Ensemble

Windsor:
1209 Windermere Rd, Windsor, ON, N8Y 3E9
Detroit:
411 E. Saratoga Ave., #1 Lower Unit, Ferndale, MI, 48220
Email:
BreatheArtTheatreProject@yahoo.com

Breathe Art Theatre Project is Detroit/Windsor -based theatre company committed to ensemble collaboration and artistic risk through its work with its permanent ensemble, guest artists, partner institutions and the community.

Breathe Art Artistic Partners

Demetri Vacratsis is a Windsor native and a founding Artistic Partner with Breathe Art Theatre Project. Prior to working professionally in New York, he studied at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the New School. Directing credits for Breathe Art include Nocturne, Raised In Captivity, Oleanna, Closer, Tape, Two Rooms, and How I Learned To Drive. Other directing credits include Silence, Zero, A Fish In A Jar, and Betrayal.

Courtney Burkettis a founding Artistic Partner with Breathe Art Theatre Project and works at The University of Michigan after spending two seasons as the Business Manager for The University of Detroit Mercy Theater Company. Courtney completed her M.F.A. Theatre Management program at Wayne State University and has worked professionally in New York and Detroit. Included in her directing credits are Breathe Art’s productions of The Play About The Baby, As Bees In Honey Drown, Wit, and The Mercy Seat.

Valerie Bonassois a founding Artistic Partner with Breathe Art Theatre Project and works as the technical crew chief for The Coliseum, Caesar’s 5000-seat performance facility in Windsor. She is a graduate of the University of Windsor's Theatre Program and has worked professionally at regional theatres across Canada as a Stage Manager and Tour Manager. She has been Breathe Art’s resident Technical Director since its inception. Directing credits for Breathe Art include True West and Hedwig and The Angry Inch (2006 Wilde Award and Detroit Free Press nominee). [TOP]

Kevin T. Young earned his B.F.A. in Theatre from Webster Conservatory in St. Louis, MO and is a member of Actors Equity. Notable Breathe Art performances include The Son in Nocturne (2009 Wilde Award nominee), Katurian in The Pillowman, Hedwig in Hedwig and The Angry Inch (2006 Wilde Award and Detroit Free Press nominee) and Dan in Closer. Directing credit for Breathe Art includes Wonder of the World. Audiences have recently seen Kevin in Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, Exits and Entrances, The Baker’s Wife, and Amadeus at Performance Network, Red Light Winter at Planet Ant (2009 Wilde Award nominee), Sleuth at The J.E.T., and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Tipping Point and Williamston Theatre. 2009 Wilde Award nominee).

Katie Galazka received her B.F.A. in Theatre from Wayne State University and studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School. Breathe Art acting roles include Carol in Oleanna, Alice in Closer (Breathe Art) and Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2006 Detroit Free Press nominee). She has recently been seen in Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead at Performance Network, and Equus, Sweeney Todd and Action at the Abreact Theatre.

Joel Mitchell received his B.F.A. in Theatre from Wayne State University and has been seen on the Breathe Art stage in Raised in Captivity, The Pillowman, The Dead Eye Boy and Closer. Other roles include Killer Joe in Killer Joe at Who Wants Cake? (2009 Wilde Award nominee), Pa Ubu in the Ubu Variations at the Zeitgeist (Best Comic Performance/ Oakland Press), Big Man Al in All Childish Things at the Planet Ant (2007 Wilde Award nominee), and The Emperor in The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria also at the Zeitgeist (Wilde Award Nominee). Joel was the 2003 recipient of the Kisicki Award from the Detroit Free Press. [TOP]

Aaron T. Moore is originally from Lincoln, NE and is a member of Actors Equity. He received his M.F.A. in Acting from the Hilberry Repertory Theatre in May 2005 and was last seen for Breathe Art as John in David Mamet’s Oleanna. He has been seen at various local professional theatres, including Meadow Brook, Performance Network, Tipping Point, Jewish Ensemble Theatre, Williamston Theatre, Michigan Opera, and in a collection of roles at Greenfield Village.

Sergio Forest is the Theatre Consultant and Technical Advisor at Mackenzie Hall in Windsor, ON, and has worked as the Lighting Designer and Technical Director for a number of companies and events in the area and across Ontario. He is a founding member of Suitcase In Point Theatre Company in St. Catherines, ON. Breathe Art light design credits include Raised In Captivity and Oleanna.

Michael Carnow is a Los Angeles native and a graduate of Brandeis University. Since moving to Detroit in late 2007, Michael has worked as a director, actor, stage manager, producer, playwright and improviser. Previous directing credits include Stye of the Eye (WWC?), A Trois (Windsor Fringe), The Laramie Project (Brandeis University) and The Water Children (Brandeis).

Tina DeVittori graduated from St. Clair College's Computer Network Analyst program. Tina returns this season to update and maintain Breathe Art's web site. [TOP]

Guest Artists
Our guest artists are a collective of Equity and Non-Equity artists.