--ANGELINE GRAGASIN--Angeline Gragasin is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she majored in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities with a focus on Theater and Performance Studies. She will have performed most recently with Thom Pasculli in Freedom! And The Sticky End of Make-Believe at Double Edge Theatre, where she is currently living and training as an intern.

She has trained extensively with Double Edge and with Chicago’s 500 Clown, both of whom have been extremely influential to her latest original work, AGON, a physical and clown performance based on Aeschylus’ Orestia, which was produced at The University of Chicago in January 2007. She has also performed professionally in Chicago in Redmoon Theatre’s Outdoor Spectacle ’06: Twilight Orchard, and in UK Multimedia Performance Collaborative Blast Theory’s MCA Chicago presentation of Can You See Me Now?, where she was an intern for the Performance Programs. Angeline is thrilled to be part of of the Savannah Theatre Project, and to be producing their International Performance Symposium.

--DAVIS BATES-- has been telling stories for over twenty-eight years, in schools, libraries, and community settings around NewEngland and across the country. A former Director of the Pioneer Valley Folklore Society and the Leyden Oral History project, Davis was a founding member of the Western New England Storytellers Guild, as well as the co-coordinator of Story Grove performance stage at Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival for over 10 years. Davis' traditional and participatory style of telling empowers and encourages his audiences to share his stories with others, to remember and tell stories from their own family and tradition, and to explore the cultural traditions of their surrounding community. His storytelling recording, Family Stories, won a prestigious Parents Choice Magazine Gold Award, and was named one of the year's best audio recordings by the American Library Association's Booklist magazine. Folk traditions legend Pete Seeger has inspired his work and has, in turn, called Davis "thoughtful, creative, human, and a fantastic storyteller." 

www.davisbates.com

--MIA THEIL HAVE-- (actor) is a Danish actor and producer.  Since 2002 she worked full-time with the Odin Teatret creating and touring internationally with several performances and workshops, and in 2004 Eugenio Barba accepted her as full member of the company.  Last summer she performed in Barba’s two most recent productions, Ur-Hamlet and Don Giovanni all’Inferno.  Mia is now working freelance in international projects.

--RONNI STEWART--Visiting Associate Professor, Movement Teacher Ronni Stewart has a thorough background in anatomy, physiology, and rehabilitation medicine. Her theatre training was at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and she was trained in ballet, modern dance, and jazz by the leading professionals in New York City. She has worked nationally 
and internationally in television, theater, and film. She has been the professional movement coach for Roberta Flack and Mick Jagger and continues to consult in the United States and Europe. Most recently she has served as a consultant for the development of the Actors Project Cascais in Portugal and was the movement coach for Exiles Theatre in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Her real love is teaching and she is currently on staff at Dartmouth College and SUNY Purchase. 

--SYLVAIN CEBRO DE LISLE--Born in Nantes in 1967, Sylvain grew up in a large family. As teenager, he spent his hours writing scenarios for comic books; he also participated in a writing competition for the movie magazine Première. His academic career came to a head in the 10th grade, when he achieved his children’s counselor’s diploma (the BAFA). As a camp counselor and animator, he wrote his first children’s stories. In the 90s, inspired by a horse ride in the Morbihan region, he wrote The Adventures of Robert da Horse, which tells of a horse and his knight in the middle ages. Following a workshop with the storyteller Pascal Fauliot (whose open mind he wishes to thank), he decided to expand upon his story and to become a professional story teller. Taking part in the Brocéliande conte et nuit  festival, Sylvain opened for Mimi Barthelemy and participated in the Monterfil Nocturnal Festivities with Fiona Mc Leod. Sylvain, attends all kinds of festivals; with a carpet on his shoulder, inviting all passersby to sit and listen to his stories. Two new shows he's helped create are: les contes fantastiques et agités (Fantastic and Agitated Stories), told in the first part of Nacer Khemir for the En faim de conte festival in Rennes in 1999, then contes dérivés d’eau salée (Stories for Salty Waters). Sylvain has recieved many awards, most notably, the bogue d’argent pour le conte (silver tongue) in 1999 and 2005, and the menterie (the Lie) in 2000 in Redon. He's also won first prize for the Estourniales in Liffré and the first prize for the Kan ar bolb in Pontivy in 2000. When he's not storytelling, he's producing music with guitar player Xavier Damour, with whom he's helped to produce the CD Contes de l’océan du dessus, du dessous (Stories from the Ocean, Above and Below) in conjunction with Kerig Production.