Joel Sugerman has been the Director of Theatre at Lawrence Academy, an independent high school in Groton, MA, for eight years. Prior to that, he spent six years at the International School of Prague, where he taught and directed students of sixty different nationalities. Joel has been a performer for twenty years, making and performing theater in the Czech Rebublic, Ireland, Chicago, Minnesota, California, and Massachusetts. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and then did some learning at Northwestern University and The Dell’ Arte School of Physical Theatre.