People
Vieve Radha Price
I’m Vieve Radha Price (she/her) and I’m the Founder and Co-Director of TÉA Artistry. I launched TÉA in 2009 with the purpose of enhancing the scope, collaborative reach, and methodological rigor of Insight Artistry – the approach to artistic creation, performance, and audience engagement I have been developing for over a decade. In 2017, I established the Insight Artists Collective. The insights of the Collective are collected in our Insight Artistry handbook, which we will publish in 2024. I am also collaborating on Questing for Insight, an introduction to the philosophical approach that grounds my artistry and artistic creation. Most recently, and in collaboration with other Insight Artists, I engaged in a multi-year, multi-part Insight Art project focusing on the dynamics of race in the U.S, culminating in a month long performance run of Being Chaka at the New Ohio Theatre.
During my ten years with TÉA, we have created and produced six original, collaboratively devised Insight performance pieces. In the process, we have received several residencies including George Washington University, the Irondale Ensemble Theatre, The Straz Centre for the Performing Arts and The Actors’ Studio, and funding from the United Nations, Odyssey Networks, Intersections International, World Connect, The Brooklyn Arts Council, and The Puffin Foundation to name a few.
I began my career in the arts in 1995 as an actor and then as assistant artistic director at STAR Theatre. In 2000, I entered the Peace Corps, and upon returning to the U.S., I received the Sargent Shriver Peaceworker fellowship and completed two master’s degrees, one in Public Policy from the University of Maryland, and another in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University. I subsequently worked at Search for Common Ground in Washington DC before founding the TÉA with the goal of creating Insight theatre – group devised, community-based, theatrical performance pieces that integrate the Insight approach to conflict transformation with the performing arts. I am a managing member of The Private Theatre and a founding member of Insight Collaborations International.
Chuk Obasi
I’m Chuk (he/him) and I serve as the Co-Director of TÉA Creative. I am also a Managing Member with The Private Theatre, an Actor with the People's Theatre Project, Movement Project Director at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Adjunct Professor of Musical Theatre at Drew University, and choreographer for STAR Theatre at the Director’s Company. I recently served as Artist in Residence at Intersections International, Artist in Residence for FYR is LiT (Fueling Youth Reading is Leadership in Training) at the Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts in St. Croix, USVA, a Teaching Artist with the National Dance Institute, and Performer with Village Playback Theatre.
In conjunction with my artistic work, I am a social justice advocate, and have taught workshops on several social themes as well as using art for social justice for colleges, high schools, and professional organizations - most recently including Drew University, Fieldston Ethical Culture, Humanities Preparatory Academy, and Girl Be Heard.
I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree from SUNY Geneseo. I am the recipient of the 2019 Zelda Fichandler Award - a full scholarship to study with the Michael Chekhov Association. As a performer, I work on both stage and screen. A New York native raised in the Bronx, I currently reside in Manhattan with my family.
In 2020, after serving as the Artistic Director of TÉA Creative since 2012, I became Co-Director of TÉA Creative.
Mieka Stang
Hi, I am Mieka Stang (she/her). I graduated from the University of Santa Cruz with a major in Theater Arts emphasizing in scenic design and props. Through theater I discovered a deep love of storytelling and it’s power to transform into worlds of history, lore, humanity, and art. In addition to theater, my hobbies include writing and cooking.
Embarking with TÉA Artistry, I will apply my passion for performance and community toward sustaining audience relationships and reaching for new ways to engage with the ever-evolving world of performance. I am excited to join fellow practitioners in mutually expanding our insights into self, society, and the spiritual engagement of performance and storytelling.
Ima Otto-During
I am Ima Otto-During (she/her). I am a New York Native hailing from New Rochelle, NY, and a proud child of Sierra Leone immigrants! I graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with her BFA in acting, and I am very excited to begin a new journey with TÉA Artistry!
What makes me excited to be a part of TÉA, is the amazing team of people. From the co-directors Chuk and Vieve, to the rest of TÉA; everyone is full of such light and love. Not only are we fostering creative devised theater, but also a vibrant community! I’m excited to be along with everyone on this journey!
Carlos Joy
I’m Carlos (they/them) - a queer trans non binary latinx actor and writer from Ponce, Puerto Rico. I am passionate and committed to telling stories that explore humanity and the complexities of identity in our modern society. I am a firm believer in the healing power of love.
What lights me up about working with TÉA is the sense of community that they foster, and the bravery and commitment to creating unconventional art grounded
in humanity. I am honored to be joining this group of incredibly talented and loving humans on this journey.
Insight Artists Collective
In 2017 TÉA Creative launched the Insight Artists Collective, a cohort of eight Insight artists challenged with further developing the tenants of Insight Artistry.
Insight artists are committed to creating work that asks its maker and its audience to wonder. To wonder with the kind of startling openness that lifts us out of our habitual ways of knowing and thinking, and into curiosity. At the heart of Insight is the exquisite attention we pay to the interiority of ourselves and others. It is with this in mind that we shape the stories we tell, and the process with which we create them.
The Insight Artist Collective members are Vieve Price, Chuk Obasi, Adriana Rossetto, Amanda Marikar, Nabil Viñas, Tayla Hernandez-Ritter, Marnie Jull, Lucy Di Rosa and Sarah Wharton.