Stephen Wrentmore is a British theatre director, writer, educator, and strategist currently working in the United States.
Wrentmore is currently a lecturer at the University of Kentucky’s College of Fine Arts, Department of Theatre & Dance. [1] He previously worked as Artistic Producer at Poole's Centre for the Arts (UK) [2] and as Associate Artistic Director at Arizona Theatre Company, [3] where he founded the new play development series, featuring workshop performances with writers such as Larissa FastHorse, Caridad Svich, Kristiana Colón, Lauren Yee, and Brian Dykstra. [4] [5] Wrentmore was also Artistic Director of The Byre Theatre [6] in St Andrews, Scotland, and worked with Trevor Nunn and John Caird at the Royal National Theatre in London and as Associate Director on the world tour of Hamlet , featuring Simon Russell Beale in the title role.
Wrentmore's directing work has been showcased internationally and throughout the United States, including productions in New York, California, Arizona, Minneapolis, Boston, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, Moscow, Omsk, Kosovo, Latvia, Cyprus, Kazakhstan and Serbia. [7] His writing has been published by Theatre Communications Group [8] [9] and featured in contemporary adaptations of the works of William Shakespeare, including productions in Arizona, [10] Oklahoma, [11] and Kentucky, [12] and his work as a curator includes an exhibition and publications by artist Ineke Van der Val [13] and Denise Webber. As an educator, he also developed the MyShakespeare learning program, focused on forging connections between Shakespearean themes and the modern world, and worked as a learning consultant for Tate Gallery.
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Wrentmore grew up in north and west London. He studied at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Central School of Drama at the University of London, and is a Fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme.
Anneliese Louise van der Pol is a Dutch-born actress based in the United States. She is best known for her portrayal of Chelsea Daniels on the Disney Channel series That's So Raven (2003–2007) and its spin-off Raven's Home (2017–2023). In association with Disney Channel, van der Pol has recorded several songs, including "Over It", which was featured on the Stuck in the Suburbs soundtrack.
Oregon Ballet Theatre (OBT) is a ballet company in Portland, Oregon, United States. The company performs an annual five-program season at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts and conducts regional and national tours. It was featured in the October/November 2007 issue of Pointe magazine, with principal dancer Kathi Martuza on the cover.
The Arizona Theatre Company is a nonprofit, professional regional theater company operating in both Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona. It performs a full season at two theatres—the only League of Resident Theatres member to do so—at the Temple of Music and Art in Tucson, Arizona and Tempe Center for the Arts in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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The Soho Repertory Theatre, known as Soho Rep, is an American Off-Broadway theater company based in New York City which is notable for producing avant-garde plays by contemporary writers. The company, described as a "cultural pillar", is currently located in a 65-seat theatre in the TriBeCa section of lower Manhattan. The company, and the projects it has produced, have won multiple prizes and earned critical acclaim, including numerous Obie Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Drama Critics' Circle Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. A recent highlight was winning the Drama Desk Award for Sustained Achievement for "nearly four decades of artistic distinction, innovative production, and provocative play selection."
The Cape Town City Ballet Company, formerly known as the CAPAB Ballet Company, is a dance company based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Thomas P. Riccio is an American multimedia artist and academic. He received his BA from Cleveland State University in English Literature in 1978, his MFA from Boston University in 1982, and studied in the PhD program in Performance Studies at New York University from 1983 to 1984. Riccio has directed over one hundred plays at American regional theatres, off-off and off Broadway and has worked extensively in the area of indigenous and ritual performance conducting research and/or creating performances in: South Africa, Zambia, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Europe, Russia, Siberia, Korea, India, Nepal, China, and Alaska. In 1993 the People's Republic of Sakha declared him a “Cultural Hero”.
The Byre Theatre is a theatre in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. It was founded in 1933 by Charles Marford, an actor and Alexander B. Paterson, a local journalist and playwright, with help from a theatre group made up from members of Hope Park Church, St Andrews.
Sarah Benson is a British director of avant-garde theatre productions based in New York. As a Director of the Soho Rep, a lower Manhattan-based theatre company with an "audacious taste in plays", she is notable for her "commitment to adventurous new plays with an experimental bent". She has been at the company since 2007, and during her tenure, the company has won numerous Obie awards and Drama Desk nominations.
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Imago Theatre is a professional feminist theatre company based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The company was founded in 1987 by Andres Hausmann, Ray Tomalty, and Kelly Patterson, and is now led by the current Artistic and Executive Director, Krista Jackson. Imago Theatre is a catalyst for conversation, an advocate for gender inclusion and a space that centres feminist values and artistic practices.
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Rosana Cade is a Glasgow-based live performance artist. They are known mainly for their queer, feminist and activist approaches to work. They are notable for winning the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Awards 2016, for Physical/Visual Theatre with Cock and Bull, and has toured work to The National Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre and international venues including Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon, Frascati, Amsterdam and Kwai Fong Theatre, Hong Kong.
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