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Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts in Sag Harbor announced this week that Ava Locks has joined Bay Street Theater as its Director of Education. Ms. Locks role at Bay Street encompasses theater arts education through administering Bay Street’s kids camps, as well as acting and audition Master classes for young adults. She will also develop new educational programs at Bay Street for children and adults. In addition, Ms. Locks will continue to grow the reach of Literature Live, a BOCES-approved Arts-in-Education program, which brings regional schools in to see curriculum-based literature come to life on stage in a professional production. This year’s production of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” will run November 9 through 29.
“Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is a resource for the East End Community the whole year round,” says Bay Street Artistic Director Scott Schwartz, “Educational programming built around live performance and the work we do on our stage is a central part of our mission. I am thrilled to welcome Ava Locks to the Bay Street team. She is a talented and accomplished educator, a long time resident of the East End with deep ties to our community, and is someone who I am confident will bring new energy and growth to the educational programs we offer for both kids and adults.”
“I am delighted,” says Ms. Locks, “to join the team at Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts where I can build upon and expand the unique and educational offerings for the community. As a New York State certified Special Education teacher who attends Bay Street’s Literature Live productions I am thrilled to be a part of this BOCES-approved Arts-in-Education program that offers students’ varied learning styles prospect in content comprehension and exposure to the performing arts for free.”
Ms. Locks is on the board of trustees for East End Special Education Parent Teacher Organization (East End SEPTO), and on the Town of Southampton’s Business Advisory Council. She was a founding staff member for the Children’s Museum of the East End (CMEE). As Director of Education and Marketing at CMEE, Ms. Locks established community partnerships and programming with local organizations.
Ms. Locks received a Master of Science, Childhood Education, from Long Island University and a Bachelor of Arts, Theater Production, from Bennington College. She has worked off Broadway, regionally, network television and in film before moving to the East End.
“There are countless opportunities for community stake holders to participate in offerings that will continue to shape the theater and its center for the arts as a treasured resource,” she said.
