ADVISORY BOARD

Beto Ruiz

Born in Mexico in 1968, Beto holds a Degree in Performing Arts from the University of Guadalajara and a Diploma in Acting from the Theatre Training & Research Programme in Singapore. His journey includes a scholarship for an Artistic Residency in Poznan, Poland, and another for a Specialization in Art Education in British Columbia, Canada.

As a three-time beneficiary of the State Council for Culture and Arts in Guadalajara, Mexico, his international acting experience involves collaboration with renowned directors like Phillip B. Zarrilli (USA), Leela Alaniz (Brazil), and Uichiro Fueda (Japan). With a directorial portfolio of over 60 productions, he's earned various national awards and recognitions.

Beyond the stage, he's shared his expertise globally, teaching courses and workshops in Taiwan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, India, and Canada. His commitment to education extended to serving as Head of Acting at the Intercultural Theatre Institute in Singapore for 5 years.

Guillermo Angelelli

He is an actor, teacher, and theater director, a graduate of the National School of Dramatic Arts in 1982. He was one of the creators of El Clú del Claun, an iconic group of the 1980s that was a vanguard of clown work in Latin America and Spain, known for productions such as “Arturo,” “Escuela de payasos,” “Esta me la vas a pagar,” “Super rutineas,” and “El Burlador de Sevilla.” Since 1990, he has been a member of the group Vindenes Bro (The Bridge of Winds), directed by Iben N. Rassmusen (Odin Teatret), with whom he develops research in the field of creation, pedagogy, and acting training. In 1990, he premiered his one-man show “Asterión.” Between 1993 and 2000, he directed the group El Primogénito in productions such as “Estigia,” “Nada y Ave,” “Trueque,” “La Funerala,” and “Xibalbá.”

Other directing works include “Simplicity” (2015) and “Limbo” (2023), created and presented in Singapore; “Concert of Popular Songs” in Italy (2023), and “FIBA Experimental Gala” (2023). In theater, he worked as an actor with directors such as Juan Carlos Gené, Roberto Villanueva, Sergio Renán, Emilio García Wehbi, Matías Feldman, and Cristina Banegas, among others.

In cinema, he appeared in films such as “El Exilio de Gardel” directed by Fernando Solanas, “Moebius” directed by Gustavo Mosquera, “The Persecuted” directed by Horacio Correa, “The Black Desert” directed by Gaspar Scheuer (2006), “The Dog's Dream” directed by Paulo Pécora (2007), and “XXY” directed by Lucía Puenzo. He has been teaching since 1986, coordinating clown and body and vocal training seminars for actors, dancers, and singers in the City of Buenos Aires, other cities of Argentina, and various cities in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. He also provides training classes to the Contemporary Ballet of the San Martin Theater and is part of the team of teachers at the Intercultural Theater Institute of Singapore since 2012.

Leela Alaniz

Leela Alaniz is a Franco-Brazilian director, actress, actor trainer and the founder and artistic director of Paris-based theatre company Pas de Dieux. Her career consists of a constant round-trip movement between the practice and theory of theatre. With over 25 years of practice and research in Theatre Anthropology and Corporeal Mime, Dr Alaniz has performed and directed several plays, toured in numerous countries and taught courses in the US, Europe, Turkey, Singapore and South America.

Dr Alaniz's academic research is focused on the field of Practice-as-Research, a methodology based on studying evolving actor training techniques for theatre. Her own unique training method explores the fusion between artificiality and organicity as embodiment and artistic expression. Rather than focusing on just interpretation, Dr Alaniz’s training method empowers the actor-author i.e. the actor as a creator, and the devising process of contemporary theatre.

After attaining a double major in Physical Education and Theatre Studies in Brazil, Dr Alaniz received a scholarship grant to participate in UTA, a centre of research for Theatre Anthropology in Brazil. Thereafter, she founded and directed the Casa de Artes BAKA, a multicultural arts centre. Successively, she was a research scholar at Pomona College, California for five years as a practice researcher and performer under the direction of Thomas Leabhart, spending one more year in Paris as his assistant.

In 2012, Dr Alaniz became a full-time lecturer in movement for acting and performance at Intercultural Theatre Institute, Singapore. In 2019, she was appointed as a full-time lecturer in Theatre at the School of Dance & Theatre, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore.

Noushad Mohamed Kunju

Noushad Mohamed Kunju is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication, Central University of Hyderabad, India. He is a member of the Intercultural Theatre Institute’s examination board. He is also visiting faculty of the National School of Drama (NSD) in New Delhi, Theatre in Education Tripura, Film and Television Institute of India, and the Drama Department at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

He was formerly Artistic Director of the Shri Ram Centre (SRC) of Performing Arts, New Delhi, after graduating from the Intercultural Theatre Institute in 2005. Prior to this, he also worked as an artist at NSD Repertory Company from 1999 - 2002. He holds a Diploma in Dramatic Arts from NSD (1996 - 1999) and a Bachelor of Theatre Arts from Thrissur School of Drama, University of Calicut, Kerala (1993 - 1996). His directorial ventures include Mere Bacche, an adaptation of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (2009); William Shakespeare’s A Mid

Suzana Nikolić

Suzana Nikolić graduated at The Academy of Dramatic Art University of Zagreb in 1988, and was a Fulbright scholar at NYU – Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Acting Program (1998/99). She is an award winning actress with credits in theatre performances, feature films, television films & serials, as well as radio, and has over 20 years of additional acting and voice training abroad.

She is a Founder and Artistic Director of Performing Arts Etra and StudioChekhov Croatia. Ms Nikolic’s organizational and producing credits include over a dozen international workshops, most concerning voice and speech work and Michael Chekhov Acting Technique.

She produced the M. I. Fornes play MUD, staged at ZeKaEm, Zagreb in 2004. Ms Nikolic has worked and taught professionally with the Michael Chekhov Technique for over 25 years and received the MICHA teaching certificate of completion in 2004. In 2004 and 2019 she edited the Croatian translation of Michael Chekhov’s To the Actor – On the Technique of Acting. Since 1999 she has been teaching throughout Europe, Israel, Turkey, Columbia, USA and Asia.

For The Academy of Dramatic Art, she was a Vice Dean for International Affairs from 2004 – 2006, Head of Voice and Speech Department from 2006 – 2010, and Head of Acting Department 2016 - 2018. Ms Nikolić is curently a Head of Voice and Speech Department at ADU University of Zagreb (2023/24).

Ms Nikolić taught Michael Chekhov Technique at Shanghai Theatre Academy in China from 2019 to 2022, at BA and MA acting program. She wrote a book Actor of the Future translated to Chinese, and published in China in 2024. Ms Nikolić directed The Bald Soprano by E. Ioneco at ZeKaEm in 2023, as her first professional direction in the theatre. She is a co-founder of Michael Chekhov Europe and Michael Chekhov Europe Training Program, a guest lecturer at Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, and a faculty member at The Michael Chekhov Organization, MICHA, New York, USA.

Ulrich Meyer-Horsch

Ulrich Meyer-Horsch is an award-winning actor and theatre director with three decades of working experience in German state and regional theatres: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Theater Kiel, Theater Lübeck, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Altonaer Theater, Komödie Düsseldorf, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, among others. He has worked with Simon McBurney and Complicité, Augusto Boal and Yoshi Oida. Until 2015 he was the associate artistic director of Kreuzgangspiele Feuchtwangen, one of Germany’s biggest summer theatres.

Ulrich holds a degree in Acting from Schule für Schauspiel Hamburg and diplomas in Theology, Philosophy and Theatre Pedagogy from the universities of Heidelberg, Hamburg, and London (King’s College). He studied with Michael Chekhov’s former students Hurt Hatfield, Deidre Hurst du Prey, Mala Powers and Joanna Merlin as well as with master teachers from Germany and Russia.

In his approach to the Chekhov Technique he incorporates organic breathing, the exploration of children’s games, and work with masks. He has been teaching throughout Europe, in Russia, Turkey, Armenia, the Middle East, Brazil, Uruguay, Cuba, the US, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Burundi, East Africa.

Ulrich is a co-founder of Michael Chekhov Europe (MCE), faculty member of the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA), New York, and the artistic director of Schule für Schauspiel Hamburg (SfSH). His book “Michael Tschechow: Der Schauspieler ist das Theater”, has been published 2022.