Who
Ira Aartelo
[Finland]
Joao Carrolo
[Portugal]
João gratuated in 2003 from the study of Communication Sciences at the Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal. He is a co-founder of the D’Artânimo Street Theatre Company and worked with TeatrUbi and ArQuente Associação Cultural as a performer. He was assistant director to “La Torre Desnuda” coreographed by Inez Boza from Senza Tempo Theatre/Dance Company of Barcelona. His video and photography creative work was exhibited in the Festival Novidad (Covilhã,Portugal) and at the Pierro Gallery (New Jersey, USA). In the last recent years he has been coordinating the Educational Department at the Teatro Municipal de Faro, Portugal. He is currently attending the MA in International Performance Research.
Lonneke van Heugten
[Netherlands]
In 2006 Lonneke van Heugten graduated from the interdisciplinary study of Arts and Sciences at the University of Maastricht. After this MA she held positions in different cultural organizations. Her work includes: organisation of theatre festival Zomerzone.06, production manager at Het Huis van Bourgondië, director’s assistent at Het Vervolg and communications at Cultureel Erfgoed Noord-Holland. She is currently attending the MA International Performance Research at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and the University of Warwick.
Zoey Wongsiri
[Thailand]
meLê yamomo
[Philippines]
meLê was a national scholar with the Philippine High School for the Arts majoring in Directing and Technical Theatre, minoring in Music Composition. He has a BA in Interdisciplinary Art Studies from the University of the Philippines. meLê has worked with various theatre, puppet and opera companies as a director and music composer. He has also represented the Philippines in various international theatre and art festivals/conferences. He is the founder/artistic director of Dulaang Habi and Habi-Media. From 1999-2002, he was appointed Artist-in-Residence at CASA San Miguel Arts Centre, where he founded Dulaang San Antonio (the centre’s resident theatre company). He served as the executive director of Anino Shadowplay Collective and inaugurated its first theatre season. He was also Anino’s musical director from 1999 to 2002. In 2005-2006 he was exchange-artist and fellow with the National Theatre of Korea. In 2008, he was Artist-in-Residence with NUNi Opera Company in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2003-2005, he was a visiting artist-lecturer at the Philippine High School for the Arts. At present, he holds a post as full-time Lecturer at the Performance Department of the Assumption University of Thailand.
Directing credits include: {The Alunsina Network} (The Netherlands), Oda a la Esperanza (Thailand), [The Orpheus Schemata] (Thailand), Crossing Boundaries (Korea); UP Opera Season – Ravel’s L’enfant et les Sortileges, Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief, Donizetti’s Beauty and the Beast; Pundaquit Festival – Oda a la Cebolla, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano, Prokofieff’s Peter and the Wolf, Jacob’s Pepe; UP Dulaang Lab – Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus; Dulaang Habi – Pagsanghan-Yamomo-Camposuelo’s Sa Kaharian ng Araw, Bonifacio’s Dalawang Bayani, Yamomo-Camposuelo’s Mga Kaluluwang Nagdurusa (pop-opera).