Ellen Geer has been Artistic Director for the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum since 1978. She helped the theatre develop from a Sunday afternoon workshop performing Shakespeare, to a professional repertory theatre company now in its seventeenth season with a negotiated Actors Equity Contract. Ms. Geer has directed over 40 of the productions which include Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Chekov, Thornton Wilder and Greek classics. She created the Academy of the Classics for Theatricum in 1976, which now houses an intensive Shakespeare seminar and scene study classes. The academy also offers teen classes and a youth drama camp. Ms. Geer was also instrumental in developing School Days, a field-trip educational program for young people, now in its 15th year, which serves over 10,000 Los Angeles school children each spring. Plays presented include Shakespeare and dramatized American history. Currently, Ellen Geer is co-developing Classroom Enrichment, which brings actors and teachers into the classroom to work alongside the English teacher, mounting the curriculum selected classical play with the teacher and students performing the roles. Ms. Geer continues her extensive acting career which began at many of the major regional houses including The Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre of San Francisco, and the Globe Shakespeare Festival of San Diego. Her work in film and television includes roles in Harold and Maude, Hard Traveling, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. Ms. Geer teaches Shakespeare classes at UCLA.

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