TEAM SCENARIO SUMMER SCHOOL BERLIN 2025

We are looking forward to working together!

More colleagues might contribute to the summer school. Further information on this and the detailed programme will follow as soon as registration for the summer school is complete. 

Sukhesh Arora 
Sukhesh is an actor, performance-maker and educator whose work sits in the space between performance, research and pedagogy. He trained as an actor-teacher with the TAG TIE Co. in New Delhi, and subsequently went on to study Physical Theatre at Royal Holloway
College, London. A Charles Wallace scholar, Sukhesh has over 20 years’ experience teaching and designing performative interventions in a wide variety of community and learning contexts. Questions of agency and transformation, home and belonging drive his work. He
lives in Berlin.
For further details go to: https://www.sukhesharora.com/
Contact: sukhesh.arora@gmail.com

Bernadette Cronin
Bernadette is an actor, theatre-maker, workshop leader, author and founder member of interdisciplinary performance group GAITKRASH. She is a designated Linklater voice teacher and a qualified yoga instructor (Hatha/Ashtanga), and likes to bring these two practices into her training and coaching. Bernadette holds a Diploma in Acting from LAMDA, a PhD in Theatre, University of Exeter, and a Diploma in Translation (German/English), IoL. She has published a number of edited collections and book chapters, and most recently co-authored a monograph, Kristin Linklater (Routledge Performance Practitioners Series, 2023). 
Contact: b.cronin@ucc.ie

John Crutchfield 
John is a U.S.-born writer and performer who now makes his home in Berlin, Germany, where he teaches Humanities at the Barenboim-Said Academy for Music. He is also co-founder and Associate Artistic Director of The Sublime Theater, for whom he often writes, directs, designs and acts. In addition to numerous plays and poems, he has published personal essays, journalistic pieces and translations of literary and scholarly works (German - English). His own scholarship has focused on performative approaches to language teaching and learning.
Contact: johnrandolphcrutchfield@gmail.com

Alexandra Hensel
Alexandra is a teaching artist combining mostly theatre pedagogy/drama in education with foreign language teaching and learning, offering workshops and courses (live and online) in different institutions (schools, universities, social institutions). Alexandra studied Kulturwissenschaften und ästhetische Praxis with a focus on theatre in Hildesheim, lived abroad in Spain where she worked for theatre and dance festivals and started giving german classes. Since 2007 she lives again in her hometown Göttingen where she worked several years at the university until she became a freelance in 2022. She holds a PhD in performative language teaching and learning and loves to explore different ways of embodied learning.
Contact: ahensel@posteo.de

Laure Kloetzer

Laure is Prof. of Sociocultural psychology at the university of Neuchâtel. Together with Simon Henein and Ramiro Tau she recently published a volume in the Scenario Book Series entitled Barefoot Academic Teaching. Performing Arts as a Pedagogical Tool in Higher Education. 
Contact: laure.kloetzer@unine.ch

Francesco Manelli
Francesco is a teacher of German, research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Freie Universität in Berlin, where he is currently writing his dissertation on short performances as an approach to cultural learning in German as a foreign language. He has been fascinated by the austere yet sweet sound of German since his youth, which motivated him to study conference interpreting and later German as a foreign language. Playing theatre has always accompanied him, most recently as a biographical portrayal of artists.
Contact: francesco.manelli@fu-berlin.de

Manfred Schewe
Manfred is Professor Emeritus at University College Cork (UCC) where he served as Head of a Language Department (German) and also as Head of Theatre. His teaching and interdisciplinary research activities focus on Applied Drama and Theatre and are closely connected to the  SCENARIO PROJECT which encompasses a trilingual (German-English-Italian) journal, a book series and a forum for international conferences, symposia and colloquia. He has a special interest in the arts in education and continues to be involved in outreach activities, including the recent Good Vibes Project. Further biographical details are available at: http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A016/mschewe/
Contact: m.schewe@ucc.ie