(Choreographer, Place ReImagined) is a dancer, choreographer, writer, knitter, and environmental activist. Having grown up on a small farm outside of Baltimore, Maryland, she now attends NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she is pursuing her BFA in dance. She is particularly interested in site-specific work and believes that modern dance has the power to touch people from all walks of life.
(Prop Design) NYC Prop credits include Hip Hop Monologues (J Kyle), Freshwater and Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (WP), Dust (Gindi), Alice’s Phonics Fantasy (PFT). Scenic art credits include Road Show, Taking Over, Hair! and Hamlet (Public). Scene Design credits include Avow (Cardinal Group), Anais Nin Goes To Hell (MTWorks).
(Vitrine Artist) was born to a farmer and a forester in Barre, Massachusetts in 1972. Annie’s work has been exhibited throughout New York, New England, California, Michigan, and in France and Canada. Her work investigates human’s impact on the earth and how the landscape impacts us in return. Annie has been awarded numerous grants, fellowships and distinctions, most recently receiving the Pollock-Krasner Award. Annie lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Visit www.annievarnot.com.
(Vitrine Curation Support) Elizabeth is the Director of Contemporary Art at BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, where she curates exhibitions focusing on emerging and mid-career Brooklyn-affiliated artists. A specialist in Mexican and Latino art, she has extensive experience as a curator, writer, and arts administrator. Elizabeth is author of Lola Alvarez Bravo (New York, Aperture Foundation), a monograph on the life and work of the pioneering modern photographer. The book accompanies an exhibition that traveled to the Smithsonian Institution and Notre Dame University among other institutions. In previous years Elizabeth has curated exhibitions on such subjects as contemporary Mexican photography, Dominican art, the Mexican modern painter Maria Izquierdo, and contemporary artists Salomon Huerta, Eve Andrée Laramée, and Paul Laffoley. She co-edited the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark publication Latin American Artists of the 20th Century, and has written for such journals as Art Nexus, Sculpture, Photography, Nueva Luz, and Art News.
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn is a multi-disciplinary arts and media non-profit dedicated to presenting performing, visual, and media arts programs that are reflective of Brooklyn’s diverse communities and to providing resources and platforms to support the creative process. All our offerings are free or low cost to enhance the public’s access to and understanding of arts and media. www.briconline.org
Video writen by Catherine Léger–lives in Montreal, Canada. Her plays include Opium_37, Princesses and Voiture américaine, translated by Chantal Bilodeau and presented at the Lark in a reading directed by Sturgis Warner.
Video directed by Marie-Laure Turmel–In both city and forest, fiction and documentary is searching for ways to find and communicate what’s hiding behind human’s urges.
Filmed by Swati Gupta – Born into Bollywood/Indian culture, Swati Gupta’s work often revolves around investigating our multi-cultural society. She has worked in many artistic mediums including film, painting, and art installations. Bachelors in Fine Arts (Painting) from Delhi College of Art. DNAP from Ecole Supérieure D´arts Paris-Cergy, France. http://swatig.ptibook.com
Video created by Veru Narula (Punjab, India)–Vera Narula is a New York based contemporary artistwith a focus on the global subconscious. “I create art work that juxtaposes 21st century subject matter ranging from technology, religion, sexuality, politics, and metaphysics, in order to relay the unified thoughts and desires of our world.”
Video-poem created and read by Mihaela Michailov (Bucharest, Romania)–Mihaela Michailov is a Playwright and Theater/Dance Critic who writes for various cultural magazines and newspapers. She received the award for the 2006 best Romanian play – Romania Complex. In 2005, she received a scholarship for the play I’m Afraid. Coordinator of the program Theatre and Society at the Odeon Theatre, where her play Offline was produced in 2008.
Video created by Viviana Stuardo (Santiago, Chile)–Viviana Stuardo is a writer from Santiago, Chile, whose work crosses the boundaries of fiction, film and journalism. She currently coordinates the Masters Program for Continuing Education for Teachers at the University of Chile.
Video created by Paola Izquierdo (Mexico City, Mexico)–Paola Izquierdo is an Escuela Nacional de Arte Teatral del INBA graduate, and has received scholarships from FONCA. She writes acts and produces her own pieces of cabaret theatre. She is an adjunct acting professor at the Centro Universitario de Teatro (CUT) of the UNAM and Coordinator of Executive Production in the Coordinación Nacional de Teatro.
Photo by Veronica Bujeiro (Mexico City, Mexico)–Veronica Bujeiro is a playwright, screenwriter and illustrator. She has received grants from IMCINE, FONCA and the FOUNDATION FOR MEXICAN LETTERS. In 2007, she was invited to the Lark Play Development Center with her play The Sadness of the Limes. She is a current recipient of FONCA’s Young Creators funding program in playwriting.
Video created by Aroosha Zoq Rana (Jakarta, Indonesia)–Aroosha Zoq Rana has worked in Latin America and South Asia and is currently with the U.S. Foreign Service in Indonesia. She performed with We Got Issues, a young women’s empowerment collective, and was published in Living Islam Out Loud, a Beacon Press anthology chronicling experiences of first-generation American-Muslim women.
(Actor, Call Your Mother Earth) most recently played Ira in Laughter on the 23rd Floor at Northern Stage and in New York played Small Child in Les Freres Corbusier’s Dance Dance Revolution (Ohio Theater), Owen in AndHow! Theater Company’s Linus & Alora (The Flea), and Vanya in Rehearsal Vanya, also with Meiyin Wang.
(Actor, Place ReImagined) attends Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, and is a member of the Exclamation professional modern dance company. Credits: Showtime at the Apollo on Tour, Paquita, Swan Lake, West Side Story, and guest soloist at Celebration of Dance, honoring National Dance Week, in Phoenix, AZ.
(Actor, Chorus of Lost Places) — Off-Broadway: Pericles, Trying (u/s); Selected NYC and Regional: 365 Plays and Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$ with the Women’s Project, All’s Well, Henry V, The Tempest, Blissfield. Addie is also an Americana Singer/Songwriter and will release her second CD with guest Martha Wainwright in the fall. Member of Actor’s Equity.
(Actor, Moment of Zen) — Recent theater credits include: Hillary (New Georges at The Living Theater), On Island (Summer Shorts at 59E59), BottleRockets (Puerto Rican Traveling Theater). Jorge’s recent film credits include Timing (Top 10 in The Doorpost Film Project), and Sad Sack Sally.
(Actor, Call Your Mother Earth) – has performed on many stages from CA to NY. She began doing improvisation at a very young age and in 2005 she performed at the NY Comedy Club with the Adults Playground Improv Troupe. In 2004-2006, she also performed with Sketch Crew, Saturday Night Re-written, at Juvie Hall (NYC). Favorite acting rolls include: Greta in Sans-Culottes in the Promise Land by Kirsten Greenidge, First Witch in Macbeth by William Shakespeare, various women in The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler and May Belle in Before It Hits Home by Sheryl West.
(Actor, Muddy The Waters) is an actor/singer from Abilene, Texas. She is proud to collaborate with the Women’s Project in this performance of Muddy the Waters and sees this piece as a way to give voice to people who may not otherwise have an opportunity to be heard.
(Actor, Chorus of Lost Places) — Off-Broadway: Missives; 59E59 Theaters. Other New York – NY Fringe: Horatio; A Taste of Heaven. Regional – McCarter Theatre; Yale Repertory Theatre; Baltimore Centerstage; North Shore Music Theatre; Theater Aspen; Marin Theatre Company; TheatreWorks, Palo Alto; The Magic Theatre. Film/TV – El Camino (with Elisabeth Moss); Law & Order. Education – Yale School of Drama.
(Actor, Place ReImagined) just finished her first year in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts dance department and couldn’t be happier. She has worked with the fabulous Liz Montgomery on one previous project and is ecstatic to continue this collaborative process in her first site-specific work.
(Actor, Call Your Mother Earth) is a member of AEA and SAG, and was most recently seen in Spin at The Cherry Lane directed by Evan Cabnet. Previous work includes U.S. Drag (dir. Trip Cullman), Bobrauchenbergamerica (dir. Anne Bogart @ American Repertory Theatre), Canary (Rattlestick), Vengeance (stageFARM), Three Sisters (Nature Theater of Oklahoma) and Scapin and The Misanthrope (Classic Stage Company). Recent film/media work: featured role in Grand Theft Auto IV, national commercials for HUMIRA and Walmart, and the upcoming film A Lone Star State starring Jon Gries. International credits: The Maids, Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights, and The Constant Prince (dir. Niky Wolcz and Ulla Wolcz). Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, she holds an MFA in Acting from Columbia University.
(Actor, Place ReImagined) is currently earning her BFA in dance at NYU. Previously, she trained at Garth Fagan Dance and the Draper Center for Dance Education before dancing in the Rochester City Ballet. She is excited to work with Elizabeth and Women’s Project on this site specific piece.
(Actor, Chorus of Lost Places) — TOURS: The Phantom of the Opera, Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music (Asia). NEW YORK: Plain and Fancy(York), Injury Time (Lark), Earthquake Weather (New Dramatists). REGIONAL: Shawntel/Eve in Jerry Springer: the Opera (New Stage), Sweeney Todd(Geva), Beauty & the Beast (Montreal). Thanks to family, besties, and Northwestern!
(Actor, Moment of Zen) — recently worked with Rising Phoenix Rep, EST, HERE Arts Center, the Japan Society, Stillpoint Productions, and Steppenwolf. Her solo play, Remedies was performed at Ontological-Hysteric Theatre and Estrogenius Festival. Web series include: The All-for-Nots and Help Wanted. Artistic Associate, Rising Phoenix Rep; Literary Associate, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. BFA – The Theatre School, DePaul University.
