​Lara Morton, Founder & Director of Handful Productions, has been a theater teacher, director of educational theater and playwright for young audiences since 1994.  She has extensive experience teaching and directing theater arts to all ages, and is excited to expand her reach in this critical field of work through Handful Productions.  

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The Comedy of Errors, Lyme-Old Lyme High School (2011)

Directorial Work (Full-scale productions)

Disney's 'The Lion King Jr.' 2020

Handful Productions 

FUSE Theatre of CT, West Haven, CT

'Grease: School Edition' 2018

WiSP, East Haven, CT

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'Beauty and the Beast Jr.' 2018

Madbarn Productions, Madison, CT

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'Elf Jr.' 2017

Madbarn Productions, Madison, CT

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'The Hundred Dresses' 2012 & 2013

West Haven Child Development Center

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'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' 2011

Lyme-Old Lyme H.S.

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'The Comedy of Errors' 2010

Lyme-Old Lyme H.S.

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'Tony's Turn' 2000-2001 (touring)

Open End Theatre Company/Yale

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'Devonya's Decision' 1999-2001 (touring)

Open End Theatre Company/Yale

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'The Prudence Crandall Story'

Young Audiences of CT

Anti-Defamation League of CT

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'Cinderella' 1998

Alliance Children's Theatre/UNH

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'My Name is Job'

Mt. Sinai COGIC/Binghamton, NY

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'The Awakening'

SUNY @ Oneonta, Oneonta, NY

ARTS EDUCATION

Current Positions:

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FUSE Theatre of CT, West Haven, CT (2019- )

Co-Founder/Vice-President/Artistic Director

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Performance Plus Teen Improv, West Haven, CT (2019--)

Director/Instructor

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The Awkward Stage Players, West Haven, CT (2019-)

Director/Instructor

FOCUS Teen Improv,  Madison, CT (2018-)

Director/Founder

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Past Postions:

Mathewson Elementary School, Milford, CT (2017-)

After-school Drama Teacher

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West Haven Council on the Arts, West Haven, CT (2018)

Director of 'Theatre Safari Camp'

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New Haven Public Schools, New Haven, CT (2014-2016)

Part-Time Theatre Instructor

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Speranza Educational Theatre @ Sephardic Academy of Manhattan, NYC, NY (2013)

Creative Dramatics Instructor



Prendergast School, Ansonia, CT (2013)

Page to Stage Teaching Artist / Consultant / Roald Dahl ‘Perseverance’ Project 

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J.C.C Performing Arts Camp, Woodbridge, CT (2011)

Director / Instructor 



Blend, Branford, CT (2009-2011)

Drama Teacher / Coordinator



Amistad Academy/Achievement First, New Haven, CT (02/08-06/09)

After-school Drama Teacher

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Amistad America, New Haven, CT (2001-2002

Diversity Workshop Director/Facilitator

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Open End Theatre Company, Yale College, New Haven, CT (1999-2002)

​Artistic Director (1999-2002)​

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Young Audiences of Connecticut, Hamden, CT (1998-2000)

Program/Education Director 

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Tabor Arts Center, Branford, CT (2000)

Creative Dramatics Instructor​

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Turkey Hill School, Orange, CT (1999)

​After-school Drama Teacher

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Neighborhood Place Summer Arts Camp;  New Haven, CT (1999)​

Drama Teacher 

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City of New Haven Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (1999)

After-school Drama Teacher​

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B.O.C.E.S & Evergreen Alternative School, Binghamton, NY. (1995-1997)

Theatre Teacher 

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ASSORTED PROJECTS/POSITIONS

YALE Medical School, New Haven, CT

Standardized Patient (2019-)

S.A.T.B. Cabaret, CT

Founder/Director (2012-2017) 

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Shoreline Pyschodrama, Branford, CT

Founder/Director (2008-2009)

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Lowdown Productions, New Haven, CT

Founder/Director (1998-2005)

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Mental Health Association Players, Binghamton, NY; (1994-1997)

Assistant Director

Cast of Tony's Turn, Open End Theater 2001

Beauty and the Beast Jr. 2018

The Hundred Dresses (2012)

Beauty and the Beast Jr. 2018

Grease: School Edition (2018)

Elf Jr. (2017)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Lyme-Old Lyme High School (2012)

SATB Cabaret 2012-2016