Angela Polite
Lecturer
Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts
EMAIL: apolite@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: S-628E
Office Hours:
Phone: +1 (212) 776-7850
Professor Angela Polite – Full Time Sub
Mission: to facilitate transformative experiences with students of the BMCC community leading to the co-creation of an equitable, inclusive, joyful and rigorous learning environment.
Professor Angela Polite has served with the Department of Speech, Communications and Theater Arts since 2018. She brings to her classroom real life experiences having worked successfully both Off-Broadway and on television. Her theater credits include: Classical Theatre of Harlem ( A Christmans Carol in Harlem, Emancipation,Trojan Women), Fire This Time Festival (Exodus, Outcry), Juneteenth Theater Festival (Darasa: a musical), Theater for the New City (Flambeaux) and The Connelly Theater (The Seven). Her television credits include guest starring roles on The Wire, Blue Bloods, FBI and GOTHAM.
In addition to her teaching at BMCC, Professor Polite serves as a workshop facilitator with CETLS’ Resilient Teaching Team, a member of the Anti-Racist Pedagogy Working Group and the REI Committee.
Outside of BMCC, Professor Polite is a staff developer specializing in training educators in the areas of social and emotional learning, restorative practices and racial equity.
www.gritsentertainment.com
Expertise
Restorative Practice, Racial Equity, Anti-Racist Pedagogy
Degrees
- B.A. Communications – St. Augustine’s University
- M.A. International Affairs – The American University
- M.S. Education – The City College of New York
Courses Taught
- The aim of this course is to develop effective skills in speech communication. The student examines how to generate topics and organized ideas, masters elements of audience psychology and practices techniques of speech presentation in a public forum. All elements of speech production and presentation are considered.
- The collaborative nature of the theatrical event will be explored in readings, presentations, play attendance, papers and creative projects. Contributions of the playwright, actor, director, designer, architect, critic, producer and audience will be investigated through selected periods, genres, theatre spaces and styles of production. The student's potential roles and responsibilities in creating theatre will be emphasized.
- Basic acting skills, a method of approaching a role, a working vocabulary, and the responsibilities of the actor will be studied through improvisations, theatre games, and performance of scenes or monologues from plays and other dramatic material studied in class.
