Dynasty Handbag Titanic Depression
Photo: Maria Baranova Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk
Faye Driscoll Weathering
12 DAYS 18 EVENTS 26 ARTISTS Live Artery is a dynamic festival featuring new and recent works by resident commissioned artists and curated guests. For the first time, the 2024 festival includes co-presentations with partner Under the Radar, and off-site performances at The Chocolate Factory, Gibney and The Collapsable Hole. Live Artery provides a space for artists to network and share their work with presenters from around the world, which has led to commissions, tours and the building of long-term relationships. We acknowledge and pay respect to Lenape people, elders, and ancestors past, present, and coming in the future. We acknowledge Indigenous people who may be present right now. We acknowledge and offer deep gratitude to Lenapehoking where we are now - the land, and waters of the Lenape homeland.
SCHEDULE JAN 9-12, 7PM JAN 13, 3PM JAN 11-14
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JAN 11-13, 730PM JAN 11-13, 8PM
Theater OFF SITE OFF SITE Studio
Faye Driscoll: Weathering Juliana F. May: Family Happiness Co-presented @ The Chocolate Factory
Roderick George | kNonAme Artist Co-presented @ Gibney
Albert Ibokwe Khoza: The Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu Presented in partnership with Under the Radar
OFF SITE
Lisa Fagan & Lena Engelstein: Deepe Darknesse
JAN 13, 12PM
Studio
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
JAN 13, 2PM
Studio
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
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Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith: Zero Station
JAN 14, 11AM
Lobby
Artist Salon
JAN 14, 1PM
Studio
Jasmine Hearn
JAN 14, 3PM
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Miguel Gutierrez
JAN 14, 6PM
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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
JAN 14-15, 18-20, 730PM
Theater
Dynasty Handbag: Titanic Depression
JAN 12-15
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JAN 13, 5PM
Co-presented @ The Collapsable Hole
Presented in partnership with Under the Radar
JAN 14, 9PM
Studio
Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory
JAN 15, 12PM
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Wally Cardona
JAN 15, 2PM
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Troy Anthony | Fire Ensemble
JAN 15, 5PM
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Wanjiru Kamuyu | WKcollective
JAN 15, 7PM
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Kimberly Bartosik/daela
Faye Driscoll Weathering
JAN 9-12, 7PM; JAN 13, 3PM Conception, Choreography and Direction: Faye Driscoll Performance: James Barrett, Kara Brody, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Amy Gernux, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Maya LaLiberté, Jennifer Nugent, Cory Seals, Eliza Tappan, Carlo Antonio Villanueva, Jo Warren Understudies: David Guzman, Mor Mendel Scenic Design: Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughan Lighting Design: Amanda K. Ringger Sound and Music Direction: Sophia Brous Live Sound and Sound Design: Ryan Gamblin Composition, Field recordings, Sound Design: Guillaume Soula Costume Design: Karen Boyer Dramaturgy and Scent Design: Dages Juvelier Keates Choreographic Assistance: Amy Gernux Intimacy coordination: Yehuda Duenyas Production Management: Lilach Orenstein Production Stage Management: Emily Vizina Run Time: 65 Minutes
Durations of Soft Detail: A Companionate Reader for “Weathering”
FUNDING Weathering is commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts as part of the New York Live Arts Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program, and co-commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Artist Residency Center made possible by lead funding from The Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Wexner Center for the Arts, Theater der Welt 2023 in Frankfurt – Offenbach, and Julidans Amsterdam. Additional support provided by members of Faye Driscoll’s Commissioners Circle, New York State Council on the Arts, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and developed with residency support from Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, and the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Faye Driscoll is a Doris Duke Award-winning performance maker who has been hailed as a “startlingly original talent” by The New York Times and “a postmillenium postmodern wild woman” by The Village Voice. She was the 2021-2022 Randjelovic/ Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Bessie award and the Jacob’s Pillow Artist Award among many others. Her work has been presented at Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, ICA/ Boston, MCA Chicago and BAM, and internationally at Tanz im August, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La Biennale di Venezia, Festival d’Automne à Paris (2015, 2023), Melbourne Festival, Belfast International Arts Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Centro de Arte Experimental in Buenos Aires, Festival Dias da Dança in Porto, Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse), and Le Lieu Unique (Nantes). She recently premiered Calving (2022) at Theater Bremen (Bremen, Germany), and Weathering (2023) at New York
Live Arts, (NY, USA). In 2020, her first-ever solo exhibition, Come On In, opened at Walker Art Center and then went on to Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, On the Boards, and Esplanade in Singapore, offering gallery-goers an experience of six distinct audio-guided experiences called Guided Choreographies for the Living and the Dead. James Barrett is a Brooklynbased performer, choreographer, and teacher. His dancing is most influenced by his time with New Dialect (Nashville, TN), where he performed works by Rosie Herrera, Lauren Edson, Yin Yue, Banning Bouldin, Idan Sharabi, and Joy Davis. James has choreographed works for Visceral Dance Chicago and New Dialect and has shared his solo work at Centennial Performing Arts Studios (TN), the Barn at Lee (MA), Green Space (NY), and Pageant (NY). Most recent experiences include projects with Lauren Edson, Dolly Sfeir, Kayla Farrish, Ben Green, and Faye Driscoll. He has worked independently and through companies as a rehearsal assistant and teaching artist,
instructing at various programs including Jazzgoba Dance Academy (Costa Rica), PerryMansfield, Tulane University, and The Juilliard School. Kara Brody is a performer, educator, arts administrator, and collaborator focusing her practice towards community-driven spaces. Based in Chicago, she is a devising ensemble member with Lucky Plush Productions and has performed as a collaborating artist with The Fly Honey Show, The Cambrians, Khecari, Erin Kilmurray, Melinda Jean Myers, Helen Lee, and Darling Shear. She created and curated a two-week dance series for Steppenwolf 1700 Theatre that centered as a resource share for works in process, benefiting artists at different stages of their development. Kara is a Lecturer at University of Chicago and is currently performing with Faye Driscoll (NYC). Miguel Alejandro Castillo is a queer interdisciplinary artist from Caracas, Venezuela. A choreographer, director, installation artist, educator, and performer, he is drawn to the permeability of art forms
and the new inquiries that arise from cross-disciplinary and multicultural collaborations. His current research investigates diasporic imagination and future folklore. Recently recognized as one of the ’25 to watch’ in 2024 by Dance Magazine, Miguel has performed in the U.S and internationally in the works of Faye Driscoll, Jeanine Durning, Tzveta Kassabova, Alex Springer & Xan Burley, Laurel Jenkins, Delfos Danza Contemporánea, among others. Castillo was a 2021 danceWEB scholar at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna and a 2022-2023 Fresh Tracks Artist in residence at New York Live Arts. He is a proud United World College alumnus and holds a bachelor’s in dance and theatre from Middlebury College and an M.F.A in Choreography and Performance from Smith College. website: miguelalejandro.art | Instagram: @love.entirely Amy Gernux is a New York-based performer and artist at the intersection of dance, theater, voice, costume, and makeup design. She works primarily with Faye Driscoll and the feath3r theory (Raja Feather Kelly) and has performed in works by Jim
Findlay, Xan Burley and Alex Springer, and Third Rail Projects. Notable Choreographic Assistant credits include: Met Gala 2022: In America: an Anthology of Fashion (Raja Feather Kelly, Rachel Chavkin), UGLY: BLACK QUEER ZOO (Raja Feather Kelly, 2018), Calving (Faye Driscoll, 2022), Weathering (Faye Driscoll, 2023), and TEETH (PWH workshop, 2023, Michael R. Jackson, Sarah Benson). Amy received her B.A. in Dance and Art from Connecticut College in 2013. Shayla-Vie Jenkins is a performer, maker, educator, poetry lover, and mama based in Philadelphia, PA. She is grateful for her life in dance, performing for a decade with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and in projects with Susan Marshall, Moriah Evans, David Gordon, James Allister Sprang, Sage Ni’Ja Whitson, Merce Cunningham Trust’s Night of 100 Solos, Yvonne Rainer, Yanira Castro, Yara Travieso, and Yaa Samar! Dance Theater among others. She is a 2024 PEW project grant recipient, currently in collaboration with theater artist Ang(ela) Bey to create On Buried Ground for Philadelphia’s Christ Church
Preservation Trust pewcenterarts. org/grant/buried-ground. Jenkins is an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of the Arts. She received her B.F.A. from Ailey/Fordham and M.F.A. in Choreography from Smith College. Maya LaLiberté is a movement artist and educator currently based in Western Massachusetts. Through choreography and performance she explores the visceral connections shared between humans during moments of intimacy, risk, presence, and play. She has worked with amazing artists including Jennifer Nugent, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Vanessa Anspaugh, Dafi Altabeb, Alex Davis and SAXYN/Danceworks, and has presented her own work at BDF, ADF, in Colorado, and throughout the Northeast. Maya graduated with a BA in Dance from Smith College in 2018, and became a certified teacher of Countertechnique in 2022. She is faculty at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (MA), and was a Visiting Instructor of Dance at Wesleyan University (CT) in Fall of 2023. She is honored and delighted to be joining the Weathering family.
Jennifer Nugent is a performer, educator, mother, and partner. Her dancing is profoundly inspired by Linda Rogers Albritton, Ann Cummings, Patricia Cummings, Beatrice LaVerne, Barbara Sloan, Bambi Anderson, Dale Andree, Gerri Houlihan, Daniel Lepkoff, Wendell Beavers, Lisa Race, David Dorfman, Patty Townsend, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Paul Matteson, Bill T. Jones, and Janet Wong. Jennifer has worked and performed with many choreographers and companies, notably the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, David Dorfman Dance, and with collaborator Paul Matteson. Jennifer currently teaches at Movement Research (NYC), and Sarah Lawrence College, (NY). Cory Seals is an interdisciplinary artist & community curator born in Atlanta, GA and based in Philadelphia, PA. Seals uses his practices including vocal jazz, sonic landscape, and improvisation encompassing voice, text, and movement as an expression of radical care and to create community around the diversely interconnected experiences of living in blackness and queerness. Alongside his own projects, Seals has had the
pleasure of training with Reginald Pindell, Paul Adkins, V. Shayne Frederick, Marguerite Hemmings, Kyle Clark, Curt Haworth, Courtney Henry, Christina Kristal Rizzo, Pietro Gagliano, Marta Bellu, Andrea Lovo, and Nicki & Jorge Cousineau, among others. His most recent work includes SOUNDS OF SPIRIT, a soundscape of traditional spirituals and sonic musings meant to conjure a continuum of African American presence as a dialogue with the Arthur Ross Gallery’s exhibition John E. Dowell: Path To Freedom. Eliza Tappan is a performer and Pilates teacher based in New York. Her research and teaching practice revolve around somatics, strength and alignment, nervous system integration, breathwork, and sexuality. She holds a BFA in dance from the University of Utah and has performed with/for Faye Driscoll, Satu Hummasti & Daniel Clifton, LajaMartin, Nick Blaylock, Graham Brown, Brianna López, Breeanne Saxton, and Eric Handman. Carlo Antonio Villanueva is a Filipino American dance artist and scholar specializing in
choreographic process, studio practices, performance coaching, and improvisation. He is an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, and will present research at this year’s Association for Asian American Studies conference. Carlo has shared in energizing, transcendent creative projects with Miriam Gabriel, Moriah Evans, Faye Driscoll, and Bill T. Jones. He is at home in Bde Óta Othúŋwe/Gakaabikaang (Minneapolis) and Lenapehoking (New York, New Jersey). carloantoniovillanueva.com Jo Warren is a New York based artist working at the intersection of dance, performance, writing, tattoo, relationship and healing practice. They are a current company member with the acrobatic dance group LAVA and a grateful performing collaborator with Vanessa Anspaugh and Faye Driscoll. Amanda K. Ringger (Lighting Design) has been designing locally, nationally, and internationally for over 20 years with artists such as Faye Driscoll, Cynthia Oliver, Doug Elkins, Leslie Cuyjet, Molly Poerstel, Ivy Baldwin, Laura
Peterson, Darrah Carr, Antonio Ramos, Alexandra Beller, Sean Donovan, and cakeface, among many others. She received a BA from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD and an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She is the recipient of a Bessie award for her collaboration on Faye Driscoll’s 837 Venice Boulevard at HERE Arts Center. Sophia Brous is a crossdisciplinary artist, performer and curator based in New York and Melbourne, Australia. Her practice draws on broad interests in devised performance, multidisciplinary collaboration, music and improvisation. She is past resident artist of The Brooklyn Academy of Music, National Sawdust and The Watermill Center, and was Curator at Large of Pioneer Works and Artistic Associate of the Arts Centre Melbourne, where she founded Supersense: Festival of the Ecstatic in 2015. Recent works include contemporary music theatre work for public space, The Invisible Opera (for Singapore Festival, RISING, Steirischerherbst Graz, BAM); multidisciplinary opera Mount Analogue (for Oslo Opera House
and the Royal Danish Theatre/CpH Stage Festival 2023); and New York large ensemble Exo-Tech. Brous has featured in productions for The Barbican, Southbank Centre, Kennedy Center, Paris Philharmonie, Operadagen Rotterdam, Dublin Concert Hall, BAM, Pioneer Works & Sydney Opera House, and collaborated with artists including David Byrne, Marc Ribot, Questlove, Faye Driscoll, Okwui Okpokwasili, Ben Russell, Nicolas Becker, Moses Sumney and Kimbra. Ryan Gamblin is a sound designer, composer, and performancemaker based in Brooklyn, NY, working across performance, installation, and music. Their work centers around the use of original composition, found media, and system manipulation. They have worked with artists including Faye Driscoll, Big Dance Theater, The Civilians, 600 Highwaymen, Talking Band, Mallory Catlett / Restless NYC, Jess Barbagallo, Tei Blow, Theater Mitu, and many others. Member, TSDCA. RyanGamblin.com Guillaume Soula is a French sound artist, field recordist, composer and sound designer born in
Toulouse (FR) in 1993. Grounded in recording and electroacoustic composition, his work shows field interpretations intimately linked to his environment. Guillaume employs microphones, recorders, speakers and synthesizers as his main instruments. He works with musicians, poets, film makers, writers and visual artists in new productions, recordings and touring performances. Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin are Houston-based interdisciplinary artists creating an ongoing series of fifty installations made in response to little-known preStonewall queer histories from each state. This multi-decade endeavor draws from recent groundbreaking academic work, the artists’ own archival research, and significant time spent learning from and collaborating with local LGBTQ community members. Karen Boyer designs and builds costumes in NYC. Past and recent collaborators include choreographers Catherine Galasso, Sidra Bell, Abigail Levine, Sarah Dahnke, nicHi douglas, Katy Pyle, and Sunny Hitt; Opera Columbus, Fresh Squeezed Opera, and theater makers Yangtze Rep,
the New Wild, Object Collection, harunalee, Little Lord, Pan Asian Repertory, and Target Margin Theater. BFA: Maryland Institute College of Art, MFA: NYU Tisch. karenrachelboyer.com Dages Juvelier Keates (she/they) is an artist born in Chicago in 1980. Working with and through bodily materiality as a somatic space for holding paradox, their transdisciplinary praxis spans performance, dramaturgy, writing and pedagogy. Since 2021, Keates has been engaged in dramaturgical dialogue with Faye Driscoll for Calving (Bremen, 2022) and Weathering (NYC, 2023) They have recently taught at PARSE Biennial Research Conference on Violence (SE), Paideia European Institute forJewish Studies (SE), Campus PCS (PT), Ariana Reines’ Invisible College (USA), and The Royal Institute of Art (SE). Dages holds a BA in dance from Bard College, a transdisciplinary MA from NYU (2014), and an Advanced Masters in Artistic Research from Sint Lucas Antwerpen (2022). They live and work between New York City and Stockholm, Sweden. Yehuda Duenyas (he/they) is an
Intimacy Coordinator for Film TV, and Live Performance, and also an experiential artist working in a spectrum of mediums from performance to commercial directing. Yehuda received an MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and was a founding member of the OBIE award-winning New York theater collaborative the National Theater of the United States of America (NTUSA). Yehuda’s work and collaborations have received a Primetime Emmy award, 8 Cannes Lions, 11 Clio Awards, and 2 Webby awards, among others. Select Film and TV credits include: MONSTER: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Ryan Murphy/NETFLIX), Westworld Season 4 (HBO), The Afterparty Season 2 (SONY/APPLE TV), American Gigolo (Paramount+/ Showtime), Criminal Minds (CBS). Yehuda is also a SAG-AFTRA accredited Intimacy Coordination trainer and co-runs CINTIMA.CO, an IC training program specifically designed for BIPOC and queer folks entering the field. Lilach Orenstein is a producer, multidisciplinary artist, activist and performer, recently awarded 2023 NYSCA’s Support for
Artists and 2023 LMCC’s Creative Engagement while recognized for her experimental and innovative performative installations by Dance Magazine. Lilach led national-scale productions such as Israel’s International Dance Week and 100+ others across 8 countries for New York Live Arts, zoe|juniper, Machol Shalem Dance House, and Big Dance Theatre. These days Lilach is Faye Driscoll’s Production and Company Manager, zoe | juniper’s Producer, and co-director of MOtiVE Brooklyn. Emily Vizina, or Viz, (Production Stage Manager) is a Brooklynbased freelance Stage Manager, Production Manager, and Electrician for Dance. Viz has had the pleasure of working with artists such as Taylor Stanley, Dorrance Dance, Okwui Okpokwasili, jumatatu m. poe, and Brian Brooks, among others. Emily has also had the experience of working at Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Kitchen, Jacob’s Pillow, Chocolate Factory Theater, Chelsea Factory, and New York Live Arts.
Dynasty Handbag Titanic Depression JAN 14-15 & 18-20, 7:30PM
Presented in partnership with Under the Radar Written, Performed, and Directed by Jibz Cameron Visual Director / Editor: Mariah Garnett Production Manager: Reilly Horan Video/Sound Supervisor: James Bennett Lighting Designer: Serena Wong Lighting Associate: LD DeArmon Pioneer Works Production Credits (World Premiere, May 2023) Original Technical Director / Sound Designer: Chloe Alexandra Thompson Dramaturg: Sacha Yanow Co-Writer / Producer: Amanda Verwey Animation: Amy Von Harrington Original Lighting Designer: Dylan Phillips Co-conceived with Sue Slagle (SUE-C) Producer: Tyler Rai Drawings: Jibz Cameron Additional Sound Design: Jibz Cameron Additional Video Editing: James Bennett, Scotty Slade Wager Visual Production Assistant: Val Toranto Puppet Design: Miguel Alaya Costumes: 69 US, Amanda Verwey Run Time: 70 minutes
FUNDING Dynasty Handbag: Titanic Depression was commissioned by Pioneer Works and curated by David Everitt Howe. It was co-presented by New York Live Arts as part of Live Ideas 2023: Planet Justice. The performance is made possible with support from Creative Capital, The Guggenheim Foundation, Ballroom Marfa, Center for Performance Research, Chorus Foundation, and MacDowell. Titanic Depression is grateful for the generous support of “Captain’s Table” donors - Kathleen Hanna, Ash Jones, Anonymous, Jake Hartman, Alma and Jennings Garnett, Nicole Esienman, Andrea Penycad, Roddy Bottom. THANK YOU!!!
BIOGRAPHIES
Jibz Cameron (Co-creator, Writer, Performer): The peerlessly subversive, wacky, dark, and dystopian Dynasty Handbag— alter ego of performer, visual artist, actor, and writer Jibz Cameron—quite literally bites the hand that feeds her; she often parodies queer liberals and the institutions they support, as well as herself. Playing multiple characters who usually end up breaking down, slipping into alcoholism, or otherwise doing the wrong things, she “combats the terror of being alive,” as she’s previously written, by failing spectacularly. Cameron’s work as Dynasty Handbag has spanned over 20 years and has been presented at arts venues such as The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Broad Museum, The Hammer Museum, REDCAT, BAM, and the Centre Pompidou, among others. She has been heralded by the New York Times as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years” and “outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative” by The New Yorker. Cameron is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, a 2021 United States Artist Award recipient and
a 2020 Creative Capital Grant awardee. She produces and hosts Weirdo Night, a monthly comedy and performance event in Los Angeles and New York. Her film Weirdo Night is an official 2020 Sundance Film Festival selection. James Worth Bennett is a sound designer/engineer and multimedia artist residing in Lenapehoking. He hails from Tsalaguwetiyi and S’atsoyaha land in North Alabama. He received his BFA in Theatrical Design from the University of Montevallo. He is privileged to work at New York Live Arts and for Bill T. Jones Arnie Zane Company as an audio/ video manager. His sound design and composition has recently been heard in Come Here to Me at Theaterlab and Untitled Ukraine Project at the New Ohio Theatre. It is such a joy to work with Jibz and this fantastic team. More about him can be found at jamesworthbennett.com. Mariah Garnett’s (Visual Director) films and installations deconstructs the conventional hierarchy between filmmaker and subject, a mode that has historically been the purview of
directors who possess economic, racial and gender privilege. Garnett is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video and holds an MFA from Calarts and a BA from Brown University. Recent solo exhibitions include Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Commonwealth + Council, a 10 year survey of her work at the LA Municipal Art Gallery, and Sundance Film Festival, 2021. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Bomb among others and has screened and exhibited internationally at The New Museum, Brooklyn Academy Of Music (BAM), REDCAT, Made in LA (Hammer Museum Biennial), The Metropolitan Arts Centre (Tate Belfast), CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, NY Film Festival, and BFI London. She is an Assistant Professor of Media at UC San Diego, and lives and works in Los Angeles. Reilly Horan Production/Stage Manager (she/they) is a white, queer, non-disabled stage manager, production manager, technical director, scenic designer, scenic carpenter, storyteller, and teaching artist who was raised with class privilege, navigates chronic pain, and currently lives,
loves, and works in the unceded territories of the Munsee Lenape and Canarsie peoples (colonially referred to as New York, NY). She has had the privilege of learning from and working with Blue Man Group, the Public Theater, Signature Theater, the TimesCenter at the New York Times, Amherst College, The Moth, Community Word Project, Education at Roundabout Theatre, the DreamYard Project, and award-winning independent dance artists Ann Carlson, Yanira Castro, and devynn emory. Both in New York and in a touring capacity, her work focuses on devised, multimedia, collaborative, landspecific theater and dance, social practice and community engagement projects, arts accessibility, working with brilliant young people, and disrupting and reimagining the profound lack of diversity and equity in the technical theater industry. She shares in building the dream of diverse design and production teams who support powerful artmaking while co-creating liberatory practices (antioppression work flows, equitable labor, fair compensation, right-relation, and an ongoing commitment to learn and practice
anti-racism, de-colonization, disability justice, genderexpansiveness, anti-capitalism, environmental sustainability, imperfectionism, and radical love). She is currently a candidate for a graduate degree in social work at the Silberman School of Social Work (Hunter College). [Gratitude to Ben Akio Kimitch (he/him), Esteban Kelly (he/ him), Fei Liu (she/her), devynn emory (they/them), Kathy Couch (she/her), Amanda Mays (she/ her), Forrest Hudes (he/they), iele paloumpis (they/them), Seta Morton (she/her), and the collective authors of “We See You White American Theater” for some of these frameworks, language, and learning]. Sue Slagle (SUE-C) is an awardwinning artist, engineer and educator whose work in “real time cinema” presents a new, imaginative perspective on live performance. Her evolution as a new media artist began in late90s San Francisco where she was an influential member of the electronic music scene, owning the experimental record label Orthlorng Musork, organizing audio-visual cultural events and teaching the first creative coding
classes in Max Software. After finishing her masters degree in engineering at UC Berkeley she moved to Oakland where she became co-owner of the Ego Park gallery and helped launch the First Friday art walks. Sue is a Creative Capital awardee and MacDowell Fellow and has been covered in The Wire magazine, BoingBoing and the MIT Press book Programming Media. She has performed at the Library of Congress, REDCAT, Ars Electronica, MUTEK, SONAR, Ann Arbor Film Festival, NPR’s Tiny Desk and Transmediale, collaborating with musicians such as Morton Subotnick, Luc Ferrari, Laetitia Sonami, AGF, Paul DeMarinis, Wobbly, Ava Mendoza and Negativland. Chloe Alexandra Thompson (Technical Director / Sound Design) is a Cree, Canadian, interdisciplinary artist and sound designer. Thompson approaches sound as a mode of connection— embracing the kinesthetic agency of sound to compose abstract feats of spatialized audio recording and synthesis. Her work engages tactics of material minimalism to create sitespecific installations that sculpt
droning, maximalist experiences out of space and sound. Using audio programming software, computational processing, and acoustic instruments, Thompson’s work seeks to create connection by guiding audience participants through these augmented experiences. In January 2021, Cycling ‘74, announced Thompson as one of the first Max Certified Trainers. Her sound design has been featured in the works of artists across the fields of music, performance, TV and film. She is presently part of the Working Consortium in developing First Nations Performing Arts. Amanda Verwey Amanda Verwey (Co-Writer/ Producer) is a queer WGA writer living in Los Angeles, California. In 2016, Amanda co- wrote with performance artist Jibz Cameron the fulllength one-women show Good Morning Evening Feelings, which premiered at The Kitchen, NYC and was later turned into a web series by JASH Productions (awarded Audience Choice Best Experimental Short Film, Outfest 2017). In 2017, Amanda co-wrote the short film Tooth and Nail with director Sara Shaw, which premiered at SXSW (awarded
Audience Choice for Best Short Film, Fusion Film Festival 2018 and Best Narrative Short, Outfest 2018.) In 2019, her feature script Tooth & Nail, based on the short, won the Richard Vague Production Fund Grant from Tisch. In 2020, she sold a series to FX. Amanda is currently in development on a grindhouse feature with Endeavor Content and Flame Ventures. She is also developing a limited series based on the book The Secret Life of a Satanist, the only authorized biography of Anton LaVey. amy von harrington (Animator) is a visual artist: collage, video, performance, thought experimentor, friend, polarity practitioner, constellation facilitator, works in accounting. Lives with dogs, in LA and the existential briar patch. Loves life. Has lots of questions. serena wong (Lighting Designer) is a Brooklyn-based freelance lighting designer for theater and dance. Her designs have been seen at Lincoln Center, Fall For Dance at City Center, Danspace, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, among others in the US and abroad- including, oddly enough, a Celebrity cruise ship. Most
recently she has designed for choreographers LaTasha Barnes, Gemma Bond, Caleb Teicher, Leonardo Sandoval, and Bill T. Jones. She enjoys biking, baking, and pottery. Sacha Yanow (Dramaturg) is a NYC/Lenapehoking based performance artist and actor. Their solo practice is rooted in theater, queer performance and radical jewish tradition, using humor and physicality to explore themes of gender, aging, loss and diaspora. Sacha’s work has been presented by venues including MoMA PS1, Danspace Project, Joe’s Pub, and the New Museum in NYC; PICA’s TBA Festival/Cooley Gallery at Reed College in Portland, OR; and Festival Theaterformen in Hanover, Germany. They have received residency support from Baryshnikov Arts Center, Denniston Hill, LIFT Festival UK, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mass MoCA and Yaddo, among others. They served as Director of Art Matters Foundation for 12 years, and previously worked at The Kitchen as Director of Operations.
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Gavin Kenny Jon and Wendy Smith James A. Turrell and Kyung-Lim Lee Turrell Beth Rudin DeWoody Jordan and Laura Rogove The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation Megumi & Bruce Williams Andrew Halliday $500 - $999 Arthur Aviles Leila Shakkour The Marshall Frankel Foundation Antoine Drye Otho Kerr Naima Green John Sansone Saami Bloom Leslie E. Stevens Aimee Meredith Cox Carol Bryce-Buchanan Carol Yorke and Gerard Conn
Cynthia Pearlman Wade Turnbull Deborah Swiderski Ellynne Skove John Sansone Jordan Baker-Kilner Erika Ehrman Fabian Bernal Linda Murray Emma Taylor Gifts and commitments between 7/1/2022-6/30/2023
Support for New York Live Arts is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ed Bradley Family Foundation, The Brant Foundation, Inc., Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Dance/ NYC, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Alex Katz Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Muriel Pollia Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, One World Fund, The Poss Family Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, The Semel Charitable Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Tides Foundation. Corporate support for New York Live Arts includes Con Edison, Google, Tito’s Handmade Vodka. Public support for New York Live Arts is from National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
STAFF & BOARD Artistic Leadership
Executive Leadership
Board of Directors
Bill T. Jones Artistic Director
Kim Cullen Executive Director & CEO
Stephen Hendel Co-Chair
Janet Wong Associate Artistic Director
Ali Burke Chief of Staff
Richard H. Levy Co-Chair
Programming, Producing & Engagement
Development
Helen Haje Vice Chair
Dave Archuletta Chief Development Officer
Slobodan RandjeloviĆ Vice Chair
John Jahnke Institutional Giving Manager
Alan Marks Treasurer
Kyle Maude Producing Director Hannah Emerson Jernigan Producer Jessica Prince Producing Associate
Nina Phuong Ha Development Manager
Bill T. Jones Artistic Director Ex-Officio Kim Cullen Chief Executive Officer Ex-Officio
Production
Julie Davis Special Events & Donor Engagement Manager
Chanel Pinnock Production Manager
Felix Reyes Institutional Giving Associate
Leo Janks Lighting Manager
Finance
James Bennett Audio/Video Manager
Nupur Dey Chief Financial Officer
Colleen Keegan
Megan Dechaine Production Stage Manager
Manathus Dey Finance Associate
Amy Newman
Tricia Navigato Assistant Production Manager
Operations
Ellen M. Poss
Creative Director
Gregory English Operations Manager
Matthew Putman
Bjorn G. Amelan
Marcus Retegues Facilities Coordinator
Ruby Shang
Community Engagement & Education
Adalid Nunez-Mendoza Custodial Assistant
Bianca Bailey Community Engagement & Education Manager
Human Resources
Communications Tyler Ashley Director of Communications Augustus Cook Digital Marketing Manager Hannah Seiden Communications Manager Taylor Adams Front of House Assistant Liliana Dirks-Goodman Graphic Designer Pentagram Pro-Bono Branding Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Miguel Gutierrez
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Bjorn Amelan Sarah Arison Aimee Meredith Cox LaToya Ruby Frazier Charla Jones Darnell L. Moore Randy Polumbo
ADP TotalSource Legal Services Lowenstein Sandler, PC Pro-Bono Counsel
Jane Bovingdon Semel Catharine R. Stimpson Board Emeritus Derek Brown Terence Dougherty Eleanor Friedman Advisory Council Margaret Doyle, Chair Alberta Arthurs
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
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Barrington Hinds, Jada Jenai, Shane Larson, s. lumbert, Danielle Marshall, Nayaa Opong, Marie Paspe, Jacoby Pruitt, Huiwang Zhang
Lisa Frigand
Front of House Staff Johnny Matthews, Jessy Crist, Ezra Mitchell, Paulina Meneses, Kiara Williams, Cristina-Moya Palacios, Anna Ticknor, Salma Kiuhan, Ishmael Gonzalez, Julia Antinozzi, Campbell Ives, Jailyn Phillips-Wiley
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