The Collective

Aida Rocci

Aida Rocci is a London-based theatre-maker with artistic roots in Spain, United States, and Russia. She has worked as a dramaturg for theatre and opera across continents, for artists such as Eve Ensler, Daniel Kramer, and Diane Paulus. As a director, she mostly works in multimedia devising, sound-led theatre, and new writing. She has also managed commercial cabaret shows and written criticism about the immersive genre for The Theatre Times.

She holds an MFA in Dramaturgy and Theatre Studies from the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and an MA (with Distinction) in Advanced Theatre Making.

Alessandro Businaro

Alessandro Businaro is an interdisciplinary artist, who works bringing together live performance, photography, video art, sound design and archival research as well. He began his artistic studies at the "Alessandra Galante Garrone" Drama School in Bologna, and then continued his studies at the “Silvio d’Amico” National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome. In 2018 and 2019 he took part in the competition promoted by Venice Biennale Theatre College for young directors under 30, being selected both times among the six finalists. The Venice Biennale's contest has been an opportunity for Alessandro to meet the work of Dario Felli, a sound designer who - through a dramaturgical study of sound - has contributed to an enrichment of the entire creative process. In September 2020 Alessandro took part in the 48th edition of Venice Biennale with “George II” directed by him and written by Stefano Fortin, a young Italian dramaturg. In 2021 Alessandro accepted to become the Artistic Director of Teatro in Quota, a Festival of performing arts begun in 2017 and held in the center of Italy, in Altopiano delle Rocche.

Andrea Ferran

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Antonia Georgieva

Antonia Georgieva is a London-based director, producer, and writer with experience working across theatre and film in the UK, the US, and Europe. She specializes in interdisciplinary work in non-traditional spaces and adaptations that challenge the dominant narratives. She began her training in theatre during her BA at Columbia University in New York and then completed an MFA in Advanced Theatre Practice at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has worked on a variety of productions both as a freelance creative and as the Artistic Director of Aslant Theatre Company. She has presented work at: Brighton Fringe, Perform Europe, The Yard, Camden People’s Theatre, and others. Find out more about her work here: www.antoniageorgieva.com

Brian Bell

Brian’s work ranges from contemporary American plays to the classical repertoire in both English and German. In 2014 he made his directorial debut at the German National Theater in Weimar (GER) with Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe, where he was the assistant to the artistic director from 2013-2015. An audience favorite, Killer Joe was in the repertoire for three seasons and had its final performance in June of 2017. From 2006-2012 he lived in Chicago (USA) where he was the artistic director of Cabaret Vagabond and an ensemble member and literary manager at Adventure Stage Chicago. In 2012 Brian's world premiere production of Tony Fiorentino's play The Feast was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson award for Best New Play. Brian is an alumnus of the International Forum of the Theatertreffen in Berlin, is a Goethe Institute Directing Fellow, and was the Step 8 Director in Residence at the English Theatre Berlin as well as having devised and performed in Projekt G: A Theatrical Investigation of Happiness, in Tokyo & Fukushima (JP). Since 2015 he was worked as a freelancer, directing regularly in Weimar, Staatstheater Meiningen, Schauspiel Chemnitz and Stadttheater Ingolstadt, where his production of Stella was nominated for a German Musical Theater Award for Best Revival of a Musical from the Deutsche Musical Akademie. The 2019/20 season began at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt with the Musical BLACK RIDER, followed by Hospitable Takeover, a devised piece at Schauspiel Chemnitz. He collaborated with Julie Paucker on the productions Faith.Hope.Charity at the University of North Texas (USA) in February 2020 as well as Wandering Stars by Scholem Aleichem at the Vagantenbühne Berlin, in the summer of 2021.

Simone Tetrault

Simone Tetrault is a creator of integrity-driven performances whose process is deeply rooted in care for the weight of the work, those who help make it, and those who receive it. The writer and director of Vice (2021), Letters to the Universe (2020), Through the Looking Glass (2016), Symphony of the Fourth Dimension (2015) and the forthcoming piece Nothing Extraordinary, Simone’s work has included productions, workshops, and readings at Griffith Observatory, Japanese American National Museum, ARK Theater, Odyssey Theatre, Buena Park Youth Theatre, Abrons Arts Center, Access Theatre, THEATERLAB and FIGMENT Festival. Simone is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Centrifuge Arts and is a proud member of SciArt Initiative, Level Ground Collective, and Contemporary Performance Network. She holds a BFA in Drama from NYU.