Black-Eyed Susan made her New York debut in Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company and their production of Big Hotel in 1968. Other collaborators include Ethyl Eichelberger, Mabou Mines, John Jesurun, Jim Neu, Lola Pashalinski, Mallory Catlett, and Taylor Mac. Her film work includes Ironweed, Black Maria, and Stuart Sherman's A Portrait of an Actress. She has received three Villager Awards for Outstanding Performance and, in 1987, an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. In 2014, Susan received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.

Tei Blow is a media designer, technologist and performance maker. Tei’s work has been seen at Hartford Stage, Dance Theater Workshop, PS122, Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, BAM, The Public Theater, The Broad Stage, MCA Chicago, MFA Boston, Kate Werble Gallery, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Roundabout, The Wadsworth Atheneum, and at theaters around the world. He is the recipient of The Henry Hewes Award, NYSCA Composer's Grant, the Bessie Award, and the Creative Capital Award. teiblow.com

Sarah Blush directs and develops collaborative work in theatre and new media. She has developed new plays with Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Ars Nova, The Bushwick Starr, Playwrights Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Atlantic Acting School, HERE, Dixon Place and more, including Bailey Williams’ I thought I would die but I didn’t (The Tank; Time Out Critics Pick), Amina Henry’s Bully (Clubbed Thumb), Sofya Levitsky-Weitz’s be mean to me (IATI), and Sehnsucht (JACK; NY Times Critics Pick). Select associate/ assistant directing: Daniel Aukin, Mark Wing-Davey, Young Jean Lee, Rachel Chavkin. In virtual reality, Sarah co-conceived and developed CAVE, the largest multi-viewer virtual reality experience to date at its premiere at SIGGRAPH in August 2018. An alum of the Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship and The Habitat Directors Playground, she has been awarded a New Georges Audrey Residency and New York Society Library's Emerging Female Artist Grant.

Paul Boocock is a longtime member of Elevator Repair Service, appearing in The Select, Gatz, and Highway to Tomorrow. Off-Broadway: Premium Bob’s Manhunt; Boocock’s House of Baseball, Premium Bob in Dobie McDobie; Boocock = VP; Premium Bob’s American Style; Boocock is Boocock, Premium Bob’s Players Club, Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed; Premium Bob’s Deluxe; Titus Andronicus. FILM: Ned Rifle, Henry Fool, Virginia. TELEVISION: The Venture Bros, Arachnoquake, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Conan O’Brien. AWARDS: New York Innovative Theatre Awards (nominee): Outstanding Solo Performance. OTHER: Founding Member, Verbal Supply Company (a writers’ collective); Contributing Writer, Krautkrämer's MeatWater™ Manifesto; Performer/Writer, American Public Media Radio and WBAI. WEB: Funny or Die: Callie & Izzy; Breakfast in Hollywood.

Charlotte Brathwaite began working with La MaMa E.T.C’s Great Jones Repertory Company as an actor at the age of 16 and performed in New York and internationally with the company for over a decade. As a director, she is known for her unique approach to staging classical and unconventional texts, dance, visual art, multi-media, site-specific installation, video, film, performance art, plays and music events. Named as one of the “up-and-coming women in theatre to watch” by Playbill, her work has been seen in the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and Asia. With subject matter ranging from the historical past to the distant future, her work offers unique perspectives on form as it illuminates issues of race, sex, power and the complexities of the human condition. Awards include: Creative Capital award, a United States Artist Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Fellowship, a Rockefeller Bellagio residency and a Map Fund Award. Other awards include: the Prelude Festival Franky Award, the Brown Institute Magic Grant, the Princess Grace George C. Wolfe Award, the Julian Milton Kaufman Prize (Yale), and the National Performing Network Creation Fund. She has continued collaborations with artists such as Meshell Ndegeocello, Peter Sellars, Ayesha Jordan, Justin Hicks, Kyle Abraham/AIM, Guillermo E. Brown/Pegasus Warning, Sanford Biggers, Greg Tate and others. charlottebrathwaite.com

Christina Campanella is a composer, vocalist and sound artist who works across disciplines. Her pieces for theater, film, installation and playback blend songwriting and composition with aural design, weaving found sounds, ambient textures, and a dreamy avant-rock sensibility into cinematic soundscapes and deconstructed art songs. ALL THINGS FROM ZERO (concert-installation), commissioned by The Great Learning Orchestra with funds from the Swedish Cultural Council (Royal Academy of Fine Art, Stockholm); FIND ME (12:1 sound installation), HERE (NYC); NO WAKE (live cine-concert), Fylkingen (Stockholm); LIGHTHOUSE 40°N, 73°W (headphone installation), NY Electronic Art Festival (NYC), HERE; PARTS ARE EXTRA (experimental cinema, filmmaker Peter Norrman), LMCC, HERE, Fylkingen; BREATHE (sound installation, sculptor Arthur Ganson), Museum at MIT (Cambridge); THE SECRET LIVES OF COATS (music-theater, writer Stephanie Fleischmann), Red Eye (Minneapolis), Whitman College (Walla Walla); RED FLY/BLUE BOTTLE (opera-theater, Ms. Fleischmann), HERE (NYC), EMPAC (Troy), Noorderzon (Groningen), EXIT Festival (Paris). Campanella has worked as a vocalist/performer with Richard Foreman, Theodora Skipitares, David Greenspan, Phil Soltanoff, Jim Findlay, Mallory Catlett and others, played keyboards/accordion with various New York bands, and frequently performs the operas of composer/visual artist Joe Diebes. 3 NYSCA Commissions, support from NY State Music Fund, American Music Center, LMCC and Mid-Atlantic Arts. christinacampanella.com

Mallory is a creator and director of performance across disciplines from installation to opera. She is the Artistic Director of Restless Productions NYC, which is producing DECODER. Collaborations with composers include: Aaron Siegel (Brother Brother & Rainbird), Mika Karlsson (Echo Drift), James Beckwith Maxwell (Sleepy Head), Tarik O’Reagn (Wanton Sublime) Eve Beglarian (Vicksburg Project) & Christina Campanella (Red Fly/Blue Bottle, Tinder) and Dave Malloy (Beowulf, Sandwich and The Sewers). Catlett has also works with visual artists on time-based installations (Nene Humprey's Circling the Center at 3LD, Dread Scott's Decision at BAM's Next Wave), and with writers on plays. Her work has been presented at HERE, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, PS122/Performance Space NY, Abrons Arts Center, EMPAC, and toured internationally. She is a Foundation for Contemporary Art’s 2015 Artist Grantee and a 2016 Creative Capital Artist and 2020 New York Women’s Fund Awardee. Catlett is an associate artist at CultureHub and a member of the multi-disciplinary artist-led development and performance venue The Collapsable Hole in New York City. restlessproductionsnyc.org

Saxophonist/composer/performer Sedric Choukroun hails from Paris, where he graduated from the Lili and Nadia Boulanger Conservatory of Music. Choukroun began his professional career performing Salsa, Gypsy Jazz and Chamber Music. He then went on to lead and perform with his own 18-piece Big Band. After moving to New York in 2001, Choukroun became Saxophonist-In-Residence at Marjorie Eliot’s Sunday concerts (Parlor Entertainment) in Harlem’s historic “Sugar Hill”. There he has played with many of his jazz heroes and also performed Ms. Eliot’s plays. In 2003, Shukroon recorded his 1st album as a bandleader “IN THE PARLOR” (CAP-979). Cadence Magazine called it “one of the special discs in (our) collection.” As a freelancer, Sedric Choukroun has played saxophone, flute, and clarinet at numerous New York venues and countless private and corporate events. All About Jazz called Choukroun: ”one of New York’s hidden treasures, a soulful man who speaks through his horn with gentle authority.”

G Lucas Crane is a Brooklyn-based sound artist, performer, and musician whose work focuses on information anxiety, media confusion, and new performance techniques for obsolete technology. He was a 2011 LMCC Swing Space Resident Artist and received the NYSCA Individual Artist Commission for sound design for This Was The End for which he also received a Henry Hewes Award and a Bessie nomination. His work has been presented in New York at The Stone, Museum of Art and Design, Pioneer Works, Roulette, Issue Project Room and the Brooklyn Museum. He was a co-founder of the Silent Barn, an experimental art and performance space in Bushwick, Brooklyn. www.nonhorse.com

Jim is a NYC based sound and video artist. His artistic process grew out of his collaborative experiences in theater and dance, notably with the Trisha Brown Company and The Wooster Group. Continued collaborative experimentation with groups such as the Collapsable Giraffe and Door 10 provide him with the environment to distill disparate sources into layered entities. He has had solo art shows at the (Future) Chocolate Factory and  Ghost Gallery LA. His sound art collaborations, Find Me and Lighthouse, with Christina Campanella, were shown at Harvestworks, The New York Electronic Arts Festival, The Red Door and HERE Art Center. As a sound designer, Dawson also worked with Art Ensemble of Chicago, Jay Scheib, Cynthia Hopkins, The Cohn Brothers, Henry Threadgill, Jim Findlay, Findlay/Sandsmark, Jean Butler, Deganit Shemy, and Jon Kinzel. Film credits include; Screamers, a feature by Brian Rogers, Amy Jenkin’s Instruction on Parting, Jacque Menaches, Cathy at War. PBS documentary, The Narcotic Farm, Ian Old’s Garret Scott’s Occupation: Dreamland, which won an Independent Film Spirit Award, Stefan, an HBO-Award Winning Short, and the Emmy nominated documentary, The Fixer. 

Thalia has published four collections with New Directions, including Bird Lovers, Backyard and Personhood. Collaborations with French writer/translator Abigail Lang include A Prank of Georges (Essay Press) and Leave to Remain (Legends of Janus) (Dalkey Archive). Other books include ULULU (Clown Shrapnel) and Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction). Thalia has worked with theater and opera artists in places like New York, Paris, and Berlin, and once wrote a play using her indeterminate textual prompts ("Hey-Stop-That!", published in Theater magazine).

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Jim works across boundaries as a director, designer, visual artist, and performer. He was a founding member of the Collapsable Giraffe and Accinosco/Cynthia Hopkins. His work has been presented in NYC at BAM, The Kitchen, The Wooster Group’s Performing Garage, and many other venues. Recent productions include Electric Lucifer (writer/director), Vine of the Dead (writer/director), Dream of the Red Chamber (writer/director), David Lang’s The Whisper Opera (director/designer), Botanica (writer/director) and Annie Dorsen’s A Piece of Work (set/video design).  Meditation, the video installation co-created with Ralph Lemon, was acquired by the Walker Art Center.  He has received two Obies, two Bessies, a Lucille Lortel Award, a Henry Hewes and a Foundation for the Contemporary 2015 Grants to Artists Award. www.jimfindlaynyc.com

John Gasper is a sound designer, musician, and theatermaker. He has made sounds and performed with Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble, Advanced Beginner Group, Elevator Repair Service, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. and Perf. Co., Saint Fortune, Bailey Williams & Sarah Blush, and many beloved others. His work has been seen and heard at The Bushwick Starr, Lumberyard, Abrons Arts Center, La Mama, New York Theater Workshop Next Door, The Whitney Museum, and more. MFA: PIMA @ Brooklyn College. His original modular synth new age music can be heard at www.realjohndwayne.bandcamp.com

James Hannaham is a writer, a visual artist, or both. His novel Delicious Foods won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book. He has shown work at Virginia Commonwealth University's Institute for Contemporary Art, Open Source Gallery, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, and won Best in Show at Main Street Arts’ 2020 exhibit Biblio Spectaculum. In 2021 he released Pilot Impostor, a multigenre book inspired by an anthology of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry. His third novel, Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, won the Ferro-Grumley Award from the Publishing Triangle, a second Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, was a Kirkus Best Book of 2022, an LA Times Book Prize Finalist, and also a New York Times Notable Book. John Irving, writing in the Times Book Review, called it “wondrous;” the Financial Times praised the novel’s “unrelentingly vulgar language.” Previous audiobook experience includes his own books Delicious Foods, and Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, a two-hander with Flame Monroe. He recently became a Guggenheim fellow, thereby losing the ability to complain about pretty much anything. jameshannaham.com

Justin is a multidisciplinary artist, collaborator, and performer who uses music and sound to investigate themes of identity, labor, American dream aesthetics, and instinctual value systems. His work has been featured at theaters around the world, including Lincoln Center, Performance Space New York, The Public Theater, JACK, National Black Theatre, The Whitney, and The Kennedy Center. Hicks has collaborated with notable visual artists, musicians, and theater makers including Abigail DeVille, Charlotte Brathwaite, Kaneza Schaal, Meshell Ndegeocello, Cauleen Smith, Helga Davis, Chris Myers, and Ayesha Jordan. He was nominated for a Drama Desk for Mlima’s Tale by Lynn Nottage (The Public Theater 2018 dir. Jo Bonney). His practice with artist Steffani Jemison, Mikrokosmos, has deployed commissioned performances and exhibitions internationally. He was a member of Kara Walker’s 6-8 Months Space and holds a culinary diploma from ICE in New York City.  Hicks was born in Cincinnati, OH, and is based in the Bronx, NY.  justinhicksmusic.persona.co

James is an actor and poet. Representative theater productions include, THIS WAS THE END at The Chocolate Factory and Mabou Mines, conceived and directed by Mallory Catlett. SOUND HOUSE by Stephanie Fleischman at The Flea Theater. He has appeared with The Foundry Theater in W. David Hancock’s DEVIANT CRAFT, directed by Melanie Joseph, and in Carl Hancock Rux’ TALK (Obie Award). He is proud to have also worked with The Talking Band, and Young Jean Lee. His poems have appeared in WITNESS, BIRMINGHAM REVIEW, NOTRE DAME REVIEW, BLACKBIRD among many other publications. His poem A Careful Man was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Maggie Hoffman is a founder of the avant-punk performance ensemble Radiohole, and the artist-run venue The Collapsable Hole in NYC. She is also a company member of Elevator Repair Service, and has been performing with ERS since 2013.

John Jesurun is a playwright, director, and designer living in New York. His presentations integrate elements of language, film, architectural space and media. In 1982 he began began his theatrical career at the Pyramid Club on the Lower East Side with his groundbreaking serial play CHANG IN A VOID MOON, now in its 62nd episode. (Bessie Award). Since 1984, he has created over 25 pieces including: the media trilogy of DEEP SLEEP (1986 Obie Award, Best Play), SHATTERHAND MASSACREE, PHILOKTETES, and EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE. His company has toured extensively in Europe and the United States. He is the recipient of numerous grants including the Rockefeller Foundation Playwrights Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Rome Prize, and MacArthur Fellowship. read more about John here.

Anna Kohler has worked on stage with some of America’s most respected playwrights, actors, and directors, including The Wooster Group, John Jesurun, Richard Maxwell, Brooke O’Harra, Raoul Ruiz, Hal Hartley, Bruno de Almeida, and Peter Sellars. As an author/director, she has conceived and directed plays that have been performed in Austria, Germany, Brazil, and the United States. Her translations of plays by Richard Foreman, Rene Pollesch, Richard Maxwell, Elfriede Jelinek and others have been performed all over the world. In recent years, her focus on teaching has become an integral part of her artistic life. Currently, she is a senior lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Abigail Lang is a scholar, translator and occasional writer. With Thalia Field, she is co-author of two works in hybrid genres: A Prank of Georges (2010) and Leave to Remain. Legends of Janus (2020). Previously, she collaborated with artist Catharina van Eetvelde, producing a flipbook and two animated films: Cruise (2005) and Slice (2007). She has translated widely from American avant-garde poetry, from Louis Zukofsky to David Antin and numerous contemporary figures. With Vincent Broqua and Olivier Brossard, she runs the Double Change reading series and the Poets & Critics research program. La Conversation transatlantique: Les échanges franco-américains en poésie depuis1968 (2021) accounts for the exchanges between French and US poets since the 1970s. She teaches at Université Paris Cité.

Linda Mancini is a writer, actor, designer, and Bessie Award winning performance artist. Her work has been presented across the US and internationally. They include Bone China, Angelina, Glances (BESSIE Award), Blanche Tomate, Not Entirely Appropriate, Tip or Die (HBO Writers Series), BIKINI. Collaborators include the New York City Players, Minor Theater, Sibyl Kempson, Ain Gordon, Eliza Bent, Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks, Amos Poe, Ann Carlson, and Andy Kirshner. Her short film, This Is Not About You, was screened nationally on the PBS anthology series, American Playhouse. Film: My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York (Academy Award for Best Short Subject in 2000). She is a native of Montréal and recently wrote for and co-edited a special issue of the Canadian Theatre Review (University of Toronto Press).

Billy Martin was born in NYC in 1963 to a Radio City Rockette and a concert violinist. In the late 1980’s East Village, he found his home playing at the original  Knitting Factory on Houston Street with John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, The John Lurie National Orchestra, John Zorn’s Cobra ensembles, and many other musical groups. From the roots of the downtown scene he emerged with Medeski Martin and Wood. A series of albums and high-profile collaborations with John Scofield, John Zorn, iggy Pop, Natalie Merchant, and others, brought the band international acclaim.

Martin has relentlessly pursued diverse musical contexts, from free improvisation to chamber compositions to film scores. Much of his work is available via his Amulet Records label, which recently released the Road to Jajouka—a series of collaborations (produced by Martin) between the Master Musicians of Jajouka and such artists as Ornette Coleman, Flea, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, Lee Ranaldo, Bill Laswell, Mickey Hart, MMW and more. He is also an accomplished filmmaker and visual artist, whose work has been exhibited in solo and group installations around the world including 2014’s Cartegena de indias Bienal in Colombia and the Drawing Sound series at The Drawing Center in NYC (2015)

Billy is currently Executive Artistic Director and CEO of the legendary Creative Music Studio

Christina Masciotti is a Guggenheim Award-winning playwright of acclaimed work that has been performed all over the world. Her interest in magnifying the heroic dimensions of characters out of harmony and without relevance in the world is fueled by having grown up the daughter of an immigrant in a historically Pennsylvania Dutch community where an accented, unorthodox use of English aroused suspicion. Her work became a way to communicate what she saw in the shattered conventions of speech: how unusual turns of phrase popped with significance, a spontaneously gnarled idiom brimmed with new meaning, and the most mundane exchanges evoked poetic depths. Her writing has earned comparisons to Samuel Beckett and been described as "priceless" by Ben Brantley of The New York Times. Previous work includes: Raw Bacon from Poland (2017), a New York Times Critic’s Pick; Social Security (2015), a five-star-reviewed Time Out New York Critic’s Pick, and named one of the Best Shows of 2015 by Helen Shaw; Adult (2014), a Time Out New York Critic’s Pick; Vision Disturbance (2010), one of Time Out New York's Top 10 Shows of 2010. Her scripts have been selected for preservation in the Permanent Archives of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and published by Broadway Play Publishing with selected monologues anthologized by Smith and Kraus' and Applause’ Best Contemporary Monologues (2014, 2016, 2018). She is currently a playwright-in-residence at Lincoln Center Theater. 

April Matthis is a performer in New York City. Work with Elevator Repair Service includes: The Sound & the Fury; Fondly, Collette Richland (NYTW); Measure for Measure (The Public); Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf (Abrons Art Center); Gatz (Perth Festival); Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge (Fringe Arts). Off-Broadway: Toni Stone (Roundabout/OBIE Award for Performance); Fairview, LEAR (Soho Rep); Signature Plays—Funnyhouse of a Negro (Signature Theatre); IOWA, Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons); On the Levee (LCT3). Regional: Little Bunny Foo Foo (Actors Theater of Louisville), A Streetcar Named Desire (Yale Rep). TV: “The Good Fight”; “Evil” (Paramount +), “New Amsterdam” (NBC). Film: Black Card (HBO, Showtime), Fugitive Dreams (FantasiaFest, Austin Film Festival). OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance.

L.S. McKee's writing has appeared in Best New Poets 2016,  Best of the Net 2017, Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, Crazyhorse, Copper Nickel, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, New England Review Digital, Ninth Letter, Indiana Review, Oversound, ArtsATL, B O D Y, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the University of Maryland and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. A lecturer in Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT, she teaches writing and communication across disciplines.
Originally from the mountains of East Tennessee, she lives and teaches in Boston.

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Catherine McRae is a composer and violinist and makes music for live film, dance, theater, visual artists and solo performance. Incorporating electronics and loopers into her toolkit, she has developed a sonic vocabulary that forms intricate and cinematic landscapes. Working with a wide array of  visual and performance artists has deeply informed her approach to space, time and texture in her compositions.  Collaborators include visual artist Jen Bervin (Faire et défaire); choreographers  Catherine Galasso (City of Wom_n, Dances for Doing, Cloud Dance 2.0, Field Notes) and Johanna S. Meyer (Maps); filmmakers Sam Green (Utopia in 4 Movements, Fog, The Measure of All Things), Jem Cohen (Empires of Tin, Gravity Hill Sound+Image, Tallulah), Danny Williams (Factory Films); theater makers Radiohole (Now Serving), Joseph Silovsky (Send for the Million Men, Who’s Oklahoma), Findlay//Sandsmark ((re)remember study); writer Nick Tosches (Fuck the Living Fuck the Dead), and many  musicians including T. Griffin (The Quavers),  Patti Smith, Tom Verlaine, Vic Chesnutt, and Lumberob.

California-born Greg Mehrten moved to New York in 1975 to participate in avant-garde theater. As a performer, writer, director and designer, over the years he has collaborated with many of the leading figures in the “downtown” world to create new work in film, video, radio and live performance. A Member and Co-Artistic Director of the award-winning theater troupe Mabou Mines from 1980 to 1991, he has been an Associate Member of the legendary Wooster Group since 2011. Greg continues to perform in New York, across the United States and around the world.

Okwui Okpokwasili is a performer, choreographer, and writer creating multidisciplinary performance pieces that draw viewers into the interior lives of women of color, particularly those of African and African American women, whose stories have long been overlooked and rendered invisible. The child of immigrants from Nigeria, Okpokwasili was born and raised in the Bronx, and the histories of these places and the girls and women who inhabit them feature prominently in much of her work. Her productions are highly experimental in form, bringing together elements of dance, theater, and the visual arts (with spare and distinctive sets designed by her husband and collaborator, Peter Born). Her performance work has been commissioned by the Walker Art Center, Danspace Project, Performance Space New York, the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, the 10th Annual Berlin Biennale, and Jacob’s Pillow, among other institutions. She has held residencies at the Maggie Allesee National Choreographic Center, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Rauschenberg Foundation Captiva Residency, and New York Live Arts, where she was a Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist. Okwui is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow and a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts.

Joel Perez (he/him) is an award-winning actor and writer living in NYC. His theater work includes Fun Home (Broadway), Kiss My Aztec! (Hartford Stage), As You Like It (The Public Theater), and Sweet Charity (New Group; Lortel Award). Film work includes tick, tick… Boom! (Netflix). TV work includes Jesus Christ Superstar Live! (NBC), Person of Interest (CBS) and Odd Mom Out (Bravo). He performed with the UCB Maude sketch team Peach and for the musical theater sketch show SHIZ. His writing includes The Black Beans Project (The Huntington Theatre, Elliot Norton Award), Playing With Myself (Joe’s Pub), The Church of the Holy Glory (Ars Nova ANTFest), Lost City Radio (Rhinebeck Writers Retreat). His short film, Beautiful, FL, is a selection of Disney Launchpad and will premiere on Disney+ in 2023. He is a 2021 WarnerMedia 150 Artist Grant recipient for his original comedy pilot You’re Tired, You’re Poor. He is the winner of the 2021 Voces Latinx National Playwriting Competition for his play From the Fountain. He is a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Playwriting from NYFA. @misterjoelperez www.joelperez.com

As an actor, Pryce has appeared on recent television shows including Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Netflix, and Unforgettable on A+E. On stage, he has played iconic roles in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello, and Pericles, among others, and has performed in numerous plays across the United States and internationally. As writer and producer, Paul’s debut film COME OUT, COME OUT World Premiered at 2017 Cannes Short Film Corner. His sophomore project THE DELIVERER has screened at Caribbean Tales International Film Festival, Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Montreal International Black Film Festival and Arpa International Film Festival. The screenplay for The Deliverer was a 2017 Sundance Institute Lab Finalist while his original television series SERPENTS MOUTH won Best Pitch and the Audience Award at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. A Yale School of Drama alum. Paul was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. paulpryce.com

Rafael Sánchez is a Cuban-born artist practicing in NYC. His work spans 40 years. He was a founding member of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, located then in Newark’s Roseville neighborhood. Look Don’t Touch (presented there in 1985), utilized a nearby highway underpass as an inter-zone of existential intimacy. He has since created works for rooftops, canals, barges, urban, suburban and rural contexts. Presenting venues include: Usine Ephemere (Paris), Foundation ELBA (Netherlands), X-Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City), Braziers (UK), Participant Inc, Visual AIDS, and many more. Artworks created in partnership with Kathleen White were realized for Art in General, El Museo del Barrio, MoMA Library, and Momenta Art, NY. Read more about Rafael here.

Kathleen White (1960-2014) was a multi-media artist who lived and worked in NYC. Her work was shown at P.P.O.W. Gallery, Momenta Art, MoMA, Socrates Sculpture Park, and many others. 2014 Pollack-Krasner Grant recipient. She frequently collaborated with her longtime partner, Rafael Sánchez, on projects such as Somewhat Portable Dolmen, alLuPiNiT, and Table. The Estate of Kathleen White & the Sánchez-White Archives are represented by Martos Gallery, NY. Read Gary Indiana’s memorial for Kathleen in ARTnews here.

David has been developing and directing new theater, opera and performance work for more than forty years both nationally and internationally. And he has no plans to stop doing so any time soon. He won an OBIE for his production of Rinde Eckert’s "AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES,” and his long creative relationship with Greg Mehrten includes his production of Greg’s play “IT’S A MAN’s WORLD” for the MABOU MINES company and directing him in many different performances.

Scott Shepherd has been a core member of two New York theater companies, The Wooster Group and Elevator Repair Service, for over twenty years. Shows include The Wooster Group’s The Town Hall Affair, Vieux Carré, Hamlet, Poor Theater, To You The Birdie!, and North Atlantic; and ERS’s Ulysses, Gatz, Measure for Measure, No Great Society, and Cab Legs. He received Obie Awards for his performances in Poor Theater and Gatz. Film/TV includes Killers of the Flower Moon, The Last of Us, First Cow, El Camino, True Detective, The Young Pope, and Bridge of Spies.

T. is an American actor, based in New York City. Theatre in NYC includes the Broadway productions of Oslo, War Horse, and Equus, and the world premieres of plays by Richard Foreman, Christina Masciotti, Katori Hall, David Greenspan, Sarah Ruhl, Barbara Weichmann, Glen Berger, and Anne Washburn. Regional theatre includes the world premieres of Chuck Mee’s Big Love, Barbara Hammond’s We Are Pussy Riot, and the post-Katrina Waiting for Godot (in New Orleans) with The Classical Theatre of Harlem, Creative Time and artist Paul Chan. Film and TV work includes appearances in The Report, Hunters, The Blacklist, the PBS series The Abolitionists, the 90’s horror film Brainscan, experimental films by Marie Losier, Lawrence Krauser and Rachel Rose, and the upcoming features Ikonophile Z and Lost Nation. Vocal work includes the animated series The Venture Brothers, the Bioshock videogames, the Pacifica radio broadcasts of James Joyce’s Ulysses, and audiobooks by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William Burroughs, Derek Kunsken and Ada Palmer. Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Solo Performance in Underneath the Lintel, Drama Desk award, Outstanding Ensemble for the 3-actor, 30-character Lebensraum, Obie award, Outstanding Ensemble Oslo, and 2020 Audie award for Narration of Best Non-Fiction, Fire in Paradise. trydersmith.org

Off-Broadway: The Chinese Lady (Ma-Yi/The Public; Lortel Award, Theater World Award, Drama Desk nom), Kentucky (EST), Bikeman (Tribeca PAC). Regional: The Good Book (Berkeley Rep), Fun Home (Baltimore Center Stage), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Barrington Stage), Smart People (Geva Theatre), Bright Half Life (Kitchen Theatre), The White Snake (Old Globe), Miss Saigon (Pioneer Theatre, MT Wichita), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Northern Stage). TV: “30 Rock” (NBC), “The Last O.G.” (TBS), “Rediscovering Christmas” (Lifetime). SOVAS Award for Audiobook Narration, “The Girl From the Sea.”

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JILLIAN WALKER writes and often performs contemporary sacred texts for the now times. Her work creates space for healing and liberation; embodying remembrance for our ancestors and legacies. She draws deeply on her training as a dramaturg (MFA Columbia), Black Spiritual wisdom, and the ongoing work of black feminist thinkers to bring process-driven performance to life. She has performed her work at Joe’s Pub, Judson Memorial Church, Park Avenue Armory and in Times Square. Jillian is currently developing work with the Highline, The TEAM, Musical Theater Factory, Ars Nova, and Soho Rep, where she is the 2020-21 Tow Playwright-in-Residence. Her concert/play SKiNFoLK: An American Show, (co-presented by The Bushwick Starr and National Black Theatre) was a NY Times Critics’ Pick. Her work Songs of Speculation (excerpt) won the 2020 Third Coast Audio Festival Competition.

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Alex Waterman is a composer, performer, scholar, and archivist, exploring how social bodies can live and interact with one another in more musical ways. He has created a diverse body of works including sound installations, television operas, film and video works, exhibitions, amateur choral works, radio and film scores, and solo performances as a cellist, electronic musician and storyteller.

His work has been exhibited at the ICA London, The Kitchen, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, The Serpentine London, White Columns, the Swiss Institute, Kunstverein Amsterdam, The Rotterdam Film Festival, and the Whitney Museum.

Waterman has recorded over thirty records in multiple genres, as a performer, arranger, and producer. He has produced five books on musical notation and poetics with the British typographer Will Holder.  He has taught at Bard College (MFA program) and the Banff Centre for the Arts and was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Wesleyan University from 2015-18. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Yale University Music Library in 2022. Since 2022 he is the archivist at The Kitchen in New York City.

Stephanie has performed at renowned theaters including Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, La Jolla Playhouse among others. With Target Margin Theater she was awarded for her years of dedication, the OBIE for Recognition of Artistic Achievement and Commitment to Excellence in Theater as an Associate Artist. Film Credits: "Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted-Mutha," (Tribeca Film Festival). Television Credits include Tales of The City (Netflix), The Good Fight (CBS) and Law and Order (NBC).

As a performer, writer, actor, educator, and curator, Michael Wiener believes that the spirit of improvisation fuels the most fully realized, incendiary art. He has been a cultural critic, playwright, performance artist, monologuist and vocalist/songwriter. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, he will continue to develop his writing as an M.A. candidate in Liberal Studies, concentrating in Creative Writing, at Dartmouth College in 2021. He has performed in venues across NYC and around the country, including Theatre 80 St. Marks, Roulette, Baryshnikov Center, Soho Rep, Armory Show, NYTW, MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum at Altria, St. Ann’s Warehouse, HERE, Ohio Theater, Ace Hotel, Monkeytown, 92nd Street Y, New Dramatists, La Mama, Galapagos. Filmwork includes Hail Satan, Sundance and Comic Con favorite Stingray Sam and others, and an award-winning drug awareness campaign PSA directed by Darren Aronofsky. Recent collaborators include John Reed, Tony Torn, White Horse Theater, Sibyl Kempson, Liz Magic Laser and the avant rock music ensemble The Children..., featuring members of Swans, Cop Shoot Cop, and Barkmarket.

Ben is an actor, sound designer, and director in New York City. Since 2003, he has collaborated with a range of avant-garde artists to create original works. He is a longtime member of the acclaimed experimental theater company Elevator Repair Serivce and a founding member of minor theater with Julia Jarcho. Other collaborators include Lily Whitsitt, Christina Masciotti, Suzanne Bocanegra, Kate Benson, Lee Sunday Evans, Sibyl Kempson, The Wooster Group, Big Dance Theater, Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players, and many others. His work as a sound designer has won an Obie Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, and (with Jillian Walker) the inaugural Third Coast Audio Unbound Award.

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Anna Foss Wilson (she/her) most recently was seen at Abrons Arts in Weekend at Barry’s / Lesbian Lighthouse by Jess Barbagallo. Acted on the stages: The Atlantic, The Kitchen, Dixon Place, NYTW, CSC, and co-created The Donkey Show which ran for 7 years off-Broadway. She became a shrink at 38 and a mother at 45.