Experts Guide

Arreola has more than twenty years of professional experience as a theater and dance artist, including Grotowski's Objective Drama Project at the University of California-Irvine in 1987 and Workcenter in Pontedera, Italy until 1989. Arreola has Suzuki, contemporary dance and Butoh training and founded the experimental dance theatre company Mujeres en Ritual in 1999. She has worked as a performer, teacher, director and movement specialist in Mexico, the United States, Nicaragua, Canada, Poland and India.

Green is a USF Theatre alumna, a USF faculty member for more than 10 years and native of St. Petersburg. In addition to USF, she has taught on the voice faculties of The Actor's Center in New York, the Yale School of Drama and the Juilliard School.

Kokai is an award-winning educator, playwright, scholar and administrator and past recipient of the Presidential Excellence Award for Teaching and an award for Innovative Pedagogy through the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 8 and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She has been recognized for her design and use of assessment in curricular and programmatic decision making.

Martino is a scenic designer with extensive experience on shows at theatres across the country Her previous role in the Chicago area included work on museum exhibits, circus performances and international theatrical productions, including the 2020 West End production of The Prince of Egypt. She was also a part of the team selected to represent the United States in designing the USITT’s Emerging Artist Exhibit for the 2019 Prague Quadrennial.

Green's areas of expertise include Acting and Theatre.

Finelli's expertise includes performance theory, theatre history, Caribbean theatre, great performances on film and sport as performance. His publications include the textbook Sound for the Stage, the book Worlds Away, electronic courseware, reviews and over 300 articles and software reviews. His academic research has been published in Theatre Journal, Performing Arts Resources, Southern Theatre and other academic journals. His theatre consulting practice has collaborated on the recent renovation of the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory into an event center, transforming a building that hosted Elvis Presley, John F. Kennedy and professional wrestling into a state-of-the-art theatrical venue.

Nuñez began her professional career in 1978 at Ballet Internacional de Caracas under the direction of Vicente Nebrada and Zhandra Rodriguez. Since then, she has danced as a soloist and principal dancer of Ballet Internacional de Caracas, Ballet Nuevo Mundo, Ballet Teresa Carreño, Cleveland Ballet, and Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley. Zhandra Rodriguez, former principal dancer of American Ballet Theater, was her most influential teacher and coach, together with Lidija Franklin, Jose Pares, Vicente Nebrada, Hector Zaraspe, and Julio Lamas. Throughout her career as a professional ballet dancer, she performed at prestigious theaters around the world, including Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, France, Russia, Romania, Austria, Hungary, China, Japan, Taiwan, and in North, Central, and South America. She has worked in an ample classical and neo-classical repertoire of renowned choreographers such as Balanchine, Choo San Goh, Alvin Ailey, Agnes de Mille, Terry Orr, Judith Jamison, Jhon Butler, Elisa Monte, Carlos Orta, Dennis Nahat, Ulisses Dove, Vincente Nebrada, Hans Van Mannen, Hector Zaraspe, Flemming Flindt, and Margo Sapington. She has also participated in numerous festivals such as Spolleto in Italy, Cervantino in Mexico, and Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. She has shared the stage with prestigious ballet dancers such as Cynthia Gregory, Rudolf Nureyev, Fernando Bujones, and Julio Boca.