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Change in Leadership of Living Literature
After 25 years of founding Living Literature, creating and performing Readers Theatre presentations in schools, libraries and other community venues in CT, MA & RI, I am stepping down, and handing over the reins to Tanya Anderson Martin. Tanya has been the longest member of Living Literature, other than myself (and even before that has been a delightful presence in my life), and has herself arrived at a place where she has accepted sharing the mantle of Co-Artistic Director for this next year, as a transition into taking over as Artistic Director of Living Literature in 2022.
I am so happy that Tanya has agreed to take the reins of Living Literature. I started Living Literature in 1996, and Tanya first participated in our ongoing Page to Stage workshops in 2001, at our previous home at the Providence Athenaeum, which led to her first Living Literature presentation in a Rhode Island College Oral Interpretation Class, demonstrating our Readers Theatre process. From then on she often co-taught our workshops for educators. She has been an active member in our Banned Books programs in association with the ACLU of RI. And her longest run has been in our “To Kill A Mockingbird” program she helped create and share at CT & RI schools. Tanya most recent presence was co-editor and performer of Living Literature’s “Rising” presentation for Reading Across Rhode Island 2020. In short, she knows and has a passion for this process in every aspect of our activities, and more importantly, while raising four children, still has the energy that I feel is waning in myself.
Living Literature has been a very satisfying part of my artistic life and I have enjoyed the projects and people with whom I have encountered on my reading and performing journey. I look forward to not only getting back to in person presentations, but to continue to explore sharing our work in this not-to-be-denied electronic world, especially with Tanya Anderson Martin at the wheel.
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