Longtime artistic associates and veteran collaborators Caryl
Kientz and Lydia Greer from the renowned ShadowLight
Productions and the interdisciplinary collective Facing West
Shadows are the Granada Artists-in-Residence for Spring 2026. The
pair will be creators and directors of The Odyssey in
Shadow.
Rhett Guter, an award-winning director, choreographer and actor,
will be the winter 2026 Granada Artist-in-Residence serving as
director and choreographer for The Drowsy
Chaperone, the Department of Theatre and Dance’s winter
quarter production.
David Adam Moore is
a highly sought-after leading baritone by major opera houses and
orchestras worldwide, including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal
Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Lyric Opera of
Chicago, Salzburg Festival and Carnegie Hall. Also notable
for his work as a projection designer, composer, digital media
artist, and stage director, Moore recently made his Lyric Opera
of Chicago stage design debut as projection designer for a new
production of Faust, in which he collaborated with
renowned sculptor/animator John Frame and stage/film designer
Vita Tzykun.
Erika Chong Shuch is a performance maker, choreographer and
director whose topic-driven ruminations coalesce into imagistic
assemblages of music, movement, text, and design. Interested
in expanding ideas around how performance is created and shared,
Shuch’s work has been performed in city halls, theaters,
industrial offices spaces, diners, parking lots and food
courts.
Keaton Wooden is a Regional Emmy Award-nominated
writer, composer, director, and social impact producer best known
for the award-winning musical The Civility of Albert
Cashier.
Shinichi Iova-Koga, artistic director of the physical theater and
dance company called inkBoat, is the winter 2022 Granada
Artist-in-Residence for the Department of Theatre and Dance.
He will stage a collaborative project titled Clouds from
a Crumbling Giant. The company has received five San
Francisco Izzie awards and has toured in Europe, Asia, and the
United States.
Annie Saunders, a multidisciplinary creator and director of
site-specific experiences, is the fall 2021 Granada
Artist-in-Residence for the Department of Theatre and Dance.
Saunders will be joined by her core collaborator Jackie! Zhou, a
Los Angeles-based artist and sound designer.
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.
Jacqueline Goldfinger, 2017 Yale Drama Series
Prize and Barrymore Award-winning playwright, will be
the fall 2020 Granada Artist-in-Residence for the Department
of Theatre and Dance.
Sinéad Rushe is
a theatre director, performer and teacher of acting, specialising
in the Michael Chekhov Technique and Vsevolod Meyerhold’s
Biomechanics. Originally from Newry, Northern Ireland,
Sinéad studied at Trinity College, Dublin and the École Normale
Supérieure, Paris before training as an actor at The Royal
Central School of Speech and Drama, London.
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. He won the 2008
Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer for War
Horse and played Ted Narracott in the original production.
Jeffrey Saver has composed the musicals
Dodsworth (starring Hal Linden and Dee Hoty) and
Time After Time with collaborator Stephen Cole and music
for the documentary film In My Hands (directed and
produced by Ann Reinking).
Andrew Nicholls began writing comedy with
Darrell Vickers in Junior High. After high school in Canada
the team wrote for radio, TV and stage, and for comedians
and cartoonists. In 1983 they moved to Los Angeles, where they
wrote for George Carlin, Mickey Rooney, and for NBC’s
Tonight Show from 1986-92, as Johnny Carson’s head writers.
They’ve since created twenty TV series and written over 400
episodes of children’s TV.
Judy Blazer has appeared on Broadway in leading
roles in Me and My Girl,A Change in the
Heir, Titanic the Musical, LoveMusik,
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. At New York
City Opera, she appeared
in Candide and Sweeney Todd.
Off-Broadway: Hello Again, (Drama Desk nomination), The
House of Bernarda Alba (both at Lincoln
Center),Hurrah at Last (Roundabout Theater).
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.
Catherine Castellanos (she/her), an actor, director, and teaching
artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is the Granada
Artist-in-Residence for Fall 2026. She will direct Octavio
Solis’s Mother Road.
