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WORLD MONOLOGUE FILM FESTIVAL - JUDGES
Adrian Țofei is an acclaimed Romanian filmmaker and actor, the director, producer, writer and star of Romania's first found footage horror movie, "Be My Cat: A Film for Anne", winner of Best Actor at Nashville Film Festival and Best Film at A Night of Horror Film Festival in Sydney. He's also the author of the "Top 250 International Film Festivals", "Top 100 Genre Film Festivals" and "Found Footage Manifesto". Upcoming movies: "We Put the World to Sleep" and "Dr. Frankenstein".
Brendan Kelly is an award-winning film maker and actor, graduating with an Advanced Diploma of Performance from Perform Australia. Brendan has written, directed, produced and performed in a multitude of films that have screened and been awarded in festivals around the world. Brendan has been working with students in performance and acting for screen for the past several years, having a passion to aid in discovery of the skills and truthfulness required for screen performance storytelling.
Brook C Hall has produced, directed, choreographed and taught acting for stage and screen around the world for more than 25 years. As an actor, he has had the pleasure to work with film directors Martin Scorcese, Ang Lee, Richard Linklater, and Luc Besson, among others. In 2013, he founded and served as artistic director of the LAB SPACE theatre and acting school in Taipei. He currently lives, directs, and teaches in Vienna, Austria.
Duru Yücel-Țofei is a Turkish actress who, after studying English-Turkish Interpretation and Translation in college, moved on to receive three years of acting and art education at The Studio Players (Studio Oyunculari) in Istanbul. Between 2012 and 2017, Duru acted in various TV series, commercials, a theatre play and a short movie which travelled to Cannes. She is married to filmmaker and actor Adrian Țofei and they have also become partners on-screen, starring in Adrian's upcoming apocalyptic feature We Put the World to Sleep. She has a number of projects in development as screenwriter too.
Faeron Wheeler has been involved in performing arts since she was only three years old. She studied drama throughout her school years before doing a BA with a double major in Screenwriting and English and her Honours in Film Production from the University of Cape Town. In 2017, she founded F Creations, an independent theatre and film production company. The company has won several awards for both film and theatre, including being picked as a finalist in the 2021 WMFF.
Joseph Obel is a Lecturer in Acting, Directing, Dance, Spoken Poetry and Scriptwriting at Talanta Institute, a college of media and film studies based in Nairobi, Kenya. He is also one of the writers of the XYZ puppet TV series that raises awareness on human rights and governance in Kenya and Africa. When not teaching or writing, Joseph curates artistic events, both live and online to connect with theatre, film, music and art enthusiasts around the world.
Nuel Rivera is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Manila-based performing arts collective, Theatre 2108. A director and award-winning playwright, he is passionate about teaching theater and discovering new talents. No matter the time of day, he'll always say yes to a delicious cup of iced coffee.
Matt Young is a Brisbane, Australia based actor and acting coach. Having founded Tukuna Acting Club in Suva, Fiji in 2015, he continues to coach a diverse range of actors in person and online. His film/tv credits include HBO’s ‘The Pacific’, TBS’/ HBO Max’s ‘Wrecked’, Hallmark’s ‘A Summer to Remember’ and ‘Pearl in Paradise” and feature film ‘The Other Side of Heaven 2’. He also served as Fiji casting director for Netflix’s ‘#blackAF’. Matt has just completed a successful season of the Mel Brook’s musical The Producers in the role of Max Bialystock.
Mark Ghosn [gos-on] is a Lebanese-Filipino playwright, monologist and spoken word artist best known in the Philippines for creating the hit show Ampalaya Monologues. His works have been viewed millons of times online and has been featured in the country’s top TV networks and publications. He became the first Filipino spoken word artist to enter the Philippines Top 50 Playlist on Spotify with his collection of spoken word and music collaborations. His collection of Ampalaya Monologues was turned into a tv series on iWant, the country’s biggest streaming service.
Mike Savuica graduated with a BA in acting from the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) in London. He is now doing an MA in Theater Directing at NIPAI (Berlin). He has directed one feature film, one documentary, three commercials and six theatre performances. Out of all those, two of them have been international productions.
Nick Field is the Co-Principal of Acting Coach Scotland (ACS) and an Actor and Producer. He is also a monologue audition coach and directs on their full and part-time acting programmes.
Paddy Cooper is the Artistic Director of Dark Unicorn Productions Ltd, based in London and Sussex, UK. He also works independently as an actor and director. Can currently be seen and heard on YouTube and all major podcast outlets as the host of arts interview series “Dark Unicorn in Conversation”.
Patsy Ferrer is an award-winning Producer from the Philippines and the founder of Cut Print Productions and Cut Print Podcast Network. She has produced more than 10 award-winning and festival contender short-films with titles like "Nakaw" (Steal), "Baon" (Tessie), "Kadena" (Shackles) "Alaala" (Memories) and "Tarang" (Life's Pedal).
Dr Sally Richards is a director, teacher and producer with a PhD in Theatre from Victoria University of Wellington, a Master of Theatre Arts in Directing from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School and Victoria University, and a Bachelor of Theatre with Honours from James Cook University of North Queensland. In 2019 she created and curated the acclaimed TAHI - New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance, winner of Most Promising Newcomer at the Wellington Theatre Awards. Sally's research interests include the directing of solo performance, pedagogy of theatre, diasporic narratives and theatre for social change.
Nyaka Chana is a Quintuple-Threat based in Ireland. She is known for the musical parody "An African In Europe". Her credits include, ITV, BBC, E4, Channel 5, Sky 1 and Challenge TV.
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