People
Vieve Radha Price
Vieve Radha Price (she/her) is the Founder and Co-Director of TÉA Artistry. Vieve 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 she has been developing for over a decade. In 2017, she established the Insight Artists Collective. The insights of the Collective are collected in our Insight Artistry handbook, which we will publish in 2024. She is also collaborating on Questing for Insight, an introduction to the philosophical approach that grounds her artistry and artistic creation. Most recently, and in collaboration with other Insight Artists, she 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 her leadership of TÉA, she has created and produced six original, collaboratively devised Insight performance pieces. In the process, she has 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, The Puffin Foundation, and the IRT Archive Residency to name a few.
She began her career in the arts in 1995 as an actor and then as assistant artistic director at STAR Theatre. In 2000, she entered the Peace Corps, and upon returning to the U.S., she 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. She subsequently worked at Search for Common Ground in Washington DC before founding 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.
Chuk Obasi
Chuk Obasi (he/him) serves as the Co-Director of TÉA Artistry. Chuk is also 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. He 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 his artistic work, he is a social justice advocate, and has 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.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from SUNY Geneseo. He is the recipient of the 2019 Zelda Fichandler Award - a full scholarship to study with the Michael Chekhov Association. As a performer, he works on both stage and screen. A New York native raised in the Bronx, he currently reside in Manhattan with his family.
In 2020, after serving as the Artistic Director of TÉA Artistry since 2012, he became Co-Director of TÉA Artistry.
Mieka Stang
Mieka Stang discovered her love for theater in college where she became the Student Production Liaison for the Theater Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Through theater she discovered a deep love of storytelling and it’s power to transform into worlds of history, lore, humanity, and art.
She began working for TÉA Artistry in 2021 as the Development Manager and has since become TÉA’s Development and Marketing Manager and Producer for Being Chaka (2023). Additionally, Mieka was a 2022 Institutional Giving Intern at the Manhattan Theater Club and currently serves as the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Insight Collaboration Institute.
She is excited to work with TÉA, joining fellow practitioners in mutually expanding our insights into self, society, and the spiritual engagement of performance and storytelling.
Ima Otto-During
Ima Otto-During (she/her). She is a New York Native hailing from New Rochelle, NY, and a proud child of Sierra Leone immigrants! She graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with her BFA in acting, and is very excited to be on a new journey with TÉA Artistry!
What makes Ima 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 is TÉA fostering creative devised theater, but also a vibrant community! She is excited to be along with everyone 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.