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Albert Greenberg is composer and singer/performer for Una Noche de Suenos Vidi Flores.   As co-founder and co-artistic director for A Traveling Jewish Theatre, he has co-authored, performed and scored work on a wide range of themes; from the assassination of Trotsky, to modern Yiddish poetry, from life on the streets of Chicago, to Zionism and the Middle East.  In 1996, he oversaw the design and construction of a state-of-the-art theatre for the company, in San Francisco.  He has toured throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel--performing at the Internationale Tanz Theater, in Salzburg, the LA Festival and the Sommerfestival in Hamburg, He was a recording artist with Pentagram Records and Silvery Moon Production Company.  His latest score was for Corey Fischer’s Kennedy Award-winning adaptation of the David Grossman novel, See Under: Love.

Helen Stoltzfus is a co-artistic director of A Traveling Jewish Theatre, an ensemble member, and an actor, writer, and director.  For the last 15 years she has directed, co-created, and performed in numerous plays by the company, as well as written and performed her own solo work.    She co-wrote, co-produced and starred in the film, Send Word Bear Mother, an adaptation of her solo performance piece, Like A Mother Bear.   She serves on the Steering Committee of the Network of Ensemble Theatres, a nationwide consortium of ensemble theatres, and has organized numerous forums and conferences around theatre-making.  She has taught as a Master Teacher in ATJT's training program in ensemble theatre as well as numerous workshops in creating original work, most recently with multi-cultural high-school students.

Sonya Delwaide is a choreographer and performer whose reputation has flourished within the United States and Canada for nearly two decades.  Although her choreographic development began within the New York post-modern dance scene, her regular involvement with ballet companies and her French-Canadian roots strongly influence her voice.  Since 1983 her work has been regularly presented throughout Canada, the United States, France and Brazil.  Ms. Delwaide trained in New York City with Merce Cunningham, Larry Rhodes, Twyla Tharp and Douglas Dunn.   She has worked with The Mel Wong Dance Company in New York, ODC San Francisco and Desrosiers Dance Theatre in Toronto.  From 1992 to 1999 she directed the Compagnie de Danse l'Astragale based in Québec.   She also choreographed for the Ottawa Ballet and L'Ecole Supérieure des Grands Ballets Canadiens. In 1996 she moved to California and has received commissions from AXIS Dance Company, Berkeley Ballet Theater, Contra Costa Ballet, and Hubbard Street 2, where she won the 2000 national choreographic competition. This year Ms. Delwaide won an Isadora Duncan award for best performance in her own work titled: Départ. She is currently teaching and acting as interim artistic director of Berkeley Ballet Theater.

Rebecca Camhi Fromer has rendered the lyrics into Ladino.  She is a poet, novelist, documentarian and editor of numerous works including the anthology, Sephardic American Voices-Two Hundred Years of Literary Legacy.  She also co-founded the Judah Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California.

Yolanda Aranda  is a singer and actor.  She has performed with the Latina Theatre Lab and has a CD coming out this fall, produced by David Grisman for his Acoustic Disc record company.  Two years ago   she discovered that her grandmother’s family name, Cantu, was of Spanish/Jewish origin. 

Patricia Jiron, dancer, is a native San Franciscan with Central American heritage. She started her dance training at San Francisco School of the Arts (SFSOTA). Immediately following this, she received two scholarships to train and perform at Jacob’s Pillow in Massachusetts. While on the East Coast, Patricia studied with Milton Meyers and at the Graham School. After returning to SF, she continued to train with Alonzo King, Demara Bennet, and Cheryl Chaddick.  Returning to New York, Patricia was a scholarship student at the Martha Graham School and the Paul Taylor School. While living in NYC, Patricia was invited to join the Oberlin Dance Collective, so she returned home to San Francisco.  She performed throughout the US and Europe for eight years.

Sally Clawson, dancer, has been performing in the Bay Area since 1992. She was awarded the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation Performing Arts Fellowship in 1995. And performed and collaborated with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company from '95-'98; which included dancing in "The Gates: Far Away Near" performed throughout the South West; and collaborating with the director, dancers, composers, and geologists at UC Berkeley, in the creation and performance of "Fault", an evening length piece, performed throughout the US and Eastern Europe. Since that time she has been performing and choreographing her own work in several venues around Northern California, including ODC Performance Gallery, San Francisco; Dancer's Group Footwork, San Francisco; Luna Sea, San Francisco; Eighth Street Studio, Berkeley; Veteran's Memorial Theater, Davis;  The Gallery; Santa Cruz.  Most recently, Sally has been studying and performing voice and theater acting with the intent of integrating this craft into her performance and choreography.

Eric Rhys Miller, dancer, has been an artistic collaborator with A Traveling Jewish Theatre since 1999.  He helped develop and perform a children’s work, The Golden Bird.  He went on to co-create and perform in the critically acclaimed, God’s Donkey, for ATJT’s 2000 season.  He also worked as Assistant Director and choreographer on the company’s Kennedy Award-winning, See Under: Love.

About Ladino:

Expelled from Spain in the fifteenth century, the Jewish community took its language into the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans.  In these lands, Ladino incorporated vocabulary from Turkish, Hebrew, Slavic, French, Italian, Portuguese and Greek.   Still spoken in small enclaves of Turkey, Israel and the Balkans, Ladino has been all but lost to the modern world.