(PERFORMER) is a movement artist based in Brooklyn NY. She recently graduated from Hunter College with a double major in Anthropology and Dance. At Hunter college she danced in repertoire works by Larry Keigwin and Blakely White-McGuire. She danced at The New York City Center during the 2019 Fall for Dance Festival in “The Running Show” by Monica Bill Barnes & Company. She is passionate about choreographing and created the works “ Autumn Heat” as well as “Pixel Element.” The latter was not performed due to COVID 19. Katherine’s new found love is dance film which led her to create the film “En La Luz.” Katherine aims to use her knowledge of dance as well as her Anthropology background to continue to create work that offers a space for both confronting political and social issues, as well as offering perspectives on internal healing processes.
(PERFORMER) is a Florida born dancer and actress. She recently graduated CUNY Hunter College where she majored in both Sociology and Dance. She has performed and been an assistant stage manager at the Wick Theatre and has also performed works by Doug Varone and Sondra Bonito. In the recent year, she has had the opportunity to work closely with the Monica Bill Barnes Company and performed at the New York City Center for the Fall for Dance 2019 Festival. Given her dance experience and academic achievements, she has obtained a well-rounded view of performance and dance management. Her recent project includes a podcast addressing issues within politics and pop culture with a young black perspective.
(ASSOCIATE PRODUCER) first met Monica as a young dancer at Bates Dance Festival in 2010. Ten years later she is thrilled to be part of the team after reconnecting with the company in 2017. As an administrative and production assistance Elizabeth has supported Happy Hour, One Night Only, The Museum Workout, and The Running Show both in NYC and on tour globally and nationally. As associate producer Elizabeth has supported the company’s site-specific show Days Go By at Brookfield Place, and Keep Moving their first ever virtual experience. Elizabeth loves bringing the company’s work to new audiences and has truly enjoyed watching this cast from Hunter College perform over the last two years. As a performer Elizabeth creates worlds for distinct characters to inhabit. Her most recent collaboration “once she lived in a 4th floor walkup” was part of the 2018 All Over Westbeth Site Specific Festival. Elizabeth holds a BA in Dance and English from Kenyon College.
(PERFORMER) is currently studying both dance and media at Hunter College in NYC with a MUSE arts scholarship. Reagan grew up training in ballet, jazz, modern, contemporary, tap, and hip hop at Hudson Valley Conservatory under the direction of Samuel E. Wright, Amanda Wright, and Pamela Murphy. After high school, Reagan continued her training at various studios in the city such as Broadway Dance Center and Peridance Center, while also minoring in dance at Hunter. Reagan has been able to perform in various full-length shows directed by Dee Kelly for the New Rose Theatre, including Peter Pan, Cinderella, Matilda, and an annual Nutcracker. She has also performed as an apprentice for Valley Contemporary Dance Company in their production of The Giving Tree, under the direction of Paige Cummings. Reagan’s biggest accomplishment so far is performing in an excerpt of Monica Bill Barnes and Company’s “The Running Show” at New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival. In addition to training and performing, Reagan also choreographed/danced in the music video for A Fragile Tomorrow’s “How Do You Dance to It?”, substitute teaches at Hudson Valley Conservatory, and assists classes for The School at Peridance.
(REHEARSAL DIRECTOR, She/Her) is an NYC based dancer, rehearsal director and choreographer who choreographed her first pieces as a 4 year old, using her parents’ coffee table as a stage and Ravel’s Boléro as the soundtrack. Since the coffee table stage, she has collaborated with composers, visual artists, directors, and filmmakers. Last year, she was Rehearsal Director and performed in Monica Bill Barnes & Company’s productions of The Running Show (included in New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival) and Day’s Go By (a show in and about a mall). In 2018, she worked alongside Monica as Associate Choreographer on the feature film Little Women, where you may have also seen her kicking, stomping, laughing, and bumping into Saoirse Ronan (credited “Beerhall Dancer #1). Since 2017, Flannery has acted as the movement director of New York University’s student-created Reality Show, staging performances at the Barclays Center, Radio City Music Hall, and NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Flannery’s first time working on Broadway (and with pierogis) was as Assistant Choreographer to Sam Pinkleton on Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. Flannery’s second time working on Broadway, as Associate Choreographer with Sonya Tayeh on Sing Street, was cut short as the Covid-19 pandemic brought show business to a halt. Born and raised in San Diego, Flannery got her BA in World Arts and Cultures from UCLA. She currently lives in Hell’s Kitchen spending most of her days dancing on her roof, riding her bicycle, and missing rehearsal studios terribly. She is thrilled, however, to occupy Zoom rooms as Rehearsal Director for Keep Moving. 5-6-7-8!
(PERFORMER) is a movement artist based in the Hudson Valley. She holds a BA in Dance from Hunter College. There she performed choreography by Vicky Shick, Doug Varone, and Merce Cunningham. Kathryn’s choreography for the music video Ice Moon, by The Next Great American Novelist, won Best Music Video at the Harlem International Film Festival and has been screened at many others. She currently dances with NK&D / a movement company and is exploring motion through acro yoga, rock climbing, and juggling.
(PERFORMER) is an artist and storyteller. Gravitating to human connectivity, she pushes boundaries to tell stories through different mediums, specifically dance and film. Though Naja has been featured in music videos for artists such as Kranium, she deeply enjoys being behind the scenes. She has directed and produced “A Thousand Words”, a documentary featured in CUNY Film Festival 2019, nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Documentary, as well as, HK/NY Exchange Film Festival. She has also produced several videos for Business Insider surrounding dance, travel, and food. Her aspirations are to continue to bring forward authentic stories that help change perceptions; to connect people cross-culturally, religiously, ideologically, and racially.
(PERFORMER) was born in Queens, NY and grew up in Valley Steam, NY. She is currently a senior at Hunter College pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Dance with a minor in Psychology. Esther began dancing at the age of six and began her formal dance training once entering college where she performed works by Alwin Nikolais, Kyle Abraham, Blakeley White-McGuire, Monica Bill Barnes & Co., and others. Esther has trained at schools including the Martha Graham School, Peridance Capezio Center, and Broadway Dance Center while receiving additional training from summer studies with Movement Migration and Parsons Dance. Esther has performed in theaters such as New York City Center and the Kaye Playhouse and hopes to continue her journey after college as an aspiring dance artist.
(CONCEIVER/DIRECTOR, she/her) is a director, choreographer, deviser, facilitator and ensemble member of Sojourn Theatre and the BOLD Associate Artistic Director at WP Theater. Originally from Denver, Colorado with deep ancestral roots in the Southwest, she’s now based in Brooklyn, NY. Recent projects include: Sanctuary: A Soundwalk (Working Theater), Here We Are: Pandemic Fight (Theater for One – NY Times “Critics Pick”) I Am My Own Wife (Long Wharf Theatre); Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Miss You Like Hell (Baltimore Center Stage), Wolf at the Door (Milagro Theatre, NNPN rolling world premiere), Anna in the Tropics (Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Henry Award for Outstanding Direction). Rebecca has worked with INTAR, Working Theater, Signature Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Lark, The Playwrights Realm, New Dramatists, the 52nd Street Project, Radical Evolution, Milagro Theatre, Oregon Children’s Theatre and Brave New World Repertory Theatre among others. Member of: Sol Project Collective, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, INTAR’s Unit52, SDCF Observer, Latinx Theatre Commons Advisory Committee, 2019 Audrey Resident, New Georges Affiliated Artist, 2018-2020 WP Lab, 2017 Drama League Directing Fellow, Member of SDC. She is the recipient of four Portland, Oregon Drammy Awards and the Lilla Jewel Award for Women Artists. Rebecca is an artist with the Center for Performance and Civic Practice where her work focuses on co-designed, cross-disciplinary social and civic practice engagement and invitation strategies. Rebeccamartinez.org
(PERFORMER) is a performer, dance educator, and choreographer. Amanda earned her AS in Visual and Performing Arts from Queensborough Community College and her BA/MA in Dance Education from Hunter College. She has performed in over 30 US states while on tour, as well as trained and performed in various parts of Europe. She has been a featured dancer in several music videos, as well as featured in various popular TV shows as a tattoo model – breaking the stigma against tattooed dancers/dance educators on a large scale. Amanda has completed her 200 Hour Vinyasa Yoga certification with Yoga Alliance. She has taught at both recreational and competitive studios, dance camps, private and public schools, as well as choreographed court dances for weddings and Sweet Sixteens.
(PERFORMER) a Bronx native, began dancing at the age of 17. Julieta is currently a dance major at hunter college, where she began her intensive training and gained an interest in choreographing and lighting design. Apart from dance, Julieta also has a keen interest in the natural sciences and has been exploring the connections of her two interest through the lens of choreography. Outside of her studies, she had the honor of performing with the Monica Bill Barnes Company on multiple occasion, including the 2019 Fall for Dance festival. This past summer she participated in the Dance your Bronx Up project with Pepatian under the mentorship of Alethea Pace. Through these turbulent times, Julieta is unsure of what the future holds, but she is sure she wants to continue to grow along side her craft.
(EDITORIAL ADVISOR) is a longtime staff producer, editor and reporter at This American Life. She got her start in radio unconventionally, editing the Showtime docu-series This American Life made. Which is how she began her career in journalism and transitioned to radio. Robyn has since won two Peabody Awards for her work as a producer on the Harper High series and reporter/producer on Anatomy of Doubt which led to the Emmy nominated Netflix Series, Unbelievable. Robyn loves dance. Before anything else, she’s a dancer. It’s how all stories, including radio, make sense. In her mind, at least.
(PERFORMER) is a striving performer. She graduated from Hunter College with a bachelor’s degree in Dance and a minor in music. Currently, Lina intends on continuing Graduate School to pursue a degree in Dance Education at Hunter College. She had the opportunity to work with Monica Bill Barnes Company in three performances, at Hunter College, Brookfield Place and the 2019 Fall for Dance Festival. She is a Dance Choreographer/mentor for her community church. She aspires to become a professional dancer/Dance Educator. Lina is a new choreographer and hopes to continue this phenomenal journey and hopeful to see what lies ahead.
(PERFORMER) is originally from Laurel, MD and currently pursuing her Masters in Dance Education at Hunter College. She holds a BFA from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in New York City, where she graduated summa cum laude with a double major in Dance and Psychology. Ms. Son found her passion for teaching at The Ailey School as a creative movement instructor in the First Steps program and a Horton instructor in the Junior Division program. As an artist, she has performed works by Jamar Roberts, Stefanie Batten Bland, Christopher Huggins, Jae Man Joo, Jacqulyn Buglisi, and Alvin Ailey. Professionally, Ms. Son was a dancer with Mook Dance Company in 2017-2019 and is currently performing with Monica Bill Barnes & Company.
(WEB DESIGN & CREATIVE CONSULTANT) is a choreographer, performer, dance educator, and administrator. She has danced in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and across the US. Indah earned a BFA in dance from Purchase College Conservatory of Dance in 2008 and a MFA in dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2014. As a choreographer, Indah Walsh was awarded a Creative Engagement Grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2017. Indah is currently Adjunct Faculty at NYC Tisch School of the Arts.
(First Assistant Director, He/Him) is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Born in Chicago, IL and raised in the East Bay Area, his passion for filmmaking began at a very young age and followed him throughout his life. Day graduated from San Francisco State University in 2012 with a degree of Bachelor of the Arts in Cinema, as well as a minor in Africana Studies. After college, he began to work professionally in the AD Department on feature films, television shows, commercials, and music videos.
Day works primarily as a 1st Assistant Director. Fluid communication between departments is his top priority whenever he is working on a project. In pre-production, Day is diligent and thorough in establishing a detailed script breakdown and realistic shooting schedule. On set, his duties are to keep the entire crew safe and the production on schedule, all while working to ensure every shot is executed with precision. Day has worked on several feature film and television productions including ‘Sorry To Bother You’ 2018, ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’ 2019, and ‘Black Bear’ 2020.
(Sound Editor, He/Him) is a multidisciplinary collaborator in the performing and fine arts with decades of production, composition, sound and visual design credits. He collaborates on diverse projects for opera, theater, dance, multimedia, and contemporary music performances. Recognition includes the Isadora Duncan Award for S.F. Ballet’s Ballet Mori (2007, Goldberg/Packer), and the Lucille Lortel Award for Rinde Eckert’s Horizon (2008, dir. David Schweizer.) He also served as Production Manager for SFJAZZ (2013-15) and Director of Production for Kronos Quartet (2015-17.) Recent premieres include World’s On Fire by ODC (Weare/Way) and Iron Shoes (Kitka/Shotgun Players.)
(Title Design, She/Her) is an award-winning set and video designer for opera, theater and any form for live performances based in LA. Recent design works include The Fall of the House of Usher (Boston Lyric Opera/ Opera Box.tv), Close Quarters (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra), Ghost Gun (Goodman Theatre), Legacy Land (Kansas City Rep), Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Aubergine, The Canadians (South Coast Rep), Black Super Hero Magic Mama (Geffen Playhouse), Sweat (Mark Taper Forum), Bordertown Now (Pasadena Playhouse), Mother of Henry, Members Only (Latino Theater Company), Citizen: An American Lyric (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Fountain Theater. Since 2020, she has been creating digital content and video art for the San Francisco Symphony, Boston Lyric Opera, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, LA Opera On Now, Goodman Theatre, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, The Movement Theatre Company. She is currently working as one of the production designers of Close Quarters with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Yee Eun has multiple nominations for LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award and is a winner of LADCC Theatrical Excellence for CGI/Video in 2020. She is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. MFA in Theater Design at UCLA. BFA in Design and Metal Craft at SNU in Seoul, Korea. Portfolio: www.yeeeunnam.com
(Cinematographer, She/Her) Born and raised in the Philippines, Peggy at age 23, migrated to San Francisco in pursuit of living a creative life. There she earned an MFA in Motion Pictures from the Academy of Art University, fell more deeply in love with cinema and discovered her love for flying cameras. She is now a certified Steadicam Operator, one of the very few women practitioners in the industry world-wide. As a cinematographer, her work is distinct for its heart, energy and perspective. Every project she dives into becomes an opportunity to discover, create and inspire. She was awarded Best Emerging Filmmaker by SF International Women’s Film Festival in 2005. Since then, she has continued to be a trusted collaborator of many directors, shooting projects funded by organizations like San Francisco Film Society, Danish Arts Council and French National Center of Fine Arts. Her works have screened in film festivals around the globe including the Rotterdam International Film Festival & Busan International Film Festival among others. In 2013, she received a Cinematography Special Jury Award from the LA Asian Pacific Film Fest for lensing the documentary Harana. A New Color, her 2nd feature documentary, premiered at the 2015 Mill Valley Film Festival. Both feature documentaries won Audience Awards in various film festivals and have aired on PBS. She is passionate about telling stories that amplify alternative voices. She believes in the power of cinema to not only entertain but to also challenge our ways of seeing, thinking and feeling. She continues to thrive as an artist in San Francisco, a city she’s proud to call her second home. In 2019 she embarked on an indie feature called This Is Your Song, a cinematic feat that challenged her to light and shoot a 97 minute handheld oner.
(Production & Costume Designer, He/Him) is an internationally renowned, scenic, costume, and exhibit designer, as well as the Obie Award–winning costume designer of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (Boston, New York and Shanghai). His celebrated theatrical designs have been featured at The Finnish National Ballet, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, American Conservatory Theater, Portland Center Stage, American Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory Theater, among many others. Reynoso is the founder of OPTIKA MODERNA and the creator of Portaleza (2020), Las Quinceañeras (2019) and Waking La Llorona (2017). His scope of work extends beyond theater/film to include designs for globally recognized theme parks and companies such as: Meow Wolf, 13Exp and The San Diego Museum of Us. www.davidreynoso.com.
(WRITER Words for a rising sun, she/they) writes, directs and performs with The Peoplehood (the-peoplehood.com). A Princess Grace Award and O’Neill National Playwrights Conference finalist and Kilroys List honorable mention, Jaisey is a recipient of the Emerging American Playwright Prize from Marin Theatre Company, and of Judge’s Choice/Featured Play from the Oklahoma City Native American New Play Festival.
(PERFORMER, she/her) is born into the Grey Streaked Ends Clan and born for the Red Running into Water Clan. Her Maternal Grandparents are the Zuni Pueblo Clan and her Paternal Grandparents are the Water’s Edge Clan. As a young Diné girl growing up on the Navajo Reservation, Natalie’s first dance studio was the land she was surrounded by, which taught her movement embedded in cultural re-connection and storytelling. She is also a self-taught hip hop dancer. Natalie attended Fort Lewis College where she earned a BA in theatre – Performing and Directing in 2010 and was a first generation college graduate in her family. She performed dance professionally for 7 years with Dancing Earth Contemporary Dance Company and also led youth workshops for Native youth throughout her time with the company. Natalie performed the lead role of Dory in the Navajo dubbed version of Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo and directed/choreographed the production I’m Native And… for Fort Lewis College’s inaugural Indigenous Arts Festival, which was then invited to the Los Angeles Kennedy Center for the Arts’ Regional College Theater Festival in 2019. In addition to performing, she works as the Indigenous Programs Coordinator for Girls Inc. of Santa Fe. She is also co-founding a mixed media storytelling company, Tse’Nato’, where she hopes to continue sharing stories through dance, theater, and film. She was recently awarded the Senator John Pinto Native American Filmmakers Fund in 2020 to direct a short film entitled “Mother’s Day”.
(PERFORMER/COLLABORATING WRITER, she/her) is a theatre maker, professor and arts advocate rooted in the Champaign-Urbana community. Past directing credits include Cabaret, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime and No Child (Illinois Theatre), Dreamgirls (KCPA), Men on Boats, Fun Home, Sleep Deprivation Chamber (The Station Theatre), Top Dog/Underdog (Hattiloo Theatre), Otherwise Occupied and Lost Recipes (Jump Start Performance Company) and Spell #7 and Betrayal (The Renaissance Guild). Her interest in storytelling extends beyond traditional plays and musicals with interests in social justice and the environment. Projects include: co-producer of The Gun Play(s) Project with Nicole Anderson-Cobb, PhD; The Water Project, devised with eight local community members and Journey to Water, connecting African Americans with regional water sources, a collaboration with Prairie Rivers Network through a Catalyst Initiative Grant from the Center for Performance and Civic Practice. Recently she engaged in an interdisciplinary devised project about the quantum world with Smitha Vishveshwara, PhD, Quantum Voyages that premiered on campus, traveled to Boston for the American Physical Society Conference and collaborated in a Zoom production with UC San Diego. She co-directed This is the Ground for Opera on Tap NYC with Jerre Dye at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Latrelle received her MFA in Directing from The University of Memphis, is a TCG Young Leader of Color and an Associate Member of Stage Director’s and Choreographers Society.
(PERFORMER) (Keesuty8ee Elm, Mâseepee Wôpanâak) is from Roxbury, MA. Performance credits include Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play at the American Repertory Theater, The Emancipation of Valet de Chambre (premiere) at Cleveland Play House, Studs Terkel’s American Dreams: Lost and Found (premiere) with the Acting Company, and several seasons with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Currently at the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, she is the Lower Elementary Lead Teacher at Weetumuw Katnuhtôhtâkamuq on the ancestral homelands of the Mashpee Wampanoag. The former Associate Director of Education at Citi Performing Arts Center in Boston, she began her work at The Wang Theater as a teaching artist, and has also taught with the Strand Theatre, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, nationally with the Acting Company and internationally with The Mama Project. A Montessori certified teacher, she also holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in performing arts and African American studies from Emerson College. Siobhan is a graduate of the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.
(AUDIENCE GUIDE/COLLABORATING WRITER, she/her) is an NYC Youth Poet Laureate, author, and writer from New York City, raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She has performed at the Apple Store, The UN, The Apollo, The Public Theater, The Brooklyn Museum, and many more. Her Poems explore women’s rights, self-love, and Black rights. You can find out more about her via her website- www.camrynbruno.com
