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HPI's seven faculty members are working artists and master teachers. Among them are artistic directors from Headlong Dance Theater and Pig Iron Theater Company, as well as other leaders in Philadelphia's vibrant and internationally-known dance, theater, and physical theater community.
is a Co-Artistic Director of Pig Iron Theatre Company.
Quinn co-founded Pig Iron in 1995, and has performed in most of their 19 original creations, including the OBIE-winning Hell Meets Henry Halfway and the Barrymore-winning Cafeteria. He directed the company's Welcome to Yuba City, The Tragedy of Joan of Arc, and designed sets for Mission to Mercury and Dig or Fly. Quinn was a Henry Luce Fellow in Bali, Indonesia in 2000-01 and was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Performance Art in 2002. He teaches dance-theatre at Swarthmore College and Princeton University, and has taught workshops to professionals and at universities throughout the country. Quinn is a graduate of École Jacques Lecoq and Swarthmore College.
and co-founded Headlong Dance Theater in 1993 after meeting at Wesleyan University. Headlong's adventurous, brainy work has toured nationally and internationally. Some of their favorite pieces include Britney's Inferno (a pop star goes to hell), Hotel Pool (a fairy tale set in a hotel swimming pool), and ST*R W*RS (the movie re-enacted at a 1970s basement party), which won them a Bessie Award. Their work has been presented by Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, P.S. 122 (NYC), The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and The Wilma Theater, among others. Each year they host Dance Theater Camp, an intensive festival for professional performing artists. They have taught dance theater techniques at many colleges and universities including Yale University, Denison University, Dickinson College, and Bryn Mawr College. Amy Smith has performed in the works of Deborah Hay, Ishmael Houston Jones, and other choreographers, as well as in theater and cabaret. She serves on the board of Dance/USA, the national dance service organization. David Brick has performed and toured with the Richard Bull Dance Theater, Ishmael Houston Jones, and Cathy Weis. He has taught Dance Composition at Bryn Mawr College since 1999. In recent years, he has created theater works with Pig Iron Theater Company and Fins for Wings. Andrew Simonet created the Dance Program at the Lawrenceville School, a private high school in New Jersey, and directed the program for 10 years. Currently, he runs Artists U, a planning and professional development program for individual artists in Philadelphia. He is an occasional writer on dance and performance for danceinsider.com.
came to Philadelphia in 1995 to accept the Dorothy Haas Acting Fellowship to the Walnut Street Theatre, later performing with such theaters as the Arden Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, Lantern Theater, Folger Theatre, Mum Puppettheatre, Pig Iron Theatre Company, and 1812 Productions. Recently, Aaron toured Norway with Jo Strømgren Kompani's The European Lesson and performed with Bill Irwin in Philadelphia Theatre Company's The Happiness Lecture. As mask and puppet designer, Aaron has collaborated with the Wilma Theater, Studio Theatre (DC), Folger Shakespeare Theatre (DC), The Shakespeare Theatre (DC), and The Pearl Theatre (NYC), among others. He teaches mask performance at the University of the Arts and has been guest lecturer at Bryn Mawr College, Sarah Lawrence College, Swarthmore College and the NJ Governor’s School of the Arts. He has been twice named an Independence Foundation Fellow, and has received grant support from The Jim Henson Foundation and the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative. He has received a Barrymore Award for Choreography/Movement and for Music Direction. Aaron is a graduate of The College of New Jersey, the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre and studied with Maestro Antonio Fava at the International School for Commedia Dell’Arte in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
is a native of France who lives and works in Philadelphia. She was classically trained at the École Supérieure d'Art Dramatique de la Ville de Paris, and studied physical theatre at École Jacques Lecoq. A member of Pig Iron Theatre Company for eight years, Emmanuelle has been a performer and co-creator of such critically acclaimed productions as Gentlemen Volunteers, Flop, Hell Meets Henry Halfway, and James Joyce is Dead and So Is Paris, for which she won a Barrymore Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. Emmanuelle has taught for several years in Philadelphia at CAPA, Swarthmore College, Friends Central High School, Haverford College and Temple University. She also organizes clown workshops for actors and non-actors. In 2005, she started her own company, Fins for Wings.
, Director of the Theater Program and Associate Professor on the Theresa Helburn Fund, came to Bryn Mawr College in 1987. A graduate of Swarthmore College and the Yale School of Drama, he has worked as a director and dramaturg at many of the country’s leading theaters. He is known for his site-specific productions, including the world premiere of Gertrude Stein’s Pink Melon Joy, his homage to Samuel Beckett, nothing, which was staged at the Eastern State Penitentiary, and Across, a fifty-site performance installation featuring sixty actors, the Ben Franklin Bridge, and text by Walt Whitman, in Old City. He has also directed acclaimed productions of plays by Peter Handke, Beckett, Shakespeare, and others. In addition to teaching at Bryn Mawr, Mark currently serves as a Contributing Editor of Yale’s drama magazine Theater, is the company dramaturg for Headlong Dance Theater, and is Academic Director of Headlong Performance Institute.
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