RONALD GILLIAM
Co-Founder
For the past 7 years, Ronald has been living a combined international artist and arts administrator life. He is a graduate from New York University, with a Master's degree in Performance Studies. Previously, he received a Bachelors of Arts in both Theatre Performance and Chinese Language & Culture at Butler University where, in 2002, he had the opportunity to attend the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Peking University. At HKAPA, he directed two of Samuel Beckett's plays for television, Quad and Nacht und Traume. He has also studied with Teatro Grupo Yuyachkani in Lima, Peru, further developing his movement vocabulary and gaining an insight into international political performance.
In addition to co-founding NoExit, he led an extensive arts administration careeer for 7 years while working for the Broadway division of ClearChannel Entertainment,
Clowes Memorial Hall, and various dance organizations in NYC. Ronald is also a recipient of a Freeman Foundation Grant for study in China and a published performance theorist. His most recent work, 'The Reverse Effect,' can be found in the first edition of e-misferica, the online peer-reviewed journal of the Hemispheric Institute.
Recent NoExit productions include directing the Midwest premier of David Henry Hwang?s The Sound of a Voice where he pioneered cross-distance rehearsal techniques
via the Internet and A. an original (re)constructive dance theatre piece based on idea of deconstructing a classic set to movement.
Currently, Ronald acts as a Creative Consultant while residing in Honolulu, Hawai'i, where he is working on a PhD in Asian Theatre at The Univeristy of Hawai'i at Manoa.