Social Presencing Theather Group Biographies

GREG PIEROTTI has worked as a writer, performer, director and teacher in the entertainment industry for 15 years. He has been a member of Tectonic theater project for 12 years. He is associate writer of the play, The Laramie Project (2001 NY Drama Desk Award nominee), and of the teleplay of the same title written for HBO (2002 Emmy nominee). He is head writer of The People’s Temple, (2005 Will Glickman Award Winner for best new play), which offers an alternative narrative of Jonestown and the Peoples Temple told in the voices of the survivors of the movement. He has taught writing and performance in high schools, colleges and MFA programs, and teaches with some regularity in the MFA program at Naropa University. His next project will be working with a group of homeless LGBT youth at the Aly Forney Center in NY to facilitate the telling of their stories in their voices. He is developing several projects, which are all concerned with the re-evaluation of people and groups that have suffered stigma.

 

JOYCE RANKIN has been an Organization Development consultant for 15 years in Winnipeg Canada. Clients come from health care, agriculture, financial services and manufacturing. While in venture capital, Joyce designed a Social Audit for investment purposes, a tool for Corporate Social Responsibility. She started her first company, a private vocational school, in 1985. She has an MBA and completed a professional program in Organization Development and Advanced Human Resource Management at Columbia. Since 2002 she has also practiced cranio sacral therapy and other forms of body work. Joyce administrates the Embodied Presence:Art of Making a True Move workshop.

 

KOBUN KALUZA, founder of Al Dente Productions, made his professional debut with the Boston based Jo Ha Kyu Performance Group. He has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, has studied theater in London at the British American Drama Academy and has a playwriting MFA from Brooklyn College. Excerpts of his work have been published in literary journals such as Post Road, and Knock. In New York, Kobun has directed works of Aristophanes, Capek, and Pirandello, enjoyed residency at the Horse Trade Theater Group, acted as artistic director of Jimmy’s No. 43, and currently is head electrician at Lincoln Center Institute, as well as technical director of Spoke the Hub Dancing. His latest collaborators have been ad hoc Ballet, Loose Moon Productions, and Mile of String while plays of his have recently been produced by Blue Box Productions, and Shstrng Prdctns.

 

NICOLE VIDOR is a Life Coach and artist living and practicing in Hudson New York.. She is a Day Care and Hospice Volunteer. Her practice is guided by a deep commitment to listening and helping individuals hear their voice and to create lives in balance with their core values and passions.

 

ARAWANA HAYASHI'S work as a choreographer, performer and educator is deeply sourced in improvisation and collaboration. She teaches movement and meditation with the Presencing Institute and Otto Scharmer, at ALIA (Shambhala) Institute, Halifax, NS; and the Authentic Leadership program at Naropa University, Boulder, CO. She was Co-Director of the Dance Program at Naropa University and founder-director of the Jo Ha Kyu Performance Group in Boston. She is an Acharya, senior teacher, in Shambhala International and has brought her movement work to Eileen Fisher, Inc., to ONE cell phone company, to Youtopia Group in Vienna and to social change projects around sustainability.