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This year’s production of Listen to Your Mother Rochester is brought to you by four inspiring ladies – Monica Gebell, Corrie Spike Carter, Sarah Fitzgibbons and Emily Horowitz.
These biographies are courtesy of the LTYM Rochester website.
CORRIE SPIKE CARTER, Co-Producer, Rochester: After nearly 15 years of agency life working in public relations, Corrie recently made the switch to freelancing. Her focus is on nonprofit and consumer/life style PR, marketing, and writing. Corrie is married to Chad, who she fell in love with when they were both just teenagers. They have two crazy awesome daughters and live in Fairport, NY. Corrie loves acting, singing, dancing, and anything artsy, sporty, or outdoorsy.
SARAH FITZGIBBONS, LHMC, MT-BC, Co-Director, Rochester, is a practicing psychotherapist specializing in infant and maternal mental health, trauma, child maltreatment and attachment disruptions. She currently works as the Clinical Director for the Society for the Protection and Care of Children. She is also a doctoral student at the University of Rochester, studying Counselor Education and Supervision. Her research interests include the impact of pregnancy on psychotherapists, infant mental health best practice and child welfare work. In her free time, Sarah is a partner to Mike, and mom to Abel and Remi. She enjoys making things, cooking, reading and sunshine.
MONICA GEBELL, Co-Director, Rochester, is a free-spirited, high-school English teacher who believes in the power of story to effect personal and social change. At school, she is Advisor to the Diversity Club, which seeks to promote understanding, tolerance, communication, and community education. She is a former recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Grant, and worked with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky as a contributing teacher on the America’s Favorite Poetry Project. Her writing has appeared onMamalode and Kveller, where she is a contributing writer, and on her blog, Aprons & Blazers. She loves hiking, being outside, cooking large meals for the people she loves, and talking and listening to strangers–because everyone has a story to tell. She and her husband, Heath, are experiencing all the joys and oys of raising three darn cute, active, and cheeky kids: Devi, 5, Solomon, 4, and Ary, 2.
EMILY HOROWITZ, MA, LMHC, Co-Producer: Emily is a therapist whose passion and expertise is working with people at various points along the parenting spectrum. She has specialized training in perinatal wellness and mental health, attachment, parent-infant psychotherapy, trauma, and pregnancy and infant loss. She currently serves as the Clinical Supervisor for the Family Trauma Intervention Program at SPCC and sees individuals and families in her private practice. Emily is also the founder of a new nonprofit in the Rochester area called Parenting Village. Parenting Village provides crucial support and connection to parents in our community so that they are empowered to raise healthy, thriving children. More than any course she’s taken or employment position she has held, Emily’s own transition to motherhood has been her greatest teacher.
We met at Writers and Books for their production team photos. Last year their faces appeared all over the media including the Democrat & Chronicle, Fox News, the Genesee Valley Parent and others. The show sold out with over 500 people in attendance.
If you’d like to get a taste of last year’s show, you can view all of last years’ readings by clicking here. This year is a completely different cast, including Monica Gebell who will be part of the cast as well as part of the production team.
Tickets are on sale now, you can purchase them here!
