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Caridad Svich is a playwright, associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review and founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press. She received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for The House of the Spirits.She has edited several books on theatre including Audience Revolution and Innovation in Five Acts (2016 and 2015), Out of Silence: Censorship in Theatre & Performance (2014), and Trans-Global Readings (2004). The TEAM is a Brooklyn-based ensemble whose mission is to create new performance works that examine the experience of living in America today. Once described as "Gertrude Stein meets MTV," their work crashes American history and mythology into modern stories to illuminate the current moment. Since its inception in 2004 THE TEAM are four-time winners of the Edinburgh Fringe First, Winner 2011 Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize, 2011 Herald Angel, ranked Best of 2011 by The Guardian, Time Out New York Top Ten 2007, and Portugal's Público Top Ten 2009 and 2011.The TEAM has created and toured 8 works nationally and internationally. Dante or Die makes bold and ambitious site-based performances that tour across the country. They transform ordinary spaces to create unique and intimate promenade experiences. Led by co-founders Daphna Attias and Terry O'Donovan, they work to interrogate and celebrate the human condition through the exploration of contemporary social concerns. Dead Centre make things in theatres. Formed in Dublin in 2012 by Bush Moukarzel, Ben Kidd and Adam Welsh, Dead Centre's first project, Souvenir, was created in Dublin in 2012, and then toured to London and New York. Their second project, (S)quark! happened once in Dublin on Bloomsday, and once in Russia at the Tolstoy Estate. Lippy premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2013 and won Best Production and Best Design at the Fringe Awards, and Best Production at the Irish Times Theatre Awards. Daniel York Loh is a mixed-race British East Asian actor, writer, filmmaker and musician. His first full-length play, The Fu Manchu Complex, ran at Ovalhouse in 2013. Along with composer Craig Adams, he won the 2016 Perfect Pitch award to create an original stage musical, Sinking Water, based on events around the 2004 Morecambe Bay Chinese cockle-picker tragedy, which is currently being developed under commission by Theatre Royal Stratford East. He is one of 21 writers of colour featured in the collection of essays, The Good Immigrant, which won the 2016 Books Are My Bag Reader's Choice award. He has served on the Equity Minority Ethnic Members Committee, is a founder member of British East Asian Artists and has worked with Act For Change to promote diversity in UK media. Ontroerend Goed is a Belgian, Ghent-based theatre performance group of international renown. They consistently make work that challenges form and, sometimes, courts controversy. |
