Mel Krodman
Mel Krodman
Mel Krodman (they/them) is a Taurus sun in the 11th, Cancer rising, and Moon and Uranus in Scorpio in the 5th house. They are ruled by the moon. Mel is...
Chris Ash
Chris Ash
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...
Beatrice Basso
Beatrice Basso
Beatrice Basso (she/her) is a California-based performance maker from Italy, moving between directing, performing, and curating. Recent projects include “domestic strategies of subtraction” at The Front Gallery, directing plays by...
Carlo Benavides
Carlo Benavides
Carlo Benavides (Assistant Production Manager) is elated to be a part of this production! Immense gratitude to everyone involved in Lunar Retreat. Selected recent works include; prop designer 1776: The Musical (CAPA), projection design The...
Shannon Brooks
Shannon Brooks
Shannon Brooks is a multisensory artist grounded in iterative experimentation. Their practice engages with the full range of our senses and draws on ritual, material, and performance to construct strange...
Tammy Carrasco
Tammy Carrasco
Tammy Carrasco (she/her) is a dance artist-educator who choreographs as a way of thinking with place. In her work, domestic interiors, architectural edges, bodily structures, and the stories/histories that shape them are active...
Sarah Chandler
Sarah Chandler
Sarah Chandler (she/they) has worked professionally as a freelance manager for two decades and recently began working as an Intimacy Professional, using these skills and tools to support safe, sustainable,...
Eun Jung Choi
Eun Jung Choi
Eun Jung Choi’s decades-long engagement with body and movement has manifested elegantly across a spectrum of roles, including dancer, choreographer, movement educator, graphic/web designer, videographer, installation artist, and bodyworker. Her...
Sigh C.K.
Sigh C.K.
Sigh C.K. is a Philadelphia based performer, singer/songwriter, and actor. She grew up performing and creating in the city and has had the pleasure of working with companies such as...
Padra Crisafulli
Padra Crisafulli
Padra Crisafulli (they/them) creates theatrical experiences as a sound designer, composer, director, and generative artist, and is most energized when mixing the unexplainable with the unavoidable. Past credits seen and...
Mieke D
Mieke D
Mieke D (they/them) is a mixed-race, invisibly disabled, genderqueer femme and interdisciplinary performance artist of Chinese-Indonesian, Dutch, and Irish descent living on Lenape land. With over 15 years of experience...
Lee Etzold
Lee Etzold
Lee Etzold (she/they) creates access to art and artists through the HelloArts Collective and is a co-facilitator of the Accessibility Cohort of Greater Philadelphia. She has supported accessibility for organizations...
Meg Foley
Meg Foley
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...
Kate Freer
Kate Freer
Kate Freer is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, organizer, and educator whose artistic practice lives at the intersection of story, technology, and civic engagement. Frequent collaborators include Ping Chong, Kamilah Forbes,...
Olivera Gajic
Olivera Gajic
Olivera Gajic is a Serbian born, New York-based costume designer and educator. To her credit, Olivera has 250+ theater, opera, dance, and film productions nationally and internationally. http://www.oliveragajic.com/
Jesse Garrison
Jesse Garrison
Jesse Garrison 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...
Helen Hale
Helen Hale
Helen Hale is a dancer, embodiment scholar, and floral enthusiast. Her work revolves around dance and plants as vehicles for transformation. Helen’s theatrical performances have been presented in places such...
Beau Hancock
Beau Hancock
Beau Hancock is an artist-educator who integrates his choreography and performance experience into the classroom and uses the lessons from teaching to fuel his dance making. A graduate of Temple...
Eliza Hardy Jones
Eliza Hardy Jones
Eliza Hardy Jones (she/her) is a musician and quilter. She has been a touring member of many bands including Grace Potter and Iron & Wine before joining The War on Drugs. She also releases her own...
Suli Holum
Suli Holum
Suli Holum 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...
Mike Inwood
Mike Inwood
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...
Lars Jan
Lars Jan
Lars Jan 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...
Carlos Johns- Davila
Carlos Johns- Davila
Carlos Johns-Dávila is a Peruvian American multimedia artist, projection designer, and creative technologist whose work explores immersive storytelling, cultural heritage, and embodied interaction. Working across extended reality (XR), interactive installation,...
Michael Kiley
Michael Kiley
Michael Kiley is a Philadelphia based composer, sound designer, performer and educator working in dance, theatre, and public installation. He is the teacher of his own voice practice, entitled Personal...
Anna Kiraly
Anna Kiraly
Anna Kiraly is a Hungarian visual artist, set and projection designer, based in New York City. She’s collaborated with Nichole Canuso, the Pig Iron Theater Company, The Play Company, Talking...
Nic Labadie-Bartz
Nic Labadie-Bartz
Nic Labadie-Bartz (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,...
Bobby McElver
Bobby McElver
Bobby McElver is a sound designer and composer for theatre, dance, and immersive experience. A former company member of The Wooster Group, he has toured internationally for over a decade...
Scott McPheeters
Scott McPheeters
Scott McPheeters 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...
Pablo N Molina
Pablo N Molina
Pablo N Molina 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...
Rhonda Moore
Rhonda Moore
Rhonda Moore 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...
Kathryn Moran
Kathryn Moran
Kathryn Moran has over a decade of experience in art gallery direction, event planning, and project management. She has led programs that connect artists to audiences and resources with a...
Chelsea Murphy
Chelsea Murphy
Chelsea Murphy is a Philadelphia based dance artist, choreographer, and somatic therapist. Since completing the Headlong Performance Institute in 2012, she has created and performed with Pig Iron Theatre Company...
Chloe Marie Newton
Chloe Marie Newton
Chloe Marie is a performer and choreographer based on the Lenni Lenape land, also known as Philadelphia. Her artistic journey began in high school at the San Diego School of...
Nicki Pombier
Nicki Pombier
Nicki Pombier is a Brooklyn-based oral historian, writer, educator, and dramaturg. Her work explores the intersections of oral history and the arts, with a focus on collaborations across ability and...
Les Rivera
Les Rivera
Les Rivera 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...
Rebecca Rutstein
Rebecca Rutstein
Rebecca Rutstein is a multidisciplinary artist and public speaker whose practice bridges art and science. For over twenty years she has created painting, sculpture, interactive installation and public art inspired...
Emily Schuman
Emily Schuman
Emily Schuman is thrilled to be working on another iteration of The Garden. She prop designed for The Garden back in 2017 when it was at the Bok Building. Emily...
Payton Smith
Payton Smith
Payton Smith is an interdisciplinary theatermaker based in Philadelphia. She has supported in the production of original work as a production/stage manager, designer, puppeteer, and performer. Payton is pulled to...
Dylan Smythe
Dylan Smythe
Dylan Smythe is a lover of rhythm, bodies, people, and movement. He strives to apply lessons learned as a student of music, dance, and bodywork towards moving through life’s difficult...
Suzanne Snider
Suzanne Snider
Suzanne Snider 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....
Geoff Sobelle
Geoff Sobelle
Geoff Sobelle 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...
Carlos Diaz Stoop
Carlos Diaz Stoop
Carlos Diaz Stoop is an Artist Advocate and Creative Producer who brings projects to life across theatre, music, dance, opera, community engagement, and social justice projects. He offers Artist Advocacy,...
Mikaal Sulaiman
Mikaal Sulaiman
Mikaal Sulaiman 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...
Ayla Taffel
Ayla Taffel
Ayla Taffel is a multidisciplinary artist with a love of light and shadow based in Philadelphia, PA. They are delighted to join the Lunar Retreat create team. Currently, Ayla is the...
Guillermo Ortega Tanus
Guillermo Ortega Tanus
Guillermo Ortega Tanus 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...
Jennifer Turnbull
Jennifer Turnbull
Jennifer Turnbull’s artistic practice is rooted in the belief that environmental and racial justice are inextricably linked, and that blackness, indigeneity, and wealth equity are integral to the protection of...
Dito van Reigersberg
Dito van Reigersberg
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...
Annie Wilson
Annie Wilson
Annie Wilson is a Philadelphia-based choreographer, performer, and death doula. Her dances focus on the experience, rather than the appearance, of the body. She is a Pew Fellow in the...
Xander
Xander
Xander 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...