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ERIN MEE e is a scholar and theatre director. In New York she has directed at the Public Theater, New York Theater Workshop, The Ontological at St. Mark's, and HERE.Ê Regionally, she has directed at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco. In India she has directed two plays with Sopanam, one of the country's leading theatre companies. Ms. Mee has traveled to India many times, and in 1993 she received a Fulbright grant to study "Ritual Performance and Classical Dance-Drama with Respect to Modern Theatre in Kerala." Ms. Mee had just completed her dissertation, titled "De-Colonizing Modern Indian Theatre: The Theatre of Roots as a Nationalist Movement." She teaches at Swarthmore College where she is organizing a Study Abroad program in India
MURIEL PETERS is a producer for cinema, television and theater. She has a long association with India, having lived six years in Bombay and Delhi in the 1960's, and three years at Oxford University completing a thesis on the cave temples of Elephanta. She has made two films in India, as executive producer of "Manifestations of Shiva", a documentary concerning the worship of Shiva; and as associate producer of "The Guru", a Merchant Ivory Production. As Director of the Film and Broadcasting Dept. of the Asia Society, Ms. Peters was responsible for the first major, comprehensive presentation of Indian films outside India. She was also the founder of the Media Advisory Committee of the Indo-US Subcomission on Education and Culture, which (during its 20 year-existence) organized countless programs in India and the United States and contributed much to mutual understanding between what she thinks of as her two countries. Ms. Peters is currently serving as Chair of Women in Film and Television International, an association of some 40 chapters and over 10,000 members worldwide.
SOMI ROY is the Project Director of the Manipur Field Trip. He is a New York based film and media curator and a native of Manipur. Somi has curated many Asian, Asian American, non-fiction and new media exhibitions, including the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar on non-fiction film, and Digital Flaherty, an interactive conference on digital media art forms. While at The Asia Society, he developed a year-round program of films exhibitions, including the first US film programs on Vietnam, popular Hong Kong, Iran and Taiwan cinema. As an independent curator Somi organized exhibitions that have been traveled to most major museums in the US. He is currently developing region-to-region transnational media projects for Appalshop, the Appalachian arts collective in eastern Kentucky. Somi has taught at NYU and Manhattan Marymount College, lectured extensively at venues such as National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution and Columbia University. His writings have been published in Artforum, Wide Angle and The Drama Review. Somi is currently finishing a film about love and romance.
BONNIE SUE STEIN is the Executive Director and Producer of GOH Productions (Seven Loaves, Inc.) and is full time to the organization. Stein was previously Program Associate of Performing Arts at the Asia Society and an independent director and choreographer in New York, Japan and Eastern Europe. Stein is a writer and contributes articles on dance and performing arts to Dance Magazine, The Village Voice, Danceinsider.com, among others. She wrote an essay on Japanese butoh pioneer, Kazuo Ohno for the 1999 book, Fifty Contemporary Choreographers (published in the UK), another for a book published by Wesleyan Press, and has lectured on the performing arts of Japan in universities, art centers and festivals in the U.S. and Europe. For GOH she produced three documentary films, Faust on a String (1992) about Czech marionettes; Moon Pulse (1995) directed by Estonian choreographer Marika Blossfeldt, and The Ivye Project (1999) directed by Tamar Rogoff. Stein is the managing director for Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks, and manages dance and dance/drama projects worldwide, as well as consulting on international exchange and performing arts projects. |
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Buy Crimson Rainclouds Published
July 17, 2012
The English translation of M. K. Binodini's play "Asangba Nongjabi" by L.Somi Roy is now available on discount at NE-Bazaar.
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re:PLAY 2012
Internesenal Film Kumhei
January 11-15, 2012
The second international film festival on performance and sports will be presented by the Manipur Film Development Corporation in Imphal, the capital of Manipur in North East India
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MLBI Coaching Camp
June 4 - 11, 2010
The third Major League Baseball International Coaching Camp will be held in Imphal, under the auspices of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Hun-tré!, from June 4-11, 2010.
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Buy Crimson Rainclouds Published
July 17, 2012
The English translation of M. K. Binodini's play "Asangba Nongjabi" by L.Somi Roy is now available on discount at NE-Bazaar.
Buy the Book »
re:PLAY 2012
Internesenal Film Kumhei
January 11-15, 2012
The second international film festival on performance and sports will be presented by the Manipur Film Development Corporation in Imphal, the capital of Manipur in North East India
Read More »
MLBI Coaching Camp
June 4 - 11, 2010
The third Major League Baseball International Coaching Camp will be held in Imphal, under the auspices of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Hun-tré!, from June 4-11, 2010.