Bay Street Theater Hires New Director of Education

Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts recently announced that Ava Locks joined Bay Street Theater as the new Director of Education.

“I am thrilled to welcome Ava Locks to the Bay Street team,” Bay Street Artistic Director Scott Schwartz said. “She is a talented and accomplished educator, a long time resident of the East End with deep ties to our community, and is someone who I am confident will bring new energy and growth to the educational programs we offer for both kids and adults.”

In her new role, Locks will be administering Bay Street’s kids camps, as well as acting and audition Master classes for young adults.

She will also be developing new educational programs at Bay Street for children and adults.

In addition, Locks will continue to grow the reach of Literature Live, a BOCES-approved Arts-in-Education program, which brings regional schools in to see curriculum-based literature come to life on stage in a professional production.

“I am delighted to join the team at Bay Street Theaterand Sag Harbor Center for the Arts where I can build upon and expand the unique and educational offerings for the community,” Locks said. “As a New York State certified Special Education teacher who attends Bay Street’s Literature Live productions I am thrilled to be a part of this BOCES-approved Arts-in-Education program that offers students’ varied learning styles prospect in content comprehension and exposure to the performing arts for free.”

This year’s production of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” will run November 9-29.

“Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is a resource for the East End Community the whole year round,” Schwartz said. “Educational programming built around live performance and the work we do on our stage is a central part of our mission.”

Locks is on the board of trustees for East End Special Education Parent Teacher Organization, (East End SEPTO), and on the Town of Southampton’s Business Advisory Council.

She was a founding staff member for the Children’s Museum of the East End, (CMEE), where she established community partnerships and programming with local organizations.

She received a Master of Science, Childhood Education, from Long Island University and a Bachelor of Arts, Theater Production, from Bennington College.

She has worked off Broadway, regionally, network television and in film before moving to the East End.