[NEohioPAL] Karamu House Hires New Cultural Arts Education & Outreach Director

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Karamu House Hires New Cultural Arts Education & Outreach Director


For Immediate Release
December 11, 2008
216) 795-7070

Karamu House has hired Sheffia Randall Dooley (star of Karamu/Dobama hit
musical "Caroline, or Change) as the new Cultural Arts Education &
Outreach Director. "We are very please to have her at Karamu," states
Terrence Spivey, Artistic Director. "She will bring a whole new life to
the educational programs, and adult classes and workshops with her
training
and expertise. She completes the package that is needed to take Karamu
beyond."

Ms. Dooley oversees the kids, teens and adult classes and workshops
for acting, movement, voice, and the TOPS Outreach Program that takes
productions out to schools.

For More Information about these programs, please call
216-795-7070 ext. 249.


ABOUT HER...

Sheffia Randall Dooley is a theatre graduate of Baldwin- Wallace College
and has worked over 10 years in the community as an arts educator. She’s
been engaged as an artist teaching drama, dance and movement and vocal
performance for Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cleveland Public Theatre,
Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland’s All- City Arts Program, The Musical Theatre
Project, and the Cleveland School of the Arts. She has most recently
accepted the position of program director of cultural arts education and
theatre outreach at Karamu House, the oldest African American theatre in
the nation.

As an actress she was last seen on stage in Karamu’s critically acclaimed
production of Caroline or Change as Caroline and Great Lakes Theater
Festival’s production of The Crucible as Tituba. She was also seen in
Cleveland Public Theater’s regional premiere of Pulp as Bing and in Our
Town as Mrs. Webb. She’s performed in Great Lakes Theatre Festival
productions of The Tempest, Blithe Spirit, and Nickel and Dimed, a joint
production with CPT. Other stage credits include Respect: A Musical
Journey of Women at the Hanna Theatre, The Secretaries with CPT, Agents
and Assets with The Los Angeles Poverty Department, The Wiz at Mercury
Summerstock, Purlie at The Beck Center, and Once on This Island and
Anything Goes at Cain Park. She can also be seen on the nationally
syndicated children’s television program Ask Gilby.

Karamu House
2355 East 89 Street
Cleveland, OH 44106
216-795-7070