Robert Morgan, co-Founder | co-Artistic Director
Edith Tankus, co-Founder | co-Artistic Director
Anahita Azrahimi, co-Founder | Producer | Tour Director
Collectively Robert, Edith and Anahita have been working in the performing arts for 48 years (you can do the math … our bios are linked.)
Robert and Edith are both represented by Prologue to the Performing Arts but they had never seen each other’s work. When they finally did in the Spring of 2008 something happened, a chain of events was set in motion. Ideas tumbled forth, possibilities emerged and their creative dynamic was forged into reality with the meeting of Anahita. At the end of their first meeting, the three founded the Sparrow in the Room Collective, the First Flight Project was born and “the rest” as they say “will be history”.
Members of Sparrow in the Room Collective
Eedeh Theatre Company (formerly known as Aeen) was founded in 1988 at the end of Iran-Iraq war and has become one of the high-profile theatre companies for audiences of all ages in Iran. Eedeh explores themes of war, religion, history, social issues and Iranian folklore and in addition to touring throughout Iran, has presented work in Turkey, Germany, Slovenia, United Arab Emirates, India, Malaysia and Argentina.
Moradokmai Theatre Troupe is one of a kind. It is a professional performance company, a full-time school and a community with 32 members living and working together based on Zen philosophy and sustainable development practices. Together they learn to grow their own food, build their own shelters, make their own clothes while meeting the requirements of government-regulated school curriculum. Everything they learn is reflected through the prism of theatre. Members spend half the year in their community and the other half performing both in Thailand and internationally. Moradokmai is four years young and their reputation is growing as quickly as the international interest in their work.
Salil Kanika is a dazzling performance and theatre artist working and playing in multi mediums of Sound, Performance, Theatre, Music, Video, Photography, Writings and Experiments with/in Raw Nature among children and rural areas in Nepal. He has established art camps for orphans and radio stations for youth and adults in remote rural villages throughout Nepal.