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Sarah Elliot(Choreographer)
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Tamilla Woodard
Tamilla Woodard is a Writer, Director and Performer. As a writer/performer Tamilla created a solo performance piece for the International Theatre LAB, Amsterdam, where she also collaborated as writer and performer on the creation of two critically acclaimed multi-national, multi-lingual, mixed disciplinary ensemble performance pieces: Media Medeas and Guernica. A recent graduate of the Yale school of Drama she had the opportunity to perform such diverse roles as Lady Macbeth, Jesus H. Christ (Sincerity Forever) and Ophelia (Hamlet/Hamlet Machine), as well as many new works. Tamilla's most recent credits are Bee-luther-hatchee at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Throwing Your Voice at The Drama League Director Fest; After the Show at The Drama League New Directors/New Works; Spring Awakening at Prospect Theatre Company in New York. Other credits include: Off Broadway: Home at The Melting Pot Theatre Company. Regional: Serious Money at Yale Rep.; Valley Song at Arizona Theatre Company; Sisters at The Human Race Theater Company, Midsummer Nights Dream at North Shore Music Theatre. International: Guernica, TINT Lab/Amsterdam; Media Medea, TINT Lab/Amsterdam; Stars in the Morning Sky, Podium Theatre Festival/Moscow. TV: Guiding Light. Tamilla has also served as Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret where she directed Polaroid Stories by Naomi Iizuka, Request Concert by Franz Xaver Kroetz, and the Rocky Horror Show by Richard O'Brien. Under Tamilla’s leadership The Yale Cabaret was voted best small theatre by the New Haven Advocate Readers Poll. Check out her website at www.tamilla.com
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Dacyl Acevedo is Dominican American, from Miami, FL, and has enjoyed the challenges and inspiration she's found working on The Faith Project. She would like to thank everyone involved with the project for their generosity. Dacyl has performed her poetry at Westside Rhyme and Bar 13. Dacyl has also enjoyed her roles in Santos and Santos, by Octavio Solis, with IMUA! Theater Co.; The Tempest, as Ariel, with Judith Shakespeare Co.; Black Box by Henry Guzman; Molly's Dream, directed by Daniel Aukin, and Cellophane, with the Bat Theater Co. Dacyl is a Purchase College graduate. Currently she is co-producing/asst. directing a staged reading of A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde, with an all African American cast, for the Culture Project, Women's Stage Series at The Culture Project, July 5th. It's FREE!
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Elana Bell is equal parts poet, performer, and teacher. She has performed in New York at the HERE Theatre in Nosferatu and at PS 122 in Come Clean: A Serial Musical. In 2001, Elana performed at the National Black Theater Festival in MINUS ONE, an educational musical about violence in teen relationships. Elana's original work is deeply informed by being a Jewish woman. She recently conceived, created and performed in PAINTED WINGS, a two-woman cabaret of original songs, poetry, and storytelling at the WOW Café Theater. She is currently a member of the LOUDERARTS poetry collective, and has been a featured reader in various venues in New York City, including: the Bowery Poetry Club, Bar 13, Teachers & Writers, and Hunter College. She is the co-founder of SynonymUS, a multi disciplinary poetry based performance workshop series at the Bowery Poetry Club. Elana teaches poetry to high school students with the Community Word Project. She has also facilitated poetry workshops for students in Whitefield, Maine, as well as for women in the Valhalla Women's Correctional Facility in upstate New York. She is the author of two chapbooks: Dreaming of Doorways (1999) and Name Carvings (2003). Elana graduated Sarah Lawrence College in 1999 with a BA in Theatre and Literature. She has studied with Deena Levy, Paul Austin, Dan Hurlin, Shirley Kaplan, and June Eckman. She currently works as a musical storyteller for the Shadow Box Puppetry Company. Most of all, Elana loves to collaborate. She believes that the spark God is found in the artistic connection between people.
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Sarah Elliott is thrilled to be working again with fellow Yale School of Drama alum, Tamilla Woodard. Upon completion of her MFA in Acting, Sarah moved to NYC and began her artistic pursuits. Last August she debuted as "Sally" in After the Show, produced by the Drama League and directed by Jackson Gay. In the fall Sarah was invited to the O'Neill Directing Retreat at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, under the direction of Diane Paulus (The Donkey Show). Throughout the year, Sarah has acted in a number of new works including playwright Larry Loebell's Girl Science (Playwright's Theatre of New Jersey) and The Ballad of John Wesley Reed (Ensemble Studio Theatre). She also started her television and film career appearing in Law & Order: SVU and Birth, Nicole Kidman's latest project. Most recently Sarah performed in the premiere of Fed or Domestic Claims of Passion and Devouring, as part of the Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival. She is also the assistant fight director to Rick Sordelet for the New York Theatre Workshop's production of Flesh and Blood, directed by Doug Hughes and featuring Martha Plimpton and Cherry Jones. Sarah is also a company member of The Black Cat Group.
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Sabrina Hayeem-Ladani is a poet, actor, singer and dancer born and raised in New York City. She studied theatre at MMC in NYC and has toured as a performer across the United States. Sabrina has featured as a poet and actor in various venues in New York City and is a member of the louderARTS Project, a not-for-profit arts collective. She is the author of two collections of poetry, and was most recently a featured writer in the 2003 Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica.
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Mara Jebsen
Mara Michael Jebsen is a poet/vocalist raised in Philadelphia and in Togo, West Africa. Her approach to spoken word poetry is a unique blend of melodies, speech and rhythmic play which communicate image-laden narratives that call to mind both of her childhood stomping grounds. In 1998, she joined the founders of the Blue Roach, a Duke University spoken word artistâs collective/venue, famous in the South for bringing nationally known poets such as Asha Bandale, Sekou Sundiata, Ntozake Shange and Carl Hancock Rux to North Carolina. She has written multiple poetry/theatre pieces performed with Modern and African dance ensembles before large audiences of both children and adults. She has also held feature and spotlight performances at The Blue Roach, The Nuyorican Poet's Café, WestSide Rhyme @ the Bowery Poetry Club, and 13 Bar/Lounge. Mara has performed at benefit concerts and cultural festivals for New York University, Georgetown University, Duke University and the University of North Carolina. In 1999, she competed in the Cantab Lounge Boston Poetry Slam Semi-Finals. At present, Mara is completing a CD project that embraces both her lyrical & writing talents, and preparing to pursue her Poetry MFA at NYU's acclaimed Creative Writing Program.
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Shawn Randall is an actor-poet-writer-producer. He will be competing in the 2003 National Poetry Slam with Team NYC URBANA of the Bowery Poetry Club in Chicago this summer. He has had extensive experience in Off-Broadway theater including the acclaimed "Blue Man Group," a staged reading of "Middle Finger" at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre and performances at La Mama E.T.C. and BAM. His film appearances include "Slings and Arrows", an independent that won Best Feature at the Avignon/NY Film Festival. On television, he has appeared with Ben Stiller in a sketch on the "Late Night Show With Conan O'Brien," and as the principal in both the PBS Special "The Hating Pot,"and the USA Network's "It Just Takes One."
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Anaïs Tekerian
Anaïs Tekerian came to New York from San Francisco, after earning her degree from Yale University, and has performed in plays and films around the city. Among her many credits are Returning at HERE, Lorca at Blue Heron Arts, and Howling at La MaMa. She also performs with the Armenian a cappella folk trio, Zulal.
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Hanson Tse
Hanson Tse is proud to be a contributor to The Faith Project. It was his study of acting which ultimately led to his own spiritual journey and, appropriately, to this endeavor. In New York, he has collaborated with such artists as Sharon Fogarty and Maura Donohue/In Mixed Company. He makes a daily life practice of the Daoist martial art, Hsing-I Chuan (Body-Mind Boxing). This exploration is dedicated to his father.
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Scot Williams
Scot Lee Williams is originally from Tucson and a graduate of the University of Arizona in music, theatre, and creative writing, with an emphasis in performance art. His involvement with religion goes back to a lay-preacher Baptist grandfather who taught him the meaning of the Lord’s Prayer. In addition to his acting and writing, Scot is a singer/songwriter, a classically trained saxophone player, and an avid cyclist. Scot also studied at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York.
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