HD Online Player (epic Movie Greek Audio 1)
Robert Bhushan
In partnership with Out of Chaos Theatre, the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Kosmos Society are presenting Reading Greek Tragedy Online, a series that brings together actors and researchers to perform and discuss scenes from Greek tragedy.
Antigone Season 1. With James Collins (University of Sydney), Paul Woodruff (The University of Texas at Austin), and participants from the Performing Wisdom Workshop; translation by P. Woodruff, courtesy of Hackett Publishing Company
So far, more than 125 actors and researchers from Australia, Canada, Cyprus, France, Greece, India, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the US have participated, and the project intends to work with people across the globe.
Noelia Antweiler is an actor and creative professional, living in New York City. As an actor, Noelia has performed in numerous NYC and regional theatres, and has additional credits in film and television. Noelia is also a trained aerialist in silks, lyra, and double-point harness, and loves to be in the air. When she is not performing, Noelia is an educator and administrator at several organizations: she currently serves as the Director of Virtual Programming at Relative Theatrics, the Director of Development for Arte Theatrics, and is an educator and producer for Voices Inside/Out, an organization committed to reducing recidivism in prisons across the country.
Lucia Athanassaki is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Crete. She holds a BA from the University of Athens and a PhD from Brown University. She has published extensively on melic poetry, its artistic context and its ideological and political agenda. The focus of her research in recent years is on attitudes to art, lifestyle and leadership in the late 5th century as reflected in Attica drama and prose.
Kareem Badr is an actor, improviser, and teacher based out of Austin, TX. He is a co-owner of The Hideout Theatre, and performs and teaches internationally with his improv troupe PGraph.
James Calls Ball is a freelance director and actor based in London, England. He is a Junior Associate Director at the Kings Head Theatre and founder of Speechless Theatre Company. He is Associate Director of the three-times Olivier Award nominated production of Amelie the Musical.
Carlos Bellato is a Mexican actor and pianist, born and raised in Baja California Sur. He studied acting at La Casa Del Teatro in Mexico City, and won the Anglo Arts Scholarship for the Midsummer in Oxford program (2019).
Joshua Billings teaches in the Classics Department at Princeton University. His research focuses on Greek tragedy, intellectual history, and classical reception. He has published Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy (Princeton 2014) and is currently finishing a book on Greek drama and early Greek philosophy, which will be published in 2021.
Aldo Bringas is a Mexican Actor, born and raised in Mexico City. He has graduated from La Casa del Teatro A.C. (class of 2015). Within his relevant artistic experience, he acted in the play Skylight, directed by Luis de Tavira, along with Marina de Tavira and Rafael Snchez Navarro. He is currently part of the cast of Narcos: Mxico 3 (Netflix).
Roshni Chakraborty is a junior at Harvard College from Kolkata, India. She concentrates in Social Studies (an interdisciplinary social sciences major) with a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. Her research interests are in gender-based violence, particularly as it intersects with conflict and migration, and disaster risk reduction.
Tamieka Chavis is a resident company member with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company playing leading roles in Macbeth and The Tempest. She has been nominated for and awarded numerous awards, including the Daytime Emmy Awards, Indie Series Awards, Broadway World Awards.
Joel Christensen is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University. His The Many-Minded Man: the Odyssey, Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic, published by Cornell University Press, will appear in 2020.
Amy R. Cohen is Professor of Classics and of Theatre at Randolph College. She is the Director of the Center for Ancient Drama and holds Thoresen Chair of Speech and Theatre. After graduating from Harrisonburg High School, she earned her B.A. at Yale University and her Ph.D. at Stanford University. Her work focuses on what Greek dramatic masks mean for our understanding of ancient theatre and on the interpretive implications of doubling and the three-actor convention in Greek tragedy. She was the Classical Association of Virginia Teacher of the Year in 2008 and was awarded the Society for Classical Studies 2015 Outreach Prize for her work directing an ongoing series of original-practices Greek plays.
Emma Cole is Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Classics at the University of Bristol, and an AHRC Innovation Fellow (2019-2022). She is the author of Postdramatic Tragedies (OUP, 2019) and the co-editor of Adapting Translation for the Stage (Routledge, 2017). Her current research focuses on the synergy between ancient literature and immersivity; as part of her Innovation Fellowship she is writing the monograph Punchdrunk on the Classics: Ancient Greek Literature and Immersive Experience (under contract with Palgrave Macmillan), and is also working as dramaturg for Punchdrunk theatre company on their forthcoming production The Burnt City.
Lyndsay Coo is Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol, where she is also Deputy Director of the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition. Her research focuses on ancient Greek tragedy and satyr play, with particular interests in Sophocles and the lost and fragmentary works. Her recent publications include the edited volumes Aeschylus at Play: Studies in Aeschylean Satyr Drama (co-edited with Anna Uhlig, BICS 62.2, 2019) and Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy (co-edited with Patrick Finglass, Cambridge University Press 2020).
Leander Deeny is a London based actor. His theatre work includes The RSC, Globe Theatre, Young Vic, Edinburgh Traverse and Liverpool Everyman. His TV work includes Holby City, Skins, Merlin and Doctors. His film work includes Atonement and Captain America: The First Avenger.
Kivarah De Luca is a performing arts student at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Currently abroad, she studies stage acting at the British American Drama Academy in London. She has appeared in five student short films, two virtual theatre productions, performed in a dance showcase and created and appeared in collaborative dance film girls (2022) at Sarah Lawrence College (2020-2022). Next semester she will continue her studies abroad in the conservatory film acting program at Prague Film School (2023).
Zack Dictakis is an actor, filmmaker, writer and producer currently creating in Boston, MA and collaborating virtually all over the world. After earning his BFA in Acting from the University of Connecticut, Zack started the production company, Zack & Aaron, where he is able to write and produce original content on YouTube. Zack is in post-production for his first TV pilot, Boston Baked Beans premiering early 2021, with a feature film coming later in the year.
Mary Ebbott is a Professor in the Department of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she is also currently serving as a Dean of the Faculty. She is the author of Imagining Illegitimacy in Ancient Greek Literature and co-author with Casey Du of Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush.
David Elmer is an Eliot Professor of Greek Literature in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. His research interests include; archaic Greek epic and lyric poetry, epigram, Ancient Greek and Roman novels, South Slavic oral epic and, contemporary literary theory.
Danai Epithymiadi studied theater in London and New York and has been working as an actress in Greece since 2012. As part of the chorus in Electra by Euripides, she has toured extensively around Greece. Last July was the first time she played in Epidaurus theater (again as part of the chorus) in Iphigenia in Aulis.
Judd Farris is an educator, actor, and co-creator of Seam Project. He is a primary collaborator with The Hidden Room Theatre and Arcos Dance. He has also worked with RudeFusion, Present Company, paper chairs, and Capital T in Austin.
Nancy Felson is a Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics. She is the author of nearly three dozen scholarly articles discussing Greek and Latin literature.
Liz Fisher is an interdisciplinary theatermaker based in Austin. Her directing work explores applications of mixed realities, immersive theatre strategies, and game mechanics in new play development and reimaginings of classic texts. As a Princess Grace Award winner, she has been a guest artist at universities around the country.
RJ Foster is a New York based Equity and SAG AFTRA actor. He has worked in New York (Classical Theatre of Harlem, Classic Stage Company) and regionally (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Folger Theatre) as well as on television shows such as The Good Fight, Power, and The Blacklist.
Melissa Funke is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg. She holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Washington. Her work focuses on dramatic performance (ancient and modern) as well as gender and status in classical antiquity, particularly as it is depicted in literature; it has appeared in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies along with several collected volumes. Her current project is a biography of the (in)famous Greek courtesan Phryne that examines the role of anecdote in fashioning literary-historical narratives.
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