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Get to know (some of) our esteemed Judges!
We have had many incredible industry professionals judge as part of World Monologue Games.
The judges below for our Regional Livestream events have shared a brief bio.
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WORLD MONOLOGUE GAMES - JUDGES
Adrian Țofei is an acclaimed Romanian filmmaker and actor, the director, producer, writer and star of Romania's first found footage horror movie, "Be My Cat: A Film for Anne", winner of Best Actor at Nashville Film Festival and Best Film at A Night of Horror Film Festival in Sydney. He's also the author of the "Top 250 International Film Festivals", "Top 100 Genre Film Festivals" and "Found Footage Manifesto". Upcoming movies: "We Put the World to Sleep" and "Dr. Frankenstein".
Amoré Kok is an accredited performing arts judge with an ATCL in Teaching Speech and Drama from Trinity College of London. Amoré also has fourteen years acting experience and four years teaching experience.
Brook C Hall has produced, directed, choreographed and taught acting for stage and screen around the world for more than 25 years. As an actor, he has had the pleasure to work with film directors Martin Scorcese, Ang Lee, Richard Linklater, and Luc Besson, among others. In 2013, he founded and served as artistic director of the LAB SPACE theatre and acting school in Taipei. He currently lives, directs, and teaches in Vienna, Austria.
Joseph Obel is a Lecturer in Acting, Directing, Dance, Spoken Poetry and Scriptwriting at Talanta Institute, a college of media and film studies based in Nairobi, Kenya. He is also one of the writers of the XYZ puppet TV series that raises awareness on human rights and governance in Kenya and Africa. When not teaching or writing, Joseph curates artistic events, both live and online to connect with theatre, film, music and art enthusiasts around the world.
Josh Galitsky is an LA-based devised, interactive and immersive theatre director who creates a safe, imaginative playground to help guide actors, artists & performers through their fear obstacles, with compassion, humor and integrity. His life-affirming process leads the artist to generate and unleash their most interesting, genuine and dynamic work.
Katherine Hennessey is a Research Fellow with the National Endowment for the Humanities, and an Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Kuwait. She is the author of Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula (2018), co-director of the short film Shakespeare in Yemen (2018), and translator of works of Arab theatre, most recently Wajdi al-Ahdal’s The Colonel’s Wedding (2019). Her forthcoming book is entitled Theatre on the Arabian Peninsula.
Mark Ghosn [gos-on] is a Lebanese-Filipino playwright, monologist and spoken word artist best known in the Philippines for creating the hit show Ampalaya Monologues. His works have been viewed millons of times online and has been featured in the country’s top TV networks and publications. In 2016, Mark became the first Filipino spoken word artist to enter the Philippines Top 50 Playlist on Spotify with his collection of spoken word and music collaborations. In 2018, his collection of Ampalaya Monologues was published nationwide under Summit Books, and in 2020, it was turned into a tv series on iWant, the country’s biggest streaming service.
Mike Savuica graduated with a BA in acting from the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) in London. He is now doing an MA in Theater Directing at NIPAI (Berlin). He has directed one feature film, one documentary, three commercials and six theatre performances. Out of all those, two of them have been international productions.
Nea Dune is an award-winning Croatian creator, actress and model with a PhD based in Los Angeles.
Nick Field is the Co-Principal of Acting Coach Scotland (ACS) and an Actor and Producer. He is also a monologue audition coach and directs on their full and part-time acting programmes.
Nuel Rivera is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Manila-based performing arts collective, Theatre 2108. A director and award-winning playwright, he is passionate about teaching theater and discovering new talents. No matter the time of day, he'll always say yes to a delicious cup of iced coffee.
Nyaka Chana is a Quintuple-Threat based in Ireland. She is known for the musical parody "An African In Europe". Her credits include, ITV, BBC, E4, Channel 5, Sky 1 and Challenge TV.
Paddy Cooper is the Artistic Director of Dark Unicorn Productions Ltd, based in London and Sussex, UK. He also works independently as an actor and director. Can currently be seen and heard on YouTube and all major podcast outlets as the host of arts interview series “Dark Unicorn in Conversation”.
Dr Sally Richards is a director, teacher and producer with a PhD in Theatre from Victoria University of Wellington, a Master of Theatre Arts in Directing from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School and Victoria University, and a Bachelor of Theatre with Honours from James Cook University of North Queensland. In 2019 she created and curated the acclaimed TAHI - New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance, winner of Most Promising Newcomer at the Wellington Theatre Awards. Sally's research interests include the directing of solo performance, pedagogy of theatre, diasporic narratives and theatre for social change.
Sebastian Rex is an award-winning writer/director, as well as the artistic director of Acting Like Mad, a new-writing, London-based theatre company and SRDG, a contemporary dance group. Sebastian also runs www.theliteralchallenge.com inspiring thousands of writers of all levels from all over the world to write every day for a month. The photograph (by Tina Engström) is from the 2004 piece “Just Don’t”, which imagined a world in which people can’t touch each other… how inconceivable.
Wendy Samantha is a passionate performing arts teacher who has directed countless musicals, plays and performances. Her teaching work and philosophy has been published in education journals and featured in training programs and interviews, and her students are highly acclaimed for their performances winning state wide competitions, completing Trinity College of London examinations with high distinctions, featuring in VCE’s Top Arts and Top Acts Melbourne, and starring in professional television shows, commercials and musical productions.
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