Stacy Deemar is the recipient of the 2015 Award of Excellence in Creative Drama from the Illinois Theatre Association. This year she celebrates her twenty-fifth year as an educator. She has been teaching creative drama for eighteen years in District 65 Evanston/Skokie elementary and middle schools to over 6000 students. Stacy contributed in the development of the District 65 drama curriculum and assessments. She served on the Illinois Theatre Association Board of Directors in Creative Drama from 2012-2014.
The Illinois Theatre Association’s eFellowspot has published thirty-two of her articles. Her other writings include: Smartphone Pollution, a 30 second National Public Service announcement for the Illinois Theatre Association and the American Alliance of Theatre and Education, an educational theatre book entitled Reaching At-Risk Kids Through Drama, five full-length comedies including three that had staged reading with all proceeds benefiting the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, eight 10 minute plays, and six episodes of a television spec pilot. Stacy has presented at educational theatre conferences at the local and national level including: Increasing Student Engagement: Investigation of Different Learning and Teaching Styles, Why Is There More Drama Surrounding My Drama Class Than the Drama I Teach? Techniques to Master Discipline in Elementary and Middle School Drama Classrooms, Teaching Historical Context?! Isn’t That the Responsibility of the Social Studies Teacher? and Differentiating Drama. She has directed multiple works including Giants in the Sky, Go Fish, How To Become A Pirate In Seven Easy Songs, Disney’s The Lion King Kids, Disney’s Aladdin Kids, Willy Wonka Jr., Seussical Jr., 5th Grade Fables, Trickster Tales, Mythology Masterminds, Cool Tools, Human Journeys and Martin Luther King Memorial. As an actress, she has had the great pleasure of working Off-Off Broadway in Joanna, Spring Awakening, The Rimers of Eldritch, Miss Julie and In Fireworks Lie Secret Codes. Last summer she worked on a film entitled Call Center where she played a smelly cat lady. She played a shrubbery woman in a national Cox Communication commercial. Stacy earned both her Master of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts at New York University. She is a proud member of the Illinois Theatre Association, American Alliance for Theatre and Education, SAG-AFTRA, and Dramatist Guild of America. In the summer of 2022, Stacy will be starting her Doctorate in Education at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. |