Ali Oliver-Krueger is a teaching artist, director, actor, classical singer, and writer/composer. As a teaching artist and arts education professional, Ali has worked with schools, opera companies, and arts organizations throughout the country, and is a Master Teaching Artist with Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts and a residency artist with the John F. Kennedy Center Education Department's DC Partnership Schools Initiative Community Program. Ali’s work as a teaching artist is rooted in creative drama and in creative opera, an emerging form of creative drama in which music and drama are fused together to tell stories and express thoughts, ideas, and feelings. She is a frequent presenter at conferences on arts education and arts integration and conducts professional development workshops and residencies on linking drama and music with content curriculum.