Toby Sedgwick trained at the Jacques Lecoq
School in Paris, where he founded The Moving Picture Mime Show,
which established itself as one of the innovators of “physical
theatre” throughout the world. He was part of Danny Boyle’s
creative team as director of movement and choreographer for the
Green and Pleasant Land and Industrial Revolution sequences of
the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Janni Younge is a
director and producer of multimedia, theatrical and visual
performance works, with an emphasis on puppetry arts. Janni’s
work has been performed widely internationally in North and South
America, Africa, Europe, India and the East. Recognition awards
include the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Theatre, several
Fleur du Cap awards for puppet design and the Nagroda award for
direction.
Kirsten Brandt is an award-winning playwright,
director and producer. She served for six seasons as Artistic
Director of Sledgehammer Theatre where she directed over a dozen
plays and wrote Berzerkergang, The Frankenstein
Project, and NU. She was the Associate Artistic
Director of San Jose Repertory Theatre, where she directed
Dr. Faustus, Next Fall, The Big Meal, Legacy
of Light and Groundswell, among others. As a
director, Ms.
Fidelis Morgan – this uniquely creative, stylish, multi-gifted
woman – Plays International
Actress, writer and director, Fidelis Morgan’s TV appearances
include Jeeves and Wooster and As Time Goes
By; her theatre work at Nottingham Playhouse, Liverpool
Everyman, and particularly the Glasgow Citizens won her much
acclaim and a Best Actress nomination in The Observer.
She has appeared in platforms at the National Theatre and played
in the West End.
Kent Nicholson received his MFA from the Department of Theatre
and Dance in 1995. He returned to UC Davis in 2006 to
direct Death of a Salesman, which won
a Writers’ Choice Award for best theatrical production on a
university campus from the Sacramento News &
Review. New York directing credits include: 9
Circles (The Sheen Center), Long Story Short
(Prospect Theater), Five Flights (Rattlestick
Playwrights Theater), Wet (Summer Play Festival), and
Marry Harry (NYMF, American Theater Group).
Mindy Cooper has directed, choreographed and performed on
Broadway and Off-Broadway in Chicago - The
Musical (original revival), Titanic (original
cast), Dracula – The Musical, 50 Shades – The Musical Parody,
Mars/Venus Live, The Eternal Space, Soul Doctor, Wrong Mountain,
Five Course Love, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Song &
Dance, and Tenderloin, as well as TV’s Law &
Order: Criminal Intent.
