AeRan

Jeong

Director

Actor

Writer

Born in Seoul, South Korea, AeRan established Korean theatre and international theatre experiences for 30 years, currently working as an actor, director and teacher.

She worked in Seoul as a professional theatre actor developing skills in Korean dance and song and left in 1997 to search for different theatre traditions. Received trainings from Odin Teatret in Denmark and Grotowskian Theatre in Poland as well as in Italy.

Performed with Eugenio Barba, “Ur-Hamlet” (Denmark, Italy, Poland), “The Marriage of Medea” (Denmark) and participated in series of Grotowski workshops from Zigmund Molik, Ewa Benesz, Maud Robart, Jairo Cuesta and James Slowiak, Thomas Richards, Mario Biagini and Gay Pin. Also performed Korean arts across France, Belgium and Senegal. In addition, she gave numerous workshops in Canada, New York, Morocco, France and South Korea.

She pursued her BFA (2004) in Acting at University of Saskatchewan, Canada, her MA (2006) in Performance Studies at New York University under Richard Schechner. She obtained her Ph.D. (2016) in Theatre Anthropology/Ethnoscenology at University Paris 8 in France under Jean-Marie Pradier & Jean-François Dusigne.

She currently teaches at Theatre Department, Sangmyung University, South Korea, and is the Director of Publication Committee of ITI International Theatre Institute-Unesco Korea Centre.

Artistic Director

Educator

Educator dedicated to making the impossible possible. Participant at Grotowski’s “University of Research” in Wroclaw, Poland. Actor, and artistic co-director of AMOK-Theater Lab Vienna, Austria. (1975 - 80).

Performed in theatres, streets, art festivals and films throughout Europe and North America (Bonn, Vienna, Rome, Amsterdam, London, New York, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, Saskatoon). Conducts workshops for children, youth, educators, actors and dancers.

Classroom teacher, grades 1-12, GSCS 1983 - 2020.Sessional Lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan since 1984 - 2022.

Company Untamed invited by Henry Woolf to perform (AKA Gallery Saskatoon 2009.) Grass Jelly, a visual tone poem traversing the space between the meetings of individuals & their rivers of culture.

Movies:Dead Flowers (1992) and Zechmeister (1981).

Raymon Montalbetti

Kristen

Holfeuer

Director

Writer

Actor

Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Kristen works in Canada and the United States as a director, actor, choreographer, and producer.

Directing credits include: “Beat” (Dixon Place), “Amy Surratt's First and Last (show)” (La MaMa ETC.), “Matchstick” (Persephone Theatre, Great Canadian Theatre Company), and “Bear” & “Alaska” (Short Cuts Festival).

Kristen is the founder of Archive Theatre which creates and produces movement-based theatre in a style called "Glyphwork".

She received training from the One Yellow Rabbit Intensive, Magnetic North Compass Points program, Luminato Festival Copycat Academy, the Globe Theatre Conservatory Actor Training Program, and Nightwood Theatre’s Female Director’s Summit, and workshops with Old Trout Puppet Workshop, The Grotowski Institute, Bedlam Theater, and East Coast Artists.

She earned her BFA from University of Saskatchewan Drama Department and MA in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch. Kristen lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their little dog, Wolfie.