Degrees
MFA—Applied Drama & Theatre for the Young, Eastern
Michigan University, 2010
BS—Elementary Education & Theatre Performance Western
Michigan University, 2000
Professional Associations/Memberships
American Alliance for Theatre & Education
International Performing Arts for Youth
Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed
Theatre Communications Group
Theatre for Young Audiences- USA
Representative courses taught
CTAR 300: Integrated Arts
CTAR 222: Play and Drama in Human Experience
CTAR 323: Improvising & Role Play
CTAC 124: Fundamentals of Speech
CTAR 329: Performing Theatre for Young Audiences
CTAR 529: Producing Theatre for the Young
Biography
Meriah Sage has been active in the field of theatre education
and arts integration for over 15
years. Since 2001, Meriah has worked with Lincoln Center Institute
(LCI), most recently acting
at the lead facilitator for the LCI International Educator’s
Workshop in 2010, 209, 2006. Meriah
has also served as education director at The Auditorium Theatre
of Roosevelt University in
Chicago, IL and the education director and artistic director
of theatre for young audiences for
Apple Tree Theatre. Meriah developed and managed the Aesthetic
Education LCI Program at
Education for the Arts in Kalamazoo, MI. She taught as a member
of the National Facilitation
Team for the LCI Teaching Artist Mentoring Program until the
project’s completion in 2006.
Since 1997, Ms. Sage has worked as a teaching artist and director
at theatres, youth organizations and schools throughout the Midwest
including: Mosaic Youth Theatre and Tibbits Opera House.
Recent Theatre productions include: Patricia Polacco’s
Unions City, Ashes and Hope: the 1967
Detroit Riot, Antigone & Bud, Not Buddy. Meriah received
the first American Alliance of
Theatre and Education (AATE) Doyle Fellowship in 2008 for excellence
in the field Children’s
Theatre, the 2010 Evans-Strand Diversity Award recognizing significant
contributions to
advancing the understanding and furthering the acceptance of
diversity at EMU. Ronald and the
2008 Roland & Gerrie Collins Medal for Service to EMU.
Meriah has presented at: American Alliance of Theatre in Education
(AATE), The Pedagogy and
Theatre of the Oppressed Conference, The LSSU Superior Festival
and The International
Performing Arts for Youth Conference. Recent research includes
the 2011 Feasibility Study for Expanding Arts Education
Programming in the Washtenaw County Public Schools for which she
was a Co-Researcher & Co-Author. Meriah has worked with and/or
taught at numerous arts
institutions including: Lincoln Center Institute, The Auditorium
Theatre of Roosevelt University,
Apple Tree Theatre, Mosaic Youth Theatre, Western Michigan University,
Education for the
Arts, Kalamazoo Regional Educational Services Agency.
Research/creative interests: Arts Integration, Theatre for Young
Audiences, Aesthetic Education,
Applied Drama, Process Drama and Creativity
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