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    Oleg Liptsin
      artistic director,  founder of ITE

    Mr. Liptsin studied theater at Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow with Anatoly Vasiliev and Mikhail Butkevich.  He worked as an actor and assistant director at renowned Moscow State Theatre “School of Dramatic Arts” (Theatre de l’Europe) under artistic direction of Anatoly Vasiliev.
      In 1989 Oleg established one of the first independent theatre ensembles in Ukraine – TheaterClub/Kiev – which became a leading experimental and avant-garde theatre-laboratory in the country.
      TheaterClub/Kiev has produced more than 20 shows and experimental theatre projects that were presented not only in Ukraine but also in Austria, Poland, Canada, Russia, USA and Spain. Such productions as “Antigone” by Sophocles, “Me” by Khvylovy, “Ulysses” by Joyce, “The Old Woman” by Gogol and Kharms – directed by Mr. Liptsin were distinguished with various theatrical awards and presented at numerous international festivals.
      In early 90th Oleg has started his directing and teaching career in Europe and other parts of the world.  In 1993-94 – teaching at the “Konrad Wolf” Film and TV Institute in Potsdam/Babelsberg, Germany.  In 1995 – teaching at the National School of Drama in Delhi, India.  From 1995 Oleg Liptsin began working in USA and later – in Canada, from 2003 - in Paris.
      Awarded a National Award for Experimental Work in Theatre by the Theatre Union of Ukraine, won the “Best Director” award and 3 nominations for “Best Director” and “Best Actor” in Ukraine, participated in more than 30 international festivals.   
      Currently Mr. Liptsin works as director and professor of drama in different parts of the world. He established and conducted the post-graduate educational program in stage directing at National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kiev, teaches acting at Slavic University in Moscow and at Shelton Theater School in San Francisco, manages the InternationalTheaterEnsemble – recently established experimental international theatrical network.
      Oleg Liptsin’s most recent directing credits include: "A Propos Of The Wet Snow (notes from the underground)" by F.Dostoevsky, “The Gamblers” by N.Gogol at PODOL Theatre in Kiev,  “The Outcry” by T.Williams in SF.  Currently Oleg works on the multi-media project GOGOL's OVERCOAT.


  Kevin  Quennesson
  video art programmer (creative technology)  

     was born in France and studied sciences in the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, leading French school of Engineering.  He came to the USA in 2004 and studied philosophy at Stanford and computer vision and graphics at GeorgiaTech.  His interests are in the intersection of technologies and the humanities.
      He showed his first work called “conscious=camera” in August 2005 at Siggraph, LA in the Emerging Technology and Art Gallery category.  The “conscious=camera” based on real-time body-tracking is a poetic interpretation of the phenomenology of images expressed by JP Sartre in “L'Imagimaire”.
      In 2006, he presented at Siggraph in Boston his "traces" installation aimed at representing people passage and absence.  "traces" is featured in the large scale "quell code" (source code) Kunst an Bau installation in the new headquarters of SAP in Germany.  "Quell code" was made in partnership with the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Austria.
       Since 2006 Kevin is a featured artist of the Victory Media Network in Dallas, TX - largest outdoor media art gallery Delete Blockin the world.
      Kevin Quennesson now lives in California and is a software development engineer at Apple Inc. 


Rafael Levchin – author, translator, artist
              
 
                                                                Elvina Zeltsman –   photo artist   

Married from 1970 (Kiev).  Two sons, Maxim (b.1975) and Sergey(b.1979).                                                        
                                                                    From 1986 all four were in close contact with theatre-studio "TheaterClub" (later Neomythological Theatre) in Kiev.  In U.S.A. (Chicago) from 1991.
     R.L. and E.Z. created in 1994 art-zine "REFLECT… " (subtitle "neomythological theatre"), which they see as a part of ITE-project: http://www.polutona.ru/?show=reflect 

    Also EZ and RL collaborated with almanac "CHERNOVIK" and with Studio 207 (ETC, 2006; Studio Artist Show, 2007). 

                           Rafael and Lilja are designers of all ITE's posters - click on the image to watch the slide show of posters:


Click on the mask to see the collection of masks created by Rafael Levchin

Sergey Levchin –
author, translator, scriptwriter, faux-documentary filmmaker, representative of "REFLECT…" in New York.

For the production of A PROPOS OF THE WET SNOW Sergey made a new English translation of F.Dostoevsky's "Notes From The Underground", he was also shooting all videos and created a video clip "Atrocities".

Follow this link to see works of Sergey: http://www.kinovar.net/

ITE - San Francisco
  

Felecia Faulkner actress, educator, co-founder of ITE-San Francisco
 

Felecia Faulkner is a San Francisco based actress, singer, producer, director and teacher.  Ms. Faulkner studied acting in London at the Marylebone Institute under Dorothea Alexander and completed the Advanced Training Program at American Conservatory Theater (ACT).  Ms. Faulkner later trained in New York City with theater giants Stella Adler and Jack Garfein. 
From 1979 to 1987 she performed in a wide variety of productions, including staged reading performances at The Public Theater in "The Red Serpent" (dir. Tennessee Williams), Provincetown Playhouse's New York City branch in "School for Scandal" (dir. John Burke), the Harold Clurman Theater in "Don Juan Comes Back…" (dir. Marcelle Meulman) and "Laundry in Bourbon", the 38th Street Lab with director Matt Penn, off-off Broadway productions at La Mama, 29th Street Project, The Greek Theatre of New York and the New Helen Hayes.  Her Commedia dell'arte group performed under the Public Theater in their "Shakespeare in the Park" series (dir. Joseph Papp). Also while in New York she had the opportunity to work on a small team with Arthur Miller to produce "American Clock" while it was work-shopped until its Broadway debut. 
 Ms. Faulkner has been a core member of the 34th Street Lab (NYC), The 29th Street Project (NYC), and Artistic Director of The Cole Street Players (SF).  Most recently, Ms. Faulkner has worked closely with award-winning founder of ITE Oleg Liptsin, on leading roles in his translation of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard", "The Elephant Man", Tolstoy's "The Living Corpse" and Tennessee Williams' "Out Cry" (also known as "The Two Character play").
As a teacher, Ms. Faulkner has been an acting coach on film sets, private coach to Tony Award-recipient and world-class ballerina Natalia Makarova, was directed by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Lourdes Portillo, teaches theater through her own company 'Actingwell'.  Ms. Faulkner has also led theater departments at San Francisco public schools.
Ms. Faulkner has devoted her life to the craft, and there is no aspect of it that she has not tackled. She believes that through art we can share our diversity, life stories, our joys and our pain. She loves her work second only to her son Trevor and she is a firm believer that the arts are humanity's salvation.
  Clare in "THE OUTCRY"

ITE - Taipei

Ai-Cheng Ho
actress, founder of ITE-Taipei

Ai-Cheng was born in Tau-yuan, Taiwan.  She studied acting with Oleg Liptsin at Acting International in Paris and was trained in Jacques Lecoq’s acting method at the International Jacques Lecoq Theatre School in Paris and International School of Performing Arts in London.
        Ai-Cheng’s other performing trainings include the Chinese opera and contemporary dance, which she’s mastering for years.
        Trained in martial arts: Tai-ji quan and others.
        Since 2004 Ai-Cheng Ho is a member of ITE, she participated in such ITE projects as ‘Cherry Orchard On Plain-Air’ based on Anton Chekhov, ‘The Snake-Woman’ by Carlo Gozzi (Commedia dell’arte) and ‘Mozart and Salieri’ by Pushkin.
        Ai-Cheng is Master of Performing Arts with major in Film study from the University Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne.  Her most recent role in theater – Liza in “A PROPOS OF THE WET SNOW (notes from the underground)” by Feodor Dostoevsky.

                                                                                                                                  Lisa in "A PROPOS..."

Currently ITE-Taipei is organizing a workshop with Oleg Liptsin in Taiwan. The workshop will be focused on contemporary applications of Stanislavsky Method and will take place in Taipei from April 7 till May 3, 2009.


ITE - Paris

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