Bio
Dr. Theresa Larkin is an award winning producer, director, actor, and writer of the performing and visual arts, and a professor of global culture, innovation arts, international performance artivism, social science, technology and the performing arts. Since 1980, her university teaching expertise has evolved to cover a broad spectrum of twenty disciplines, including artivism, business, classical theatre, communications, cultural & performance studies, resource (arts, human, social media, technology, web) management, and the social & political sciences.
For more than three decades Theresa worked for the CSU as a tenured full professor (1986-2018); first at San Jose State University (3 years) and then at California State University, Los Angeles (29 years). Since 2019 she has transitioned into administration and currently serves as Special Assistant to the Dean in the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts at San Diego State University.
Throughout her four decade-long-career as a producing multi-media artist, Theresa has worked in numerous artistic institutions, cultural sites, and universities around the world. Her expertise is grounded in theatre as a platform for social change and debate. Her engagements have been dedicated to creating spaces for audiences and performers to interact and dialogue about concerning and vital issues confronting the world. Numerous auteur and devised productions have focused on exploring and experimenting with unique (often new) technological interface with the goal of coalescing the performative presence within the socio-political landscape.
Theresa has produced many of her works as an auteur multi-media arts director and writer through her position as Producing Artistic Director of The Artists' Collective (TAC), a 501 (c) (3) she founded with three other artists in 1991. Throughout its 29-year history and under the steady leadership Larkin has provided, TAC has repeatedly been the recipient of numerous awards, grants and festival invitations, including engagements with the Smithsonian, National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and LA Fest, among others. TAC and Larkin have also been awarded proclamations and critical acclaim for producing and directing unique and culturally relevant theatre productions, documentaries, mixed-media performance & dance productions, performance salons, lectures, and readings. Larkin continues to develop new works and TAC's current project-in-development Soldier is a series of new works and staged readings focusing on the life stories of veterans from all the wars
of the 20th and 21st century. (See link below for TAC's dedicated website)
Theresa approaches the arts as a symbolic lens providing a laser focus on problematic actions, ideas, laws, sentiments, and viewpoints held within society and culture(s). The perspective is that the theatre acts as a historical referent as well as a holistic training ground for learning as an individual how to be fully one's self and live within and understand the world. This way of seeing has the possibility to cultivate an active, engaged and participatory citizen prepared to acclimate, communicate, and contribute towards the making of a better, more cohesive and inclusive world.
Her broad expertise specifically covers the discipline areas of acting (classical and modern), art, artivism, arts management, business, communications, critical thought, cultural studies, dance, play directing, documentary/film, globalization, media philosophy, media studies, music appreciation (classical and world), performance studies, performance training (Shakespearean acting, movement, voice production & speech training), philosophy, Shakespeare, society & technology, sociology, Visual & Performing Arts Framework (VPA), and U.S. Constitution (LAUSD Training).
Recently, she launched a voice over business LARK VO. (See dedicated website below)
Larkin's academic degrees center on activism, culture, media and performance. Most notably, Shakespearean performance (classical acting and First Folio text analysis), theatre directing (auteur, new works, multi-media art, one-person shows, performance lectures, and classical texts), producing (non-profit theatre, video, film), arts administration (non-profit consulting, management, strategic planning, grants, event planning), voice for the stage (vocal production, IPA, diction, accents and dialects), movement (choreography: modern, period, and folk), cultural studies (cultural documentary, culture, technology, society; alternative cultural environments,) political theatre (Boalian and Freirian Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed), grassroots performance activism, and media artivism.
After a decade long doctoral study of activism in the arts, she has devised a performance training technique for grassroots artivists called VISMS, which is a values-centric praxical approach to framing, making, producing, and performing ethical glocal artivism.
The title of her first Ph.D. dissertation from Claremont Graduate University is The Vismistic Triadic. Although it may be an unfamiliar term to many, VISMS is an acronym for the performance activist's paradigm for successful political engagement. It relies firmly on activist first principles for performers seeking to cultivate a strong value system and identity that is authentic, well-thought out, and capable of enduring catastrophe and disruption. Inspired by the early democratizing ethos of the Arab Spring social movement,
VISMS frames the endeavor of social justice for the activist incorporating performance into action. It is a philosophy for civic engagement that suggests how a uniquely cultivated personhood may be informed by the capacity to remain fully an individual who performs within a code of professional ethics and personal integrity, while also interacting mindfully within a dynamic, ever-changing world of artificial intelligence, corruption, privacy, sophisticated technology, and random acts of violence in public spaces presenting threats to safety and wellbeing. (See dedicated website for VISMS below)
Academic degrees include the following: BA in Drama and Dance from Loyola Marymount University (1977); MFA in Drama (Specialization: Shakespearean Performance) from U C Irvine (1983); MA and Ph.D. in Cultural Studies (MA Specialization: Cultural Documentary; Ph.D. Specialization: Grassroots Artivism) from Claremont Graduate University (2009 and 2011); Ph.D. dissertation title: The Vismistic Triadic.
Dr. Larkin is also responsible for coordinating and conducting hundreds of productions, workshops, staged readings, conferences, symposia, talk backs, and master classes (producing, directing, acting, choreographing, and writing). She founded (and co-founded) a number of successful non-profit and profit companies in addition to The Artists' Collective, These include Theatre for the 21st Century, Latino Classical Repertory (with Tony Plana, et al, now renamed East Los Angeles Theatre Company), and TheatreLife. Profit companies include LioLark Productions and Palar Corporation. In 1988, Theresa served as Associate Artistic Director for Idaho Shakespeare Festival in Boise. Before assuming her most recent professorship at Cal State LA, Theresa spent three years as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the MFA program (Acting / Directing / Voice / Movement) at San Jose State University (1986-89); two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the MFA program (Acting / Directing / Voice / Movement) at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (1984-86); and three years as an Lecturer in Acting at University of California, Irvine (1980-83).
She also previously taught English as a Second Language (ESL) for Berlitz, School of Languages (1983-84).
Professor Larkin concurrently taught as a Core Adjunct Professor at National University (27 years-teaching hundreds of classes across twenty disciplines); American InterContinental University (AIU-9 years, teaching 5 disciplines: Art, Business, General Education, Global Studies, Humanities), Springfield College (5 years - across 5 disciplines: Communications, English, Human Resources, Behavioral Science, Writing and Research), and guest lectured at numerous campuses around the world, including University off London, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), Santa Clara University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Oberlin College, and a number of the CSU campuses.
She was honored as Outstanding Professor twice at American Intercontinental University in 2002 (Business) and in 2005 (General Education).
During the years 2012-2014, she devoted time to developing and teaching online courses in theatre arts for the CSLA College of Arts and Letters.
For National University (month long teaching model) she taught across disciplines the intersectionality of STEAM (arts, science, technology and culture), exploring how the adult is effectively socialized in culture, the impact of shifting global ecological, environmental, and political relationships, and the power of the enlightened individual to influence society and culture(s).
Early career, Ms. Larkin trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, London Contemporary Arts, Shakespeare and Company, and with numerous other specialized training environments in the arts in Hollywood, New York, and London.
Theresa studied film structure and storytelling with James Bonnet, while also being certified in editing techniques in Avid and Final Cut Pro and completed a number of activist and cultural documentaries. Her artistic performance training has been extensive. Modern acting/directing mentors include Robert Cohen, Keith Fowler, Pamela Barnard, Stella Adler, and Virginia Barnelle. Shakespearean performance mentors include George William Needles, Brewster Mason, and medieval scholar Edgar Schell. Dance/Movement/Armed & Unarmed Combat mentors include B.H. Barry, and Henry Marshall. Dance mentors include Mary Lynn Waterman, Donald Hewitt, Charles Edmondson, Teo Morca, Bella Lewitsky, Antoinette Marich, Judy Scalin, Voice mentors include Cecily Barry, Patsy Rodenberg, Kristin Linklater, Dudley Knight, and Carla Meyer.
As a professional producer, director, writer, and actor she has engaged in a myriad of classical, cultural, diverse, and eclectic productions, dramatic readings, and theatrical endeavors, Theresa has been a member of the following unions and organizations: Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC), Screen Actors' Guild (SAG), Actors' Equity Association (AEA), American Federation of Radio and Television Artists (AFTRA), the Royal Society of Art (RSA), and the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, California Faculty Association (CFA), American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), among others.
In 2002, Ms. Larkin was cited by veteran critic Polly Warfield (Dramalogue / Backstage West) as a Living Legend of Los Angeles for her award-winning performance in 1981 as Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander (in the play Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander by Preston Jones), and shares this honor with fellow actor, Jeffrey Meek, for his memorable performance as Skip Hampton.
As a conference planner, Professor Larkin worked on a national level for a number of years with Association For Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE-founding the Directing Forum in 1985), American Theatre College Festival (ATCF Regional Festival Adjudicator since 1980), and Center for Theatre of the Oppressed/Applied Theatre Arts/Los Angeles (CTO/ATA/LA) as a founding member, workshop leader, national conference planner, and core conference planner for the international conference held in Hollywood at the Renaissance Hotel (home of the Kodak Theatre) celebrating Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed with colleagues from the CTO/ATA/LA. For four years, she served as Historian/Documentarian for CTO/ATA/LA.
In 2003 and 2004, Theresa served on the Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council (HHWNC) as Chair of Cultural Planning and Community Outreach, respectively.
In 2007, she was awarded a proclamation from the County of Riverside for her original multi-media work Mine': A Name For Herself (co-written with the late biographer Mary H. Curtin,) celebrating Mine' Okubo (Japanese-American internee artist famous for her camp drawings).
This production was invited to perform for the Day of Remembrance at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.
In 2009, Dr. Larkin was honored by ACTF with an 'Excellence in Education' Award for 27 years of volunteer service with this national organization housed in the Kennedy Center. The award designation commemorates her critical response to countless university productions and for serving as a regional adjudicator and festival judge for nearly three decades at regional festivals held in the Midwestern and Southern United States.
During Fall 2016, in response to growing homelessness occurring throughout Los Angeles, Theresa began actively pursuing the formation of a Citizens Think Tank on Homelessness with LA District Attorney Mike Fueur's Community Justice Initiative with the specific intent to tour TAC's new performance lecture Homeless to various communities experiencing an exponential increase of homeless populations in their neighborhoods and business districts.
This passionate endeavor received little support from community members, but it evolved into a series of new works dedicated to the challenges and vision of homelessness, healing through art, and restorative justice initiatives: Innovative Housing; Homeless; Restoration; A More Perfect Union; An Enemy of the People: Flint; Protected Class; Qualitative Calculus; and Healing Arts.
Dr. Larkin is completing her second Ph.D. at European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland and Valletta, Malta in Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought (previously listed as Communications and Media Philosophy), with an expected completion date in late 2025.
The Ph.D. dissertation title is Cancer and the Healing Arts. (See dedicated website below)
During the 2016-2017 academic year, Professor Larkin was proud to have successfully launched a new on-campus program designed to enhance dramatic literacy entitled Performance Salon, which presented thirty-five single-night staged dramatic readings of theatrical plays from the world canon of dramatic literature. (See dedicated website below)
2018-2019 was a period of revitalizing TAC.
Due to the pandemic of 2020-2022 planned events were put on hold. TAC plans to produce original artistic performance salon projects launching Spring 2025.
All events in future years will continue to be produced under the aegis of The Artists' Collective and performed at diverse locations throughout Southern California. Our home base now is Lark's Chalet, Big Rock Landing and The Rustic Theatre in Idyllwild, CA.
Throughout 2025-2026, Theresa via The Artists’ Collective will continue to develop her one-woman performance lecture based on her three decades-long scholarly research and writing on cancer and the healing arts High-Risk. Additionally, she and colleagues are in the process of developing new works for The Artists' Collective (non-profit 501 (C) (3) multi-media theatre company) and the newly formed Idyllwild Repertory Theatre in Idyllwild, CA. The 2025 season will launch Performance Salon's The Sentience Series (Food, Air, Water, Sentients). For the 2026 season The Healing Arts Series and the 2027 season The Soldiers' Series (a series of new works on veterans of the 20th and 21st century wars). In 2028 The VISMS Podcast will launch with a series of interviews and works under the banner of Artivist Pulse (new works celebrating global activists who perform); and VISMS Pulse (a series of profiles in courage of courageous public intellectuals. These endeavors will be produced and presented in upcoming performance salons and VISMS workshops. Full play and video production will resume in 2029 - 2030.
For more than three decades Theresa worked for the CSU as a tenured full professor (1986-2018); first at San Jose State University (3 years) and then at California State University, Los Angeles (29 years). Since 2019 she has transitioned into administration and currently serves as Special Assistant to the Dean in the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts at San Diego State University.
Throughout her four decade-long-career as a producing multi-media artist, Theresa has worked in numerous artistic institutions, cultural sites, and universities around the world. Her expertise is grounded in theatre as a platform for social change and debate. Her engagements have been dedicated to creating spaces for audiences and performers to interact and dialogue about concerning and vital issues confronting the world. Numerous auteur and devised productions have focused on exploring and experimenting with unique (often new) technological interface with the goal of coalescing the performative presence within the socio-political landscape.
Theresa has produced many of her works as an auteur multi-media arts director and writer through her position as Producing Artistic Director of The Artists' Collective (TAC), a 501 (c) (3) she founded with three other artists in 1991. Throughout its 29-year history and under the steady leadership Larkin has provided, TAC has repeatedly been the recipient of numerous awards, grants and festival invitations, including engagements with the Smithsonian, National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and LA Fest, among others. TAC and Larkin have also been awarded proclamations and critical acclaim for producing and directing unique and culturally relevant theatre productions, documentaries, mixed-media performance & dance productions, performance salons, lectures, and readings. Larkin continues to develop new works and TAC's current project-in-development Soldier is a series of new works and staged readings focusing on the life stories of veterans from all the wars
of the 20th and 21st century. (See link below for TAC's dedicated website)
Theresa approaches the arts as a symbolic lens providing a laser focus on problematic actions, ideas, laws, sentiments, and viewpoints held within society and culture(s). The perspective is that the theatre acts as a historical referent as well as a holistic training ground for learning as an individual how to be fully one's self and live within and understand the world. This way of seeing has the possibility to cultivate an active, engaged and participatory citizen prepared to acclimate, communicate, and contribute towards the making of a better, more cohesive and inclusive world.
Her broad expertise specifically covers the discipline areas of acting (classical and modern), art, artivism, arts management, business, communications, critical thought, cultural studies, dance, play directing, documentary/film, globalization, media philosophy, media studies, music appreciation (classical and world), performance studies, performance training (Shakespearean acting, movement, voice production & speech training), philosophy, Shakespeare, society & technology, sociology, Visual & Performing Arts Framework (VPA), and U.S. Constitution (LAUSD Training).
Recently, she launched a voice over business LARK VO. (See dedicated website below)
Larkin's academic degrees center on activism, culture, media and performance. Most notably, Shakespearean performance (classical acting and First Folio text analysis), theatre directing (auteur, new works, multi-media art, one-person shows, performance lectures, and classical texts), producing (non-profit theatre, video, film), arts administration (non-profit consulting, management, strategic planning, grants, event planning), voice for the stage (vocal production, IPA, diction, accents and dialects), movement (choreography: modern, period, and folk), cultural studies (cultural documentary, culture, technology, society; alternative cultural environments,) political theatre (Boalian and Freirian Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed), grassroots performance activism, and media artivism.
After a decade long doctoral study of activism in the arts, she has devised a performance training technique for grassroots artivists called VISMS, which is a values-centric praxical approach to framing, making, producing, and performing ethical glocal artivism.
The title of her first Ph.D. dissertation from Claremont Graduate University is The Vismistic Triadic. Although it may be an unfamiliar term to many, VISMS is an acronym for the performance activist's paradigm for successful political engagement. It relies firmly on activist first principles for performers seeking to cultivate a strong value system and identity that is authentic, well-thought out, and capable of enduring catastrophe and disruption. Inspired by the early democratizing ethos of the Arab Spring social movement,
VISMS frames the endeavor of social justice for the activist incorporating performance into action. It is a philosophy for civic engagement that suggests how a uniquely cultivated personhood may be informed by the capacity to remain fully an individual who performs within a code of professional ethics and personal integrity, while also interacting mindfully within a dynamic, ever-changing world of artificial intelligence, corruption, privacy, sophisticated technology, and random acts of violence in public spaces presenting threats to safety and wellbeing. (See dedicated website for VISMS below)
Academic degrees include the following: BA in Drama and Dance from Loyola Marymount University (1977); MFA in Drama (Specialization: Shakespearean Performance) from U C Irvine (1983); MA and Ph.D. in Cultural Studies (MA Specialization: Cultural Documentary; Ph.D. Specialization: Grassroots Artivism) from Claremont Graduate University (2009 and 2011); Ph.D. dissertation title: The Vismistic Triadic.
Dr. Larkin is also responsible for coordinating and conducting hundreds of productions, workshops, staged readings, conferences, symposia, talk backs, and master classes (producing, directing, acting, choreographing, and writing). She founded (and co-founded) a number of successful non-profit and profit companies in addition to The Artists' Collective, These include Theatre for the 21st Century, Latino Classical Repertory (with Tony Plana, et al, now renamed East Los Angeles Theatre Company), and TheatreLife. Profit companies include LioLark Productions and Palar Corporation. In 1988, Theresa served as Associate Artistic Director for Idaho Shakespeare Festival in Boise. Before assuming her most recent professorship at Cal State LA, Theresa spent three years as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the MFA program (Acting / Directing / Voice / Movement) at San Jose State University (1986-89); two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the MFA program (Acting / Directing / Voice / Movement) at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (1984-86); and three years as an Lecturer in Acting at University of California, Irvine (1980-83).
She also previously taught English as a Second Language (ESL) for Berlitz, School of Languages (1983-84).
Professor Larkin concurrently taught as a Core Adjunct Professor at National University (27 years-teaching hundreds of classes across twenty disciplines); American InterContinental University (AIU-9 years, teaching 5 disciplines: Art, Business, General Education, Global Studies, Humanities), Springfield College (5 years - across 5 disciplines: Communications, English, Human Resources, Behavioral Science, Writing and Research), and guest lectured at numerous campuses around the world, including University off London, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), Santa Clara University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Oberlin College, and a number of the CSU campuses.
She was honored as Outstanding Professor twice at American Intercontinental University in 2002 (Business) and in 2005 (General Education).
During the years 2012-2014, she devoted time to developing and teaching online courses in theatre arts for the CSLA College of Arts and Letters.
For National University (month long teaching model) she taught across disciplines the intersectionality of STEAM (arts, science, technology and culture), exploring how the adult is effectively socialized in culture, the impact of shifting global ecological, environmental, and political relationships, and the power of the enlightened individual to influence society and culture(s).
Early career, Ms. Larkin trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, London Contemporary Arts, Shakespeare and Company, and with numerous other specialized training environments in the arts in Hollywood, New York, and London.
Theresa studied film structure and storytelling with James Bonnet, while also being certified in editing techniques in Avid and Final Cut Pro and completed a number of activist and cultural documentaries. Her artistic performance training has been extensive. Modern acting/directing mentors include Robert Cohen, Keith Fowler, Pamela Barnard, Stella Adler, and Virginia Barnelle. Shakespearean performance mentors include George William Needles, Brewster Mason, and medieval scholar Edgar Schell. Dance/Movement/Armed & Unarmed Combat mentors include B.H. Barry, and Henry Marshall. Dance mentors include Mary Lynn Waterman, Donald Hewitt, Charles Edmondson, Teo Morca, Bella Lewitsky, Antoinette Marich, Judy Scalin, Voice mentors include Cecily Barry, Patsy Rodenberg, Kristin Linklater, Dudley Knight, and Carla Meyer.
As a professional producer, director, writer, and actor she has engaged in a myriad of classical, cultural, diverse, and eclectic productions, dramatic readings, and theatrical endeavors, Theresa has been a member of the following unions and organizations: Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC), Screen Actors' Guild (SAG), Actors' Equity Association (AEA), American Federation of Radio and Television Artists (AFTRA), the Royal Society of Art (RSA), and the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, California Faculty Association (CFA), American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), among others.
In 2002, Ms. Larkin was cited by veteran critic Polly Warfield (Dramalogue / Backstage West) as a Living Legend of Los Angeles for her award-winning performance in 1981 as Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander (in the play Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander by Preston Jones), and shares this honor with fellow actor, Jeffrey Meek, for his memorable performance as Skip Hampton.
As a conference planner, Professor Larkin worked on a national level for a number of years with Association For Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE-founding the Directing Forum in 1985), American Theatre College Festival (ATCF Regional Festival Adjudicator since 1980), and Center for Theatre of the Oppressed/Applied Theatre Arts/Los Angeles (CTO/ATA/LA) as a founding member, workshop leader, national conference planner, and core conference planner for the international conference held in Hollywood at the Renaissance Hotel (home of the Kodak Theatre) celebrating Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed with colleagues from the CTO/ATA/LA. For four years, she served as Historian/Documentarian for CTO/ATA/LA.
In 2003 and 2004, Theresa served on the Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council (HHWNC) as Chair of Cultural Planning and Community Outreach, respectively.
In 2007, she was awarded a proclamation from the County of Riverside for her original multi-media work Mine': A Name For Herself (co-written with the late biographer Mary H. Curtin,) celebrating Mine' Okubo (Japanese-American internee artist famous for her camp drawings).
This production was invited to perform for the Day of Remembrance at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.
In 2009, Dr. Larkin was honored by ACTF with an 'Excellence in Education' Award for 27 years of volunteer service with this national organization housed in the Kennedy Center. The award designation commemorates her critical response to countless university productions and for serving as a regional adjudicator and festival judge for nearly three decades at regional festivals held in the Midwestern and Southern United States.
During Fall 2016, in response to growing homelessness occurring throughout Los Angeles, Theresa began actively pursuing the formation of a Citizens Think Tank on Homelessness with LA District Attorney Mike Fueur's Community Justice Initiative with the specific intent to tour TAC's new performance lecture Homeless to various communities experiencing an exponential increase of homeless populations in their neighborhoods and business districts.
This passionate endeavor received little support from community members, but it evolved into a series of new works dedicated to the challenges and vision of homelessness, healing through art, and restorative justice initiatives: Innovative Housing; Homeless; Restoration; A More Perfect Union; An Enemy of the People: Flint; Protected Class; Qualitative Calculus; and Healing Arts.
Dr. Larkin is completing her second Ph.D. at European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland and Valletta, Malta in Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought (previously listed as Communications and Media Philosophy), with an expected completion date in late 2025.
The Ph.D. dissertation title is Cancer and the Healing Arts. (See dedicated website below)
During the 2016-2017 academic year, Professor Larkin was proud to have successfully launched a new on-campus program designed to enhance dramatic literacy entitled Performance Salon, which presented thirty-five single-night staged dramatic readings of theatrical plays from the world canon of dramatic literature. (See dedicated website below)
2018-2019 was a period of revitalizing TAC.
Due to the pandemic of 2020-2022 planned events were put on hold. TAC plans to produce original artistic performance salon projects launching Spring 2025.
All events in future years will continue to be produced under the aegis of The Artists' Collective and performed at diverse locations throughout Southern California. Our home base now is Lark's Chalet, Big Rock Landing and The Rustic Theatre in Idyllwild, CA.
Throughout 2025-2026, Theresa via The Artists’ Collective will continue to develop her one-woman performance lecture based on her three decades-long scholarly research and writing on cancer and the healing arts High-Risk. Additionally, she and colleagues are in the process of developing new works for The Artists' Collective (non-profit 501 (C) (3) multi-media theatre company) and the newly formed Idyllwild Repertory Theatre in Idyllwild, CA. The 2025 season will launch Performance Salon's The Sentience Series (Food, Air, Water, Sentients). For the 2026 season The Healing Arts Series and the 2027 season The Soldiers' Series (a series of new works on veterans of the 20th and 21st century wars). In 2028 The VISMS Podcast will launch with a series of interviews and works under the banner of Artivist Pulse (new works celebrating global activists who perform); and VISMS Pulse (a series of profiles in courage of courageous public intellectuals. These endeavors will be produced and presented in upcoming performance salons and VISMS workshops. Full play and video production will resume in 2029 - 2030.