Research Collaborators Past and Present

Andrew Kushnir is an award-winning playwright, actor, and community arts worker, and the creative director of Project: Humanity (P:H). Andrew guided all sites on the model of Verbatim theatre and produced the playscript for Towards Youth: A Play on Radical Hope.

Dr. Pigkou-Repousi  is an Assistant Professor in Theatre in Education at the Department of Theatre (School of Fine Arts) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Dr. Pigkou-Repousi's doctoral dissertation charted how ensemble theatre contributed to citizenship education in disadvantaged schools in Greece.

Professor Wang, of Tainan University is a leading expert in the exploration of oral history performance developed in classrooms. She focuses stories on the home and the domestic realm, to challenge the division between the public and the private.

Dr. Sahni is the founder of Prerna School and works in the area of personal and collective transformation through drama. She studies the scripted rules imposed on with lowest caste girls by home, making the domestic public, as students explore and express the politics of power that limit their lives.

Dr. King is the Assistant Professor in Creativity, Performance and Education at the Centre for Education Studies, University of Warwick. She examines the ways drama and theatre-based pedagogies can be used to create hospitable and convivial spaces for interaction between multi-ethnic communities.

Dr. Jorge Arcila is a Colombian-Canadian theater director, researcher and higher education teacher based in Bogotá-Colombia-South America. His work explores relationships between arts, collective memory and drama pedagogy in social and political post-conflict contexts.

Betsy Lan is a theatre artist, scholar, and teacher at the Junyi School of Innovation in Taitung, Taiwan.

Chia-ling Yang is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Gender Education, National Kaoshiung Normal University in Kaoshiung, Taiwan.

Bobby a practitioner and researcher committed to exploring social action and change with community groups through arts and performance.