BRENT BLAIR, CTO/ATA/LA FOUNDER
Brent Blair is founding coordinator of CTO/ATA/LA. A Designated Linklater Voice teacher and MFT Intern, he is a teacher, activist, therapist and liberation artist. As senior lecturer and founder of Applied Theatre Arts at USC, he has co-designed and taught courses in Liberation Arts and Community Engagement, Theatre and Therapy, and Theatre in Education. He has facilitated training workshops in TO and ATA in schools, community centers and juvenile halls from Los Angeles to Nigeria.
  KATRINKA WOLFSON, CORE COUNCIL COORDINATOR AND ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL COORDINATOR
Katrinka has extensive experience as a theater actor, producer and activist. She is deeply committed to the expansion of critical dialogue and liberation arts as a tool for the marginalized individual. She has facilitated liberation arts workshops in classrooms, Juvenile Hall and battered women’s shelters. Currently, she is a member of Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company.
  MADY SCHUTZMAN, ADVISORY COUNCIL COORDINATOR
Mady Schutzman (writer, scholar, theatre artist) is a practitioner of Theatre of the Oppressed techniques and co-editor of Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism (1994). She has worked for over 25 years fostering interdisciplinary and socially conscious art practices. Her scholarship has been published in journals including The Drama Review, Women and Performance, Theatre Topics, The Journal of Medical Humanities, and in numerous critical anthologies. Her book The Real Thing: Performance, Hysteria, and Advertising (1999) critically addresses the mass consumption of popular advertising. Mady is currently co-editing a new anthology of essays on TO and is senior faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.
 

BRIAN BROPHY
A veteran film/television and stage actor, Mr Brophy currently teaches at UC Riverside, Pomona College and CAL ARTS. His classes include: Theatre for Social Change, Intro to Acting for 110 students, and many more. Recently he resumed his direction with the Urban Youth Theatre program at the Actor’s Gang where he has been a member since 1985.
 

CORKY DOMINGUEZ
Corky is a director, choreographer and theatre workshop facilitator. He is the Project Coordinator with Performing for Los Angeles Youth at Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum/Ahmanson theatre. He serves as the Resident Producing Director for California Youth Theatre, Teaching Staff with Camp Bravo/ Going Hollywood Tours, Board Member with California Educational Theatre Association-South, and an Associate Artist with the Cornerstone Theater Company.
 

B. J. DODGE
B.J. Dodge is the Faculty Coordinator for California Institute of the Arts/Plaza de la Raza Theater Workshop, as part of Community Arts Partnership created by Cal Arts in 1990. She has worked at Cal Arts since 1984. She has a B.A. in Theater Arts from Cal State Long Beach, and an M.F.A. in Speech and Dramatic Arts from the University of Iowa.
 

DOUG KABACK
Doug Kaback has served on the Department of Theatre faculty at Cal State Northridge since 1994. He has written over 40 plays, created projects seen at the Kennedy Center and CBS, and directed new works at the Old Globe, Cornerstone and the Odyssey Theater. He is also Executive Director of CSUN’S Teenage Drama Workshop.