Celena Cox
Celena Cox is an opera singer turned theater educator with 15 years of experience working with youth and adults as a voice teacher, director, stage manager, designer, and intimacy choreographer. Celena earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Music in Opera Performance from Arizona State University, and has trained in theatrical intimacy with Theatrical Intimacy Education. Celena recently served as Associate Artistic Director and student mental health coordinator at DMR Adventures, a pre-professional theatre company in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she remains an affiliated Teaching Artist.
Kathryn Morales
Kathryn K. Morales is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico. In her youth, she had the opportunity to work with Bill Hayden, who founded the Albuquerque Children’s Theatre in 1962. Her work with him planted a lifelong love of children’s theatre in her heart. As an adult, she returned to work with Bill and later with Sue Ann Gunn, who took over as director of ACT at the time of Mr. Hayden’s death in 1989. Albuquerque Children’s Theatre merged with ALT in 2002. Kathryn continued to work as an assistant to Sue Ann Gunn and later with Jonathan Dunski (founder of Play Conservatory), who oversaw the educational programs at ALT in the early 2000s. Beginning in 2006, she stepped in as Education Coordinator and has had the joy of teaching and directing children and youth in classes, productions, and outreach programs offered through ALT. With the help of Albuquerque Children’s Theatre alumni, Kate Murphy Sanchez and Heidi Griffin, both gifted playwrights, she has developed the PlayBuilders program, which gives young children the opportunity to create original characters and plays that are showcased on ALT’s historic stage every semester. She feels very honored to carry on Albuquerque Children’s Theatre’s legacy of “theatre for, by and with children” in conjunction with ALT’s historic community theatre.
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