Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference - Oxford, Ohio 2013
Talk: VISMS: A Paradigm of Performance Philosophy, Praxis, and Peaceful Artivism
LA Media Reform
Los Angeles Progressive, Occidental College 2011
Performance/Workshop/Panel
February 2011
9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
Performing The Visms
Performance/Workshop
January 2011
California Educational Theatre Association
Performing The Visms
Presenter/Workshop Leader
October 2010
Los Angeles Theatre Center
Guest Lecturer: Reflections on Adapting Bless Me, Ultima
August 2010
Ventura County CLUE
Non-Violence Training
Presenter/Workshop Leader 2010
Legislative Theatre-Ventura
Workshop Leader
August 2009
American College Theatre Festival
Discoursing RaceFebruary 2008
Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art
Mine’ Okubo
February 2007
American College Theatre Festival
Diversity in the UniversityFebruary 2007
Riverside Museum of History
On Staging Mine’ OkuboFebruary 2006
11th Annual Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Theatre of the Oppressed Conference
(The Renaissance Hotel, Hollywood)
Conference Planner / Videographer / Workshop Presenter / May 2005
Spiritual Activism
(Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions, Ventura) Lecturer / December 2004
Legislative Theatre
(USC)
Workshop Presenter / November 2004
Creative Tools for Critical Times
(24th Street Theatre / USC)
Conference Planner / Workshop Presenter (with Doug Kaback) / June 2004
Directing Activism
(American College Theatre Festival / San Bernardino)
Panelist / February 2004
Greek Theatre
(Sacramento Theatre Company / July 2001)
Guest Artist / Hydra, Greece
Representative Workshops Conducted at Numerous Universities
Adapting Novels: Bless Me, Ultima (NEA Big Read)
Legislative Theatre
Directing in Today's Theatre (Association for Theatre in Higher Education)
Fundraising Strategies for Academia
Producing for Equity-Waiver Theatre in Los Angeles
Working on a New Play
Shakespearean Script Analysis (Glendale Community College)
Scansion
Shakespearean Performance
Scoring, Orchestrating and Scanning Test for Character
Approaches to Ensemble Script Development
Protocol in the Theatre
Directorial Ethics
Nuts & Bolts of Professional Entry
Acting as a Business
Auditioning
Monodramas
Directing for the American Stage
Women & Violence in Film
Acting for the Camera
Stage Fright
Shakespeare's Romances: The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest
Interviewing Skills
English as a Second Language
Effective Communications
Film & Society
Film & Theatre
Feldenkrais & the Actor's Movement Map
Unarmed Combat/Fencing/Quarterstaff and Small Blades
Movement for Actors
Transformational Acting
Greater Los Angeles Theatre Festival (Conference Creator, Planner, and Co-Coordinator) 1991
ATHE Conference Planning (Coordinated over 300 conference panels, workshops and presentations) 1985-1990
PRESENTING PERFORMANCES / 1988
Time Flies While You’re Alive
Culture Clash
Lili Biti
(Chulalongkorn U, Santa Clara University, CSU Fresno, San Diego State, CSU Bakersfield, CSU Stanislaus, UC Irvine, Loyola Marymount University, Oberlin University, UNLV, Glendale Community College, Irvine Valley College, USC, etc.)
Summer Arts, Lake Tahoe
