Erin B. Mee has directed at the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, SoHo Rep, HERE, The Magic Theatre, and The Guthrie Theater in the United States, and with Sopanam in India. She is the Founding Artistic Director of This Is Not A Theatre Company, with whom she has conceived and directed Pool Play, A Serious Banquet, Readymade Cabaret, Ferry Play, Subway Plays,Festival de la Vie for the Avignon Festival, Versailles 2015/2016, Pool Play 2.0  for the International Theatre Festival of Kerala, Theatre In The Dark: Carpe Diem, Play!, Readymade Cabaret 2.0, Play In Your Bathtub(also translated into Russian and performed by WOWWOWWOW in Moscow), Guru of Touch for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and Tree Confessions for the Edinburgh, Brighton, Melbourne, and Philadelphia Fringe festivals. Three of her productions will be part of FIBA (International Theatre Festival of Buenos Aires) in 2022. She is the author of Theatre of Roots: Redirecting the Modern Indian Stage, co-editor of Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage, editor of DramaContemporary: India, and co-editor of Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000. She has written numerous articles for TDR, Theatre Journal, Performance Research, American Theatre Magazine, and other journals and books. Her born-digital Scalar article “Hearing the Music of the Hemispheres” won the ATHE-ASTR Award for Best Digital Article in 2016. She has lectured and taught in India, China, Argentina, Nepal, England, and Spain. She is Associate Arts Professor, Department of Drama, Tisch, NYU. www.erinbmee.com

 

Joan Macintosh was a founding member of The Performance Group in 1967. With the Group she played Agave and Dionysus in Dionysus in 69, OBIE Award) a Dark Power in Makbeth, Clementine in Commune, for which she won an OBIE for Distinguished Performance, Jean Harlow in The Beard, Becky Lou in The Tooth of Crime (OBIE), Mother Courage in Mother Courage and Her Children, in New York, and on tour in the US and India, Marilyn Monroe in The Marilyn Project, Jocasta in Ted Hughes adaptation of Seneca’s Oedipus, and Spalding Gray’s mother in Sakonnet Point. In the 59 years that Joan has been a professional actor she has worked with many distinguished directors, among them Richard Schechner, of course, Ivo van Hove, JoAnne Akalaitis, Joseph Chaikin, Andre Gregory, Richard Foreman, Liz Swados, Liz Diamond, Suzan-Lori Parks, Annie Dorsen, Sir Peter Hall, Richard Jones, Liviu Ciulei, Chris Markle, Zelda Fichandler, Carey Perloff, Michael Greif, Robert Woodruff, Austin Pendleton, Mary Robinson, Brian Mertes, Travis Preston, Jan Eliasberg and Jo Bonney; and has played many wonderful leading characters with brilliant actors in New York, and in theaters around the world. Additional Awards: Drama Desk for Request Concert; Herald Angel Award for Distinguished Performance in More Stately Mansions, Edinburg Festival; Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress in Britannicus; and an OBIE for Sustained Excellence of Performance; JDR III Grant for travel and study in India, Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea; USIA Grants for India, Southeast Asia and South Africa. She has taught acting internationally throughout her acting career, and currently directs and teaches acting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. She is writing a book about her years in the Experimental Theatre, 1967-78. Joan is a Fox Fellow and a member of The Actors Center in NY.