has worked with many comedic theater companies in Chicago and was an ensemble member of the Neo-Futurist Theater for several years as a writer, performer and director. During that time you could see her in Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 plays in 60 minutes) on most weekends and on tour throughout the country. As a physical theater artist, she served as a performer and supervisor of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit from 2005 to 2013. Most recently, she co-starred in CATCO Theater's production of Always...Patsy Cline in Columbus, Ohio.
Kristie is also a founding member and former Executive Director of Barrel of Monkeys, a wildly successful arts education program in Chicago that works to build literacy skills and self-esteem in children through writing and theater.
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