Rachel Briley
Artistic Director; Full Professor
Rachel Briley is a Full Professor at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNC Greensboro). She is head of the M.F.A. program in Theatre for Youth and Artistic Director of the North Carolina Theatre for Young People (NCTYP). She came to North Carolina from Michigan where she served as the Director of Theatre Education at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Rachel also taught and directed at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. She was a teaching artist at Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts where she conducted professional development workshops for in-service teachers and residencies for pre-school children in Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD, Arizona, and Michigan since 1992. She served on the board of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE) for four years. In 2004, Rachel was awarded an Ann Shaw Fellowship from TYA/USA to work on Visual Theatre techniques with Tyst Teater in Stockholm, Sweden. She was a member of the 2014 Women’s Executive Leadership program through the Impact Center in Washington, DC. Rachel was invited by the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) to represent the U.S. as a delegate in Santiago, Chile at the 2017 Santiago a Mil festival. She received the prestigious Outstanding Faculty Mentor award from the Graduate School at UNCG in 2018. Rachel was awarded a Research Leave to collaborate with Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile in Fall of 2019. Rachel graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The Catholic University of America in music (piano) and received her M.F.A. in Theatre for Young Audiences from Arizona State University. She is fluent in American Sign Language and is proficient in Spanish.
Meredith Singleton
Meredith Singleton is a theatre artist and educator most recently from Naples, FL. While in Florida, Meredith served on the education team at Gulfshore Playhouse, a nationally recognized regional theatre. She worked with students of all ages as a teaching artist, director, and stage manager. Before traveling to Southwest Florida, she attended Juniata College, located in Huntingdon, PA, where she studied Theatre and Elementary Education. There, she worked as a teacher and a stage manager, working on student productions as well as professional traveling productions. She works hard to bring the arts to students across the country. In her free time, Meredith loves being outside, hanging out with her cats, and trying every art form imaginable. She is excited to grow as an artist and as a teacher at UNCG.