About
StoryTime Alive
Presented by Ms. Ashley
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Storytime Alive is an energetic, interactive storytime experience that combines literacy learning with performance techniques derived from theatre to more fully engage young learners. Partnered with schools across NYC. Through the magic of storytelling, students will engage their imaginations, develop narrative and literacy skills, and be welcomed into a space that seeks to create positive and joyous encounters around books and reading.
Ms. Ashley
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Ashley is a New York City based actress with a special expertise in early childhood literacy and children's theatre performance. Her love for the arts and literacy is rooted in the communities she works with and her passion to inspire young minds to love reading through performance based storytimes. She has over 15 years of professional experience in theatre, early childhood literacy, teaching, on-camera acting and puppeteering. She graduated with her degree in Theatre Arts in her home state of Hawaii where she found her love for children's theatre while performing for various touring companies, including an educational show she co-wrote and starred in.
Her training and experience as an educational musical theatre performer, teaching artist, puppeteer, literacy specialist in early childhood literacy and programming lead her to working the last 8 years in schools across the NYC boroughs leading and creating performance based storytimes and programming.
As a storyteller, Ashley has created and performed hundreds of storytimes in NYC schools. She enjoys sprinkling a special kind of magic, creating a true reading culture and empowering her students, while educating and inspiring young minds to love reading and prepare them to be life-long readers. Ashleys programming combines her love of performing and the joy that books have always brought her.
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