the actors:
Victoria Chen
is a pioneer graduate of Singapore's School of the Arts, majoring in theatre. She is part of Theatre:Connect, a company specializing in devised community theatre and recently performed as one of the main leads in their second production, Self:Harm, at the Arts House as part of Celebrate! Drama 2012. Victoria has trained under Australia’s Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, received training from local practitioners such as Peter Sau, Christina Sergeant and Sean Tobin, and was a sports presenter for the inaugural Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010. Victoria will sacrifice food and sleep for any workshop that will give her more exposure to theatre. Credits include a twisted ankle, two skinned knees and three head concussions. Apart from being a professional hugger, Victoria also advocates strongly for child rights, having mentored children for Beyond Social Services and collaborated with the Northern Thailand NGO The Mirror Foundation to promote cultural identity among hill tribes.
is a pioneer graduate of Singapore's School of the Arts, majoring in theatre. She is part of Theatre:Connect, a company specializing in devised community theatre and recently performed as one of the main leads in their second production, Self:Harm, at the Arts House as part of Celebrate! Drama 2012. Victoria has trained under Australia’s Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, received training from local practitioners such as Peter Sau, Christina Sergeant and Sean Tobin, and was a sports presenter for the inaugural Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010. Victoria will sacrifice food and sleep for any workshop that will give her more exposure to theatre. Credits include a twisted ankle, two skinned knees and three head concussions. Apart from being a professional hugger, Victoria also advocates strongly for child rights, having mentored children for Beyond Social Services and collaborated with the Northern Thailand NGO The Mirror Foundation to promote cultural identity among hill tribes.
Toma Danila
was born in Bucharest, where he curently lives, working as an actor in theatre, film and television. He can be seen in plays like “Playground Targoviste”, “The Tiger from Sibiu”, ‘Figaro’s Wedding”. He was awarded in 2012 “ Best Actor” at the FDR Festival, in Romania, for his performance in “Xmm from Ykm”, directed by Gianina Carbunariu. He can also be seen in “ The devil inside” Universal Pictures, ”Anaconda 3” Castel Film and in the Tv series “ The Voice of the Heart”.
Daniela Fortes
was born in Rio in 1976. For 20 years she’s been actress, dancer, director and producer. Main works as actress: Orestia, by Ésquilo, directed by: Malu Galli and Bel Garcia,RJ,Brazil,2013/2012. Founder of MD Fortes Production in 2003. By the direction of Christiane Jatahy: In Drama,anther regardness into the plays of Nelson Rodrigues,Vestido de Noiva ( Bride’s Dress),Casa França Brasil,RJ,2012; Film: A Falta que nos Move,( The lack that move us ) 2011from the play A Falta que nos Move ou Todas as Histórias são Ficção, presented in Brasil,Alemanha e Áustria,2008-2005; Corte Seco ( Dry Cut ) 2012-2010; By the direction of Enrique Diaz, with Coletivo Improviso ( Jamming Collective ): Otro or Weknowitsallornothing,co-direction: Cristina Moura, presented in 9 countries, between 2012 and 2010-produced by MD Fortes Production at RJ, winner of Myriam Muniz 2008;Não Olhe Agora,Co-direction:Mariana Lima, presented at festivals at France and Brasil,2007-2003. And: Na Cola do Sapateado,Direction:Tânia Nardini,RJ,2011 e1995;Fitz Jam,project idealizedby Daniela,produced byMDFortes.Direction:Pedro Brício,2008,winner of Myriam Muniz 2007;Sonhos de Einstein,Direction:Claudio Baltar,Cia Intrépida Trupe,2004;Member of Cia Dani Lima at the theatre-dance pieces: Piti; Nato; Preguiça, Manha e outras Meninas,2000-1997;Acted,co-produced and collaborated at the script of Céus!,Direction: Evandro Mesquita,1998-1997.Member of Cia Orquestra Brasileira de Sapateado working at:No passo do Compasso,dir: Tim Rescala,1997;Heleno de Freitas,um homem chamado Gilda,Dir: Marcelo Saback,1996 e Cinco a Dois,Dir:Bernardo Jablonski,1994.
was born in Rio in 1976. For 20 years she’s been actress, dancer, director and producer. Main works as actress: Orestia, by Ésquilo, directed by: Malu Galli and Bel Garcia,RJ,Brazil,2013/2012. Founder of MD Fortes Production in 2003. By the direction of Christiane Jatahy: In Drama,anther regardness into the plays of Nelson Rodrigues,Vestido de Noiva ( Bride’s Dress),Casa França Brasil,RJ,2012; Film: A Falta que nos Move,( The lack that move us ) 2011from the play A Falta que nos Move ou Todas as Histórias são Ficção, presented in Brasil,Alemanha e Áustria,2008-2005; Corte Seco ( Dry Cut ) 2012-2010; By the direction of Enrique Diaz, with Coletivo Improviso ( Jamming Collective ): Otro or Weknowitsallornothing,co-direction: Cristina Moura, presented in 9 countries, between 2012 and 2010-produced by MD Fortes Production at RJ, winner of Myriam Muniz 2008;Não Olhe Agora,Co-direction:Mariana Lima, presented at festivals at France and Brasil,2007-2003. And: Na Cola do Sapateado,Direction:Tânia Nardini,RJ,2011 e1995;Fitz Jam,project idealizedby Daniela,produced byMDFortes.Direction:Pedro Brício,2008,winner of Myriam Muniz 2007;Sonhos de Einstein,Direction:Claudio Baltar,Cia Intrépida Trupe,2004;Member of Cia Dani Lima at the theatre-dance pieces: Piti; Nato; Preguiça, Manha e outras Meninas,2000-1997;Acted,co-produced and collaborated at the script of Céus!,Direction: Evandro Mesquita,1998-1997.Member of Cia Orquestra Brasileira de Sapateado working at:No passo do Compasso,dir: Tim Rescala,1997;Heleno de Freitas,um homem chamado Gilda,Dir: Marcelo Saback,1996 e Cinco a Dois,Dir:Bernardo Jablonski,1994.
Aimee Horne
Nominated for a 2012 Sydney Theatre award for Tamarama Rock Surfers: the Highway crossing, Arts Radar/Belvoir: Midsummer Nights Dream National Tour, Legs on the the Wall: My Bicycle Loves You Griffin Theatre: Quack!, S-27, 24 Hour Project Generator, STC: Like a Fishbone, Brecht Workshop (Education), Bloodwood (Creative Development), Gallipoli. Belvoir : Voices (Creative Development), Tiger Country (Creative Development). For Playwriting Australia: The Damned, Swamplands, War Crimes, Tilt, Cry Havoc: Julius Caesar. For Beyond Empathy: The Strange Case of Paprika Stead. For Theatre of Image: Georgiana Woman of Flowers. NIDA Directors Projects: In the Solitude of Cottonfields, The Love Talker, Body of Water. Television: Recipe for Murder, East West 101. Double Take. Film: A Hard Life, The King, The Burning Man, The filmmaker Training: NIDA, Flinders Drama Centre.
María José Doiz Jiménez
catorce años haciendo teatro con su grupo "As de T". Actuando en las muchas obras que han rodado por los escenarios, algunas como protagonista. Gracias a: su experiencia, forma de participar activamente en las muchas andanzas teatrales del grupo, así como a su formación (que se inició en el taller de Teatro "El Despertar" con profesorado de Zaragoza, Sevilla, Logroño, etc) y sobre todo, gracias a su forma de ser, se le abren puertas. Cuentan con ella llamándola desde distintas instancias, habiendo participado en: Jornadas, Fiestas, Concurso, Cuentacuentos, Festivales, Teatro de calle, Cortometraje, Obras de Teatro de otros grupos, etc. Ha impartido Talleres de Teatro; para niñas/os y también para adultas/os. Dirigió a ese último grupo adulto para llevar a escena un cuento que ella misma adaptó como obra de Teatro. Trabajando en Radio fueron casi 3 años haciendo todo lo imaginable y más.
catorce años haciendo teatro con su grupo "As de T". Actuando en las muchas obras que han rodado por los escenarios, algunas como protagonista. Gracias a: su experiencia, forma de participar activamente en las muchas andanzas teatrales del grupo, así como a su formación (que se inició en el taller de Teatro "El Despertar" con profesorado de Zaragoza, Sevilla, Logroño, etc) y sobre todo, gracias a su forma de ser, se le abren puertas. Cuentan con ella llamándola desde distintas instancias, habiendo participado en: Jornadas, Fiestas, Concurso, Cuentacuentos, Festivales, Teatro de calle, Cortometraje, Obras de Teatro de otros grupos, etc. Ha impartido Talleres de Teatro; para niñas/os y también para adultas/os. Dirigió a ese último grupo adulto para llevar a escena un cuento que ella misma adaptó como obra de Teatro. Trabajando en Radio fueron casi 3 años haciendo todo lo imaginable y más.
Carlos Lobo
is the German voice of “Javier Bardem”(Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Eat, Pray Love), Lead Voice in Assasins Creed and Unchartable II and Final Fantasy. Theatre credits: Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley Kowalski), Trainspotting(Mark), Midsummer Night’s Dream(Nick Bottom), The Full Monty, and Noises-Off(Lloyd) and is a graduate of The William Esper Studio under Bill Esper.
Miguel Loyola
was born in Mexico City but moved to Chihuahua where he learned what life was about. Afterwards, he went to New York where he started to study Dramatic Arts and art history. His need of Knowledge and new experiences took him to move to London, England where he also study, and worked as dishwasher, waiter and concierge. He took a workshop with Iben Nagen Rasmussen of Odin Teatret. On stage he has performed a Mayan kid, a beggar, a dolphin, a cat, a jaguar, a hysterical woman, a doctor, a handicapped and 5 ghosts among other characters.
was born in Mexico City but moved to Chihuahua where he learned what life was about. Afterwards, he went to New York where he started to study Dramatic Arts and art history. His need of Knowledge and new experiences took him to move to London, England where he also study, and worked as dishwasher, waiter and concierge. He took a workshop with Iben Nagen Rasmussen of Odin Teatret. On stage he has performed a Mayan kid, a beggar, a dolphin, a cat, a jaguar, a hysterical woman, a doctor, a handicapped and 5 ghosts among other characters.
Julio Machado
is an actor and singer, from São Paulo,Brazil, 33 year old. Graduated by Escola de Arte Dramática of University of São Paulo,in 2007. His main works in theatre are: Oréstia, by Ésquilo, direction: Malu Galli and Bel Garcia,RJ, Brazil, 2013/12; A ilusão Cômica, by Pierre Corneille and A Bilha Quebrada, byHeinrich Von Kleist, both directed by Márcio Aurélio and produced by Cia Razões Inversas, SP/RJ, Brasil, 2012/11; Jaquar Cibernético, by Francisco Carlos, SP/Curitiba, Brasil, 2011/10. As meninas, literary work by Ligia Fagundes Telles, adapted by Maria Adelaide Amaral, SP/Curitiba, Brasil, 2012-10; (Nossa) Casa de Bonecas, creation of Teatro de Narradores, inspired in the work of Henrik Ibsen, directed by José Fernando de Azevedo, SP, 2009. Imperador e Galileu and O inimigo do povo, by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Sérgio Ferrara, SP, 2008/07; among others... In movies acted in: Centro de Gravidade, by Steven Richter; Trago Comigo and Antônia_O Filme, by Tata Amaral; and in short-films as: Máscara Negra, by Renê Brasil, among others.
is an actor and singer, from São Paulo,Brazil, 33 year old. Graduated by Escola de Arte Dramática of University of São Paulo,in 2007. His main works in theatre are: Oréstia, by Ésquilo, direction: Malu Galli and Bel Garcia,RJ, Brazil, 2013/12; A ilusão Cômica, by Pierre Corneille and A Bilha Quebrada, byHeinrich Von Kleist, both directed by Márcio Aurélio and produced by Cia Razões Inversas, SP/RJ, Brasil, 2012/11; Jaquar Cibernético, by Francisco Carlos, SP/Curitiba, Brasil, 2011/10. As meninas, literary work by Ligia Fagundes Telles, adapted by Maria Adelaide Amaral, SP/Curitiba, Brasil, 2012-10; (Nossa) Casa de Bonecas, creation of Teatro de Narradores, inspired in the work of Henrik Ibsen, directed by José Fernando de Azevedo, SP, 2009. Imperador e Galileu and O inimigo do povo, by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Sérgio Ferrara, SP, 2008/07; among others... In movies acted in: Centro de Gravidade, by Steven Richter; Trago Comigo and Antônia_O Filme, by Tata Amaral; and in short-films as: Máscara Negra, by Renê Brasil, among others.
Patricia Masera
was born in Asuncion, Paraguay. In 1997 she co-founded the Aerial Theatre Group Nhi-Mu(www.nhimu.com) a ground breaking theatre alternative for the Paraguayan scene. She was awarded with the B’nai Brith award for excellence in Theatre in 2006; that same year she was also awarded with a Fulbright Scholarship to North Carolina School of the Arts, where she obtained her MFA in Performing Arts Management. Her most recent activities include: Producing the multidisciplinary project En Borrador – Teatro en construccion, directed by Paola Irun (Paraguay, 2010) , Belonging , a short piece in collaboration with Paola Irun performed at the Artistic Forum by Hybrid Theater Works in New York City (Feb. 2011) and shown again in Paraguay in July 201, Ninguna, with Nhi-Mu in Paraguay (2011). She has also worked as an assistant director for Doug Howe and Alfonso Carcamo for Hotel Project NJ and NY and for Ana Margineanu and Melanie Armer for the Window Projects in April and May of 2012.
was born in Asuncion, Paraguay. In 1997 she co-founded the Aerial Theatre Group Nhi-Mu(www.nhimu.com) a ground breaking theatre alternative for the Paraguayan scene. She was awarded with the B’nai Brith award for excellence in Theatre in 2006; that same year she was also awarded with a Fulbright Scholarship to North Carolina School of the Arts, where she obtained her MFA in Performing Arts Management. Her most recent activities include: Producing the multidisciplinary project En Borrador – Teatro en construccion, directed by Paola Irun (Paraguay, 2010) , Belonging , a short piece in collaboration with Paola Irun performed at the Artistic Forum by Hybrid Theater Works in New York City (Feb. 2011) and shown again in Paraguay in July 201, Ninguna, with Nhi-Mu in Paraguay (2011). She has also worked as an assistant director for Doug Howe and Alfonso Carcamo for Hotel Project NJ and NY and for Ana Margineanu and Melanie Armer for the Window Projects in April and May of 2012.
Laura Méndez
Born in Pachuca Hidalgo. She moved to Guanajuato on 2001 to study a degree in philosophy at the Universidad de Guanajuato and at the same time she gave her first steps on stage at La Compañía, a group belonging to the culture department of this University. She will be part of this group for eight years as actriz and text adapter. Since then, her performing arts training took place in workshops, courses and classes with different teachers. She has worked as an assistant director at the Grupo de Formación Actoral Infantil at the Universidad de Guanajauto for four years. To complement her skills, she has practiced Raq Sharqi, Belly Dance and Jazz Dance lately. But above all, most of her learning has been on participation in several plays. She moved to Queretaro city in summer 2010. From that moment she joined to Sabandijas de Palacio and continues her training with the guidance of Mariana Hartasánchez. She is working in this independent company as an actress and producer. She believe in the theater as a great community ... And hope not ever get off the stage.
Born in Pachuca Hidalgo. She moved to Guanajuato on 2001 to study a degree in philosophy at the Universidad de Guanajuato and at the same time she gave her first steps on stage at La Compañía, a group belonging to the culture department of this University. She will be part of this group for eight years as actriz and text adapter. Since then, her performing arts training took place in workshops, courses and classes with different teachers. She has worked as an assistant director at the Grupo de Formación Actoral Infantil at the Universidad de Guanajauto for four years. To complement her skills, she has practiced Raq Sharqi, Belly Dance and Jazz Dance lately. But above all, most of her learning has been on participation in several plays. She moved to Queretaro city in summer 2010. From that moment she joined to Sabandijas de Palacio and continues her training with the guidance of Mariana Hartasánchez. She is working in this independent company as an actress and producer. She believe in the theater as a great community ... And hope not ever get off the stage.
Luke Mullins
is an actor, director and dramaturge who works extensively across the Australian theatre sector. His independent practice includes Autobiography of Red a solo work created and performed for Malthouse Theatre and Irony is not Enough: Essay on my Life as Catherine Deneuve created with Fragment 31 at Arts House. He is a core member of Stuck Pigs Squealing, was a member of the Sydney Theatre Company Actors' Company and has worked extensively as an actor for Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre and Belvoir. He has created and performed work with a number of independent companies including Uncle Semolina and Friends, Liminal, Uninvited Guests, Little Death, Wrecked all Prods and Arts Radar. Luke has been awarded the George Fairfax Award for Excellence in Theatre Practice and a Green Room Award for The Season at Sarsaparilla.
is an actor, director and dramaturge who works extensively across the Australian theatre sector. His independent practice includes Autobiography of Red a solo work created and performed for Malthouse Theatre and Irony is not Enough: Essay on my Life as Catherine Deneuve created with Fragment 31 at Arts House. He is a core member of Stuck Pigs Squealing, was a member of the Sydney Theatre Company Actors' Company and has worked extensively as an actor for Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre and Belvoir. He has created and performed work with a number of independent companies including Uncle Semolina and Friends, Liminal, Uninvited Guests, Little Death, Wrecked all Prods and Arts Radar. Luke has been awarded the George Fairfax Award for Excellence in Theatre Practice and a Green Room Award for The Season at Sarsaparilla.
Oksana Mysina
was born in Ukraine but has lived in Moscow since she was eight years old. She is a graduate of both the Gnesin Music School (as a violist) and the Shchepkin Theater Institute of the Maly Theater. She began her professional acting career at the Spartacus Square Theater where she performed leads in all of the theater's productions between 1988 and 1994.
Since 1994 she has worked independently at various theaters, including the Moscow Art Theater, the Pushkin Theater and the Stanislavsky Drama Theater. Her performance of Katerina Ivanovna in Kama Ginkas’s production of K.I. from “Crime” for the Moscow Young Spectator Theater brought her fame — the show has toured to 17 countries during its 18-year run.
Mysina in recent years has worked primarily at the legendary School of Dramatic Art. There she has performed in Dmitry Krymov's Chekhov fantasias, Tararabumbiya and The Auction, and in Christophe Feutrier's production of Valere Novarina's contemporary avant-garde classic The Imaginary Operetta. Under the direction of Vladimir Berzin, she performs a one-woman show of Klim's The Theater of Medea.
In film the actress has turned in award-winning performances in A Play for a Passenger (directed by Vadim Abdrashitov), Andersen (directed by Eldar Ryazanov), and Pavel I and The Admirer (both directed by Vitaly Melnikov). In her spare time Oksana is the lead singer, electric violinist and lyricist for the rock band Oxy Rocks.
was born in Ukraine but has lived in Moscow since she was eight years old. She is a graduate of both the Gnesin Music School (as a violist) and the Shchepkin Theater Institute of the Maly Theater. She began her professional acting career at the Spartacus Square Theater where she performed leads in all of the theater's productions between 1988 and 1994.
Since 1994 she has worked independently at various theaters, including the Moscow Art Theater, the Pushkin Theater and the Stanislavsky Drama Theater. Her performance of Katerina Ivanovna in Kama Ginkas’s production of K.I. from “Crime” for the Moscow Young Spectator Theater brought her fame — the show has toured to 17 countries during its 18-year run.
Mysina in recent years has worked primarily at the legendary School of Dramatic Art. There she has performed in Dmitry Krymov's Chekhov fantasias, Tararabumbiya and The Auction, and in Christophe Feutrier's production of Valere Novarina's contemporary avant-garde classic The Imaginary Operetta. Under the direction of Vladimir Berzin, she performs a one-woman show of Klim's The Theater of Medea.
In film the actress has turned in award-winning performances in A Play for a Passenger (directed by Vadim Abdrashitov), Andersen (directed by Eldar Ryazanov), and Pavel I and The Admirer (both directed by Vitaly Melnikov). In her spare time Oksana is the lead singer, electric violinist and lyricist for the rock band Oxy Rocks.
Katia Pascariu
actress, 29, living and working in Bucharest; background: theater, dance, movement; currently involved in independent theatrical and socio-artistic projects, collaborating with public theaters, co-founder of 4Th Age Community ArtsCenter, interested in theater for young audiences, activist when necessary, nature-music-books-coffee-and-chocolate lover. I totally dig traveling for business, rather than for pleasure; opened to and ready for any new artistic experience – the crazier the better. I guess All the world's a stage - still, Shakespeare rules!
actress, 29, living and working in Bucharest; background: theater, dance, movement; currently involved in independent theatrical and socio-artistic projects, collaborating with public theaters, co-founder of 4Th Age Community ArtsCenter, interested in theater for young audiences, activist when necessary, nature-music-books-coffee-and-chocolate lover. I totally dig traveling for business, rather than for pleasure; opened to and ready for any new artistic experience – the crazier the better. I guess All the world's a stage - still, Shakespeare rules!
Andreea Padurariu
is a romanian professional actress based in London. After graduating acting at the Theatre and Film Academy in her native town Bucharest, she has worked for a few years in the film industry, television, stage. Her film credits include: Bunraku, Sand Serpents, Xenophobia, True True Lie, Return of the living dead 4. Her tv credits include "One step forward" and "Here come the police" TV series.
She also had a pretty intense activity in the physical theatre company "Passepartout DP" performing at the National Theatre in Bucharest and participating at European Festivals in Germany, Spain, Poland, Portugal, France, Hungary etc. At the the Black and White Festival in Imatra-Finland, she received the Best Actress Award.
In 2008 she moved to London, and after studying at Drama Center-University of the Arts, she has started working mainly on stage-recently cast in "Frankenstein" project at the National Theatre, directed by Danny Boyle and "Told and Unfold", physical theatre show at Sadler's Wells.
Her range of skills include contemporary dance, mime, kick boxing, martial arts (Capoeira).
is a romanian professional actress based in London. After graduating acting at the Theatre and Film Academy in her native town Bucharest, she has worked for a few years in the film industry, television, stage. Her film credits include: Bunraku, Sand Serpents, Xenophobia, True True Lie, Return of the living dead 4. Her tv credits include "One step forward" and "Here come the police" TV series.
She also had a pretty intense activity in the physical theatre company "Passepartout DP" performing at the National Theatre in Bucharest and participating at European Festivals in Germany, Spain, Poland, Portugal, France, Hungary etc. At the the Black and White Festival in Imatra-Finland, she received the Best Actress Award.
In 2008 she moved to London, and after studying at Drama Center-University of the Arts, she has started working mainly on stage-recently cast in "Frankenstein" project at the National Theatre, directed by Danny Boyle and "Told and Unfold", physical theatre show at Sadler's Wells.
Her range of skills include contemporary dance, mime, kick boxing, martial arts (Capoeira).
Eric Robertson
is a Scottish actor based in Edinburgh. He has worked on a large number of plays from Shakespeare to new writing. He has appeared on TV and been in several feature films. In 2010 he won the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award for Best Actor. He is really looking forward to crossing the pond if only electronically!
Calaine Schafer
is delighted to be mixing theater and the inter-web in this awesome PopUpTheatrics production! She is a NYU Tisch graduate, where she studied acting at the Stella Adler Studio and with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Recent theater credits include:Waiting for Lefty (The Honest Liars), The Window (Romanian Cultural Institute in New York),Hotel Project, Summit New Jersey (The Internationalists/Neighborhood Productions), and Love Labour’s Lost, (Snorks and Pins). Look out for her new webseries that she wrote, produced and acted in with her magical cohort, Kristina Mueller. Much love and thanks to the wonderful Ana Margineanu and Tamilla Woodard!
the playwrights:
John Freedman
was the winner of the first annual new play competition hosted by The Internationalists in 2011 (“Dancing, Not Dead”). He has written or edited and translated nine books on the topic of Russian drama and theater and has been the theater critic of The Moscow Times since 1992. His 50+ play translations have been performed in the United States, Australia, Canada, South Africa and England. His translation into Russian of Adam Rapp’s “Nocturne,” with Maksym Kurochkin, opened at the Young Spectator Theater in Moscow in December 2012. He was the Russian director of The New Russian Drama: Translation / Production / Conference (2007 - 2010) at Towson University, and is the Director of the U.S. govt.-funded New American Plays for Russia project. John has collaborated with several American theaters as a translator, writer, dramaturg or advisor, including Double Edge Theater (MA), Breaking String Theater (TX), Generous Company (MD) and First Stage (VA).
was the winner of the first annual new play competition hosted by The Internationalists in 2011 (“Dancing, Not Dead”). He has written or edited and translated nine books on the topic of Russian drama and theater and has been the theater critic of The Moscow Times since 1992. His 50+ play translations have been performed in the United States, Australia, Canada, South Africa and England. His translation into Russian of Adam Rapp’s “Nocturne,” with Maksym Kurochkin, opened at the Young Spectator Theater in Moscow in December 2012. He was the Russian director of The New Russian Drama: Translation / Production / Conference (2007 - 2010) at Towson University, and is the Director of the U.S. govt.-funded New American Plays for Russia project. John has collaborated with several American theaters as a translator, writer, dramaturg or advisor, including Double Edge Theater (MA), Breaking String Theater (TX), Generous Company (MD) and First Stage (VA).
Mariana Hartasanchez
Playwright, Actor and Artistic Director of Sabandijas de Palacio. Mariana studied at CADAC (Center of Dramatic Art) and CUT . In 2003 she founded the independent theatre company, Sabandijas de Palacio in Querétaro México. She received honorable mentions for three of her woks in three subsequent years (2005, 2006, 2007). The company produced two of these plays, and in both productions, she participated as an actress. In 2005, she was awarded a grant in creative literature focused on dramaturgy from The Foundation for Mexican Words. In 2006, she was invited to an artistic residency in London by the Royal Court. In 2008, she was awarded The YOUNG CREATIVES grant by FONCA, focused in cabaret theatre. With that grant she developed an experimental project, Theater in Four Dimensions that consisted of the confrontation of an actor with unfinished texts that the audience elaborated on in space and predetermined time, guided by a series of images, sounds and dramatic recordings. In 2009, she received the National Prize of Dramaturgy Manuel Herrera with the play, La Mano dle Mago. She was invited in 2010 to the US/Mexico Exchange by The Lark Playwrights Center in New York City where her Play La Mano del Mago play was translated into English under the title Two Dead Men and a Banjo.Sabandijas de Palacio is an independent theatre company, founded by Mariana Hartasánchez. It’s mission is to explore and interrogate issues of the physical, emotional and dramaturgical relationship between the performer, the space in which the performance takes place and the audience.
Playwright, Actor and Artistic Director of Sabandijas de Palacio. Mariana studied at CADAC (Center of Dramatic Art) and CUT . In 2003 she founded the independent theatre company, Sabandijas de Palacio in Querétaro México. She received honorable mentions for three of her woks in three subsequent years (2005, 2006, 2007). The company produced two of these plays, and in both productions, she participated as an actress. In 2005, she was awarded a grant in creative literature focused on dramaturgy from The Foundation for Mexican Words. In 2006, she was invited to an artistic residency in London by the Royal Court. In 2008, she was awarded The YOUNG CREATIVES grant by FONCA, focused in cabaret theatre. With that grant she developed an experimental project, Theater in Four Dimensions that consisted of the confrontation of an actor with unfinished texts that the audience elaborated on in space and predetermined time, guided by a series of images, sounds and dramatic recordings. In 2009, she received the National Prize of Dramaturgy Manuel Herrera with the play, La Mano dle Mago. She was invited in 2010 to the US/Mexico Exchange by The Lark Playwrights Center in New York City where her Play La Mano del Mago play was translated into English under the title Two Dead Men and a Banjo.Sabandijas de Palacio is an independent theatre company, founded by Mariana Hartasánchez. It’s mission is to explore and interrogate issues of the physical, emotional and dramaturgical relationship between the performer, the space in which the performance takes place and the audience.
Mariana Carreño King
is a writer and director. Her plays have been workshopped, developed and/or presented at Mabou Mines, Intar Theatre, The Public Theatre, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre and with LAByrinth Theatre Company, among others. As a director, she has worked at Stages Repertory Theatre (Houston, TX), Aaron Davis Hall, Intar, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, The Cherry Pit and The Neighborhood Theatre among others. She has also acted in many off and off-off Broadway productions. Mariana has written articles for VNU’s Marketing y Medios, Marie Claire en español, National Geographic Traveler Mexico, Colombia’s El Tiempo, Portada Magazine and offoffoff.com.
is a writer and director. Her plays have been workshopped, developed and/or presented at Mabou Mines, Intar Theatre, The Public Theatre, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre and with LAByrinth Theatre Company, among others. As a director, she has worked at Stages Repertory Theatre (Houston, TX), Aaron Davis Hall, Intar, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, The Cherry Pit and The Neighborhood Theatre among others. She has also acted in many off and off-off Broadway productions. Mariana has written articles for VNU’s Marketing y Medios, Marie Claire en español, National Geographic Traveler Mexico, Colombia’s El Tiempo, Portada Magazine and offoffoff.com.
Ella Greenhill
is currently writer on attachment with both the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and Paines Plough Theatre company in collaboration with Channel 4. Projects in development include Mind The Gap, Made In Britain and Hidden.Her plays Into the Water and Fallen were short listed for Theatre Centre’s Adrienne Benham award and The Internationalists Playwriting Competition. She is currently working on her new play, A Deafening Silence. She is also developing a play for young people as part of the 2012 Skylines project with Theatre Centre and Manchester Royal Exchange. Ella has also previously worked with BBC Radio Merseyside, Hampstead Theatre, The Atlas Company, Alamanac and The Internationalists Theatre Company.
Garret Jon Groenveld
is a poet and playwright living in San Francisco, CA with an MA in Poetry and an MFA in Playwriting from San Francisco State University. He's a founding writer of PlayGround and an inaugural member of the Writers in Residence program at the Playwrights Foundation. His plays have appeared in San Francisco, Amsterdam and New York. He teaches playwriting at the New Conservatory Theatre Center and PlayGround. His play "Missives" was in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2004, fa premiere at Theatre Rhino in 2005 and a production at New York's 59E59 Theatres in 2008. His play, "The Hummingbirds" is the winner of the 2012 Global Age Project and the Internationalists Global Playwrighting Contest, which has included presentations in Zaragoza, Spain, Mexico City, Mexico, Berlin, Germany, New York, New York and Bucharest, Romania.
is a poet and playwright living in San Francisco, CA with an MA in Poetry and an MFA in Playwriting from San Francisco State University. He's a founding writer of PlayGround and an inaugural member of the Writers in Residence program at the Playwrights Foundation. His plays have appeared in San Francisco, Amsterdam and New York. He teaches playwriting at the New Conservatory Theatre Center and PlayGround. His play "Missives" was in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2004, fa premiere at Theatre Rhino in 2005 and a production at New York's 59E59 Theatres in 2008. His play, "The Hummingbirds" is the winner of the 2012 Global Age Project and the Internationalists Global Playwrighting Contest, which has included presentations in Zaragoza, Spain, Mexico City, Mexico, Berlin, Germany, New York, New York and Bucharest, Romania.
Mar Gómez Glez
is a Spanish writer living in New York City since 2006. Her work has received global recognition including the 2011 Calderón de la Barca Theater Award, the 2008 Arte Joven Latina Award and the 2007 Beckett Theater Award. She is the author of the novel Cambio de sentido (2010, translated into English with the support of PEN American Center), the children’s book Acebedario (2006) and numerous other short stories and plays, including Wearing Lorca’s Bowtie, playing Off-Broadway in December 2011 (NYC) or the site specific piece 39 Defaults premiered at Teatro Stage Fest (NYC, 2012). She studies for a PhD and is a Humanities Initiative Fellow at New York University.
is a Spanish writer living in New York City since 2006. Her work has received global recognition including the 2011 Calderón de la Barca Theater Award, the 2008 Arte Joven Latina Award and the 2007 Beckett Theater Award. She is the author of the novel Cambio de sentido (2010, translated into English with the support of PEN American Center), the children’s book Acebedario (2006) and numerous other short stories and plays, including Wearing Lorca’s Bowtie, playing Off-Broadway in December 2011 (NYC) or the site specific piece 39 Defaults premiered at Teatro Stage Fest (NYC, 2012). She studies for a PhD and is a Humanities Initiative Fellow at New York University.
Zainabu Jallo
is a freelance writer, script writer and a playwright. She has also worked as a Journalist and just recently published Onions Make Us Cry a play which has put her on the shortlist for the NLNG Literary Prize 2010, a prize considered the biggest literary prize in Nigeria for people who have distinguished themselves in their fields with their literary work.
In 2007, she participated in ‘The New Writing in Drama’ 2 year project, a workshop for young writers facilitated by the Royal Court Theatre UK in conjunction with the British Council, aimed at developing skills of a young generation of playwrights in Nigeria. A year later, she was offered a place on the international residency programme at the Royal Court Theatre. It was at this residency she began to write the play Onions Make Us Cry. She lived briefly at Global Arts Village, Delhi India where she was on a literary fellowship. Her writings have been published in several anthologies and theatre magazines.
Zainabu has two published plays and a collection of open style poetry. She continues to write abstract essays which she debuted with as a writer.
is a freelance writer, script writer and a playwright. She has also worked as a Journalist and just recently published Onions Make Us Cry a play which has put her on the shortlist for the NLNG Literary Prize 2010, a prize considered the biggest literary prize in Nigeria for people who have distinguished themselves in their fields with their literary work.
In 2007, she participated in ‘The New Writing in Drama’ 2 year project, a workshop for young writers facilitated by the Royal Court Theatre UK in conjunction with the British Council, aimed at developing skills of a young generation of playwrights in Nigeria. A year later, she was offered a place on the international residency programme at the Royal Court Theatre. It was at this residency she began to write the play Onions Make Us Cry. She lived briefly at Global Arts Village, Delhi India where she was on a literary fellowship. Her writings have been published in several anthologies and theatre magazines.
Zainabu has two published plays and a collection of open style poetry. She continues to write abstract essays which she debuted with as a writer.
Matthew McVarish
has an MA in classical and contemporary text from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (previous known as RSAMD). His recent Off Boardway show ‘To kill a Kelpie’, coproduced by ‘Stop the silence, stop child sexual abuse inc’ in Washington D.C., is being used to create awareness for the prevention and healing of child sexual abuse and Matthew has now become the European Ambassador for ‘Stop the silence’. ‘Kelpie’ is set to tour Japan, Australia and Europe with a second production touring within the U.S. including a special performance at Penn State University. His most recently play ‘Remember you are beauty full’ was named by the UK’s Herald newspaper as the best new play in Scotland 2012. Matthew is also published as a songwriter and has composed for TV and theatre, performing occasionally as a singer songwriter, most recently at Gay Pride Manitoba. As an actor Matthew has performed in TV, Theatre and Radio for eight years, currently appearing daily in the UK, Europe and Australia as ‘Raymond’ in the BBC children’s T.V. series ‘Me Too!’. In May 2013 Matthew embarks on a 10’000 mile walk visiting 31 E.U. nations over 18 months, to encourage international discussion on two key areas that endanger the innocence of the child, ‘age of consent’ and ‘statute of limitations’. Matthew has loved working on LDA with team Argentina.
has an MA in classical and contemporary text from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (previous known as RSAMD). His recent Off Boardway show ‘To kill a Kelpie’, coproduced by ‘Stop the silence, stop child sexual abuse inc’ in Washington D.C., is being used to create awareness for the prevention and healing of child sexual abuse and Matthew has now become the European Ambassador for ‘Stop the silence’. ‘Kelpie’ is set to tour Japan, Australia and Europe with a second production touring within the U.S. including a special performance at Penn State University. His most recently play ‘Remember you are beauty full’ was named by the UK’s Herald newspaper as the best new play in Scotland 2012. Matthew is also published as a songwriter and has composed for TV and theatre, performing occasionally as a singer songwriter, most recently at Gay Pride Manitoba. As an actor Matthew has performed in TV, Theatre and Radio for eight years, currently appearing daily in the UK, Europe and Australia as ‘Raymond’ in the BBC children’s T.V. series ‘Me Too!’. In May 2013 Matthew embarks on a 10’000 mile walk visiting 31 E.U. nations over 18 months, to encourage international discussion on two key areas that endanger the innocence of the child, ‘age of consent’ and ‘statute of limitations’. Matthew has loved working on LDA with team Argentina.
Matthew Paul Olmos
was most recently awarded the 2012 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting and selected as a 2013 Sundance Institute Resident Playwright at UCROSS. He was also named, by Sam Shepard, as the inaugural recipient of the La MaMa e.t.c.'s Ellen Stewart Emerging Playwright Award. He is a 2012-13 New York Theatre Workshop Fellow, was a Sundance Institute Time Warner Storytelling Fellow, and a two-time Resident Artist at Mabou Mines/Suite. He received the BBC International Playwriting Top Prize of the Americas for his play THE NATURE OF CAPTIVITY and is an Ensemble Studio Theatre lifetime member. His play I PUT THE FEAR OF MEXICO IN'EM world premiered in fall 2012 in Chicago, and is published by NoPassport Press. The first play in his 3-play cycle SO GO THE GHOSTS OF MEXICO world premieres at La MaMa e.t.c. in April 2013 .
was most recently awarded the 2012 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting and selected as a 2013 Sundance Institute Resident Playwright at UCROSS. He was also named, by Sam Shepard, as the inaugural recipient of the La MaMa e.t.c.'s Ellen Stewart Emerging Playwright Award. He is a 2012-13 New York Theatre Workshop Fellow, was a Sundance Institute Time Warner Storytelling Fellow, and a two-time Resident Artist at Mabou Mines/Suite. He received the BBC International Playwriting Top Prize of the Americas for his play THE NATURE OF CAPTIVITY and is an Ensemble Studio Theatre lifetime member. His play I PUT THE FEAR OF MEXICO IN'EM world premiered in fall 2012 in Chicago, and is published by NoPassport Press. The first play in his 3-play cycle SO GO THE GHOSTS OF MEXICO world premieres at La MaMa e.t.c. in April 2013 .
Lisa Parry
currently lives in Cardiff in the UK. She has been a finalist in the Internationalists’ playwriting competition, the inaugural Ronald Duncan award and the King’s Cross New Writing Award. Her poetry has been extensively published in new writing magazines and she is a founding member of Agent 160 Theatre Company. UK credits include: Nancy (Agent 160 – UK tour), Not A Death Knock (Dirty Protest, Cardiff), Fairy Steps (Bootleg, Salisbury), March SW3 (Arcola, London), Inside A Grave (Bridewell, London), Second Life (Tara, London), Happy Birthday Luke (Tara, London), Carpet and Floorboards (Tara, London), The Giving of Flowers (Theatre 503, London), From Brum to Manhattan (Theatre 503, London).
Rehearsed readings of Lisa’s work have also been staged at several major UK new writing theatres, including the Traverse in Edinburgh, Theatre 503 in London and Sherman Cymru in Cardiff.
In the US, Lisa’s piece Waterbaby was staged at the Martin E. Segal Theatre, NYC as part of Ecouter 7 – an evening inspired by the work of the late photographer Francesca Woodman. An audio adaptation of Lisa’s piece The Giving of Flowers has also been performed and recorded in St Louis, Missouri.
Lisa is currently working on a radio play and a new piece for the stage. More information can be found at www.lisaparry.com and her blog is at http://lisafparry.blogspot.co.uk.
currently lives in Cardiff in the UK. She has been a finalist in the Internationalists’ playwriting competition, the inaugural Ronald Duncan award and the King’s Cross New Writing Award. Her poetry has been extensively published in new writing magazines and she is a founding member of Agent 160 Theatre Company. UK credits include: Nancy (Agent 160 – UK tour), Not A Death Knock (Dirty Protest, Cardiff), Fairy Steps (Bootleg, Salisbury), March SW3 (Arcola, London), Inside A Grave (Bridewell, London), Second Life (Tara, London), Happy Birthday Luke (Tara, London), Carpet and Floorboards (Tara, London), The Giving of Flowers (Theatre 503, London), From Brum to Manhattan (Theatre 503, London).
Rehearsed readings of Lisa’s work have also been staged at several major UK new writing theatres, including the Traverse in Edinburgh, Theatre 503 in London and Sherman Cymru in Cardiff.
In the US, Lisa’s piece Waterbaby was staged at the Martin E. Segal Theatre, NYC as part of Ecouter 7 – an evening inspired by the work of the late photographer Francesca Woodman. An audio adaptation of Lisa’s piece The Giving of Flowers has also been performed and recorded in St Louis, Missouri.
Lisa is currently working on a radio play and a new piece for the stage. More information can be found at www.lisaparry.com and her blog is at http://lisafparry.blogspot.co.uk.
Peca Stefan
is considered one of the most powerful voices in Romanian contemporary playwriting. He studied dramatic writing at New York University (2003-2004), was a resident of the Royal Court International Residency (2005) and CEC ArtsLink Playwright in Residence at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven (2007, 2008). He was the winner of the first dramAcum contest in Romania, in 2002. His work has been presented in Romania, the United States, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Holland, Russia, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Bulgaria, Belarus and Serbia. His plays have won several awards, including the Heidelberg Stuckemarkt Innovation Award (2007) for Romania 21 and London Fringe Report Award for Best Play – Relationship Drama (2006) for The Sunshine Play. He was also one of the 5 European Plawyrights selected in the Berliner Theatertreffen Stuckemarkt 2010, with Wire and Acrobats. Peca is the winner of the Irish Embassy Award for Best Romanian Play – 2010 for 5 miraculous minutes in Piatra Neamt, and Best Play at the Romanian Playwriting Festival in Timisoara (2011) for Rosia Montana. In 2012, the production of his play Targoviste de Jucarie (Playground Targoviste) was selected at the most prestigious festival of new playwriting in Europe, New Plays from Europe in Wiesbaden.
is considered one of the most powerful voices in Romanian contemporary playwriting. He studied dramatic writing at New York University (2003-2004), was a resident of the Royal Court International Residency (2005) and CEC ArtsLink Playwright in Residence at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven (2007, 2008). He was the winner of the first dramAcum contest in Romania, in 2002. His work has been presented in Romania, the United States, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Holland, Russia, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Bulgaria, Belarus and Serbia. His plays have won several awards, including the Heidelberg Stuckemarkt Innovation Award (2007) for Romania 21 and London Fringe Report Award for Best Play – Relationship Drama (2006) for The Sunshine Play. He was also one of the 5 European Plawyrights selected in the Berliner Theatertreffen Stuckemarkt 2010, with Wire and Acrobats. Peca is the winner of the Irish Embassy Award for Best Romanian Play – 2010 for 5 miraculous minutes in Piatra Neamt, and Best Play at the Romanian Playwriting Festival in Timisoara (2011) for Rosia Montana. In 2012, the production of his play Targoviste de Jucarie (Playground Targoviste) was selected at the most prestigious festival of new playwriting in Europe, New Plays from Europe in Wiesbaden.
Mariano Tenconi Blanco
Is a playwright and director, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1982.
As writer and director he is currently making a cycle of plays called “Lovesong for the Revolution” about love, history and politics in Latin America. Of this cycle, Montevideo is my eternal future premiered in 2010 and ran through 2012; and Lima Japan bonsai premiered in 2011. He also wrote and directed A teacher is like a child for a police (2009) and I want to say I love you (2012, 2013). In 2010 Mariano was invited to Frankfurt Buchmesse. In 2011, he received a grant to participate in the most important dramaturgy seminar in spanish language, Panorama Sur.
With another eight young writers, he wrote an opera Lie, about the tango singer Ada Falcón, that was performed on Teatro Colón.
In 2012 he was invited to “Pueblo Tomado”, a theater festival in Querétaro, México,where he wrote a play and directed another two site specific performances in locations around the city.
Mariano also teaches theatre at Teatro San Martín.
Is a playwright and director, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1982.
As writer and director he is currently making a cycle of plays called “Lovesong for the Revolution” about love, history and politics in Latin America. Of this cycle, Montevideo is my eternal future premiered in 2010 and ran through 2012; and Lima Japan bonsai premiered in 2011. He also wrote and directed A teacher is like a child for a police (2009) and I want to say I love you (2012, 2013). In 2010 Mariano was invited to Frankfurt Buchmesse. In 2011, he received a grant to participate in the most important dramaturgy seminar in spanish language, Panorama Sur.
With another eight young writers, he wrote an opera Lie, about the tango singer Ada Falcón, that was performed on Teatro Colón.
In 2012 he was invited to “Pueblo Tomado”, a theater festival in Querétaro, México,where he wrote a play and directed another two site specific performances in locations around the city.
Mariano also teaches theatre at Teatro San Martín.
Beatriz Cabur
graduated in Playwriting and Theatre Directing from the RESAD, Madrid, Spain, 1996-2000. Master of Advanced Studies in AV -Comms from the UCM. Since 1998, she has written, directed and taught theatre in Spain and the US. Some of the organizations that have commisioned and supported her plays include The Cervantes Institute, The Madrid City Hall and the Consulate General of Spain in New York. Member of the international network for working playwrights, The Fence and of the Theatre Directors Collective, The Internationalists. She is currently working on a number different projects in Milán, Zaragoza, New York and Mexico City.
Beatriz is the author of Long Distance Affair's: The Chef
graduated in Playwriting and Theatre Directing from the RESAD, Madrid, Spain, 1996-2000. Master of Advanced Studies in AV -Comms from the UCM. Since 1998, she has written, directed and taught theatre in Spain and the US. Some of the organizations that have commisioned and supported her plays include The Cervantes Institute, The Madrid City Hall and the Consulate General of Spain in New York. Member of the international network for working playwrights, The Fence and of the Theatre Directors Collective, The Internationalists. She is currently working on a number different projects in Milán, Zaragoza, New York and Mexico City.
Beatriz is the author of Long Distance Affair's: The Chef
the directors:
Doug Howe
is thrilled to again be working with Lisa, Aimee, Stefan, Oksana and John on the remount of these two LDA monologues that were first presented as part of The Internationalists’ Around the World festival in November 2011. Doug most recently directed award-winning actors, Colman Domingo and Julia Brothers, in a reading of Garret Groenveld’s The Hummingbirds at Playwrights Horizons South Studio. Doug last worked with Ana and Tamilla a year ago on Hotel Project in New York and his hometown of Summit, NJ. In 2011, Doug was the International Development Coordinator at Playwriting Australia in Sydney. In 2009,Doug was awarded a French ‘Competence et Talents’ visa in order to create cross-cultural theatrical collaborations in Paris. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Fence Playwriting Network, SAG/AFTRA and Actors Equity.
is thrilled to again be working with Lisa, Aimee, Stefan, Oksana and John on the remount of these two LDA monologues that were first presented as part of The Internationalists’ Around the World festival in November 2011. Doug most recently directed award-winning actors, Colman Domingo and Julia Brothers, in a reading of Garret Groenveld’s The Hummingbirds at Playwrights Horizons South Studio. Doug last worked with Ana and Tamilla a year ago on Hotel Project in New York and his hometown of Summit, NJ. In 2011, Doug was the International Development Coordinator at Playwriting Australia in Sydney. In 2009,Doug was awarded a French ‘Competence et Talents’ visa in order to create cross-cultural theatrical collaborations in Paris. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Fence Playwriting Network, SAG/AFTRA and Actors Equity.
Michel Melamed
The award-winning Brazilian artist Michel Melamed is one of the most outstanding creators of his generation. His work, which features a mixture of artistic languages (theater, literature, tv, music, technology, etc.) has been shown in some of the most important cultural capitals like NYC, Paris, Berlin, etc.. In 2013 Michel is releasing the television series "SEEWATCHLOOK" for the brazilian cable tv channel "Canal Brasil".
The award-winning Brazilian artist Michel Melamed is one of the most outstanding creators of his generation. His work, which features a mixture of artistic languages (theater, literature, tv, music, technology, etc.) has been shown in some of the most important cultural capitals like NYC, Paris, Berlin, etc.. In 2013 Michel is releasing the television series "SEEWATCHLOOK" for the brazilian cable tv channel "Canal Brasil".
Benjamin Mosse
has directed over 55 pieces in the States and internationally, including the New York debut of the noted Fisher Ensemble's new opera KOCHO at the Galapagos Art Space, Manjula Padmanabhan's HARVEST; and Saviana Stanescu's Innovative Theatre Award winning WAXING WEST at La MaMa E.T.C., which subsequently performed at the Sibiu International Theater Festival, Teatrul ACT in Bucharest, and the Dramalabbet in Stockholm.
As artistic director of East Coast Artists he works with Richard Schechner developing international new work; their collaboration of HAMLET has performed at the Shanghai Experimental Theatre Festival, Grotowski Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, and the International Shakespeare Festival in Craiova, Romania. Their most recent work, IMAGINING O, was seen at the Jarman Center for the Performing Arts in Canterbury and the Kerala International Theater Festival in India.He has taught or directed at University of Kent, Shanghai Theater Academy, Yale University, and Bard College, and has assisted David Esbjornson, Mark Lamos, Doug Hughes, Michael Wilson, Richard Schechner and John Tillinger at such theatres as The Public Theatre/ Shakespeare in Central Park, New York Theatre Workshop, Yale Rep, Hartford Stage, the Guthrie and Williamstown Theatre Festival. He was founding artistic director of the noted Cincinnati ensemble troupe IF Theatre Collective and has served as artistic director of Yale Cabaret.He was a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and has attended workshops by Tadashi Suzuki, Robert Lepage, Double Edge, Gardzienice, Elizabeth LeCompte, among others.
He received his BS from Northwestern University, MA in Performance Studies from NYU and MFA in Directing from Yale School of Drama.
has directed over 55 pieces in the States and internationally, including the New York debut of the noted Fisher Ensemble's new opera KOCHO at the Galapagos Art Space, Manjula Padmanabhan's HARVEST; and Saviana Stanescu's Innovative Theatre Award winning WAXING WEST at La MaMa E.T.C., which subsequently performed at the Sibiu International Theater Festival, Teatrul ACT in Bucharest, and the Dramalabbet in Stockholm.
As artistic director of East Coast Artists he works with Richard Schechner developing international new work; their collaboration of HAMLET has performed at the Shanghai Experimental Theatre Festival, Grotowski Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, and the International Shakespeare Festival in Craiova, Romania. Their most recent work, IMAGINING O, was seen at the Jarman Center for the Performing Arts in Canterbury and the Kerala International Theater Festival in India.He has taught or directed at University of Kent, Shanghai Theater Academy, Yale University, and Bard College, and has assisted David Esbjornson, Mark Lamos, Doug Hughes, Michael Wilson, Richard Schechner and John Tillinger at such theatres as The Public Theatre/ Shakespeare in Central Park, New York Theatre Workshop, Yale Rep, Hartford Stage, the Guthrie and Williamstown Theatre Festival. He was founding artistic director of the noted Cincinnati ensemble troupe IF Theatre Collective and has served as artistic director of Yale Cabaret.He was a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and has attended workshops by Tadashi Suzuki, Robert Lepage, Double Edge, Gardzienice, Elizabeth LeCompte, among others.
He received his BS from Northwestern University, MA in Performance Studies from NYU and MFA in Directing from Yale School of Drama.
Lucía Rodríguez Miranda
is a director, arts manager and educator based in Madrid. She is the founder and Artistic Director of The Cross Border Project. With its first work From Fuente Ovejuna to Ciudad Juárez they obtained several awards in New York and Spain: Best Production HOLA Award (Hispanic Organization for Latin Actors), Best Classical Production ACE Award (The Association of Latin Entertaiment Critics in New York) and the Honourable Mention of Almagro Off in Spain. As an arts manager she has worked in UNESCO, Paris, and in the production of several Festivals as Festival de Teatro Clásico de Almagro or Unitínere. She is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Educational Theare: Working with communities from New York University. She also holds an Master in Arts Management from the Complutense University in Madrid and a B.A in Humanities from La Sorbonne, Paris IV and Carlos III University in Madrid. She has lead workshops using Theatre of the Oppressed in Spain, United States and France.
is a director, arts manager and educator based in Madrid. She is the founder and Artistic Director of The Cross Border Project. With its first work From Fuente Ovejuna to Ciudad Juárez they obtained several awards in New York and Spain: Best Production HOLA Award (Hispanic Organization for Latin Actors), Best Classical Production ACE Award (The Association of Latin Entertaiment Critics in New York) and the Honourable Mention of Almagro Off in Spain. As an arts manager she has worked in UNESCO, Paris, and in the production of several Festivals as Festival de Teatro Clásico de Almagro or Unitínere. She is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Educational Theare: Working with communities from New York University. She also holds an Master in Arts Management from the Complutense University in Madrid and a B.A in Humanities from La Sorbonne, Paris IV and Carlos III University in Madrid. She has lead workshops using Theatre of the Oppressed in Spain, United States and France.
Alfonso Carcamo
Graduated with an acting degree from the prestigious UNAM Theatre School (CUT). He is the creator and artistic director of "Salas de Urgencia", a concept that intervenes audience’s living spaces and exposes the creative process, “Salas de Urgencia” is now part of Mexico’s City Cultural Secretary's regular programing. His free adaptation of William Shakespeare’s "Titus Andronicus" premiered at the XXX Festival Internacional Cervantino and "Descomposición" was produced by The Lark Play Development Center within the Bare Bones Cycle in New York City in February of 2009. His work as a playwright led him to receive the “Jóvenes Creadores” grant in 2004 awarded by the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA). From 2008 to 2010 Cárcamo was head writer of the science tv series "Gregoria la cucaracha" produced by Canal 22 and ICYT. In 2010 he was part of the team of writers for the television series "El Mariachi" produced by Sony Pictures. In 2010 he received IBERESCENA’s creation grant. Also in 2010 he directed the piece, "Dark, breve historia de amor" in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Most recently he was awarded an artistic residency grant in Buenos Aires, Argentina by FONCA-CONACYT. Alfonso Cárcamo is the current artistic director of Seres Comunes Stage Collective in México City.
Micheal Carnow
is the Literary Manager of Profiles Theatre in Chicago. He has directed at various theatres across the city including ATC, Profiles, Tympanic, Fleetwod-Jourdain and WNEP. Previously, he ran Breathe Art Theatre Project in Detroit. He was nominated for a Wilde Award for the Best Production of a New Play for Snowbound and his production of A Trois was a Patron’s Pick at the Windsor International Fringe Festival. Michael founded the Quickies New Play Festival at Brandeis University as well as GPS (the Gay Play Series) at The Ringwald Theatre in Ferndale, MI.
Ana Margineanu
gratueted from The National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest. Her work has been presented in New York, Basel, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Graz, Mexico, Prague, Saint Petersburg, Stuttgart, and Vienna as well as the major cities of Romania.
She received several awards including: Best Play in 2006– Relationship Drama at London Fringe Awards & Romanian Critics Award in 2007 (for The Sunshine Play); Best Show at the Romanian Drama Festival and The Jury Award for Innovation at the Contemporary Drama Festival (for 89, 89 Hot After 89) and Best Show Award at the Romanian Comedy Festival in 2010 (for 5 Miraculous Minutes). Ana received Best Contribution In Romanian Theatre Award in 2008 at the VIP Gala. She was also nominated for Best Debut at the Uniter Gala.
Ana worked as an associated professor at the National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest. She has lead workshops in Athens, Bucharest, New York and Mexico. She is a founding member of DramAcum (directors collective that supports young Romanian playwrights) and of The Internationalists directors collective(NY) and participated in Lincoln Centers Directors Lab ’07.
Her most recent show presented in NYC – Long Distance Affair – paired 9 international playwrights with 9 actors from different countries in a skype adventure.
Tamilla Woodard
She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, an alumnus of The Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and a founding member of The Internationalists for which she recently directed Oh De Sea! a riff on Homer’s Odyssey. Most recent work includes the development and direction of Polanski Polanski at HERE in NYC, PS122/SoloNOVA festival in New York City, Odeon Theatre in Bucharest, Sibiu International Theatre Festival, and TIFF International Festival, Cluj, Transilvania in May/June 2011. In addition she has been an active participant in the US/Mexico Exchange with the Lark Play Development Center in New York as both Actor and director of new translations by contemporary Mexican playwrights. She has directed at HERE, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, PS122, DR 2, The Culture Project, Urban Stages, Dance Theatre Workshop, The Kitchen Theatre, Manhattan Class Company and for festivals around the US and internationally. Her work has won best of festival awards, audience favorite awards, Top 10 Shows to See citations and critical acclaim in The New York Times, Variety and others. New Dramatists has honored her with The Charles Bowden Award and The League of Professional Theatre Women with the Josephine Abady Award. Tamilla also serves as an adjunct professor teaching solo performance at City College’s Center for Worker Education and has developed and directed the shows of more than a dozen solo artists.
Enrico Stolzenburg
was born 1973 in Berlin and studied directing at the College of Performing Art "Ernst Busch". After various engagements at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar (D), at the Stadttheater Bern (CH) and at the Schaubühne Berlin (D), he became artistic director of the French premieres "Auteurs contemporains" at the Festival d'Avignon 2004 (F). In 2005, he was invited with "Electronic City", by Falk Richter, to the Théâtre National de Strasbourg (F) for the Festival "Premières".
While at the Schaubühne he produced the German premières of the plays "Nur für Erwachsene" and "Das Ende der Zivilisation" by George F. Walker as well as the première of "Orient Express" (author's project at the "Festival International Neue Dramatik") and "Distanz" by Lars Norén, with which he made a guest appearance at the "Miryang Summer Performing Arts Festival" in South Korea in 2006. During the following year, he held a workshop production of "Die Ausnahme und die Regel" by Bertolt Brecht.
Currently he is working at the Theater Magdeburg, where he produced the world premiere of „An kalten Tagen bitte Türen schließen“ by Kai-Ivo Baulitz.
Besides his work as a director, Enrico Stolzenburg is teaching at the University of the Arts Berlin and at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. Furthermore he has gathered abundant experience abroad. International workshops took him to France, Greece, Japan, Latvia and South Korea.
was born 1973 in Berlin and studied directing at the College of Performing Art "Ernst Busch". After various engagements at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar (D), at the Stadttheater Bern (CH) and at the Schaubühne Berlin (D), he became artistic director of the French premieres "Auteurs contemporains" at the Festival d'Avignon 2004 (F). In 2005, he was invited with "Electronic City", by Falk Richter, to the Théâtre National de Strasbourg (F) for the Festival "Premières".
While at the Schaubühne he produced the German premières of the plays "Nur für Erwachsene" and "Das Ende der Zivilisation" by George F. Walker as well as the première of "Orient Express" (author's project at the "Festival International Neue Dramatik") and "Distanz" by Lars Norén, with which he made a guest appearance at the "Miryang Summer Performing Arts Festival" in South Korea in 2006. During the following year, he held a workshop production of "Die Ausnahme und die Regel" by Bertolt Brecht.
Currently he is working at the Theater Magdeburg, where he produced the world premiere of „An kalten Tagen bitte Türen schließen“ by Kai-Ivo Baulitz.
Besides his work as a director, Enrico Stolzenburg is teaching at the University of the Arts Berlin and at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. Furthermore he has gathered abundant experience abroad. International workshops took him to France, Greece, Japan, Latvia and South Korea.
the choreographers:
Andreea Duta
graduated Choreography Highscool from Bucharest (1994) and The National University of Theatre and Cinematography, specialized in choreography (1999). She was part of Contemp Dance Company till 1998, and since then independent dancer & choreographer. Developed her activity in festivals and artistic tours in Spain, England, Japan, Greece, USA, with Sarah Bild, Vava Stefanescu, Liliana Iorgulescu, Ioana Macarie, Silvia Calin, and followed workshops with Wayne McGregor, Russel Maliphant, Paulo Henrique, Margarida Bettencourt, Frederic Lescure, Pascal Allio, and many more.
She signed the choreography for theater plays, as “Arabian Night” , “Suntem 4 facem teatru” by Theodora Herghelegiu, “Vitamines” , “You can buy me with a coffee” by Ana Margineanu, “Elisaveta Bam” by A. Tocilescu, rewarded with UNITER prize for best play of the year 2007.
Since 2006 choreography teacher at University of Theater and Film from Bucharest, but keeps choreographing for theatre.....
