Ellen Bromberg, a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, has been creating
dances for companies and solo artists for over 30 years.She has
received numerous awards for her work including three Isadora
Duncan Dance Awards; one for outstanding achievement in
choreography for “The Black Dress,” which was subsequently
broadcast on PBS Television’s “Alive From Off Center,” a second
for her work with Douglas Rosenberg on Singing Myself A
Lullaby and a third for Visual Design for her work with
Della Davidson for Collapse (suddenly falling down).She
was also honored with a UC Berkeley Townsend H
A graduate of the Yale School of
Drama, Juliette Carrillo is most known for her world premiere
ofLydiaby Octavio Solis, produced at Denver
Theater Center, Yale Repertory Theatre and the Mark
Taper Forum in Los Angeles. The New York Timesquoted the work on Lydia as “Seductive and
strong. Juliette Carrillo has directed with enormous skill
and knowing compassion.”
Mindy Cooper has had the privilege of spending
the last 40 years working as a dancer, choreographer, director,
producer and teacher. From dance companies (Twyla Tharp Dance,
Eliot Feld Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Thingsezisee’m Dance
Theater) to Broadway/Off-Broadway
(Chicago, Titanic, Song and Dance, Beauty and the
Beast, Dracula The Musical, Being Seen, The Eternal Space,
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, Live!, 50 Shades – The
Musical Parody, Soul Doctor, Wrong Mountain), her passion
for new works has always steered her career.
Paris native Dominique Serrand was Artistic Director and one of
the co-founders of Theatre de la Jeune Lune (1978-2008). He
studied at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Mr.
Lucy Gough is an acclaimed British playwright.
Her works are frequently broadcast on BBC World Service and BBC
Radio.
She was shortlisted for both the John Whiting Award and BBC Wales
Writer of the Year Award (1994) with her play Crossing The
Bar. Her Gryhead was shortlisted for best new
writing 2004 at Theatre in Wales – the Welsh theatre and
performance web site.
Anna is Artistic Director of UK Manchester based Pigeon Theatre,
an all-women, experimental physical performance company, who have
toured nationally and internationally, and who make site-specific
performance work. Pigeon Theatre’s central research concern is in
the formal structures of space, environment and architecture and
the affect of these on the physical spectating experience.
Russian born, Katya Kamotskaia, has been acting
and teaching internationally for the last 25 years. She started
her professional training in the Youth Theatre Studio, led by
leading actor-director, Oleg Tabakov (now Artistic Director of
the Moscow Art Theatre) (MXAT). From there, she won a place in
Vakhtangov’s School (now called Schukin’s College). During her
training, she took part in the Grotowski Theatre-Laboratory
workshop entitled The Tree of People (Dzevo Ludzi). Herein began
her own unique combining of Stanislavski and Grotowski.
The Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to announce Qudus
Onikeku, one of the preeminent Nigerian choreographers working
today, as Winter 2013 Granada Artist-in-Residence.
Born in Lagos, Onikeku graduated from the National Higher School
of Circus Arts in Chalons-en-Champagne, France. Often inspired by
his Yoruban culture, Onikeku conducts artistic research in Africa
and has toured the United States, the Caribbean and Europe with
artists including Heddy Maalem, Christophe Abdul Onibasa, George
Lavaudent, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Jean Claude Galotta.
Fall 2013 UC Davis Granada Artist-in-Residence Stafford Arima was
nominated for an Olivier Award for his direction of the West End
premiere of Ragtime.
Miles Anderson has been acting on stage and screen for many
years. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he recently
completed his third season at the Old Globe Shakespeare Festival
in San Diego where his roles have twice won the San Diego Theatre
Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Lead Performance
in a Play: Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and King
George in The Madness of George III.
Ph.D. Bristol University (U.K.)M.A., Dance Studies, City University, London
Henry Daniel began his career in Trinidad as an actor with James
Lee Wah’s San Fernando Drama Guild and with Derek Walcott’s
Trinidad Theatre Workshop. He was a founding member of Astor
Johnson’s groundbreaking company, the Repertory Dance Theatre of
Trinidad and Tobago. In the USA he was a member of the Alvin
Ailey American Dance Centre Workshop, the Bernhard Ballet, and
soloist with the José Limón Dance Company of New York, among
others.
