Bridget Cavaiola Stone is a San Diego based educator, improviser, and facilitator and has been performing and teaching theater and communication strategies to adults and children since 2005. She is the Director of Learning at La Jolla Playhouse. Previously, she was a Master Teaching Artist with Arts for Learning, San Diego, La Jolla Playhouse, and San Diego Junior Theatre. She currently performs and teaches with Finest City Improv. She is the former Education Director for the Baltimore Improv Group as well as a former Teaching Artist for Young Audiences of Maryland. She was a Baltimore County Public Schools High School (MD) English and theater teacher and holds credentials in Secondary English, Theatre, and Administration.. Bridget is a graduate of the Young Audience of Maryland Teaching Artist Institute and has extensive training in inclusion, professional development, and arts integration. She holds a masters degree in Communicating in Contemporary Cultures and teaches adjunct at the college level. She has performed improv in Baltimore, DC, New York, Chicago, Austin, Philadelphia, London, and San Diego.