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Marvin George

Position: Artistic Director

Qualifications: MA, Leeds; BA Hons, UWI

Marvin began working in theatre with his community group, the Mt. D’or Cultural Performers. He came to the Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA) in 1995, and began working extensively on the department’s student productions. A graduate of the DCFA (BA with 1st class honours, Theatre Arts), Marvin was also awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship (2006) to read for the MA in Theatre and Development Studies at the University of Leeds. Marvin has also worked as a lead artist and director with Manchester’s Contact Theatre, and director at Leeds Young Authors. More recently he co-directed “Fragments: Celebrating the Works of Derek Walcott” (2009, 2010) with Louis McWilliams and “March To Caroni” with Rawle Gibbons and Louis McWilliams (2010). In 2010 as well Marvin directed Mt. D’or Cultural Performers’ “RepatriHaiti” which won the folk theatre category at Best Village, and “Ole Mas X-Mas” with his wife Camille Quamina for Contact Theatre, Manchester. Marvin, who is also a Salzburg Fellow (Salzburg Global Seminar 446), serves as a Part-time Lecturer at the DCFA, and as the Artistic Director of Arts-in-Action. He is currently the recipient of a UWI Postgraduate Scholarship and is reading for his PhD in Cultural Studies at UWI, St. Augustine.

Brendon Lacaille

Position: Funding and Business Development Officer

Qualifications: BA, Cert, UWI

Brendon has more than 10 years experience in the Arts. As an apprentice of the Bagasse Production Company in the early 90’s, he worked as a production assistant, stage crew member and actor in several of the company’s productions. This exposure allowed him to secure several roles in local television films at that time. As a student of the Creative Arts Centre (now the Department of Creative and Festival Arts), Brendon began a long career as an associate of the centre which culminated in him joining the Arts-in-Action unit in 1998 after completing a degree in English and History. With a distinction in the Practitioner’s Certificate course in Drama/Theatre-in-Education (1999), he continued as an actor-teacher-facilitator later moving on to become a Lead Facilitator, Project Manager, Business Development Officer, and Administrative Director with the unit. He is currently the Funding and Business Development Officer of Arts-in-Action. He is a husband, the father of two and is also a Part-time Lecturer with the DCFA.

Patrice Briggs

Position: Creative Development Officer

Qualifications: MA, Goldsmiths; PGDip, BA UWI

Patrice Briggs is a passionate Theatre Arts Practitioner who has played off stage roles that were as diverse as her off-stage ones: she’s been facilitator, stage manager, singer, dancer, director and events manager over the last sixteen years of her theatre life. Patrice was nominated for a Cacique award for the ‘Best Supporting Actress’ award for her performance in the production ‘Elma Francois: The Fire Inside’; her first major role. She graduated from the UWI, St. Augustine with a B.A. in English Literatures and Theatre Arts, and later a post graduate diploma programme in Arts and Cultural Enterprise Management (ACEM). As a committed covenanted member of the People of Praise Prayer Community, she delights in serving her ministry as a Music and Arts leader. She has been a Part-Time Lecturer in the Practitioners Certificate Programme in Drama and Theatre in Education at the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, University of the West Indies for the last eight years. Since 1998 Patrice has worked as a Project Manager and Business Development Officer with Arts-in-Action. She now serves as a Creative Development Officer, having recently completed her MA in Cross Sectoral and Community Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Camille Quamina

Position: Creative Development Officer

Qualifications: BA, UWI

Camille Quamina has specialized in the delivery of arts based participatory workshops for young people and the community since 1996. She has worked with Arts-in-Action, Contact Theatre, Manchester UK and Leeds Young Authors, Leeds UK. As an actor she has received the National Drama Association of Trinidad and Tobago Cacique Award for The Most Outstanding Actress in 2000 and was nominated for the same in 2006. She has also toured internationally as an actor, dancer and vocalist. She is a Salzburg Fellow (Salzburg Global Seminar 446) who together her husband Marvin George recently directed “Ole Mas X-Mas for Contact Theatre, Manchester (2010) and with Rawle Gibbons directed the critically acclaimed “Here’s My Ass; Now Try To Whip It!” (2011). Camille is currently reading for her MPhil in Cultural Studies at U.W.I.

Alicia Goddard

Position: Programme Assistant

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Alicia’s passion for the arts began as a child with her involvement in choir singing, drama groups, reciting poetry and entering choral speaking competitions both at Primary School and in the Church. She would later continue to follow her passion, seeking training in performance both on and off stage at The Trinidad Theatre Workshop (TTW). At TTW she was schooled in stagecraft by some of the nation’s best and most talented veterans and practitioners of theatre: namely Albert LaVeau, John Isaacs, Charles Applewhite, Devindra Dookie, and Dexter Lyndersay. She served as coordinator for their children’s camp, and as a member of YMCA before beginning her career with Arts-in-Action. In addition to her many acting roles in the Department for Creative and Festival Arts annual productions, she has served as the co-coordinator for the children’s vacation programme (Discovery Camp) since 2004. Alicia hopes to continue making a difference in the lives of young people.