Theatre · The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing & Behind the Scenes Conversations

Avra Sidiropoulou is the author of two monographs Directions for Directing: Theatre and Method, published by Routledge, and Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre. She is an assistant professor at the MA Program in Theatre Studies at the Open University of Cyprus. She holds a PhD in Directing Theory, an MFA in Directing, MPhil in American Literature, and MA in Text & Performance. She is the Artistic Director of Athens-based Persona Theatre Company, for which she has directed work from a Classical and Contemporary repertory and lectured and conducted directing workshops in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, the United States, UK, Japan, Israel, Bulgaria, Estonia, and Iran.
 · https://ouc.academia.edu/AvraSidiropoulou
· http://persona.gr
· www.creativeprocess.info

Avra Sidiropoulou is the author of two monographs Directions for Directing: Theatre and Method, published by Routledge, and Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre. She is an assistant professor at the MA Program in Theatre Studies at the Open University of Cyprus. She holds a PhD in Directing Theory, an MFA in Directing, MPhil in American Literature, and MA in Text & Performance. She is the Artistic Director of Athens-based Persona Theatre Company, for which she has directed work from a Classical and Contemporary repertory and lectured and conducted directing workshops in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, the United States, UK, Japan, Israel, Bulgaria, Estonia, and Iran.· https://ouc.academia.edu/AvraSidiropoulou· http://persona.gr· www.creativeprocess.info

Writer & President of the Dramatists Guild of America Doug Wright is an award winning playwright whose plays include I am My Own Wife, for which he won a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize, Posterity, and Quills, for which he won an Obie Award. He has written books for the Tony-nominated musical Grey Gardens, the Drama Desk nomination “Hands on a hardbody”, The Little Mermaid, and War Paint. He adapted and directed August Strindberg’s Creditors for the La Jolla Playhouse in 2009.  Films include the screen adaptation of Quills, which won a Paul Selvin Award and WGA award, and production rewrites for director Rob Marshall, Steven Spielberg and others. He is president of The Dramatists Guild and on the Board of The New York Theater Workshop. He has taught or guest lectured at the Yale Drama School, Princeton University, Julliard and NYU.  He lives in New York with his husband, singer-songwriter David Clement. www.dramatistsguild.com · www.creativeprocess.info

Kate Mueth is the Founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning dance theater company The Neo-Political Cowgirls. In their 13th year of devised theater making, NPC continues to present bold, "Mind bending" theater that seeks to deepen and challenge the ways in which audiences experience theater. Committed to shining light on female-identifying theater makers, NPC produces and supports work by women+ in a myriad of ways to create parity on the stage. NPC's Arts Education Outreach programming has been called "Crucial to our community" for their tireless work in using the Arts to creatively address social (in)justice, education and conflict. She trained in the prestigious Arts Leadership program at Lincoln Center, Circle in the Square Conservatory and Shakespeare & Company, and is Co-VP of Communications of the League of Professional Theatre Women. She has worked as actress/director/ choreographer with such luminaries as Blythe Danner, Tony Walton, Simon Jones, Cathy Curtin, Liz Larsen, Heather Lind, Joe Pintauro, Joy Behar, and others at Lincoln Center, John Drew Theater, Bay Street Theater and other notable venues.· www.npcowgirls.org· www.creativeprocess.info

Kate Mueth is the Founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning dance theater company The Neo-Political Cowgirls. In their 13th year of devised theater making, NPC continues to present bold, "Mind bending" theater that seeks to deepen and challenge the ways in which audiences experience theater. Committed to shining light on female-identifying theater makers, NPC produces and supports work by women+ in a myriad of ways to create parity on the stage. NPC's Arts Education Outreach programming has been called "Crucial to our community" for their tireless work in using the Arts to creatively address social (in)justice, education and conflict. She trained in the prestigious Arts Leadership program at Lincoln Center, Circle in the Square Conservatory and Shakespeare & Company, and is Co-VP of Communications of the League of Professional Theatre Women. She has worked as actress/director/ choreographer with such luminaries as Blythe Danner, Tony Walton, Simon Jones, Cathy Curtin, Liz Larsen, Heather Lind, Joe Pintauro, Joy Behar, and others at Lincoln Center, John Drew Theater, Bay Street Theater and other notable venues.· www.npcowgirls.org· www.creativeprocess.info