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LEMAR O. ARCHER

Lemar Archer (he/him/his) is a Jamaican-born theatre and drama educator, theatre director, actor, choreographer, and dancer based in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an energetic and innately passionate teaching artist with years of experience in theatre and drama education and performance. In Jamaica, he served 5 years as Theatre Arts/Drama and Dance educator, teacher mentor and Head of the Visual and Performing Arts Department at the Edith Dalton James High School, in Kingston Jamaica.  He was a trainee with the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) and is a principal member of the QUILT Performing Arts Company.

 

He is currently the drama educator and theatre director at Thurgood Marshal Middle School in Lynn, MA where he facilitates students in grades 6 – 8. In addition to his work in Lynn, he is a teaching artist with Somerville Arts for Youth (SAY inc.) and choregraphs with Salem High School Theatre Department. His work is grounded in multicultural education, diverse life-long learning and play which he applies to orchestrate students' holistic development.

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Lemar has gained numerous accolades in teaching and directing such as:

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He continues to represent himself and Jamaica on a local, regional and international level. His last engagement was as a Jamaican Delegate at the 2019 staging of the Caribbean Arts Festival (CARIFESTA) hosted in Trinidad and Tobago. In 2019 he staged his first commercial theatre production "A Child's Cry (Call to Rescue Our Youths”, which he wrote and directed and won the Actor Boy Award for Best Children’s Theatre Production for same in 2020. His passion for youth development and the performing arts continues to be his inspiration in becoming the greatest version of himself. When he is not in the theatre or in a classroom he enjoys going to the beach or river or playing and trying new card and board games with his friends.

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Lemar holds a Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts in the Theatre Education and Applied Theare program from Emerson College in Boston, MA, a Bachelor of Arts in Drama in Education from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica and a Certificate in Principles and Practices of Project Management from the Mona School of Business and Management, University of The West Indies, Jamaica.

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