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Meet some of the artists who contribute so much to the young
writers in Each One Reach One's programs. |
Barbara Cannon
Barbara received her BA in Dramatic Arts
from UC Berkeley, then quickly established herself as an actress,
director and artistic director throughout the Bay Area. Barbara
has been the assistant artistic director for the Palo Alto Players,
Associate Director for Hillbarn Theatre and currently resides at
Bus Barn Theater in Los Altos as the Artistic Director. She is also
the co-founder of the Actors Connection, an actor's workshop.
David Garrett
David has been working as an actor with professional
and semiprofessional theater companies in Northern California for
the past 12 years. He has an MFA in Acting from UC Davis, and has
served on the Board of Directors of the Playwrights' Center of San
Francisco. He is also the Artistic Director of 'Pass The Hat Presents...'
a production company aimed at producing new works by local playwrights.
Meredith
Hagedorn
Meredith went through an intensive teen
conservatory at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. She then went
on to Webster Conservatory for the Fine Arts, and graduated from
Illinois State University with a BA in Theater. She has been a professional
stage actress throughout the country before landing in the Bay Area
a couple of years ago. She has begun her own teen/adult-acting classes
in Palo Alto and an after-school drama program in San Mateo. She
began working with Each One Reach One in Spring 2000 as a mentor.
Last fall she founded Dragon Productions, and produced and starred
in its debut show, Blood Moon by Nicholas Kazan, which premiered
March 8, 2001, in San Francisco.
Raquel
(Rocky) Haro
Raquel has a BA of Fine Arts
from UC Berkeley. She has worked throughout the Bay area as an actress,
director and producer. She is co-founder and co-artistic director
of the theater group Teatro Sabor in San Francisco. Rocky has performed
and toured with such groups as Make a Circus, Teatro de la Esperanza,
Theater Works, BRAVA and Life on the Water/New York International
Festival.
Tessa Koning-Martinez
Tessa earned
her BA from Evergreen State College in Washington. She has toured
nationally with El Teatro de la Esperanza and Larger than Life Productions.
In San Francisco, she has created roles for new plays at the Eureka
Theater Company, the Magic Theater, TaleSpinners, and BRAVA. In
1994 she co-founded the Latina Theater Lab, a Bay Area production
company, where she writes, directs and performs original works.
From 1989 to 1990, Tessa worked as a drama teacher and playwright
for the Learning Through Education in the Arts program for San Francisco
public schools.
Allyson
Kulavis
Allyson will perform
with the San Francisco Shakespeare Company and Women's Will in Summer
2001. Most recently, she appeared with the Center Repertory Company
as Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew. Allyson has also
spent two summer seasons with the Marin Shakespeare Company as Portia
in The Merchant of Venice and Olivia in Twelfth Night.
Other Bay Area credits include King Lear at the 450 Geary,
Problem Child at the Exit Theater, and roles with American
Citizen's Theater, Theatre Rhinoceros, Antenna Theater Company (as
a puppeteer), New Conservatory Theater Company, San Francisco Fringe
Festival and Shotgun Players. A graduate of Vassar College, Allyson
holds a BA in Theater and Cultural Anthropology.
Latania
Lewis
Latania is a Bay Area native and graduate of
Regents College of New York. She has performed on stage in New York,
Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and in Shakespeare's Comedy of
Errors at Stinson Beach and As You Like It in Mill Valley.
She has completed several corporate industrials and voiceover projects,
and can be seen on the Indie Film Festival circuit in Override.
Latania's true passion is working with young people and introducing
them to the dramatic arts. She has taught and directed for the San
Francisco Shakespeare Festival's youth summer camps and Crossroads
Academy.
Alexis
Lezin
Alexis trained in the
theater at Sarah Lawrence College and appears regularly on stage,
television and screen. She can be seen weekly as the host of Independent
View, a program about independent films on KQED television.
She has provided the voices for dozens of commercials, documentaries
and cartoons, and can be found each week on the World Wide Web in
Mondo Media's Piki and Poko, Absolute Zero, and Like,
News. She appeared on stage as Berenger in Theatre Rhinoceros,
and the production of Ionesco's classic Rhinoceros. Her work
with renowned Bay Area companies includes: Marigold Cassandra in
Campo Santo; production of Denis Johnson's first play Hellhound
on My Trail (World Premiere); Skinhead Girl in Naomi Iizukza's
Polaroid Stories (West Coast Premiere) with Campo Santo;
Cyclotronia in Bake Sale with The Fifth Floor; Amber (and other
roles) in Douglas Carter Beane's As Bees in Honey Drown at
Theatreworks. Theatre Rhinoceros credits include: Renata in Doug
Holscaw's The Last Hairdresser (reprised at the Zephyr Theater
in Los Angeles); multiple roles in Danny Scheie; production
of The Stand-In (which earned her a SF Weekly Black Box Award).
She played the leading role of Natalie in the film Sleep Come
Free Me, which garnered audience choice awards in film festivals
worldwide including Berlin, Austin and San Francisco.
Michael
McLaughlin
Michael has worked extensively
with youth teaching writing and various other aspects of theater
arts. After receiving his BA from Sarah Lawrence College, he taught
summer writing workshops for youth at Johns Hopkins University's
Center for Talented Youth. He has worked as drama instructor at
The New Conservatory Theater. As Theater Artist-In-Residence, he
taught drama and playwriting at Gateway Magnet High School in San
Francisco. Michael has written several original one-act plays, which
have been performed in New York as well as the Bay Area.
Ray
Renati
Ray has been acting
and singing on San Francisco Bay Area stages for 11 years. He also
has acted in a number of independent films and industrial videos.
Some of his favorite stage roles have been Biff in Death of a
Salesman, Burton in Burn This and most recently Emile
Carpeau in The Deadly Game at the Hillbarn Theatre in Foster
City. Ray is filming a short independent film titled Mint Milano,
due for release Summer 2001. He received his acting training from
the Jean Shelton Actors Lab and from Ed Hooks. Ray lives in Palo
Alto with his wife Katie and four-year-old son Jeremy, and is a
graduate of UC Berkeley.
Robert
Wu
Robert has served as
mentor and creative coach for Each One Reach One since its inception.
He is an accomplished writer and actor, performing on stage and
screen. As a writer, Robert's work has been produced by Festival
of American Playwrights of Color and American College Theater Festival
(ACTF Meritorious Achievement Award; Kennedy Center Finalist Honors
with Joe Lopez). As a performer, he has appeared at numerous theater
venues including Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, California Shakespeare
Festival, TheatreWorks, Shakespeare at Stinson, Subterranean Shakespeare,
Edinburgh Fringe Festival and The New Conservatory Theater Center
(SF Bay Guardian Great Performance Award for The Nanjing Race).
He has also been seen in the independent films SF, Bad Guys,
and Kung Phooey, the festival short Busted Cookie,
and the video release Clerks of Darkness. Robert is a founding
member of R/EVOLUTION Theatre Company, seeking to move people towards
social awareness and change through performing arts.
Tiffani Sierra
Tiffani Sierra has worked with EORO for two years as a mentor and
a coordinator for the ADAPT program and has been acting for over
10 years. She is a Meisner Trained Actor who studied at the Neighborhood
Playhouse in New York as well as in San Francisco with Rachael Adler.
She has also studied at A.C.T, Jean Shelton, First Take, and The
Second City in Los Angeles. She was recently accepted into the Second
City Conservatory in Los Angeles. Some of her bay area credits include;
Learn to be Latina (Golden Thread Productions, Re-Orient 2005),
The Rise and Fall of the Monkey King (El Gato del Diablo), Lord
of the Flies (Woman’s Will) and Honour (Mendocino Theatre
Company). She was also a part of the Youth-Aware program at The
New Conservatory Theatre and taught through their satellite program
in Elementary Schools in the Bay Area.
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