1. James Kent Genovese
New York, New York
Playwriting Instructor to Young People
Founder and Artistic Director of Children’s Mystery Theatre
Playwriting leads to understanding of Social Studies and Language Arts.
Playwriting → Social Studies → Language Arts
Bachelorof Arts in History and TheatreHistory, UCLA
Master’sProgramin Education,CCNY
Award Winning Children’s Writing Teacher and Guide
to history-based, student-written plays, stories and essays.
Teacher of History – American,European and AncientCivilizations. LanguageArts – reading and
writing forsense,giving emphasisto critical thinking,social and organizationallearning skills.
Interdisciplinary Guide to understanding thestrengthsof factualand fictionalwriting. Learning
primary and anecdotalsources – documented socialand emotionallogic – the human condition
through history. Teacherof studentswithin a wide spectrumof academicand social skills.
▪ THE DALTON SCHOOL, First Program, 53 East 91st Street – Instruction in playwriting to 2nd
and 3rd (ASP) After School Program students. Sarah McCaffrey, Creative Arts Director.
▪ COLUMBIAGRAMMAR SCHOOL, 5 West 93rd Street Grammar — Instruction in playwriting for 4th-
through-6th grade students. Directed student-written history and fact-based plays. Dr. Stanley
Seidman, Headmaster.
COLUMBIAPREPARATORYSCHOOL, 5 West 93rd Street; Full Time Theatre Teacher — Instruction in
playwriting and screenwriting for 7th and 8th grade students, Theatre Department. Richard
Soghoian, Headmaster.
▪ THE CALHOUNSCHOOL,433 West End Avenue – Instruction in creative writing including
playwriting to 2nd and 3rd grade ASP students. Steve Nelson, Headmaster.
▪ MANHATTAN DAY SCHOOL, 310 West 75th Street — Full-time United States History and
playwriting teacher for 6th-through-8th grade students. Directed student-written, fact-
based history plays on ancient world cultures. Created curriculum: "The Museum of
Mystery History." Student tours and information gathering “scavenger hunts” through
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rabbi David Kaminsky, Headmaster.
▪ ELISABETH IRWINHIGHSCHOOL/LITTLERED, 272 Sixth Avenue —Full-time Honors Shakespeare
instruction including "Romeo and Juliet" and 9th grade student plays within that play.

2. ▪ THE BEEKMAN SCHOOL, 220 East 50th Street — Full-time American and Ancient History
and playwriting instruction for ninth-through-twelfth-grade students. Student tours and
information “scavenger hunts”at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. George Higgins,
Headmaster.
▪ SACRED HEART, 1 East 91st Street — Instruction in playwriting and acting to 7th and 8th
grade students. “Do Angels Take the Cross-Town Bus?” – student-written play
performed in school theatre at year’s end.
▪ BLACK WATCH PRODUCTIONS, 49 Murray Street — Full-time children’s assistant director.
Provided assistance in directing toy commercials for television.
Southampton, New York — 1991 to 1995
Originated and headed instruction in a unique playwriting and acting curriculum for
children in Long Island University’s summer program "Kids On Campus."
Shelter Island, New York — 1991 to 1995
Four-time New York State Council on the Arts grant recipient. Established the nonprofit
Children's Mystery Theatre.
Artistic Director and founder of Discovery Children's Theatre assisted by grants from
NYSCA, NYFA, NEA, AmeriCorps. Fifty-two plays written by students performed in
fourteen states. Seventeen students current members of SAG-AFTRA and/or DGA.
Training: UCLA, B.A. in Theatre History; Actors Studio. Additional acting instruction:
legendary actors and acting teachers, James Whitmore, Irene Worth, Kathleen Freeman.