Experts: Theatre

Eliza Ladd is a performer, director, stage writer, composer, and choreographer from NYC. She is currently Associate Professor of Movement and Dance at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training MFA. Ladd holds a BA in Comparative Religion from Harvard University and an MFA in Theater: Contemporary Performance from Naropa University.

Ladd is available to comment on contemporary theater practices, interdisciplinary devised theater, making art in the pandemic, crossroads of social issues and theater/dance-making process, interconnections between play, creative practice, social transformation and justice, contemplative arts, women in the performing arts and actor training and spiritual practice.

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Gravity and Levity Observer article April 30, 2021

Panel Presentations at ATHE (Association of Theater in Higher Education)

ATHE 2021:

*Re-Evaluating Teaching Theatre – What Still Holds True in a Pandemic?

This panel investigates the potential benefits and discoveries of instructing and creating theatre in online, hybrid, and modified forms amidst Covid-19.

ATHE 2020:

*Human Beings in Motion: Presence, Connection and Communion  and

*Tools for Creating Site Specific Theater: A Dialogue with Space and Substance

ATHE 2019:

*Cultivating Wellness in the Classroom: Working with the Fluctuating Transitional Nature in Student Mental Health – This workshop explores the physical practices of Barbara Dilley as a means to address the rising levels of stress and anxiety amongst students

*Exploring, Creating, Representing: The Diverse Performing Body –A workshop for performers and movement teachers to explore approaches to binary and non-binary gendered movement in live performance

ATHE 2018

*Millennial Panel: The Way of the Dinosaurs and Why People Love it — The Transformative Process of Movement Theater:  How play and exploration liberate us from minimized linear screen-based engagement and cultivate a multi-dimensional embodied presence willing to risk and feel.