Hannah Fox, M.A., APTT is currently the Co-Director of the New York School of Playback Theatre and the founder of Big Apple Playback Theatre, a multi-cultural professional Playback Theatre company based in New York City. She is a senior trainer of Playback world-wide and author of several scholarly articles about Playback Theatre. Her book of theatre games, Zoomy Zoomy: Improv Games and Exercises for Groups is used by practitioners around the globe. Hannah is also a dancer, choreographer and performer. She is the daughter of the founders of Playback Theatre.
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Marc Weinblatt is Founder and Co-Director of the Mandala Center for Change in Port Townsend, WA, USA. Marc has been a professional educator, theatre director, activist, and workshop facilitator since 1980. He is an internationally recognized leader in the use of Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed (T.O.) and has trained thousands in the use of the techniques across the U.S. and from Afghanistan to South Africa. He has worked with communities ranging from police to homeless youth, grassroots organizers and laborers to University deans. Marc regularly facilitates T.O. based diversity / anti-oppression workshops in a wide variety of contexts with a commitment to bringing a deep sense of spirit and humanity into social justice work. Marc pioneered and has actively combined T.O. and Playback for nearly 30 years including the last 19 years with the Mandala Center's multi-ethnic, multi-generational (teens to elders) Poetic Justice Theatre Ensemble. www.mandalaforchange.com
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