Current Artists in Residence Mühlberg, Alemania

Elizabeth Guindi is an actress whose artistic development begins as a musician, first as a cellist and later as an opera singer.
While in Italy as an opera singer, she joins the company “Teatro Milano”, travelling through Italy and Russia with the play “Di Fronte al Enemico”. She has the opportunity to work with the last generation of Stanislavski´s students.
In Los Angeles, Calif., works with Sandra Seacatt and later in New York connects with great master Elizabeth Kemp, who becomes her coach through her carreer.
She works with film directors such as Alfonso Cuarón in "Great Expectations" and with Luis Mandoki in "Message In a Bottle". Alejandro Lubezki, Nicolás López, Ariel Winigard, Batan Silva and many others.
Returning to Mexico she participates in television, in internationaly succesfull soap- operas and series such as: "I Don't Believe In Men" and "Crows Club".
In theatre, being her last participation: "It Is Never Late To Learn French" director Manolo Caro, “What Shall We Do With Moscow?" by Acoyani Guzmán and “Reporte Meteorológico” by Pablo Mandoki.
Amongst her best interpretations in theater are: “Barefoot Queens", (monologues of queens of Shakespeare), directed by Isaac Bañuelos in “The Chapel of The Hellenic Theatre” and as Regan in "King Lear”, by Rodrigo Johnson.
She produced and directed three operas with great success at the “Teatro de la Ciudad” in Mexico City: "Elixir of Love", "The Marriage of Figaro", "Rigoletto".
She has given concerts in Bataclán as a singer with the great guitarist Ruben Esparza.

Luis Lesher

BFA with major in acting by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Started his acting career in 1999 and in 2000 won the Best Actor Award in the VIII International University Theatre Festival for his performance in Anton Chekhov´s A Marriage Proposal.
In almost 20 years as an actor he has worked in more than 30 professional theatre productions, several motion pictures and TV series, includying 3 years as a member of the Mexican Improv League, 2 years as a member of the UNAM´s street theatre company, and 4 years as a member of Mexico´s National Theatre Company.
In 2013 he made is debut as a stage director with an all female cast version of Willam Shakespeare´s Henry V.

Nathan Sapsford

Nathan Sapsford is an actor and writer from Sydney, Australia, based in Sydney and Los Angeles.
On the stage in 2016 Nathan played the title role in the iconic Australian play Ruben Guthrie in its US Premiere in Los Angeles with the Australian Theatre Company to acclaim, winning the Scenie award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy.
2017 saw him play Trigorin in the Australian Premiere of Aaron Posner’s Stupid F*cking Bird in Melbourne, an award-winning adaption of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, to national media acclaim.
TV Credits include TNT's The Last Ship and Gunslingers on AHC/Discovery Networks in the US, The Easybeats for ABC, Fat Pizza for SBS and All Saints for Network 7 in Australia.
Film credits include independent film festival winners Cement Suitcase and KEY, What Lola Wants, JukeBox Hero, The Creation of Aspen, Artful Gambit and Bathtub.
As a writer Nathan created, produced and acted in the dark comedy short Bathtub in 2018. Also the series Fernando as writer/director/lead actor.
As a storyteller, Nathan has explored dance and movement in narrative, co-choreographing a production with internationally acclaimed choreographer, dancer and director Julie Bour and Flying Mammoth in Los Angeles.
Nathan is thrilled to be working with Teatro Del Mundo as a part of this extraordinary project.

Antonio Blanco

Is a versatile actor, mime and drag performer trained at the international School of corporeal mime In London, Casa del Teatro and Diplomado Teatro del cuerpo in Mexico.
Antonio started his professional career working extensively throughout the Mexican entertainment industry.

Between 2002 and 2005 Antonio awarded a scholarship from the Mexican Fund for arts and Culture, which would sponsor his studies In London at The international School of Corporeal Mime formely L´Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique where he later became part of the renowned mime Company Theatre de L’ange Fou, performing the roll of Hades in the company’s production “The Orpheus Complex” in Taunton Somerset in 2006

Antonio is also the Co-director of the physical theatre company Energinmotion where he seeks explore the complexity of human behaviour and emotion through physical action and dance, credits include, Casa latin Theatre festival, Be Lonely with me: a site specific performance In St Pancras station, Where the nights are Blue and electric: resistance gallery london.

As a cabaret and Drag performer Antonio, better known in the London scene as Miss(ter) Blanche DuBois took initially working along side the burlesque troupe BurlyQ in , the ministry of burlesque’s High Tease, the Double R club along which he performed in a special event for the immersive theatre company Punchdrunk. He has a long standing key collaboration with the east end pop cultural cabaret troupe The Lipsinkers since 2007 with whom he has toured around the Uk and Europe and achieving 5 star reviews at the Edinburgh fringe festival with the show “Evolution of the Fags”

In 2016 Antonio stared on Silver Studded Blue, a short film produced by the Bournemouth University of the arts which awarded him a nomination for best reality performance at the New Renaissance Festival In Amsterdam 2017

Irene Trapani

Irene Trapani started her training and professional career in 2004 by graduating from the “Link Academy” in Rome. In 2006 she completed two years of training at “Cinecittà Studios”, studying with important masters of Italian cinema (Carlo Lizzani, Luis Bacalov, Pino Pinori, Vittorio Storaro, Francesco Rosi) and deepening the interest in sensory work and the Stanislavskij-Strasberg Method. She wins the award “Alida Valli” for best actress . Since 2006 she has worked as an actress in independent films, numerous stage productions -Euripide, Pasolini, Shakespeare, Pinter, Cechov and many more - and television series. As writer has performed the play “Senseless Kassandra” and “Sic Volvere Parcas” directed by Rosa Morelli. She's never stopped her studies especially with Elizabeth Kemp (member of the Actors Studio - New York) and Rosa Morelli (Methos teacher, coach, trance generative and Nlp coach). Important experiences also with Abani Biswas and the group of Milon Mela and the two Master's degree in “Digital Storytelling” and in “Theatrical Operator”. She also works as a teacher and educator with children and teenagers in some schools in Rome.
In 2008 she graduated in "Archaeological and Historical Sciences of the Classical and Oriental World" at the Faculty of "Letters and Philosophy" of the University "La Sapienza" in Rome.
In 2018 she made is debut as a stage director with two theatrical production “Operation petticoat” and “Murdered on the Oriente Express” with the amatorial company B-Polaris.
She is a member of cultural association in Rome, ABRA – MOTHER OF MANY, NY PRODUCTION, with which organize, cultural events and short films.

Fernando Villa

Studied Drama in The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
As a profesional actor he has been in more than thirty plays, performing on the most prestigious stages in México as well as cities arround the world as Buenos Aires, Madrid, Mallorca, Frankfurt, Bonn, Edmonton, New York and El Paso. Working any range from fisical comedy and clowning, to realism and from theater for young audiences to improv.
He has had the chance to directed in Mexico, Spain and USA. This year he has been invited to participate in Ney York City's Lincoln Center's Directors Lab 2018.

He is founder member of the theatre company EFE TRES TEATRO, and Deputy Director in Festival internacional de Teatro Clásico MX, (International classical Theatre Festival MX). Both of them active efforts to keep the tradition of classical spanish theatre alive and showing the audience that it can be as interesting and amusing as contemporary.

Veronica del Cerro

Veronica del Cerro has a BS in Psychology from Virginia Tech, MA in Theatre from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and is a 500HR RYT (Yoga Teacher). As part of career as theatrical artist, she has movement and voice training from around the world including; Laban, Lecoq, Grotowski (Gardzienice Poland), Viewpoints and Suzuki (SITI Co NYC), Roy Heart (PanTheatre), Butoh, clown, puppetry, and mask. Theatre credits include Shakespeare Theatre,Othello, Constellation Theatre: Arabian Nights, Constellation Theatre, GALA Theatre: El Paso Blue, Ana en el Tropico, Everyman Theatre: August:Osage County, Kennedy Center TYA: Adventures of Homer; Borderlands Theatre, Arizona: No Roosters in the Desert, MetroStage: Savage in Limbo, Theatre J: Andy and the Shadows, The Seagull on 16th,Studio Theatre: My Children! My Africa! ,Rock n' Roll: Forum Theatre: Marisol, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: Roundhouse Theatre: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Recently she has been devising internationally with projects including, The Bald Soprano, Arthalia (UK) Colourscape (UK), El Luto Nos Viene Bien, (Proyecto Bicefalo,ENAT, Mexico City) and Dead Tree Gives No Shelter (Knaive Theatre, UK/Denmark).

Mauricio González Gómez

Mauricio González Gómez is a graduate in Acting (Escuela Nacional de Arte Teatral), in Communication Science (Universidad Panamericana) and Alumni of the Midsummer in Oxford Program (British American Drama Academy). In his formation as an actor he has had teachers such as Leo Wringer, Irina Brown, Antonio Algarra, Martin Acosta, Matt Chapman, Karina Gidi, Helena Bastos, John Gorrie, Alejandro Velis, among others; he has studied different voice techniques such as Linklater, Royhart, and extended voice with Indira Pensado, Robert Price, Liz Eckert, Carmen Mastache, Muriel Ricard, Llever Aiza, Juan Pablo Villa and Aida López.
His work in theatre includes “Imaginaria” written and directed by David Daniel (Finalist play in the International University Theatre Festival, UNAM 2017); “Luto de Sangre” by Xandra Orive, directed by Enrique Aguilar; “El amor enamorado” and “Adonis y Venus” by Lope de Vega, directed by Martin Acosta; “Turista” by Marius Von Mayenburg, directed by Martin Acosta; “Idiotas contemplando la nieve” by Alejandro Ricaño, directed by Alejandro Velis; “Opción Múltiple” by Luis Mario Moncada, directed by Alejandro Velis; “A midsummer night ́s dream” by William Shakespeare, directed by Irina Brown; “Sanctuary” by Tanika Gupta, directed by Leo Wringer; among others...

Alejandra Castro Romero

Writer of drama, poetry, literary and theatrical criticism essay and creative script. Graduated from the UNAM Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, career Dramatic Literature and Theater, generation 2008-2011.
Scholarship of dramaturgy of the foundation for the Mexican letters f, l, m,) 2012-2013 and selected by the committee of the same for endorsement of scholarship 2013-2014. She has collaborated with short theater texts, critique, essay and poetry in various publications such as Tierra Adentro, Este País, Moira Magazine, TintaSeca and Verso Destierro, among others.
Author of the book Brava y Navaja, edited by the Editorial Tierra Adentro and the FCE in 2018. She has done dramaturgist work for La Casa de las tresmujeres (Teatro Sergio Mendoza 2015) and scenic translation by Sumida Gawa, first stage translation of a text of Noh theater.
Participant and selected for the first Residence of Writers Memories of the Deserts. Screenwriter of the series "Learning to Educate the Children of the 21st Century" sponsored by Fundación Banorte for DGTV (Directorate General of Educational Television) SEP.

Josue Abraham Palma

Bachelor of Design and Visual Communication, graduated from the Autonomous University of Mexico. He works as an artist and researcher in multimedia techniques, specializing in Video Mapping, Animation, Augmented Reality, Live Visual and Interactive Systems. In 2005 he founded the collective "Perfarmia", with which he made multiple multimedia performances at the MACAY Museum. 2011 He graduated from the UNAM with the thesis project “Video Mapping Show for the 100th Anniversary of the G. Cantón Palace.” He produces "Mimesis" multimedia dance performance with which he was awarded scholarships from SEDECULTA and Municipal Fund of Merida. 2012 Formed the collective "Nómada" where he regularly presents live visual and live music shows. At the same time he collaborates with "Murmurante Teatro", where he made "Sidra Pino: Vestigios de una Serie", by Director Jorge Vargas in 2014, the documentary "Viaje Inmóvil: spiral study on suicide" in 2013 and “Manual de Casería” by Juan de Dios Rath. 2015 Video Jokey in Tequila MID. Josue taught art direction at the UNAM. Also teaches Video Mapping and VJ workshops in the Riviera Maya. 2017 Exhibits "Virtual Metaphors" at the City Museum. He attended several residences and taught video mapping workshops in Noox Izamal. He has made commercial projects for recognized brands such as Mazda, Heineken, Lumkun, Desire Hotel Cancun. He participated in the International Festival of Light FILUX D.F. 2017 and Mérida 2018. And make the inaugural video mapping for Moloch Gallery in Mex D.

Julio Montero

Julio Flores Montero, currently an alumni in the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos -UNAM and in the process of titulación by his shorfilm “Espacios Vacios”; has been working since 2015 as a producer in multiple shortfilms and recently in a feature film. Working not only as a producer but as a director and arts and photography director as well.

He has being in touch with some prestigious directors, with whom he has worked, like: Julián Hernandez, Ernesto Contreras, Carlos Lenin, Roberto Fiesco.

And being part of various graduates in “Northridge University”, in California, in “UNAM” and the “Jumex Museum”, which all have the main focus of cinema and contemporary art.