Midge Guerrera
- Email Address: mguerrera@rider.edu
- Phone: (609) 921-7100
- Office: Westminster Campus
- Mailing Address: 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540
Midge Guerrera has had a multi-faceted career that includes professional experiences as an arts administrator, school administrator, arts educator, writer, actress, director, management consultant and media consultant. She has been responsible for the design and development of an arts center, two performing arts high schools and a professional children’s theatre company. She is a published author and produced playwright. As a working theatre and media professional (host of New Jersey Network’s Emmy Award winning “Around and About New Jersey”), Midge brings professional and instructional experience to the classroom. She received her M.A. in Theater and B.A. in Speech and Theater from Montclair State College in New Jersey. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing - Dramatic Writing from Goddard College.
Currently, Midge is the President of The Guerrera Huber Group, Inc. The consulting firm provides services in management, education, creative projects, marketing and development. Clients have included: Ontairo Hydro, LILCO, LERO, Boston Edison, AMOCO, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Newark Museum, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey Theatre Group, Passage Theatre, Two River Theatre Co., Newark Symphony Hall, Composers Guild of NJ, Monmouth County Arts Council/Count Basie Theatre, American Hungarian Heritage Center, Ironbound Cultural Center, Nai Ni Chen Dance Co., and the NJ Center Dance Collective.
After drafting the proposals and initial curricular plan for the Performing Arts Program at Somerset County Vocational School, she was hired to develop a performing arts vocational program in Monmouth County. Midge was the first Director and fully responsible for the Performing Arts Program at Red Bank Regional High School, from its inception to its status as a model vocational performing arts program that services high school students, elementary students and the community.
As the Director, New Jersey School of the Arts, New Jersey State Department of Education, Midge revised and upgraded the programming, fiscal position and visibility of a state legislated school for talented high school students.
Audiences have seen her work as a director on professional (Actors Equity) productions for such companies as: The Women’s Theatre Company, Stage East Ensemble, Black Box Theatre and Originals I. Midge has had casting responsibility for such projects as Todd Kessler Productions for VH-1, “Springsteen Salute"; Guidance Associates, "Hard Facts About Drugs: Alcohol, Marijuana, Cocaine and Crack"; Educational Testing Service, “Math in Space”; and New Jersey Network, projects including "The Great American Eating Machine," "You, Me, and Technology," and "It Figures."
She was the resident playwright and artistic director of Laffin' Stock Company, a professional touring children's theatre company; and was Co-Founder and Producer, Originals I, New York, an Off-Broadway theatre that show-cased the work of new playwrights.
Midge has been commissioned to write numerous plays. For instance she was the re-creation Producer and playwright for the Millstone Historic Society's Bicentennial multi- discipline reenactment entitled Turnabout. Lenape Legends tours elementary schools and helps children understand New Jersey’s first people. Her most recent historic play, The Crane Chronicles, was commissioned in 1998 by the Stephen Crane Museum with underwriting from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Other works have been produced at a variety of venues.
At this point in her career, Midge is only interested in one thing she says, “teaching at Westminster where every student is a joy to work with.”
