Alan Haehnel is new to Hanover as a teacher, but he's not new either to teaching English (18 years at Hartford High School in Vermont) or to his other passions, directing musicals and writing one-act plays. Eighty of his plays written for the education market have been performed at schools across the country. He directed the smash-hit production of West Side Story at Hanover in 2008 and Footloose in 2006. This spring he will direct Hanover's musical Beauty and the Beast. The photo shows Alan with an ad for his own play The Long View which recently played at Hartford High.
Alan won the the Vermont Playwright's Award in 1993, and several Vermont State Championships for his original one-acts entered in Vermont One-Act Play Festivals. His scripts have been published by www.playscripts.com, www.bakersplays.com and www.brookpub.com.
At Hanover Alan teaches English 9, Composition 2 and Reading & Rhetoric. He hopes to teach a class on play production next year.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
ENGLISH TEACHER! PLAYWRIGHT! DIRECTOR OF MUSICALS!
