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avida Adedjoum

aand flourishes w

ith bipolar disorder. She is a mem

ber of Fountain H

ouse, and its Board of Directors. She

moved to Paris before the outbreak of the Gulf W

ar.

Emm

anuel. These writers taught m

e crafting without

censorship. I learned to incorporate the creativity that is a part of being bipolar into m

y written w

orks. When I

became an LM

SW, I designed W

omen’s Traum

a groups, Bereavem

ent groups, and Rock ‘n Role Play groups for m

y clients who lived w

ith AIDS, addiction, and

mental disorders, using w

riting and performance as the

foundation of salvation and resurrection in redesigning their lives.”

Jacqueline Dum

as Albert (New

York, NY,

from Point Park University in Pittsburgh. She w

as a scholarship student at the Am

erican Dance Festival,

performed in the International Choreographers Concert,

danced at Tokyo Disneyland and appeared on N

HK as

a featured Disney dancer. Since arriving in New

York

RITUALS and Sidra Bell Dance New

York, and joined

She has had the pleasure of performing, teaching, and

setting work w

ith these companies throughout the

Arturo A

lfaroin Lim

a. Since he was a young child, he has been

interested in both music and environm

ental issues, and prom

oted improvem

ents to the environment near

his home. At school he learned to play the clarinet and

alto sax. He began perform

ing with alternative rock

joining Escuela Cerrada and supporting other groups.

promotes environm

ental conservation in Peru.

Jenifer Alonzo

artist who w

orks at disciplinary intersections. She develops w

orkshops that use theatre techniques to help scientists better collaborate across disciplines, and she w

orks with researchers to use theatre to com

municate

their research to public audiences. Ms. Alonzo has

developed theatre workshops for other professionals

who w

ish to employ the tools of the actor to strengthen

their work in health care, teaching, and law. M

s. Alonzo’s w

ork as an actor, director, and designer has appeared on stages from

Denver to Baltim

ore. Ms. Alonzo is Assistant

Professor of Comm

unication and Theatre Arts at Old D

ominion University.

Katherine Bam

brick Am

broziak

the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Architecture and D

esign where she teaches fundam

ental and advanced research design studios. H

er research focuses on holistic system

s of environmental perception

and geographic experience and on how architecture,

as a spatial construct, can support the emotional and

social needs of an individual or comm

unity. A licensed architect in the State of Tennessee, she is active in com

munity outreach as both an academ

ic and civic pursuit. H

er recent collaboration with the All Stars

Project provided the means by w

hich she could explore them

es related to architecture’s ability to actively support com

munity grow

th and development w

ith an em

erging generation of architectural students.

Pamela A

ngwech

co-founder and executive director for Gulu Wom

en’s

a wom

en’s rights empow

erment organization based

experience in comm

unity-based human rights policy

and mobilization, peace building, and post-conflict

rights atrocities she had witnessed during the conflict

between the Lords’ Resistance Arm

y and the Ugandan Governm

ent, she facilitated formerly abducted children

and youths, investing hope in their lives through psychosocial developm

ent, creative games, m

usic and dance, building upon their hidden talents and creating inner healing.

Hector A

ristizábalborn into poverty before becom

ing a theatre artist and psychologist, then survived civil w

ar, arrest and torture at the hands of the U.S.-supported m

ilitary. In

his homeland. Since arriving in the U.S., he has w

on acclaim

and awards as an artist, and has com

bined his training in psychology and the arts w

ith lessons gained from

life experience in his therapeutic work w

ith torture and traum

a survivors, incarcerated youth, imm

igrant fam

ilies, and people affected by HIV

/AIDS. As an

activist, he uses theatrical performance as part of the

movem

ent to end torture and to change U.S. policy in Latin Am

erica. He founded Im

aginAction to help people tap the transform

ative power of theatre for com

munity

building and reconciliation, strategizing, and individual healing and liberation in program

s throughout the U.S., Latin Am

erica, Europe and around the world. Through

experiential workshops, theater perform

ances and other creative events, Im

aginAction invites participants to explore em

bodied knowledge, challenge the inevitability

of violence, and use their imaginations for a m

ore just and joyous life for all people.

Jeff Aron

helped to develop its comm

unity-building model. H

e is

Affairs at Fountain House, a center for people living w

ith serious m

ental illness. He has served on the Board of

Directors of the ICCD, the international organization of

a part. Currently, he is helping to build Fountain House

model program

s in Argentina, India and Bangladesh. The international netw

ork of Fountain House m

odel program

s works together as a hum

an rights movem

ent for social justice.

Kara Lynn A

shbyTheater from

Buffalo State College. She is from Alden,

NY and is involved w

ith Casting Hall Productions as

vice president. Past credits include In the Blood (Aminga

The Stepmother

The Children’s Hour Seven Keys to Baldpate

and Closerdifference in the w

orld.

Babafemi Babatope

Awolow

o University, and an Ibadan’s M.A. in Theatre

Arts from University of Ibadan. H

e has been teaching Play D

irecting, African Theatre and Applied Theatre Arts

a play, and has a couple of drama scripts and an

anthology of poems ready for publication. H

e attended various local and international conferences, w

orkshops and sem

inars, and has directed and acted in many

stage, screen and radio plays. He is happily m

arried to beautiful Olutoyin Babatope and they are blessed w

ith five adorable children.

Douglas Balder

director at Ralph Appelbaum Associates. H

e is an award-

exhibitions, cultural centers, and learning environments

Fossil Halls, including the dinosaur galleries, at the

American M

useum of Natural H

istory, New York City; the

Permanent Exhibition at the National M

useum of Pre-

History, Taitung, Taiwan. H

e is currently working on the

on the board of the All Stars Project and is the design

Flamm

Center for Afterschool Developm

ent in Newark.

Dara Barlin

of A Big Project. Prior to this, Dara worked at the Ford Foundation, New

Teacher Center, Institute for Public Policy Research in London, and the Am

erican Federation of Teachers. She has published a book and a num

ber of articles on educational reform

, which have earned the title

of ‘the most w

idely read’ on several online platforms. In

her spare time, Dara has w

ritten a musical, released a CD,

and led a national comm

unity organizing campaign to

end stigma and violence against sex workers.

Dan Baron

arts-educator and writer from

Wales w

ho lives in the

collaborating with post-industrial, conflicted and exiled

comm

unities at risk in England, North of Ireland and

trade-union and university comm

unities in Brazil. In

America, North Am

erica and Europe, in partnership w

ith UN

ESCO to popularize a paradigm of education

based on arts pedagogies. His current project in afro-

indigenous Marabá is learning how

young people perform

sustainable comm

unities of solidarity.

Grace Beniquez

poet, visual artist, and teacher. She studied English at Bard College as an undergraduate and has an M

.A. in Creative W

riting from The City College of New

York. Grace has been a featured poet for the Perform

ance

Grace participated in the Andover Bread Loaf Writing

Workshop and collaborates w

ith other teachers in building an international ABL netw

ork of writers and

teachers who actively use her poetry in their w

orkshops and classes. She currently w

orks at an alternative high school in New

York City, where she develops internships

and teaches writing.

Kathryn Bentley

Consultant, CHIPS In M

otion, is an Assistant Professor of Theater Perform

ance at Southern Illinois University Edw

ardsville. She helped to found the CHIPS In M

otion

having worked w

ith companies such as The St. Louis

Black Repertory Company, Cleveland Playhouse, Buffalo

Studio Arena, and Blackberry Productions. She is the Artistic D

irector of SIUE’s Black Theater W

orkshop as w

ell as the coordinator for the Multicultural Theater

Performance W

orkshop.

Sofya Borinskayaoriginally from

Narva, Estonia but emigrated to the

math and chem

istry. Sofya studied at Tallinn Technical University, Estonia and Bingham

ton University, SUN

Y. She earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. Currently, Sofya is a Cell Analysis and M

odeling Ph.D. student at the U

CHC. She w

orks on interdisciplinary projects about dynam

ics of the actin cytoskeleton. Sofya is an advocate of m

ath education for life sciences. Under supervision of D

r. Raquell Holm

es, Sofya develops computational

biology modules for future high school science teachers.

She wants to learn how

art and performance enhance

science education.

June Boyce-Tillman

music at Oxford University and is Professor of

Applied Music at the University of W

inchester. She has published w

idely in the area of education, most

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recently on spirituality/liminality. H

er doctoral research into children’s m

usical development has

been translated into five languages. She is a composer

exploring and writing about the possibilities of

intercultural sharing through composing/im

provising. She is an international perform

er, especially in the w

ork of Hildegard of Bingen and healing. H

er large-scale w

orks for cathedrals such as Winchester involve

professional musicians and school children. She runs

the Research Centre for the Arts as Well-being.

Ariane Brandt

executive, organizational and performance coach.

In addition to working with industry-leading and

high-performing executives and organizations, her

performance clients include Academ

y Award-w

inning film

stars, Broadway veterans, television stars and several

Broadway and independent film

producers. A lifetime

mem

ber of the Actors Studio, Ariane is a graduate of both Yale and The Central School of Speech &

Drama,

London. She holds certifications in Executive Coaching and Leadership &

Organizational Developm

ent from

a not-for-profit dedicated to combining healing w

ith perform

ance and leadership in measurable w

ays.

Marcelo Bratke

preeminent pianists, has perform

ed at some of the

world’s m

ost renowned venues, including Carnegie H

all, the Salzburg Festival, Queen Elizabeth H

all, Wigm

ore H

all, and the Konzerthaus in Berlin. In recent years, he has becom

e increasingly focused on how the arts can

engage in politics and help contribute to improvem

ents

Brasil, a new orchestra that presents a fusion of

classical and popular young musicians from

different

Netherlands, Serbia and the U.S. where they recently

performed a rem

arkable concert at Carnegie Hall

receiving outstanding reviews published by the New

York Tim

es, New York Post and Concert Net U

SA.

Eva Brennerexperim

ental theater director and scholar who studied

theater science, design, and art history in Vienna,

while w

orking Off-Off-Broadway and in grass-roots

Projekt Theater Vienna-New

York/BUTCH

ERIE for avant-garde and socio-theatrical perform

ances uniting artists, non-professionals, m

igrants, refugees, and local com

munities.

JerMarco Britton

graduated from CLU

B CHIPS Program

and finished

I received at CLUB CH

IPS helped me becom

e a better actor, singer, and w

riter. My training as a Peer H

ealth Educator w

as instrumental in helping to counsel

students at school who are dealing w

ith the hassles of being aw

ay from hom

e and struggling with the new

challenges in their life.”

Carlyle Brown

writer/perform

er and artistic director of Carlyle Brown

& Com

pany based in Minneapolis. A scholar and

historian, Mr. Brow

n has been an artist in residence or visiting professor at several colleges and universities, and has w

orked as a museum

exhibit writer and

story consultant. He is the recipient of num

erous

Black Theatre Network’s W

inona Lee Fletcher Award

for outstanding achievement and artistic excellence, a

States Artist Fellow.

Elise Brown

(Prince George, British Columbia,

four years. She has been part of many perform

ances, w

orkshops, some videos, and has trained the Royal

Canadian Mounted Police in crisis intervention. Elise

has also done scripted and dance productions and is an aspiring w

riter.

Jorge Burciaga-Montoya

Social Therapeutics online certificate program. H

e’s a

in the bachelor’s program in education. H

e is also on the staff of CASA (Centro de Asesoría y Prom

oción de

to incorporate social-emotional learning.

Brad BurgessArtistic D

irector and Executive Producer of The Living Theatre. Brad joined The Living Theatre as an original

The Brig. H

e quickly became part of the directing efforts

at The Living as understudy ensemble director for the

show, later co-directing the piece in Los Angeles. Brad assistant directed M

audie and JaneM

alina, with then com

pany director Hanon Reznikov.

assisting her as she directed new w

orks Eureka! and Red Noirrevival of The Connection.

Andrew

Burton (Prince George, British Colum

bia,

Director of the Street Spirits Theatre Com

pany. He lives

and works in Prince George, British Colum

bia. Andrew’s

background is in theatre, comm

unity development

group of youth volunteers to start the Street Spirits program

, engaging participants in creating theatre and perform

ance to support positive change through theatre arts. H

is work has w

on numerous aw

ards including the

for Political Theatre.

Maurício Canuto

specialist in the Portuguese language and literature and is currently a m

aster’s student in the Applied Linguistics and Language Studies program

at PUC-São Paulo. H

e

Educational Contexts and Acting as Citizens Program.

The research talks about genre, teaching-learning and speech related to reading. Currently, he is a m

ain teacher of elem

entary public school from São Paulo Education

Hall Office and also teaches som

e education-related courses at PU

C post-graduation center, COGEAE.

Martha Cargo

York City-based flutist who has perform

ed at a diverse m

ix of venues, from Cleveland’s Severance H

all to the

Estate at Rokeby in the Hudson Valley to the intimate

WM

P Concert Hall in m

idtown M

anhattan. Her artistic

interests range from experim

ental theater to improvised

music in the context of m

odern dance to early music-

infused free jazz. Ms. Cargo has perform

ed works by

Zosha Di Castri, Beavan Flanagan, Ellen O’M

eara, Anne Goldberg, Alex Burtzos, and Travis Reuter, prem

iering six w

orks over the last two years. Currently in her final

year of the Contemporary Perform

ance Program at

Manhattan School of M

usic, Martha is com

mitted to the

integration of experimental m

usic into various media,

be it contemporary art, theater, or dance.

Ursula Carrascal

development and practice of dance and other artistic

practices. Her keen interest and passion for m

usic led her to w

ork beyond the mere act of dancing; she is fully

convinced that, through performance, w

e can transform

the world into a better place. She is vice president of

VIDA, a Peruvian organization that has im

plemented

working w

ith children in environmental education using

dance.

Alessia Cartoni

in Cultural and Social Anthropology and Art History

Carlos Corazza’s Studio in Madrid and has acting

experience in film, television and on stage. As a part of

the ImaginAction team

, Alessia is currently exploring gender-related issues using TO, m

yths and traditional stories as w

ell as gathering images and situations from

diverse com

munity groups.

Teresa Cavanaugh (Prince George, British

play creation processes and workshops. Teresa is a

skilled counselor and organizer, as well as a com

puter and internet specialist handling Street Spirits’ w

ebsites and com

munications.

Chang Janaprakal C

handruang

professor of theater at Chulalongkorn University in

Comm

unity and has been the artistic director ever since. M

oradokmai Theatre Com

munity has been

producing pedagogic plays while touring schools in

gives production tours abroad yearly both in Europe and Asia. Additionally, M

oradokmai has built dram

a

Comm

unity is a theatre comm

unity as well as a school.

Its instructors receive no salary, its students pay no

Efrain Colondancing since a young age and continues to grace stages and television in the w

orld of modern, hip-hop,

jazz, breaking and more. Efrain has been dancing w

ith

many form

s on So You Think You Can Dance and UM

ass M

arch Madness. Efrain looks to advance his artistic

abilities in poetry, dance, singing and more as a m

ember

Ana Lígia Contell

a Language degree with focus on Portuguese and

English Language and also a degree in Education. She is currently a pedagogic coordinator in São Paulo’s m

unicipal education system. She has great teaching

experience in both in private and public schools. She has w

orked in preschool, elementary school and high school.

She has been developing teacher-education activities for São Paulo’s m

unicipal education system’s teachers in the

last four years.

Am

y Cordileonegraduate from

the Program in Educational Theatre

at New York University, w

here she earned both an

international team of educators in Gulu, Uganda to

conduct her doctoral field research; in the spring of

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Disruptions: D

ialogues on Teaching and Learning through Dram

a in Northern Uganda. Currently, Amy is faculty

mem

ber, director, choreographer, and student-teaching supervisor at N

YU.

Miguel Cortés

educator, comm

unity psychologist and social therapist

he is also an instructor of comm

unity education at

Miguel founded El Centro Fred New

man para la Terpia

Social, an independent comm

unity therapy clinic, w

here he has a growing group practice. H

e presents at international conferences on education and psychology, including the Am

erican Educational Research

Institute’s International Class.

Martha Cotton

gravitytank Partner. She began consulting in the

across a variety of industries for clients ranging from

General Mills to The U.S. D

epartment of

Security. Before consulting, Martha w

as an actress and singer perform

ing in Chicago and New

York in

workshops at conferences and is adjunct faculty at

Northw

estern University where she teaches alternative

research methods that encourage creative problem

solving. M

artha holds a B.A. in English from Indiana

University and an M.A. in Perform

ance Studies from

Northw

estern University.

Steven Dahlberg

International Centre for Creativity and Imagination, w

hich is dedicated to applying creativity to im

prove the well being of individuals, organizations and com

munities. He

Connecticut, and regularly leads professional development

workshops about creativity in education, organizations and com

munities. He edits the Applied Im

agination blog and co-hosts the Creativity in Play online radio show.

Ana C

hristina DaSilva Iddings (Tucson,

Literacy, and Culture at the University of Arizona. H

er research interests are second language learning, im

migration and equity in education, and com

munity-

based approaches to the preparation of teachers to work

with im

migrant children and their fam

ilies.

Hassie D

avisProgram

Coordinator for CLUB CH

IPS, is a professional actress and arts educator. She serves as rehearsal m

usical director, acting coach, and rehearsal director for the CH

IPS In Motion touring show

s. She has performed

with The St. Louis Black Repertory Com

pany, Muny

Student Theatre and Pamoja Theatre W

orkshop, of w

hich she is a founding mem

ber. Hassie received her BA

from Southern Illinois University-Edw

ardsville and her M

FA from Lindenw

ood.

Maria Em

ilia de Lima

a graduate degree in Education and Physical Education and a m

aster’s degree in Education from the University

Theories and School Practice. She has a post-graduate degree in Teaching Education at PU

C-SP, another in School Supervision by U

NG, and a third one in

Managing by Singularidades. She has been w

orking as a technical assessor and a school supervisor at M

unicipal Secretary of Education in São Paulo and also w

orks as a researcher of teachers’ practice at U

SP’s research group. She is a supervisor in the public education system

.

Christian D

elonprofessor in the D

epartment of Applied Social Sciences

at the State University of Maranhão - U

EMA, Ph.D. in

Information and Com

munication Sciences from

the

at the Research Center on Mediations (CREM

/

Comm

unication Companies and Organizations at the

in Information and Com

munication at the University

of Metz, D

elon has worked as a journalist in radio

Mario C

. Deng

professor of medicine at U

CLA and the medical director

of the Advanced Heart Failure/M

echanical Support/H

eart Transplant. Within a vision of developing a

patient-centered theory and practice of medicine, w

ith an appropriate understanding of the respective roles of the physician and the patient during their iterative encounters, his research interests include outcom

es research, asking questions about the survival and quality of life, benefit of new

er options of heart failure therapy such as heart transplantation and m

echanical circulatory support, and translational research, specifically addressing the interactions betw

een the cardiovascular system

and the imm

une system.

Eirini Derm

itzakifilm

-theatre director. She has studied industrial design and acting in Greece, and digital film

making in the U

K. She has done four com

ics and sculpting exhibitions,

writes in literature blogs. She also directed her first

Plural number. She

has been working as an actress in theatre and film

s and she w

rote and directed three short films (Cancer W

ard, ; D

id You Sleep with H

im?

Hapchance

She also leads acting and arts & crafts w

orkshops.

Monique D

esir

mem

ber, and has been creating art and working w

ith artists for m

any years. Monique studies at Greenfield

Comm

unity College, taking classes in the liberal arts. M

onique is skilled in various media m

odes such as film

, music, w

eb, and photography working w

ith several local organizations such as Youth Action Coalition and Video Vanguards. M

onique aspires to create strong foundations for artists and young people in the arts.

David D

iamond

(Vancouver, British Columbia,

many hundreds of theatre projects and trainings

throughout North America and Europe, in Nam

ibia, Rw

anda, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. H

e has pioneered the developm

ent of live, interactive Forum

television and web casting. D

avid’s Theatre for Living is

with system

s theory. He is the recipient of num

erous theatre and hum

an rights awards including an H

onorary D

octorate from the University of the Fraser Valley and

the author of Theatre for Living: the Art and Science of Com

munity-Based D

ialogue (winner of the Am

erican

Adrienne D

iercksthe founder and executive director of Project SU

CCESS, a youth-developm

ent organization that works w

ith m

iddle and high school students to help them develop

life skills that can transform their lives. This year

book Inspire, Persuade, Lead: Comm

unication Secrets of Excellent Leaders. In addition to her role at Project SU

CCESS, Adrienne is a mem

ber of the Minnesota

Wom

en’s Economic Roundtable and serves on several

nonprofit boards and comm

ittees. Adrienne holds a B.A. in English from

Whittier College, CA.

Deonna D

olacTheater m

ajor at Buffalo State College. She is from

Buffalo, NY and w

as part of the Blossom H

ollar quick steppers in a percussion ensem

ble. Past credits include Personal Dem

onstheater and start an acting career in film

and television and finally change the w

orld.

Carolyn Dorfm

anas a creator of provocative dances that reflect her concerns about the hum

an condition. Since founding

ensemble, w

hich appears at major theaters, dance

festivals, universities and schools regionally, nationally and internationally, and is lauded for its exceptional arts education and com

munity program

ming. In its

recent award letter, the Geraldine R. D

odge Foundation applauded M

s. Dorfm

an and CDD

C for being

turn deep principles and values into action for the benefit of others and to shape a better w

orld.”

Imani D

ouglasD

irector of the Seaport Salon, a small theater in low

er M

anhattan that embraces artists in the developm

ent of their w

ork and honing of their craft. She recently Dr. M

ay Edward Chinn. Some of her other directing credits

Rising/Castillo Theater, Adventures of Langston at Sea/Shom

berg Center, and Hot Methuselah/EST/New

Federal Theatre. She has recently returned from

North Carolina Black Repertory Theater and a short N

YC tour for Black H

istory and Wom

en’s History m

onths.

Alan D

oyleof the international training institute at Fountain H

ouse. Previously, he was the assistant director for a

regional school on Long Island, providing occupational training to adults and high school students and literacy education to im

migrants. W

hile there he also created an alternative high school for disaffected teenagers. H

e has served as the liaison of the M

assachusetts State Education Com

missioner to the state’s congressional

delegation in Washington, D

C, and taught Latin in the public schools of Great Neck, N

Y. He holds a D

octorate from

the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is

co-author of Fountain House: Comm

unity as Therapy in Psychiatric Recovery, soon to be published by Colum

bia University Press.

Kim

Dunphy

Dip. M

ovement and D

ance, M.Ed., is com

pleting her Ph.D. studies investigating the role of participatory arts in social change in East Tim

or through the school of International and Com

munity D

evelopment at D

eakin University in M

elbourne, Australia. Kim is a director

of a non-government organization, M

any Hands

International, which prom

otes cultural assets-based com

munity developm

ent in Timor-Leste. She is also the

program m

anager of the Cultural Developm

ent Network,

where she w

orks to support the cultural vitality of com

munities across Victoria, Australia.

Jennifer Eisenberga B.A. in D

ance from M

arymount M

anhattan College and w

orks as a teaching artist for National Dance

Institute in New York City. She has also taught for N

DI - New

Mexico. She co-created the curriculum

for the non-profit H

ouse of the Roses in NYC, bringing dance

to homeless children. She also currently perform

s with

Spark Movem

ent Collective.

Maria Enriquez

graduate student in the Ph.D. Performance Studies

program at the University of Pittsburgh. She is

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American theatre in the diaspora and has a special

option in devising theatre. Maria received her M

.F.A. in Theatre Perform

ance from Arizona State University.

She has worked as a professional actress and w

as an artistic associate w

ith Teatro Luna, an all-Latina theatre com

pany in Chicago, Illinois.

Maria O

svelia Monreal Espinoza

(Cuidad

youth groups, CASA educative centers and finally as an education adviser for open education. She has a degree in Social W

ork and participated in the Special Training of Education and Youth. She w

as a PTW participant in

Eve EveretteBuffalo State College w

ith honors in art history and theater. She then w

ent on to get her M.A. in Classical

and Contemporary Text for Acting at the Royal

Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. Past credits include The W

inter’s TaleThe D

iary of Anne Frank

God of Soho w

ith UK playw

right Chris Hannan. Eve has a passion

for using theater for social change and would love to

see the Anne Frank Project grow and develop. She

will soon begin teaching at Buffalo State College and

would like to use her devised theater skills to bring site

specific theater to Buffalo. Eve is also an avid traveler, adventurer and is currently w

orking to complete a half

marathon distance in trail running.

Lucilene Santos Silva Fonseca (São Paulo,

Graduate Program of Applied Linguistics at the Pontific

studying in the same area for a doctorate. This research

aims at analyzing a graduate course on teacher training

as a critical and reflective practitioner, in the context of technological education. She participates in a study group at PU

C-SP (LACE- Linguagem em

Atividades

her research concerns are related to school managem

ent, and teachers’ and teacher educators’ developm

ent.

Brynn Freeman

researcher there, as she’s able to work in creative w

ays and channel perform

ance. Before expanding her horizons in innovation, she w

orked as a researcher in health care and m

anagement consulting, w

here she applied psychological theory and practice to help businesses reach their goals. She holds a B.A. in Theatre and D

ance from The University of Texas, an M

.A. in

Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the Chicago

School of Professional Psychology, and plans to graduate w

ith a Business Psychology doctorate from The Chicago

Mary Fridley

independent political activist and comm

unity organizer for 33 years. She is currently the pro bono D

irector of Special Program

s at the East Side Institute. Mary

on the directing staff of Castillo Theatre, where she has

Mary has also produced an aw

ard-winning feature film

, Nothing Really H

appens (Mem

ories of Aging Strippers).

Dan Friedm

anArtistic D

irector of the Castillo Theatre in New York

the Associate Dean of U

X, the All Stars’ free school of continuing developm

ent for people of all ages. Friedm

an holds a doctorate in Theatre History from

the University of W

isconsin, and has been active in political, experim

ental and comm

unity-based theatre The Cultural

Politics of Heiner M

üller; Müller in Am

erica; Still on the Corner and Other Postm

odern Political Plays by Fred New

man; and co-editor w

ith Bruce McConachie

of Theatre for Working Class Audiences in the United

States, 1830-1980and, in addition to his w

ork at Castillo, he has directed

New York City colleges.

Yukari Fujiwara

an elementary school teacher in Kyoto prefecture,

a graduate student of Hyogo University of Teacher Education. H

er research interests lie in teaching English as a second language through arts such as im

prov, drama and dance. She often uses im

prov m

ethods in elementary school classroom

s for teaching English, building a relationship w

ith students and creative learning. She also organizes im

prov w

orkshops for teachers.

Lenora Fulanico-founder of the All Stars Project and is dean of its latest initiative, U

X. She founded and leads Operation

between police and Black youth designed to im

prove their relationship. Fulani has long been a progressive political leader, having tw

ice run for president of the United States as an independent. She is a founder of both the Com

mittee for a Unified Independent Party

and of the Independence Party of New York State. She

has a Ph.D. in Developm

ental Psychology from the City

University of New York.

Dana G

age

student in the Narrative Medicine M

aster’s Program at

Columbia University since its inception three years ago.

She is a fledgling writer, having w

ritten three novels that deal w

ith medical issues and is now

writing a play,

dealing with her experiences as a scribe for a m

an dying of ALS. H

er written w

ork has been featured in Reflexions, the Daily Palette and Intim

a. She is currently running a w

orkshop for ALS caregivers at Burke Rehabilitation Center.

Joseph Wasim

Andrejchak G

alata (Reno,

Not Incarceration, a creative arts and media project.

Galata is the founder and co-director of Lightning Bolt Publishing. H

e’s been an arts and media education

gang mem

bers, teens with substance abuse histories,

adolescents afflicted by violence, poverty, domestic and

comm

unity abuse, and those with term

inal illnesses. Galata has designed international theatre, television, radio, productions and publications; and has presented perform

ances, seminars, w

orkshops and keynote speeches throughout the United States, China, Eastern and W

estern Europe, the Middle East, Canada, M

exico,

Kerstin Gauffin

Head of D

ivision of Theatre and Creative Applications at M

älardalen University and Chairman of the Board of

Design and Art. She is a board m

ember of w

orldwide

organization The Applied Improvisation Netw

ork. In creating new

courses and projects, she mixes art and

technique where the interaction betw

een different disciplines w

orks as a creative tool for development

and change. A product of this interaction is a robotic sw

an that dances to the tunes of Tchaikovsky, which

piqued worldw

ide interest. The course Multicultural

Improvisation has been presented in m

any places including New

York, Tokyo and Brazil, and art meets

technology in her new courses Beyond Fashion and

Experimental M

oving Images.

DayJah G

eorgem

odel with Girlisty and a sophom

ore at Parkway School.

This is her second year with CLU

B CHIPS and she plans

to attend Emotio Fashion D

esign School in Paris, France m

ajoring in Fashion Design.

Valeria Giannella

in Urban and Regional Planning, Ph.D. in Participatory

moved to Brazil w

here today she lectures on Social M

anagement and Epistem

ology of Human Sciences

at Ceará Federal University. She focuses her research

reconnect the left and right sides of our brains; our art and em

otional competences to our rational ones

in approaching social work as w

ell as teaching/learning in the classroom

.

Gina G

ibneya repertory of dance w

orks that have been presented and com

missioned by prestigious and international

New York Tim

es, Gibney is dedicated to bringing the pow

er of dance where it w

ould not otherwise exist. H

er com

pany’s program Com

munity Action has reached

thousands of domestic violence survivors, individuals

affected by HIV

/AIDS and youth-at-risk. She is also the

founder of Gibney Dance Center, a seven-studio facility

space and unique programm

ing.

Divyam

Sue Gibson

(Margaret River, W

estern

who is currently researching the long-term

effects of doing therapeutic theatre in a sm

all rural comm

unity. She has presented at m

any national and international

educator and facilitator. She is currently involved in several diverse projects in the environm

ent and surrounds of M

argaret River, Western Australia.

Bonny L. Gildin

Vice President of Education Initiatives and Senior D

evelopment Officer for the All Stars Project, Inc.

traditional paradigms of learning and education and

developed a deep intellectual and personal comm

itment

to developmental afterschool. She received her

undergraduate degree from Grinnell College and earned

a Ph.D. in linguistics from Colum

bia University. As a senior fundraiser for the All Stars, she has raised m

ore

She is currently creating the Institute for the Study of Play in New

ark, to involve the university comm

unity in advancing developm

ental afterschool and other creative solutions to poverty and underdevelopm

ent.

Kaiser G

laab (Prince George, British Colum

bia,

five years. He has taken part in perform

ance pieces, participated in live perform

ances, film projects and

educational workshops. Kaiser is also a w

riter and a m

usician currently working as a guitarist and vocalist

for a death metal band.

Artin G

öncüin the D

epartment of Educational Psychology at the

University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his Ph.D.

in Developm

ental Psychology from the University of

Houston. His research illustrates the role of cultural and

social contexts in human developm

ent and education w

ith a specific focus on the development of im

aginative play during childhood, parents’ and teachers’ roles in child

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development, professional developm

ent of early childhood teachers as well as the role of play in adult education and developm

ent. Artin’s books include Children’s Engagement

in the World and the recent Play and Developm

ent, which

elaborate how parents, teachers and peers contribute

to children’s play and school activities. He has lectured

extensively in many countries including Australia, Brazil,

France, Italy, Switzerland and Turkey.

Ana K

aren González C

hacón (Cuidad

comm

unity education at the Centro de Asesoria y

Arianna G

oodinsophom

ore Theater major at Buffalo State College.

She is from Bronx, N

Y and is a mem

ber of Casting H

all Productions and The Anne Frank Project. Arianna w

ould like to make a living sharing the

power of storytelling to the w

orld whether on

Broadway or the big screen.

Janna L. Goodw

ina playw

right, performer and creator/facilitator of

performance-and-dialogue events highlighting

comm

unity stories and concerns. Her w

ork has been produced in Colorado, M

assachusetts and New York

and she has performed throughout the United States.

Her study on the application of perform

ance in a correctional institution, Perform

ing Changes, makes the

argument that facilitated, collaborative perform

ance, approached as praxis, can effect positive changes and dem

onstrates some of the w

ays in which this is so.

She has also written about creating the conditions

under which productive, audience-centered, post-show

conversations are m

ore likely to occur.

Dr. Porfirio G

razioli

Rome and its founder M

onsignor Carroll-Abbing in

leads the International Institute for the Study of the Contem

porary Problems of Youth, the research center

associated with BGTI. Under his leadership, BGTI w

as

for migrant youth in Europe. A native of Trevi nel Lazio,

outside Rome, D

r. Grazioli has degrees in Classical Studies and Law

and has taught Religious Studies. He

is also an esteemed poet, often w

riting in Roman and

Ciociaro dialects.

Thomas M

ortimer G

reder (Biel,

Human M

ovement Studies. Tom

has been trained as a circus artist and contem

porary clown at The Circus

Space, at Ecole Philippe Gaulier in London, by Angela De

Castro in Brisbane, by Alex Pinder and more recently by

has been performing as itinerant perform

ing artist and sharing his experience in contem

porary circus, theatre and street productions, festivals, film

s, corporate events,

countries. ww

w.tomoskar.com

Nicholas G

ross

primarily w

orked on science education projects. While

at Northeastern University he worked on a project that

developed interactive general science curriculum for

art, music, and theater m

ajors. He is the co-D

irector for Education for the Center for Integrated Space W

eather

has worked closely w

ith CISM scientists and NASA’s

centered interactive activities that are appropriate for higher education. D

r. Gross became interested in ethos

and aesthetics of improvisation and is exploring the

parallels between effective student centered pedagogy

and improvisation.

Shilpi Gulati

Delhi, India, and has been a Pandies’ activist, actor and

documentary m

aker.

Christine H

allB.A. in Theatre from

UC Irvine. She has taught dance

in Ethiopia, China, Vietnam, Bulgaria and H

aiti. She w

orks in New York City as a teaching artist for National

Dance Institute and as a consultant for W

orldwide

Orphans Foundation for which she has developed the

as a professional dancer, actor and choreographer.

her to want to help every child, especially orphans

and vulnerable children, to have the transformative

experience that the arts can provide.

Katori H

allw

inning playwright of The M

ountaintop, recently

Angela Bassett. Hurt VillageSusan Sm

ith Blackburn Prize, was a part of the opening

season of the new Signature Center, and her play

Children of KillersHoodoo

LoveRem

embrance (W

omen’s

The Mountaintop

Children of Killers

ARENA Stage American Voices New

Play Residency, Kate Neal Kinley Fellow

ship, two Lecom

te du Noüy

University, American Repertory Theatre Institute at

proud mem

ber of the Ron Brown Scholar Program

, the Coca-Cola Scholar Program

, the Dram

atists Guild, and the Fellow

ship of Southern Writers.

Nancy H

anksindependent political blog The H

anksterslogger” -- active in building up-from

-the-bottom The

Hankster

grassrootsindependent.blogspot.com/

Catherine Hanna

an educator/performer/activist w

ith a Master’s in

Educational Theater from New

York University. Catherine has w

orked as an educator/facilitator with

young people and adults using active and creative/theater-based learning m

ethods in Chicago, New York,

Egypt, Honduras, Uganda, and Kenya. Currently she

works w

ith youth in NYC Public Schools and w

ith adults in various professional settings. She is also the director of Invisible Children’s Teacher Exchange program

w

orking with North Am

erican and Ugandan teachers both in the U.S. and Uganda.

Peter Harris

Theatre practitioner, lecturer, innovator and researcher

and Comm

unity Theatre at the Departm

ent of Theatre Studies, W

estern Galilee College and also teaches at Tel Aviv University Theatre Arts D

ept. Harris has recently

completed a Ph.D. thesis entitled Inter-Group Contact

in the Aesthetic Space analyzing a comm

unity-based psychodynam

ic theatre model developed over the past

ten years, working w

ith polarized comm

unities and diverse ethnicity groups (theatre arts students, M

uslim

and Christian minority groups, rehabilitating substance

Brooke Haycock

a former high school dropout from

an urban public school system

, playwright, advocate, and is artist-

in-residence with The Education Trust. For over a

decade, she has served as a powerful m

egaphone for the voices and experiences of students and educators, m

ixing interview w

ith performance to produce

incisive chronicles of opportunity and achievement in

America. Based entirely on interview, her issue-focused

documentary dram

as tell the stories behind the national data, driving straight to the heart of debate around equity in schools. She holds a bachelor’s degree from

the

Raquell H

olmes

Assistant Research Professor at CCAM and the Center

for Computational Science at Boston University. She

uses computer m

odeling to understand biological

systems and builds com

munity to increase participation

of wom

en, minorities and people w

ith disabilities in com

puting and computational science. As Founder and

Director of im

provscience, Holm

es uses discoveries in learning sciences and hum

an development, specifically

improvisation, to provide training for scientists and

science educators in the art of building interdisciplinary collaborations and diverse learning groups. H

olmes

International Class and co-teaches classes in Social Therapeutics w

ith Evelyn Dougherty at the Boston

Social Therapy Group.

Lois Holzm

anand m

ain organizer of the Performing the W

orld conferences. She is co-founder (w

ith the late Fred

Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, w

hich for nearly three decades has functioned as an independent research, training and organizing center at the forefront of new

approaches to human developm

ent, learning, therapeutics and com

munity building. Lois travels

extensively meeting w

ith grassroots innovators and university scholars and researchers, introducing them

to the social therapeutic/perform

ance approach to hum

an development pioneered by the Institute, and

to each other. She leads the Institute’s International Class, a unique training program

combining New

York City residencies w

ith distance learning for social change innovators from

around the world. Am

ong the books she has w

ritten, co-written and edited on social

therapeutics, play and performance, and current trends

in postmodern and critical psychology and education

are Vygotsky at Work and Play; The End of Know

ing; Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist; Psychological Investigations: A Clinician’s Guide to Social Therapy and Perform

ing Psychology.

Jenni Hong

choreographer and teacher who has been a Gibney

Jim H

ortonyears as a hum

an services worker, supervisor and

trainer in the substance abuse, sexual abuse and child abuse fields. H

e moved to New

York City and began his

he worked as part of the fundraising team

, served as the Castillo Theatre’s Assistant M

anaging Director and w

as

Center for Afterschool Developm

ent.

Lin Ching H

siacivil service fam

ily in Taiwan’s nationalist governm

ent

studying in the U.S., where she also earned her m

aster’s and doctoral degrees in educational psychology and

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career in education and the growing labor m

ovement,

she supported the equal rights’ movem

ent of the sex w

orkers, and the comm

unity adult education movem

ent. As an educational w

orker, Hsia has connected her

professional practices with com

munity action. She is

a practice-oriented approach that emphasizes the

importance of deep reflection. This is also applied to

comm

unity adult education programs.

Frances Hughes

sophomore Theater m


Walnut Creek, CA and is the current Production

Manager of Casting H

all Productions. Past credits include Enron

Working

w

ork on the technical side of shows and learn as

much as she can.

Hiroyuki Im

aiAssociate Professor of Language Education at Hyogo

interests include classroom discourse analysis,

assessment of speaking proficiency, and language

teacher development. H

is recent publications include H

OPE: English Proficiency Test for High School Students

two co-edited books, Researching Language Teaching

and Learning: An Integration of Practice and Theory In Pursuit of Reflective English

Education: Narrative Inquiry and Classroom Research

and writer of m

iddle school English textbooks.

Frantz Jerome

extensive experience in arts education and workshop

and program developm

ent. Working w

ith youth for over ten years and practicing his art as an M

C and poet w

ith the Peace Poets, Frantz studies writing at the New

School. H

e aspires to create proper opportunities for youth in the arts w

hile practicing his arts as a skilled

Aisha Jordan-Jerom

e

co-founder, has been in and around cultural arts and theater all of her life through the late New

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Theater and schooling. She received her B.A. in Arts and Theater from

Eugene Lang College at the New School,

and her M.A. in Arts and Politics from

Tisch School of the Arts at New

York University. She strives to create opportunities for artists and arts organizations w

hile evolving her interdisciplinary arts career. Aisha is a part

Antoine Joyce

a performer in the All Stars Talent Show

Network

impassioned youth leader. After years of perform

ing and volunteering, he then joined the All Stars staff in

Producer. Currently, Antoine is a Developm

ent Officer for the All Stars Project, heads the social m

edia department,

is the Director of the Young Leaders for Change

email fundraising cam

paign, and leads the hip-hop departm

ent of UX.

Drew

Kahn

Theater at Buffalo State College where he teaches acting,

voice and movem

ent (President’s Award for Excellence

The Anne Frank Project. He presents internationally on

the universal language of theater and the intersection of storytelling and genocide as a m

eans towards

meaningful social change —

most recently in Rw

anda, the D

emocratic Republic of the Congo, Greece, Croatia,

Morocco and Turkey (Toby Ticktin Back Aw

ard for H

olocaust Education, Comm

unity Leader Award,

Erin Kaplan

teaching artist, facilitator, published playwright and

activist currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She

holds B.A.s from the University of M

ichigan’s Residential College in D

rama, English and Political

Science, and an M.A. in Educational Theatre focusing

in Applied Theatre from New

York University. Erin is currently w

orking as a Master Teaching Artist for

theatres, schools and arts-in-education organizations in

Theatre, with a certification in W

omen’s/Gender Studies

at the CUN

Y Graduate Center. Her research interests

include Theatre of the Oppressed, Feminist Hum

an Rights Theatre and Shakespeare.

Maureen Kelly

with Perform

ance of a Lifetime, an organizational

change company that develops people and organizations

through the art of performance. She first discovered

the power of POAL’s m

ethodology as a client, and im

mediately fell in love w

ith the enabling and em

powering experience of being on stage. A talented

improvisational perform

er, trainer, therapist and coach, M

aureen has helped thousands of executives across all industries to build their team

s and organizations continuously and creatively. She earned her M

.A. in Organizational Psychology at Teachers College, Colum

bia University, and com

pleted her postgraduate studies and clinical w

ork in psychology at the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term

Psychotherapy.

Maxine Kern

extraordinary life in the theater. She has been Artistic D

irector at Company One Theater, Literary M

anager at New

Georges and the George Street Playhouse, D

ramaturg in Residence at New

Dram

atists, and Producing Associate at M

cCarter Theatre. She is currently w

orking as a dramaturg on As It Is in Heaven,

Arlene Hutton’s play about the Shakers.

Udit K

huranaPandies’ activist, actor and facilitator for five years. H

e is an independent filmm

aker and is pursuing specialization in cinem

atography at the L. V. Prasad Institute, Chennai, India.

Woodie K

ing, Jr.founder and producing director of the New

Federal

directed on and off-Broadway, in regional theatres, and

in universities across the U.S. Among the best know

n For Colored

Girls Who H

ave Considered Suicide When the Rainbow

is Enuf, W

hat the Wine Sellers Buy, Reggae, and The

Taking of Miss Janie

NFT specializes in African Am

erican and other minority

drama; supports em

erging playwrights; and has brought

minority actors, directors, and designers to national

attention, while at the sam

e time bringing joy of the

living theater to New York’s m

inority comm

unities. Mr.

King will direct D

iane Richard’s Sowa’s Red Gravy Stories at Castillo this fall.

Kim

ber Kirw

ingraduate of Regis University w

ith a B.A. in English. Her

background in theatre and performing arts includes

multi-year participation and leadership in the cam

pus theatre club, the Ram

blers. She was a founding m

ember

served as a teaching assistant and tutor for Regis’ W

riting Program, and acted in the capacity of M

anaging Editor for the university’s literary m

agazine, Apogee.

Lisa Kloeppel

Professor of Dram

a at University of North Carolina Asheville. H

er most recent project involves creating

an original performance w

ith her Arts & Com

munity

Developm

ent class and the Urban Arts Institute, a grassroots arts organization w

orking with underserved

youth. She teaches courses in acting, theatre education,

will serve as the D

irector of the Key Center for Service-Learning and Com

munity Citizenship. She is a m

ember

of AATE and Alternate ROOTS, and received her M

.F.A. in Theatre for Youth from

Arizona State University.

Sanjay Kum

arof activist theatre. The founding President of Pandies’ theatre, he directs its productions and chief facilitates

scripts apart from co-scripting and adapting m

any m

ore. A resident of the Bellagio Centre, Bellagio,

has participated in many national and international

festivals and conferences. He has been an Associate

Professor at the Departm

ent of English, Hans Raj

Gabrielle L. K

urlander (New York, N

Y,

a mem

ber of the Castillo Theatre Company since

Playing with

Heiner Müller

AUDELCO Aw

ard for Outstanding Ensem

ble Performance; Sally and

Tom (The Am

erican Way), Com

ing of Age in Korea (w/

musical, Carm

en’s Place (A Fantasy) by Fred Newm

an. M

s. Kurlander has served as President and CEO of the

a grassroots, unfunded effort into a national model for

youth development w

ith programs in New

York, Newark,

the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago. During

her tenure, the ASP’s annual budget has grown from

sources. Ms. Kurlander led the cam

paign to establish the ASP’s unique Perform

ing Arts and Developm

ent Center

Christine LaCerva

Director of the Social Therapy Group, an independent

network of therapy centers w

hich practice the revolutionary, radically hum

anistic group therapy approach called social therapy. Christine w

as a longtime

colleague of the creator of social therapy, Dr. Fred

Newm

an, and has pioneered the development of social

therapy with fam

ilies and children. Ms LaCerva has a

large group practice in Brooklyn and Manhattan, and

supervises and leads the training of social therapists around the U.S. and internationally.

Nadio A

lessandro LaGam

ba

Boys’ & Girls’ Tow

ns of Italy in Rome as an educator

Emergency Intervention Centers, a program

of Caritas. H

e has also been an honorary judge in the juvenile justice system

. Nadio has presented at numerous

conferences in Italy and abroad, and is also the author of

old, married w

ith one son and lives in Rome.

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iksha Lamba

Pandies’ activist, actor and facilitator for six years,

University, New D

elhi.

Agustin Lara

visual artist and independent musician, an active

mem

ber of the Centro Fred Newm

an (Fred Newm

an

and has participated in the last two Perform

ing the W

orld conferences. Recently, he has been pursuing

Mexico and w

as a foley artist for a feature film.

Julia Larréprofessor at the Letras D

epartment at the Federal

University of Pernambuco, Brazil. H

er current doctorate research is related to argum

entation and its organization in w

riting and performing fan film

scripts. This is strictly linked to the idea of collaboration and integration am

ong individuals for the transformation

of the environment in w

hich they are inserted and, consequently, their ow

n transformation as professionals

Fannie LebbyM

anager, CHIPS In M

otion, is a performer, storyteller,

director and arts educator. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology/Speech &

Dram

a from

Arts degree in Theatre/Cinema from

Texas Southern University. Fannie has perform

ed locally with the

St. Louis Black Repertory Company, Pam

oja Theatre W

orkshop, The New Theatre, H

otCity, Horse Cave

Theatre and Lincoln Outdoor Amphitheatre in Kentucky,

and the Zachary Scott and Ensemble Theatre in Texas.

London Leem

ajor at Buffalo State College. He is from

Buffalo, NY

and is a mem

ber of Casting Hall Productions and Friday

Night Live. Past credits include Exonerated, Working, Dead

Man W

alking and Gospel at Clonous. London plans on continuing to perform

and seeing where that takes him

.

Mariana Elisa M

aese Legarda (Cuidad

natural environments and to collect plants, and has an

interest in herbal lore and its healing attributes. Mariana

holds a degree in visual arts and has a passionate interest in seeking new

experiences with individuals

from all areas to strengthen her grow

th. She is an active m

ember of the Centro Fred New

man (Fred New

man

Andrea Lem

onaw

arded scriptwriter, author, curator, director and

comm

unity cultural development artist. She w

as Artistic D

irector of Melbourne’s W

omen’s Circus for survivors

of sexual abuse; Coordinator of the Royal Children’s H

ospital regional Arts and Mental H

ealth program; and

professional performances, w

hich have toured Australia, Britain and Europe. She is the recipient of num

erous theatre industry and national social justice aw

ards. Lem

on’s Ph.D. examined com

munity belonging in the

context of nomadic Australian circus com

munities, and

formed the basis for her photographic and oral history

exhibition, The Circus Diaries.

Pamela A

. Lewis

Vice President/Youth Program

s for the All Stars Project, Inc. and has expanded its youth developm

ent programs

from coast to coast. Lew

is is one of the country’s leading organizers and developers of inner-city youth, and has w

orked with tens of thousands of young people

supporting them in building the All Stars and teaching

them that they can perform

in new w

ays and be builders of their neighborhood, their city, their society, and the w

orld.

Fernanda Coelho Liberali (São Paulo,

Post-Graduate Program of Applied Linguistics, at the

Pontific Catholic University of São Paulo, where she

She was the Brazilian representative for the ISCAR

on School Managem

ent and Bilingual Education. In a socio-historical-cultural perspective, her extram

ural, consultancy and research concerns are related to school m

anagement, teachers’ and teacher educators’

development, teaching-learning issues, literacy,

citizenship education, multicultural education and

argumentation. She holds a fellow

ship from CN

Pq, a national funding agency.

Carrie Lobman

Associate Professor at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education and D

irector of Pedagogy at the East Side Institute. She is a trained social therapist and a core faculty m

ember in the Institute’s international

training programs. She is co-author of Unscripted

Learning: Using Improvisation across the K-8 Curriculum

, and co-editor of Play and Culture Series Volum

e 11: Play and Perform

ance. She received her doctorate from

Teachers College, Columbia University.

Mary A

lice Long

therapist who believes in the value and benefits of

our imagination, play and creativity. She earned her

Ph.D. in clinical psychology with an em

phasis in depth psychology from

Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has extensive background in parent and health education, nursing, social w

ork, psychology and the arts. Mary

Alice is a working w

riter and performing artist/

storyteller. She currently is based on South Whidbey

Island just north of Seattle, and co-hosts the Creativity in Play online radio show.

Sandra Paola Lopezborn and raised in Bogota, Colom

bia where she began

her dance training at a young age. She moved to the

with m

inors in Psychology and Religious Studies at M

issouri State University. She has developed an interest in using dance and interdisciplinary im

provisation

collaboration with m

usician Chris Reyman. Sandra is

currently an M.A. candidate in Aesthetic Education at

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Gw

en Lowenheim

faculty mem

ber of the East Side Institute, is a long tim

e comm

unity organizer, independent activist and educator. She is Founder/D

irector of The Snaps Project, an educational consulting firm

, and an English as a Second Language instructor. She trains educators in a social therapeutic, perform

ance-based learning approach that brings creativity and innovation into the classroom

. H

er popular online courses draw dozens of creative

conversationalists from desktops around the globe.

Jeffry Lusiakdirected Project SU

CCESS musicals for the past ten

years. He w

as a facilitator for nine years before assuming

has been also working in M

inneapolis for over ten years as a director and perform

er and was the m

ost recent Artistic D

irector of Outward Spiral Theatre Com

pany. Locally, he has w

orked at Illusion Theatre and the Guthrie Theater, and has directed and produced new

show

s at the Bryant Lake Bowl. H

e is a graduate of St. M

ary’s University of Minnesota in W

inona with a

B.A. in Theater.

Antonio D

avid Lyonsa com

mitted artist activist w

hose work spans m

ultiple disciplines and continents. H

e began his career as

an educational theatre company that specializes in

change behavior and conflict resolution techniques. H

e has continued his work as an educator/facilitator

with Colum

bia College Hollyw

ood where he has taught

beginning and advanced acting, at Newtow

n Film and

performance for directors, and w

ith Dem

ocracy Begins

acting, poetry, music and conversation to interrogate

the South African Constitution. He is the author of three

Celebration, Beautiful Struggle and We Are Here.

He is also the recipient of several Fulbright aw

ards. His

comm

ercial artistic ventures include numerous roles

Hotel

Rwanda, American H

istory X, 24, The Practice, New York

Undercover, Generations, Ubizo: The Calling, and Jacob’s

CrossW

e Dance We Pray and Hum

an Jewels. H

e is currently an M

.A. in Applied Theatre candidate at City University

Soohyun Ma

educator, drama therapist, teaching artist and perform

er

Dongduk W

omen’s University in Korea and received her

M.A in Dram

a Therapy from New

York University. She previously worked as a registered dram

a therapist to serve hom

eless clients suffering from m

ental illness and chem

ical dependency, children in psychiatric units and unm

arried mothers. She has taught Dram

a Therapy, Educational Theatre and Play Production courses. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Educational Theatre at N

YU. Her research interests include cultural

studies and unwed mothers.

Daniela M

iranda da Costa Macam

bira

Linguistics at LAEL (Applied Linguistics and Language

State University of Ceará and a post-graduation degree in Literacy by the University 7 de Setem

bro. She has

emphasis in public education. She is the author of m

any didactic books such as Lendo e Escrevendo, Volta e M

eia Vam

os Dar, Muitas H

istórias Vamos Contar

well as others related to the process of teaching and

writing. She is currently the Educational D

irector of Aprender Publisher.

Maria Cecília M

agalhãesholds a doctorate degree in Education from

Virginia Tech. She w

orks with theoretical-m

ethodological issues in Teacher Education, m

ainly focused on language and collaboration in intervention research, as w

ell as on theoretical-m

ethodological issues towards critical

research of collaboration. She conducts research with

teachers continuing education within the theoretical

frames of SH

CAT to understanding and transformation

of teaching-learning processes, focused on reading and w

riting. She is currently a Full Professor at the Linguistic D

epartment and Applied Linguistics and Language

Studies Post-Graduation Program of the Catholic

University of São Paulo, Brazil. She holds a fellowship

from CN

Pq, a Brazilian National Funding Agency.

Judith Malina

co-founder and Artistic Director of the w

orld-renowned

Living Theatre, the longest producing theatre company

in New York and the United States. H

er work and that

of The Living Theatre has, since its inception in the

style of the theatre and its relationship to and with the

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audience. Beginning with its historic introduction of

plays by Brecht, Picasso, Gertude Stein, Pirandello, Paul

break-through productions of William

Carlos William

’s M

any LovesThe Connection and Kenneth

Brown’s The Brig, they singularly altered the landscape

of the New York theatre.

Holly M

andelcutting-edge approach to education and developm

ent. W

orking extensively with groups and individuals on

leadership training and team dynam

ics, she creates conditions for greater autonom

y, ownership and

innovation. She worked at D

isney Pictures (feature

apart from m

ost corporate educators, is the experience she received in im

provisation with the very best in

moving to New

York to start her own school and

training institution, Improvolution. She teaches im

prov at Pace University, and also is a trainer and facilitator for collective developm

ent for EnlightenNext.

David M

andelbaum

more than tw

o decades as an actor and producer in New

York’s off-off Broadway experim

ental theater scene, D

avid founded NYR in an effort to give Yiddish

actors, directors and audiences an ongoing venue for exploring their Yiddish identity through theater. N

YR

life productions, readings and workshops, the goals of

which have been to educate a new

generation of Yiddish actors and to illum

inate for the public the diversity, cutting edge creativity, and universality of the Yiddish theater legacy.

Sandra Manick

who has served as a Sanctuary for Fam

ilies mentor and

public advocate for the issue of domestic violence for

many years.

Swapnpriiya M

annabeen a Pandies’ activist, actor and facilitator for seven years. She is a journalist using electronic and w

ritten m

edia, as well as a photographer.

Daniel M

aposatheatre practitioner and the D

irector of Savanna Trust, an organization that uses theatre for social change in H

arare, Zimbabw

e. He is also the Festival

and Conference Director of the annual Protest Arts

International Festival in Harare. D

aniel has worked in

writer and producer. H

e has presented at several theatre conferences, including the IDEA w

orld congress in Brazil and the D

rama for Life research conference in

South Africa.

Louie Marin

Miam

i where he received his B.F.A. w

ith High H

onors from

the University of Florida New W

orld School of the Arts. H

e currently also works w

ith Amanda Selw

yn D

ance Theater and Sasha Soreff Dance Theater. H

e has perform

ed with the M

artha Graham Ensem

ble, Paskal Rekoert/Flexicurve, Freddick Bratcher and Co., and the D

ance Now Ensem

ble. Louie is a certified Pilates Instructor, and he teaches throughout N

YC. Louie joined

Jim M

artinezProfessor of Instructional Technology at the New

York Institute of Technology and is a volunteer faculty m

ember at the East Side Institute. H

e holds a Ph.D. in Urban Education, a m

aster’s degree in Elementary

Education and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.

His book, A Perform

atory Approach to Teaching, Learning and Technology, provides an account of his experiences as a New

York City Teaching Fellow in

using technology and a performance-based approach

to pedagogy that emphasizes im

provisational perform

ance, groups, leadership and playful interactions in the process of creating technology-rich learning environm

ents.

Anuradha M

arwah

Associate Professor of English at Zakir Husain College, D

elhi University and Secretary of the NGO, AAEA. She

has written three novels, short stories, poem

s, and academ

ic and popular articles. As a mem

ber of the activist theatre group Pandies’, she has w

ritten three plays for public perform

ance. One of her scripts, A Pipe Dream

in Delhi, was selected for presentation at

the Wom

en Playwrights’ International Conference at

Susan Massad

practices General Internal Medicine in the faculty

practice of Brooklyn Hospital Center. Graduating in

School of Medicine, she joined the faculty and designed

one of the first doctor-patient relationship courses in the country. She has been exploring the socio-cultural-biological dim

ensions of medicine and healing since

that time. A founder of the All Stars Project and form

er chair of its board of directors, D

r. Massad launched All

is a staff mem

ber of the East Side Institute where she

continues to play and perform, creating conversations

on health, wellness, grow

ing older and a joyous life.

Mario M

cFaddenat Clyde C. M

iller Career Academy. H

e participates in the College Bound Program

and writes original songs w

ith

CHIPS to enhance m

y performing skills; it has helped m

e sharpen m

y articulation and composing skills.”

Patricia McG

regorH

arlem based director, w

riter, and deviser of new work.

Recent directing credits include the world premiere

of Katori Hall’s Hurt Village at the Signature Theatre

Spunk (California Shakespeare Juan and John

Illmatic

Blues for Mr. Charlie and Yerm

a Blood Dazzler

Burnt Sugar Freaks the Jam

es Brown Songbook (The Apollo Theater

Girl Shake Loose Her Skin w

ith Sonia Sanchez, Zakiyyah Alexander and Im

ani Uzuri. As Associate Director of

Fela! on Broadway, she coached Patti LaBelle in the role

of Funmailayo. She co-founded Angela’s Pulse w

ith her sister, choreographer Palom

a McGregor. Patricia attended

the Yale School of Drama w

here she was a Paul and D

aisy Soros Fellow

and Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret.

Susan McKeow

nis a D

ublin-born singer-songwriter. H

er most recent

album Singing in the Dark features lyrics from

poets w

ho were w

riting through the lens of depression, mania

Roethke, Anne Sexton, and Leonard Cohen. She is a Gram

my aw

ard-winning vocalist and BBC Folk Aw

ard

realms of w

orld music and rock. She has perform

ed w

ith Pete Seeger, Natalie Merchant and The K

lezmatics.

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Jerica McK

inneysophom

ore at Soldan International Studies High School.

She is a mem

ber of the YMCA, M

atthew D

ickey’s Boys &

Girls Club, and Fight Cancer Support Group. Her plans

are to become an RN

.

Trudy Meehan

(Grahamstow

n, Eastern Cape,

In Ireland she worked as a clinical psychologist in the public health system

. Two years ago she moved to South

Africa where she is currently working as a senior lecturer

in Rhodes University Departm

ent of Psychology. Trudy teaches narrative therapy and com

munity psychology

and is interested in the intersection between performance

and identity construction as well as the connection between the individual and the com

munity. She holds

schizophrenia dear to her heart and has an interest in the perform

ance into and out of psychiatric identity.

Jeremy M

elendezjunior Theater m

ajor at Buffalo State College. He is

from New

York City and is a mem

ber of Wonder W

olf Productions. Past credits include Julius Caesarand The Stepm

otherare to explore film

acting and move to Los Angeles.

Emily M

endelsohntheatre director based in New

York, Los Angeles and

Uganda and is a five-year collaborator in IGSC/CalArts/Brow

n University summ

er exchanges to Rwanda and

Uganda. Her w

ork includes an East African production of D

eborah Asiimw

e’s Cooking Oil (National Theater

Elizabeth Spackmen’s sky like sky (National Art Festival,

Skeltukus (Arts Printing

Ugandan/American production of Erik Ehn’s M

aria Kizito as part of his Soulographie: Our Genocides (La

of Place project in Tioga, Pennsylvania. She is the director of the Castillo Theatre production of Children of Killers by Katori H

all. She earned her M.F.A. from

California Institute of the Arts and teaches at Vassar’s Pow

erhouse Theatre Program.

Nilton M

endeshis M

.A. in Applied Linguistics from the Post-

Graduation Program of Applied Linguistics, PU

C-SP. His

dissertation is on Performance and Oral Skills in English

as a Foreign Language. He is part of the research group

led by Fernanda Liberali and Maria Cecília M

agalhães. M

endes has been an English teacher for many years

and also has experience in Pedagogical Coordination in Language Schools and in Coordinator’s Education through the Extension Program

from CO

GEAE, PUC-SP.

Rafael Mendez

a large group social therapy practice in Manhattan and

Brooklyn. Rafael is the host of the Brooklyn Social Therapy Group’s Com

munity Conversation Series. He co-leads

the Developmental Philosophy Group. He is the co-editor,

with Lois Holzm

an, of Psychological Investigations: A Clinician’s Guide to Social Therapy, a com

pendium of

conversations with social therapy founder Fred New

man.

Rafael is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Psychology at Bronx Com

munity College. He served as

a clinical fellow at Harvard M

edical School and Boston Children’s Hospital and received his doctorate in Clinical Com

munity Psychology from

Boston University.

Brigid Mitchel

Developm

ent Officer at All Stars Project, Inc., responsible for fundraising for All Stars Project’s innovative afterschool program

s, producing special events and supervising the Get Organized and Lead

New York. Brigid w

as born and raised in a small tow

n in w

estern Colorado. A lifelong performer, Brigid graduated

with H

igh Honors from

the University of Colorado at Boulder College of M

usic with a Bachelor of M

usic degree in Vocal Perform

ance. She started as a GOAL sum

mer intern and has been an All Star for three years.

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llison Monaco

Theater major at Buffalo State College. She is from

Buffalo, N

Y. Past Credits include Working (Stage

and join the Peace Corps.

Vanda Monocco

actress and writer w

ho lives in Stockholm. She has served

as Associate Professor of Drama at Università Orientale

di Napoli and as Visiting Professor at the University of California Berkeley. H

er acting career includes roles in

actor in Ingmar Bergm

an’s films and stage perform

ances, has been an im

portant mentor. She is the originator

of Emotion Theater and Art Director at the Relational

Medicine Foundation. H

er research and activity as actress, director and teacher is aim

ed to improve a useful

emotions-based com

munication.

Kevin Moore

years of experience working in the arts field and has

to joining TCG, Mr. M

oore served as the managing

director for Arizona Theatre Company, a LORT theatre

held various positions with Arizona Theatre Com

pany, including m

arketing director, general manager and

associate managing director before becom

ing managing

various capacities for the Herberger Theater Center

in Phoenix, Historic New

Harm

ony in Indiana, the Cincinnati Arts Association and the Atlanta Sym

phony Orchestra. M

r. Moore holds a BA from

Furman

University in Greenville, SC. In addition, Mr. M

oore has served on panels for the National Endow

ment for the

Arts, the Arizona Comm

ission on the Arts and TCG and has been a guest lecturer at Arizona State University and Colum

bia University.

David N

ackman

Creative Director of Perform

ance of a Lifetime, an

organizational change company that develops people

and organizations through the art of performance.

A professional actor and director, David is a strong

believer in, and passionate advocate of, applied theater and im

provisation for professional and personal developm

ent. His w

ork as an actor has taken him

from Broadw

ay to theatrical appearances before

Psychological Association. As an artistic associate at the

City, he serves as resident acting coach and is a mem

ber of the directing staff and acting ensem

ble.

Saliha Nelson

organizational development serving as Vice President

of URGEN

T, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to em

powering young minds to transform

their

comm

unities. Ms. Nelson’s accom

plishments include

recognition as one of South Florida’s Freedom’s Sisters by

Ford Motor Com

pany Foundation and as one of South Legacy

magazine. She received her B.S. in Social Policy and

Education from Northwestern University and recently

completed an M

.S.Ed. in Comm

unity and Social Change at the University of M

iami.

Shedia Asiya N

elsonArtistic D

irector of URGEN

T, Inc. She has extensive training in best practice youth developm

ent, arts and prevention curriculum

s. She utilizes her creativity and passion to challenge youth to m

ove beyond their com

fort zone and access their hidden talents to guide them

through their passage to adulthood. Ms. Nelson is

a published poet, spoken word artist. Also, her talents

include stage and screen writing, creative w

riting, and W

est and South African dance and song. Ms. Nelson

received a B.A. in Comm

unications from H

awai`i Pacific

University and is a former m

ember of Up w

ith People, an international perform

ance company.

Peter Nsubuga

accountant but switched professions to try to help

children and young people in his comm

unity in

and empow

ers vulnerable children (orphans, abused,

citizenship through performance in education, health

and music. All these are self-help project com

ponents focusing tow

ards social and economic em

ancipation of local com

munities. Peter joined ESI through a friend in

the UK; he is very grateful and feels he has acquired the

tools from ESI to use to help the w

orld.

Windapo O

luwagbem

igais an actor, dancer and director. H

e is a mem

ber of the National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts

presented papers at many local and international

conferences. Married, he currently heads the Theatre

Arts Departm

ent at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Lagos, Nigeria.

J.B.Opdycke

as producer for Castillo’s improv show

The Gayggles,

the Elevator” in Fred Newm

an’s production of Heiner

Müller’s The Task, and was involved in eleven Castillo

productions as a sound technician, stagehand, set builder, and actor. H

e launched his improv career as a perform

er in This is Your Ridiculous Life!!!of developm

ent for IndependentVoting.org, the strategy center for the independent political m

ovement.

Beth Osnes

Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Colorado. She is developing a m

ethodology specific to gender equity in clean energy developm

ent, using theatre as a tool to include the voices of w

omen living

in poverty in the planning and implem

entation of developm

ent projects in Panama, Guatem

ala, India and the Navajo Nation. Beth is the faculty advisor for Perform

ers Without Borders, a student group at the

University of Colorado, Boulder. She is working w

ith Eagle Energy and University H

ill Roots and Shoots in her w

ork using theatre on the Navajo Nation.

Mark Pagano

songwriter, touring m

usician and educator living in St. Louis, M

O. Since graduating with a B.A. in Religious

has found a myriad of opportunities to m

ake and share m

usic with diverse populations. Through his travels he

with the International Playground Refugee Perform

ing Arts Ensem

ble, creating several original productions using m

usic, theatre and dance. The group was

comprised of teenagers from

diverse countries such as Bhutan, Kenya, Liberia, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Cuba.

Susan Parentiand playw

right living in Urbana, Illinois; she teaches at the School for D

esigning a Society. She received her doctorate in M

usic Composition from

the University of Illinois w

here she studied with com

poser and social change activist H

erbert Brun. With Brun and other

conspirators she has founded the Performers’ W

orkshop Ensem

ble, House Theater, and School for D

esigning a Society. Tw

o books of her writings in language have

The Politics of the Adjective “Political” and other Plays, and I and M

y Mouth and Their

Irresistible Life in Language. She tours and lectures w

ith Patch Adams on the connections betw

een social change, com

position, and health care delivery systems.

Her interest is in contributing to society by m

aking com

positions; her continued research is in creating contexts w

herein composition is seen as a contribution.

Andy Parker

Castillo Theatre in This is Your Ridiculous Life!!, Stealin’ Hom

e (A Baseball Fantasy), Music to M

ake a Revolution by, and Castillo on M

y Mind, and he perform

s offstage as Castillo’s production coordinator. Other credits include Epione

And The Pursuit of H

appinessDracularam

aYoung Tom

EdisonLive Naked Aliens!

Deep Stories: From the Notebooks of Richard

Foreman

infamous Carm

el Car ad playing almost daily on N

YC cable stations.

Mariana Soledad Loya Parra

(Cuidad

of Techo Comunitario, a non-profit organization in

areas in the city. Techo Comunitario prioritizes early

childhood and child development w

ith a human rights

perspective, which enables the organization to develop

and foster important program

s and strategies to help fight inequality and elevate the indicators of w

ell being in the com

munity.

Maria Regina dos Passos Pereira

degree in Education Psychology from PU

C-SP, an M

.B.A. in Education Managing and is currently a

doctorate’s student in Applied Linguistics at PUC-SP.

She currently works as a general supervisor at Aprender

Publisher and also works in the educational section

of the Publisher, with teachers’ education. She is the

author of one preschool book and coordinates and teaches a post-graduation course at University 7 de Setem

bro in Fortaleza.

Craig Pattison

teacher. Previously to coming on full tim

e Craig w

orked with Theatre for a New

Audience and The Irish Repertory Com

pany as an actor and appeared at the Am

erican Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, D

enver Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and

in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Julius Caesar.

Samantha Peller

State Licensed and Board Certified Psychotherapist/

working in healthcare, education and creative

industries. A former m

usical theater actress with over

entrepreneur, Samantha started a sm

all psychotherapy practice serving children and adults. She also recently participated in First Select Consulting’s CM

BA program

where she trained w

ith professionals from top M

BA

small businesses and leading business and leadership

presentations. She recently created a growing business

venture, Left-Brained Business Skills for Right-Brained People, to provide creative professionals business skills to start sm

all-businesses.

Betsi Pendrythe D

irector of the Living Together Institute, based in

creative, performatory processes to engage com

munities

in creating new perform

ances of being creative citizens, especially on issues of dem

ocratic development, H

IV/

AIDS, sexual health and rights and national healing.

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a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the Post-Graduate

Program of Applied Linguistics, PU

C-SP (the Pontific

by the research Group Linguagem em

Atividade no

Tony Peronecandidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. H

is research focuses on the life-span presence, developm

ent, and benefits of im

aginative play activity and the role of im

provisational theater activities in formal and inform

al learning environm

ents and in teacher education. He also

and has worked as a co-creator of ESL teacher education

Robin PostAssistant Professor in the D

epartment of Theatre

supervisor of the comm

unity engagement program

InterACT, an interactive theatre program

established at

performance. Through the leadership and training

of Kelly Hunter, a leading actress with the Royal

Shakespeare Company, Robin w

ill direct a new program

that w

ill bring Shakespeare and the Hunter Heartbeat

Method to children w

ith autism.

Stephanie Pulfordfreelance editor and w

riter, as well as a Ph.D. candidate

in Mechanical Engineering at U

C Davis. H

er professional interests include statistics, m

athematical m

odeling, and m

aking science more accessible through better

comm

unication. Her unprofessional interests include

ukulele, roller-skating and rowdiness.

Michael Pulsford

(Thornbury, Victoria,

years in Battlesnake, a Melbourne, Australia free-rock

trio who apply techniques derived from

free jazz while

using a harmonic, rhythm

ic and melodic language

derived from rock m

usic. He studied psychology and

anthropology at the University of Adelaide, and sound art at RM

IT University. He teaches Perform

ance and Live Art to sound art and sculpture students at RM

IT University in the School of Fine Art.

Syed Rahm

aneconom

ist and theatre activist from Bangladesh w

ho

the practice of social therapy. Syed’s understanding of poverty began in his childhood, and m

eeting with

diverse people around the world has given him

the spirit

to facilitate a way of thinking for better living. H

e is one of the co-founders of the TREE Foundation. Presently he

in the Business Administration D

epartment of D

affodil International University in Bangladesh. At this point, he is w

orking on credit slavery and psycho-economic

therapy for better living.

Federica Raia

Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Inform

ation Studies and in the Departm

ent of

As a complex system

researcher, Federica works on

developing a theoretical framew

ork for studying and analyzing how

we approach com

plex systems.

Specifically, her research focuses on the type of explanation w

e accept and the role concepts of causality play in understandings com

plex systems. She utilizes a

critical complex theoretical fram

ework to understand

interactions between physician and patient; students

and teacher; and a person and the natural world he/

she studies.

Dipendra R

awat

has been working in the field of theatre, education

workshops and productions w

ith children and teachers on theatre skills and personality developm

ent for schools and organizations of international repute

the Sahitya Kala Parishad (Academy of Art, Culture

on Theatre in School Curriculum, and designed and

conducted innovative workshops on stress m

anagement,

personality development, fam

ily bonding and com

munication skills through theatre therapy w

ith corporate and governm

ent organizations. Dipendra is a

founding mem

ber of the theatre group TREE.

Chris Reym

anaccordionist, com

poser, improviser and educator living

he currently teaches at Millikin University in D

ecatur, IL and the Com

munity Center for the Arts in Urbana,

IL. Though he performs in m

any musical contexts, his

passion lies in improvisation and the m

erging of art, perform

ance, education and contemplative practice.

In an ongoing collaboration with dancer Sandra Paola

improvisation, creativity and play, w

hich has resulted in developing several classes and perform

ances.

Alison R

heingoldPh.D., is a lecturer in the Education D

epartment at the

University of New H

ampshire. H

er research examines

the social, cultural and organizational contexts of

learning. One of her specific interests is examining

assessment practices from

a sociocultural perspective. She has taught in public schools, led w

ilderness trips for adolescents and currently teaches soon-to-be public school teachers.

Marian R

ichactivist, actress, com

edian and trainer. A founding m

ember of the All Stars Project’s Castillo Theatre,

she has performed in dozens of productions. A

performance experience and currently appears in

Castillo’s musical im

prov troupe, The Proverbial Loons. A skilled teacher, M

arian chairs the Improv D

epartment

at UX, the All Stars’ school for developm

ent. She coaches and trains executives in the use of perform

ance as a tool for professional developm

ent.

Andrea R

ienietsa com

poser, songwriter and m

usical director for theatre, film

, dance, circus, contemporary choirs and

for-comm

unity cultural development projects. She

and her work has been featured in and produced by

major festivals throughout Australia and by the Finnish

National Opera. She has directed contemporary youth

and indigenous choirs, facilitates youth philanthropy, and w

as the first Australian musician to be a guest of

the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions. Rieniets leads the Kids Thrive In Schools Philanthropy program

, and teaches songwriting for social change.

Catherine Rogersplayw

right and performer w

ho appeared most recently

in her piece The Sudden Death of Everyone at Dixon

where she taught playw

riting as a Fulbright guest artist. Sudden Death w

as directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, w

ith Maxine Kern as dram

aturg. Catherine’s work has

been seen at Diverse City N

YC (Ching Valdes, Michael

Four Saints/Three Acts

Wom

en’s Project, and Cleveland Public Theatre. She was

Columbia University.

Charles Rojzm

ana renow

ned French social psychologist, author, and international consultant to local, national and international groups and organizations in the public and non-profit sectors. The goal of his w

ork, which

begins with group dialogues and leads to transform

ative action, is to foster the practice and theory of healthy m

ulticultural and multi-ethnic dem

ocracies. Termed in

work aim

s to transform institutions by helping people

address the hatred and violence that separate them

and prevent them from

working together. Rojzm

an

has worked tow

ard institutional and social change in the fields of education, social w

ork, criminal justice,

and conflict resolution and reconciliation. This work

has taken him to m

ost European countries, the United States, Russia, Rw

anda, Central and Latin America.

Rojzman is a prolific w

riter, author and co-author of ten published books, plus chapters in several edited books, and num

erous articles in newspapers and m

agazines.

Vera Lúcia Rolim Salles

is an Adjunct Professor II in the Departm

ent of Social Com

munication of the Federal University of M

aranhão - U

FMA, and has a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from

the

in Comm

unication Sciences, both from the School of

Comm

unication and Arts, University of São Paulo (ECA/

Ellen Rosenberghas been a faculty m

ember in Theater H

istory, Creative

A seasoned professor and AEA actor, she is also Co-Artistic D

irector of New Yiddish Rep in New

York City. She is a veteran artist and w

orkshop leader in the use of ritual to enhance personal identity and com

munity connection in cultural, educational and

comm

unity environments. H

er recent performance and

scholarly focus is helping to create connections for new

which is threatened w

ith attenuation if not extinction.

Eugênia de Carvalho Rossatto (São Paulo,

degree in Psychoanalysis and Multifocal Intelligence

from Evangelical University of Goiania and Brasilia

with em

phasis on teachers’, coordinators’ and principals’ education. She has worked as the D

irector of Education, Regional Board of Education at Freguesia do Ó /

Municipal Im

plementation Program

s Read and Write

Nicole Rothenbühler

is a certified TST trainer and has worked w

ith Charles

U.S.. She mainly applies TST to individual and fam

ily group therapy.

Shabar RouseTheater m

ajor at Buffalo State College. He is from

Buffalo, N

Y and is a mem

ber of Casting Hall Productions. Past

credits include When the W

alls Come Dow

n - Truth Enron, I’m

Not Leaving, F.B.E.

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mas. Shabar would like to graduate

and move to New

York City to begin auditioning.

Claudia G

il Ryckebusch

has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the Post-

Graduate Program of Applied Linguistics at the Pontific

worked w

ith teachers’ education in graduation courses, and currently w

orks in the field of child education as a full professor. She is also a researcher at LACE - research group in Applied Linguistics from

the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo.

Carrie SackettExecutive D

irector of Boys’ & Girls’ Tow

ns of Italy. For over tw

o decades, Carrie has worked for and volunteered

with innovative, com

munity-based non-profits (All

Stars Project, independentvoting.org, TRP, Developm

ent

thousands to participate in humanistic causes across

the United States, Italy and Namibia, Africa. In her

corporate career, Carrie led strategic and organizational change projects and built com

munication strategies

ground-breaking Deloitte Film

Festival, an employee

engagement initiative.

Lisa Safranof Reading and W

riting Come Alive and ow

ner of Im

prov Consultants, provides professional and staff developm

ent workshops around the w

orld to dem

onstrate how to use im

provisation to build strong

teaching experience in the U.S. and internationally, Lisa has served as a m

entor to new teachers and as a

master and supervising teacher to student teachers. Lisa

practices that support the different learning styles of all students, supporting second language literacy developm

ent in English learners, and professional developm

ent and teacher education.

Sanyukta SahaProgram

Coordinator for Arts Education with Aga

Khan Developm

ent Network’s Humayun’s Tom

b-Sunder Nursery-H

azrat Nizamuddin Basti Urban Renew

al Initiative for the past two and a half years. An Inlaks Foundation scholar, she has an M

.A. in Theatre and

Actors’ Fellowship Program

with the Kennedy Center for

Performing Arts and has been part of a fem

inist activist theatre group called Pandies’ in Delhi for the last seven years.

Yumi Sakazum

eis a graduate student of teacher education at Hyogo

cooperative learning in English education. In particular,

she is studying cooperative learning by Kagan structure. She is also interested in teaching English through dram

a. She recently published a paper about an analysis of foreign language activities from

the viewpoint of

be a teacher in elementary school next year.

Cathy Rose Salitspent her life as an onstage perform

er as well as

an educational pioneer and social entrepreneur, launching innovative businesses and organizations designed as centers for change, learning and grow

th. She is the CEO of Perform

ance of a Lifetime w

ww.

performanceofalifetim

e.com, an organizational change

company that develops people and organizations

through the art of performance. She relates to all team

s and organizations as theatrical ensem

bles, which have

the capacity to create new, varied, and collaborative perform

ances both with one another and w

ith their clients. Cathy is an accom

plished singer, actress, director, and im

provisational comic and is an artistic associate

with the Castillo Theatre, and a m

ember of the m

usical im

prov comedy show, The Proverbial Loons.

Jacqueline Salitinnovative political organizer and strategist; TV

and radio com

mentator; perform

er and author. In her recently published book, Independents Rising, Salit shares lively and incisive stories about her decades of

she made her acting debut at the Castillo Theatre in

Sally and Tom

(The American W

ay). Salit’s political and historical acum

en and her unique location in independent politics put her on the cutting edge of culture change in Am

erica.

Francisca Nunes M

ota Salvador (São

PUC-SP. She w

orked as a Portuguese and writing teacher

in several educational segments (elem

entary, high school and college entrance exam

ination preparatory

Goias and Espírito Santo, Brazil. She is the founder, current director and teacher of Instituto D

inâmico,

provided unique services regarding elementary and

high school students’ language and critical-reflexive developm

ent. The project aims at encouraging reading

and writing through several discourse genres (based

Paixão pela Arte (Passion for Art), a collection of plays w

ritten and perform

ed by Instituto Dinâm

ico students.

Camila Santiago

attending a masters program

in Applied Linguistics

at the Pontific Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-

different language institutes, but focused the last four years on teaching children a second language. She has been w

orking as a languages, linguistics and scientific m

ethodology professor at the Methodist University of

courses. In a socio-historical-cultural perspective, her interests and research concerns are related to the critical collaboration in long distance learning contexts, teachers’ and teacher educators’ developm

ent, m

ulticultural education and Portuguese and English teaching-learning processes.

Richard Schechner

is one of the pioneers of Performance Studies. A

scholar and director, he is University Professor of Perform

ance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New

York University and Editor of TDR: The Journal of Perform

ance Studies. He is the author of Public

Domain, Environm

ental Theatre, The End of Humanism

, Perform

ance Theory, Between Theatre and Anthropology,

The Future of Ritual and Performance Studies: An

Introduction. His books have been translated into

German, Italian, Hungarian and Bulgarian. H

e is the general editor of the W

orlds of Performance series

published by Routledge. Schechner was the producing

director of the Free Southern Theatre and the founding director of both The Perform

ance Group and East Coast Artists. H

e has directed and/or conducted performance

workshops in the U

SA, Asia, Africa, Latin America,

Australia, and Europe.

Ursel Schlicht

internationally active pianist, improviser, com

poser, scholar and educator. Core ideas of her w

ork as an im

proviser are to use improvisation to transcend

boundaries, as in her current project SonicExchange

collaborations as in her project Ex Tempore. She has

taught many im

provisation workshops, classes, courses

and ensembles, has published about im

provisation, and has designed the course M

usical Improvisation at

and Gender at Ramapo College and M

usic Humanities

at Columbia University.

Seret Scottdozen productions at The Old Globe as an Associate

Mam

moth, Studio Theatre, South Coast Rep, A.C.T.,

Long Wharf, H

artford Stage, Actors Theatre-Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare, D

enver Center, Court Theatre, Indiana Rep, Philadelphia Theatre Com

pany, National

Pacific Playwrights, Eugene O’Neill, N

Y Stage and

Film, Sundance, New

Harm

ony, New D

ramatists. Seret

authored Second Line,Theatre and W

ashington, DC’s Atlas Theatre.

Denisa Sehnalkova

a sophomore Theater m


New York City. Past credits include Spring

AwakeningTw

elfth Night Arabian Nights

and some original productions. D

enisa would like to

continue studying theater and hopefully get in to the lighting aspect of it as w

ell as acting.

Dr. Prativa Sengupta

Psychologist and Managing Com

mittee M

ember of

SEVAC. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the

social therapy from the East Side Institute. She joined

the orientation program of Fountain H

ouse, regarding the developm

ent of Clubhouse. Dr. Sengupta joined

has been dedicatedly working for the cause of people

with m

ental illness. She is also a fellow of the Indian

Association for Social Psychiatry and a mem

ber of the Indian Psychiatric Society.

Lewis Sepulveda

Theater and Public Comm

unication. He is from

the Bronx, N

Y and is the President of The Lens magazine, a m

ember

of Adelante Estudantes Latinos and a mem

ber of Casting H

all Productions. Past credits include Twelfth Night Grapes of W

rathM

iles Davis Dance Concert, Earth W

ind and Fire Dance Concert, Enron, Fitness Kids

Hard Cell

Derick Sherrier

Theater major at Buffalo State College. H

e is from

Brooklyn, NY and is a m

ember of Violet, the Caribbean

Students Organization, Chi Alpha Epsilon National H

onors Society and Casting Hall Productions. Past

credits include Anything Goes, Myth of M

iles, Exonerated, Fantastic Voyage, I’m

Not Leaving, Enron, Laramie

Project and Alternative Dim

ensions. Derick’s future

plans include auditioning, traveling, doing movies,

plays, television shows and com

mercials, and eventually

opening a youth theater company.

Am

ir Shpilman

a composer, a visionary for the advancem

ent of contem

porary music and collaboration, and the

Founder and Artistic Director of Ensem

ble Moto

and development of a cohesive system

of psychological tools and organizational support to overcom

e artistic challenges and conflicts. Such environm

ents propel each individual’s creative and personal artistic im

print, acting as an em

powering catalyst for the entire group.

Shpilman’s new

est work, Darkness, com

missioned by

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hile, he is working on a new

opera with librettist

Genevieve Sim

ona junior attending Ohio State University m

ajoring in Theatre and Germ

an. She has been a Red Cross certified W

ater Safety Instructor for four years and is a Teaching Artist w

ith the Columbus Children’s Theatre. She has

most recently perform

ed in such shows as M

arat/Sade, M

atchmaker, Living Out, and Spring Awakening.

Genevieve is a recurring mem

ber of InterACT, a theatrical ensem

ble using techniques from Theatre of

the Oppressed, and a mem

ber of an ensemble using the

Hunter Heartbeat M

ethod that works in collaboration

with the Royal Shakespeare Com

pany and The Nisonger Center for Excellence in D

evelopmental D

isabilities to bring Shakespeare to children w

ith autism.

Bojana Skorcand professor of psychology at Belgrade University of Arts and Faculty of Physics. From

the beginning of the civil w

ar in ex-Yugoslavia, she has worked w

ith Zdravo da ste, a Serbian nongovernm

ental organization for refugees and displaced people in w

ar and post-war

social contexts. She actively participated in reforms

of the education system, the system

of social care institutions, poverty reduction strategy and innovative youth program

s. Her activities are focused on hum

an developm

ent and interactive building of innovative education approaches.

Julia Smith


Orchard Park, N

Y and is a mem

ber of Casting Hall Productions.

Past credits include The Children’s HourJulius Caesar

I’m Not Leaving

EnronW

orking (Delores Dante, Amanda

Perla Daniela Solis Sanchez (Ciudad

and in comm


Bogdan Spanjevicgraduate dram

aturg, playwright and screenw

riter. He

experience in advertising and new m

edia. He received

many dom

estic and several international awards in

the field of comm

unications while designing and

developing comm

unication for different clients. Bogdan is currently engaged in developing pervasive gam

es in social contexts and gam

e-based learning. He is an active

mem

ber and current dramaturg at ApsArt.

Holly Spinelli

teacher and an advisor at an alternative public high school in New

York City. She studied English and

Comm

unication and Media Studies as an undergraduate

at Fordham University. She has an M

.A. in Teaching from

New York University’s Steinhardt School of

Education and she is currently completing an M

. A. at the Bread Loaf School of English at M

iddlebury College. M

ost of her curriculum focuses on involving students in

social justice and project-based learning initiatives.

Frank Spitznagel graduate of the Boston Conservatory of M

usic. His

national tours include Peter Pan, A Chorus Line and Evitashow

s — from

Annie to Zorba. Frank was m

usical director for the Chicago City Lim

its resident company

for nine years, and went on to play m

any improv classes

and all the famous N

YC improv venues. H

is work has

been seen and heard on Comedy Central, in the Aspen

Comedy Festival, and in several indie film

s. Frank has perform

ed with Itzhak Perlm

an and scores of Broadway

stars, and is the accompanist for the Lincoln Center

The Proverbial Loons at Castillo Theatre (being a bit

Mayra Stergiou

Dram

a Therapist in the UK and a physical theatre

performer (London International School of Perform

ing

facilitator with vulnerable groups of children, young

people and adults in various educational, comm

unity and prison settings in Greece, the U

K and other counties. She is currently perform

ing as puppeteer/deviser w

ith the Lecoq-based theatre company Out of

Chaos. Her research interests are Em

bodied Dream

work

with actors and non-actors and the integration of

healing into contemporary perform

ance practices.

Pamela Sterling

an Associate Professor of Theatre at Arizona State University w

here the courses she teaches include Theatre for Social Change and Playw

riting. She is also a professional director and actor. New

play development

credits include the Kennedy Center’s New Visions/New

Voices program

, the Bonderman New

Play Symposium

, and the W

harton Center Young Playwrights Festival.

Pamela has devised theatre w

ith diverse groups in academ

ic, professional and comm

unity settings. She is creator and director of (D

is)Orientation, an annually

Arizona State University freshman on all four ASU

cam

puses during Fall Welcom

e Week.

Diane Stiles

production for the All Stars Project, where she oversees

the theatrical productions and operations of the Castillo Theatre, and directs the aw

ard-winning Talented

Volunteers program. As Castillo’s m

anaging director, she supervises budgeting, fundraising, and all aspects of

Castillo’s productions and creative activity. She has been

as a visual artist, Diane has devoted her adult life to

political activism and the art of com

munity-building at

Castillo/All Stars.

Christopher Stow

ellis a senior Theater m

ajor at Buffalo State College. He

is from W

atertown, N

Y and is a mem

ber of Casting H

all Productions and Friday Night Live. Past credits include The Shape of Things

Julius Caesar

Fuddy Meers

EnronAlternative D

imensions (Lighting

The ExoneratedW

orking (Rex

like to find a job doing some sort of technical theater.

Elizabeth Sullivan-Mazzei (Bronx, N

Y,

Legacy co-founder, Elizabeth has been practicing interdisciplinary arts all her life. She is experienced in m

ulti-cultural arts and theater performance arts as a

musician, singer, actress, photographer and m

ovement

artist. Working at several different organizations and

educational projects such as Amherst Regional H

igh

Chicopee, and Capacidad afterschool and summ

er program

s, Elizabeth works to provide services for

emerging and established artists to hone their craft

while perfecting her art in perform

ance and more.

William

Huizhu Sun

a Professor at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and

a Consortium Editor of TDR. H

e holds an M.A.

and published scholar. His books include Theatre in

Construction and Deconstruction, Conflicts on Stage and Clash of Civilizations, and Social Perform

ance Studies.

Canada, and the UK. Sun’s plays such as The Old B

Hanging on the W

all, China Dream and Chinese operas

Hedda Gabler, King Oedipus, and Miss Julie have been

His m

ajor research interests are social performance

studies, intercultural theatre, and theatre narratology.

Alexandra Sutherland

(Grahamstow

n, South

University, South Africa. Her teaching, research, and

comm

unity engagement activities focus broadly on

Applied Theatre and the meaning of perform

ance in diverse contexts. H

er projects have included drama w

ith and for youth at risk; the processes involved in teaching, learning and research through dram

a; and performance

pedagogy in relation to identity. Her applied theatre

work has included theatre and science projects, theatre

by and for street children, theatre as a catalyst for heritage studies, and exam

ining performative notions

of gender in relation to HIV

/AIDS. H

er current practical and research focus involves the social and aesthetic m

eanings of performance for m

ale prisoners in a South African context.

Aja Sw

ayneat Kirkw

ood High School w

here she plays in the Sym

phonic Orchestra, and is a mem

ber of the track

Marketing &

Managem

ent.

Willa J. Taylor

Director of Education and Com

munity Engagem

ent for Chicago’s Goodm

an Theatre. She has worked as

producer, production coordinator, and stage manager for

theatre, opera, radio and television, and has developed educational program

s for Washington’s Arena Stage

and New York’s Public Theatre. As Education D

irector at Lincoln Center Theatre in New

York, her work

included programm

ing for the inaugural season of the New

Victory Theater and the Broadway production

of The Diary of Anne Frank starring Natalie Portm

an. A U.S. Navy veteran, M

s. Taylor has an M.F.A. in Film

from

American University and a culinary degree from

Kendall College. She serves on the Board of Trustees for Season of Concern and the Adler School of Professional Psychology, and is the Theatre and Social Change Conference Planner for the Association of Theatre in H

igher Education.

Maria Lucia Teixeira da Silva

(Sao Paulo,

addition, she has a Ph.D. in Medical Physiology from

author of the book There Is a Person in This Body!, and she has authored m

any other articles in major journals

in her field.

Tieisha Thomas

junior Theater and Music m


Far Rockaway, N

Y and is a mem

ber of the Spirit Gospel Choir. Past credits include W

orking, and Their Story, Your Story, and she is also the w

inner of the Young Artists Com

petition for vocals. Tieisha’s future plans are to m

ake the stage a permanent hom

e.

Erin Threlfall

programs that used dram

a and arts to reach at-risk youth in New

York, Pennsylvania, and on the Liberian Refugee Cam

p in Ghana, West Africa, Erin w

as the recipient of the Presidential M

erit and Talent Award and

has received recognition from President George W

. Bush,

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itment to enriching lives through the arts.

Erin currently teaches at an international school in Bali, Indonesia.

Branka Tisma

and works in education. She is active in professional

networks and is Vice-President of the Serbian

Psychological Association. From the beginning of civil

war in ex-Yugoslavia, she has w

orked with Zdravo da

ste, a Serbian nongovernmental organization that w

orks w

ith refugees and displaced people in war and post-w

ar social contexts. She actively participated in reform

s of the education system

, the system of social care

institutions, poverty reduction strategy and innovative youth program

s. Her activities are focused on child

development and interactive building of innovative

education approaches.

John Ungerleider

is a professor of Conflict Transformation at the SIT

Graduate Institute in Vermont. H

e founded and directs the SIT Youth Peacebuilding and Leadership Program

s for teens from

comm

unities in conflict around the

Secret of the Seasons after

achieve an agreement for reversing global w

arming.

Without snow

on the ground, it just didn’t feel like w

inter to him in Verm

ont this year.

Erika Berenice Valles Frias

in comm


Cassia Maria V

iana Sant’Anna

(Recife,

degree in Psypedagogy from the University Institutional

of Early Childhood Education at São Paulo City Hall.

Inspired by the life and work of Professor Paulo Freire,

Cassia surrendered to the demands of education-

critical action defended by Professor Freire and his ideal of ethical and philosophical principles in hum

an relations, reciting m

onologues based on his works. She

made presentations of the m

onologue at pedagogic

Municipal Education SP.

Julie Vaudrin-Charette

(Val-des-Monts,

involved in digital storytelling, comm

unications and education. H

er work includes experiences in Senegal,

Peru, Malaw

i, and with First Nation’s Youth in Canada,

with a particular interest for youth em

powerm

ent through m

edia, arts and education. She currently works

College in Quebec.

Chris V

ineD

irector of the CUN

Y MA in Applied Theatre, the first

such program in the United States. H

e has worked in the

fields of theatre-in-education, professional comm

unity theatre and young people’s theatre. H

e was a founding

mem

ber of New Perspectives Theatre Com

pany, England, and the Artistic D

irector of Greenwich Young

People’s Theatre, London. Chris’s work has taken him

to m

any countries including Canada, the Czech Republic,

His specialties include teaching through dram

a and Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed.

Michael W

agnersophom

ore Theater major at Buffalo State College. H

e is from

Lockport, NY and is a m

ember of Casting H

all Productions. Past credits include various high school and com

munity productions. M

ichael plans on earning his degree at Buffalo State and hopefully transition to film

acting.

Tom W

alkerCom

pany Mem

ber of The Living Theatre. A graduate of Yale University, Tom

is an actor, a painter, an archivist and a theatre historian. H

e joined The Living after seeing Paradise Now

Vicky W

allaceperform

ing artist and teacher. She has been studying w

ith the East Side Institute for over twenty years and

has incorporated their performance-based approach

to learning and development in all aspects of her

Andover Bread Loaf Writing W

orkshop and currently uses their approach to engage students in creative w

riting. She teachers TESOL and Dram

a at a NYC

alternative high school and is a teacher at UX, a free

school for development at the All Stars Project -

where she directs the New

Timers, a senior theatre

improv w

orkshop and Our Lives in Poetry, a creative w

riting workshop.

Adriana W

atanabea degree in Education w

ith a masters in Teaching,

Learning and Practices from the School of Education

in the City of São Paulo where she w

orks in continuing education courses for teachers, pedagogical coordinators and school principals. She has experience w

ith school

managem

ent and assessment, teacher training, teaching

and learning processes and literacy.

Helen W

hitem

ember for the CU

NY M

A in Applied Theatre. She is also the aw

ard-winning director of the CAT Youth

Theatre at the Creative Arts Team. Under her direction,

the Youth Theatre has performed at the United Nations,

International Festivals, and National conferences, w

orking with other youth theatres from

Taiwan,

Germany, Czech Republic, United Kingdom

, Zambia,

India, Palestine, Nepal, Turkey, Brazil, and Poland. She has w

orked for over twenty-five years as a director,

actor and workshop leader, creating theatre w

ith and for young people and a variety of adult com

munities in

both professional theatre and educational contexts.

Emm

y Wolfe

undecided sophomore at Buffalo State College. She is

from East Am

herst, NY, is a m

ember of the delta D

elta Phi Zeta sorority, and participates in a traveling soccer

to decide on a major and discover her interests w

hile staying involved w

ith acting.

Michael W

rentschurstudied Sociology, Educational Sciences and Econom

ics; he attended w

orkshops, courses and trainings in Theatre of the Oppressed, Lehrstückspiel, Playback, Experim

ental and Action Theatre. He w

orks as a researcher/lecturer at the University of Graz (Institute

Work, Participation, Theatre W

ork in Social Fields

been the Artistic Director of InterACT, a non-profit

theatre and social cultural organization located in Graz, Austria. H

e has facilitated and directed Forum Theatre

workshops, long-term

projects and productions around issues like poverty, hom

elessness and violence. He w

as one of the m

ain organizers of the World Forum

Theatre

Brittany Wysocki


Buffalo, N

Y, is the current Vice President of Casting H

all Productions, and is part of an Anne Frank Project Internship. Past Credits include Enron

Julius Caesar

The Laramie Project

The Stepmother

Akhilesh K

umar Yadav

(New D

elhi, Delhi,

theatre. He is a Senior Expert w

ith the National School

evolved numerous plays w

ith different educational

years. Akhilesh has designed and conducted theatre w

orkshops on adolescence, gender discrimination,

complexes and com

munication, and uses theatre to

teach college students, teachers, researchers and doctors. H

e is currently coordinating and lecturing on the paper

resource person for refresher courses. He is the Theatre

Resource Person for B.El.Ed. students and a founding m

ember of the theatre group TREE.

Ryan Young

at Clyde C. Miller Career Academ

y. This is his first year w

ith CLUB CH

IPS. He volunteers as a m

ath tutor at Langston M

iddle School. He plans to attend the

University of Kentucky.

Jenny ZakCam

paign Manager at the All Stars Project, and oversees

volunteering with the All Stars as a high school student.

While at Colum

bia University, she built and led a program

for college students to learn about the All Stars grassroots m

odel of comm

unity organizing and fundraising, and w

as brought on staff full-time

corporate luncheon.

Annick Zinck

a managem

ent consultant, trainer and clown w

ith a finance background. She studied business in France, obtained her C.P.A. and P.M

.P. in the U.S. and completed

an M.Sc. in Coaching and Consulting for Change at

HEC Paris and Oxford SBS. After eight years w

ith Pricew

aterhouseCoopers, she set up as an independent consultant helping individuals and team

s to develop and grow

in periods of change. In parallel to the corporate w

orld, Annick has continuously been developing artistic

Couette” is an absurd coach, mirroring the unthought

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