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Jerilynnn Bedingfield Photo: Sandra Hughes Jerilynn Bedingfield is a principal performer with Gateway Performance Productions. She currently portrays the character Honey Bee in the company's new touring productions - Honeybees Are Important! for family audiences and the school version of this production.   Jerilynn's an international and national performer for Gateway whose passion for gardening makes her uniquely qualified to understand and portray the character of Honey Bee and to offer garden related workshops and residencies in conjunction with these performances.   Jerilynn says, Let's learn basic skills to help design a pollinator's garden to attract the beneficial insects that are important to our environment. Let's build a pollinator's garden and learn about good soil quality and compost as we prepare the soil to plant plants that attract the pollinators. Then let's  plant a variety of mostly ...

Honeybees are Important! written and directed by Sandra Hughes was performed by Gateway Performance Productions in Atlanta, Georgia on February 25th. The production was  presented  by Young Audiences at the Woodruff Arts Center.  Principal performer and master gardener  Jerilynn Bedingfield portrays an Italian Honey Bee. Italian honeybees are favorites of  beekeepers in the USA.  Honey Bee is in trouble! Comic characters from the Italian Commedia del' Arte Theatre - Michael Hickey as Arlequino and Sandra Hughes as Columbina - are determined to do everything they can to help Honey Bee stay healthy and able to pollinate to keep all the delicious, nutritious foods she makes possible in their diet... Photos: Bunny Vrooman ... and in their beloved chicken Sylvia's diet as well. Sylvia is portrayed by Fieldtrip- a particularly gentle chicken who lives at Oakhurst Community Garden in Decatur, Geor...

Here are photo images of Michael Hickey and I in my new play Coyote and the Bees at the Chat tahoochee Nature Center in Roswell, Georgia on Saturday, July 5th. Honeybees are currently dying all over our planet. In the play when the coyotes fin d out about this they are determined to find a way to help the honeybees. Coyote and the Bees is a perfect show for youth and family audiences. It's now available to tour nationally and interna tion ally. Please contact Gateway Performance Productions in Atlanta for more information: email: gatewaypp@masktheatre.org phone: 404 222 9262 or fax: 404 222 9680. Photos by: Michael Birnbaum