PROVIDENCE Glenn Zienowicz doesn’t just teach middle schoolers how to perform. He teaches them how to fly.
In play after play, Zienowicz, known as Mr. Zin, has inspired students at Nathan Bishop Middle School to reach deep into their adolescent souls and produce college-level performances. Everything he touches the costumes, the sets, the lighting turns to magic, parents and students say.
But this fall, Zienowicz will be gone, his drama class, an elective, replaced by computer science, which the district says is in higher demand. The after-school drama club will continue, but parents and students say theater won’t be the same without him.