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Jennifer Little spent over fifteen years as a professional actress, performing on Broadway with such luminaries as Harold Prince and in film (with Ron Howard and Penny Marshall) as well as on television. More recently, she turned to working with at-risk students, doing Literacy through the Arts, Guest Artist programs and creating arts programs for inner city schools. In 2005, she began teaching fulltime, working on bringing applied theatre to standard curriculum programs within public schools in the U.S. and integrating Social Studies and English into the Arts. She currently teaches fulltime at a high school in Somerset, New Jersey and has created a critically acclaimed program that focuses on theatre's role in society and actors' responsibility to the world. She has spoken at New York University's conference on Applied Theatre and Citizenship, the 2010 Educational Theatre Association's (EdTA) Conference and the 2011 International Online Conference on Teacher Education: Teacher Education in the Age of Globalization, the 2011 AATE National Conference, the 2010 Contact Theatre International Forum and the 2011 Global Conference on Human Rights in Washington D.C. Her article, Applying Ourselves to the Human Drama - How Documentary Theatre Helped One School Find Its Heart was published in the Fall 2010 issue of Teaching Theatre. She is currently part of an award-winning program using devised drama to tackle the issue of school bullying and making students' communities safer. She has done workshops with academic and theatre students and professionals across the country and is available for professional development. Changing The Way We Think, is Ms. Little's first book. Her program is being modeled across the state as a tool to help districts tackle the serious issue of bullying and student character education.

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