Ensemble Members
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Amy Sass: Director, performer, and visual artist, Amy is the co-founder of Ragged Wing Ensemble. At a tender age, Amy was swimming in the deep waters of the Brecht, Artaud, Peter Schumann and Shakespeare. Her thorough training in both traditional acting and the avant-garde canon continues to propel her on a quest toward possibility and surprise. Receiving her degree in both directing and the visual arts, she brings her finely tuned aesthetic to the stage. Combining large-scale spectacle with the strength of classical scene-work, Amy thrives on stretching the shape of theater. She is a passionate teacher who leads a vibrant theater program at Prospect Sierra School where she instills a sense of bravery and risk in her students. In essence, Amy is a fierce arts advocate. She works from the gut, using theater & art as vehicles for healing, empowerment and social change. Favorite credits include: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, The Dutchman (Director, Bucknell University) The Odyssey, The Jungle Book (Director, Shotgun Players), The Skriker, The Bacchae (Performer, Shotgun Players), The Serpent, Alice in Wonderland (Director, Ragged Wing Ensemble), The Tempest (Ariel, Ragged Wing Ensemble.)
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Keith Cory Davis began studying theater at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston and continued at the University of Northern Colorado, majoring in both acting and directing. He has been in the Bay Area since 1997 performing with many theater companies including Traveling Jewish Theatre, (where his role in "Dybbuk" was listed as one of the top theatrical duets of 2004 in the SF Guardian's "Best of the Bay,") Shakespeare at Stinson, foolsFury, Last Planet Theatre, Darvag Theatre, Exit Theatre, CuttingBall Theatre, Women's Will Playwriting Experiment at the Magic Theatre, Shotgun Players, Mettle Theatre, and of course, Ragged Wing Ensemble. As a director and teacher, he has worked with Ragazzi Peninsula Boys Choir, Education Unlimited Acting Intensive in Berkeley, Albany High School and MLK Middle School. He currently teaches Drama at Prospect Sierra School. He has also appeared in several independent films, including "Weapon of Mass Destruction," "Greed" and Pulse Film's "The Collapsing Wall." With RWE, Keith has performed in The Serpent, Splinters...and Other F-Words, Alice in Wonderland, and as the Devil in The History of the Devil. He directed Ragged Wing's The Tempest in 2007.
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Anna Shneiderman, also a Ragged Wing founding member, is committed to working at the intersection of theatre, education and social justice, and has trained with Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed as well as with Michael Rohd and Sojourn Theatre. In Chicago, Anna co-founded The Antigone Project—an ensemble of immigrants and refugees that created new theatrical pieces—and she worked at Steppenwolf Theatre and Redmoon Theatre. Anna brings her experience with mask-making and puppeteering to Ragged Wing from her work with Bread and Puppet Theatre in Vermont , the Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre in California , as well as theatres in Massachusetts and Washington, DC .
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