A former Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia, she has also taught in elementary schools and directed a co-op care center. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, her master's degreee in counseling from the University of Kentucky, and her doctorate in educational psychology from Ball State University. Deborah Wright teaches English and journalism at Apollo-Ridge High School in Spring Church, Pennsylvania. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and has done graduate work at Penn State University. One play includes music, another mime - and all come with stage directions.
Plays are short enough to be completed in one class period.
Dealing with Life's Dilemmas is a revised version of Plays to Play with in Class and includes an additional play, one inspired by the 1999 tragedy at Columbine High School in Colorado. She received her master's degree from Hunter College and her PhD from New York University. She sits on the the Board of Trustees of the New York State Theatre Education Association, is a fellow of the New York State English Council, and is Past President of the NYC Association of Teachers of English. Teenage Manners Coming Through, written in consultation with the author's high-school class, has a cheeky wit designed to appeal today's young people. This handbook covers the state of teenage manners today, the way manners have changed in both style and importance, and practical tools for becoming more mannerly.