Alexander Boyd graduated from the
University of California at Davis Graduate Program in Performance
Studies in June 2014. His dissertation, “The Sustainability of
Traditional Knowledge Systems: Embodied Learning through
Practice, Teaching and Application,” draws on 20 years of
professional practice and teaching in Daoist Qigong arts
(Daojiao Lishi Quanfa) that he has studied since 1985
with his main teachers Chee Soo (who passed in 1994) and Desmond
Murray.
Mary Beth Cavanaugh has choreographed for
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (for five seasons as choreographer
and actor), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The New Victory Theater,
Yale Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory Theatre
of St. Louis, Brisbane Arts Festival, La Mama E.T.C., Aurora
Theatre Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Lincoln Center Directors
Lab, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, TheatreWorks,
Shakespeare at Stinson, Mills College Rep, and Summerfest Dance
and California Shakespeare Theater (where she is an Associate
Artist) for 17 seasons.
Stuart Carroll is the Artistic Director of the
Sacramento-based Capitol Ballet Company. He has presented
The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Giselle,
Paquita, La
Bayadère, and Don
Quixote to local audiences and the surrounding
communities with support and funding from the Sacramento
Metropolitan Arts Commission and the California Arts Council.
Michele Apriña Leavy is a professional actor and
theatre educator. Originally from Oakland, CA, she has
performed locally with such companies as the American
Conservatory Theater, Alameda Civic Ballet, Berkeley Repertory
Theatre, The Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, BRAVA Theater
Center, California Shakespeare Theater, Center Repertory Company,
Livermore Shakespeare Festival, Marin Theatre Company, The San
Francisco Playhouse, and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, among
others. In farther locales, she has appeared with Theatre
Key West (Florida), The Elephant Theatre Co
Joanne Martin has worked at The Adobe Theatre,
Brava, California Shakespeare Theatre, City Lights Theatre, Fess
Parker Theatre, For Change Dance Collective, Frank Theatre,
Gaiety Theatre, Great American History Theatre, Hartung Theatre,
Illusion Theatre, The Joyce Theatre, Livermore Shakespeare
Festival, Mayer Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre, Opera San
Jose, Pacific Repertory Theatre, Penumbra, Perspectives Theatre,
Playground, Riverside Theatre, San Jose Stage Company, Seattle
Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Shapiro and Smith Dance Company, SPARC
Theatre and Teatro Catalina.
M.F.A., Dramatic Arts, UC Davis B.A., Theater, Film, and Television, UCLA
Danika Sudik is a lecturer in the
Department of Theatre and Dance at UC Davis, where she
teaches courses in Acting, Acting for Screen, Directing, and
Theatre and Dance History. She is an Ovation-nominated director,
actor, arts educator, and theatre maker whose practices center
social, economic, and environmental sustainability.
