Neher Jaqueline Briceño is an actor/director who has worked at Teatro Avante since 1997. In her native Venezuela, she worked extensively with children. Recently she has acted in Teatro Avante’s productions, La feria de los inventos, El vuelo del Quijote, El filantropo and Una Tempestad. She is the winner of the Spanish playwriting award “Maria Teresa Leon–2005.”

Zaida Castellanos was born in Cuba and holds a degree in the Performing Arts. She taught acting and worked as a Theatre Director in Venezuela for nine years. Zaida is a well known actress, and has performed in theatre, film and television.

Angel Cuadra was born in Cuba and has lived in the US since 1985. Besides teaching theatre, he is a poet who has published the books Peldaño, Impromptus, Tiempo del hombre, Esa tristeza que nos inunda, Fantasia para el viernes, Las señales y los sueños, Requiem violento por Jan Palach, La voz inevitable, Diez Sonetos Ocultos, De los resumenes y el tiempo, and others. Cuadra writes for Diario las Americas.

Humberto Gonzalez has been a choreographer and dance teacher since 1989. Prior to that, he was a dancer with the Cuban National Ballet. Gonzalez studied classical ballet at the National School of Arts in Havana, Cuba.

Jorge Hernandez has been an actor of theatre and television since 1986. He has appeared in many productions and theatre festivals, and was the founder of the theatre group BUSCON in his native Cuba. He graduated from El Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana with a Theatre and Music Arts degree.

Beatriz J. Rizk  She was born  in Bogotá, Colombia. She attended New York University, and got her Ph.D. from the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, N.Y. She is a professor, critic, promoter and theatre researcher, and co-founder and director of ATINT  (Asociación de Trabajadores e Investigadores del Nuevo Teatro) during ten years (1983-93). She has published more than a hundred articles on Latino and Latin American theatre in specialized magazines all over the Americas and Europe. She has edited four special issues of Tramoya (Universidad Veracruzana / Rutgers Univ.) on Latino theatre in the US, Latin American Indian / Indigenous Dramaturgy,  Brazilian theatre, and Colombian theatre. She has given papers and attended many symposia, organizing at least twenty major conferences on both Latin American and Latino Theatre. She is a Latino Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and the Director of the Educational Component Unit of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami.

Ika Santamaria is an actress and Creative Producer. She trained at the Escuela de Formacion de Actores of Bogota, Colombia. She also studied Cinema and Television at NYU in 1999. In Miami, Ika has worked in productions for Teatro Avante and the Miami Light Project, as well as the International Hispanic Theatre Festival.

Lilliam Vega was born in Cuba. She graduated from that city’s Higher Arts Insititute with a degree in Performing Arts and began her artistic career with the company Grupo Teatro Buendía. Since 1996, the director and actress has lived in Miami and worked with Teatro Avante. She is one of the coordinators of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival and International Children’s Day presented by Teatro Avante. For the last few years she has taught theatre to children and teens at Prometeo.

Joann María Yarrow was born in Colombia and directs, choreographs, and produces theater and film around the world. She is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab West, the Directors Collective of L.A. and co-founder of A Laboratory for Actor Training. She trained with the Odin Teatret in Denmark, and has her M.F.A. in directing from the University of California. She joins Prometeo Theater from New York.