Bellingham woman created Neighborhood Playhouse to encourage young actors
Lizanne Schader founded The Neighborhood Playhouse about 10 years ago in, she says, "a sort of backwards way - with the outreach first, teaching workshops in the schools through the Allied Arts Education Project, and then added character-trait assemblies, after-school drama clubs, school musicals, residencies and summer drama camps."
The organization now has nonprofit status and continues to do all of those programs.