HEIDI DUCKLER DANCE THEATRE

IN COLLABORATION WITH
HEIDI DUCKLER DANCE THEATRE
& DANZA FLORICANTO/USA
PRESENTS

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Permalink Expulsion East LA- Curbside Conversations  Panelist: Edward Padilla, President of Casa 0101 Theater Edward Padilla is President of Casa 0101 Theater. He is an actor, singer, director, and producer. As an actor, he was in Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas at Geffen Playhouse, Luisa Fernanda at Ricardo Montalban & Million Dollar Theaters, Salsalandia for La Jolla Playhouse. He was in the workshop productions of Sister Act at Pasadena Playhouse and Zorro the musical in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Film credits include Spider-Man 3, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Mr. Jones. Partial TV credits include a recurring role on Suburgatory and co-starring roles on SouthLAnd, General Hospital, Dirt, The Shield, Windfall, Bones, King of Queens, Drew Carey Show, and a recurring role on Los Beltran. He has been in numerous on-camera national TV commercials, and has done a lot of voice over work. He graduated with honors from the USC School of Theatre where he received his BA and the David Dukes Scholarship for Acting.  He studied acting and Shakespeare with British American Drama Academy at Oxford University. He previously directed Teatro Izcalli at SD Lyceum in Anthology (2009-2011) and Juan More Beer (2008), and at the Jacobs Center (Nopal Boy, 2012).  Other stage directing credits include new and published works such as Soledad (When Soleda’s Stream Birthed Her Amazon) by Janine Salinas, Trio Los Machos by Josefina Lopez, and Split Second by Dennis McIntyre at Casa 0101; and Hands On Therapy by Toby Campion at Secret Rose Theater; among others.
Permalink Expulsion East LA- Curbside Conversations  Panelist: Reina/Rey Fukuda, Metro Campaign Community Organizer and Researcher- East Los Angeles Community Corporation Rey is the lead community organizer and researcher for the Metro Campaign at ELACC. Rey brings an urban planning background and multi-cultural knowledge to the team. Rey grew up in six different cities including Tokyo (Japan), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), and Oslo (Norway). Having lived in cities in First and Third World countries and witnessing and experiencing the racist history of urban development, Rey’s background fit into the field of urban planning and land-use organizing. This past year, Rey supported campaigns to gain a supermarket (a lost asset) and protect family-owned pharmacies and businesses against a proposed Metro CVS development in Boyle Heights. Rey received a B.S. and Master’s in Planning at the University of Southern California. In 2010 Rey helped found and became vice president of the Partnership for and Equitable Los Angeles (PELA) at USC, a graduate student organization that focuses on social equity planning and policy.  
Permalink Expulsion East LA- Curbside Conversations Panelist: Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez, Assistant Professor of Theater and Cinema at Los Angeles Mission College Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of Theater and Cinema at Los Angeles Mission College.  He is a Salesian High School graduate, and holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Utah and a Masters of Fine Arts from UC San Diego.  Guillermo holds the distinction of being the first Chicana/o ever to star in a main-stage production at the University of Utah. He is the originator od Meet Me @Metro a site specific performance extravaganza performed in collaboration with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority.  Some of Guillermo’s directorial and literary highlights include two commissions from Center Theatre Group to write Student Discovery Guides for En Un Sol Amarillo and Culture Clash’s Palestine, New Mexico. His career is built around using theatre as a way of exploring issues of social inequality as well as self-empowerment. He is currently working on Towards a Moving Theater a book exploring exoteric theater in America.  
Permalink Expulsion East LA-Curbside Conversations  Moderator: Michelle Ramos-Burkart, Former Director of Dance/NYC Michelle Ramos-Burkhart has a twenty-year successful history in business, consulting and work in the arts non-profit sector. She has worked as an Executive Director for multiple non-profit arts organizations. She has served as a panelist for New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, was an adjunct professor at New York University and worked with Columbia University and Cornell University in an advisory capacity on arts initiatives and studies. She recently authored an article “In a Post Graham Word; Choreographing Dance Rights in the World of Media, Technology and Social Media” for the Pace University Entertainment Law Journal. Michelle holds a B.S. in Organizational Behavior from University of San Francisco, a J.D. from Golden Gate University, and an LL.M. from California Western School of Law. Michelle consults in arts-business with non-profit organizations nationwide in addition to her legal practice. She is the proud mother of a professional dancer and since retiring from her own dance career Michelle has become a competitive Ironman triathlete and marathoner.