Lillian
Ribeiro.
V-Day Hoboken
Worldwide Organizer. Co-Director. Lillian holds a BS in Marketing and
Theatre Arts from Rutgers University. She has excelled in the hospitality
industry where she currently works as a Sales & Marketing Associate
for Waterstone Marketing.
Lillian’s involvement
with the performing arts includes reviving the Theatre Arts Group (T.A.G.)
at Rutgers-Newark, a student organization which is dedicated to showcasing
students’ performance art work. During her presidency she coordinated the
student-run productions of Tainted Love and Shattered Dreams. Her Rutgers
directing credits include This Is How It Is for The Director’s Project,
a site specific performance for Invisible Cities with Italian director
Pino Di Budo, a scene from Maria Irene Fornes’ The Conduct of Life, scene
from Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love and choreographed & directed The Human
Sculpture. Recently, Lillian directed a reading of Adam Webster’s
Lysistrata for the world-wide theatrical anti-war movement, Lysistrata
Project at the _gaia Studio and co-directed Who Am I at the Abingdon Theatre,
part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York City.
Lillian
also organized locally recognized dance and theatre performers at the recent
Jersey City Studio Artist tour bringing together dancers, percussionists,
choreographers and theatre enthusiasts for an exciting day of urban beats
and theatre performances at the steps of City Hall.
In addition
to her directing, she has performed as Bee Bee in Suburbia, Claire in The
Oak Table, Eurydice in Polaroid Stories, Olympia in The Conduct of Life,
Amy in After You, Maskerade, Path of Excess, Silhouette, Man Switch Mind
Switch and Leyendas.
Lillian has
taught acting classes at Ironbound Community School to elementary and high
school aged children. She is a member of _gaia, a collective of women artists,
where she started the performance wing in Hoboken, NJ, and does Marketing
and Development for Cuchipinoy Productions in New York City.