Philip Agyapong is a dance teacher and researcher from Ghana who currently lives in California. At the University of Ghana, he earned his dance education by studying African dance forms from the rich cultural heritage and traditions of the Ga-Adangbe, Ewe, Fon, Akan, and Dagomba in West Africa. Philip earned his first dance faculty position in 2014 at the University of Ghana, where taught for a few years before relocating to California. He currently teaches African traditional dance forms (both theory and practice), African popular dance, and contemporary African dance in tertiary...
Sima Belmar earned her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from TDPS in 2015, and holds an M.F.A. in Dance from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her scholarly writing has been published in The Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, Performance Matters, L'avventura, and the Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies (2016). Sima was a dance critic for the San Francisco Bay Guardian from 1997-2003. Currently, she is the creator and host of the ODC podcast Dance Cast. She has taught dance on film and television...
Nancy Carlin is a director, actor, writer, dialect coach, and acting teacher. A former company member of the American Conservatory Theater and associate artist with California Shakespeare Theater, she has performed and directed extensively in regional theaters, including A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, Aurora Theatre, Shotgun Players, The Jewel, African-American Shakespeare, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She co-authored the musical, Max Understood, co-produced the feature film, Haiku Tunnel, and can be seen in the soon to...
Iu-Hui Chua choreographs, performs, directs, and devises physical theater, dance, and video performance. She explores the intersection of somatics, performance, process, and creativity.
She was a member of Anna Halprin's Sea Ranch Collective, an associate teacher for Ms. Halprin, and is on faculty at the Tamalpa Institute. Others she has danced for include Ledoh/Salt Farm, Inkboat, Dandelion Dancetheater, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Ellen Bromberg, Sherwood Chen, Headmistress, Dohee Lee, and Disneyland.
Iu-Hui has presented her award-winning work at the SF International Arts...
Rebecca J. Ennals (she/her) spent 21 seasons on the staff of San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, including 10 seasons as Artistic Director, where she oversaw all aspects of production, education, and artistic programming. Her projects at SF Shakes included directing 8 school tours and 6 productions of Free Shakespeare in the Park, and devising and producing the pop-up Shakespeare events 30 Days of Free Shakespeare in the Parklet and 35 Famous Speeches in 35 Famous Places, which activated public spaces and further expanded access to the arts through civic-based theater. She also founded SF...
Srijani Ghosh earned her Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University. Her dissertation, “From Chantilly Lace to Chanel: Commodity Worship in Chick Lit,” is a literary sociological study of 20th and 21st century women’s popular fiction, and investigates the genre of chick lit as a site for cultural globalization. After completing her Ph.D., she taught English and Women’s Studies courses at Michigan State University before moving to Berkeley in June 2015. She is looking forward to teaching at UC Berkeley while getting to know the Bay Area. Her teaching and research interests include...
James "Bear" Graham is a San Francisco based choreographer, performer, and educator. James Graham Dance Theatre (JGDT), presents the work of James Graham while also curating the work of others, namely in DANCE LOVERS…duets by couples, crushes, and comrades, an annual show of duets around Valentine’s Day in San Francisco. During the pandemic, JGDT created Movement Rituals for Earth, Air, Fire, and Water at SF locations. He is currently studying to become a Drama Therapist at...
Chelsea Gregory (she/her) is a community-engaged artist, educator, cultural organizer, equity and restorative justice practitioner with over two decades of experience working at the intersections of arts and social change. She has collaborated with Urban Bush Women, Cornerstone Theater Company, Guillermo Gomez-Peña/ La Pocha Nostra, Working Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and many other dance and theater companies. Her original work has been produced by The Culture Project and LaMama ETC in New York City, the Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival, La Peña Cultural Center (...
Margo Hall is an award-winning actor, director, playwright, and educator, as well as the Artistic Director of Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT). She was awarded the 2021 Kenneth Rainin Fellowship in Theater and listed as one of the YBCA 100 honorees for 2020.
She was last seen onstage in Josephine’s Feast by Star Finch for Campo Santo and Magic Theatre. Other acting credits include Black Odyssey*, Fences, Twelfth Night, A Raisin in the Sun, A Winter’s Tale, American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose, and SPUNK for California Shakespeare Theater; JAZZ, Skeleton Crew,...
A recipient of the Extraordinary Teaching In Extraordinary Times Award, Mr. Herold serves as Coordinator of the Acting Program and teaches Advanced Acting and Directing for TDPS. His directing credits at Berkeley include productions of Wintertime, Stupid F##king Bird, 70 Scenes of Halloween, Metamorphoses, Summertime, The Ruling Class, Our Town, Sauce For The Goose, Criminal Genius, Adult Entertainment, Three Sisters, Escape From Happiness, Orestes, Pterodactyls, Good, Noises Off, The Crucible, My Uncle Sam, Listen To This, Funeral Games, Infancy, and How I Got That Story.
