DAMON KUPPER
Damon Kupper feels strongly about the evolution of the human potential through theatre. He has worked throughout the United States, Europe and Vietnam as a performer, educator and activist. Currently, he is employed as an actor and drama therapist with the Stop-Gap Theater Company and on the adjunct faculty at El Camino College.
  THERESA LARKIN
Theresa is founder and producing artistic director of The Artists’ Collective, a non-profit multi-media and theater company dedicated to facilitating artists and artistic work exploring significant issues confronting a multi-cultural 21st century. She has been a professor at Cal State LA in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, specializing in directing and acting since 1989.
  ROBIN LITHGOW
Robin Lithgow is the Theater Adviser in the Arts Education Branch of LAUSD. She coordinates the theatre portion of the Arts Prototype Schools Program in 154 elementary schools, and designs and/or nurtures professional development opportunities for secondary theatre teachers and showcase and audience-access opportunities for secondary students.
  HELENE LORENZ
Helen Lorenz is a faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute where she teaches and interdisciplinary curriculum of depth psychology, postcolonial, and feminist studies. She is also a Jungian analyst, with experience in council practices, collaborative arts, community theater, and Theater of the Oppressed. She is writing a book on Liberation Psychologies and Liberation Arts.
 

ANDREW McALLISTER
Andrew McAllister was educated at Syracuse University and the University of South Carolina. An actor, director, and teacher, he discovered TO while writing his Master’s thesis on Theater For Development, the use of theatrical practice in the concientization of developing nations. He coordinates the CTO/ATA/LA website.
  NORMA BOWLES
Norma Bowles is the Founding Artistic Director of Fringe Benefits, a groundbreaking educational theater company offering youth the tools for constructive dialogue and action about issues of tolerance and diversity. She is also the editor of F.B.’s Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry. Fringe Benefits conducts Theatre for Social Justice workshops and residencies.
  ARIANE L. ANDRADE
Ariane L. Andrade is an anthropologist researching the various methodologies, purposes, and practices of Theater of the Oppressed, with a specific emphasis on its relationship to the world of resistance. She will publish her observations and analysis once her research is concluded.
 

HECTOR ARISTIZABAL
Hector Aristizabal is a theater actor, director, community activist, psychotherapist, and experienced TO Joker who fled his native Colombia after receiving death threats for his human rights work. He serves as clinical director of Cityscape Art Therapy Program, counselor of the Victims of Torture and the Hospice of Pasadena.
 

DAN PASLEY
Dan Pasley is a progressive activist whose background is in film, video and music production. He is the founder of the New Living Newspaper and director of the Upton Sinclair Freedom of Expression Arts and Lectures Series presenting internationally known authors, politicians and artists. Dan is in his second term as president of the Chapter Council of the ACLU of Southern California. He joined the core council in April of 2003 and serves on the 2005 PTO International Conference committee.

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