"… Sally taught me to listen not only to people’s words, but to the things about them that make them who they are…"

"… Sally creates new improved worlds for everyone with whom she interacts ..."

Sally Shatzkes is the Director of the Arts Department at Yeshivah of Flatbush in Brooklyn, NY. She is a Registered Drama Therapist and NYS Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Sally has over a decade of work in the drama therapy field, innovating creative arts based programs at the Yeshivah of Flatbush in Brooklyn and spearheading creative approaches in Jewish education at multiple other institutions. Sally piloted the first Witness Theater program with Holocaust survivors and teenagers in NY in 2012 and continues to work as the lead Drama Therapist for the program, training others to facilitate Witness Theater in different locations. Sally is a noted lecturer and educator whose work has been featured in the The Wall Street Journal, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and The Forward. 

Sally was featured in the Spring of 2017 as one of the Jewish Week's notable "36 Under 36." She is also the recipient of the esteemed 2019 Covenant Award for excellence in Jewish Education.

Sally and the 2017 Witness Theater program are the subject of the newly released documentary, Witness Theater, by Oren Rudavsky. Click here for information about the film.

Sally Grazi-Shatzkes is a Registered Drama Therapist, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Theater Director at Yeshivah of Flatbush in Brooklyn, NY. At the Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School, Grazi-Shatzkes is the lead drama therapist in the Witness Theater program, which she facilitates by utilizing a guided drama therapy process through which group members explore issues of war, loss, and trauma, allowing participants to also form deep and meaningful relationships that dissolve the barriers between generations. She is also the designer and facilitator of two original curricula for younger students (grades 1-3) at the Yeshivah of Flatbush Elementary School, which both focus on social and emotional awareness and character development. Beyond Flatbush, Grazi-Shatzkes teaches weekly Shabbat classes at Congregation Bnei Yitzhak about Torah, Mussar, and other Jewish topics to girls ages 5-13, and during the summer, she serves as the Head of the Drama Department at Camp Morasha, a modern Orthodox residential summer camp in Lakewood, Pennsylvania.

Special thanks to Ilana Trachtman and the Covenant Foundation for creating this video about my work and my philosophy.