Our Team
Juli Hendren | Executive Co-Director
Juli Hendren is a founding member and the Director of International Relations for Tricklock Company, a 25 year old devised theatre ensemble based in Albuquerque, New Mexico with a focus on international touring and collaborations. She is the Curator of The Revolutions International Theatre Festival which produces performances, workshops, and cultural exchange events from across the globe in New Mexico. Hendren has produced artists from over 25 different countries around the world through the festival. She is a director, writer, performer, and teacher who has taught and performed across the United States, Canada, Europe, China, Uganda, and Colombia.
Hendren was a part of the TCG delegation to Cuba in 2015, Chile in 2017 and the World Theatre Congress at the International Theatre Institute Conference in Spain in 2017. She was the production manager for the UNM/ATEC collaboration in Beijing, China and the California International Theatre Festival. She is a member of Theatre Without Borders and co-creator of the Theatre Without Borders/Revolutions Symposium. She is the co-director of The Nile Files, a cultural archiving and education project in Uganda with Ndere Cultural Centre and Performance in the Peripheries, a New Mexico based program that produces encounters between global and local artists, activists, and scholars through residencies, workshops, public dialogues, and performances
She is a graduate of The University of New Mexico and has trained in physical theatre with Dell‘Arte International School of Physical Theatre, The Open Theatre, and Double Edge Theatre. She has trained in song and body work with The Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices of Poland, Clown and Bouffon with Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance in Canada, and vocal techniques with Ukrainian singer Mariana Sadowska. She has collaborated with U.S. playwrights Neil LaBute, Mac Wellman, and Idris Goodwin on several projects. She is a critically acclaimed solo performer with eight solo shows, including ROT and Waste Her, which have toured the US and Europe, winning numerous awards.
Dominika Laster | Executive Co-Director
Dominika Laster is a performance researcher, scholar, and artist. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University (2010). She is the Book Review Editor of The Drama Review (TDR) and Co-Editor of European Stages.
From 2013-2015, Laster served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer in the Theater Studies Program at Yale University. She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Interdisciplinary Performance Studies at Yale (IPSY) from 2011 to 2013.
Dominika Laster is a recipient of the Dwight Conquergood Award from Performance Studies international for her research examining Islamic practices of witnessing within the context of post-9/11 detentions and deportations. Laster’s doctoral dissertation, a critical analysis of key aspects of performance researcher Jerzy Grotowski’s notions and praxes associated with the work on self, earned her the Monroe Lippman Memorial Prize for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation.
Laster is the author of Grotowski’s Bridge Made of Memory: Embodied Memory, Witnessing and Transmission in the Grotowski Work (2016). She is the editor of Loose Screws: Nine New Plays from Poland (2015). Laster has also published articles in Performance Research, Slavic and Eastern European Performance, New Theatre Quarterly, and TDR.