Sampada Aranke

(saranke@ucdavis.edu) believes in performance as a site of resistance, and is working to further movement building and community organizing.

Alexander Boyd

(alex@lishi.org)

Hilary Bryan

(hjbryan@ucdavis.edu) is a dancer/singer/choreographer presenting in theatre and outdoor events worldwide, and is fascinated by sacred geometry and the inner workings of the human form.

Carolina Novella Centellas

(cn224508@ohio.edu)

Amy Champ

(amychamp@ucdavis.edu)

Jess Curtis

(jescurtis@ucdavis.edu)

Sean Feit

(smfeit@ucdavis.edu)

Keith Hennessy

(jhennessy@ucdavis.edu) is director of Zero Performance, lives in San Francisco and tours internationally. Hennessy received his MFA in Choreography at UC Davis in 2007 and is currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies. His interdisciplinary research engages improvisation, ritual and public action as tools for investigating political realities. Recent awards include a NY Bessie (2010), two Isadora Duncan Awards (2009), and the SF Bay Guardian’s Goldie (2007). Hennessy’s 2010 calendar includes The University for Dance & Circus (Stockholm), Impulstanz (Vienna), American Dance Festival (Durham NC), Bluecoat Performance Space (Liverpool), Sophiensaele (Berlin) and Chorescence (Grenoble).

Zelma R. Long

(zrlong@ucdavis.edu) has been in the Winemaking profession for many years. She is interested in developing a new area of expertise and will be working on a Ph.D. in Performance Studies.

Christopher McCoy

(cmccoy@ucdavis.edu) has worked as a teaching artist for Seattle Children’s Theatre, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, the Denver Center Theatre Company, and, most recently, for the Citi Wang Theatre in Boston. In 2001, Chris was selected for an education fellowship through OPERA America, through which he worked with St. Louis Opera Theatre, San Diego Opera, and Austin Lyric Opera. Directing credits include Pterodactyls by Nicky Silver, Long Christmas Ride Home by Paula Vogel, A Number by Caryl Churchill, Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel, among others.

Josy Miller

(jnmiller@ucdavis.edu) is a theater director, scholar and educator whose work focuses on the utility of beauty and empathy in performance for social change. After working for five years as the Theatre Department Chair at the Oakland School for the Arts, Miller founded Hapgood Theatre Company, an Equity theater in the Bay Area. As Artistic Director, she led the company for five seasons, directing more than a dozen productions, while simultaneously doing freelance directing work with organizations such as Marin Theatre Company, the Eugene O’Neill Foundation and AtmosTheatre in San Francisco. Miller was a 2011 recipient of the Center for Cultural Innovation’s Emerging Arts Leader Award. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Performance Studies at the University of California, Davis where she will direct The Dogs of War, her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses plays, spring 2013.

Kara Miller

(karmiller@ucdavis.edu)

Nita Little Nelson

(nlnel@ucdavis.edu) is a founding developer of Contact Improvisation, and a dance artist investigating modalities of the embodied mind in composition and performance.

Ilya Noe

is an incoming PhD student from Visual Arts, who is working on process and site-specificity.

Linda Noveroske

(noveroske@ucdavis.edu)

Dennis Somera

(dmsomera@ucdavis.edu)

Elizabeth M Stephens

(emstephens@ucdavis.edu) is an eco-sexual artist who explores love as art. Currently her practice is based in collaborative performance art which sometimes includes interventionist practices, social sculpture, video, and teaching.

John Zibell

(jzibell@ucdavis.edu) makes media/physical artworks for theatre, cinema, gallery, and the street examining the collision of virtual with actual bodies. He worked and trained as an actor and director for many years in New York with Mike Nichols, Paul Sills and Andre Gregory. John hold an MFAin Directing from the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance where he directed The Moby Dick Variations and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and assistant directed and performed in Guillermo Gomez-Pena’s Corpo-Ilicito:The Post Human Society 6.9 and Anna Fenemore’s The Matter of Taste. John also created video for Gallathea and Body of Knowledge directed by Peter Lichtenfels and Karl Frost respectively.