This is Maggie Perrino’s first year as the theatre teacher and director for Notre Dame Academy in Park Hills, Kentucky. She is a graduate of Miami University and will complete her Master of Arts in Teaching at Thomas More College in May 2013. Prior to accepting her current position, Maggie spent almost three years in the Educational Events department at the EdTA home office. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in dance and theatre and spends much of her free time choreographing or dancing in musicals for local Cincinnati theatres.
I just performed for the best audience of my entire life!
As part of a hilarious event called Senior Send off, the faculty put together skits and dances for the enjoyment of the senior class. At first, I thought I might sit this one out. ...
I’m graduating from grad school this week. I won’t be walking in the ceremony because of a family wedding, but I will be no less finished with my degree. In fact, I will turn in my final paperwork today at 5:00 p.m. It’s strange ...
As I sit in my office, feverishly extrapolating data for a research presentation at grad school later today, I hear a bit of whistling wafting in from somewhere down the hall. At first, I don’t hear the melody, but as the whistler draws ...
It’s springtime! And that means high schools all across the country are pulling out their dance shoes, memorizing lyrics, and taking the stage to perform big, shiny musicals! We here at Notre Dame are no different. Our spring musical, ...
“You’re too nice.”
That was the opening salvo of a barrage of feedback a wiser, more experienced teacher recently gave me. She followed that up with, “You’ve got to be stricter with them or the show will be no ...