Courtney Horne

Title: Former DTAA Graduate Assistant

Biography

Courtney Horne is a second-year Graduate Student. She received her B.A. in Acting/Directing from Baldwin Wallace University, graduating on the Deans List in 2015. Courtney was heavily involved in her sorority, serving on the Executive Board as Vice President of Chapter Operations and attending the sorority's annual, regional conference in Chicago in 2014. She was a member of the Arts Management Association(AMA) at Baldwin Wallace. With AMA she aided in planning annual fundraisers and in 2015 attend a network trip to Philadelphia, PA; touring companies such as: The Walnut Theater, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, and the Philadelphia Arts Alliance. While at Baldwin Wallace she served as a director and actor in the theater department, recently starring Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Throughout Courtney's undergraduate career she interned at local theaters such as Mamai and Dobama Theater. This past summer she managed fifty students and seven teaching artist as a Site Coordinator for the Artworks program with the Center for Arts-Inspired Learning, formerly known as Young Audiences. Through this experience Courtney found her love for community outreach and youth exposure to the arts. In the future she hopes to open her own nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young people through arts education and 21st century job skills needed for their success. Courtney is honored to return to the GA team and looks forward to completing her graduate career at The University of Akron.