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31 DOWN RADIO THEATER is based out of Brooklyn, NY. The theater company has recently been featured in the Airborne Exhibition at the New Museum with their radio installation "Wanderlost". Their production That's not how Mahler died... was created in the Ontological-Hysteric Theater's Outside-Input program and was featured in the Ontological's Summer Series. That's not how Mahler died... will be presented as part of the Brick Theater's fall season this November.
31 Down was created by Ryan Holsopple. Ryan has worked as a sound designer and actor in many NYC productions including work with directors Timothy Haskell, Richard Foreman, Pavol Liska, Tea Alagic and DJ Mendel.
ASUBTOUT is a marriage of convenience. katy and eleanor were alwaysat the same residency so they decided to have a band. they danced with john jasperse, jennifer monson and jen allen. asubtout has performed at galapagos, dixon place, dtw, la mama, ps122, chez bushwick, starr street, ambush, and are regulars at catch. asubtout
is a real-life fantasy dream come true.
KEVIN AUGUSTINE is artistic director of Lone Wolf Tribe; a one-man theatre ensemble composed of himself (the wolf) and his tribe of foam rubber puppets. Commissioned through the Dream Music Puppetry program at HERE Arts Center in NYC, Augustine's work has won awards and critical acclaim and has been performed at theatre festivals and artistic centers in the US and abroad, including The HARARE International Arts Festival in Zimbabwe, The Jim Henson Festival for Puppetry in New York City, and various Fringe festivals in the US. Augustine has been awarded grants and/or fellowships through the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts and The Jim Henson Foundation. He and his company reside in Brooklyn.
IVY BALDWIN is a choreographer living in Brooklyn, NY. In 1999 she founded Ivy Baldwin Dance, and since then her work has been presented by many theaters, including Dance Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Dixon Place , Danspace Project, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, DanceOff!, Williamsburg Art neXus, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and Symphony Space, to just name a few. Ms. Baldwin has been extremely fortunate to receive funding multiple times from the Puffin Foundation, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and the Karen and William Tell Foundation. Her commissions for new work include a Bessie Schonberg/First Light Commission from Dance Theater Workshop with funds from the Jerome Foundation for DTW's spring '06 season, two Mondo Cane! commissions for new work from Dixon Place, and most recently, a commission from Dance New Amsterdam for DNA Presents 2007. Ms. Baldwin has also participated in many choreographic and company residency's including The Yard's Bessie Schonberg Residency, Dragon's Egg in CT, Nazareth Dance Academy in NY, and the Williamsburg Art neXus's Sugar Salon residency at Barnard College in NYC in 2006. Recently, the Company performed with Danceoff! in Berlin for the Tanz im August festival. The premiere of a new work commissioned and presented by Dixon Place will take place in spring 2008.
Ms. Baldwin has also enjoyed performing with Impetuous Theater Group, Jeanne Schickler, Melissa Chris, and Melissa Briggs among others. She enjoys teaching and making dances for college students and has spent some time at Iowa State University, Valdosta State University, Washington University, and Long Island University. Ms. Baldwin was an adjunct professor at Barnard College for spring '07 and choreographed a new work for their concert at Miller Theater of Columbia University. This fall she choreographed a new work for the students of the North Carolina School of the Arts. She herself is a graduate of both the North Carolina School of the Arts and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts MFA program. ivybaldwindance.org
JESS BARBAGALLO is a recent NYU graduate, where she spent four years at the Experimental Theater Wing. She is currently working with Big Dance Theater on a piece to debut at the Japan Society in 2007, and has previously performed most recently in A Country Doctor (dir. by Paul Lazar) and Hansel Und Gretel (dir. by David Neumann), both at NYU. She has written, directed and choreographed numerous pieces including Horseshit Twang (NYU), Manstick (PS122), and Twink Bus Table Now at the Stable in DUMBO. Jessica is a founding member of The Red Terror Squad, with her partner in crime, Mao Mao.
Founded in 1991, BIG DANCE THEATER breaks down proscribed genres to saturate dance with theater and theater with dance. Big Dance has created 14 original works, ranging from pure dance pieces to dance/theater adaptations of plays, stories and novellas, touring nationally and internationally for many years. Led by the Choreographer Annie-B Parson, Director Paul Lazar and performer Molly Hickok, Big Dance is known for its adventurous use of dance, music, text and song to expand and refract literary texts, weaving seemingly disparate sources and forms into a seamless theatrical whole.
Big Dance was awarded an OBIE for their "passionate practice of the most implausible choreographic and literary concoctions," and in 2002 they were honored with a BESSIE for their "boldly arranged marriage of dance and theater." This year Big Dance received the first annual Creativity Award from Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival.
STEPHEN BRACKETT is a freelance theater director and the co-founder of The Bushwick Hotel with playwright Rachel Shukert. Recent Credits include Ixomia at the Crown Point Festival, Johnny Applef?%ker at the Soho Think Tank's 2007 Ice Factory, The Pageant Plays with Clubbed Thumb, PN1923.45LS01 Volume 2 by Bixby Elliot at FringeNY, Bloody Mary with Third Man Productions, and Kilroy Was Here: A Styx Rock Opera at the Williamstown Theater Festival Workshop. He is the Associate Artistic Director of Obie Award winning Salt Theater and the Assistant Director of Passing Strange on Broadway.
MELISSA BRIGGS has been making and showing work throughout the Northeast since 1995. NYC venues include Symphony Space, PS 122, Joyce SoHo, The Flea Theater, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dancespace Project/Studio 5-2, Dixon Place, Dancenow NYC 1997-2004, Mulberry Street Theater, BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange; out of state appearances include the 2002 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Amherst College, Smith College and independent schools throughout New England. Listed as one of "gotham's finest dancemakers" by Voice Choices (Fall 2000), Melissa has enjoyed artist residencies from The Joyce Theater Foundation, The Yard (Martha's Vineyard), BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Smith College (MA), Vermont Academy (VT), SILO/Kirkland Farm (PA), and The Dragon's Egg (CT). She has received two grants from the Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation--for citySTORY (2003) and Book Dances (2005), a site-specific work which travelled through a 19th century Brooklyn church. Melissa is a graduate of NYU/Tisch School of the Arts (MFA Dance) and Smith College (BA Sociology; Phi Beta Kappa). She also teaches dance and visual art classes to children. Melissa recently relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she is soaking up the sun and continuing to work with kids and dance. You can contact her at melisbriggs@mac.com.
REBECCA BROOKS is a dance artist and movement educator based in
Manhattan. Her work has been presented in NYC at Danspace Project, Catch, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon Place, and AUNTS, as well as in Oakland, CA at otherDANCE. As a performer, she has worked most recently with Sarah White, Jean-Marie Leary, robbinschilds, Jesse Alpern, and A Mythical People. She co-founded AUNTS and co-curated the Movement Research Festival Spring 2007. Rebecca is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, and is currently studying at Balance Arts Center to teach the Alexander Technique(tm).
ABBY BROWDE is an actor, director, and writer. She received her BFA from the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU, where she directed her original play Portrait of a Still Life with Landscape. She has performed her original solo show Graylike at the Tricklock Performance Space, the Red Humor Salon and, most recently, as part of the Single File Festival in Chicago. Abby was a member of the Independent theatre group, which mounted Antigone (Ismene) in the fountain of Washington Square Park, The Prince (Horatio), a new adaptation of Hamlet, and Othello (Emilia) in the courtyard of P.S. 63 in the East Village. She recently performed in Witness Relocation Co.'s In a Hall in the Palace of Pyrrhus at the Ohio Theater, and has worked with Ken Nintzel, Holderness Theatre Company, and John Jesurun, appearing in Bardo and Number Minus One, Part One, both at ETW, and Episode #54 of Chang in a Void Moon at LaMama ETC.
EVAN CABNET Recent: The Mistakes Madeline Made (NY Stage and Film), Masterpiece Theater, My Renaissance Faire Lady (Ontological), Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Ubu Roi (Williamstown). Other credits include: Lincoln Center Theater, NYSF, Roundabout, NYC Opera, Signature, Ars Nova, The Flea, P. S. 122, etc. Recipient of the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Fellowships for Directing, Chashama 2005 AREA Award, Artist in Residence at the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, and member of the 2004/05 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.
TYMBERLY CANALE has collaborated and performed with Big Dance Theater for the past 10 years. She choreographed the Brecht Play "A Respectable Wedding" at NYU under the direction of Karin Coonrod and has also performed with Richard Move, Stacy Dawson/David Neumann and Poppo & the Gogo Boys.
MATT CITRON is an actor, musician and composer. New York credits include 365 Days/Plays at the Public Theatre, Les Freres Corbusier's Hell House, Mental Missiles at the Culture Project, and David Neumann's Tough, the Tough. He has worked with artists such as Mabou Mines, Michael Cerveris, Les Freres Corbusier, Loco 7 Dance, Elizabeth Swados, The 52nd St. Project, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Boston) and David Neumann. His own performance piece Interview with Bob Holt, which he wrote, composed, and performed has been regularly curated for the Catch series at Galapagos Artspace in Brooklyn. In addition, the original musical Blogtown: A Campaign Comedy for which he composed the score received its premiere in Hollywood, CA in 2004. He has conducted various other musicals across the country. Graduated Tisch School of the Arts.
PAIGE COLLETTE is a writer/performer who graduated from NYU's Experimental Theater Wing. She performs in the projects of Jess Barbagallo with Red Terror Squad, most recently playing the role of Fish in "Grey-Eyed Dogs" at Dixon Place. Paige is currently performing in Harry Partch's "Delusion of the Fury" directed by John Jesurun at Japan Society. She also performs in the work of Rachel Shukert, most recently at the Ohio Theater as part of the Soho Think Tank Ice Factory. Paige has performed her original work at venues including the Field's FAR Space, BAX, and Ephemeroptera. Her burlesque persona, Maxine LaRue, has been thrice crowned Miss Galapagozanga by Mr. Murray Hill. She is a founding member of The Steering Committee performance collective.
ANDREW DINWIDDIE's choreography has been performed at Galapagos, P.S. 122, St. Anne's Warehouse, Ur, BAX, the Red Humor Salon and WAX at University Settlement. In 2006, he received his first grant, a space-and-performance residency at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. With Jeff Larson, he co-curates Catch, a bimonthly performance series at Galapagos Art Space. Andrew has had the pleasure of performing for Big Dance Theater, David Neumann, Stacy Dawson, Nellie Tinder, Karinne Keithley, Sibyl Kempson, Jennie Marytai Liu, Ken Nintzel, Richard Maxwell, Linas Phillips, Kourtney Rutherford, Kate E. Ryan/13P, Jenny Seastone Stern and Chris Yon.
SEAN DONOVAN is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts' Experimental Theatre Wing. He is a member of Witness Relocation Company with whom he recently performed a world premiere of an original work in Bangkok, Thailand in collaboration with Bangkok's Patravadi Theatre Company. This summer he will work with Witness Relocation again on a new adaptation of Andromache as part of the Obie-award winning Ice Factory Festival.
ALEC DUFFY Trained at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris and recognized by Time Out New York as one of NYC's "rising writers", Duffy has created a name for himself by his innovative mixture of music and theater. His play The Top Ten People of the Millennium Sing Their Favorite Schubert Lieder, produced at the Bank Street Theater in New York and at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, was selected for inclusion in the publication Plays & Playwrights 2006. His Liberty and Cruise Ship: A Study in Revolution (DangerShip!) was awarded chashama's A.R.E.A. Original Works Series Award. His work has been presented at the Ohio Theater, at Dixon Place and at HERE. Duffy is a Drama League Directing Fellow.
URSULA EAGLY has been making performances in this city for years. Her work has been presented all over town, and she's currently working on a piece that will be part of Dance Theater Workshop's Studio Series on April 3 & 4. She has performed in the work of Rebecca Davis and Christopher Williams and is currently working with Kathy Westwater and Yoshiko Chuma.
BENJAMIN FORSTER is currently in his fourth, and last, year at New York University. During his time at NYU, he has studied at the Experimental Theatre Wing, a division of the Drama Department focused on physically-based acting, various movement disciplines, and self-scripting. He has performed under such directors as John Jesurun and Paul Lazar at ETW. He has also performed his own work at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, ETW, and co-written and performed work at Studio A.I.R. Last Spring, he studied Spoken Word Poetry under Kgafela Oa Magogodi in Johannesburg, South Africa. "Cubed", a full-length play was his senior project at ETW during Fall Semester, 2006. He has also written a variety of scenes, monologues, and slapstick scenarios, and keeps a blog of his work at http://www.myspace.com/benjaminforster.
LEIGH GARRETT moved to New York in 1998, saying farewell to her beloved hometown of Chicago. Since then, her solo work has been seen at Joe's Pub, Symphony Space, The Flea Theater, PSNBC, WAX, and Galapagos Art and Performance Space. Her work with Katie Workum has been seen at PS122, The Kitchen, Joe' Pub, The Flea Theater, GAle GAtes et al., HERE, WAX, Galapagos Art and Performance Space, and Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia, PA). She has had the pleasure of performing with DD Dorvillier, David Neumann, Fischerspooner, and GAle GAtes et al. Leigh has choreographed for theater (GAle GAtes at The Whitney) and film (Ladies Room, dir. Kate Bernstein). She has been a recipient of SummerStages Choreography Fellowship and the NYFAA Astral Grant. She is currently an MA student of Performance Studies at NYU.
K.J. HOLMES is an independent dance artist, singer, choreographer and teacher (adjunct faculty NYU/ETW, Movement Research). Her work explores improvisation as process and performance, and she creates pieces that range from open jam sessions to very tightly structured theater events, collaborating with artists (dancers, actors, musicians, lighting designers, poets, visual artists) who play with the edge of risk. She has been presented in many venues throughout the world and in New York City at Danspace Project,
DTW, PS122, The Kitchen, among others.
K.J. is currently developing a new piece This is where we are (or take arms against a sea of troubles) which looks at evolution of language and movement thereof, and is a member of the U.K. based ensemble Body of Truth that challenges how we perceive performance and how we make sense of time and place.
CYNTHIA HOPKINS is a creator and performer of unique music/theater projects featuring her band, Gloria Deluxe. These include 'Accidental Nostalgia (an operetta about the pros and cons of amnesia)' for which Ms. Hopkins won a 2005 Bessie Award; 'Must Don't Whip 'Um', a prequel to 'Accidental Nostalgia' which premiered in January 2007 at the Walker (Minneapolis, MN) and St. Ann's Warehouse Brooklyn, NY); and 'The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success)', which is currently being created.
In addition to creating full-length pieces of her own, Ms. Hopkins has worked as a composer, musician and performer for many projects, including Big Dance Theater's 'Another Telepathic Thing' (for which she won a 2000 OBIE award for performance and a 2001 Bessie award for composition) and 'Song Before Love Songs', a composition commissioned by Bang on a Can which premiered in February 2005. For more information about these projects and/or the band Gloria Deluxe, which has produced five full-length albums and plays in venues around the country, please visit GLORIADELUXE.COM.
JUSTIN JONES spent his formative years in suburban Illinois, lived in NYC and now lives in Minneapolis. He is a choreographer, dancer, sound-designer, and teacher of dance and choreography. He has shown his work @ CBGBs, The Knitting Factory, The Thalia Theater @ Symphony Space in NYC and Patricks Cabaret and The Bryant Lake Bowl in MPLS. He has danced for Tere O'Connor, Nick Leichter, Kara Tatelbaum, Billy Siegenfeld and Robin Lakes among others. Lately he has enjoyed using his computer to create sound design for his own work and for the dances of long time (7 yrs) collaborator and co-conspirator Chris Yon. Currently he teaches modern dance and dance composition at Shattuck-St. Mary's School in Faribault, Minnesota. This June, Jones will be showing new work in the 'Isolated Acts' series at the Red Eye Theater in MPLS.
CORRINA KALISZ is currently making solos based on costumes and subsequent characters. The pieces are developed using an improvisation style she calls "surfing" - riding the waves of thought, action, and sound. Her solo work has been shown at Improvised and Otherwise at The Williamsburg Art Nexus (WAX) (Brooklyn, NY), Lake's Friends at One Arm Red (Brooklyn, NY), The Zeitgeist Gallery (Cambridge, MA), ACDFA New England (Lewiston, ME), and Thornes Marketplace (Northampton, MA). Corrina is also a founding member along with Jeff Arnal and Estelle Woodward of the collaborative music and dance groups Loophole and The Rara Avis Sextet. Performances include; The Roulette Concert Series at Location One (New York, NY), The World Turning Festival at the Medicine Show Theatre (NY, NY), Dumbo Arts Under the Bridge (Brooklyn, NY), and Improvised and Otherwise (WAX) (Brooklyn, NY). As a member of The Ensemble Project Corrina performed in the Improvisation Festival / NY 2001 at the Judson Memorial Church (NY, NY). Corrina has also performed in the work of Eleanor Bauer and Beth Gill in The Underexposed Series, Dixon Place at University Settlement (NY, NY) and at Office Opps (Bushwick, Brooklyn). Corrina received her MFA in Choreography and Performance from Bennington College in 2000, and her BFA in Dance from the University of New Mexico in 1997 . During the day Corrina works at Danspace Project, Inc. and teaches yoga at Om yoga center.
MYLES KANE has been making films and videos since he was a teenager. He grew up in Massachusetts and has been in Brooklyn for six years. He's a co-founder of the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, which started in 2002.
KARINNE KEITHLEY has been involved in performance for a long time, as a choreographer, performer, sound designer and writer. These days she devotes herself mostly to writing and sound. Her performance work of recent hermetic years has been seen almost exclusively in the catch series. Some sound and video work can be found on her website, fancystitchmachine.org. She also is in the slow process of cultivating a living web archive of writing on performance at i-theatron.net. In the near future, she will be producing books through the 53rd State Press. She is a member of the 2006-07 Soho Rep Writer Director Lab, and of JOYCE CHO. In the fall of 07 she will be going to school for her third degree, this time a Ph.D. in English. She teaches at Brooklyn College and the American Dance Festival. Up With Creatures!
SIBYL KEMPSON makes theater plays in NYC since 2000,
with titles like This Property is BAUHAUS!; SPARGEL
TIME!; The Wytche of Problymm Plantation; Robert
Stack: Homoferus Untitled; Crime or Emergency; The
Secret Death of Puppets (or) How Do Puppets Die? (or)
Puppets Die in Secret; Bad Girls Good Writers;
(In)communicable, (Con)Genital, Incommensurable; Zeit
af der KurbisGeistNachten (or) It's a Good Life if You
Don't Weaken; and Potatoes of August. Also Kyckling
and Screaming which is an adaptation of The Wild Duck
by Henrik Ibsen, and At the Kingdom's Gate: Prelude
which is a translation of Ved Rigets Port: Forspil by
Knut Hamsun. Almost all of these plays have starred
Andrew Dinwiddie.
GLENN KESSLER is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer. His latest work Blue Discharges was created with partner Michael C. Jackson and present at Dixon Place. Prior to that, Glenn was seen in proto-type theater's Three Ring, written and directed by Peter Petralia at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania. Glenn collaborated with Brian Savelson on All The Kings' Men, a pop-cabaret based on real life pre-teen murderers Alex and Derek King, which premiered in FUSE: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture at HERE Arts Center. Show Business Weekly described All The Kings' Men as "equally hilarious, disturbing, moving and completely original." He has appeared as the Submissive Cyborg at Dixon Place, Collective Unconscious, and P.S. 122. As a dancer he has worked with Kimberly Brandt on Coordinate at P.S. 122 and Williamsburg Arts neXus. He has also danced with the avant-nude movement group Dancetube in Maison Derriere at Theatre for a New City and in Transpace at the Chelsea Museum. He has served as Community Outreach Coordinator and Marketing Associate for legendary performance venue Dixon Place. Glenn holds a B.S. in Educational Theatre from New York University where he is currently pursuing his M.A. in Performance Studies.
BETH KURKJIAN has performed in NYC in: I cancan 2, a duet choreographed and performed by Johanna Meyer (The Kitchen); Cape Cod, a solo performance (Ontological); Lapse by Ken Nintzel (Whitney/Altria, PS 122); Saint Latrice by Juliana Francis (PS 122); non/fiction, a solo performance (PS 122); Pickford, a one-woman show (Ontological); Centaur Feat, a solo performance (Ontological, five myles, Phat Tuesdays); Pageant by Ken Nintzel (Ontological & HERE); Tilly Losch and The Field of Mars (GAle GAtes). In Kirsten Kearse's short film, Horsefingers, she played Emma. This summer she directed, wrote, and designed CROCHET: I DREAM BALLET (Ontological). Beth is a PhD student in the Performance Studies Department at NYU.
AARON LANDSMAN writes and performs. First, the writing: his site-specific theater pieces have been performed in a Houston row house, a midtown Manhattan office, and several black box theaters. His new work, commissioned by The Foundry Theatre, will appear sporadically in many apartments in 2007. He is also bringing his monologue Love Story down to Austin, Texas' Fuse Box Festival soon. His writing has been printed or will be printed in The Village Voice, Clackamas Literary Review, Hobart, and Contemporary Theater Review. Now the performing: Aaron has been working with Elevator Repair Service Theater off and on since 2004; he has also worked with, among others, Richard Maxwell, Tory Vazquez, and Joshua Fried. He teaches stuff. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Johanna S Meyer.
His shows have been commissioned by the National Performance Network through DiverseWorks Art Space in Houston, The Foundry Theater and The Jerome Foundation through PS 122.
JEFF LARSON is Associate Technical Director for Theatrical Production and Adjunct Faculty for the Department of Design for Stage and Film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Together with Andrew Dinwiddie, he curates the Catch performance series. Jeff is also the co-founder of PHILIFOR & PHILIMOR productions. Current activities include: performing in HUGO with choreographer Chris Yon (DTW, spring 08); scenic design for Beth Gill's Eleanor & Eleanor (DTW, fall 08); The Principle of Trim, the second short video of two with longtime collaborator Zach Steel (spring 08); cocurating the Movement Research Spring Festival (spring 08); and a project centered around the life of militant abolitionist John Brown (fall 09).
JEFF LARSON & ZACH STEEL have collaborated on at least half of a half-dozen projects. For example: Jeff directed Samuel Beckett's Endgame in which Zach played Clov; Zach wrote and stared in a play called A Brilliant Play by John McEnroe for which Jeff designed and built the set; Zach and Jeff worked with Chris Yon & Justin Jones to create "The Legend of Cowboy Loves His Mom" and "PEAR COWBOY PLANET"; Jeff and Zach, together with Maggie McBrien, Katy Pyle and Chris, created "The Mystery of Galgei" as part of St. Ann's Warehouse's LABAPALOOZA; Zach an Jeff have made two short films together -- "What do I do with this spoon?" and "A store of sucking stones" -- and have another in the works called "The Principle of Trim".
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DANIEL LINEHAN is a Brooklyn-based dance artist. As a dancer, he has worked with Miguel Gutierrez and others. As a choreographer, Daniel has shown his work in Seattle, Montreal, Philadelphia, and numerous venues in New York. In November 2007, his work will be presented by Dance Theater Workshop in a shared evening.
JENNI MARYTAI LIU came from Hong Kong, studied at the Experimental Theater Wing and now lives in Greenpoint. She divides her time between helping to build a new piece with Big Dance Theater, rearranging furniture and balancing cheque books for other needy choreographers, and working on a new dance, her fourth, which will be presented at Dance Theater Workshop in April.
MARGARITA MARTINEZ is a performance artist who resides in Brooklyn, NY. Having graduated with a BFA in drama in 2003 from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, she has performed in and worked on several plays and performance pieces. She has also been involved in several musical projects including the bands gunshow and Device. Margarita has performed in such places as CBGB's, Don Hill's, Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok and HERE Arts Center.
MEGAN MAYER is a performing artist and choreographer based in Minneapolis. She makes dances in her kitchen, often inhabiting characters to inspire movement vocabulary. She performed "Unfit (you cannot be serious)", a solo mingling the tennis antics of John McEnroe with bossa nova, at CATCH 25 in August 2007. Recently the Minnesota History Center commissioned her to make a set of dances based on pulp fiction book covers. Megan has performed in the works of Laurie Van Wieren, Jaime Carrera, Mathew Janczewski, Hijack, Karen Sherman and Shawn McConneloug and her Orchestra. She feverishly posts the latest installments of her public bathroom video dance project (youtube.com/boyscoutgirl) as well as her latest TV Duets and other photographic projects (flickr.com/photos/meganmayer/) and welcomes your feedback.
MAGGIE MCBRIEN is a performance artist and high school teacher. Her own work has been seen at various venues in New York City and Philadelphia. She is also a member of Elevator Repair Service Theatre Co. Most recently she attended the summer institute at The Kitchen.
NEAL MEDLYN is the purveyor of such smash hit entertainments as NEAL MEDLYN'S LIONEL RICHIE OPERA, and KENNY MELLMAN+NEAL MEDLYN=ROBERT KELLY with Kenny Mellman of Kiki and Herb. He is a former Mr. Lower East Side and co-starred with KAREN FINLEY in "GEORGE AND MARTHA." His solo work has been presented at the Public Theater, Joe's Pub, PS122, Galapagos Art Space, Ars Nova, and on tour around the country and in Germany. He also had his very own internet TV show called Neal Medlyn's Land of Make Believe with NERVE.COM.
NELLIE TINDER has attempted the creation of instructive and appropriate art since 2003. Work has been shown at venues including Galapagos Arts Space, BRIC, WAX at University Settlement, Here Arts Center, Tonic, La Mama ETC. and PS122. Grants have been received from Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Chashama. The NT play School Days (now titled For Artists Only) was selected as a finalist in the 2007 Princess Grace Awards. Nellie Tinder devotes its aesthetic to organic, performative innovation and the consideration of how to be good in a godless world.
DANIEL ALLEN NELSON is resident Sound Engineer for Richard Foreman, and produces the Outside/Input new works series at The Ontological-Hysteric Theater. He has collaborated as a designer on several productions in NY at venues including La MaMa, Arts at St Ann's and Mabou Mines. As a performer he has worked at various regional venues including: Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Ensemble Theater Co (Backstage West Garland Award), Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Jungle Theater, Red Eye Collaboration, Center Stage Theater, and Baltimore Theater Project. He recently collaborated in the development and performance of Veils/Vestiges at The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, and Warsztat Trojkontinentalny, in Warsaw , a company-created piece with performers from E. Africa and Poland. He has written and created numerous solo and performance pieces along with two full length plays, Sympathy for the Devil (Indie Award), and eve-n-eve-n-eve: A Play with Live Girls. Education: MFA - Towson University ; BFA- UCSB.
DAVID NEUMANN has performed and collaborated with artists: Laurie Anderson, Hal Hartley, Doug Elkins, Doug Varone, Big Dance Theater, Stacy Dawson, Jane Comfort, Chris Bayes, The Public Theater, and Mabou Mines. He is the artistic director of advanced beginner group whose original work has been presented at PS 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Central Park Summerstage, Symphony Space, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Whitney Museum and Mass MoCA. He has received many grants and awards including a Colbert Foundation Award for choreography and two New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" awards: as a performer in 1991, and as a choreographer in 1998.
KEN NINTZEL Ken Nintzel is a theater artist who devises, designs and directs original and reinterpreted works for performance. Credits include: 'Twas the Night Before the Twelve Days of a Nutcracker Christmas Carol (2005), a mash up of holiday classics, at Performance Space 122; The Rite of Spring (2004), a reimaging of Stravinsky's ballet through the lens of contemporary football culture, at the California Institute of Arts; Antidepressant (2003), inspired by backstage musicals of the Depression, at The Experimental Theater Wing, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University; Lapse (2002), a year in the life of a comatose woman as measured by holidays, at The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria and Performance Space 122. PAGEANT (2000), an infusion of beauty contest with the life of the Virgin Mary, at the Ontological Theater. Ken has also presented work at Catch and Phat Tuesdays at Galapagos Art Space, HERE's American Living Room and Artist Residency Program, Performance Space 122's Avant-Garde-Arama, Dixon Place and The Ontological Theater's main stage, Seven Minute, Blueprint and Downstairs Series.
GABRIEL NUSSBAUM is a performance artist, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is currently attempting to draw an animated short film, write a screenplay, develop a stage version of a children's classic, and acquire funding for a smutty and marvelous documentary.
HEATHER OLSON is from Chicago and has been dancing in New York since 1997. As a performer, she has been a longtime member of both Tere O'Connor Dance (since 1997) and Yanira Castro + Company (since 2000). Heather has also had the pleasure of dancing in New York with Jennifer Allen, Ivy Baldwin, Ashley Smith (Red Dive), Donna Uchizono, and Levi Gonzales among others. Her own work has been presented at various downtown venues including Danspace Project, P.S. 122, GorillaFest and LIT at 100 Grand, Movement Research at Judson Church, and Catch! at La MaMa E.T.C. and Galapagos Art Space. Contact her at holson7040@earthlink.net.
CHRIS PECK is a Michigan-born, Brooklyn-based composer investigating the peculiarities of listening and perception, reclaiming the necessary difficulties of collaboration as generative means, and celebrating the inherently subjective nature of experience. His frequent work with dance has included scores for John Jasperse and David Dorfman. Ongoing projects include Listening Music for the Age of Crystal Moon Cone, a series of ambient electroacoustic performances and recordings with composer Stephen Rush, Brooklyn Adult Recorder Choir, directed with choreographer Beth Gill, the Live Sh-- performance series curated with Chase Granoff, live electronic music for The Intensity Police Are Working My Last Gay Nerve with video artist Charles Atlas, Worried Long, a large group piece for untrained voices, and Manpack Variant, an electronics duo with Jaime Fennelly. intermittent music
PHILIFOR & PHILIMOR was founded by Jeff Larson & Annie Campbell in 2002 to produce Samuel Beckett's Endgame, and recently reassembled to mount a dismembering of Bertolt Brecht's Mann ist Mann. A hidden history of John Brown looms on the horizon...
BETH PORTNOY has been unleashing her mighty moves all over New York City as a choreographer, dancer, and teacher. She has had the opportunity to work with Katiti King, Bebe Miller, Felix Ruckert, Ken Nintzel, and several independent choreographers/directors. In 2003, Beth choreographed and performed with Ken Nintzel's dance-theater extravaganza "Lapse" at PS122 and at the Whitney Museum's Altria. In addition to showing work at Hatch, Uptown Performance Series, One Arm Red, Dance Conversations, Galapagos, and the DanceNowNYC Festival, Beth was chosen as one of four choreographers to present an evening of work in the Rising Up Series at Bridge for Dance. She also choreographed, produced, and performed her own concert "I just wanna know your art" at Chashama. She is currently collaborating with Kid Lucky on developing new work that fuses modern dance with live, human beatboxing.
SUNITA PRASAD is a Brooklyn based filmmaker and video artist focusing on performances for the camera. Her work has shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Talia Cinema at Symphony Space, Galapagos Art Space, Harvard Square Cinema in Boston, and at Sol Koffler Gallery in Providence. Her short narrative Pink Minute was an official selection at several festivals nationwide, and her upcoming video installation, Chase & Mace should be hitting the streets soon.
KATY PYLE is a performance/video/hair artist living in Brooklyn and making work all over. Recent projects include ASUBTOUT's Salute to Ex-Best Friends (Galapagos), Jennifer Monson's Flight of Mind (DTW), Karinne Keithley's Tenderenda (Dancespace), and The Katy Pyle Show (Chez Bushwick, UR). Her cats are named Pruin and Philadelphia, her husband is named Jeff and her best friend/bandmate is Eleanor.
DAVID LLOYD RABIG is a writer, director and actor who graduated from NYU. He has been involved in countless productions in New York for the past ten years, including a stint with Richard Foreman's Bad Boy Nietzsche, the NTUSA's Placebo Sunrise, and various television commercials, sketch comedy groups, and performance art pieces. He co-wrote Out of Time with Mr. Skeens.
RED METAL MAILBOX is a New York based company that creates investigative performance by linking original text with a highly physical aesthetic. Our work has been presented at The Public Theater, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Dixon Place, P.S. 122's Homeroom, Dance Theater Workshop's 40 Forward, and Galapagos Art Space among other venues in NYC, as well as at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and the Metcalf Experimental Theater in Illinois.
DR. SCHULER performs regularly at venues throughout New York City. He has directed work at The Lamb‰'s Theater, HERE, Cherry Lane Theater, The
Brick, Little Theater at Tonic, PS122, The Culture Project, and The MET Theater & El Cid in Los Angeles. He produces performance with his company The Operating Theater (The Present Perfect, The Van Driver Experience, Are You ALIVE?!, FLAT!, Mountain View Estates). He has performed regionally in Dallas, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Favorite performances include Mr. Sinclair in The Fantastic and Naturally Tragic Ballad of Esmeralda and Mr. Sinclair and The Shadow in Distortion Taco, both at the House of Candles Theater. He maintains a website with performance details and fun surprises at DoctoredPictures.com
NORMANDY RAVEN SHERWOOD writes and performs and makes by hand. She is a member National Theater of the United States of America. With the NTUSA, she has collaborated on ABSN:RJAB (PS122), What's That On My HEAD!?! (NEST) and SuperConfidence! (Galapagos). She and Jenny Seastone Stern created the play TEA WITH THE TWINS; or, the end of the world, (Ontological Summer Series, 2005). As an actress she has appeared in movies by Hal Hartley and Jeff Burns. Things she looks forward to include: Moliere by the NTUSA and a production of a play she wrote called THE LONELY THING.
RACHEL SHUKERT is a playwright and author based in New York City. Her plays include Bloody Mary (NYIT Award nominee), The Red Beard of Esau, Sequins for Satan, The Blackstone Hotel, and Soiled Linens, and have been produced and developed by Ars Nova, the Williamstown Theater Festival, the Culture Project, the Ontological/Hysteric, and the EVOLVE series at Galapagos, and the Omaha Lit Fest, among others. In 2003, she was the Playwright-in-Residence at e74 productions in Amsterdam, and her work was performed extensively throughout the Netherlands. As a performer, she has appeared with Richard Foreman's Ontological/Hysteric Theater, in New York and internationally; Les Freres Courbusier, the T.E.A.M., Salt Theater, e74, and with her own company, the Bushwick Hotel, which she founded in 2002 with the director Stephen Brackett. She is a regular performer at the Smut and Catch series at Galapagos and a member in good standing of the Ars Nova Play Group, recently featured in the New York Times.
Rachel is also a regular contributor to Nerve.com (2005 ASME finalist, 2006 "Best Writing" Webby Award) and her work will be featured in their latest print anthology. She has also contributed to Heeb Magazine, McSweeney¬â¬s, Babble, Culturebot, and Critical Moment. Her upcoming collection of essays, Have You No Shame? will be published by Random House/Villard in the spring of 2008.
Rachel holds a B.F.A. from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska.
CHRIS SKEENS is a designer, performer, and puppeteer. He is happy to have worked with Richard Foreman, John Jesurun, Elizabeth Swedos, Ivan Dobchef, Margarita Maladova, Olivier Pi, David Newman, Stacy Dawson, and Mr. Clown. His Work has been seen at PS122, The Whitney Museum, NYU's Experimental Theater Wing ,Chashama, Ochrid Summer and The Baratya Lok Kala Mandal. His latest full-length work, Out Of Time; A Puppet Spectacle premiered at Chashama Time Square in 2002 and will be remounted at Saint Ann's Warehouse in May 2005.
SARA SMITH is a crafter of stuff, some which disappears and some which sticks around. She has spent a lot of time in schools studying painting, dancing and library science. She used to live in Brooklyn, but has now embraced her pan-northeasternness. Her choreography, installations and sound designs have been seen and heard in New York, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Florida and Virginia. She has danced in works by Karinne Keithley and Chris Yon, made films with Roger Beebe, and built miniature-prosthetics for Dan Hurlin. For the past year and a half she has been making things about Pluto.
ZACH STEEL is a performance artist from New York. He has artistically performed his and other people's original work in venues such as La Mama, PS 122, Galapagos, The Upright Citizen's Brigade, The Gene Frankel and others. He has worked proudly with colleagues Adam Carpenter, Jeff Larson, Chris Yon, Justin Jones, Ivy Baldwin. He is currently working on Ivy Baldwin's "It's Only Me", going up at the end of March at Dance New Amsterdam as well as Adam Weiner's Lapdog, happening at The Club @ La Mama opening April 2nd.
THE STEERING COMMITTEE is a New York-based collective of performers, musicians, media artists, dancers, designers, choreographers and writers who approach performance through an exhilarating and exhaustive process of collaboration and experimentation. Members include: Abby Browde, Sebastian Calderon-Bentin, Paige Collette, Erin Search-Wells and Ernest Waddell.
JENNY SEASTONE STERN has shown work at places such as PS122, the BRIC Studio, La Mama, Tonic, and the Ontological Theatre. She's performed for and with a bunch of wonderfully amazing people including David Neumann and Stacy Dawson, DJ Mendel, Hal Hartley, Aaron Landsman, Katie Workum, Linas Phillips, Julia Jonas and Normandy Sherwood as well as others nationally and internationally.
LAURA BERLIN STINGER Laura Berlin Stinger makes solo work and also works with others. Her most recent piece was an exploration of a new-age Ghandi-wannbe fasting in the deserts of New Mexico and was performed at Dixon Place. When she is not working in her new favorite profession, acting in Bollywood movies, she makes new pieces, the latest a solo piece on Anna Nicole as part of a series called ladies, peroxide. She performs Burlesque around the city and also works with Witness Relocation Theatre Co. and Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf.
ADRIENNE TRUSCOTT has been performing in and creating diverse work in NYC for the last ten years. Her neo-vaudevillian collaboration with Tanya Gagne, The Wau Wau sisters, was seen off-Broadway at the Ars Nova Theater and at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, where it won Best Cabaret 2004. Adrienne was a founding member of LAVA (1996-2003), Sarah East Johnson's Obie and Bessie Award-winning, circus-inspired dance company, where she assisted the choreographer and co-developed their education program which continues today. She has worked with the great Deborah Hay, David Neumann, Sarah Michelson, Jennifer Miller's Circus Amok, The Bindlestiff Family Circus, Julie Atlas Muz, Murray Hill and Russian ex-pat art pranksters Khomar and Melamid, as well as appearing in several small films, including John Cameron Mitchell's "Shortbus". Her work has been seen in NYC at Performance Space 122, Dixon Place, The Kitchen, Galapagos Artspace and The Flea Theater; at The Painted Bride and The Philadelpia Museum of Art in Philadelphia; as well as The Bowery Ballroom, CBGB's, The Henry Fonda Theater (LA), The Sharon Osbourne Show and The Jimmy Kimmel Show in the company of Ms. Gagne. While her work spans many genres and versions of physicality, it is united by the belief and proof that things are often funny. She's looking forward to a show at PS122 in April 2007.
SAORI TSUKADA was born in Washington state, raised in Tokyo where she studied classical ballet and gymnastics. She has started her acting career while working as a choreographer with theater companies in Tokyo. After graduating from Waseda University with a BA in art history in 1999, she landed in NY with a bag full of curiousity. Tsukada has extensively studied Comedia-mask with Joshua Carlsberg, Clown with Philip Gaulier. Teamed up with a composer, performer John Moran in 2003, she has performed in venues like the Kitchen, Ontological Hysteric Incubator, PS122, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Knitting Factory, among others. The village voice has written, "Saori Tsukada radiates enough verve and carefree charisma... " .Her other collaborators in NY includes the Octopus Ensemble, Aya Ogawa..,Aaron Rosenblum, Abby Bender.
LARISSA VELEZ is a performer, choreographer and digital musician. She received a BFA from the University of the Arts in 1998. Her senior thesis of that year, created in collaboration with artist Brian Belott, was awarded for Best Choreography. Larissa continues to perform with Mr. Belott and has enjoyed a ten year long choreographic collaboration with dance artist, Hilary Clark.
Larissa engineers all the soundtracks and video for her dance performances. Her other musical accomplishments include a solo album "Astral Quirk in Newark" (2002), which can be accessed at PixelVelez.com. Her most recent vocal performances have been performed at AUNTS happenings and at Canada Gallery. Larissa also performs with the Mike Pride's Drummer's Corpse ensemble.
Larissa's choreography has been presented by soloNova arts festival at PS 122, Dixon Place, Movement Research at Judson Church, AUNTS, People's Improve Theatre, The Cutting Room, Rififi, Coney Island's Sideshow by the Seashore and Dancemopolitian at Joe's Pub.
CHRIS WILD is a graduate of NYU's Experimental Theater Wing. He is a member of Great Jones Repertory Company since 2001, with which he has performed throughout Europe and Japan. In New York, he has danced with Fly-By-Night trapeze dance and worked multiple times with Stone Soup Theater Arts. He was last seen as Perseus in Ellen Stewart's "Perseus" this spring. In the fall, he will be performing in "The Blue Room" in Karnatanaka, India.
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS is a dancer, choreographer, performance artist, and puppeteer. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and the Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He has since danced for Tere O'Connor Dance, Douglas Dunn & Dancers, John Kelly, Rebecca Lazier's TERRAIN, and Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks, among others, and has performed for puppetry artists Basil Twist and Dan Hurlin. His own works have been presented both locally in New York City venues such as the Danspace Project, DTW, Dance New Amsterdam, P.S. 122, and La Mama (to name a few), as well as internationally in Bogota, Colombia. His most recent collaborations have been with singers from the acclaimed early music vocal ensembles The Anonymous 4 and Lionheart accompanied by members of the New York Consort of Viols. He received a New York Dance & Performance "Bessie" Award in 2005 for his work Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins and has held creative residencies at Dance New Amsterdam, P.S. 122, Joyce SoHo, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, White Oak Plantation, Yaddo, and The Yard. He currently serves on the Artist Advisory Board for the Danspace Project and lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
KATIE WORKUM works as a dancer and choreographer in New York City. Katie moves in a dance theater world combining music, text and movement. Her choreography has been shown at The Joyce, Joyce SOHO, PS 122, Joe's Pub, The Kitchen, Galapagos, WAX, The Flea, Culture Project, Spoke the Hub and CBGB's. She has worked in many fruitful collaborations: Smart Set with Leigh Garrett and Ayla Yavin, The Miami Project with Leigh Garrett, Massholia with Nathan Phillips, and most recently Beyond the Normal Sledding Hill with Will Rawls. As a dancer, she has had the honor of performing under the guiding hands of David Neumann, Stacy Dawson, Will Rawls, Sharon Fogarty, Sarah East Johnson, Elizabeth Streb, Jenny Seastone Stern, Kourtney Rutherford, Linas Phillips and others. Katie is a co-recipient of Dance in Progress at The Kitchen, a National Endowment for the Advancement for the Arts Grant, and the Young Choreographer's fellowship at Summer Stages Dance Festival in Concord Massachusetts in 2001 and 2002. Currently she is an Artist in Residence at The Tribeca Performing Arts Center, creating RED, premiering in April 2006.
JOHN WYSZNIEWSKI was born in Poland, raised in Los Angeles, and currently resides in Brooklyn. Since 1998, his work has presented work at Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, Galapagos, PS 122, Tonic and University Settlement. His signature collaborations with Linas Phillips include DOOMESDAY POLKA 2000, Bandanna Dance, and The Lithuanians of Fresh Death. Besides creating his own work, John has been featured in productions by DD Dorvillier, Elevator Repair Service, and Mary Overlie. From 2000-2002, he was the Artistic Director of Galapagos and during his tenure, it was named "Best Performance Space" by Time Out New York and later went on to win an OBIE. Currently, he works for Big Dance Theater, David Neumann and serves as the Director of Marketing for Dance Theater Workshop. He is a graduate of NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing.
CHRIS YON is a Brooklyn based performer and choreographer. As a performer, he has worked with and for Ann Carlson, Yoshiko Chuma, Karinne Keithley and David Neumann. Yon received a 2005 BESSIE Award for his performance in Neumann's tough , the tough. As a choreographer, his work has been presented at Symphony Space, DTW Studio Series, The Kitchen's Dance In Progress, Danspace Project's Food For Thought, WAX, Tangente (Montreal), Freehold (Seattle), Project Art Centre (Dublin), and numerous times at La MaMa, a frequent home and laboratory. Most recently, Yon's RrrrrrKILLKILLKILL...to infinity (MAKE IT LOOK REAL), commissioned by Irish Modern Dance Theatre, was presented at PS122. This spring, PEAR COWBOY PLANET , a collaborative project that premiered here at La MaMa with Justin Jones, Jeff Larson and Zach Steel has been a part of the SCUBA Touring Network. www.chrisyon.com
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