Popolito Players Biographies The Writer/ Director - Eintou Pearl Springer
Eintou has received a national award the Humming Bird Silver, for her contribution to Art and Culture in Trinidad and Tobago. She is Poet Laureate of the City of Port of Spain, cultural chair of the Emancipation Support Committee, a founding member of NDATT and she has served as Vice President, Secretary and PRO of this organization. She is a founding member of The Writer’s Union of Trinidad and Tobago. She has been involved with the Secondary Schools Drama Festival, and the Prime Minister’s Best Village Programme. Presently she’s a member of the NCC’s Regional Carnival Committee and chair of the Junior Best Village Committee. She has directed workshops in schools and youth camps for at risk youth, and has conducted extensive workshops in Caribbean Culture in the USA, UK and Antigua. Her successful play, ‘Shades of I-She’, dealing with HIV/AIDS, incest and other social problems has toured the Caribbean as part of UNESCO/GOTT funded initiative, and it has also been performed in schools throughout Trinidad and Tobago. Dara E. Healy Dara has been involved in the arts since childhood. She began her career as a dancer with Molly Ahyee and performed with the Astor Johnson Repertory Dance Company. She has performed as an actor and a dancer with the Creative Arts Centre and is a dancer/ performer with the IDAKEDA Group She has choreographed for a number of groups and has conducted workshops in dance for children and adults. Dara has performed as a dancer/actor for audiences in Trinidad and Tobago, across the Caribbean and at various international fora. As an actress she performed in ‘Shango, Tales of the Orisas’, a production of the UWI Centre for Creative and Festival Arts. She most recently appeared as ‘Baby Doll’ in the Popolito Players’, ‘Baby Doll Meets Midnight Robber’. Noel Blandin Noel is an award-winning actor of over twenty year’s experience. The Director of Trinidad’s Malick Folk Performers, Noel is also a drummer and singer and a graduate of the Centre for Creative and Festival Arts. He has toured extensively in Europe, North America, and the Caribbean and has worked with Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott. He was most recently seen in the highly acclaimed 2004 performance of ‘Man Talk’ and as the Jab Jab in the Popolito Players’, ‘Baby Doll Meets Midnight Robber’. Kevin Mc Mayo Kevin is an experienced actor and singer having recently performed in the local production of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and played a major role in Jestina’s Calypso as part of the UWI commemoration of Earl Lovelace’s 70th birthday. He was most recently seen as the Jab Jab and the Midnight Robber in the Popolito Players’, ‘Baby Doll Meets Midnight Robber’. Mavis John – The voice of ‘Shades of I-She’ A former teacher by profession, Mavis is one of Trinidad and Tobago’s best loved singers. Her love song hits like ‘You Are What Love Is’ that ruled the Caribbean airwaves in the 60’s are still remembered. She is also a composer, singer and international recording artiste. She is the voice of I-She, singing the pain, the joy and the celebration. Her voice links together the story and signals the emotional crescendos and lows that are ‘Everywoman’s story. Awilda Sterling-Duprey – Original Choreographer, Shades of I-she Jazz, Ballet, Afro-Caribbean, Latin, Modern Experimental Movement. Puerto Rican! Actor, Tutor, Artistic Director, Choreographer of the Ballet Folklorico Contemporaneo de Caguas. She has worked in Latin America, New York, Europe and the Caribbean. Brings to her sisters an understanding of the body as an emotional vessel, and adds her own rich experience of Art and Life. She completes the trinity which transforms life – a woman’s life – into Art. |
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