Dina Shadwell has worked in Atlanta and regionally for over thirty years as an actor, director, producer, puppeteer, casting director, and teaching artist. For thirteen seasons she directed Jerry’s Habima Theatre, a company featuring adult actors with developmental disabilities at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta. Also at the MJCCA she helped create and ran an on-camera acting intensive program for actors with disabilities, the Spotlight Company, for which she helped produce a mockumentary web series, Swampy Meadows. Dina is the Communications and Development Manager at the Frazer Center where she gets to do all sorts of creative things in support of Frazer’s mission of inclusion for adults and children with and without disabilities. Dina is also a graphic designer, collage artist and blogger (rootpaperleaf.com). She lives in Decatur with her husband Frank and their cat Zuzu Spettles.