bree_vallebree valle

bree valle studied Contemporary Performance (Directing) at Arizona State University with Circle Repertory founder Marshall W. Mason. In addition, she spent 3 years working at the Institute for Studies in the Arts—partnering with performance pioneers Leslie Hill and Helen Paris and interdisciplinary devisor Rachel Rosenthal. Major influences in bree’s unique style belong to mentors David Smukler at York University and Richard Armstrong of the Roy Hart Institute in France. The foundations of her Movement Design came from David Barker’s Connected Motion and, most recently, with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company in New York. As a professional freelance director, bree continues to work with universities and forward-looking theatres to create new work that challenges the individual artist to connect with questions about their own history and to create imaginative, playful and transformative theatre. Her guest artist work includes residencies with Teatro de La Vuelta del Siglo in Jujuy, Argentina, Universidad de Costa Rica, Universidad Autónoma de Centro América and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,  Madball Theatre Company in Mumbai, India and Paper Balloon Theatre Company London, England.

Her performance research has been presented at the International Popular Culture Conference in Toronto Canada, International Drama/Theatre and Education in Bergen, Norway, PSi Conference at Penn State University and the International Sound Symposium X in Newfoundland, Canada.

In all, bree has directed over 90 shows nationally and internationally. Currently, bree serves as the Artistic Director of the Cuesta College Theatre Program. In 2021, she received the Gold Medallion the most prestigious award given by the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC for her work as a theatre director.

bvalle@cuesta.edu