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Lecturers & Facilitators

Arts-in-Action: Patrice Briggs, Marvin George, Brendon Lacaille, Camille Quamina (Trinidad)

Patrice Briggs has been a part-time Lecturer in the Certificate Programme in Theatre In Education and Educative Theatre at the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, UWI, St. Augustine Campus, over the last eight years. Since 1998 Patrice has worked as a Project Manager and Business Development Officer with Arts-in-Action and now works as a Creative Development Officer in the unit.

Marvin George joined the Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA), UWI, St. Augustine Campus, in 1995, and began working extensively on the department’s student productions. Marvin serves as a part-time Lecturer at the DCFA, and as the Artistic Director of Arts-in-Action.

Brendon Lacaille joined the Department of Creative and Festival Arts’ Arts-in-Action unit, UWI, St. Augustine Campus, in 1998. He is currently the Funding and Business Development Officer of Arts-in-Action and is also a part-time Lecturer with the DCFA.

Camille Quamina, a Creative Development Officer in the Department of Creative and Festival Arts’ Arts-in-Action unit, UWI, St. Augustine Campus, has specialized in the delivery of arts based participatory workshops for young people and the community since 1996.

Gene Carson (Barbados)
An award winning dancer and choreographer, Gene Carson is currently the Artistic Director of the Barbados Dance Theatre Company and Lecturer in Dance at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Gene has toured Britain, North and South America, and various Caribbean islands as a performing member of the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica and the Barbados Dance Theatre Company.

Choreography is Copyrightable: Kayanne Anderson, Neila Ebanks, Simone Harris & Renee Lynch (Jamaica)

Kayanne Anderson is Director, Media, Entertainment, Telecoms & Intellectual Property at Re:Designing Legal Corporation.

Neila Ebanks, a dancer, choreographer and educator, is the Artistic Director of eNKompan.E and a Lecturer at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.

Simone Harris is a former L’Acadco dancer turned Entertainment Business Consultant. Ms Harris is the President of 360ARTISTS and Founder of the Choreography is Copyrightable project.

Nicholeen DeGrasse-Johnson (Jamaica)
Nicholeen DeGrasse-Johnson is a Dance Educator by profession and belief – she has a love and passion for dance and education, and is an advocate for learning in, about, and through dance. DeGrasse-Johnson is currently the Director of the School of Dance, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.

Nathan Gibbons (Barbados)
Theatre artist, Nathan Gibbons, is a LAMDA trained lighting designer who honed his craft in the hallowed performing halls of the Barbados Community College. A budding entrepreneur, Nathan is one of the founding members of Parhelion120 Stage Lighting. He seeks to offer a service which keeps clients world-wide in awe.

Roger Gittens (Barbados)
He is a music teacher, a composer, an arranger and a pianist. Roger Gittens has headed the Performing Arts Department at the Barbados Community College since 1997. He has also presented at workshops organised by UWI, the NCF and various churches.

Peter Lewis (Barbados)
Peter Lewis has more than fifteen years experience in Arts and Theatre production and management. He has worked as a Producer, Tour Production Manager, Stage Manager and Technical Theatre Director. Mr Lewis sits on the TVET Committee for the Establishment of Performing Arts Standards for Technicians. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Errol Barrow Centre for the Creative Imagination.

Dr Danielle Lyndersay (Trinidad)
His career spans thirty years as a theatre designer, director, actress, Theatre Arts Education teacher and researcher in Nigeria, Canada, Holland, Switzerland, and now in Trinidad & Tobago. Dr Danielle Lyndersay is the founder of Arts-in-Action, the outreach unit of the Department of Creative & Festival Arts at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine where she is currently Head of the Department.

masTaller: Dr Lowell Fiet, Daniel Lind-Ramos, Katherine Miranda, Zenaida Sanjurjo (Puerto Rico)

Dr Lowell Fiet heads the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at UPR-Río Piedras, where he also teaches in the English, Theatre, and Comparative Literature Departments. Well known as a theatre critic and scholar, he directs the másTaller mask and creative expression workshop.

Daniel Lind-Ramos an internationally recognized painter and graphic artist from the Afro-Puerto Rican community of Loíza, is also a Professor of Art at the University of Puerto Rico-Humacao.

Katherine Miranda is a dissertating PhD candidate in Caribbean Literature at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras. She co-edits Sargasso and teaches in the English Department.

Zenaida Sanjurjo is an Instructor in the English Department at the University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla. She is also a PhD candidate in Caribbean Literature at UPR-Río Piedras.

Samuel Soyer (Barbados)
Samuel Soyer is a Foundation Language Programme Instructor at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies. He is a lover of literature, especially poetry and is an occasional poet. He is the author of The Chrysalids Notes and has co-authored several English textbooks.

Dr Joyce Stewart (Barbados)
Dr Joyce E. Stewart is attached to the Faculty of the Humanities and Education, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, as Coordinator of the Foundation Language Programme. Dr Stewart has served for many years with the Caribbean Examinations Council, and is currently one of their resource persons for English A.

Edgar Nkosi White (USA)
A playwright, poet, novelist, musician, and educator, Edgar Nkosi White was born in Montserrat in 1947 and emigrated to the USA in 1952. More than twenty three of Edgar Nkosi’s works form part of the National Theatre of Britain’s Black Archive of Theatre (2010). For the past 40 years his work has been staged in the Caribbean, Africa, USA, United Kingdom and Europe.