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 Facilitators Flavia Alejandra Maucci, MA, MFTi, Founder, Artistic Director Blue Walcer, MPH, CARE Program Director L.A./Happy Hyder, Operations Assistant Amal Kouttab, MA, RDT, Founder, Consultant Bobbi Ausubel, MA, MFA, RDT, Assistant Director Chris Foster, MA, Assistant Director James Glasnapp, Program Evaluator Kumi Fuchigame, Student Volunteer  FLAVIA ALEJANDRA MAUCCI, MA, MFTi: received her Baccallaureatte degree in humanities with an emphasis in Healing Arts at the New College of California and completed her graduate studies in Counseling Psychology and Drama Therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Ms. Maucci founded the Araceli Theater program in 2004. BOBBI AUSUBEL, MFA, RDT: In San Francisco in 2004 Bobbi directed Two Fools at Theatre Rhinoceros and in 2002 Waiting for the Podiatrist at Venue 9, both by playwright Terry Baum. As co-founder and artistic director of Caravan Theater, Cambridge, MA she directed known and company created works for over ten years. Among these were award winning, Best Ten Plays of the Year and Best Ensemble of the Year, including the long running How to Make A Woman, and Tell Me A Riddle, an adaptation of San Francisco’s Tillie Olsen’s novella. Caravan Theater is considered the earliest of the feminist theaters of the Second Wave. She has directed with various theaters in Boston and Union Sister in Washington, D.C. Bobbi taught Acting at the Boston Conservatory for over fifteen years and was Chairperson of the Theater Division for some of that time. Bobbi moved to the west coast nine years ago. Currently, a Registered Drama Therapist, she is on the faculty of Omega Transpersonal Theater. At the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology she is Adjunct Faculty teaching Transpersonal Acting. She has been a drama consultant/arts educator in San Francisco and peninsula schools integrating drama into academic curriculum. Most recently she has adapted, with her daughter, Rivka Solomon, the play That Takes Ovaries, based on the book That Takes Ovaries (Random House). It is being produced around the US. Ask me about it!  AMAL KOUTTAB, MA, RDT: is a registered drama therapist, teacher, mediator, and filmmaker. She has used drama, art and writing to facilitate therapeutic groups in mental health institutions, nursing homes, hospitals and drug rehabilitation centers in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in the performing arts and women’s studies from the University of Virginia in 1997, and a master’s degree in psychology and drama therapy from New York University in 2001. For the past three years, she facilitated therapeutic workshops with Palestinians and Israelis and other groups in conflict throughout the Bay Area. back to top |
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