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Exchange Theatre is a bilingual cultural organisation founded in 2006 by International French-speaking artists David Furlong, Mauritian actor and director, and Fanny Dulin, French actress and producer. Initially we have been researching translations and reviving major plays from French-speaking theatrical background, seldom seen in England: Sartre, Feydeau, Molière… Moreover, we perpetuate an international vision of culture crossing borders and we are now actively engaging a multilingual, multicultural and diverse audience in all respects. The latest productions of Moliere plays for a 21st century, performed alternately in French and English with a bilingual cast, was nominated for 3 Off West End awards: Best Production, Best Director and Best Video design. Exchange Theatre offers a unique cultural hub for an ongoing exchange between Britain and Europe, Anglophone and Francophone, under threats from Brexit. We are based in our own rehearsal/office premises in London Bridge. / Interested in: Social Engagement, Translation.

Dado (one of the founders of Theatre Without Borders Network Map) comes from Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he started to perform in theatres at an early age. He has a BA in Drama and Dance from Bennington College. While studying, he worked on numerous dance concerts and theatre performances as an actor, dancer, choreographer, and lighting designer. Dado has worked with multiple theatre and production companies in the US and Ex-Yugoslavia region. He currently teaches IB Theatre Arts at United World College in Mostar and is an active member of Mostar Youth Theatre. Interested in: Peacebuilding, Social Engagement, Human Rights, Empowerement

Interests: Climate Change, Human Rights, Empowerment

Carly is a director, teaching artist, producer, and sometimes actor who is interested in enacting change through theatre. Theatre gives us the ability to empathize, communicate, and trust. She works toward social justice and equality for all genders, races, and sexual orientation in her work. Carly is the co-founding/co-artistic director of Philadelphia based women-centric, but not women exclusive theatre company, ReVamp Collective (www.revampcollective.com) Carly recieved her BA in Theatre from Temple University with a minor in Art History For more information visit www.carlylbodnar.com   Interested in: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation Company: ReVamp Collective

About Us: Acting Now is a social theatre company based in Cambridge (UK). Our goal is to transform lives through theatre. We put social, political and civic causes at the forefront of our work and devise creative drama projects that breathe life into the important social challenges facing participants and audiences alike. We use various drama techniques to engage with people who are at risk of social exclusion. We work with learning disabled people, adults with mental health challenges, the homeless and young people, among others, using theatre to reflect, explore and analyse the issues that affect them. The workshops provide a space where the participants can develop self-confidence, new skills and transform their own reality using theatre. With them, we also develop high quality plays that are performed in the local community. Acting Now has a good local and international reputation. To scale our impact we work alongside charities and local authorities and strong partnerships have been forged with a large number of community organisations (such as Rowan, Cambridge Cancer Help Centre and Wintercomfort) so as to support their service users in their future endeavours. At Acting Now we believe theatre is a platform to empower people and a great […]

Company: La MaMa Umbria International

Company: Educational Theatre in Nepal / Interested in: Social Engagement, Empowerment

I’am Namrata (Assistant professor, Department of Theater and Television, PBI University, Patiala). After my graduation (BSc.med,MDS UNIV,Ajmer) I have studied (M.A Indian Theater Department, PU, Chandigarh) and practiced theater in different capacities and with people of different age, background and culture. I can read, write and speak in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi, Marwadi, Haryanvi and orally communicate and speech train in Urdu. Presently I’am in Jaipur, Rajasthan, running my own registered Theater group and NGO by the name Khela. Please spare some to visit our Fb Page and website :www.khelatheatre.com. Theater is my passion and enriching myself with exchanges and experiences with people of diverse ethnicity, cultures and languages and performing at countries other than my own is my dream. Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation Company: www.khelatheatre.com, DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND TELEVISION, PBI UNIV, PATIALA

Deborah Brevoort is an award-winning author of plays, musicals and opera librettos. She’s best known for The Women of Lockerbie, which is produced internationally. She teaches musical theatre writing and playwriting at NYU and Columbia University. She currently serves as a mentor to the NBO Musical Theatre Initiative in Nairobi Kenya with Fred Carl and Roberta Levitow.

My most recent project was a cross-country investigation of non-profits that use the arts as a vehicle for social change. Check out my findings at: communityroutes.com Company: Freelancer Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Company: The H.E.A.T. Collective Additional Contact Information: www.jessicalitwak.com, www.heatcollective.org Intersted in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

I am a dedicated and enthusiastic creator and producer of events, specializing in the theatrical and the musical. I love being involved in every aspect of the creative process from writing/composing to conceptualizing to production and promotion. My goal in life is to create events that change the world by encouraging individual people to create individual change within themselves. I am a self-starter, globally minded and I love the collaborative involvement of being part of a team with a mission. I also love to create art, to dance, to travel and to be outdoors. Company: Island Life Productons Interested in:                             Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment    

Company: waypoints Ensemble Interested in: Social Engagement

Choreographer, Musician, Pilates and dance Teacher Interested in: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Playwright & Theatre Director. Interests: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment Company: Pundalik

Company: Cogito Productions Interested in:                                     Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Sophie Talmadge Silleck is a lighting designer for theatre and live events based in Brooklyn, New York. In May 2016, she completed her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Theatre Design and Production from Brooklyn College. Interested in: Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Interested in: Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment. / Company: Tiyatrohane

Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman are composing and performing movement-based theatre artists working professionally since the ‘70s and together since 1991, who apply complex composed structures to ordinary daily human behavior. Notated graphic scores often accompany their movement productions. In their collaborative work for theatre ‘natural-looking’ behavior is subjected to contortions, subversions and convolutions, letting ‘naturalism’ show its socially constructed face. They invent systems for organizing movement and speech in theatre, similarly to how new systems for organizing sound have been invented for composing music. Each theatre composition, utilizing a repertory of gestural-choreographic innovations invented by the duo, proposes a specific critical look at social life. These inventions include for instance a technique for the orchestration of instantaneous shifts of time and place in complex patterns, which they name ‘pivoting.’ One of their interests is to lay new ground for composing form in theatre in a way that makes ‘theatre composition’ closely analogous to music composition. In addition to performing, we are engaged with communities locally and in South Korea in projects that bring young people through the process of imagining, creating and performing their own theatre. We have been conducting residencies at the Haja Center (Seoul Youth Factory for […]

Social Engagement, Empowerment Company: thenextscene

Company: Next Iteration Theater Company Theater is action. It is dynamic, living, interactive, generative, creative. In theater, what gets under the skin, what gnaws at the bones is the intimate storytelling, the breath, the voice, the body almost within reach enacting life—mine or yours, or someone else’s in a way that provokes, causes questions to form, challenges assumptions, dares us to see more, to understand anew. In the relative safe space of the theater we are free to uncover, uncork, unveil, reveal all the nooks and crannies of our humaness. Who are we? Why are we? Do we mean it? What do we mean? Do you feel it? Are you hungry for it?” Interests: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation

Interests: Social Engagement   Company: Tijuana Hace Teatro

Interests: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment Company: Artists Legend Legacy & Projects

Housed within the Institute for Molecular Engineering, STAGE is a laboratory for developing theatre and film inspired by science and technology. We generate entertaining and emotionally engaging work that is fundamentally integrated with scientific ideas. We believe stories about science and technology can be vivid and captivating; they do not have to be science lectures disguised as plays. In the STAGE Lab, an international array of distinguished artists, scientists, and students from all disciplines come together to create world-class theatrical work relevant to the lives we lead – lives influenced by sophisticated technological and scientific advances.

Hope Sings creates original songs inspired by success stories from causes/charities that help women and children to support the powerful work done by those organizations and inspire more change in the world. Interests: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment Company: Hope Sings

Interests: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Company: Semnar Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Empowerment    

Interests: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation Company: Artitude Inc.

Giovanni Ortega made his debut on the East West Players stage in 2005 playing the role of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos in the hit musical Imelda. In 2011, Ortega wrote ALLOS, the story of Carlos Bulosan, which was commissioned by East West Players for its Theater for Youth Program. The following year, Chicago’s CIRCA Pintig Theater Company produced it as part of Migrant Stories. During the same time, East West Players included an excerpt of his work in its Theater for Youth touring production Our American Voice. ALLOS was also produced by LA18 for Kababayan Today where he also serves as a Kulturahan correspondent for Art, Activism and Academia. Additional works include: Tug of War (PINTIG), Wayne (Pasadena Playhouse) and Lost in the Margins (Mezçlão). His directing credits include East West Players’ New Works Festival and productions at Pomona College including Medieval Mystery Plays, Spring Awakening, In the Next Room and Urinetown (April 2016). His acting credits include Romance of Magno Rubio at Inside the Ford (LA Weekly nomination) and Dogeaters at Center Theatre Group. Giovanni has performed for over 300 organizations, universities and prisons (P.E.P.) with various one-person shows including Playfair. Choreography credits include: Tea, with Music (East West […]

Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment / Company: Showtime Performing Arts Academy

Choreographer

Simone is currently a student at FSU School of Theater. / Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation

Jersey City Theater Center / Interested in: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation

Interests: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation

Giulia is a visual artist, set|light|video designer and a performer artist. / Interested in: Climate Change, Human Right

Theatre producer and venue manager with an interest for new and interesting work. Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Evren Odcikin is a San Francisco-based director and producer. He has worked at South Coast Rep, the Lark (NYC), NNPN Showcase, Magic Theatre, Golden Thread Productions, Crowded Fire, Cutting Ball, Aurora Theatre, Impact Theatre, foolsFURY, and Playwrights Foundation with such writers as Mona Mansour, Yussef El Guindi, Kevin Artigue, Eugenie Chan, Christopher Chen, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, Prince Gomolvilas, Garret Groenveld, David Jacobi, Nick Nanna Mwaluko, and Torange Yeghiazarian, amongst many others. He is the Director of New Plays and Marketing at Golden Thread Productions, where he leads all new play activities, including the annual New Threads reading series. odcikin.com Company: Golden Thread Productions Interested in: Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation

Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Member of the board of directors at the Union of Bahrain Theaterists Association as head of Public Relations and Media. Member of the board of directors at the Alreef Theater in Bahrain.

Interested in: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Artistic Director/Producer, Attic Studios. Professor of Film Acting at New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Campus. Story Teller and Performer. Consultant working mostly with South-Eastern Africa theatre companies in Zimbabwe, Malawi and South Africa. Company: Attic Studios Interested in: Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Interests: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement Company: National Theatre Pristina

Company: Russo Producciones Interests: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Translation

Interested in:                               Peacebuilding, Social Engagement, Empowerment Company: Hope on a String  

Interests: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment Company: Forbes Center for the Performing Arts

Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Additional Information: Experience in Light Design. Company: Bennington College Interested in: Peacebuilding, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation

Matthew Hahn is an independent creative producer, playwright, theatre director and theatre for development facilitator specialising in creating theatre for social change, for examining behaviour and for improving communication skills. He works with emerging and established theatre makers and finding new ways for audiences and communities to access art through partnerships. He works both nationally and internationally and has produced work in the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Ethiopia, Malawi, Ghana, and South Africa. He is also a Senior Lecturer at St Mary’s University, London specializing in theatre for development. He is a training facilitator with Theatre for a Change, a UK charity which utilizes interactive theatre to train teachers and facilitators on the topics of gender equality and sexual and reproductive health in the United Kingdom and Malawi. As a theatre for development practitioner, he facilitates interactive and participatory theatre projects focusing on social cohesion, peace-making and conflict resolution. His play, The Robben Island Bible, has been performed in the United Kingdom, United States and South Africa; he recently facilitated an ‘Ethical Leadership’ Workshop in Soweto, South Africa based on his interviews with former South African political prisoners and selections from ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.’ Matthew […]

Interests: Peacebuilding, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation

For three decades, June has created plays and performance projects that meld fact with fiction and portray individuals caught in the fiery intersection of politics and personal dreams. A native New Yorker, her work has been performed at venues including the Kennedy Center, Abrons Arts Center/Henry Street Settlement Theatre, Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre and North Carolina Museum of Art. Interested in: Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Theatre-maker, choreographer, performer, collaborator. Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

I’m a theatre maker and facilitator who has worked internationally in a range of contexts, including in prisons, homeless shelters, schools, refugee camps and in international development contexts. I am currently researching for a phd in theatre and development at Manchester University. Company: Freelance Interested in: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Interests: Social Engagement, Translation. /   Get to know Aleksandra: https://aleksandramalivuk.weebly.com/ / Watch her: https://vimeo.com/user59344210 https://www.stage32.com/profile/603347/photos / Follow her: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandramalivuk/

I am a theatre practitioner with a background in acting and collaborative theatre-making. I come from Rzeszów, a town in South-East Poland but currently, I live and work in London. I am also a PhD student and sessional lecturer at the University of Reading where I am working on a project investigating new approaches to intercultural theatre-making. I am particularly interested in cultural identities, narratives of migration and Practice-as-Research methodology. My research and creative practice are driven by developing self and others. Interests: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation

Interested in: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement

Anil Natyaveda is a martial artist (kalari ppyattu), choreographer, dancer, teacher and from Triuvanathapuram, India. He is the Co-Director of Navarasa Dance Theater. He is one of leading exponents of Kalari ppayattu in the world. He has performed all over the world including at the Bates Dance Festival, Lincoln Center, Asian American Theater Festival, USA and Edinburgh Dance Festival, Germany International Summer Theatre Festival, Hong Kong Art Festival and Khaguraho Festival. He has also performed and taught dance classes in USA, Canada and Germany. He is a choreographer for Euripides’ play at the Theater Arts Program at the Brandeis University. Natyaveda also choreographed for Indian films including Santhosh Sivan’s Anandabadhram and for Franco Dragone’s circus show in Germany. Natyaveda is trained in classical dance forms and also in contemporary and aerial dance forms. He has a degree in dance from Sree Swathithirunal Music College, India. In 2008 the Kerala State Guru Gopinath Trust, India, honored him with the Natyaratnam award and in 2012 Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute award for his contribution to Indian arts. Critics have hailed him as an important contemporary choreographer creating original works. He co-choreographed a Greek play at the Brandeis University He was nominated for Los Angeles […]

Company: The Arctic Cycle Interested in:       Climate Change, Translation

Company: Animact Born on February 14, 1987, in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Based in Targu-Mures, Romania. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Directing, at the “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca and the MA in Playwriting at the University of Arts, Targu-Mures. In 2011, she directs “Oxigen” by Ivan Vyrypaev at the Ariel Theatre for Children and Youth, Targu-Mures. From 2012, she works as an artistic advisor at the Targu-Mures National Theatre. From May 2013, she is also coordinating the Romanian activities within the European project “Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe”. In September 2013, she is invited with her play “Moldovashop. We have everything!” at the International Theatre Festival – “Verbarium”, in Chisinau, Starting March 2014, Olga coordinates the Youth and Volunteering Programmes of the Targu-Mures National Theatre and holds a playwriting workshop with the Romanian Youth Company. In the same year, in October, she becomes a PhD. candidate at the University of Arts, Targu-Mures. In her thesis, she is researching the alternative theatre movements in the former USSR countries after the fall of the iron curtain. In July-September 2016, Olga participates in the “FreshStart” residencies at the Reactor de Creație și Experiment, Cluj-Napoca, where she writes and directs “Docuanimal”. In November 2016, she […]

I am a physical theatre practitioner influenced by the movement of nature & shadow work in found spaces. I’m interested in creating sight-specific devised work as well as deconstructing texts that explore society’s perception of gender vs. character. I studied at NYU-Tisch where I received my BFA in drama from the Experimental Theatre Wing. I’ve also lived in Philadelphia where I co-founded a women-centric theatre company, ReVamp Collective, that creates work which investigates societal constructs and aims to cultivate theatrical discourse. Recently I studied in Italy at Arts Oasis and was moved by the connections I made with artists from various locations in world. I think theatre is one of the best ways to bring the world together – through theatre we create our own communication and understanding. Company: ReVamp Collective Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment Additional Contact Information: erin@erincarr.com

Interests: Human Rights, Social Engagement Company: Krystal Puppet Theatre

Gregory Keng Strasser is a Chinese-American theatre director, writer, and producer based in Bangkok and Washington DC. As the inaugural apprentice for the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (LGPP), his theatre-making is interested in investigating journeys of the heart, epic/oral traditions, cross-cultural collaboration, adaptations, and world-building. He helmed the DC premiere of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s “410[GONE]” for Rorschach Theatre Company, winning praise from The Washington Post, DC Metro Arts, DC Theatre Scene, and MetroTimes Weekly. At 23 years old, he adapted and directed the world premiere of Emily Wilson’s translation of THE ODYSSEY for the Brighton Center for the Performing Arts. He also created THE INFINITE TALES and THE OSIRIYAN TALES, plays based on Irish and Egyptian myths respectively. He has developed numerous new plays for The Kennedy Center, the LGPP, Mosaic Theatre Company of DC, Yayasan Bali Purnati, and more. He is the recipient of a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship, an artist residency in Indonesia at Yayasan Bali Purnati, and is currently traveling to seek ways of using performance to humanize global politics. / Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation. / IG: gregory.keng.strasser

Additional Information: I am a Brazilian actress/director, currently working and studying theatre in Denmark. I am especially interested in theatre as a tool for social transformation. Interests: Social Engagement, Empowerment

Interested in: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation

Roberta Levitow is the Co-Founder and Director of Theatre Without Borders. Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation Company: Theatre Without Borders

Traveling around the world to learn about mindful movement. Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment  

I’m a freelance producer based in Budapest. My long term objective is to build brides between Eastern and Western Europe, embrace the differences within cultures and pride ourselves for being who we are. I work with a number of companies in Budapest organising international tours and exchanges that connect evoking work that transport audiences and transmit messages. I love interdisciplinary performances and bold work that reveals who we are as people. Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Birthplace: United Kingdom Interested in: Climate Change, Human Rights

Emma Goldman-Sherman’s plays have been produced in New York City by Dixon Place, 1MPF, Hudson Warehouse, Circle Rep Lab, The Women’s Project & Productions, manhattan theatre source, All Out Arts, Inc., New Georges, and others, and in Los Angeles by Ensemble Studio Theatre’s LA Project, across the U.S. as part of the The Every 28 Hours Plays, responses to Ferguson, and in Kansas City, West Virginia, Florida, Washington D.C., London and Zagreb. “Counting in Sha’ab” about a community in Iraq was produced as part of The ReOrient Festival in San Francisco by Golden Thread Productions. Emma was named a Risky Playwright 3 times as a semi-finalist for Cutting Ball Theatre’s Risk is This Festival for Why Birds Fly, Abraham’s Daughters and recently for Whorticulture which was also shortlisted at Owl and Cat in Melbourne. She earned an MFA from the University of Iowa (as Barbara B Goldman) and received the Jane Chambers Award (Perfect Women) and the Richard Maibaum Award for plays addressing social justice and residencies at The Millay Colony for the Arts and Ragdale. Her work has been developed by WordBridge twice, and she returned there to work as a dramaturg. She has been a dramaturg for the […]

Company: Cross Pollination / Interested in: Peacebuilding, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation

Director & Teacher of theater & opera International Performing Arts Advocate Core member Theater Without Borders Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation

Interested in: Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment Company: Moontan Productions

Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement

Interested in: Human Rights, Empowerment  

I am a NYC based actor looking to make more international connections and change the world for the better through theatre. I am also a poet, scenic painter, and trombone player in the Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corp Marching Band. Interests: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment  

Dance + Theatre traveling internationally / Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment.

DABATEATR is a theater company founded in 2004 by stage director Jaouad Essounani and a group of artists from different geographical and artistic disciplines to promote a «free cultural, citizenship, and artistic action» while maintaining the principle of a theater meant to be «elitist but for all», that is to say, a theater that does not demean the art, gives some room for the artist and helps the public, through the creations, to think and react. In 2008, the company DABATEATR was joined by the writer and playwright Driss Ksikes with the aim of creating the play «Il / Howa» which marks the first collaboration between Essounani and Ksikes. Since then, DABATEATR took a new turn, going beyond creation, and providing the company with a new dynamic. Today DABATEATR has established a platform for hosting various art forms to create bridges between different artistic disciplines, cultures and societies. What we stand for • For an artistic approach of diversity but no indifference • For the perspective of the citizen, not the city ones. • For an approach which brings us together instead of unifying us. • For an art that is popular but not populistic. • For an art that […]

Based in Kisumu Kenya, I’m largely a self-taught performing artists and writer, though I did poetry and acting in high school around seventeen years ago. At that time I explored protest and love poetry rather than conventional acting and storytelling, so it’s been a joy to rediscover oral narration, acting, community theatre, acting for TV and stage as well as scripting in the last 15 years. I am completely captivated by people, absorbed by their stories and history. I give great focus to details and authenticity while acting, writing or telling my stories. Whether just for my own enjoyment or for private commission, I love to reflect on a peoples way of life, their challenges, inspirations and their description of good and bad, holy and evil. Company: Kisumu Arts Ensemble Interested in: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

  TAPROOT is a multidisciplinary ensemble collaboratively creating immersive performance pieces and programs to reflect and challenge the communities with whom we engage. TAPROOT exists to penetrate deep into the heart of what gives our community life. In digging deeply, we bring to the surface challenging ideas to be digested.We create performance art that takes risks and has an honest, clear, fresh vision. We are storytellers exploring universal themes through intentional collaboration and performance.We work collaboratively within the ensemble as well as within the communities with whom we engage. We strive for excellence in all things out of respect for our craft and those who have gone before us. We focus on projects that delve into socially relevant ideas and produce unique experiences.We draw on a wide range of disciplines to explore the ancient, contemporary and unfolding. We commit to: Creating work with purpose, message and social relevance Sparking conversations that lead to changing cultural trends The artists with whom we work and pursuing funding to support these artists Working in cross-disciplinary collaborations Partnering with local arts and non-arts based organizations Ensuring excellence in the artistic community through training, sharing, collaboration Drawing in disenfranchised audience demographics through accessible performances and […]

I am an artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa. I am a teacher of theater and cinema. I would like to join you to have the possibility of making known my works throughout the world or to participate in meetings concerning the performing arts. / Interested in: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation

Interests: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Julia is a theatre artist and educator passionate about collaborative processes of playmaking and exploring the inner-workings of the twenty-first century. She has worked with various downtown theatre companies including Superhero Clubhouse, Theater in Asylum, and The Foundry Theatre, and is a participant in the Institute of Prophetic Activist Art. Julia graduated from Butler University, with Highest Honors in Theatre and a minor in Anthropology, and is currently working as a director/stage manager/producer/educator in New York City. Interested in: Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement  

Company: The Arts Canvas Ltd Interested in: Human Rights  

Company: MOVENTE Platform / Interested in: Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment

Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Translation

Company: Gutless & Grateful/Hampshire College I grew up believing that my entire life would be dedicated to the performing arts. Now, I’m also a survivor and “thriver” of sexual abuse, 27 surgeries, coma, organ failure, and the PTSD that comes from ten years of trauma – or what I now call my “beautiful detour.” At 18, years old, a blood clot caused my body to go into septic shock. I was in a coma for six months, and after a total gastrectomy, I was unable to eat or drink a drop of water for six of the past ten years.  After 27 surgeries, I was miraculously reconnected with the intestines I had left.  To persevere through those tumultuous years took great inner and outer strength – strength I didn’t know I was capable of until I was tested. I learned that the human spirit feeds off of hope, and hope is fuel we can cultivate ourselves.  Ultimately, I learned that with resourcefulness, creativity, and unwavering curiosity, we can transform any adversity into personal growth and a resilience that is uniquely ours. Everything became possible once I was willing to intentionally wander from the life I planned and embrace this “detour” as an opportunity […]

Interested in: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation.

About my work: http://brooklynculturejammers.com/2014/06/25/about-my-one-person-shows/ Company: Brooklyn Culture Jam Interested in: Peacebuilding, Climate Change

Interests: Peacebuilding, Human Rights Company: MAAS FOUNDATION

Interested in: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation. ProvaT.O. Athens Theatre Group

Chamila Priyanka was awarded USA Fulbright Scholarship for Theatre Studies. He went to the USA and did his MFA studies in New York. After graduation, he worked for almost two years as a Theatre Director at the New Circle Theatre Company in New York. It was an advantage for him to start his career as an international theatre director. Also, he did several theatre works and won many awards for the Theatre Directing in his home country Sri Lanka. He would love to extend his career as a theatre director at international level. / Interested in: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment, Translation

Jack is an award winning director, dramaturge, actor and theatre creator whose work and study has taken across Canada and around the world. His work has ranged from contemporary devising, cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary projects to main stage and classical theatre. Some favorite credits include the directing the devied/First Folio fusion Romeo & Juliet (Cardiff, Wales), devised projects Wasting Time (Bali, IND) and Odyssey (London, UK), the site specific The Women of Troy (Canadian Stage) and F. Garcia Lorca’s The Love of Don Perlimplin (Shaw Festival). He has trained at leading theatrical institutions around the world including Circle in Square (NYC, USA), G.I.T.I.S. The University of Performing Arts (Moscow, RU), I.S.I. Indonesian Institute of the Arts (Bali, INA) and received his Masters in Fine Arts from the renown East 15 Acting School (London, UK). Following a Production residency at the Centaur Theatre (Montreal), in 2011/2012 he crossed the nation with a self created National Artistic Director Residency Series: Three Provinces, Three Companies and Three Mandates with Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal (Quebec), Conspiracy (British Columbia) and The Magnetic North Theatre Festival (Ontario/ Alberta). In Vancouver, he is the founder of multi-award winning Mad Duck Theatre Collective for whom he adapted and directed Coriolanus, […]

Sunny Drake is a playwright, theatre creator and performer. His theatre works have been presented in 80 venues in 55 cities across Canada, Australia, the US, and Europe, bringing transformative and inventive work to a wide range of audiences from elderly ladies in regional theatres to queers in underground warehouses. Touring highlights include: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto), San Francisco International Arts Festival, Espace Libre (Montreal), Northern Arts & Cultural Centre (Yellowknife & Fort Smith), Brisbane Powerhouse (Australia), Nuovo Cinema Palazzo (Rome), The Basement Theatre (Brighton, UK), and three times in the USA National Queer Arts Festival. His plays have been translated into 4 languages: French, Spanish, German and Italian. He has been in residence with numerous companies including the Stratford Playwrights Retreat (2018), Theatre Passe Muraille (2018/19), Nightswimming (2018), Factory Theatre (2017), Yaddo (New York, 2018), Playwrights Theatre Centre’s WrightSpace (2016), and the National Arts Centre’s Collaborations. In 2019 he will be in residence at The Arctic Circle (onboard a tall ship in the high arctic), Djerassi (California) and Klaustrid (Iceland). He currently has six new theatre works in various stages of development. Sunny was the Director of the Emerging Creators Unit at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre […]

I am a teacher of theatre – acting, writing, devising. I am creating theatre for social justice projects and interdisciplinary classes in theatre. I explore disability through theatre, outreach, and multiple individualized projects with young artists wanting to create theatre and performance pieces for social justice. Interests: Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment Company: Adelphi University

Margherita Peluso is a bilingual performer, director and producer born in Italy. She is a member of an Educational Theater Company in Asutralia ” Make a Scene ” and Lucid Body Teacher Training in NYC. She works across USA, Australia and Italy. She produces educational pieces to create a bridge across the world. Unity in diversity. Interests: Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Translation Company: Bridge Cultural Association

Actress from Bosnia.29 years old.In love with art and acting.Bosnian, english and litlle spanish language.Capable, team worker, fast, comunicative.Singing and dancing are my other passion. Dont forget…Theatre is life.Cinema is art.Television is a furniture 🙂

Independent artist from Algeria, head of Algerian Center of the International Theater Institute ITI UNESCO. Participated in several international events and activities. Cheikh has done 12 plays as a director. / Company: KSPA (Knights of Stage for Performing Arts) / Interested in: Peacebuilding, Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Empowerment.

Company:           Siena College Additional Contact Information: mahmoodhakak@gmail.com Additional Information: www.CinemaInvisible.Com www.MahmoodKarimiHakak.Org https://www.siena.edu/faculty-and-staff/profile/karimi-hakak Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Social Engagement, Translation