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People
Andrew Belser – Artistic Director
Andrew Belser is Artistic Director of The Gravity Project and Head of Theatre at Juniata College. His directing work includes work with regional theatres and collaborations with many companies. Belser received the 2003 Pennsylvania Professor of the Year Award from the Carnegie Foundation.
Stephanie Skura – Associate Artistic Director
Stephanie has an international reputation, performing and teaching in 30 of the United States and 13 countries. Her New York City-based touring company performed worldwide for 10 years. She won one of the first “Bessie Awards” for Choreography.
Randy Ward – Scene Designer
Randy Ward is Director of the MFA program in Design and Technical Theatre at Virginia Tech. Randy also serves as a set and lighting designer for Ping Chong & Company, designing work that has been produced in the U.S. and abroad.
John Ambrosone – Lighting Designer
John Ambrosone was resident lighting designer at the American Repertory Theatre for over a decade. A long career of lighting design has included the Broadway production of David Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood. John is Head of the MFA progam in Lighting Design at Virginia Tech.
Catherine Fitzmaurice – Founding Member
Catherine Fitzmaurice is the internationally-acclaimed founder of Fitzmaurice Voicework.
Kate Clarke – Performer, TGP Academic Coordinator
An accomplished performer in theatre, television, and film, Kate has been seen on stages in New York, Seattle, Edinburgh, Denver, San Francisco, Cleveland, Jacksonville, New Orleans and Moscow, ID. TV credits include Northern Exposure, Medicine Ball, Third Watch, and Hope and Faith.
Nathan Dryden – Performer, Director, Choreographer
Nathan Dryden is a performing artist choreographer and teacher newly relocated to Seattle WA, where he teaches aerial dance, improvisation, and the Skinner Releasing Technique.
David Nevell – Founding Member
David Nevell teaches Voice, Movement, Speech, Dialects, Acting and Period Styles. Currently serving as Head of Voice/Movement and MFA Program Coordinator at Cal State Fullerton, David integrates body, mind, breath and voice.
Michelle Krusiec – Performer
Michelle Krusiec first found national and international critical acclaim in her starring role opposite Joan Chen in the romantic comedy Saving Face, directed by Alice Wu. Her award winning performance garnered her a Best Actress nomination in the 2005 Golden Horse Ceremony, Asia’s equivalent to the Academy Award.
Marika Becz – Founding Member
Marika Becz is an actress, movement choreographer/performer, director, and teacher. She was also a member of the critically acclaimed Theatre Neo in Los Angeles, and is currently pursuing projects in the New York theatre community, including original solo performance. She holds an MFA in Acting from UC Irvine, is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework.
John Nuhn – Composer
John Nuhn, Composer John Nuhn (Composer/Sound Designer) earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1988. Since 1981 Nuhn has played bass on numerous stages throughout the United States and Europe, including a one-year stint with the only Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ghost band led by Dorsey original, Buddy Morrow. Nuhn's recordings [...]
Ilse Pfeifer – Performer, Movement/Voice Teacher
Ilse Pfeifer is a body worker and voice coach, raised in the southern part of Germany. In London she received her dance training and graduate degrees from the Royal Academy of Dancing and the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
She performed with ZMDC for five years, touring the US and Europe.
Yvonne Ng – Performer, Choreographer
Yvonne Ng’s intensity, grace and mesmerizing presence have made her an unstoppable force on the Canadian and international dance scene. Ng, of Peranakan Chinese descent, was born and raised in Singapore and came to Canada in 1983.
Luke Boulton – Performer
Luke has worked on promotional and DVD content for such titles as Lilo & Stitch, producing the On Location with the Directors DVD featurette, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo, Disney’s Home on the Range, and most recently Sony Pictures Animation’s Surf’s Up.
Kennedy Brown – Performer
Kennedy Brown is an actor/teacher living in Santa Monica California. In addition to pursuing a career in acting, Kennedy is Head of Speech and Dialects at the Stella Adler Studio LA, and an Instructor of Voice and Movement at Cal State University-Fullerton.