Lisa Channer
Before founding Theatre Novi Most, Lisa was co-founder and co-artistic director of Sleeveless Theatre, a political theatre company based in Northampton Massachusetts from 1989 – 1997. With Sleeveless, she directed and toured six world premiere plays dealing with a variety of social and political issues and co-founded the Sleeveless Theatre School. Her directing and performance work has been seen at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, WOW Café, Organic Lab Theatre (Chicago), Yale Repertory Theatre, Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, The Market Theatre (Boston), Illusion Theatre, Playwrights Center, Open Eye Figure Theatre and Red Eye Theatre (Minneapolis), IT’s Festival (Amsterdam), Old Museum Arts Centre (Belfast), Bodyword Festival (Russia) among others. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Artslink International, the Fund for Women Artists, the Edith Markson Travel Fund, and the Fox Foundation, The McKnight Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award for work in Russia in spring 2011.
She has an M.F.A. in Directing from the Yale School of Drama. She received additional training at the Dell Arte School of Physical Theatre in California and the St. Petersburg Academy of Theatre Arts in Russia. She is an assistant professor in the University of Minnesota Department of Theatre Arts and Dance.
Vladimir Rovinsky
attended the St. Petersburg Academy of Theatre Arts, Russia, graduating with an MFA in Directing in 1999. In addition, he trained with Alexei Levinsky in the system of Biomechanics, which was created by Vsevelod Meyerhold as a non-realistic physical training system for actors. He studied with Dutch director Willem Kuvenhoven and performed in his production BECKETTS HEAD at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg (1996) and was a company member for THE MEYERHOLD PROJECT, a biligual examination of Meyerhold that toured to America, Holland and Russia under the direction of Gennadi Trostianetsky and David Chambers (1997-2000). He was co-founder of Studio WE in St. Petersburg from 1991-1993 and was associate artist at the Turgenev Drama Theatre in Oryl Russia from 1998-2001 (Directed OLD WORLD LOVE by Nikolai Gogol, STRANGE FLOWERS by Ivan Bunin and THE PETERSBURG ANECDOTES by Aleksandr Grigoriyev). Additional directing and performance credits: THE LUCKY EVENT by Slawomir Mrozek at The Theatre Commediens in St. Petersburg 2000 (director) and JASPER JOHNS, Skewed Vision Theatre, 2008 (performer/creator).
Vladimir has taught acting, directing and movement in many settings both in the U.S. and Russia. He was assistant professor of Theatre at the University of Montevallo, AL from 2003-2007 where he taught performance and directing classes in the BA/BFA program. Vladimir is currently an assistant professor of theatre at St. Cloud State College in St. Cloud Minnesota. He is from St. Petersburg Russia.
Лиса Чаннер
До создания театра Новый Мост Лиса Чаннер являлась одним из организаторов и художественных руководителей политического театра Sleeveless Theatre (Northampton Massachusetts). В общей сложности с 1989-го по 1997-й год она поставила в Sleeveless Theatre шесть спектаклей, посвященных критическому анализу социальных и политических явлений современного oбщества. Она так же являлясь соучредителем и педагогом школы Sleeveless Theatre. Ее режиссерские работы были представлены в the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, WOW Café, Organic Lab Theatre (Chicago), Yale Repertory Theatre, Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, The Market Theatre (Boston), Illusion Theatre, Playwrights Center, Open Eye Figure Theatre and Red Eye Theatre (Minneapolis), IT’s Festival (Amsterdam), Old Museum Arts Centre (Belfast), Bodyword Festival (Russia). Не однократно ее творчествo получало поддержку от различных учреждений, таких как the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Artslink International, the Fund for Women Artists, the Edith Markson Travel Fund, and the Fox Foundation, The McKnight Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota. Весной 2011 года она получила a Fulbright Scholar Award для поeздки в Россию, где она преподавала в Государственной Академии Театральных Искусств в Санкт Петербурге.
Лиса Чаннер закончила Йельскую Школу Драмы и имеет степень мастера (M.F.A.) Она получила дополнительное образование в the Dell Arte School of Physical Theatre в Калифорнии и в Государственной Академии Театральных Искусств в Санкт Петербурге. В настоящее время она является профессором факультета Театральных Искусств и Танца в Университете Миннесоты.
Владимир Ровинский
Родился и вырос в Санкт-Петербурге. В 1999-м году закончил Государственную Академию Театральных Искусств в Санкт-Петербурге по специальности режиссура драмы. В 1997-м году под руководством Алексея Левинского начал углубленно заниматься изучением биомеханики – актерским тренингом разработанным Всеволодом Мейерхольдом. В период с 1998 по 2001 Владимир осуществил ряд постановок в Орловском Государственном Академическом театре им. И.С. Тургенева и сотрудничал с Санкт-Петербургским драматическим театром Комедианты.
С 2000 года Владимир живет и работает в США. Он преподавал в следующих институтах Америки: the University of Massachusetts, Yale School of Drama, S.U.N.Y. at New Paltz, University of Minnesota and Montevallo University in Alabama. Начиная с 2008 он преподает театральное мастерство в St. Cloud State University, MN.
Его режиссерские и актерские работы были представлены в Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale Cabaret, IT’s Festival (Amsterdam), Red Eye Theatre, Open Eye Figure Theatre, Bodyword Festival (Russia) and Southern Theatre.