Founder and Managing Director
Creative Kids
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :20 years, 8 أشهر
An after school activity center for children ages 3 - 14 that offers activities in theater arts, visual arts, music, classical dance (Royal Academy of Dance in London), and summer camps.
• Developed marketing materials and worked with schools to establish a network of clientele in Jordan.
• Hired and supervised full and part-time staff and experts in the areas of arts and classical ballet.
• Established a Kindermusik unit “ Imagine That” for children ages 3 to 5.
• Established a Montessori summer camp program, based on the vertical grouping (ages 2.5 - 9 years). The camp focuses on child development through performing and visual arts, music, in addition to cooking, swimming, storytelling, and children’s yoga. Completed 5 two-session summer camps with an average of 45 children in each.
• Hired and trained students ages 13 to 17 to assist in summer camps and other Creative Kids activities.
• Participated in the annual Black Iris Charity Festival run by the American Embassy in Amman 2008 and 2012
Modern Montessori School
• Producer for the TV show “CARAVAN”, an hour daily live studio show, running Sunday to Thursday that targets youth audience (15 to 30-years old). The program aims at engaging young people of the Arab region specifically Jordanians in a highly interactive program that allows them to express themselves, enhance their capacities and engage in their communities, while being highly entertained.
• Content development for the production which includes:
-Creating the show segment’s format, content and visual style,
-Suggest guest speakers for the show and selecting bands.
-Script development, scouting locations, making all the arrangements for the outdoor segments that include:
o Food Segment (cooking and eating competitions)
o Budget Segment (creative ways for making and spending money)
o Cinema Segment (covering everything related to cinema, local and international films, behind the scenes, movie theaters, film festivals)
o Adventure Segment (exploring new hobbies and challenges through out Jordan)
o Cultural Segment (exploring different cultures in Jordan such as (Armenians, Syrians, Iraqis, Circassian, etc…)
o Talent Segment (discovering new and unfamiliar talents through out the country)
Theater Director and Producer
o Plays and Musicals
• Wrote, directed and Produced: Circus Circus (2013), Over the Rainbow (2012), Finding Christmas (2010), Once upon a Dream (2010), The Four Seasons (2009), The Magical Forest (2008), Hakaya (2006) Arabic, and Disney Spectacular (2005).
• Directed and produced: The Little Mermaid ( 2013), Peter Pan ( 2013), Aladdin (2012), CATS (2011), The Snow Queen (2010), and The Jungle Book (2007).
• Training and Development
• Developed and delivered drama/ acting workshops for ages 4 to 12.
• Developed training materials and trained 18 Montessori teachers in drama and theater education.
• Conduct Creative Movement/ Character dance sessions for children ages 3 to 5.
• Developed an Arabic drama curriculum for the ages 3-6 and Trained teachers in The Early Childhood Development Center - Ministry of Education /Dubai
➢ Special Programs
Under the Amin Hassan Award Program, directed and produced international dance shows for ages 12 to 17, organized a career day for the Junior School, and produced Ramadan Folkloric Fashion Show for high school students.
Feb 1999 - Aug 2002 Associate of Arts, Music Santa Monica College, Los Angeles, California