Priscilla Stevens

Priscilla Stevens began her career in playwriting by teaching about 40 students in grades 1-3 in a one-room schoolhouse in Vermont how to write a musical play about Spring. This sparked a 37-year career in teaching students of all ages to write plays, songs, musicals, and operas, and producing some of her own plays as well. In addition, she taught English, Theatre Arts, and Acting at the high school and college levels, directed plays and musicals for high school and college, founded...See more

Priscilla Stevens began her career in playwriting by teaching about 40 students in grades 1-3 in a one-room schoolhouse in Vermont how to write a musical play about Spring. This sparked a 37-year career in teaching students of all ages to write plays, songs, musicals, and operas, and producing some of her own plays as well. In addition, she taught English, Theatre Arts, and Acting at the high school and college levels, directed plays and musicals for high school and college, founded Shakespearean Players groups at various schools, and, as a freelance director, created productions in regional repertory theatre in Northern Ireland, designed sets, lighting, and costumes for various theatre productions over the years, acted, and recently directed and presented narration for a variety of events and productions, including those for a small New England opera company. Next year, she will be presenting pre-concert talks for large chorus concerts, and, always, always writing more plays, musical scripts, and literary, historical, and entertainment narratives and presentations. The opportunity to collaborate with Madeleine Myers on Mama Votes! to provide young readers with a way to really feel what it must have been like to be a fighter for women suffrage in the 19th century by acting out the story, and to understand the importance of this essential right and responsibility was irresistible, and a source of great delight and satisfaction. See less