Woolery graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a BA in English and holds a Spanish Language Certificate from the Universidad de Iteso, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Community members from all the boroughs of New York City attend workshops, classes, and performances that culminates each summer in participatory theatre productions.
Within Public Works, Woolery initiated the program "ACTivate" (Artist, Citizen, Theater maker) that partners community members with professional playwrights to develop their own plays.
Orlando, Duke Senior, his daughter Rosalind and niece Celia are exiled from their homes and flee to the magical and welcoming Forest of Arden where the characters find community, kindness and self-discovery.
The production celebrates people of color and the LGBT community with a multi-cultural cast and emphasis on the queer love story where Phoebe's Silvius becomes Sylvia and Touchstone's Audrey becomes Andy.
[15] Written by Charise Castro Smith, directed by Woolery, and starring Jennifer Paredes and Maria-Christina Oliveras,[16] El Huracán is a bilingual, diasporic family drama focused on themes of memory, migration, forgiveness, and magic.