Marie Drath
Marie Drath has been living in Zurich since 2009. She works in German Department of the University of Zurich in the sphere of modern German literature and is completing her PhD. She is an activist at the Autonomous School Zurich (ASZ) and is involved in the alliance ‘Wo Unrecht zu Recht wird’.
Andreas Liebmann
The Zurich-born Andreas Liebmann is a performance artist, director and author. He trained at the Theatre Academy Zurich (now the ZHDK, Zurich School of Art). His pieces and performances have been shown internationally in the theatre and performance centre ‘HAU’ in Berlin, the Kampnagel theatre in Hamburg, S/H Copenhagen, in the museum Tambo in La Paz, and in Zurich at the Rote Fabrik theatre, the Gessnerallee theatre, the Winkelwiese theatre and the Schauspielhaus theatre. He has been a lecturer for concept and ideas-based theatre direction and performative practice at the Danish National School for Performing Arts since 2015. Abendschule Import was born of a collaborative project with Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt – a school formal that needs no theatrical dressing-up to be effective.
P.Vijayashanthan
P.Vijayashanthan is an experimental theatre maker and performance artist. He worked as a performer in an alternative theatre group in Sri Lanka for many years, where the focus was on interaction and improvisation, and was involved in the co-production of many plays with socio-political topics in a transcultural field. He studied journalism and human rights at the University of Colombo. He is the founder and artistic director of the theatre group EXPERI Theater in Zurich. In addition, he often stages experimental, improvised theatre performances in various public spaces
Raphael Jakob
Raphael Jakob studied Sociocultural Animation Studies in Lucern and has worked as a Youth Worker at Open Youth Work OJA Kreis 3 & 4 since 2009. A little over 2 years ago, he built a recording studio together with young adults, which he has run ever since. Raphael belongs to the founding generation of the Autonomous School of Zurich. (ASZ) He’ll begin studying Philosophy at the University of Fribourg in September 2018.