Teachers:
2-week residential: Hannah Fox and Michael Cheng
Online Study: Jonathan Fox
Hannah is a university professor of applied performance, co-director of the New York School of Playback Theatre and founder of Big Apple Playback Theatre. Hannah has led Playback trainings around the globe for over two decades and has a special interest in using Playback and other applied theatre forms as tools for promoting social justice.
She is the author of Zoomy Zoomy: Improv Games and Exercises for Groups (2010), and has published several articles and chapters on Playback Theatre. Hannah is a certified yoga instructor, a proud mom of a lively seven-year old named Rio, and the daughter of the founders of Playback Theatre.
Michael is an applied drama practitioner and educator from Singapore. He has worked with a diverse spectrum of communities, such as youth-at-risk, people with special needs, people with HIV, and the elderly.
An accredited trainer, he is on the Centre’s Leadership faculty. Besides teaching Playback Theatre, he also teaches applied drama methodologies to adults and youths in Singapore.
He is the immediate past Chair of the Centre for Playback Theatre’s Board of Directors, an Accredited Playback Theatre Trainer (APTT) and a Practitioner member of the International Playback Theatre Network (IPTN).
In Singapore, he is Artistic Director of Tapestry Playback Theatre, and a member of the Singapore Drama Educators Association (SDEA).
Jonathan is the founder of Playback Theatre and director emeritus of the Centre for Playback Theatre. He was the artistic and executive director of the original Playback Theatre company from its inception in 1975. He is the author of Beyond Theatre: a playback theatre memoir, Acts of Service: Spontaneity, Commitment, Tradition in the Nonscripted Theatre; 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 theatre.
