TEACHERS

The basic team of teachers who lead the courses with diplomas is formed by:

Larry Silberman y Jorge Ferro, Monique Zepeda, Alberto Lómnitz, Miguel Alonso Gutiérrez, Perla Szuchmacher, Gabriel Labastida, Edyta Rzewuska, Claudio Hochman (Argentine), Rubén Segal (Spain), Jorge Picó (Spain), Rubens W. Correa (Argentine), Cordelia Dvorak (Germany).

MONIQUE ZEPEDA SEIN
Zepeda Sein studied education at the UNAM and psychology at the University of the Sorbone in Paris, and she got her masters degree in clinical child psychology from the Morelos State Autonomous University.

She has taught at various educational levels, and she coordinated the psycho pedagogy concentration at the Center of Expression and Learning in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She has trained teachers in the areas of psychology and children’s literature. She is a psychotherapist for children, adolescents and adults.

Zepeda Sein is a columnist in the children’s section of the newspaper Reforma. She worked under the direction of Dr. Maud Mannoni at the Bonneuil Day Hospital in Paris, a center specializing in the treatment of juvenile psychosis.

In Mexico, Zepeda Sein coordinated a center for children with developmental disabilities. She has given workshops and offered therapeutic activities to help people with mental deficiencies work, rehabilitate, and become better integrated into society.

She has published 9 books including “Un Corazón Lleno de Suerte”, “La Llave Maestra”, “Marita no Sabe Dibujar”, “Las Piñatas” and “Maria la Curandera”.

ALBERTO LOMNITZ
Director, playwright, actor and teacher, he has also done work in set design. Lomnitz has excelled as an acting teacher, offering courses, and giving conferences at universities and acting schools in New York, Chicago and Mexico City.

He founded and has directed the group “Seña y Verbo” since 1993, a theatre troupe of deaf actors. With them, he has produced ten shows and has received many grants and awards, taking the group on both national and international tours.

He directed “Trattaría d’Improvizzo”, an improvisation spectacle, and just recently, “La Estética del Crimen”. He was director of the National Theatre Company from 1998-2000.

In 2002 he was awarded the Grant for Creators from FONCA.

MIGUEL ALONSO GUTIÉRREZ BOLAÑOS CACHO
Member of the Laboratory of Voice Research Group “Son Voces”, Alonso teaches voice for the Body and Voice certificate program at the Helénico Cultural Center.

He is part of the group “Seña y Verbo”, theatre of the deaf. Alonso has taught vocal and corporal expression and creativity at institutions including the UNAM, ANDA, ITESM, UDEC University and the Cultural Institute of Guanajuato.

He was Set Director for the operas “Cavalleria Rusticana”, “Turandot”, “La Traviata”, “Rigoletto” and “La Boheme”.

Alonso was the executive director of the “Open Curtain” International Festival of Theatre for Youth in the city of Aguascalientes; he was sub director of Theatre for Schools for INBA’s National Theatre Coordination, and advisor for INBA’s National Program of Grade School Theatre. He is currently the artistic director of the El Arrebato company at the Corral Comedy Theatre and he directs the television program Zapping Zone produced by Argos Television.

GABRIEL LABASTIDA
Labastida has his masters in Dramatic Literature and Theatre, which he got at the UNAM’s school of humanities. He specialized in Psychodrama at the Escuela Mexicana de Psicodrama y Sociometria.

He has acted in many plays under the direction of Héctor Berthier, Gabriel Weis, Nicolás Nuñez, Héctor Mendoza and Gustavo Vasconcelos. He directed such plays as “a Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “Frivolitès”, “Chilangos City”, “La Cantante Calva”, “No Hay Ladrón que por Bien no Venga”, “De Cuerpo Presente” and “Ni fu, ni fa…FO”.

Labastida currently works as Academic Director of the College of Sciences and Humanities at the New Israeli School.

EDYTA RZEWUSKA
Rzewuska studied visual arts at the at the École Régionale des Beaux Arts in Caen France and specialized in set design at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs.

She taught in the Children’s Creativity Workshop at the Biblio-Club at Vanves, France, and set building and design as well as production for the University of the Americas and the Centro de Búsqueda Teatral in Puebla.

Rzewuska also did costume design consulting in the National Program of Grade-School Theatre for Casa del Teatro and for Grupo 55. She was co-organizer of the International Congress of the Federation of Theatrical Investigation.

Rzewuska’s work in set and costume design includes “The Little Prince”, “Les Bonnes Menagéres”, “Faldum”, “Ubú Desencadenado”, “Escorial”, “La Estética del Crimen”, and the opera “Tristan and Isolde”. She also created the experimental show (Installation, video and music) based on the novel “La Mise á Mort”.

Rzewuska wrote the article on “The Great National Theatre” in CITRU’s magazine “Documenta”, and she was responsible for design of the navigation and graphic work in the CD-ROM “Mexican set Design of the 20th century”.

CLAUDIO HOCHMAN
Hochman is an argentine author and director, he adapted and directed “La Comedia de las Equivocaciones”, “La Tempestad”, “El Avaro” and “Cyrano”, and he wrote and directed plays including “el Collar de Perlita”, “Alan en Vulcania”, “Lomito Completo”, “Noche de Reyes”, “Otelo y las Alegres Comadres”, “las Troyanas”, and “Hazme un Sitio”.

Hochman’s latest work was in directing a musical version of “La Nona”. He works regularly in Lisbon, Portugal, and last showed there “The Marriage of Figaro”. He has twice won the Association of Spectacle Critics award in Buenos Aires, and was recently named one of the past decade’s five greatest artists in children’s theatre by the Konex Foundation.

RUBÉN SEGAL
Segal realized his professional formation in the fields of theatre direction and teaching, group dynamics, musical comedy, Israeli and African dance, tap, biodance, and rhythm and percussions.

He is a scriptwriter, a choreographer, a producer and a director. Segal teaches theatre, musical comedy and tap dance to professional and amateur groups. He dances, assists with choreography and directing for the “Reguesh” Israeli Dance Company.

Segal gives rhythm training classes and workshops for actors and dancers in Montreal, Barcelona, Chile, Mexico and France. He has worked extensively as director and coordinator for different programs in the Schools for Social Leaders (Escuelas de Líderes sociales), and has coordinated several large-scale productions and special events at various institutions.

JORGE PICÓ
Picó got his BA in English Philology; he is a stage actor but also directs and writes drama, he has worked with Philipe Genty (Voyageur Inmobile) and Linus Tünstrom (Scarecrow) amongst others.

Most recently, Picó directed the spectacle “Pasionaria” for the company Bambalina Titelles, and “Chair de Papillon” by Damián Bouvet. As a playwright, he has shown “Náufragos”, presented by the company Vértigos/Fuegos Fatuos and “Días de ensalada”, co-written by Arturo Sánchez, Patricia Pardo, Xavi Puchades and Juli Disla. Picó has published “Cualquier Día nos Verán Soñar” in the magazine “Gestos” which won him the Alejandro Casona Award, “Enciéndeme” in the Valencia University theatre collection, a piece of work which won the Cinc Segles award, and “La Pasión Según Microsoft” which appeared in the “Revista Art Teatral”.

RUBENS W. CORREA
Correa is an outstanding figure in the world of Argentine theatre. In his career of almost fifty years he has covered both acting and directing, and has received awards and recognition.

His career in theatre education is based on the Method of Physical Actions, with which he has explored, experimented and taught many generations of actors and directors in Argentina.

He currently teaches at both the Buenos Aires Municipal school of Dramatic arts and the Barraca School and frequently travels to work in many theatres in the American continent and in Europe.