Richard Kohn Mr. Kohn is an English and Theater teacher at Greenwich High School where he has taught for 29 years. His teaching responsibilities have included teaching Advanced Placement English for twenty years in addition to teaching a full time selection of theater courses. In addition, he served as a House Senior Teacher in Folsom House for six years, a Learning Facilitator in the English Program for three years, and Learning Facilitator for Performing Arts at GHS for two years. In addition to having brought more than forty-five plays to the stage there, he initiated and established the school's annual Shakespeare play, which celebrated its twenty-sixth production this year, a Directing Intern program which trains two students in the art of directing each year, and a complete original works for theater program called Magic Circle, which is fifteen years old. He is also the director of the GHS Improv Troupe. In the last fifteen years, his students have won 50 awards in theater competitions. Mr. Kohn has taught a program in acting Shakespeare at the Cambridge-American Summer School in England and has presented workshops for teachers in acting Shakespeare both at GHS and at SUNY Purchase. He is a six time recipient of an Arts in Education award from S.U.N.Y. Purchase. In 1990-91, Mr. Kohn received the Distinguished Teacher Award presented by the Greenwich Public Schools. Mr. Kohn was one of the teachers honored in 2005 when the GHS Theater program the Outstanding Schools Theater Program Award, a national award for exemplary programs in educational theater which the program had received previously in 2000 and 1995. In 1997, the program received the Award for Theatrical Excellence from the Connecticut Drama Association. His original piece, Table for Nine, which he also directed, received every top award, including Outstanding Production, at the 2002 Connecticut Drama Association Festival. In 2004, he repeated the victory at C.D.A., and took that production, Romeo and Juliet, to the New England Drama Festival, marking the first time Greenwich High school was represented there in 60 years. In 2o05 and 2006, his plays took awards for Theatrical Excellence at the festival. In 1997, Mr. Kohn was selected to be Connecticut State Director for the Educational Theater Association which he held for 8 years. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Mary Hunter Wolf Award, given by the Long Wharf Theater for excellence in theatrical production and educational theater. In 2000, Mr. Kohn was named to Who’s Who’s in American Education. He received his B.A. in English and Comparative Literature and his M.A. in English and English Instruction from Columbia University. His directing credits include Measure for Measure (2007 and 1985)The Tempest(1983 and 2006), Macbeth(1984, 1991, and 2005), As You Like It(1986 and 1997), King Lear (1986 and 2001), Twelfth Night (1987 and 1997), Hamlet(1988 and 2000), The Winter's Tale(1989 and 1998), Romeo and Juliet (1990 and 2003), A Midsummer Night's Dream(1992 and 1999), The Taming of the Shrew, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Fall and Rise of Kings, and The Greenwich Shakespeare Company's productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream(1988), Othello, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest(1991), The Real Thing, Coriolanus, Twelfth Night (1993), King Lear (1994), and Ghost of a Chance, his first play. He has also directed productions of Betrayal, The Night of the Iguana, The Cherry Orchard (1996 and 2006), Noises Off (1995 and 2005), Dearly Departed, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Rumors(1992 and 2000), The Seagull (1992 and 2002), Three Sisters (1990 and 1999), True West, Hedda Gabler (1985 and 2005), Ondine, The Lion in Winter, Old Times, Outcry, The Lover, and The Collection, and Bank Shot, Off the Page,Dreaming of Now and Third Side of the Coin. (all four of which he also wrote).