John Freedman is an American writer and translator who, after working 30 years in Russia, now lives in Greece. He lived in Moscow from 1988 to 2018, where he was the theatre critic of The Moscow Times (1992-2015). His play Dancing, Not Dead (2011) was winner of the Internationalists Global Play Contest (2011); his short play Five Funny Tales from the Heart of Buenos Aires (2013) has been performed in NY, Chattanooga, and Edinburgh. He has translated over 100 plays, of which productions have been mounted in five continents. He is the author of numerous books, including Silence’s Roar: The Life and Drama of Nikolai Erdman (1992), and Provoking Theater: Kama Ginkas Directs (2003). He is the curator of two Worldwide Play Readings projects: Insulted. Belarus (2020 to present) and Ukrainian Play Readings (2022).

Susa is a Baltimore-based theater maker who specializes in interdisciplinary, immersive, and devised works. Susan has worked in the Twin Cities, LA, NYC, Albuquerque, Baltimore and her hometown Atlanta as a director, performer, writer, puppeteer, teaching artist, dramaturg, and deviser in professional and community-based professional companies, collaborating with many kinds of artists, and actors and nonactors of many ages, cultural backgrounds, gender identities, and abilities. In Baltimore, Susan has worked freelance for many companies, and is a founding member for Submersive Productions, Baltimore's award-winning immersive theater company. She is a long-time Teaching Artist for Baltimore Center Stage and Everyman Theatre, and adjunct professor and frequent guest director at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

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As Communications & Legacy Manager, Susan works on how to tell the story of CITD's work to our community, and how to continue to remember and honor the lives and legacies of founders Carol Baish and Philip Arnoult.

Yury is a theater director, producer, and teacher. He has been working with CITD for twenty-five years in Eastern Europe, Africa, and the USA. Currently, Yury serves as the co-artistic director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, which received the 2024 Regional Theater Tony Award.Between the US and Europe, Yury has directed over fifty theater productions. His recent directing credits at the Wilma Theater include Twelfth Night, Minor Character, and Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play. Woolly Mammoth Theater in DC has been Yury’s first artistic home in America, where he has directed My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion (Helen Hayes Award for Best Production 23/24), KISS, Marie Antoinette, and You for Me for You, and he has been a proud company member since 2014.From 2009 to 2011, Yury was a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Towson University, MD, where he still teaches.

​Howard co-founded Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC, one of America’s most influential producers of provocative new plays, and guided the company as Artistic Director for 38 seasons.  After traveling internationally with CITD for several years, he co-created LINKAGES:Poland for which he received the 2025 Witkiewicz Award, given by Poland's branch of the International Theatre Institute for his role in promoting Polish theatre around the world.
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Brandice began her career with CITD as an intern and went on to co-lead the development of both LINKAGES:Hungary and LINKAGES:Poland. As Managing Director following the loss of CITD’s founders, she has guided a significant expansion of CITD’s international programming, partnerships, fundraising, and field reporting, while leading the organization’s work across Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, and the U.S.
 

She is also a self-generative artist, educator, and director in the Pacific Northwest who has studied experimental theatre practices at Towson University's MFA program, Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre at Dell'Arte International and yoga, ritual, and art in Quito, Ecuador.

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