| Jo Wadsworth (co-artistic director) has a Master's Degree from New York University where she studied with Lee Breuer from Mabou Mines, Joan MacIntosh and Richard Schechner from The Performing Garage, and director Anne Bogart among others. Jo was a founding member of Teatron, a New York-based theatre company under the direction of Rina Yerushalmi. The company performed original work at LaMama in the village. In 1989, Jo began working with Christian Aubert at Le Studio Theatre in the research and development of his idea of a new approach of teaching theatre to the actor. Besides Mr. Aubert, Jo is the only authorized instuctor for this technique.
After receiving her BA in children's theatre from Penn State, Jo traveled the east coast performing various children's theatre and teaching creative drama. She had the opportunity to work with Dr. Seuss at The Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company in 1979 when it produced the world premiere of The 500 Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. Jo has taught creative drama, acting and play development to children and adults for summer camps, schools, and various organizations. Jo has also offered workshops throughout New Jersey in Conflict Resolution through Drama and Peer Mediation and served as the Assistant Director of Teens-N-Theatre, a socio-political youth theatre company in Jersey City. Jo specifically designed curriculum and performances on racism and substance abuse and directed a TNT Video for substance abuse which has been distributed to schools and shown on local cable stations as part of the Governor's Council for the Prevention of Substance Abuse. Jo is an active member of SAG (Screen Actors Guild).Jo L. Wadsworth |
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