FACULTY BIOS: A through K

RICHARD ARMSTRONG (Voice) is a founding member of the Roy Hart Theatre in France. His work has taken him to over 25 countries, and inspired a whole generation of performers and their work. A founding faculty member of NYU's ETW Paris program in the eighties, his RHT production of Pagliacci won an Obie in New York in 1986. He has been part of the music theatre faculty at the Banff Centre, Canada since 1885, and teaches at Towson University, Fordham College at Lincoln Centre, and for theatre companies, universities and opera schools around the world. In 2000 he directed Musique Défilé, composed by Linda Bouchard, in both Montreal and for the Singapore Arts Festival. In 2001, he was the subject of Julie Trimingham's film documentary The Former Mrs. Butterfly - a dialogue on voice. In 2002, he performed Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King in Vancouver and directed Ms. Bouchard's new opera - The House of Words - for ETW in 2003.

ROGER BABB (Acting) was the artistic director of Otrabanda Company and a principal actor for Joseph Chaikin's Winter Project, Ping Chon's Fiji Company, Merideth Monk, Julie Taymor, The Talking Band, and many other experimental theatre artists. He was a Guest Artist and Lecturer at Princeton University for ten years and currently teaches at NYU and Swarthmore College. Otrabanda Company traveled down the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans by raft every summer for ten years in the 1970's, performing in small towns, prisons and strange venues. In the 1980's the company moved to New York and made a number of pieces that attempted to blur the distinction between dance and theatre. Brain Café won a Bessie in 1987 and in 1988 the company co-produced Ann Bogart's No Plays... No Poetry, which won an Obie. Roger won a NEA playwriting fellowship in 1991. He received his PhD in Theatre Studies from CUNY Graduate Center in 2003.

WENDELL BEAVERS (Movement) a professional dancer and choreographer, began his relationship with the Experimental Theatre Wing in 1978 as one of the program's first faculty members. He directed ETW from 1985-89 and was named a Master Teacher at Tisch in 1996. He is one of three major teachers and developers of The Viewpoints, along with originator Mary Overlie (with whom he danced from 1977-85) and the director Anne Bogart. He began choreographing his own work in the early '90s and his solo and group works have been produced in New York by Dance Theater Workshop, The Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, and a number of smaller venues. He was a co-founder and director of Movement Research, Inc., one of New York's most innovative not-for-profit arts organizations.

FRANCES BECKER (Movement) received her B.S. in Dance Education from NYU and is a certified Kinetic Awareness teacher. Originally from South Africa, she has assimilated the concepts of New Dance towards her own multi-media performance form. Her work has been performed in Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and England. Frances is the co-founder and director of the New York Dance Intensive, a professional dance training program that integrates innovative and classical dance training in a generous and creative environment. Frances has taught widely in Europe, conducting workshops in Brussels, Vienna at the Tanz Wochen, Amsterdam, Norway, Sweden, and Australia.

DAVID CALE (Self-scripting) David Cale's solo shows include the Obie Award winning Lillian, Deep in a Dream of You, Smooch Music, The Redthroats and the duet show, Betwixt. Songs with his lyrics have been performed by artists including Elvis Costello, Deborah Harry, Jimmy Scott and The Jazz Passengers. He is the author of a series of radio monologues recorded for N.P.R.'s "The Next Big Thing," for whom he is a regular contributor. He wrote the lyrics, book and co-composed the music for the musical Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, which will open at the Goodman Theatre in the 2004/5 Season.

CATHERINE CORAY (Acting) has worked with such directors as Andre Gregory, Anne Bogart, Lois Weaver and Anna Deveare Smith. She has directed solo artists Holly Hughes, Richard Hoehler, Jessica Litwak and Martin Moran and has been a Suite Artist in residence with Mabou Mines, as well as a writer in residence with the Arts at St. Ann's Puppet Lab. She has taught acting at Brooklyn College, Smith College, Bennington College, and the Eugene Lang College of the new School for Social Research. She has taught workshops and directed companies in West Virginia, Havana, Vienna and Graz, and maintains an ongoing artistic collaboration with Theater Asou of Austria. Each year she brings Tisch students together with professional playwrights, directors and actors for hotINK, a play reading festival she produces for the Department of Drama.

MAUREEN FLEMING (Butoh), an American choreographer born in Japan, has gained international recognition for her singular form of multi-media performance that spans five continents. Maureen brings the discipline of a classicist and the imagination of an iconoclast to her idiosyncratic manipulation of Butoh. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Arts International, and support from Rockefeller Foundation, National Dance Project, Asian Cultural Council, and Meet the Composer, among others. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at LaMaMa, ETC since 1984.

PAT HALL (Afro-Haitian Dance) is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Choreography. She has appeared as a guest artist with Urban Bush Women and co-choreographed their Bessie award-winning theatre production, Praise House. Pat has taught and performed throughout Europe, Korea and Singapore. Festival performances include: International Meeting of Movement Theatre in Budapest, the Switzerland Willisau Jazz, and Colorado Dance Festival. Teaching residencies include Cornell University and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. She has received travel grants to study in Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Peru, and West Africa. Pat was a consultant and teaching artist for BAM's DanceAfrica 2003.

MARGARET JANSEN (Voice) is a designated Linklater Voice Teacher. She received her B.S. in Communication Disorders from Penn State and trained as an actor at the University of Pittsburgh. Margaret has taught vocal coached extensively with Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, Ma) in their training and education departments. She has directed several productions, her favorite being "The Life and Death of King John".

JONATHAN HART MAKWAIA (Voice) served as musical director, composer and performer for the Roy Hart Theatre of France in the 70's and 80's. Credits include Pagliacci (winner of 1985 New York Obie Award), De Vive Voix (chosen to represent France on a tour of seven South American countries), and Kaspar (first prize at the Charles Dullin Festival of Villejuif, Paris). Recent work includes a commission for Molissa Fenley at the Joyce Theatre, the MATA composers' series produced by Philip Glass, singing the title role in Gene Tyranny's new opera Blue, The Driver's Son, and recording a new CD of his solo concert music, called "a spectacular display of vocal timbres and techniques" by the New York Times.

SASKIA HEGT (Acting) holds an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Leiden and an M.F.A. from NYU. She trained with Jerzy Grotowski, Lloyd Richards, Eugenio Barba, and Joseph Chaikin, and acted with Andre Gregory's Manhattan Theater Project, appearing in their Obie award winning productions of Alice in Wonderland and Our Late Night. She has worked with Anne Bogart, Stephanie Skura, Richard Schechner, and Liz Swados, and performed at major theatre festivals in Europe and South America. Her directing projects have taken her to Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Canada, and she has worked with South Africans from Capetown, with Chileans in Santiago and Punta Arenas, and with Ecuadorians in Quito.

REBECCA HOLDERNESS (Voice) is an emerging theater director on the cusp of achieving national recognition for her work as a professional director. In addition, she is a certified teacher of The Fitzmaurice Voice Technique. Directing credits include Travesties for Burning Coal/Spoletto USA, Visitations at Pace University/The Drama League, The Life of Spiders and Einstein's Dreams with Holderness Theater Company at The Culture Project, What You Will-Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and The Rover at Lincoln Center Institute, Riddles of Bamboo at Lincoln Center Theatre Lab, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe for the Lincoln Center Institute, One Million Butterflies by Steve Belber at Julliard, Nervous Splendor at Tweed, and Edward II at NYU. She has also directed productions for Shakespeare and Company, Burning Coal, NC, and abroad. Rebecca holds an MFA from Columbia, a BA from Vassar and was a Drama League & Lincoln Center Lab Director. In addition to the Experimental Theatre Wing, Rebecca teaches at Tisch Undergraduate Drama, CAP21 and The New School.

K.J. HOLMES (Movement) is a dancer, singer, poet and body-worker who has been exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. She travels worldwide teaching and performing, as a soloist and in collaborations with other artists such as Simone Forti, Image Lab (Lisa Nelson, Karen Nelson and Scott Smith), and Steve Paxton. She teaches regularly in NYC at Movement Research and at the Trisha Brown Studios, and is a 1999 graduate of the School for Body-Mind Centering.

TERRY KNICKERBOCKER (Acting) is a graduate of ETW. He trained with William Esper, with whom he now teaches Sanford Meisner's approach to acting. He is the recipient of the Drama League's directing fellowship. He has directed various productions at the Hanger Theatre, Yale University, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Circle Rep., and other theatres in NYC. As an actor, he was a member of Rina Yerushalmi's Teatron Company at La Mama E.T.C., and acted in numerous productions directed by Anne Bogart.

KEVIN KUHLKE (Acting) has performed with, among others, Rebecca Holderness, Anne Bogart, Robert Wilson, Mabou Mines, performance artist Michael Myers, Rina Yerushalmi, The Builders Association, and in his own original solo pieces. He was a member of the Iowa Theater Lab and Stage One Theater Lab/Boston. He has performed at such venues as PS 122, the Public Theater, Washington Square Church, LaMama ETC, Danspace, LAICA, MOMA, and the New Theatre Festivals, and directed for Seattle Rep., Huntington Theater/Boston, Atlantic Theater Company, Theater for a New Audience, American Playhouse PBS (O! Pioneers with Mary McDonnell), the City Theater in Rekjavik (2 USIA directing grants) and for graduate acting programs in Holland and at Tisch/NYU. Work with new playwrights includes Darrah Cloud (The Mud Angel), Elizabeth Egloff (The Swan), Erin Wilson (Gretel) and Arthur Giron (Becoming Memories). His original play Winesburg: Small Town Life had its world premiere at the Perseverance Theater. He is currently the director of the Amsterdam International Theater Workshop and Chair of the Drama Department at Tisch/NYU. As former Studio Director of ETW, he created and directed several original plays and produced over 75 productions.