Renée Emunah, PhD, RDT/BCT (Board Certified Trainer of Drama Therapists), is the Founder/Director of the Drama Therapy Program. She is the author of the book Acting For Real: Drama Therapy Process, Technique, and Performance, which has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. Renée is a Board Certified Trainer of Drama Therapists and the recipient of the National Association for Drama Therapy Gertrude Schattner Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Drama Therapy.
 
Author of numerous articles and chapters in the field, Renée served on the editorial board of the international journal Arts in Psychotherapy for 15 years. She is a former president of the National Association for Drama Therapy, and worked for 30 years as a drama therapist, including 15 years specializing in group work with emotionally disturbed adults and adolescents. In addition, she founded/directed a community theater company for ex-psychiatric patients, for which she received a Commendation by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
 
Renée was among the first four drama therapists to be officially registered in the U.S. She is a pioneer in the field of drama therapy, and her work has been presented extensively at conferences and trainings worldwide. In 2006, she was a keynote speaker at the Arts in Hospitals conference in Hong Kong, and in 2008 the keynote speaker at the National Conference on drama therapy. In 2006 and 2008, she taught drama therapy in Japan. She is a co-editor of the forthcoming new edition of the book Current Approaches to Drama Therapy. She was selected to be included in the 2009 edition of Who’s Who in America.

Gary Raucher, MA, LMFT, RDT, is a drama therapist with broad clinical experience in a variety of community agencies, hospitals, and in private practice. He is a senior member of the West Coast Institute for Developmental Transformations, a training program for an improvisation-based method of drama therapy. In the 1990s he introduced drama therapy as a modality in support groups for people living with HIV. Keenly interested in transpersonal psychology, Gary has presented at national drama therapy conferences on the combined use of meditation and action techniques as a form of integral practice. He is Vice President of the National Association for Drama Therapy.