Henriëtte Brouwers, Associate Director
Henriëtte Brouwers is a performer, teacher and director. As Associate Director she has worked with the Los Angeles Poverty Department since 2000.  Born in the Netherlands, Brouwers completed work at the Academy for Expression by Word and Gesture in her native country and studied corporeal mime with Etiènne Décroux and 'theatre of the oppressed' with Augusto Boal in Paris. She was invited to present her work A traveling Song, featuring Brouwers and Beppe Costa, in the US by the Theatre Project in Baltimore in 1993 and has since worked with 7 Stages in Atlanta, UT in Knoxville and Touchstone Theatre in Bethlehem. She was movement director for Blue Monk, directed by Ed Smith for the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. Highways Performance Space presented her solo: la Lengua, the tongue of Cortés in 2000.  She created a 'Weeping Women‘ performance series and directed Pomona College students in Weeping Women and War in 2003, later that year La Llorona, Weeping Women on Skid Row with LAPD, performed on Skid Row and at a national conference on women and poverty at Scripps College, and recently La Llorona, Weeping Women of Echo Park with a group of Latino women who live in the neighborhood where LA Poverty Department has her office. In 2003–4, Brouwers worked with John Malpede on the creation of RFK in EKY a community-based re-enactment of Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 trip to investigate poverty in Appalachia. She is also featured in artist Bill Viola’s renowned The Passions series, which has been exhibited extensively in major museums throughout the world.

Kevin Michael Key, performer, community outreach.
Kevin is a law school graduate and has practiced as a defense attorney. He is active in the recovery community in downtown Los Angeles and in community advocacy groups including Los Angeles Community Action Network, United Coalition East Prevention Project and Critical Resistance, a national group addressing the criminal justice system and it's effects on communities of color. Kevin Michael has performed with LAPD since 2005 and he has traveled with LAPD for productions and residencies in Charlotte, NC, Utrecht, The Netherlands, New York and LAPD's 2008 community residency RED BEARD/RED BEARD in the Paris, France suburb of Gennevilliers. He is playing a supporting role in the upcoming Hollywood film “The Soloist”. As a member of LA Poverty Department Kevin Michael is responsible for linking communities and organizing workshops and public convening’s and speaking with the press.

Pamela Miller-Macias, communications coordinator.
Pamela Miller-Macias is a magazine writer and editor from New York City who has worked for such titles as Glamour, Self and Philadelphia. In 1999, she was a founding senior editor of ESPN, The Magazine. In 2002, as deputy editor, she helped spearhead the launch of InTouch Weekly. She joined LA Poverty Department in the summer of 2007, and has been working in various capacities, including: administration, grant writing, photography, event program writing and editing, propping and costuming. She made her stage-managing debut in the group's 2007 production of UTOPIA/dystopia at the Disney Hall's REDCAT Theater.

Tony Parker, Performer,Workshop Leader
Tony Parker has been an LAPD member since 1993 and has appeared in Give Up All Your Possessions and Follow Me; Virtual Reality; Red Beard, Red Beard (in LA and Gennevilliers); Agents & Assets; Evacuation plan for the City of Charlotte; Fried Poetry; Sleepwalking Democracy, Legal*Illegal and UTOPIA/dystopia. He has traveled with LAPD for residencies in New York, Charlotte, NC, Utrecht and Amsterdam in The Netherlands, Gent in Belgium and Paris’ suburb Gennevilliers in France. He has led LAPD theater workshops for theater professionals as part of the Community Arts Network in San Francisco and in Los Angeles as part of LAPD’s changeXchange program. In 2001, Parker performed the leading role in Courage Company’s production of Armand Gatti’s Song for Two Electric Chairs. Parker is a professional musician and plays the bass guitar.

Charles Jackson, performer, special projects coordinator.
Charles Jackson has performed with LAPD since 1995.  He worked closely with Henriëtte Brouwers in developing the movement sequences in Is There History on Skid Row?  In 2002 and 2007 he coordinated the activities of 12 university participants and international visitors in changeXchange; LAPD's month long instructional workshop in making community based art. For many years Charles has been the tenant representative for his building, The Ward Hotel.

Ibrahim Saba, performer. 
Ibrahim is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Arabic. He has performed with LAPD’s since 1999. He also performed in three community productions with Cornerstone Theater Company and he is a member of Drama Stage Qumran.  He has for many years worked for the LA County Department of Social Services.

Riccarlo Porter, performer.
Riccarlo Porter is a writer, performer, and producer of arts events and publicist.  In the ‘90’s he was a member of LAPD and traveled and performed with the company in Chicago, Washington D.C, Houston, as well as in Los Angeles.  After years of absence, he is now working again with the LAPD company as an ensemble member. In 2007 he played Tom Gilmore in UTOPIA/dystopia.

Sashae Siatui Zackery, performer
Sashae is trained as a nurse at UCLA, lives on Skid Row and has been a member of L A Poverty Department since 2003. She made her LAPD debut as la Llorona in La Llorona, Weeping Women on Skid Row. She performed in the Netherlands in Agents & Assets and particiapted in the residency Sleepwalking Democracy. Recently she appeared in UTOPIA/dystopia.

Lorinda Hawkins, performer
Lorinda is a native Californian. Her television credits include co-star roles on Strong Medicine, the Wayans Bros, and Living Single. She is most proud of her long career with children's educational programs such as E.T.C. (Educational Theater Company formerly known as Twelfth Night Repertory Co.), L.I.F.E. (Love is Feeding Everybody) which toured high schools and middle schools and Shades of Violet which toured juvenile detention camps educating about AIDS. Her most recent endeavor was her own company that performed bubble shows for disadvantaged youth called Bubble Trouble/ Effervesce. Lorinda played the role of council woman Jan Perry in LAPD's UTOPIA/dystiopia.

Alexander Anderson, Performer,Writer
Anderson has appeared in Agents & Assets, Is There History on Skid Row?, and La Llorona, Weeping Women on Skid Row. He is a poet and has conducted numerous readings in the neighborhood. He founded “Artists In Recovery” to provide an artistic outlet for recovering addicts.

Phoenix Rupp, Performer
Rupp first joined LAPD for Is There History on Skid Row?. She performed in LAPD’s 2003 production of La Llorona,Weeping Women on Skid Row and will join the cast of Agents & Assets in 2005. She lived at the Downtown Women’s Center for three years and now has an apartment in Hollywood.

Hylen Burt, Musician, Performer
Created the music for La Llorona,Weeping Women on Skid Row with Michael Tucker and Fried Poetry. He has since participated in Fried Poetry, Glimpses of Utopia and other LAPD events.

Robert Smith, Performer
A.K.A.“Citizen Cane” in his rap artist persona. Cane has performed in a number of LAPD productions including LAPD Inspects Raleigh, N.C. and LAPD’s co-production with Goat Island, I Was Sleeping with My Eyes Open.