In love with Playback Theatre since 2005. Completed Leadership in 2009. Accredited trainer since 2014. Cofounder and teacher of the Russian Central Playback Theatre School, a Centre-affiliated school. Artistic director, conductor and actor of the Playback studio “Bolshoi Theatrick”, teaching playback for adults and youth for more than 13 years. Conductor and actor of “Intriga” playback thetre. He is performing playback online with “Yonder” and “Intriga-online” companies.
He has taught at all levels of Playback with international experience, with special interests in ethno-cultural aspects, the cultural background influence, myths and fairy tales.
Igor is a Psychodrama therapist, Family therapist and a University lecturer.
Radhika is an applied theatre and expressive arts therapy practitioner from India. She is the co-founder of First Drop Theatre, a Bangalore based Applied Theatre company. An accredited trainer, Radhika is also the faculty for Playback Theatre at the Applied Theatre India Foundation and the co-editor of the International Playback Theatre Network (IPTN) journal.
She works with differently-abled individuals and children with special needs; using theatre, to help them express better, develop skills of awareness, communication and spontaneity.
She specifically uses Playback Theatre for self and social awareness, for opening up conversations and for enabling deep reflections in the area of healthcare, for mental health awareness, for addressing issues of diversity and inclusion, for community outreach, and for the holistic development of organizations.
Deborah Scott did a little of everything in the theatre in her years in NYC but discovered Playback only after moving to North Carolina in 1994. Combining social action and theatre was a wish come true. She was an original member of Asheville Playback Theatre in 1995 and served as a Co-Director of the company for 20+ years. Stories are at the heart of all her work, with families as a Life Coach, teaching front line family workers and their supervisors, and building relationships across cultural divides. She has a BA in
Theatre Arts, a MA in Humanistic Education, is an Accredited Trainer of PT and has served on the Affiliated Schools Committee for 7 years.
Heidi Winters is an activist, performer, PT accredited trainer and teacher. She co-founded Inside Out Playback Theatre in 2010 and practices Playback, Theatre of the Oppressed, and arts activism, using storytelling to engage and empower community-generated change. She is a 2019 Leadership graduate from the Centre and also holds a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Minnesota and an M.F.A. in Directing for Theatre from Pennsylvania State University. Heidi is an Associate Professor of Theater at Wabash College in Indiana, teaching acting, improvisation, and Theater for Social Change. She is performing Playback online with World Playback Theatre, Playback for People, and Thursday Zoomers.
Tzveta is an actress, theater director, producer, Accredited PT trainer and psychodramatist.
Founder and director of Playback Theater “Here and Now”- first professional company in Bulgaria. She’s a conductor, actor and musician. As a pioneer in developing Bulgarian PT society, she started the annual Bulgarian Playback Theater Gatherings in 2014. She and Playback Theatre “Here and Now” participate in many international events. Tzveta and her team organized the first online European Playback Theatre Gathering in 2020 and online conference with Jonathan Fox in 2021. Director of EPTG from 2017-2022, hosted in Sofia. She has done hundreds of PT events and numerous workshops and trainings all over Bulgaria, abroad and online.
Sze-Kan (Ckan) is a Theatre Designer, Psychodrama Psychotherapist, and Applied Art and Drama Facilitator based in London at the moment. She is the Co-Director of True Heart Theatre from London and member of Encounter Playback Theatre from Hong Kong. She is passionate about integrating art, culture & therapy among communities and works as a facilitator and psychotherapist (individual & group) with different beings, including SEN students, disabilities, parents, etc.
Jonathan is the co-founder of Playback Theatre and the artistic and executive director of the original Playback Theatre company from its inception in 1975. He is the author of Acts of Service: Spontaneity, Commitment, Tradition in the Nonscripted Theatre and Beyond Theatre: a playback theatre memoir; the editor of The Essential Moreno: Writings on Spontaneity, Psychodrama and Group Method; and co-editor of Gathering Voices: Essays on Playback Theatre. In 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Kassel in Germany for artistic and scholarly achievement in theater.
