Writers and composers Paul Gordon and Curtis Moore, the authors of the
new musical comedy Juliet and Romeo, are the
Granada Artists-in-Residence for spring 2021.
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 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.
