Daniela Simmons, Ph.D, T.E.P., is the creator of TELE'DRAMA and founder and director of the Expressive Therapies Training Institute (ETTi), offering workshops on action methods in North Texas, other states and internationally. Dr. Simmons teaches experiential tools and didactic; preparing the students pursuing certification to take both the written and on-site exams. She has conducted and published various research on action methods. Daniela Simmons', professional experience, both in Europe and the US, is in educational, research, and consultancy work in the social sciences, applied gerontology and mental health. She has been utilizing action methods sessions since 1995 in Europe and since 2005 in the US. Daniela Simmons is the President of the American Society in Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) and executive editor for the American Journal in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. |
Peter Pitzele has a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Literature; he taught at Harvard and Brooklyn College. In l978 he became a student of Zerka Moreno, was certified in Psychodrama in 1979, became a TEP and Director of Training at the Moreno Institute until it closed in 1982. He became the Director of Psychodrama Services at Four Winds Hospital in New York from 1983-1996. During that time he and his wife Susan developed Bibliodrama, the application of role-playing and improvisational theater to biblical texts. In addition to traveling widely in the United States and abroad to share this method, Peter taught at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, the Jewish Theological Seminary, at the Academy for Jewish Religion, and in the Doctor of Ministry program at Hebrew Union College. In 1989 Peter and Susan traveled to Germany and in the following years co-founded the European form of Bibliodrama named Bibliolog which has trained more than 12,000 pastors and educators in the method from all over the world. |