Elizabeth Gannon

Ilanna Saltzman is a Brooklyn-based theatre artist who specializes in physical theater and devised work. She is a company member and teaching artist with Bond Street Theatre. With them, she has directed and devised new work, taught theater, and performed in Azerbaijan, Guatemala, India, Nepal, and NYC. She is a teaching artist with Urban Stages, where she develops new plays in senior centers. She created the original TYA show Amelia and Her Paper Tigers and performs it throughout NYC. She has performed as a stilt-walker in local festivals, solo storyteller and puppeteer in New Jersey schools and libraries, and a Cuban salsa dancer in venues around the city. Ilanna trained in Commedia dell'Arte at the Accademia dell'Arte in Arezzo, Italy; Butoh and physical theater with the Ume Group in NYC; and Shakespeare performance at Shakespeare and Company in Western Massachusetts. BA in Acting and Directing from Skidmore College.