Cesar Rosado, Program Director
Cesar is an artist, educator, and activist dedicated to advocating for policies and initiatives that support adolescents. For seven years, he served as a full-time Teaching Artist and Development Associate at Drama Club, where he taught theater to incarcerated and court-involved youth, ages 12–24, in ACS juvenile facilities and at Rikers Island. Prior to his work in the juvenile justice system, Cesar taught at other institutions, including the Children’s Aid Society, The Public Theater’s Public Works program, the Hunter College M.U.S.E. Scholars Program, the Atlantic Theater Conservatory, and the graduate theater program at The New School. He earned his BFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts and continued his classical training at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.
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