Alumni Profiles

Most recently from Chicago, Teresa Harrison is a member of Plasticene Theatre Company there with Dexter Bullard, and has written and performed their past five shows: And So I May Return, The Palmer Raids, Blank Slate, The Perimeter, and Refuge and Live Feed. Also a member of Companies Sprung with Jon Sherman and Julie Beauvais, and Dog with Leslie Buxbaum-Danzig, Tere has written and performed their original productions of Capsize and Interference. Other credits include: Clare in Tennessee William's The Two Character Play, Tamora in Titus Andronicus, Gertrude in Hamlet, Naomi Ginsberg in A Kaddish for Allen Ginsberg, and Salome in Salome. In summer 2008, Tere collaborated with Holderness Theatre Company in a production of Crave at the Boulder Fringe Festival. Currently, Tere is digging into an original work about Lady MacBeth called LM.

Kate Kohler Amory has performed in many off-Broadway theater productions including The Life of Spiders and Einstein’s Dreams (Culture Project), and Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing (Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater). Her one-woman show ‘Persona’ was featured at the prestigious Women Center Stage Festival. She has performed with many regional theatres including Shakespeare&Company and New England Shakespeare Festival. She has taught at numerous universities, Shakespeare&Company and the American Academy of Dramatic Art. She holds a master's in performance from RADA/ Kings College London and a bachelor’s in drama and theatre from Goldsmiths College, London. She is a certified Somatic Movement Educator.

Eliza Ladd is a singer, actor, teacher and original theater maker from New York City. In NY, she has created original multidisciplinary work at PS122, Dixon Place, Dia Downtown, Movement Research and the T. Schreiber Studio. Eliza is a teacher of Body DynamicsTM (freeing the performer’s instrument), she is a part of the movement faculty at Shakespeare and Co. in Massachusetts, and she has facilitated many art residencies NYC public schools. Eliza is developing a form called ‘Live Sound Action’—a multidimensional expression of sound, visual and physical image. In this form, theatrical story emerges out of the deep play between performer, object, space and time. Eliza and her company, Little Big Tree, received an encore performance of their show, Elephants and Gold, summer 2008 in the Boulder Fringe Festival.

Laurie Lynch is a graduate of California State University, Los Angeles, with a BA in theatre arts and dance. She is an artist who enjoys working with ensembles, creating original pieces. Most recently, Laurie produced, directed, and performed in an original ensemble-created piece entitled, woManish, at the Boulder International Fringe Festival. Prior to coming to Boulder, she was touring Los Angeles with the Shumka Theatre Company in Tosca Jumps! She also taught k–12 literacy through theatre. Laurie is honored to have been part of this fantabulous program!

Zorwyn Madrone creates and performs work derived through connection with community. During her years in Portland, Oregon, she taught and directed theatre for youth through such organizations as The Young People’s Theatre Project and Portland Actors Conservatory. Also in Portland, she directed shows for a new works festival and created her own solo pieces. In addition, she worked with groups using various improvisational forms for storytelling and community building. Zorwyn’s interest in exploring human drama also took a different form during the years she served as a mediator facilitating conflict resolution in workplace, court and community settings. She continues that work in the form of “Constructive Conflict:Conflict Management for Theatre Artists.” She received a bachelor's degree in performance studies from Northwestern University.

Nicollee Nazemi is a multifaceted theatrical artist. She is a dancer, actor, teacher and director, as well as a musician. Most recently, Nicollee directed, produced and performed in When Fire Speaks, a groundbreaking show bridging the worlds of fire dancing and experimental theater. Nicollee has taught extensively; most recently teaching and directing children's theater with Kids Take the Stage in San Francisco. Nicollee loves acting, Grotowski, fire dancing, Butoh, playing piano, composing and singing.

Ross Pasquale's theater credits in the San Francisco Bay Area include The Bacchae (Dionysius), Zoo Story, Mac Wellman's Sincerity Forever and works by Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams and Harold Pinter. He completed a Stanislavsky Intensive at the Moscow Art Theatre School/American Repertory Theatre.

Bobby Ryan is the co-founder (along with his husband Tyler) and artistic director of Lights Up! Productions, which produces original work for the stage and screen. He spends his life committed to the research and artistic expression of the human experience.

Cynthia Ward graduated from Western Washington University with a self-designed BA entitled "Imagination, Body, and Voice: Creativity and the Performing Arts.” Before coming to Naropa, she developed and performed new works with Stolen Chair Theatre Company and S/W/ITCHES/Looking Glass Theatre in New York. Her performing interests range from art song to Middle Eastern dance, and while we're at it—why not both together?

Damaris Webb is a graduate of the Experimental Theater Wing of NYU. Boulder credits include Holderness Theater’s production of Sarah Kane’s Crave and Laurie Lynch’s WoManish for the 2007 Boulder International Fringe. Recent directing projects include a Spring 2006 collaboration with The Compound Eye and Doctored Pictures to create How to Raise the Dead: a live event in three acts, which explored Western fascination with Hollywood Zombies, irreconcilable disconnects and resurrection. As artistic director and founding member of The Tennessee Project, Inc., her directing and acting credits are numerous; performance highlights include creating the characters of Ashira, Sangue Froid, Rita the Reckless, Candy Cain, and Sashimi for the company’s Continuing Adventures of Ashira69 Series. Damaris is a Master Teaching Artist in the New York Public School system through the not-for-profit organizations ENACT and City Lights. In partnership with the Lower East Side’s Tenement Museum and City Lights, she was the Director in Residence for the Origins Theater Summer Project from 2002–06. Damaris is a black belt of Mkeka-Do Karate/Kickboxing.

Jeremy Williams is a choreographer, director and educator. He is a graduate of the University of Louisville with an interdisciplinary degree in artistic leadership. At the U of L, Jeremy has been a teaching artist, offering instruction in Viewpoints and other movement techniques and new-work development. He is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, founding artistic director of Rhythms of Life Dance Company, and founding member/teacher with Dance!Kentucky. In addition, he is a guest artist/faculty at the Arkansas Arts Center and recipient of the Individual Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council for his dance/music collaboration with the band a.m. Sunday.

Miriam Ava Wolodarski is an old little girl with too many roots. Her love affair with experimental performance began at age fourteen, with Leave Film and Theater Company in California. She received a bachelor's degree in political science from Uppsala Universitet in Sweden, though she spent most of that college career running away to, and from, a circus in Barcelona. She has studied and performed with Tadashi Endo, Odin Teatret, Teatro LUME and others. Before coming to Naropa she managed a little dance studio called TheHereHere! in San Francisco, where she indulged in everything from Shakespeare to live installation, to public dance, to experimental circus. Miriam's good dreams are about community and her bad ones are about borders.

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