RICK   ADAM Encore Performing Arts, Inc Roberta Wolinsky PO Box 630 Melville, NY 11747 (800) 669-9850 Fax: (631) 423-1795 E Mail: rickadam@encoreperforming.com Website: http://encoreperforming.com/ra.htm Rick Adam presents entertaining and effective performances dealing with social issues for all ages. "Sound Choices" (for grades K-6) With a unique combination of songs, circus arts and audience participation, this up-lifting, entertaining program teaches children how to build a foundation for healthy living. Grades K-3 focuses on developing healthy choices around food, exercise, emotions and having fun. Grades 4-6 expands on how to make positive choices, grow up substance-free and create a balanced lifestyle. “Be Cool, Be Safe” (for grades K-6) creates a fun jam of original music, mime, circus stuff, and audience participation that will help empower children to make positive choices regarding bullying, taming tempers, preventing abuse and violence, resisting peer pressure, and celebrating differences. It is an educational, enchanting, and highly entertaining performance designed to leave the audience with plenty of creative tools to build and maintain harmony in our world. "A Journey Through Addiction" (for grades 5-12) is a compelling theatrical production, using original music, drama, mime and vaudeville, to explore alcoholism, drug dependency, eating disorders, teen suicide, and self-destructive attitudes, encouraging students to make healthy choices and build self-esteem. "Resolving Rage" (for grades 6-12): This mesmerizing, autobiographical program teaches easy-to-remember tools to control tempers, address bullying, channel aggression, avoid conflicts, and simple tips on how to be smart and safe in cyber-space. Rick delivers his message using music, mime, storytelling, and a variety of stage skills to discover how to tap into student’s creative energy, appreciate differences, and instill a positive outlook on life. "Red's Recycle-O-Rama" (for grades K-6) uses audience participation, storytelling, magic, juggling, hand shadows, original songs, and Red's Original One-Man Junk Band to offer fun-loving tips on how and why to recycle, reuse, and reduce. “Shaking’ Up Shakespeare” (for grades 6-12) Equipped with an electric guitar and his arsenal of stage skills, Rick translates into modern times, the works and world of Shakespeare. Rick shares his personal story, of how at 18 he went from the streets to the stage. Students will get to examine ageless teen issues and discover that the “Old Bard” still rocks, raps, and rules! Program Titles: Sound Choices; A Journey Through Addiction; Be Cool, Be Safe; Resolving Rage; Red's Recycle-O-Rama; Shaking Up Shakespeare. Audience Limits: none Special Requirements: 90 minute set-up time; electricity; clear stage. Fee: $650-750 for 1 show; $950-1050 for 2 back-to-back; public performances may be higher Funding Sources: New England Touring Roster, New England Foundation for the Arts

FOODPLAY  PRODUCTIONS Barbara Storper, M.S., R.D. 1 Sunset Avenue Hatfield, MA 01038 (800) 366-3752 Fax: (800) 366-3752 (please call first) E-Mail: info@foodplay.com Web Site: www.foodplay.com and www.foodplaykids.com "FOODPLAY" -- Captivating theater with essential health messages, this national award-winning nutrition show helps turn today's children on to healthy eating and exercise habits. Featuring fantastic feats of juggling, a cast of colorful characters, motivating messages, audience participation, music, magic and more...FOODPLAY addresses the major health concerns affecting today's schoolchildren. This educational and entertaining program includes a school-wide assembly performance (45 minutes), a comprehensive school resource kit with materials for everyone involved including, a Teacher's Follow-Up Activity Guidebook, a snack guide for parents, handouts for children, packet for school food service, evaluation materials, and press packet. FOODPLAY has been presented to over one million schoolchildren coast to coast and received a host of awards including an Emmy Award for "Best Children and Youth TV Special". (Grades K-5) "THIS IS YOUR LIFE" -- Help adolescents make their choices healthy ones with this upbeat, thought-provoking, health theatre show that has received the highest ratings from schools throughout the country. Addressing nutrition, fitness, and body image, "THIS IS YOUR LIFE" helps young people see through the messages they receive from the media, family, and peers in order to make healthy choices. Originally sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Centers for Disease Control, this program features a school-wide assembly performance, Follow-Up Teacher's Activity Guidebook, School Resource Kit, and press packet. (Grades 5-9) Program Titles: FOODPLAY; This Is Your Life! Audience Limit: 400/assembly Fee: Call for prices Funding Sources: Safe and Drug-Free Schools, TEAM Nutrition, BOCES, and more Nutrition, Physical Fitness, Self-Esteem, Drug Awareness, Eating Disorder Prevention

Gould & Stearns Bonnie Stearns, Managing Director 44 Hillcrest Terrace Brattleboro, VT 05301 (802) 254-8355 Fax: same email: stearns@sover.net Web: www.sover.net/~stearns OR Ellen Weiner Professional Artists Management 2411 Bay Road Sharon, MA 02067 (781) 784-6394 E Mail: elweiner@comcast.net Website: www.elweiner.com Peter Gould and Stephen Stearns are madcap performers and master teachers who have been offering school programs and residencies for over 20 years. Their performances are clever, often zany, and always heart-warming. In their work as workshop and discussion leaders, often in conjunction with a performance, they give students a can-do message about managing problems and opportunities with the help of humor. Programs include: Secrets: Peter and Stephen use stories of their own growing up to look, with humor, at real kid issues - peer pressure, self esteem, and choice-making. (grades 4-6, 7-8) Fee Fie Fo Fun! involves the audience in re-creating the familiar story of Jack and the Beanstalk with Peter and Stephen - and gives insight into the art forms of mime, theatre and comedy. This new look at an old favorite is a perfect way to introduce young students to storytelling as a living art form. (grades preK-5) A Peasant of El Salvador - about which teachers have said - "The best social studies lesson my students will have all year... The most moving, meaningful play I have ever seen... Taught more about Latin American culture in one hour than I do in three years teaching." (grades 9-12) Simple Gifts - a special holiday program for December - highlights stories from a variety of cultures and traditions, and reminds us that the simple gifts of ourselves are the best sources of warmth and comfort we can offer one another. Laughing Matters teaches students basic illusions and mime techniques and creative use of language while it takes them on a journey of the imagination - from a whaling ship of the 1800s to the vaudeville stage, and into the future! (grades K-5, 6-8, 9-12). Program Titles: Secrets, Fee Fie Fo Fun!, A Peasant of El Salvador, Simple Gifts, Laughing Matters Audience limit: 24/class, usually 300-350 /assembly, up to 650 or more in suitable auditorium. Fee: $500-$800/performance Funding Source: New England Foundation for the Arts    THE   IMPROBABLE   PLAYERS Lynn Bratley, Artistic Director 22 Auburn Street Watertown, MA 02472-3955 (617) 926-8124 or (800) 437-4303 Fax: (617) 926-8315 E Mail: players@improbableplayers.org Website: http://www.improbableplayers.org Not another lecture about substance abuse! Spotlight tough social issues as they relate to alcohol/drug use with plays that captivate, educate, motivate. All the young actor/educators are in long-term recovery. Participate in drama workshops that weave theater and health lessons so students can give voice to their ideas to help solve community issues. “Thanks for coming to our school today. The issues you portrayed were realistic. Both the performances and the opportunity to speak with and hear from the actors was invaluable to our students – it stimulated great discussions. The best part of the experience was knowing the actors had real issues: it made the students more willing to listen, and it offered them the hope of having fun without drinking. Your work is amazing and inspirational.” Program Titles: I'll Never Do That!; Passing It On; Running on E; Hitting Rock Bottom; Stages Audience Limits: none Fee: Ranges from $550 to $1,600 (+travel expenses) Funding Sources: Call us to find out about the many options available for funding. Improbable Players is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Creative Teaching Partner STORYTELLING    JACKSON   GILLMAN -   "Stand-Up   Chameleon" PO Box 41 Onset, MA 02558 (508) 295-0886 E-Mail: jacksong@jacksongillman.com Web site: www.jacksongillman.com Sparkling with energy, wit and whimsy, the "Stand-Up Chameleon" magically transforms into a wide array of colorful characters. Through his many talents as songsmith, comic, mime and storyteller, Jackson engages and delights audiences of all ages with his highly visual and interactive performances. Many different shows to choose from including several educational nature programs. Has been a featured performer at festivals across the country. For 6-12 grades, his two substance abuse awareness presentations have been used annually by schools for their prevention programming. 30+ years experience, easy-going and flexible, references galore. Program Titles: Nature in Action, Story and Song - an educational romp on the wild and crazy side of natural science; Riot in the Garden - fun-filled farm science, awarded Most Educational at the MOFGA Common Ground Fair; BUGS! - doodlebugs, spiders, ants and other crawlies are featured in this low-life revue; Once Upon a Tide - fun and fishy repertoire from the sandy beach to the briny deep; On a Wing and a Song - a birds-eye view of the cycle of seasons; Moon Crazy - captivating songs and stories to take you far away and pilot you happily home; Autumn Wonders - a rich tapestry of the colors, sounds and smells in a heartwarming, story and song-filled celebration of the season; Halloween Silly Willies - songs and stories to tickle your funny-bone without scaring your pants off; Winter Wonders (or Holiday Huzzah for Christmas and/or Chanukah) - heartwarming celebrations of the seasons, holidays and the human spirit; Spring Into Action and Song - celebrates spring and in all of its song-filled wonder; The Man Who Planted Hope - an inspiring account of reforestation in Provence, adapted from the story by Jean Giono; The Magic of Rudyard Kipling: Just So - the classic Just So Stories brought to life; Levity in Motion - mime and stories for the family, airborne exploits and other childhood flights of fancy; A Family Cabaret - an intergenerational look at daily rituals, wake-up to bedtime, from all perspectives; The Dancing Man (with ASL) - lively, interactive songs and stories to move and groove with; Harlequin and the Gift of Many Colors - stories of friendship performed with sign language; Swamp Cake and Cattails - assembly program about anti-bullying and social acceptance, fancifully disguised as a prehistoric comedy with dinosaurs and dragons; Hard Knocks - an intense one-man drama dealing with substance abuse within a family; The Perfect High - a lighter-side look at the prevention of substance abuse; Fee: starts at $375 + travel Funding Sources: New England Foundation for the Arts