Beck brings over 10 years of theatrical experience

working with youth, has served as a co-director for

the Free Arts of Arizona summer theatre camp,

has worked with the local Gay/Straight Alliances,

volunteers with GLSEN Phoenix, and provides

LGBTQ awareness workshops to Phoenix area

high schools and colleges . Beck began working

specifically with the LGBTQ youth community in

Chicago in 2000. Serving as a playwright, director,

and educational theatre artist, she has traveled the

Midwest with LGBTQ youth to educate schools

and community groups on LGBTQ awareness,

bullying and harassment, through theatrical

presentation and facilitated workshops. She has

served as a Gay/Straight Alliance advisor for a

Chicago public high school and remains an Artistic

Associate of About Face Theatre.

Beck is the 1998 recipient of the Kennedy

Center/ACTF Children’s Playwriting award for her

original children’s musical, The Tree to Tarsals,

under contract with Anchorage Press Publishing.

She was awarded the 2006 Arizona State

University Faculty Women’s Association

Distinguished Achievement Award for a Master’s

Candidate, the Herberger College of Fine Arts’

Collegiate Community Partnership Award, and

Echo Magazine’s Ten of Tomorrow – Top Ten

Under 30 years of age in Phoenix, AZ (2005). She

is the founder and director of QSpeak Theatre for

LGBTQ youth and their straight allies, and serves

on the steering committee for the GreenHouse

Project – a transitional housing program and

facility for LGBTQ youth in the Phoenix valley.

Beck holds a BA in Theatre and English from

Doane College, is a graduate of the Dell’Arte

International School of Physical Theatre and holds

a Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre for Youth and a

Masters Certificate in Non-Profit Leadership and

Management, both from Arizona State University.

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