Erika Latta

Erika Latta is originally from the Northwest. Initially she studied dance, installation art and photography before combining the layer of theater and film. She holds a BFA in Theater at the University of Washington and a MFA in Acting from Columbia University. She is the artistic co-director and co-founder of WaxFactory in New York City. With the company, she works as an actor, director, writer, and educator creating multidisciplinary works. As an actor she has been seen at international venues and festivals such as the ICA/Institute of Contemporary Art (London, UK), The Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon, Portugal), Sommer Szene (Salzburg, Austria), Outré 90 (Milan, Italy), FIT/ Festival Internacional de Teatro (Caracas, Venezuela), MESS (Sarajevo, Bosnia), the Exodos Festival and Cankarjev Dom Center For The Performing Arts (Ljubljana, Slovenia), and SummerSzene in Salzburg, Austria among others in the following shows: Lulu (one woman performance), Story of Rats based on the work of George Bataille, Molier's Monster based on the work of Moliere, Heiner Müller's Quartet, Ibsen's Lady from the Sea, Sarah Kane's Cleansed, ...She Said, 39 Frames - The Hitchcock Project, Blind.Ness and Pull Yourself Together! She was the lead actor in the film sections for X, a video-opera created in collaboration with the composer Katharina Rosenberger, which premiered at the Zürcher Theaterspektakel in Zurich and in WaxFactory's feature length film 416 Minutes by Ivan Talijancic.In New York she has acted at La Mama E.T.C, HERE, P.S 122 (Performance Space 122), New York Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center's Clark Studio, Soho Rep, Old American Can Factory, En Garde Arts, Raw Space, Ohio Theater, The Culture Project, and the Act French Festival, the Invisible Dog and 3LD Art + Technology, among others. She has been a participant at Robert Wilson's international summer program at the Watermill Center as an actor and photographer. Also at Watermill Center she has worked with French director Victor Gautier Martin.Erika is a Member and Associate Director of the trans-media company Begat Theater of Marseille, France. For the company she co-conceived, directed /co-directed, designed sound and co-wrote, Home/ Land, La Disparition, Hidden Stories; Les Demeurées and Le Jardin Aveugle. The productions have toured in international festivals in France, Germany, Croatia, Spain, Holland, Czech Republic, Sardinia, Korea and Australia. She recently completed Begat's commissioned sound walk by the MUCEM (Museum of Civilizations in the Mediterranean) titled La Traversée, in Marseille, France. She is a member of the Society of Authors (SACD) in France. Many of the productions of Begat Theater have been awarded numerous grants, co-productions and partnerships, as well as the generous support from FACE (French American Fund for Contemporary Theater).She was awarded a six-month residency in performing arts at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. While at Solitude she wrote Delirium 27. Delirium 27 performed at the Stara Elektrarna in Ljubljana, Slovenia with an international cast from Croatia, Slovenia, Sweden, Italy and the United States and premiered at Abrons Art Center in New York as part of the WaxFactory retrospective.In cinema she has worked with Stacie Passon in Concussion (Sundance Film Festival), Matt Creed in LILY (Tribeca Film Festival), Alex Rodriguez (editor of Y Tu Mamma También + Academy Nominated editor of Children of Men), Mike Jones and in television for MTV and PBS among others, as well as appearing in many of WaxFactory's original films.As a writer she continues to be co-author for many of original productions for both WaxFactory and Begat Theater. She has also written freelance articles for Movie Maker Magazine where she has interviewed editors Alex Rodriguez and Matt Chessé.She is a published photographer for her work in theater, film and her personal work. She has shot film stills for the Oscar nominated film Captain Fantastic by Matt Ross with Viggo Mortensen and Bottled Up by Enid Zentelis with Melissa Leo, among others.She has studied and trained in modern dance, Viewpoints with Anne Bogart (SITI Company), the Suzuki Method of acting in Toga- Mura Japan with Robyn Hunt and at Columbia University with Ellen Lauren.Outside her company in theater, she has worked with Felix Barret and Maxine Doyle of Punchdrunk (Sleep no more), Robert Wilson, Anne Bogart (SitiCompany), Robert Woodruff, Victor Gautier Martin, Tina Landau, Chuck Mee, Rachel Dickstein (Ripe Time), Jonathan Walters (hand2mouth Theater Co.) and choreographer Guilia Murredu.She was seen in Punchdrunk's Sleep No More at the McKittrick Hotel in New York in the role of Hecate and in the production Time, A Fair Hustler as Scott Favor (based on Gus Van Sant's film My Own Private Idaho) by hand2mouth theater company at the Artist Repertory in Portland, OregonErika is an Associate Professor of Theater Performance at the School for Contemporary Arts and the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC in Canada Show less «