Award-winning writer/director, founding member of Mabou Mines Theatre Company, MacArthur Fellow, and co-creator of numerous award-winning productions, including Mabou Mines DollHouse, The Gospel at Colonus and Peter and Wendy, Lee Breuer is widely regarded as one of the most original creative forces in international theater.

In constant motion around the world, a partial list of Lee Breuer’s current activities includes developing a new production of Aeschylus’ The Libation Bearers in Greece with an all-female cast; shepherding his enormously successful Mabou Mines DollHouse internationally; and collaborating with composer Bob Telson on a new Bach and Gospel-inspired work for chamber orchestra. Breuer’s book La Divina Caricatura: A Fiction is available from Green Integer Press.

“A wizard-director, an alchemist who blends ideas, genres, styles, texts and technologies to make new kinds of theater.”
– Margo Jefferson, The New York Times

Also see The Gospel of Colonus, Red Beads, Choephorae and Mabou Mines DollHouse under THEATRICAL TOURING

Anne Bogart, director and author, is the Artistic Director of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a recipient of 2 Obie Awards, a Bessie Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and is an Associate Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program.

SITI Company members have been trained by Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki and are uniquely qualified to introduce and train other theater artists in these challenging and innovative methods. Members are on the faculties of such institutions as The Juilliard School, Skidmore College and Columbia University, and are master teachers in workshops throughout the world.

Viewpoints and the Suzuki Method of Actor Training are two methods of actor training used in creating SITI Company productions. It is through the dialogue between these two distinct, yet complementary approaches to acting that the philosophy and technique of SITI Company originated, and is continually explored, revitalized and articulated. An awareness of this dynamic approach has become essential in contemporary actor training internationally.

Also see SITI Company under THEATRICAL TOURING

FREEZE: FIGHT OR FLIGHT, A PHYSICAL APPROACH TO ACTING AND COMEDY
Avner is one of the world's leading teachers of physical comedy. He is on the permanent faculty of the Celebration Barn Theater, Maine's International School for the Performing Arts. He has taught Eccentric Performing and Clown workshops in France, Spain, Switzerland, Finland, Germany, Mexico, Japan, and in the US. Avner has a certificate from the LeCoq School in Paris and has been performing physical comedy for over 30 years. This intriguing workshop will give participants a firm grounding in physical comedy techniques. For the working professional this is a unique opportunity to take one’s work to the next level.

WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS: Based on Avner's exciting work with actors and comedians this workshop gives the teacher a new understanding of body language and ways to use and provoke laughter in the classroom.

“We all suffer from impostor syndrome. We await an authority who will unmask the impostor we secretly believe we are. It is this secret side that holds the key to our clowns.”
– Avner Eisenberg

Also see Avner “the Eccentric” under THEATRICAL TOURING

In 1997 Elizabeth Streb was awarded a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Award and has received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from S.U.N.Y. Brockport, her alma mater. She is currently the Dean's Special Scholar at New York University's Draper Program and is involved in advanced study of Time and Space involving physics, philosophy and architecture.

PoPACTION MOVEMENT TECHNIQUE: Fall Down. Get Up. Repeat. A physical technique developed by Elizabeth Streb over two decades, the class physically organizes itself around the acquisition of particular skills including learning to "pop" the muscles to initiate action rather than merely transferring weight from one foot to the other.

ACTION THEORY: Inventing a new vocabulary for action, Streb encourages students to dig out of their intuitive responses to movement ideas and force entry into their counterintuitive zone, to ask questions and construct problems that relate to the fundamental issues of movement, time, space, and body.

PoPAction and Action Theory can be taught together or separately

LECTURE: Drawing on the movement of action heroes we can all recognize, this lecture uses slides, video, and drawings to explore how humans can fly, how they land and how an audience can experience movement in a theatrical environment most effectively.