About The Teacher

Saskia Hegt was born in Holland and has a M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Leiden, Holland, and a M.F.A. in theatre from New York University.

She was an actress in Andre Gregory’s Manhattan Theater Project (1969-1979) and appeared in their Obie award-winning productions of ALICE IN WONDERLAND and Wallace Shawn’s OUR LATE NIGHT.Thereafter, she worked with directors Anne Bogart, Stephanie Skura, Richard Schechner, Liz Swados and others.

In addition to the US, her work as a director has taken her to Belgium, Holland, Germany and Canada.

She is on the drama faculty at NYU Tisch school of the Arts (Experimental Theatre Wing) and was until 2001, a guest teacher at the Amsterdam School of the Arts,SNDO. (She gives theatre-dance workshops all over the world.) Saskia believes in inter-cultural exchange and has taught theatre-dance workshops all over the world, working in South Africa with South Africans from different townships, with Chileans in Santiago and Punta Arenas, Ecuadorians in Quito and Chinese in New York.

People who influenced her work are Jerzy Grotowski, Victoria Santa Cruz, Simone Forti and Suprapto Suryodarmo.