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E. F. Bluestein
Chairman
E. Frank Bluestein is the chairman of the Fine Arts Department at Germantown High School. He is founder and director of the school's theatre, the Poplar Pike Playhouse, and also serves as executive producer for the school's three million dollar educational television facility. In 1998, USA Today named Mr. Bluestein as one of the top 40 teachers in the United States. Two years earlier, he was selected as the 1996 Disney and McDonald's National Performing Arts Teacher of the Year. In 1994, Mr. Bluestein was chosen to serve as Tennessee's Teacher of the Year. He is a past winner of the American Theatre Association's John C. Barner Award, a national award given to one secondary school teacher whose theatre program is judged most exemplary for the year. Mr. Bluestein has served as an arts advisory panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the College Board Arts Advisory Committee, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the Tennessee Arts Commission. He is a former president of both the Tennessee Alliance for Arts Education and the Germantown Arts Alliance. Mr. Bluestein supervises the theatre division of the Tennessee Arts Academy, a statewide teacher training institute. He was named to Memphis Magazine's "Who's Who in Memphis" poll and was presented a community service award for his accomplishments in education by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Under Mr. Bluestein's leadership, the studios of GHS-TV have received Emmy and Cable Ace Award nominations, over 70 first place Hometown Video USA Awards, and a national Student Emmy Award of Excellence. In 1984, he helped the Germantown High School Fine Arts Department become one of eight secondary schools in the nation chosen to receive the prestigious Rockefeller Brothers Fund Arts in Education Award. Mr. Bluestein has served as a director of shows at Opryland, USA and most recently wrote and directed the musical review Beale Street Saturday Night starring blues legend Joyce Cobb. He is a frequent speaker and writer on arts-related issues.
 E-Mail Mr. Bluestein
Click here to visit the webpage for Mr. Bluestein's classes.
Click here to visit the webpage for the Poplar Pike Playhouse.
Click here to visit the webpage for Germantown Community Television.
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Patrick Lee Ashbee
Theatre Arts Teacher
Patrick Lee Ashbee serves as a faculty member of the GHS Fine Arts Department. He currently teaches Film & Video. He has co-directed The Farnsworth Invention, The Fantasticks, and The Beaux' Stratagem at the PPP. A University of Iowa graduate, Mr. Ashbee double-majored in film and theatre. He has served as a writer, director, actor, and sound designer for over 20 plays. His original play Orson Welles Is Dead was the winner of the Nicholas Meyer Dramatic Writing Scholarship and the script received a workshop production. Mr. Ashbee currently is working on two screenplays titled Aurora Circle and Mr. Apple Is Lonely.
E-Mail Mr. Ashbee
Click here to visit the webpage for Mr. Ashbee's classes.
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Rich Pence
Film and Video Teacher
Rich Pence is a native of Montana who has lived and worked all over the country including New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Mr. Pence has a Bachelor of Arts in Theater/Communications & Film Production from University of Memphis and is currently working on his Master of Arts Education at Union University. He lives in Collierville with his wife, Amy, and their 2 daughters. In his spare time, Mr. Pence enjoys painting and running.
E-Mail Mr. Pence
Click here to visit the webpage for Mr. Pence's classes.
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Allison Rogers
Theatre Arts Teacher
Allison Rogers is in her eigth year on the Fine Arts Department staff. A 1994 graduate of Germantown High School, Ms. Rogers appeared in the Poplar Pike Playhouse productions of The Nerd, Once On This Island, and Can't Stop Dancin'. Ms. Rogers attended Baylor University where she received a B.B.A. in Broadcasting. Before returning to Germantown, she worked with Susquehanna Broadcasting, CBS Promotions Group and ABC Radio in Dallas. Ms. Rogers currently teaches Communication Arts and Introduction to Film & Video.
E-Mail Ms. Rogers
Click here to visit the webpage for Ms. Rogers's classes.
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