cdcArts: founding members and teaching staff
TIM PRENTKI
From 1992, Professor Prentki has run workshops on Theatre for Development in the Phillipines, Nigeria , Zambia , India , Bangladesh and Italy . These included curriculum development for informal education projects and trainer training for international agencies and NGO's such as Save the Children. His major consultancy work includes a HIV/AIDS Awareness Project for the British Council in Cameroon in 1996; a report on Youth Theatre for the Arts Council of Ireland in 1998 and a staff training project in TFD for FCHD Dhaka in 2000.
DAVE PAMMENTER
As a founding member and artistic director of the Belgrade Theatre in Education team he contributed to a model for the international development of Theatre In Education. As co-Founder/Joint Artistic Director of Theatre Foundry, Walsall he was responsible for new work, community play policy and the introduction of TIE provision for West Midlands ' schools.
His project work has included the TASINTA "Respect Project" with Commercial Sex Workers, the 'Fountain of Hope' and Safe T Child - Street Children Drama and Education projects in Zambia and Tanzania . He has also worked in the U.K. with Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout TIE, Raw Image Theatre Collective, the RSC Fringe Stratford-upon-Avon, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield , Theatre Adad, Freitheatern, Stockholm and the M6 Theatre Company.
ALEX MAVROCORDATOS
Responsible for developing strategies in Participatory Performance Practices in Community Drama and Theatre For Development as well as exploring the use of Information Technology, hypermedia and the internet in the field of community development and cultural action in the South Pacific, Mali, South Africa, Zambia, Nepal and Greece.
He has provided project evaluation and trainer training i.a.for DFID (Department for International Development), National Theatre of Namibia, OXFAM, the British Council and UNICEF.
These projects and courses has explored TFD in the context of 'Social Development'; cultural policies for Development; training in Participatory Performance Practices for street theatre performers with particular emphasis on Human Rights and Gender issues; using drama and Theatre in Education for teachers to use drama to address prejudice and marginalisation.
JOHN PETT
As a writer and director of documentary film he has won two EMMY Awards at the New York Film and Television Festival. He has been a series director for Channel Four, and made numerous documentary programmes for Central, HTV, Granada , Channel 4 and the BBC. For example, The Secrets of the General , set in Paraguay , for BBC2 and Stranger in a Strange Land, the story of Karen Gershon, the holocaust poet, Channel 4. He was also responsible for episodes in The World at War for Thames TV, The Story of English for the BBC and The Christians for Granada . His drama-documentary for Channel 4, Going Home , was reviewed in Cahiers du Cinema.
YVETTE HUTCHISON
As a teacher, lecturer and researcher in English, Drama and Communication Yvette has worked in South Africa and the United Kingdom . Her specialist interests include African drama, performance history, myth, memory and literature. Her publications include Open Space: an introduction to African Drama , and History and Theatre in Africa .
GORDON MURRAY
Workshop leader for the Kings Head Theatre in London and director of the Backbone Theatre Company, performing new work and site specific large events.
GREGORY NAUGHTON
An actor, director and writer for TV, Film & Theatre-in-Education in New Zealand and founder of the Sun Theatre Company (new works & street theatre) he is currently investigating community applications of new media.
