Video Editing
Emy Tzavra Bulloch is a short film director, screenwriter, and editor. She has taken part in numerous film festivals, receiving several awards for her work, most notably with the short film MINOTAUR, which participated at the Short Film Corner of Cannes Festival. Over the past fifteen years, she has worked extensively in film, theatre, and television projects. She holds a BA from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh and an MA in Theatre Studies at the Open University of Cyprus.
1. Directing Shakespeare at “Hamlet’s Castle”: Lars Romann Engel in Conversation with Dr. Anne Sophie Refskou. Video editing by Emy Tzavra Bulloch.
Lars Romann Engel is the Artistic Director of HamletScenen; resident theatre at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore, Denmark; and host of the annual “Shakespeare Festival at Hamlet’s Castle,” which brings together performers from around the world. He studied at the Danish National School of Performing Arts and has directed an extensive number of Shakespearean and other productions. Recent productions include an international production of Hamlet in 2017 to inaugurate a newly built stage at Kronborg and the forthcoming cross-artistic Shakespeare in Concert, also to play at Kronborg in 2018. His work dialogues determinedly with philosophical and political discourses, often in close connection and collaboration with academic researchers.
Dr. Anne Sophie Refskou is a Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at University of Surrey, UK. She specializes in the study of Shakespeare in relation to global and intercultural contexts, with an interest in contemporary performance practices, politics, and international relations. She has collaborated closely with Lars Romann Engel and HamletScenen on a number of projects, including a traveling exhibition on the performance history and diplomatic importance of Kronborg Castle entitled “Hamlet at Elsinore 1816–2016,” and is currently preparing a monograph on the cultural history of Hamlet in Denmark.
2. Making Robot Theatre: An Interview with Oriza Hirata of Tokyo-Based Seinendan. Video editing by Emy Tzavra Bulloch.
Oriza Hirata is playwright, director, leader of Seinendan, Artistic Director of Komaba Agora Theater in Tokyo, and Artistic Director of Kinosaki International Arts Center.
For a detailed biography, see here: http://www.seinendan.org/eng/oriza/
3. Working with the Choreographer. Performer Miranda Manasiadis in a Physical Workshop with Choreographer Malia Johnston. Video editing by Emy Tzavra Bulloch.
Malia Johnston is a choreographer and performance director, and has a repertoire spanning 20 years. With her own company, Movement Of The Human, Johnston has collaborated with an incredibly diverse range of performers and arts organizations, creating new work for both the national and international stage.
Johnston was commissioned to create a new work for the Commonwealth Arts Festival in Australia; presented a piece at the inaugural Asia Pacific True Colours Festival in Singapore; had her show RUSHES feature at New Zealand Festival in Wellington; and toured a solo work, MEREMERE, with artist Rodney Bell across New Zealand. In 2017, she was an Associate Artist for Auckland Theatre Company, where she began developing a new work, MOON. Johnston is an Arts Ambassador for Te Auaha NZ Institute of Creativity and teaches choreography at tertiary institutions across New Zealand (NZ). Malia is the Artistic Director for the World of Wearable Art Awards 2018 and has directed 14 prior shows with this organization.
Miranda Manasiadis lives between New Zealand, Greece, and the United States, working primarily as a director, dramaturge, and performer. She has recently returned to Athens to continue her work with Persona Theatre Company and dance company Finger6. Her work with Finger6 (dir, Sofia Mavragani, SALOS) has been presented at The Athens International Arts Festival and The Megaron Musicis in Athens. In New Zealand, Miranda’s most recent codirection (LOBSTERS) was awarded Best Ensemble, Best Lead Performance, and Best Sound Design at The Wellington Theatre Awards. Miranda was on the Circa Theatre board for five years. She has also been involved with some of New Zealand’s leading contemporary theatre companies and festivals, namely, LitCrawl, Afterburner, Jealous, Trouble, Lōemis, and There Should Have Been Roses.
4. Working with the Lighting Designer: An Interview with Maria Cristina Fusté. Video editing by Emy Tzavra Bulloch.
María Cristina Fusté has a career in lighting design, with credits in New York; her native Puerto Rico; and major cities in the United States, Bolivia, Colombia, México, and the Dominican Republic. She is also the founder and Artistic Director of BOUNDLESS theatre company, a designer-led theater company that produces theater in NY and Puerto Rico.
Recent NY and Regional Credits: ABIGAIL/1702 (Merrimack Repertory Theatre, MA/IRNE Award nomination for Best Lighting Design); In the Heights (Aurora Theatre and Theatrical Outfit, Atlanta, GA. Suzi Bass Award for Outstanding Lighting Design on a Musical 2016); Hunchback of Notre Dame (Aurora Theatre Company/Theatrical Outfit, Atlanta, GA); Mud by María Irene Fornés and Prospect by Octavio Solis, both directed by Elena Araoz (BOUNDLESS theatre company, NYC); Mariela in the Desert and Real Women Have Curves (Aurora Theatre, Lawrenceville, GA); Drawn and Quartered and American Jornalero (INTAR, NYC); Germans in Paris directed by José Zayas (59E59, NYC); Yo soy Latina (Crossroads Theatre, NJ); and The feast of the Goat and El Quijote, both directed by Jorge Alí Triana (Spanish Repertory Theatre, NYC).
Ms. Fusté is the Resident Lighting Designer at Teatro Círculo NY. Credits: Duende Adentro, La caída de Rafael Trujillo, Carmen Loisaida, Sabina y Lucrecia, El caballero del milagro, Lágrimas negras, Los titingós de Juan Bobo, and La Celestina, among others.
Recent PR Credits: Opera: Bluebeard’s Castle, Madama Butterfly, Don Pasquale, and L’Elisir d’Amore. Theater: Orphans, Los soles truncos, Godspell, The Giver, La pasión según Antígona Pérez, and Steel Magnolias, among others.
BOUNDLESS Theatre Company Credits: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez and directed by Jorge Alí Triana (PR), FABULOSO! by John Kolvenbach and directed by Gilberto Valenzuela (PR), The Good Body by Eve Ensler and directed by Lynnette Salas (PR), Bug by Tracy Letts and directed by Emineh de Lourdes (PR), Boundless Exposed (2009/2015) (NY), Mujer Invisible by Nancy Millán and directed by Ricardo Santana (NY/ PR), Five Kinds of Silence by Shelah Stephenson and directed by Lynnette Salas (PR) and Tlaloc Rivas (NYC), Tropical Tree by Yukio Mishima and directed by Emineh de Lourdes (PR), Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw and directed by Emineh de Lourdes (PR), and Madre el Drama Padre by Enrique Jardiel Poncela and directed by José Zayas (NY).
Education and Honors: Ms. Fusté holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Puerto Rico and an MFA in Lighting Design from New York University’s (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. She is a proud member of Local USA 829.
ACE Award 2006 Nomination for Best Lighting Design/El Quijote at the Spanish Repertory Theatre. New York, NY.
ACE Award 2007 Award for Best Lighting Design/La Celestina- Teatro Círculo. New York, NY.
Suzi Bass Award 2016 Award for Outstanding Lighting Design on a Musical/In the Heights - Aurora Theatre/Theatrical Outfit. Atlanta, GA.
Broadway World Awards 2016 Award for Best Technical Design-Lighting/In the Heights - Aurora Theatre/Theatrical Outfit. Atlanta GA.
IRNE Awards 2017 Nomination for Best Lighting Design/ABIGAIL/1702- Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lowell, MA.
For more on Maria Cristina’s work, see here: http://www.mcfuste.com/
5. Working with the Set Designer. An Interview with Athena Stourna. Video editing by Emy Tzavra Bulloch
Athena Stourna is scenographer, theatre maker, and researcher. She is the author of the monograph La Cuisine à la scène: boire et manger au théâtre du XXe siècle (2011). Athena has presented her work nationally and internationally, notably at The World Stage Design (Cardiff, 2013) and the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (2015), among other venues. She teaches Scenography and other theatre-related courses at various universities in Greece and Cyprus. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Casa de Velázquez (Madrid) and at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton.
6. Adapting the Classics: From the Point of View of the Director. A Practical Workshop for Directing Students Led by Avra Sidiropoulou at RESAD (Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid) in Madrid, Spain, October 2017. Video editing by Emy Tzavra Bulloch.
RESAD, Spain’s Royal School for Dramatic Arts, is the oldest Spanish theatre school and one of the most prestigious in Europe. Since 1831, the RESAD has trained professionals in the world of theatre through a specialized educational program and personalized teaching approach, enabling students to excel in all theatrical areas and disciplines.
For more on RESAD, see here: http://www.resad.es/
7. Can Directing be Taught? Vanessa Christodoulou Talks about Directing in Education. Video editing by Kostas Katrios.
Vanessa Christodoulou was born in Germany and grew up in Greece. She studied Communication, Media and Cultural Management at Panteion University in Athens and holds an MA degree in Theatre Studies from the Open University of Cyprus. Her dissertation, entitled “Theaterdiskurs: Five Important Berlin Theatres and Some Issues Concerning Contemporary German Theatre” (2017), was supervised by Dr. Avra Sidiropoulou and dealt with the contemporary Berlin theatre scene. Vanessa has been an active member of various theatre ensembles, as an actor, director, and researcher, among which is the Center of Classical Drama and Spectacle (KEDRA). In the past, she was closely involved in the Greek contemporary music scene and business, hosting a TV show on MTV Greece. She currently works at the Press and Cultural Department of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Athens.
8. Directors and their Process: An Interview with John Collins of New York-based Elevator Repair Service. Video editing by Emy Tzavra Bulloch.
John Collins was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is the Artistic Director and Founder of ERS, which he established in 1991. John has also worked as a sound designer for The Wooster Group and has his private pilot’s license.
For John Collins’s directing work at ERS, see https://www.elevator.org/work/
9. Working with the Actor: Kate Mueth of Neo-Political Cowgirls Experimenting with Blanche du Bois. Video editing by Emy Tzavra Bulloch.
Kate Mueth founded the award-winning Neo-Political Cowgirls eleven years ago to help fill the dearth of opportunities for and stories from the perspectives of women in our theater landscape. She conceives, choreographs, and directs new, site-specific dance theater that is “mind-bending, gorgeous, provocative and wild” in execution. Kate is an Equity actor, a Board Member of The League of Professional Theatre Women, and CoFounder/Co-Chair of The East Hampton Arts Council. She has worked as actor/director/choreographer with such luminaries as Blythe Danner, Tony Walton, Peter Boyle, Cathy Curtin, Heather Lind, Lizzie Larsen, and Tovah Feldshuh. She has performed at Lincoln Center, Bay Street Theater, and The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall, among many others. She just closed a run in a post-punk Romeo and Juliet, playing a ribald Nurse and choreographing popping stylized dance and movement for the adventurous interpretation at The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall. Favorite acting roles include Lady M, Varya, and Mrs. Wadhurst in Tonight at 8:30 with Blythe Danner. History of new works for NPC includes Wody Girtch Mama, Trojan Women Redux, ZIMA!, VOYEUR, EVE, Master Vibration, B(e)RD, and countless one-offs. EVE, a 13-room immersive experience, enjoyed an off-Broadway run in the fall of 2015 at The Gym at Judson. VOYEUR made its European debut in Berlin in July 2015. Kate directed a worldwide troupe of rock musicians in a bioethics examination rock opera, Playing God, in Helsinki in 2016, which had its American debut at The Danny Kaye Theater in New York, which Kate also directed. Last fall, she worked in collaboration with the Finnish theater company Taiteen Sulattamo to create “100 Women,” a theater production bringing professional performers together with women dealing with mental illness. “100 Women” premiered in Helsinki as part of Finland’s yearlong centennial celebration in 2017. Kate’s most recent theater production, ANDROMEDA, is a “Myth for the masses” piece which has performed in the hills of Montauk out under the Hampton’s stars for the past two summers. In summer 2018, she will debut BAUBO with NPC and Only Child, a NYC-based aerialist company. Kate also has a lengthy biography in theater arts teaching. Her work in conceiving, developing, directing, and teaching the theater arts program Project Hero for Guild Hall and The Hamptons International Film Festival recently won a substantial grant from The Greater East Hampton Education Foundation to help combat bullying by building empathy. The Neo-Political Cowgirls’ education outreach arm is focused on empowering girls, women, and the at risk and marginalized through thought-provoking dance theater, film, and acting workshops that help them creatively explore their unique voices and express themselves authentically through deep process into staged performances and presentations. Kate splits her time with work between East Hampton, NYC, and places abroad. She is mother to August Gladstone and wife to Josh Gladstone, her two never-ending supporters and wonderfully fun joint participants in this life.
For more on Kate Mueth, see here: www.npcowgirls.org