The New Victory Theater
Liz Parker is an experienced teaching artist and performer with a diverse background in theatre education and community engagement. Currently affiliated with Lincoln Center Theater and New Victory Theater since September 2014, Parker facilitates workshops for high school students and promotes accessibility in the arts. In addition to teaching, Parker serves as a program manager for viBe Theater Experience and an educator at the Museum of the City of New York, where curriculum development focuses on theatre's relationship to immigration and activism. With a history of performing and directing for various organizations, including Urban Stages, Parker actively creates and co-directs interactive performance pieces and youth theatre initiatives. Parker holds a Master's degree in Applied Theatre from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from New York University.
The New Victory Theater
The New Victory opens new worlds to young people and families through extraordinary performances, education and engagement programs. Bringing kids to the arts and the arts to kids since 1995, this nonprofit theater has become a standard-bearer of quality performing arts for young audiences in the United States. Reflecting and serving the multicultural city it calls home, New Victory is committed to arts access for all communities of New York to experience and engage with the exemplary international shows on its stages. A global leader in arts education, youth development and audience engagement, New Victory has been honored by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, by Americans for the Arts with a national Arts Education Award, and by the Drama Desk for "providing enchanting, sophisticated children's theater that appeals to the child in all of us, and for nurturing a love of theater in young people."