英子欧泰克

英子欧泰克 has been teaching courses at 科罗拉多大学 bi-annually since 2010. In 2021, 科罗拉多大学 awarded 英子 an honorary degree for outstanding contributions in the field of dance. She is a Japanese choreographer/dancer who has lived in New York since 1976. 自1972年以来, when she abandoned her studies as a political science major, she and her partner 黄家驹 have collaborated as the performance team 英子 & 黄家驹, creating and presenting a unique theater of movement in theaters, 博物馆, 节日, and outdoor sites worldwide. 英子 & 黄家驹 have received many honors, including a 1996 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2004 American Dance Festival Scripps Award, and a 2006 Dance Magazine Award. 最近, as an artist-in-residence at Wesleyan University in 2020, 英子 taught an interdisciplinary course combining the study of movement, postwar Japanese arts, and the atomic bombings. 英子 develops college courses that use movement study as means of inquiry along with readings and media studies and teaches regularly at Wesleyan University, 纽约大学, in addition to 科罗拉多大学. 链接在这里 is a video that a CC student Kate Montgomery created about 英子's class, "Naked and Delicious: The State of Being" in 2011. Read more about 英子 at her website: http://www.eikootake.org/.

凯特•阿伦森

凯特•阿伦森 has been a theater professional for over 25 years as an actor, 导演, 生产商, 作家, 戏剧老师. She taught acting, voice & 演讲, 即兴创作, and theater history for many years in the professional actors' training program at Point Park University. She has directed numerous plays in all theater genres, from Greek comedy to Shakespeare to contemporary musicals. She has worked and studied with Robert Wilson, 欧洲没药浆果, 梅雷迪思和尚, 和彼得·布罗修斯, 等, and has performed all over the U.S., in London and Bulgaria. She has written, designed & produced several solo theater pieces; she co-founded, performed & toured with Squonk Opera, an experimental performance group as well as founding, producing & performing in the annual Women's Work Festival in Pittsburgh for several years. She is also a musician and is currently in a local band called Burn the Maps.     

劳伦·斯宾塞

劳伦·斯宾塞 is a multi-hyphenate theater artist invested in creating art that invites us to grow into the right relationship with ourselves, 彼此, and the environment. She has performed with theaters across the country and is a member of the award-winning ensemble Campo Santo. 作为导演, she is passionate about bringing new stories to life, specializing in the development of new plays from first draft to production. She recently completed a residency with Berkeley Rep awarded for the development of her upcoming interdisciplinary piece, "The Cassandra Project." She is a founding member of The Coalition of Bay Area Black Women Theater Artists, a “Reimagining Political Power” Fellow with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and a recipient of California Shakespeare Festival's Luminary Award for her work applying theater arts in the classroom.

苏珊娜·科斯特洛

苏珊娜·科斯特洛 has toured throughout the U.S. and abroad as a dance/theater 导演, choreographer, 表演者 and teacher. She has been at the forefront of the arts and health field since introducing the Caring for the Caregiver 1991年的项目. Her focus on community-inclusive initiatives has engaged the often unseen in performance work including incarcerated populations, groups impacted by cancer, military and veterans, 和照顾者. Costello has presented at conferences and universities globally and has been honored with multiple awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, 俄亥俄州艺术委员会, Salt Lake City Arts Council, 和其他人.  She is based in Minneapolis, MN.

乔凡尼奥尔特加

乔凡尼奥尔特加 has been working professionally for over a decade as a playwright, 表演者, 教授, and proponent of cultural navigation in the performing arts. He believes in creating an accepting and inclusive relationship with communities regardless of race, 性别, 宗教, 性取向, 和类. In the past few years, he's teamed up with several organizations around the world to observe how the arts and culture are used to inform different populations on how we can decimate discrimination and enhance acceptance.