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she\/her<\/em><\/p>\n Acting, Early Elementary<\/strong><\/p>\n Ruth Ann has a wide variety of stage credits from community theaters across West Michigan. In 1987 she got her start at Grand Rapids Civic Theatre landing a small speaking roll in “A Chorus Line”, after being “cut” in the opening act, she spent the rest of the show singing backup and dressing one of the lead actors. She has been in love with theater ever since. [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n What inspires you?<\/strong><\/p>\n Learning something new and interesting and being able to use that new found knowledge.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Who is your favorite fictional character?<\/strong><\/p>\n Bilbo Baggins<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n What was your favorite after-school snack?<\/strong><\/p>\n Ants on a log. It was the only my Mom could get me to eat celery.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/www.grct.org\/classes\/teaching-artists\/” button_text=”Back to Teaching Artists” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_icon=”8||divi||400″ button_icon_placement=”left” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUTH ANN MOLENAAR she\/her Acting, Early Elementary Ruth Ann has a wide variety of stage credits from community theaters across West Michigan. In 1987 she got her start at Grand Rapids Civic Theatre landing a small speaking roll in “A Chorus Line”, after being “cut” in the opening act, she spent the rest of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":3561,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4002","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grct.org\/classes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grct.org\/classes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grct.org\/classes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grct.org\/classes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grct.org\/classes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.grct.org\/classes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/www.grct.org\/classes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4002\/revisions\/4055"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grct.org\/classes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grct.org\/classes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
From Grand Rapids Circle Theatre to Actor’s Theatre, Robeson Players, Jewish Theatre and Ebony Road Players, Ruth Ann has been on stage or behind the scenes in some capacity wether in a leading role or ensemble to stage mananging, assistant director and choreography.
She is looking forward to sharing the knowledge she has garnered over the past 37 years, and is excited to be joing and working along side the teaching staff at Grand Rapids Civic Theatre.<\/p>\n