About this episode

Eve Kerrigan and Ana Bess Moyer Bell discuss how Creative Pathways uses theatre to teach English to refugees and newly arrived Americans.

Eve Kerrigan and Ana Bess Moyer Bell are part of a team comprised of artists, social workers, language translators, and organizers from Creative Pathways, a program that teaches English as a second language to refugees and newly arrived Americans using theatre. They employ the tools of nonfiction and documentary theatre specifically to help English learners develop their voices literally and figuratively.

People in this episode

Host: George Sapio

Guests: Eve Kerrigan, Ana Bess Moyer Bell

Topics covered

• theatre
• language learning
• refugees
• social work
• documentary theatre

Keywords

• theatre
• English as a second language
• refugees
• documentary theatre
• language translators

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Creative Pathways

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