Madeline Bugeau-Heartt
Theater-Maker, Facilitator, Organizer
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Meet the Facilitators!
Gianluca Avanzato is a writer, artist, and poet from Upstate New York. Gianluca holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, where he studied religion and spiritual care. He has engaged in interreligious dialogue trainings and sessions around the world and holds a Diploma in Interreligious Studies from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. Gianluca teaches writing and creativity as a spiritual practice and means of self-knowing. He has developed and led workshops, pilgrimages, and programming, including Sacred Writing Circles and Apothecary of the Word. As the executive producer and host of the podcast, Interfaith Passages, a professional writing coach, and a published writer, Gianluca strives to elevate the beauty of the everyday and the sacredness of all around us.
Madeline Bugeau-Heartt is a Maine-based writer, theater-maker, and organizer. She most recently completed her Masters of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School where she explored theater as a sacred space and transformational organizing in a climate-changed world. She spends her days working as a program associate at The BTS Center (a Portland-based non-profit serving at the crux of spiritual leadership and climate change), organizing and facilitating “good trouble” within the radical community of practice she co-founded (Wellkeepers), and making adventurous theater both as an independent performance artist as well a newly-minted member of the counter/current: collective in Belfast, Maine.