“His extensive knowledge of teaching and learning principles has
resulted in presentations that are well-planned, child centered and hands-on — where
participants create, enjoy, and learn.”
Natalie Epstein
Arts Coordinator
New York City Board of Education
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WHO WE ARE
Daniel Barash holds a Masters Degree in Elementary
Education from New York University. Certified in New York State, he led
arts-in-education workshops for more than a decade in the Metro New York
region before relocating to Metro DC in 2006.
Daniel has pioneered the use of shadow puppetry,
an ancient Asian art form, in diverse secular and Jewish settings.
Daniel performed a one-man educational theater program
for more than 100,000 students across the United States, and has worked
with students in Belarus, India, Laos, and Lithuania.
He has also trained educators in the use of dramatic
arts to explore curricula, both in the U.S. and abroad.
THE SHADOW PUPPET WORKSHOP has worked with the
following secular institutions:
- Art for the People
- ARTSPACE
- Bethany Parks and Recreation
- Blessed Sacrament School
- Bright Horizons ECC
- Brundage Community Branch Library
- Camp Laurel
- Cashell Elementary School
- Chapel Haven
- Chevy Chase Library
- Childtime Learning Centers
- ChuanBao Chinese School
- Cold Spring School
- Community Bridges, Inc.
- Community Preschool of the Palisades
- Community Bridges, Inc.
- Connecticut Children’s Museum
- Creative Adventures Camp
- Derby Public Library
- Fair Haven Middle School
- Ferguson Library
- Foote School
- Jerome "Buddy" Ford Nature Center
- Girl Scouts of the Nation's Capital
- Grace Episcopal School
- Guilford Handcraft Center
- Impact Silver Spring
- International Festival of Arts and Ideas
- Jackie Robinson / Martin Luther King School
- Judy Center at Rolling Terrace Elementary
School
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library
- Lone Oak Montessori School
- Mashantucket Pequot Museum
- Mayorga Coffee House
- Metropolitan Nursery School
- Montgomery County Summer Fun Center
- Montgomery Knolls Elementary School
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- Museum of Biblical Art
- New Haven Board of Education Comprehensive
Arts Program
- New Haven Early Learning Childhood Center
- New Haven Free Public Library
- New York Public Library
- North Branford Senior Center
- Old Lyme Center School
- Oxford Public Library
- Oyster Bilingual School
- Peabody Essex Museum
- Phelps Senior Center
- Phillips Collection
- Plumb Memorial Library
- Reston Community Center
- River School
- Rockburn Elementary School
- Sandy Springs School Summer Fun
- School-Within-School at Peabody
- Silver Spring Learning Center
- Silver Spring Library
- St. Alban's ECC
- St. John's Episcopal Preschool
- St. Steven's and St. Agnes School
- Smithsonian Discovery Theater
- Smithsonian Early Enrichment Centers
- Somers Public Library
- Stuart Hobson Middle School
- Takoma Children's School
- Takoma Elementary School
- Takoma Park Cooperative Children's School
- Takoma Park Library
- Watkins Elementary School
- Wexler-Grant Family Resource Center
- The Winchester School
- Wonders Childcare Center @ Somerset
- Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital
- Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
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THE SHADOW PUPPET WORKSHOP has worked with the following
Jewish institutions:
- Adas Israel Congregation
- Beit Rabban Day School
- Melvin J. Berman Academy
- Beth El Preschool
- Beth Emeth ECC
- B'nai Israel Congregation
- B'nai Shalom of Olney
- B'nai Tzedek Greenzaid ECC
- Camp Ah-Hava
- Camp Katan
- Camp Louise and Camp Airy
- Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School
- Congregation Har Shalom
- Congregation Beth-El Keser Israel
- Congregation Olam Tikvah
- Etz Chayim Preschool
- Germantown Jewish Center
- Hebrew Day School
- JCC District of Columbia
- JCC Manhattan
- JCC Metrowest
- JCC New Haven
- JCC Northern Virginia
- The Jewish Museum
- Jewish Partnership for Jewish Life and
Learning
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- Jewish Primary Day School
- Kehilat Shalom
- Kellman Academy
- Kol Shalom
- Machar
- Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy
- New Haven Hebrew Day School
- New York Board of Jewish Education
- Ohr Kodesh Congregation
- Olam Tikvah Preschool
- Rhode Island Bureau of Jewish Education
- Shaare Tefila
- Shaare Torah
- Silver Spring Learning Center
- Solomon Schechter Day School
- Spanish and Portugese Synagogue
- Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
- Temple Beth Shalom
- Temple Emanuel
- Temple Rodef Shalom
- Temple Sinai
- Tifereth Israel
- Tikvat Israel ECC
- Yale Hillel Children’s School
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Daniel performed a one-man educational theater program
for more than 100,000 students across the United States, and has worked
with students in Belarus, India, Laos, and Lithuania.
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