Hannah Victoria Franklin, Drama 351/Autumn 2011
Hannah is a Co-Artistic Director, Administrative Director and Ensemble Member at Washington Ensemble Theatre. She is a graduate of the University of Washington’s PATP and originally from Colorado, where she earned a BA in Theatre, Film and Television from the University of Colorado at Denver. Hannah has performed in Colorado, Washington, Idaho, Minnesota, Oregon, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, Tokyo, Shizuoka and Fujiyoshida, Japan, St. Petersburg, Russia, and New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Jane Nichols, Drama 452 and 557/559, Winter 2012 Jane Nichols is an actress, director, and teacher. Her work brings together skills and techniques of Improvisation, Mask, Le Jeu, Physical Comedy, Clown, and Bouffon. She has been most influenced by her studies with Philippe Gaulier, Keith Johnstone, and her 25 year association with Shakespeare & Co in Lenox, MA. She was the Founder and Artistic Director of Crosswalk Theatre in Boston. She has taught at Juilliard, Harvard University, American Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Stella Adler Conservatory, the Actors Center, Shakespeare & Co, Emerson College, and Univ of Washington, and has coached at Cirque du Soleil.
Jane Richlovsky, Drama 421, Autumn 2011
Jane Richlovsky has been painting narrative works on patterned textiles for nearly twenty years. Her paintings have been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States, including the Museum of Northwest Art and the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington; JoAnne Artman Gallery, LA Art Show and A Shenere Velt Gallery in California; The Painting Center in New York City; Heineman-Myers Contemporary Art in Bethesda, Maryland; Art Now Miami in Miami Beach; Art Santa Fe; the Butte-Silver Bow Arts Foundation in Montana; and in Seattle at the Fetherston Gallery, Atelier 31, the Seattle Art Museum Gallery, and Pratt Gallery. She has received grants from the George Sugarman Foundation, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the King County Arts Commission, and Artist Trust. Her work is included in the collection of the King County International Airport and in private collections around the world. JaneRichlovsky.com
Richard Sloniker, Drama 251/2, Winter 2012 and Spring 2012
Richard is a writer, performer and educator. He's appeared at the Guthrie Theatre, Intiman, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Book-It Repertory Theatre, the Northwest Asian American Theatre, SIS Productions, the Village Theatre, and the Seattle Children's Theatre. He holds an MFA from the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program, is a graduate of the prestigious Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and has a Bachelor of Science in Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology.
Joshua Sobol, Drama 441, Spring 2012
Joshua Sobolo is a playwright, author and director and has written some fifty plays. Some of his plays have been translated into many languages, and performed world wide. His play GHETTO has been performed in leading theatres throughout the world and has won many awards, including The Evening Standard and The London Critics Theatre Award for Best Play of the Year, and three Best Play Awards in Japan. In Israel Sobol has five times received the David's Harp Award for "Playwright of the Year". Sobol has directed productions in Israel, Germany, Switzerland and the USA. He has been teaching and conducting Drama Workshops at the universities of Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva in Israel, and at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. His first novel "SILENCE" appeared in Israel in 2000, in Germany in 2001 and in Holland in 2002. Wikipedia entry for Joshua Sobol.
From the UW's Stroum Jewish Studies Program (SJSP) newsletter: "The Charles
and Lynn
Schusterman
Family Foundation,
through its
Schusterman
Visiting Artist
Program, has
chosen the
University of Washington to host
renowned Israeli playwright, director
and author Joshua Sobol during spring
quarter. The SJSP is partnering with
the UW School of Drama and other
campus units to develop a residency
for Sobol that incorporates teaching
as well as public performances."
Matt Starritt, Drama 213, Winter 2012 Matt is a freelance sound designer and writer from Seattle. He designs sound for both theater and dance and was a founder of the Washington Ensemble Theatre, where he was also the resident sound designer for the company's first four seasons. His most recent designs have been for the Seattle Repertory Theatre where he designed the sound for The Seafarer, boom and The Imaginary Invalid. Other recent designs: The Washington Ensemble Theatre'sBlahBlahBlah:BANG! at On the Boards, pro re nata for LAUNCH dance theatre, as well as Waxie Moon's Extreme Boylesque at the OTB Northwest New Works Festival 2008, The K of D for Pistol Cat Productions, Swansong for Seattle Shakespeare Company, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Persuasion for Book-It Repertory,Iphigenia in Aulis, Crumbs Are Also Bread, Museum Play, CRAVE, and Finer Noble Gases at The Washington Ensemble Theatre, and Ring Round the Moon for the UW School of Drama.
Charlotte Tiencken, Drama 456, Winter 2012
Charlotte is an administrator, director, producer, and educator who has been working in the producing and presenting fields for 25 years. Before moving back to the Seattle area in September 2003, she was general manager at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. As president of her own consulting firm, Scarlet Productions, she has worked with companies across the country, including Chitresh Das Dance Company in San Francisco, Ben Munisteri Dance in New York, Seattle Theatre Group, EnJoy Productions in Seattle, and Westwind, Inc. in Oregon, among many others. She has taught at Seattle Pacific University, the University of Washington, the Evergreen State College, and the University of Puget Sound. She has been an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. for seven years. Ms. Tiencken is a member of SDC, the union of stage directors and choreographers, and is past president of the board of Arts Northwest. She has served on the board of the Pat Graney Dance Company, on granting panels for the Washington State Arts Commission and 4 Culture, and was president of the board of Theatre Puget Sound. Her most recent directing credits include Cyrano de Bergerac for the Vashon Park District, Fool for Love at Stone Soup Theatre, and On the Verge at Seattle Pacific University. She lives on Vashon Island with her husband, Bill, three cats and two dogs.
Bret Torbeck, Drama 466, Winter 2012
In Seattle, Bret has worked on Cinderella, A Christmas Story, Candide, Catch Me If You Can, Sunday in the Park with George, Cabaret and Into the Woods (The 5th Avenue Theatre) and The Brothers Size, Fences, Doubt, Restoration Comedy, Topdog/Underdog, Wit, Sisters Matsumoto and The Time of Your Life, among others (Seattle Rep). His other regional theatre work includes Much Ado about Nothing,Amadeus, The Tempest, The Women, The Sisters Rosensweig and Take Me Out (Old Globe). The Wiz and Around the World in 80 Days (CENTERSTAGE), Uncle Vanya and The Triumph of Love (Long Wharf Theatre), the world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Arizona Theatre Company), When Grace Comes In (La Jolla Playhouse), American Conservatory Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theater. He has worked on the National Tours of Proof, Spamalot and The Phantom of the Opera. Mr. Torbeck also volunteers for the Cascade Bicycle Club in Seattle.
