U.S.-born, raised and trained in the U.K., Patricia Miller brings
a diversity of experience to theatre directing, teaching and
acting. She creates a strong dynamic between text work and
physical theatre techniques across many genres, ranging from
classics with strong text work integrated with physical theatre
techniques, to new play development, modern works and live arts
genres including circus, opera and interactive ritual.
A Broadway veteran for over 25 years, Mindy Cooper began her
career as a performer dancing in the companies of Twyla Tharp
Dance, The Feld Ballet, The Kansas City Ballet, and Thingseziseem
Dance Theatre. She then went on to perform on Broadway in the
original cast revival of Chicago, the original
cast of Titanic, and Beauty and the
Beast,Song & Dance,
and Tenderloin.
The Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to present Bob
McGrath, co-founder and Director of Ridge Theatre, as Granada
Artist-in-Residence during Winter 2015. He will
direct ”Woyzeck” by Georg Büchner, as adapted by Neil
LaBute. Performance dates are February 26–March, 2015.
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.
Ph.D. Bristol University (U.K.)M.A., Dance Studies, City University, London
Henry Daniel began his career in Trinidad as an actor with James
Lee Wah’s San Fernando Drama Guild and with Derek Walcott’s
Trinidad Theatre Workshop. He was a founding member of Astor
Johnson’s groundbreaking company, the Repertory Dance Theatre of
Trinidad and Tobago. In the USA he was a member of the Alvin
Ailey American Dance Centre Workshop, the Bernhard Ballet, and
soloist with the José Limón Dance Company of New York, among
others.
Jules Aaron has directed more than 250 stage and
television productions including Equus, Death of a
Salesman, Macbeth, The Importance of Being
Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray (world
premiere) and award-winning runs of Into the Woods,
Cabaret, Company and Merrily We Roll
Along. Frequent stage venues include the New York
Shakespeare Festival (Public Theatre), the Humana Festival
(Actors Theatre of Louisville), South Coast Repertory and
Pasadena Playhouse.
Miles Anderson has been acting on stage and screen for many
years. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he recently
completed his third season at the Old Globe Shakespeare Festival
in San Diego where his roles have twice won the San Diego Theatre
Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Lead Performance
in a Play: Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and King
George in The Madness of George III.
Fall 2013 UC Davis Granada Artist-in-Residence Stafford Arima was
nominated for an Olivier Award for his direction of the West End
premiere of Ragtime.
Ellen Bromberg, a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, has been creating
dances for companies and solo artists for over 30 years.She has
received numerous awards for her work including three Isadora
Duncan Dance Awards; one for outstanding achievement in
choreography for “The Black Dress,” which was subsequently
broadcast on PBS Television’s “Alive From Off Center,” a second
for her work with Douglas Rosenberg on Singing Myself A
Lullaby and a third for Visual Design for her work with
Della Davidson for Collapse (suddenly falling down).She
was also honored with a UC Berkeley Townsend H
Irina Brown was born and educated in Leningrad (St Petersburg),
Russia. She started her work in the theater as an assistant
director to Andrei Tarkovsky, Yuri Lubimov and Anatoly Vassiliev,
and later on as a staff director with Richard Eyre, David Hare
and Mike Alfreds at the Royal National Theatre.
Since 1978 she has been living and working in Britain,
establishing a versatile career as an internationally acclaimed
stage director and teacher. Her work spans the experimental and
the popular, classical drama and new writing, opera and musicals.
A graduate of the Yale School of
Drama, Juliette Carrillo is most known for her world premiere
ofLydiaby Octavio Solis, produced at Denver
Theater Center, Yale Repertory Theatre and the Mark
Taper Forum in Los Angeles. The New York Timesquoted the work on Lydia as “Seductive and
strong. Juliette Carrillo has directed with enormous skill
and knowing compassion.”
Rinde Eckert, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama,
composes, writes, performs and directs productions that tour
throughout America, and to major European and Asian
festivals.
Anna is Artistic Director of UK Manchester based Pigeon Theatre,
an all-women, experimental physical performance company, who have
toured nationally and internationally, and who make site-specific
performance work. Pigeon Theatre’s central research concern is in
the formal structures of space, environment and architecture and
the affect of these on the physical spectating experience.
Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda has been a major influence in the
broadening of our definition of theater in America. Over the past
three decades his plays and advocacy have helped deliver stories
of Asians in the United States to mainstream American theatreas
well as to Europe and Asia. His works have been presented at
venues including American Conservatory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum,
New York Shakespeare Festival, and London’s Gate Theatre. Philip
is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, several National
Endowment for the Arts awards, as well asnumerous honors and
awards.
Lucy Gough is an acclaimed British playwright.
Her works are frequently broadcast on BBC World Service and BBC
Radio.
She was shortlisted for both the John Whiting Award and BBC Wales
Writer of the Year Award (1994) with her play Crossing The
Bar. Her Gryhead was shortlisted for best new
writing 2004 at Theatre in Wales – the Welsh theatre and
performance web site.
Frank Hauser began his professional career in 1948 as a drama
producer for BBC radio, working with such noted actors as Alec
Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Pamela Brown, and John Gielgud. While at
the BBC, he also engaged Richard Burton, then an unknown young
Welsh actor, to play Henry V.
John Jasperse has been Artistic
Director/Choreographer of John Jasperse Company New York, NY,
since 1985. His work has been presented by festivals and
presenting organizations in the United States, Brazil, Chile,
Israel, Japan, and throughout Europe including The American Dance
Festival, The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, La
Biennale di Venezia, Cannes International Dance Festival, Dance
Umbrella, EuroKaz, Kampnagel, Montpellier Danse, Tanz im August,
TanzQuartier Wein, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, and the VEO Festival.
Russian born, Katya Kamotskaia, has been acting
and teaching internationally for the last 25 years. She started
her professional training in the Youth Theatre Studio, led by
leading actor-director, Oleg Tabakov (now Artistic Director of
the Moscow Art Theatre) (MXAT). From there, she won a place in
Vakhtangov’s School (now called Schukin’s College). During her
training, she took part in the Grotowski Theatre-Laboratory
workshop entitled The Tree of People (Dzevo Ludzi). Herein began
her own unique combining of Stanislavski and Grotowski.
