Robert Colby

Robert Colby is an Associate Professor of Performing Arts at Emerson College and Director of Theatre Education.  He oversees the theatre teacher licensing program and teaches courses in drama education and theatre for young audiences. His drama workshops have been featured at several conferences of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education and as a part of the Kijimuna International Festival for Young Audiences in Okinawa in 2007. His productions for young audiences have toured throughout the New England area, including such recent titles as The Shakespeare Stealer, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond. 

Elana Lagerquist

Elana Lagerquist is a teacher and teaching artist in San Francisco. She received her multiple subjects teaching credentials with Cross-cultural, Language and Academic Development emphasis through San Francisco State's Muir Alternative Teacher Education program in 1997 and is a tenured teacher with the San Francisco Unified School District. Currently Elana is Co-founder and Executive Director of StageWrite: Building Literacy through Theatre, an arts education organization that empowers youth to become actively engaged in their education and passionate about learning through theatre arts.

Libby Marcus

Theater educator & puppet/mask designer Libby Marcus has taught drama, puppetry and mask-making to all ages from Kindergarten to adult.  Her twenty-five years of experience includes teacher training workshops in Maine, Cambridge and Boston; numerous residencies in Maine & Massachusetts; and design and implementation of the first Theater Arts curriculum in the 350 year history of The Boston Latin School. Libby’s puppet & masks have been used by Boston’s Award Winning Beau Jest Moving Theatre.  She has directed shows for Emerson College, The Beau Jest Moving Theater and The New Ehrlich Theater in Boston.