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**Name:** Michael Palmieri

 * Nick-Name** : The Godfather

Best Ways to Contact Me :

EMail:
 * michael_palmieri@dpsk12.org**


 * Cell Phone : 303-906-3554**

"Education is not the filling of a pail; it is the lighting of a fire."

P.S. Go Red Sox ! ... and Rockies ! || =**Education**=
 * Degree:** Bachelor of Arts in English
 * School:** Boston College
 * Completion:** 1973


 * Degree:** Teacher Certification
 * School:** DU
 * Completion:** 1990

**Endorsements:** English/Language Arts Drama/Theatre


 * TJ Teaching/Positions**
 * Theatre 1 **
 * Theatre 2 **
 * Theatre 3 **
 * Arts Department Chair and Senior Team Lead **


 * Stage Manager **

|| =**2017/2018 Class Schedule**=

Department: Arts

 * Room: 233** (Classroom and Black Box Theater)


 * Period 1:** Plan for Theatre 1, 2, 3
 * Period 2:** Theatre 1
 * Period 3:** Department Chair /Senior Team Lead
 * Period 4:** Senior Team Lead
 * Period 5:** Lunch
 * Period 6:** Theatre 1
 * Period 7:** Theatre 2
 * Period 8:** Theatre 3

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**A Bit About Me**
I spent three years working on photo journalism in the seventies. I am in the beginning of a new photographic journey, including exhibitions and several books. I was also into sports cars, and spent 1980-1990 as service manager at Ralph Schomp BMW. I realized the call on my life to teach when I began teaching high school Sunday school, went back to school, and began teaching in DPS in 1990, and I have loved every minute since (12 years @ TJ; 28 years in DPS.) I taught for eleven years at Martin Luther King, then moved to Manual High School, where I became theatre director in 2004 and fell in love with the stage. Directing highlights have been //Fences// at Manual, //Marisol// at Manual and at TJ, and //Chicago, Moon Over Buffalo,// //RENT, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Little Shop of Horrors, Macbeth 2012, Lend Me A Tenor, and The August Wilson Project// at TJ. The RenT ProJect at TJ is a highlight reel for me. The cast and crew served over 600 hours at the Denver Rescue Mission, Children's Hospital, and the Colorado Aids Project. I am currently sharing all I learned directing on the big stage with young people in my theatre classes. I am literally a guy living the dream.


 * //Heartfelt thanks and love to these supporters of TJ Theatre for their generous donations in support of the continued technical upgrades to our Black Box Theater : Michael Christoff (TJ Funds), The DPS Foundation, TJ PTO, and Bob and Kristen Raskopf.//**

TJ (I love TJ), and reading
 * Current Interests :** family, photography, writing (working on an autobiography), travel (Italy is my favorite),