Jewel Schrader Orem (Schrader or Mrs. Schrader) is very excited to be the theatre teacher and director at South County High School.  Theatre has been the focus of her life, first as an actor and then as a director and teacher. Schrader has been teaching for over fifteen years, the last seven for FCPS. Imagination Stage is another environment where you can find Schrader leading an Acting Conservatory course or directing a summer production camp. As an actor, she last appeared at the Atlas Intersections Festival in A Titch Pale by Carla Johnston. Other local credits include Crumbs from the Table of Joy at Round House Theatre, The Memory of Water at Washington Stage Guild, Othello at The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, The Tempest at the Folger, Goodnight Irene at Theater J, Troilus & Cressida at The Shakespeare Theatre, The Visit at Arena Stage, The Women at The Studio Theatre, and Greek at Scena Theatre.  She has also appeared at the Perry Street Theatre (NYC) in Sweet Land of Liberty, at the New Ehrlich Theatre (Boston) in Mindbender; and at The Children’s Theatre Company (Minneapolis) where she was a resident acting company member in productions such as The Hobbit, And They Dance Real Slow In Jackson, Rembrandt Takes A Walk, The Secret Garden, The Troubles: The Children Of Belfast, The Young Jane Eyre, Raggedy Ann & Andy.  Schrader has a B.F.A. in Acting from Boston University and an MA in Arts Management and Theatre Education from American University. She sends thanks, and love to TBG, DTM, her pups, and all her students for what they have taught her.