Dr. Michael Devine has directed nearly fifty professional productions in nine languages, including work with national theatres in Canada, Serbia, Kosovo, Romania, and Hungary.
He has been a featured guest artist at major international theatre festivals including MESS (Sarajevo), FITS (Sibiu), FIST (Belgrade), and others across Europe and beyond. His performance creation and actor-training system, BoxWhatBox, has been presented in more than twenty countries across five continents. Michael is the Founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Alternative Theatre Training (CATT), an international actor training intensive conducted annually in intercultural contexts.
Classically trained at LAMDA (London) and HB Studio (New York City), he continues to develop the BoxWhatBox methodology, including his forthcoming book BoxWhatBox: Holistic Acting for the 21st Century.
Cinzia Grande is the co-Founder and co-Director of Teatro Maner Manush and the Imago Mundi Cultural Association. An actress, director, costume designer/builder and teacher, Cinzia’s expertise includes many aspects of Oriental Theatre. During many travels in India, she studied Indian classical chanting, folk and religious music, and performed with the mystic itinerant musicians Baul of Bengal, before exploring further research in the ethnomusicological use of voice in theatre. With Maner Manush and Imago Mundi Cultural Association she has co-created several shows which have been awarded with prizes in International Theater Festivals in many countries: England, United States, Greece, Slovakia, India. In 2014 she wrote and created The Inn of Crossed Destinies, produced in USA, presented at Theatre World Festival. Her researches in theatre and painting helped to create Michelangelo da Caravaggio and Artemisia. Since 2013 she has been an Associate Instructor at CATT—Centre for Alternative Theatre Training. Cinzia’s work studies the actor’s body languages, through traditional and new forms of performing arts in different countries and cultures.
Actor, author, director, trained at the International Institute of Commedia dell’Arte in Venice (Italy). Andrea Lattari is a renowned performer of the Commedia dell’Arte and he has spent his career in intercultural theatre research, exploring anti-conventional movement and the rhythm of the body, and the link between theatre and painting. As co-founder of the MANER MANUSH Theatrical Group he has promoted collaborations and cultural exchanges on several continents, stimulated by an idea of theatre where the meeting of different cultures and all artistic discipline finds expression. Andrea has created several performances presented in international festivals (England, Slovakia, Greece, Mali). In May 2014 Andrea and Teatro Maner Manush completed a two month performance tour of the United States, and created and performed Michelangelo da Caravaggio and Artemisia throughout Italy. At CATT Roma 2016 Andrea will lead actors in The Actor Beyond Words II: The Body Drama.
A visual record of laboratory work, rehearsal processes, and international collaborations.