• CPP 2026 instructor, Week One

    WILL BOND is an emeritus founding member of the renowned SITI Company based in New York City with artistic director Anne Bogart. For over 30 years he toured nationally and internationally as a leading performerin SITI’s original devised works, classic plays from the Western canon, and collaborations with a number of artists including : Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (Meditations on A Rite of Spring), visual artist Ann Hamilton (the event of the thread and theatre is a blank page), Elizabeth Streb Extreme Action Dance (Falling & Loving), New York City Opera (Seven Deadly Sins and Lilith), and LA Chamber Orchestra’s Lost in the Stars.

    Performance venues and Festivals include: The Brooklyn Academy of Music, (Opera House, The Harvey, Fisher, Next Wave), Getty Villa, Guthrie Theatre, Skirball Center, Classic Stage Company, Miller Theater, Bonn Festival Germany, Melbourne Festival, Iberoamericano Bogotá, seven Humana Festivals at Actors Theatre Louisville, Bobigny94 Festival Paris, Toga International Arts Festival, Theatre Olympics 2019, CAP

    / UCLA, Yerba Buena Arts Center, UNC Chapel Hill Arts Center, Edinburgh Festival, Singapore Festival, Irish Life Festival, Wexner Center, Krannert Center, the Walker Art Center, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, New York Live Arts, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, PS 122, Under the Radar Festival, NewYork City Opera at Lincoln Center, and the Joyce Theater.

    Mr. Bond has trained and performed with the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) led by Tadashi Suzuki based in Toga Mura Village, Japan. Since 1984 he has performed around the world with SCOT in Dionysus (FarewellCult), Clytemnestra (Fury), and King Lear (Cornwall). Venues with SCOT include: Theatre Olympics Japan, Theatre Olympics in Delphi, Greece, Santiago Chile, Buenos Aires Festival, and Sao Paulo Brazil.

    As a member of SITI’s teaching ensemble, he is uniquely qualified to teach Suzuki Method of Actor training having trained with Suzuki and SCOT since 1984. And his experience training and teaching with Mary Overlieand Wendell Beavers qualifies him to teach The Viewpoints, both of which he has taught at universities and festivals around the world. He has also taught the New York based studios and SITI’s annual Training Intensive at Skidmore College each summer for over 30 years


    Mr. Bond is Emeritus Senior Artist in Residence faculty member at Skidmore College department of theater where he taught for 15 years.

    Representative guest faculty and workshops include: Ladder Arts in Budapest, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Carlos Universidad and Vertiço in Madrid, Theatre Dans Les Nuages in Lille and Soif CompagnieParis, Maastricht Academy, Windsor University, Theatre Festival in Dublin, Methodi Festival, Italy, Fordham University, and Columbia University in New York, among others.

    Mr. Bond has been a company member at the StageWest (4 years), City Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA, and the Great American Children’s Theatre (3 years).

    Mr. Bond is published in the edited volumes Movement for Actors, Allworth Press 2002, The Routledge Companion to Stanislavski, Routledge Press 2013, and This Is Not a Handbook: the story of SITI Company, Lulu International Press 2023.

  • CPP 2026 instructor, Week Two

    SARAH DOWLING is a performer and director. She has worked with Punchdrunk for over 20 years - using their unique immersive style to find the meeting point between body/ space / proximity to audience and sound scenography and light. Trained initially in theatre and then in dance Sarah also makes her own work: playing with and between these two forms, and teaches internationally and in conservatories. She is currently touring internationally with Luke Murphy’s Scorched Earth. For Punchdrunk, she created the roles of Lady Macbeth: Sleep No More, Lady Capulet: Romeo and Juliet, Tell Tale Heart: Masque of the Red Death, Dolores Grey: The Drowned Man, and Hecuba: The Burnt City. She has been an Associate Artist at The Royal Opera House and is currently a Studio Wayne McGregor Artist. Sarah also movement directs for film, theatre and opera including: productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, Royal Opera House and films: Cats the Movie, Rebecca, Mary Queen of Scots, Fantastic Beasts and TV series Brave New World.

2026 instructors

images__left: Sarah Dowling in Luke Murphy’s Scorched Earth, photo by Pato Cassinoni / right: Will Bond

CPP staff

  • CPP Artistic Director

    IVAN VALENTIN TALIJANCIC is a time-based artist and cultural producer, working at the intersection of theater, dance, film, installation art, new media, journalism, curatorial work and education in New York and around the globe. Ivan completed his undergraduate studies in Theater at the University of California, San Diego, and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree at Columbia University in the New York City.

    As a co-founder of WaxFactory, a New York based international multidisciplinary art group, he has created over 20 works works to date, presented at many preeminent venues on four continents. Ivan’s creative output spans a diverse range of art projects ranging from intimate chamber cross-media works at established venues (blind.ness at Performance Space 122 in 2008 & COIL 2010 Festival,) site-specific works at unconventional sites (QUARTET v2.0 at the former cannon factory in Long Island City in 2002,) large-scale immersive productions taking up an entire city block (LADYFROMTHESEA at the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn in 2001 and 2003,) and feature film (416 MINUTES, shot on location around NYC, and currently in post-production.) His works have twice been featured in annual Worldwide Critics Surveys published by Tanz-Ballet International magazine (Berlin, Germany) -- LADYFROMTHESEA as the "most innovative production of the year", and X - A VIDEO OPERA in 2007 as the "most innovative collaboration" with composer Katharina Rosenberger. His works have been shown at numerous venues throughout the New York City (Lincoln Center, PS122, Abrons Art Center, 3LD Art+Techology Center, Japan Society, Dixon Place, HERE, Soho Rep, The Invisible Dog) and at numerous international venues and festivals including the ICA/Institute for Contemporary Art (London, UK,) Sónar (Barcelona, Spain,) Centre Pompidou (Paris, France,) Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon, Portugal,) Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, USA,) Zürcher Theaterspektakel (Zurich, Switzerland,) Cankarjev Dom (Ljubljana, Slovenia,) FIT/International Theater Festival (Caracas, Venezuela,) Centro Julio Le Parc (Mendoza, Argentina,) Adelaide Festival (Adelaide, Australia) and many others.

    His creative projects have likewise been supported by numerous grants, fellowships and residencies, including Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany,) Bogliasco Foundation (Genova, Italy,) Emily Harvey Foundation (Venice, Italy,) the Hermitage Artist Retreat (Manasota, FL,) the Marble House Project (Dorset, VT,) and Millay Arts (Austerlitz, NY.)

    In addition to his creative work, Ivan has lectured at many prestigious universities in the United States and abroad: New York University / Tisch School of the Arts; Playwrightds Horizon Theater School’s Devised Theater Program, Barnard College at Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, Princeton University, Brown University, Towson University, Lewis & Clark College, City University of New York, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart, Germany,) and Università Ca’ Foscari (Venice, Italy,) among others, and is the Founder of Contemporary Performance Practices, an international summer training program in Croatia. Ivan frequently lends his expertise in the arts to serve on public and private funding and artist residency adjudication panels for institutions such as the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Brooklyn Arts Council, the Bogliasco Foundation, ART/New York, etc. As a journalist, Ivan is a regular arts contributor for BOMB magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, HowlRound and other publications, and has served on the selection committee for the Bessies - the New York Dance and Performance Awards.

    Most recently, Ivan has created TRACES (after Sophie Calle) — a large-scale immersive site-specific performance, premiered by the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, USA) in the fall of 2024. He is currently the Programme Director for MA/MFA Acting course at the Rose Bruford College in London, UK.

  • CPP Educational Associate

    ERIKA LATTA is the artistic co-director and co-founder of WaxFactory in New York City. WaxFactory continues to nurture a hybrid approach, based on unconventional narrative styles, originally dramaturgy, visual and physical rigor, technological experimentation and site-responsive work. With the company, she works as a director, writer, actor, sound designer and educator. As an actor and director she has presented work in international venues and festivals throughout Europe and Latin America creating long lasting partnerships with artists and designers. She holds a BFA in Theater from the University of Washington, and an MFA in Acting from Columbia University.

    Erika is also an associate director of the French trans-media company Begat Theater. For Begat, she co-conceived, directed, designed sound and co-wrote several of Begat productions. Begat Theater’s productions have been awarded numerous grants, co-productions and partnerships, as well as the generous support from FACE (French American Fund for Contemporary Theater). Erika is a member of the Society of Authors (SACD) in France, and she continues to author and co-author many of the original productions for both WaxFactory and Begat Theater.

    Outside her company, she has worked with Felix Barret and Maxine Doyle of Punchdrunk (SLEEP NO MORE), Robert Wilson at the Watermill Center, Anne Bogart (SITI Company), Robert Woodruff, Victor Gautier Martin, Tina Landau, and Chuck Mee , among others.

    Erika has been awarded a number of European performing arts grants and residencies, most notably the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany and the Bogliasco Foundation in Bogliasco, Italy. She continues to work in cinema both as an actor, director and photographer in feature length films, hybrid performance and new media.

    She has studied and trained in modern dance; Viewpoints with Anne Bogart (SITI Company), the Suzuki Method of acting in Toga-Mura, Japan with Robyn Hunt, and at Columbia University with Ellen Lauren.

    Erika was recently a visiting assistant professor at Colgate University, and at the University of North Carolina, School of the Arts, where she taught Viewpoints, the Suzuki Method of Acting, and composition in devised theater.

    Most recently she has performed in WaxFactory’s one-woman show LULU XX directed by Ivan Talijancic at the Connelly Theater in New York, PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER! at the Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center, Punchdrunk's SLEEP NO MORE at the McKittrick Hotel (NYC) and TIME, A FAIR HUSTLER at the Artist Repertory in Portland, Oregon. Her direction of HOPE by Hope Salas, a one woman show was last seen at the Wild Project in New York. Upcoming projects include: HOME a WaxFactory / Begat Theater / Hand2Mouth collaboration, the LULU XX international tour, the direction of STRANGE JOY, ARTIFICIAL EDEN, and the continued tours of HIDDEN STORIES and LA DISPARITION.

    She is currently an Assistant Professor at the School for Contemporary Art at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.

images__left: Ivan V Talijancic, photo by Maria Baranova / right: Erika Latta, photo by Jean Claude Dhien