![]() Alyssa is a certified Hatha yoga teacher, an Alexander Technique Teaching in training with Joe Krienke (Soma Studios, Minneapolis), and a former upper level competitive gymnast and cheerleader. in Theatre Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a 2010 alumna of Dell’Arte International’s MFA.Īlyssa (she/they) is a character actor, movement and teaching artist, and theater director who has been teaching acrobatics, physical training, and movement at Dell’Arte International since 2015. She has trained and performed internationally in Italy, Russia, and Bali. She is a certified Michael Chekhov Technique instructor and is nearing the completion of her training with Soma Studios to become a certified Alexander Technique teacher. Before moving back to California, Julie made theatre in Chicago as a company member of The Moving Dock Theatre Company/Chekhov Studio Chicago and performed and studied with various Chicago companies. Mary’s College Theatre Program as well as a teaching-artist with a variety of Bay Area schools and companies from youth to adults. She was on faculty at the American Conservatory Theater (MFA, SFS, Studio A.C.T.) and St. Julie has been a medical clown with the Medical Clown Project, connecting and playing with youth and elders at a variety of facilities. Shakes, Idiot String, Cutting Ball, Impact Theatre, Shotgun Players and more, as well as in clown cabarets and festivals of devised performance. Over the past 11 years in the Bay Area she has performed with We Players, S.F. Julie is an actor, deviser, teacher and clown. ![]() Head of Arts Engagement & Full Time Faculty He was also the lead artist for an international collaborative installation of emotion masks titled A Universal Feeling (2019). Outside of the theater, his masks have appeared in exhibitions such as Missing Your Face (2021), Maskibition (2020, 2012) and Reveal:Conceal (2019). He is a cofounder of the Teaching Artist Studio at Arts For Learning NW, a program began in 2013 to address the professional development needs of teaching artists. Tony’s teaching has included arts-integrated residencies for multiple grade levels in both Portland and New York City public schools after-school classes and summer camps for multiple arts organizations and community centers and skills-based workshops in commedia dell’arte and mask-making for college students and professionals. Tony continued his exploration in devising mask plays with the internationally renowned Familie Flöz. Gusto neutral mask and bouffon with Giovanni Fusetti and studied leather mask making and commedia with the Sartori family at the Centro Maschere e Strutture Gestuali. He was also privileged to be the mask-maker for the youth musical MAYA in Mumbai, India in 2014.Ī graduate of the University of Kansas and Dell’Arte PTP, Tony has also trained in traditional mask carving and masked dance in Bali with Nyoman Setiawan and I.B. Tony has designed masks, coached actors in movement, puppeetered, and directed shows around the country. Tony Is a theater artist exploring transformation, expression, and story through masks and puppetry. Interim Head of Training Programs & Full Time Faculty (Mask Making, Commedia)
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