Director, DAH Theater Research Center for Culture and Social Change; Professor, Institute for Modern Dance, Belgrade Dijana Milošević is an award-winning theater director, activist, writer and lecturer. She co-founded DAH Theater and has been its leading director for over thirty years. … FULL BIO
David is Artistic Producer of the La MaMa Umbria International Symposia in Spoleto, Italy. He serves on the Steering Committee for Theatre Without Borders, which is engaged with the International Exchange among theatre artists. … FULL BIO
Chantal Bilodeau is a Montreal-born, New York-based playwright whose work focuses on the intersection of storytelling and the climate crisis. She is the founder of the Arts & Climate Initiative and in her capacity as artistic director, … FULL BIO
Catherine Coray has taught at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts since 1991, and has taught and collaborated with artists in Austria, Belarus, Chile, Cuba, Egypt and Lebanon. As an actor, … FULL BIO
Azar Nafisi is a critically acclaimed author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, Things I’ve Been Silent About, The Republic of Imagination, That Other World, and most recently, Read Dangerously. In 2009, … FULL BIO
Hamburger founded En Garde Arts in 1985. As its Executive Artistic Director, she is responsible for pioneering site-specific theatre in New York using its streets and historic landmarks as her stage. … FULL BIO
Սօնա Թաթոյեան | Sona Tatoyan is a first generation Syrian-Armenian-American actor/writer/producer who spent childhood summers in Aleppo where she learned about the Armenian Genocide. The history book in her small Indiana town made no mention of it. … FULL BIO
Yura Sapi (they/them) is a visionary leader and interdisciplinary artist dedicated to co-creating joyful and abundant futures in harmony with each other and Mother Earth. Yura is Indigenous Kichwa, with Ecuadorian and Colombian citizenship and a lifelong connection to their birthplace on Manahatta island. … FULL BIO
Teddy Mangawa is a professional theatre actor, director and educator born and raised in the high-density suburb of Mabvuku, Harare, Zimbabwe. He comes from a large family of nine siblings. … FULL BIO
Wanjiku Mwawuganga is a Kenyan performing artist based in Nairobi. She is the first born daughter of an accountant and business woman. She was drawn to performance through primary school drama clubs and national festivals. … FULL BIO
Elina Kulikova was born in St Petersburg. She is a theatre director, performance artist and writer in exile, currently based in Switzerland. She works mainly with auto-fiction and documentary performance, … FULL BIO
Samwel Japhet is a Tanzanian dance artist, choreographer and social entrepreneur who found his voice through dance after a rough childhood of homelessness and abuse. Today he uses dance as artistic expression for story-telling. … FULL BIO
