Tanja
Raaste, Producer
Tanja
Raaste has worked in the UK, the US, Spain, Finland and France, and has
produced both new and traditional work in theatre, dance and opera.
Tanja's credits include the recent site-specific play Quality performed
in a shoe-store; ambitious site-specific Center for New Theater's King
Lear; several shows for the BAC's Octoberfest; Karen Coonrod's The
Visit - with a cast numbering over 70 actors; and the award-winning
adaptation of Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog. Tanja is currently based in
London.
Languages:
Finnish, English, Spanish, French
Training:
MFA Theatre Production, California Institute of the Arts, California
"[Tanja’s] knowledge of the contemporary field is breathtaking, and her
ability to judge what’s before her, no matter how new or unforeseen, is
consistently empathetic, curious, generous, and accurate."
Erik Ehn�
Playwright, Dean of Theatre School – California Institute of the
Arts
"[Tanja] has a rare gift for sussing out a situation and applying the
appropriate solution."
Carol Bixler
Producer, REDCAT, Director of Design and Production and Head of
Producing, CalArts School of Theater. Producing Director, Center for
New Theater at CalArts
"Working with [Tanja] was one of the greatest pleasures of my
professional career."
Michael Franco
Producer / Writer / Director, Zoo District Theatre Company
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Matteo
Plachesi,
Assistant
Producer
Matteo has worked in Italy and Spain, and has a background in
communication and video production. He has been involved, both as a
writer and as part of the production team, in various projects spanning
music, theatre, cinema and comics. Matteo is part of the Nordic Nomad
team and was co-producer of Quality.
Languages: English, Spanish, French‚
Training: First Level Degree in “Sciences of Communication” from
University of Bologna (Italy);
Currently
working towards an MA in Arts and Culture Management (University of
Bologna/ University of Greenwich).
Tony
Lepore,
Producer
Tony
Lepore has been involved in theatre for the last seven years as a
playwright, producer, lighting designer, tech director, and stage
manager. As Managing Director of Angry Bubble
Productions,
he has produced over forty plays in ten cities around the US, UK, and
Canada. He is best known as producer of the women’s theatre project Angry
Jellow Bubbles,
which began in New York and has since been performed over 200 times
with 85 different women around the world, including as the exclusive
performance at the United Nations for the world delegates on
International Women’s Day 2001. He currently resides in both Brooklyn
and Los Angeles. Other producing and tech directing credits: ScrewBall
by Douglas McFerran, Eldon
Corvet
by Rick Pagano, award-winning South African playwright Reza de Wet’s African
Gothic,
American
TV
with Dolores Diaz and Eva Minemar, WET
- The New Opera with renowned composer Anne LeBaron at Barnsdall
Theatre Gallery and RedCat
(Walt Disney Concert Hall), Naked
TV
with the Naked Angels Theatre Company, Basic
Training
(Barry Josephson/20th Century Fox, producers) and The Los Angeles
Women’s Theatre Festival.
Nordic
Nomad also has an international network of collaborating producers on
whom we can call for specific projects.