About

Poornima is a Boston-based actress, writer, and teaching artist, and is artistic director for TEV-America. She has performed with companies such as the A.R.T., Shakespeare & Co., and Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and she specializes in devised theater and working with heightened, poetic texts. With TEV-America, she has cowritten and performed in Lee & the Tallest Tree and A Map in the Dark. More info at: PoornimaKirby.com.

Tyrone is a New York-based educator, director and performer with a degree in musical theater, a masters in education, and a passion for supporting and uplifting youth through theatre. He currently works as director of an emergency childcare center in New York. With TEV-America, he has performed in the role of Frederick Douglass in a workshop production of Brother to Liberty, in Canajoharie, NY; provided direction for Lee and the Tallest Tree; and directed and co-devised A Map in the Dark.

Stephanie’s passion for the theatre began at a very young age.  She has worked with multiple New York theater producers both on and off broadway, while also pursuing training as a performer at the renowned HB studios.  She organized the initial tours of TEV-International’s The Magic Flute to U.S., as well bringing Eternity in an Hour to perform at the New York Fringe Festival. With TEV-America, Stephanie has performed as a puppeteer in the premiere of A Map in the Dark.  Stephanie is also Managing Director for TEV-America.

Jeff has always been an artist, from 3D animated commercials, to painting for Pee Wee’s Playhouse, to designing make-up for Broadway productions like Into the Woods. Now based in L.A., he paints murals and decorative finishes for clients such as Will Smith and Macys. He has also performed as an actor in multiple regional theater productions. With TEV-America, Jeff painted the costumes and backdrops for Lee & the Tallest Tree.

Heidi is a dancer, choreographer, actor, educator, and certified yoga instructor with a passion for creative movement. With degrees from Bennington and NYU, she has spent decades refining a unique approach to unlocking creative, meditative movement in herself and her dancers. Her most recent project is founding an arts center in the Catskills, NY, designed to host artistic residencies, performances and festivals.

Tarciso is a Boston-based musician and composer, originally from Sertania, Brazil. He specializes in north-eastern Brazilian folk music styles such as Forro and Choro. He has performed at international Forro Festivals including ‘Forro in New York’, where he premiered an original composition with a full orchestra, produced by grammy nominated musician Rafael Piccoloto. With TEV-America, he co-composed and performs in Lee & the Tallest Tree.

Born in Germany, and now based in Waterloo, Canada, Gita specializes in improv comedy, while also taking on serious roles like Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. She is a founding member of TEV-International, and played Toinette in TEV’s first production, Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid, which toured  across seven European countries and in India.  Since then she has co-created and performed as part of multiple TEV-International productions including  Mozart’s The Magic Flute.  and is currently co-developing a piece called Introspection Play, to be performed with TEV-America.

Arwen is a senior at the Laguardia High School of Music & Art in New York City, where she specializes in musical and dramatic theater roles, and recently appeared as Liesl in The Sound of Music. With TEV-America, she performed in the roles of Alice & Harriet in A Map in the Dark, which she also co-authored. She is currently writing and producing her first film project.