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Rachel Anderson-Rabern is Associate Professor of Theatre at Franklin and Marshall College. She holds a PhD in Drama from Stanford University, and a BA in Theatre and Literature from Reed College. As an artist-scholar, her work focuses on directing, devising, contemporary performance, ensemble processes, partnership, and pleasure. As a practitioner, her work has appeared at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Dramatists Guild, the Ware Center, the Pear Avenue Theatre, the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, and colleges and universities across the U.S. Her written scholarship on contemporary performance includes multiple journal articles and book chapters, as well as her book Staging Process: The Aesthetic Politics of Collective Performance (Northwestern University Press 2020). http://www.rachelandersonrabern.com/

Luis Aros is an actor, voice studies practitioner/scholar, MA Voice Studiesfrom RCSSD and the founder and director of the Nucleus of Vocal Research (niv.cl). Currently making a PhD in Arts / Practice and Theatre Studies where he is developing PaR research about voice and performance.

Lloyd Bricken (Alabama): actor, devisor/director, and musician, develops embodied-research from traditional performative practices and songs from his homeland of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana. With the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, his team explored transformative and theatrical possibilities of songs and traditional spiritual practices from the US South. As lead actor, composer, and assistant to Mario Biagini, Bricken played a key role in developing performances: “I Am America”, “WatchNight”, “Electric Party Songs”, “Not History’s Bones- A Poetry Concert” and “The Hidden Sayings.” Devised with actions and songs created using the poetry of Allen Ginsberg and traditional Southern spirituals and shouts, they toured internationally to more than 20 countries. Bricken leads workshops and hosts conferences in many institutions worldwide. Since 2018 he co-directs “The Great Crossroads Project” with artists from Sao Paolo, Brazil and Birmingham, Alabama, and collaborates with Parvathy Baul of Santiniketan, India.

In 2006, Nadya graduated from SPbGATI (RGISI), class of Professor V.M. Filshtinsky. During her student years, she played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet "Shakespeare, Avdotya Raskolnikov in" Crime and punishment "F. Dostoevsky, solo performance based on the stories of R. Akutagawa "Akutagawa's web" For 15 years she has been a leading actress of the Malyshchitsky Chamber Theater, in where more than 40 roles have been played, including Lina Quadri in "Conformist" A. Moravia, Viola / Cesario in "Twelfth Night" by W. Shakespeare, Fried in F. Kafka's "Castle", and many others. Performances with Nadia's participation is included in the short and long lists, and are also laureates awards "Christmas Parade", "Golden Spotlight", "Breakthrough""Golden mask". In 2020 she entered the magistracy of the Russian State Institute for the Arts with a degree in Director teacher of theatrical art "(supervisor VM Filshtinsky).

Graduate of the  Institute of Eastern Slavonic Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Pushkin State Russian Language Institute in Moscow and Postgraduate Studies in Theory of Dance at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.

Actor and assistant director, he joined the KTO Theatre in 1993.

Since 2017 he has been teaching at the Stanisław Wyspiański National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow.

Adrianna Cudnik is an actress, singer, musician, and speech therapist, and company member of the National Theater of Education in Wrocław, Poland. Ms. Cudnik studied acting at the Aleksander Sewruk Advanced Acting Studio at the State Dramatic Theater Stefan Jaracz in Olsztyn from 2014-2018, and is graduate of the Karol Kurpiński State Music School (Międzyrzec Podl) with a 1st degree in Piano. She received her master's in general and clinical speech therapy from the University of Warsaw, and her BA in speech therapy from the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.

A member of Fulcro Theatre Company in St. Petersburg Russia, Alexander Drugov graduated in 2020 from the Studio of V.M. Filshtinsky at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts in St. Petersburg. Mr. Drugov played Zigmun in the studio’s award-winning production of Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s Our Class. He began working with AnomalousCo in 2018, appearing in The Biomechanics of Security, co-creating Sin, and performing the roles of Otto, Peretz, Schildkraut and Asch in our live-streamed reading of Paula Vogel’s Indecent.

Kyle Gillette has directed work ranging from devised projects to plays by Beckett, Eno, Handke, Vogel, Witkiewicz, Wilder, Brecht, and Euripides. He recently directed the premiere of Rachel Joseph’s Antigone in the City (2019) at the Festival Laboratorio Interculturale di Pratiche Teatrali in Fara in Sabina and has collaborated on Teatro Potlach’s Cittá Invisibili since 2016. Kyle’s publications include two peer-reviewed books, The Invisible City (Routledge, 2020) and Railway Travel in Modern Theatre (McFarland, 2014), as well as a short volume on Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth (Routledge, 2016). His essays and reviews appear in Performance Research, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Comparative Drama, Contemporary Theatre Review, and the Journal of American Drama and Theatre as well as Imagined Theatres (Routledge, 2017) edited by Daniel Sack and Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2017) edited by Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka. Kyle is a Professor of Theatre at Trinity University.

A French-American dual citizen, Marc Grandsard grew up in France then moved to the USA for his studies, graduating from Harvard University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He then moved to New York City where he lived for ten years, studying theater and film directing at New York University, Meisner acting technique with Phil Gushee, and working as a theater director before switching into film as an editor and screenwriter. After moving back to France, he worked as a documentary filmmaker and artistic director for TV events in Paris, then co-founded the film school CineCreatis in the city of Nantes, where he was the school’s Artistic Director. While his work in film continues as a writer/director in both fiction and documentary, Marc Grandsard has also resumed working in the theater - teaching Meisner acting technique and working as a director and consultant. 

Associate Professor at the Acting Department of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, V. M. Filshtinsky's studio. Director, acting skills instructor. Graduated in piano, Music School of the Leningrad Conservatory. She also graduate from the director's department of the Higher Theater School named after B. V. Shchukin, and the post-graduate program of the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts. Alisa has taught and staged the plays in Austria, England, Denmark, Germany, China, Latvia, Peru, Russia, the United States, and Scotland. Since 2016, she leads courses and training sessions based on the acting techniques of N. V. Demidov and her author's method "The Magic of Acting". Author of the book "Acting training. Demidov's approach".

Daniel Jackson works in live performance and digital media at the intersection of technology, interactivity, and identity. His work interrogates the possibilities that new technologies provide for creating surprising experiences that question our understanding of the world. His recent work includes An Old Ruinous Vault, With A Strong Grated Door, Through Which The Moon-Beams Are Gleaming, exhibited as part of San Antonio’s CAM Perennial group art show, and Basement Complex Suite 102 at Jump-Start Performance Co.In addition to creating and producing his own work, Daniel has spent time working in various capacities with Andrew Schneider, Young Jean Lee, Radiohole, The Wooster Group, and Jump-Start Performance Co. He is currently, physically, in San Antonio, Texas and holds an MFA in Interactive Media for Performance and Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts. danielnjackson.com

Rachel Joseph is an Associate Professor at Trinity University as well as a writer, director, performer, and theatre and film. She received her MA in theatre studies and MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in Drama from Stanford University.  Joseph’s short stories and plays have been published or are forthcoming in literary journals such as Kenyon Review Online, North American Review, The Coachella Review, The Brooklyn Review, and the book Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage edited by Daniel Sack (Routledge, 2017). Her novella was a shortlisted finalist for the William Faulkner-William Wisdom competition. Additionally, Joseph was a finalist for the 2017 Arts & Letters Drama Prize, a semi-finalist for the 2017 Elixir Press Fiction Award, and a finalist for the 2017 Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize. She has directed and devised plays ranging from her own to Sarah Ruhl’s translation/adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, How I Learned to Drive, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, and The Gas Heart.

Visual artist based in California. Her work is in public collections that include the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. She is a recipient of a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship (2021), a Fulbright Fellowship to Russia (2018), a Pollock-Krasner Award (2017), a California Community Foundation Mid-Career Artist Fellowship (2014), and a Warhol Arts Writers Grant (2013). Recent institutional exhibitions include Time Share: Radical Broadcast, Performa, New York (2020); The Fabric of Felicity, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2018); Synthesize, MOCA Jacksonville (2017); Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970 to the Present, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2017); and About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (2016). She holds an MFA from the University of California at Los Angeles and a BA from Yale University. https://www.farrahkarapetian.com

Lily Lamboy is a performance artist, civil rights organizer, educator, and scholar based in Berkeley, CA. Her work seeks to discover, co-create, and give life to more radical and egalitarian social structures. She has performed recently with Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of American Music, Collected Works, and the Stanford Theater Lab; treasured past roles include Ma Ubu in Jarry's Ubu Roi and Cook in Brecht’s Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer. She currently serves as the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for a non-profit healthcare organization in Oakland, CA and loves to make/listen to live music, cook for/with loved ones, and learn from flowers. She holds a BA from Smith College and a PhD in Political Philosophy from Stanford University.

Pavel Levin. Multimedia designer and digital artist from St. Petersburg, Russia. Since 2014 works as light and stage designer in the Theater of Youth Creativity in Anichkov Palace in St. Petersburg. In 2019 was art-director of the team, which won the Grand Prix in the international multimedia art contest “Digital Gonzago”. In the 2020 won the competition Digital Opera Performance in the nomination “Best stage-design”. As CG-artist took part in the production video mapping show “Christmas star” in december 2020 in Pavlovsk. As a graphic designer created visual identity for Vladimir Nabokov Museum and several posters for theater performances.

Ms. Mandelstam holds two masters degrees from the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design - in Graphic Design and in Sculpture, and completed two year course in the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow - in Poetry and Prose. Participated in a number of exhibitions including «The circus» in State Russian Museum in 2016. A writer and visual artist, Natalia Mandelstam has been collaborating with AnomalousCo since 2019 on the script, and scenic designs for Claudel - Rodin - The Kiss.

Derek Phillips is a composer and sound artist living in San Francisco. His collaborative work has been performed at The Asian Art Museum, The De Young Museum, The Garage, Kunst-Stoff Arts, The Performance Art Institute (SF), Jack Arts (NY), Z/KU (Berlin), Sidney R. Yates Gallery in the Chicago Cultural Center (IL) and Stanford University.

Alya Pokrovskaya graduated in 2020 from the Studio of V.M. Filshtinsky at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts in St. Petersburg. From 2010 to 2017 studied in St. Petersburg Theatre of youth creativity. Since 2020 a member of Fulcro Theatre Company. In addition to acting, Ms. Pokrovskaya has considerable background as an assistant director on international festivals and in St.Petersburg Theatres. Since 2019 has been playing a huge role within AnomalousCo’s St. Petersburg team, coordinating rehearsals and production meetings for Sin, co-translating Indecent, and assistant directing The Girl Being Chased.

…is in fifth grade and lives in Lancaster, PA.

Daniel Sack is a theorist and critic of contemporary performance. He is Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he holds joint appointments in the English Department and the Commonwealth Honors College. His first book, After Live: Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance, explores how live performances stage different structures for representing the future's divergent courses. A second short book, Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, offers a close look at the artist’s most personal play. Daniel is the editor of Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage, which gathers together conceptual performances, fantastical plays, and theoretical closet dramas written by close to 100 scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. The book received the 2018 Excellence in Editing Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. He is the founding editor of the e-journal Imagined Theatres (www.imaginedtheatres.com), which extends that work, and he serves as contributing editor for several other publications. Daniel has written more than forty essays, reviews, and chapters on international performance. Currently he is at work on a book about crying as, and at, performance.

Dr. Kris Salata is Professor in Performance and Chair of the School of Theatre at Florida State University, Tallahassee. He holds a Ph.D. in Drama and Humanities from Stanford University. He has published books, articles and book chapters on the experimental practice of Jerzy Grotowski, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Tadeusz Kantor, and the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards.

Philip Salata is a multimedia artist with a foundation in literature, performance, and more recently film. After his B.A. in Modern Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Philip joined the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, an international center for research in performance based in Pontedera, Italy. There as a performer and pedagogue (2008-2014) he focused on the creation of contemporary theatre work based on traditional performance craft, a form of research that borrowed from disciplines of social study, though more importantly focused on the relationship between self and one’s community.

Translator. A St. Petersburg State University alumnius in Philology. Speaks Russian, Polish, English, and German. Spent more than a year interning at the Silesian University, Jagiellonian University (Poland). Assisted in organizing performances of Theatre Olympics 2019: "Anhelli. Wołanie", Teatr Zar (Wroclaw), "King Lear", Stary Teatr (Krakow). As an entrepreneur took part in production of Macbeth by Krzysztof Garbaczewski (Alexandrinsky Theater. New Stage, 2015).

She studied for a year as a volunteer with Gregory Kozlova, after which she entered the workshop of Professor Veniamin Filshtinsky. One of graduation performances were a monoperformance about the life and work of Anna Akhmatova, delivered by Speech Professor Yuri Vasiliev. The play has been played from 2006 to the present day. Asya serves in the Theater on Liteiny, plays many diverse roles.Her repertoire includes Shakespeare, Gorky, Ostrovsky, Pushkin, Kafka. One of the last works is a performance for two by bestseller “Suad. Burnt Alive ”directed by Alexei Yankovsky. In recent years, he collaborates a lot with non-state theaters and participates in the creation independent projects. Among them is the "Iranian Conference" based on the play by Ivan Vyrypaev (Such theater), nominee for the highest theater award Zlotya Maska, "MNDLShTM" for creativity Osip Mandelstam (Tsekh Theater) and Franz Kroetz's "Concert upon Request" (Theater workshop of ASB) participant of the Monocle festival, director Alexey Yankovsky.

In 2020 Piotr graduated from the acting department of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts in Saint Petersburg, acting studio of V. Filstinsky. In Russia, he played the role of Vershinin in A. Chekhov's diploma play "Three Sisters", dir. V. Filstinsky and the character of Henryk in "Our Class" by Tadeusz Słobodzianek directed by Daria Shamina and V. Filstinsky. Winner of the 2nd Prize at the 14th International Singing Mask Festival in Saint Petersburg in the Actor's Song category. He made his debut as Jasa in A. Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard", dir. Norbert Rakowskiwgo at the S. Jaracz Theater in 2016.

Beth Slade is originally from Jacksonville, Florida. She is a recent graduate of Florida State University with a BA in Theatre. Beth has recently played Antigone (Antigone), Julia (True Story of the Three Little Pigs), and Witch (Vile Spirits). She is so thankful for this opportunity to create and work on a virtual platform.

Hannah René Strauss is a senior theatre major at Florida State University. She has been an active participant in student theatre, acting in and developing original work with her classmates, and has worked professionally with Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre. Hannah is excited to graduate and move to Chicago to begin her acting career.

Theatre director and playwright, 5th year student of Directing Department at the Stanisław Wyspiański's Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow.

Tre most important works of the director are: Juliusz Słowacki's "Indomitable Prince" (The modern Theatre in Szczecin, the premiere took place during the New Epiphany Festival in 2020 and took part in VII Contest for the staging op the old Polish Literature "Living Classics" ), Włodzimierz Szturc's "St. Anthony's Temptation"(AST Theatre during the Young Directors Forum in 2018, International Theatre Festival in "Na Strasnom" Theatre Centre in Moscow), Helmut Kajzar's "Jester's Hair" (AST Theatre), author's text and performance "Actresses or I'm Sorry For Touching You" (published in Polish Theatre Journal in 2019, read in Ochota Theatre in Warsaw and AST Theatre during the Young Directors Forum, 2019), Stefan Themerson's "Lecture by Professor Mmaa".

The author of several plays, he was also an assistant of Ewa Kaim (Wyspiański. Koncert in Juliusz Słowacki's Theatre in Krakow) and Anna Augustynowicz (Revenge in the Juliusz Słowacki's Theatre in Krakow), Włodzimierz Szturc (Polish and World's Theatre History Classes in AST Theatre).

The text "Actresses...", giving voice to a woman, was in the semi-final of the Gdynia Dramaturgy Award in 2020 and contributed to a number of institutional changes in anti-harassment policy in AST Theatre.

Przemyslaw Wasilkowski is a graduate of the Drama Faculty of the National Academy of Film, Television and Theater (PWSFTViT) in Lodz. He holds a Doctor of Theater Arts (dissertation advisor: Prof. Krystian Lupa). From 1994-1999 he was a trainee in the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski, Pontedera-Italy. Member of artistic crew and performer of creative opus of Workcenter called Action. From 1999 he led a workshop series entitled In States of Shock - Western Europe and Poland. From 2008 - 2018 he was an Instructor with the Actor’s Studio Olsztyn. Major theatrical co-operatives as an actor : The New Theater in Lodz, The Polish Theater in Poznan, The Bretoncaffe Theater Warsaw, The Studio Theater in Warsaw, The Silesian Theater in Katowice, and lately, The Institute of Jerzy Grotowski as a part of the Master’s Season (Mauzer, dir. Theodoros Terzopoulos), Song of the Goat Theater (Apocrypha, dir. Grzegorz Bral). Significant foreign co-operatives: Zona Castaglia – Torino; ARCAT – Paris. Active theatrical stage director (MC HCW Project – based on Attempts on her life - Martin Crimp; Zona Tenebrarum based on Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse; Black on white-and-blue based on Crave – Sarah Kane; The End of a long day – based on works of Samuel Beckett; States of Shock, Sam Shepard; SAM, based on Kane/Shakespeare/Beckett; Ballyturk, Enda Walsh). Responsible also for stage movement (Balladyna, Dictionary of Khazars – the Kochanowski’s Theater in Opole, the Polish Thermopylae – The New Theater in Lodz). His own (director and performer) theatrical works were widely presented on stages from Poland through Italy, France, Greece, Finland to Japan (multiple times). Lately, occupied by various individual, artistic projects, created in co-operative with The Center of Education and Cultural Initiatives in Olsztyn and The Raft Association.

In 2001 Galya graduated from Tallinn High School of Humanities; 2001-2006 – studied acting at the St.Petersburg State Theatre Academy, studio of prof. V. Filshtinsky, earned master´s degree in acting;

2006-2013 - played as a guest actress in the performances of “Takoy Theater” &”Baltic House” theatre, “ASB”; theatre in St.Petersburg; In 2010 she graduated from St.Petersburg State Theatre Academy, studio of prof. V. Filshtinsky, master`s degree in theatre directing; „Golden Sofit“ theatre award for directorial debut; Her performances were included in the long- and shortlists of „Golden Mask“, became nominees and laureates of „Proryv“, „Harlequin“, „GoldenSofit“ theatre awards; In 2012-2016 Galya was teaching acting at St.Petersburg State Theatre Academy, course of prof.L. V. Gracheva; author of acting training programs for different groups of sudents (professional artists, opera singers, adult non-actors);

2020 - .... - lives and works both in St. Petersburg and Tallinn.