About this Artist

Pronouns: she/they/Ali

Ali Oliver-Krueger is a teaching artist, director, actor, classical singer, and writer/composer. As a teaching artist and arts education professional, Ali has worked with schools, opera companies, and arts organizations throughout the country, and is a residency artist with The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts and the John F. Kennedy Center Education Department’s DC Partnership Schools Initiative Community Program. Ali’s work as a teaching artist is rooted in creative drama and in creative opera, an emerging form of creative drama in which music and drama are fused together to tell stories and express thoughts, ideas, and feelings. Ali is a frequent presenter at conferences on arts education and arts integration and conducts professional development workshops and residencies on linking drama and music with content curricula. Ali is a proud member of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education and is co-chair of the organization’s Professional Theatre Network. Ali lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband Peter and two fiercely fluffy dogs who are legends in their minds.

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