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Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Drama Teacher
Location	New Jersey, United States
Links	Audio Clip
Introduction	Jennifer Little spent over fifteen years as a professional actress, performing on Broadway and in film and television. More recently, she turned to working with at-risk students, doing Literacy through the Arts, Guest Artist programs and creating arts programs for inner city schools. In 2005, she began teaching fulltime, working on bringing applied theatre to standard curriculum programs within public schools in the U.S. and integrating Social Studies and English into the Arts. She currently teaches fulltime at Franklin High School in Somerset, New Jersey and has created a critically acclaimed program that focuses on theatre's role in society and actors' responsibility to the world. She has spoken at New York University's conference on Applied Theatre and Citizenship, the 2010 Educational Theatre Association's (EdTA) Conference and the 2011 International Online Conference on Teacher Education: Teacher Education in the Age of Globalization, as well as being an attendee at the 2010 Contact Theatre International Forum. She is currently working on a book about applied theatre as part of public school curriculum and is available for workshops and presentations.
Interests	Applied Theatre, Theatre for Social Change, Animal Rescue
Favorite books	Too many to count