COLLABORATORS

Annie Wilson (The Garden of Forking Paths) makes performances. She is a 2017 Pew Fellow in the Arts and a 2015 Independence Fellow. Original work includes bilialien, At Home with the Humorless Bastard, Lovertits and Hipster Shaman. Her work has been presented by JACK, Bryn Mawr College, Fringearts, the Center for Performance Research, Műhely Alapítvány/Workshop Foundation, and <fidget>. She is producer and curator of The Remix Festival in partnership with Susan Rethorst. She is an Associated Artist with Applied Mechanics. www.theanniewilson.com.

Christopher Ash (Being/With) is an international designer of scenery, lighting, and projections for theatre, dance, opera, and film. Broadway: Sunday in the Park With George, Saint Joan. Regional: Wilma Theater, Guthrie Theater, Yale Rep., Philadelphia Theatre Company, Bucks County Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Soho Rep., Paramount Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Chautauqua, Old Globe Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Rep., San Diego Rep., Victory Gardens Theater, Laguna Playhouse, Seattle Rep., Goodman. Opera: Paris Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera Chicago, Canadian Opera, Houston Grand. Training: MFA from Yale School of Drama. www.christopherash.com.

Dito van Reigersberg is a co-founder of Pig Iron Theatre Company, a physical-theatre company that has created over 30 original pieces since its founding in 1995. He has performed in almost all of Pig Iron’s productions, including the OBIE-winning original pieces Hell Meets Henry Halfway and Chekhov Lizardbrain. He has also created and performed with Headlong, The Bearded Ladies, Azuka, Mauckingbird, Arden, 1812 Productions, and Nichole Canuso Dance Company. His alter-ego Martha Graham-Cracker is famously ‘the tallest drag queen in the world” — her monthly cabaret series at L’Etage in Philadelphia has been running for over 14 years. She has also performed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Joe’s Pub in New York, The Guthrie, Oberon in Boston, NMAJH, and the Mayor’s Reception Room in City Hall. She recently unveiled an original song cycle about show biz, heartbreak, and libraries called Lashed But Not Leashed.

Eun Jung Choi, (The Garden, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Octopus and the Interview, Being/With) featured as one of Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch in 2012, is a movement artist/choreographer who has been working professionally for the past 20 years in the United States, Mexico, and Korea. Between 1996 and 2009, she worked with Sean Curran Co., Limon Dance Co., Allyson Green Dance, Risa Jaroslow and Dancers and other independent choreographers in New York City while creating her own work and being presenting multiple times at Dance Space Project and other venues. Since 2008, she has been Artistic Co-Director of Da·Da·Dance Project, a duet repertory dance theater and performed works created by Melanie Stewart, Gerald Casel, Erick Montes, Luke Gutgsell, Helena Franzén (Sweden) and two artistic directors: Guillermo Ortega Tanus and herself. She has taught at the NC Governor’s School, North Carolina School of the Arts, the Center of Choreographic Investigation, Mexico, Movimiento Escénico, La Cantera, Temple University, Bryn Mawr College, Rowan University and many more. In addition to her career in dance, Eun Jung is an interdisciplinary video/interactive installation artist and graphic designer. Her video works have been presented at various theaters, galleries and commercial venues/parties in both Mexico and the United States. She has been working with Nichole Canuso Dance Company since 2012.

Geoff Sobelle (Pandæmonium) is a theatre artist dedicated to the “sublime ridiculous.” He is the co-artistic director of rainpan 43, a renegade absurdist outfit devoted to creating original actor-driven performance works. Using illusion, film and out-dated mechanics, R43 creates surreal, poetic pieces that look for humanity where you least expect it and find grace where no one is looking. R43’s shows include: all wear bowlers (Innovative Theatre Award, Drama Desk nomination), Amnesia Curiosa, machines machines machines machines machines machines machines (OBIE award – design), and Elephant Room (commissioned by Center Theatre Group). His independent work includes Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl (Edinburgh Fringe First Award) and The Object Lesson (Edinburgh Fringe First Award, Carol Tambor Award, Total Theatre Award, NYTimes Critics Pick). He has been a company member of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company since 2001. All of his work to date has premiered at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival before touring nationally and internationally. Geoff’s work has been presented at the the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), St. Ann’s Warehouse, HERE Arts Center, The Kirk Douglas Theatre (CTG), Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Studio Theatre (DC), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Bard College, the Barbican Center (London), and has toured to Germany, Italy, France and South Korea. As a teacher, Geoff has led workshops all over the world in devised theatre creation, physical approach to character, clown and “jeu.” He is a teacher at the Pig Iron school in Philadelphia (APT) and is on faculty at Bard College. His projects have been supported by the MAP Fund, the Independence Foundation, the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, the Wyncote Foundation, US Arts International, the Princeton Atelier and the New England Foundation for the Arts. He is a 2006 Pew Fellow and is a 2009 Creative Capital grantee. Geoff graduated with honors from Stanford University and trained in physical theatre at École Jacques Lecoq in Paris.

Guillermo Ortega Tanus (The Garden, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Octopus and the Interview, Being/With) is a Mexican artist who lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, United States. He has presented solos at Dixon Place, Newsteps Series, Merce Cunningham Studio, Conwell Dance Theater, Chew the Fat! At Studio 34, New Festival, Mix Grille, Conwell Dance Theater, and Tlacochimaco in Unites States. Also at Foro Experimental, Fuego Nuevo, Los Talleres de Coyoacán, La Casa de Las Bombas in Mexico. He has set work in Tatiana Zugazagoitia Danza (Merida, Mexico), and the students of the Diploma in Dance of the Cultural Center “Los talleres A. C.” (Mexico City). Guillermo has received grants as performer, creator and Student from “National Fund for the Culture and the Arts” (FONCA) 2007-08 and 2009-2012. Mexico en Escena (2005-06); the State Foundation of Culture and Arts (FOESCA 09-10); among many others. He was a resident artist at nEW festival (2009-10). He has a BFA in Contemporary dance from the “Escuela National de Danza Clasica y Contemporanea” as well as a MFA from Temple University. Currently he is an adjunct professor at Rowan University He has also taught at Temple University during the regular year as well as a guest artist at Universities and festivals. www.guillermoortega.net.

Jesse Garrison (Pandæmonium, Being/With) is a multimedia artist and video designer. His work ranges from interactive installation to virtual and augmented reality experiences to media design for theater, dance and other performances. Recent stage work includes The Builders Association’s Elements of Oz (3LD), Only Child Aerial Theater’s Asylum (Skirball Center, Burning Coal), Thread and Francesca, Francesca at the Edinburgh Fringe and numerous theater and dance productions at CalArts including Paradise by Design, directed by Martin Acosta, The Glass Mountain, Medea, and Lock and Key. Recent installation work includes The Woods. and responsive forest of twigs and shadows, VROM, a biometric virtual reality meditation experience, Or, Aurora, an interpretation of the Aurora Borealis and NewsPrint, an anachronistic printing machine that combines social and obsolete media. He holds an MFA from CalArts, and is a member of the Builders Association and a Sinking Ship Productions Associate Artist.

Lars Jan (TAKES, Pandæmonium) is a plain-clothes artist working the bridge and tunnel crowd over dinner theatre and an artesian well. He’s open to ceremony, but not the kind Dito is thinking of at this very moment. He is to racketeering as Jean Cocteau is to Twitter. He live streams in his down time to monitors backstage at baking competitions and he never met a marmot he liked at twenty paces or less. His work has been seen at some places, but will be forgotten, like everything else, very soon. He hasn’t done enough by any standard, and that’s not even counting breakfast. He is probably the father of Esme Jan.

Les Rivera (The Garden) is Neil deGrasse Tyson’s No. 177 fan, was an original member of Philadelphia hip hop dance company Rennie Harris Puremovement, makes music straight out of the future with his band ‘el malito and the 33rd Century’, and talks to his mom weekly on the phone. He misses hearing the coquis, who fill the nights in his native Puerto Rico with beautiful natural music. His favorite rum is Ron del Barrilito, his favorite beer is Tripel Karmeliet, and his favorite food is tostones. When his girlfriend falls asleep at night Les stays up searching for videos on youtube about science, the universe, and Radiohead or he’ll go on Netflix and watch WWII documentaries (which his girlfriend calls his ‘boring side’). Les kisses his stray cats Meanie and Lil’ Mama at least 5 times a day. Palabra!

Meg Foley: “I am a Philadelphia-based dance artist and director of Moving Parts. I intend Moving Parts to be a familial dance think tank with a group of steady collaborators exploring how art environments are made and trying to create elusive yet emotionally evocative performance experiences that straddle the fine line between focus and freedom. I am concerned with work that is both somatically oriented and precisely organized visually. And ultimately in my practice, I’m asking existential questions about the human experience of being, in relation to self and in relation to others. My work is grounded in the body, in the real, in the meaty stuff that I feel holds the stuff of being alive. I like things that make me giggle, give me goosebumps, make me nauseous, or make me cry.  I’ve danced with Nichole Canuso Dance Company since 2006 for which I feel very blessed and from which I have learned so much and experienced such joy. Seriously. In addition to dancing for NCDC, I currently work with Lisa Kraus and was a member of Beast Productions and collaborated with Devynn Emory from 2005-2009. I was educated and influenced by the good people at Scripps College and Laban Centre London.” www.movingpartsdance.org

Michael Kiley (Wandering Alice, The Garden, The Garden of Forking Paths) is a Philadelphia based composer, sound designer, performer and educator working in dance, theatre and public installation. Michael creates his own work under the moniker of The Mural and The Mint (TM&TM). In 2010, TM&TM created As the Eyes of the Seahorse, an interdisciplinary performance of dance and live music which premiered at HERE Arts Center. 2013 marked the release of The Empty Air and Animina, two soundwalk pieces as iPhone application which use GPS to determine what the listener hears depending on their location within Rittenhouse Square and The Race Street Pier, respectively. Michael also released Kuerner Sounds in 2013, a commission from The Brandywine River Museum to be heard during a tour of The Kuerner Farm, which inspired painter Andrew Wyeth. In 2014, The American Composers Forum commissioned him to write With Happiness For You, World a piece for two voices, percussion and synthesizer, using the poetry of a teenage immigrant from Karen State. He was also in residence at The Hacktory, where he learned to write computer code resulting in two gallery pieces, In(determinate) Duet and Elegy For A Home. He teaches workshops in a voice/movement practice of his own design,Personal Resonance, at The Headlong Performance Institute, Swarthmore College and various studios. Currently, he is working with choreographer Faye Driscoll on her Thank You For Coming Trilogy, touring Part I: Attendance, while creating Part II: Play. Michael is also working as designer/vocal consultant with Chelsea Murphy and Magda San Millan on The Shame Symposium, to premiere at FringeArts in June 2016. He served as vocal consultant during the process of luciana achugar’s Otro Teatro. Other collaborators include Lars Jan, Dan Rothenberg, Nichole Canuso Dance Company, The Arden Theatre and The Play Company, among others. Michael has been supported by The Independence Foundation, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The American Composers Forum-Philadelphia Chapter, The Hacktory, FringeArts (Live Arts Brewery Fellowship), Philadelphia Music Project (PCAH) and the Wyncote Foundation through The Painted Bride. His work has been presented at The Walker Art Center, ICA Boston, MCA Chicago, 3LD, Walkerspace, The Performing Garage, Festival d’Autumn, The Wexner Center, The Guthrie Theater, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, The Yard, Vermont Performance Lab, MANCC, and DanSpace Project.

Mikaal Sulaiman (Being/With) is a sound designer whose Off-Broadway credits include Fires in the Mirror (Signature Theatre); Continuity (Manhattan Theatre Club); Passage and Fairview (Soho Rep); Recent Alien Abductions and Time’s Journey Through a Room (Play Co.); Meet Vera Stark (Signature Theatre); Blue Ridge (Atlantic Theatre); The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons); Rags Parkland (Ars Nova), Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (NYTW); Master (Foundry Theatre Co.); Skittles: The Broadway Musical; and Black Artist Retreat by Theaster Gates (Park Avenue Armory). Regional credits include Berkeley Rep, the Alley, Woolly Mammoth, Baltimore Center Stage, Trinity Rep, Pig Iron, Syracuse Stage, Arden Theatre, and Early Morning Opera. Sulaiman has received nominations from the Drama Desk Awards, the Lucille Lortel Awards, SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, the Theatre Bay Area Awards, and the Audelco Awards. He is a recipient of the Henry Hewes Design Award.

Mike Inwood (Pandæmonium) is a lighting designer who works in all areas of live performance. Mike’s designs have been seen in New York (Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre, BAM, Ars Nova, Cherry Lane, Clubbed Thumb, and The New Ohio), Philadelphia (Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Arden Theatre, Opera Philadelphia, Curtis Opera, The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Theater Horizon, FringeArts, Lantern Theatre Company, Azuka Theatre, and People’s Light), regionally (Boston Lyric Opera, Long Wharf, The Magic Theatre, Portland Opera, and Perseverance Theatre), and worldwide in theatres across Canada, Mexico, France, Scotland, Belgium and Turkey. Mike has received awards including a 2010 Emmy Award (NBC Sports – Vancouver Winter Olympics), the 2009 J.S. Seidman Award for Design Excellence, the American Theatre Wing’s Henry Hewes award nomination for his design of The Mad Ones’ production of The Essential Straight and Narrow, and a Barrymore award nomination for his design of Theatre Horizon’s production of Peter and the Starcatcher. www.mikeinwood.com

Nic Labadie-Bartz (Sneakers, Being/With) (they/them) is a freelance stage manager based in Philadelphia.They are an associated artist with Applied Mechanics, and work regularly with them, The Bearded Ladies, Nichole Canuso Dance Company, and Ninth Planet. They have also worked with Pig Iron Theatre Company, Headlong, New Paradise Laboratories, Orbiter 3, Cursed Church Theatre, Stephanie Blythe, MJ Kaufman, Mary Tuomanen, Annie Wilson, Michael Kiley, Suli Holum, and Martha Stuckey, among others.

Pablo N Molina (TAKES, Pandæmonium, Being/With) is a Los Angeles and New York City based video, lighting and sound artist. He specializes in emerging technologies and custom software development. Pablo creates sensor-based interactive media experiences for architectural installations, live performances and exhibitions. His work has also been seen in numerous exhibitions, theatrical, music, and dance performances and premiers at venues such as REDCAT, BAM, The Wexner Center, Beta Level, and the Katmandu International Theater Festival. He is a founding member of Mira Kingsley’s dance theater company A Little Bit Above the Earth and an associate artist with MODE Studios in Seattle and Early Morning Opera in Los Angeles. Molina teaches video design and media software programming at California Institute of the Arts.

Rhonda Moore (The Garden of Forking Paths, Being/With) is a dancer, performance artist, educator and a founding member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Moore has danced with Jamie Cunningham’s ACME Dance Company and began her dance career with intensive training in Dunham technique, performing with the Akosua Afro-Haitian Dance & Drum Troupe. Moore previously served as Choral Director for the Singing City-in-the-Schools Program. Moore’s extensive international and domestic portfolios include conducting professional sound and movement workshops; creating site-specific interdisciplinary installations that integrate sound, movement and visual art through shared experience collaborative elaboration; teacher-specific professional development laboratories geared to generate curriculum development with a focused, integral inclusion of visual art, design, movement; and music and vocal concerts as jazz soloist in small combos as well as with chamber and full orchestral formations. She holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase, a diploma in classical piano performance from Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, NY, and full, permanent certification in Italian as a second language, conferred by the Foreign University of at Sienna, Italy. Moore serves as adjunct professor, dance faculty at Boyer College of Music and Dance, teaching a variety of courses spanning from dance composition to the study of the development of jazz music and dance in the United States.

Scott McPheeters (The Garden, The Garden of Forking Paths) is a queer, interdisciplinary artist whose work encourages moments of collective intimacy through interdisciplinary vehicles of vulnerability. He co-directs dance and video installation company, Subcircle (www.subcircle.org) and is co-founder of Subcircle Residency in Maine. He has been a collaborator within Nichole Canuso Dance Company since 2007, and has performed with other Philadelphia-based dance and theater companies including Headlong Dance Theater, The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Kun-Yang Lin / Dancers, and Enchantment Theatre Company. In 2016 he received a Barrymore Award (Lead Actor in a Musical) for his portrayal of Candy Darling in the Bearded Ladies Cabaret – Opera Philadelphia collaboration, Andy: A Popera. www.scottmcpheeters.com.

Suli Holum (Wandering Alice, Sneakers) is a Philadelphia based theatre artist who enjoys collaborating across disciplines. She was a co-founder of Pig Iron Theatre Company, Co-Artistic Director of Stein | Holum Projects, and recently launched laboratory for the creation of new performance, Suli Holum / The Work (www.suliholumthework.org). She first collaborated with NCDC as co director and co writer of Wandering Alice, and recently directed NCDC’s Sneakers. Her work has been supported by NEFA, The Orchard Project, New Dramatists, and Playwrights Horizons among others, presented by HERE, Under the Radar, Abrons Arts Center, and Center Theatre Group, and she is the recipient of a Barrymore Award, TCG/Fox Resident Actor Fellowship, and Drama Desk Award.

Suzanne Snider  (The Octopus and the Interview, Being/With) is a writer, documentarian and educator whose work is deeply influenced by oral history theory and practice. Her most recent projects include sound installation, essays and archive design. In 2012, she founded Oral History Summer School in Hudson, New York to explore nontraditional applications for (and experimental outcomes of) life history and collaborative narrative practices. She regularly runs trainings around ethical interviewing in settings including medical schools, museums, libraries and veterans hospitals. Her writing/audio work can be found in The Guardian, The Believer, The Washington Post, BOMB and Guernica among other publications and is also included in several anthologies and artist catalogues. She is the co-founder (with journalist Allison Lichter) of the Trauma and Journalism Workgroup, which seeks to support journalists and documentarians reporting on trauma and violence-centered stories.

She has received support for her projects from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Mellon Foundation, the New School and the Radcliffe Institute/Schlesinger Library. After receiving an MFA (nonfiction) from Columbia University (2003) as a Hertog Fellow, she pseudonymously published a book with Grove Press in 2004 (reprinted by Random House Japan 2005).

Prior to her work with adult learners, she taught in the New York City public school system for five years at alternative elementary schools and developed/implemented movement arts curriculum for visually impaired students (k-12) at the New York Institute for Special Education. Currently, she teaches at the New School University and is completing a book about a divided commune in Middle America.

Xander (Pandæmonium) has been composing and performing music for over a hundred years. His award-wanting works include various film scores you’ve never heard of, singing for some bands you may have heard of, and writing countless pieces of music which nobody has heard. He has been absolved of all his sins.