DAr
Argentina Dramatherapy Association

RUSSYA CONNOR, PhD, AThR (Drama)

Dramatherapist, Supervisor, Trainer and Lecturer for Creative Arts Therapies. Worked over the last 15 years with Corrective Services, Indigenous communities and AOD services. Lecturer at Edith Cowan University and on staff at Murdoch University in the Graduate Diploma in Creative Arts Therapies and Universty of Melbourne. Trainer of executive leadership teams in creative thinking, and playfulness.

Kirsten Meyer, PhD, AThR (Drama)

Practitioner-researcher and supervisor, spanning South Africa and Australia. Co-founding member of Zakheni Arts Therapy Foundation. Coordinates an Australian community of practice for drama therapists. Committee member of IACAET and teaches on various courses. Currently leading a team of creative arts therapists in a community-based organisation, working with children, young people and their carers who have experienced family violence

Registered Drama Therapist/Board Certified Trainer

Founder and Director of Creative Arts Therapy Institute in Turkey, Supervisor and Lecturer at Isik University. Turkish Creative Arts Therapies Institute. 

YST
Turkish Creative Arts Therapies Institute

Founding member and member of the board of Directors of European Federation of Dramatherapy. Lecturer in National and Kapodisrtian University of Athens. Founder and Training Director of the Dramatherapy program at Institute AEON. Member of the board of Directors of Hellenic Psychiatrist Association and President of the branch "Art and Psychiatry".

Iranian Psychodrama & Drama Therapy Association

President of KADT. Director of the Drama Therapy Program at Yong-in University.

Sherry Diamond,
Esq., RDT

Two-time President of NADTA (2003-2005 & 2021-2023). Registered Drama Therapist since 1986. Former faculty in the Department of Creative Arts Therapies, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Co-founder of east village caravanserai, a non-profit theatre company based in Long Beach, California, USA. CEO & General Counsel at Santa Clara County Bar Association. Licensed California attorney specializing in nonprofit law.

Director of the Drama Therapy Program and Theatre & Health Lab at New York University. Editor-in-Chief of Drama Therapy Review. Dr. Sajnani initiated the founding of the World Alliance of Dramatherapy. NYU Drama Therapy plays a coordinating role in facilitating the activities of the World Alliance. 

NYU
New York University

Vasintha Pather

A registered Drama Therapist who facilitates group and individual psychotherapy, runs a private practice, and consults as an organizational and leadership development coach internationally. She is a member of the South African Association of Jungian Analysis (SAAJA); an executive member of the South African National Arts Therapies Association (SANATA); on the steering committee of the Africa Chapter of the International Association for Creative Arts in Education & Training (IACAET); and a member of International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP)

SANATA
South African  National Arts Therapies Association

Dov Blum-Yazdi, PhD

Drama Therapist and Clinical Criminologist. Works at "Place to Be"; a drama and art therapies studio, Ministry of Education at Merhav program, Drama Therapy group with high school youth. Supervision and teaching in Arts Therapist training programs, University of Haifa.

Rinat Feniger-Schaal, phd

Director of Drama Therapy and Psychodrama MA program at the School of Creative Arts Therapies in Haifa university, Israel. MsC in psychoanalytic developmental psychology. Research fellow at the Center for the Study of Child Development, University of Haifa.  Registered Drama therapist, supervisor and psychologist.

Professor at Graduate School of Human Science at Ritsumeikan University. Lecturer at Tokyo University. Drama Therapy Education and Research Center in Japan.

Mika Lee,
MA, RDT, LCAT, LCP

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Registered Drama Therapist with NADTA. New York State Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, USA

Licensed Counseling Psychologist, Taiwan. Founding Member/ Representative of Taiwan Drama Therapy Association

Yi-Chieh
(Monique) Wu

Registered Drama Therapist currently working in Taiwan. She teaches Drama Therapy at Taipei Shih Chien University,  Introduction to Drama at Tamkang University, and is a founding Member/Representative of the Taiwan Drama Therapy Association.

DTI
drama-therapy india

Chanaphan is a registered dramatherapist and a founder of Dramatherapy Thailand Association (DTTH).  After completing her training in 2008, she has worked as a dramatherapist at mental health hospitals in Bangkok and as a course lecturer at Bangkok University. Currently,  she is registered for a research PhD, “Developing Dramatherapy Approaches for Thai Adult Patients with PTSD” at the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research (CIMTR), Anglia Ruskin University (UK).

DTTH
Dramatherapy Thailand Association

John Hazlett-Dickinson 

Chair of The British Association of Dramatherapists 2013 - 2016 and 2019 - 2021. Dramatherapist and Trainer, working in the UK and Europe. 

BADth
British Association of Drama Therapy