Nathaniel Braddock is the leader of Occidental Brothers Dance Band Int'l, Air Congo, and Trio Mokili, and was a ten-year faculty member of Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. Braddock has performed extensively with African artists from Mali, Ghana, Zambia, and Congo, and with many American and Australian indie rock bands. He has completed several commissions of African music and music for modern dance. His instrumental solo guitar and mandolin sets feature the crossroads of African roots music and American primitive guitar, with original compositions that extend into modern harmonies and rhythms with the complexity of chamber music. In 2016 Braddock relocated from Sydney, Australia, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Ethnomusicology at Tufts University. nathanielbaddock.com
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Tim Cryan is a New York based lighting designer whose work has been seen in the United States and Europe. Specializing in Dance and Theatre, Tim has had the opportunity to collaborate with a variety of artists including: East River Commedia “The Magnificent Cuckold” (dir. Paul Bargetto), “The Disappearing Woman” (Choreography by Nell Breyer, Alissa Cardone, Lorraine Chapman & Bronwen MacArthur), Fiasco Theatre Company’s “Cymbeline”& “Twelfth Night” (dir. Noah Brody & Ben Steinfeld), Diamanda Galas (performances at Spiegeltent & Joe’s Pub, NYC), Martha Graham Dance Company “Visions from the House of Atreus” Athens Greece, Javierantonio Gonzalez “Las minutas de Marti”, Eiko & Koma “Cambodian Stories Revisited” Danspace Project NYC, Jamie Jewett “Melt” (Joyce Soho), Nature Theatre of Oklahoma “Fragment”, “Poetics-a ballet brut”, “Kasimir & Karoline”, & “Three Sisters”(dir. Pavol Liska), Sara Rudner “Dancing on View Variations” (Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy), & Maryann Wall “Rusted Ruse Carnival”. MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. timcryan.net
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You-Shin Chen is a New York based scenic designer for performing arts. Originally born and raised in Taiwan, she came to New York to attend NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she received her MFA in 2014. As a theater practitioner, she is committed to diversity and humanity. She has designed at Berlind Theatre in McCarter Theatre Center, The Public Theater, Yale University Theatre, La MaMa, The Bushwick Starr, Access Theater, Dixon Place, New York Film Academy, Hudson Guild, BRIC and other venues across NYC and abroad. Recent theater credits include: Eclipsed (Berlind Theatre) ; Memory Retrograde (ArsNova & The Public Theater UTR) Acquittal (Pan Asian Rep); Men on Boats, We are Proud to Present..., (Yale Dramatic Association); The Hollower (New Light Theater Project); Carrie, Nine, Urinetown, ...Spelling Bee (New York Film Academy). As a scenic design assistant/associate she has worked with Mimi Lien, Laura Jelinek and Steven Dufala on theater and opera productions in NYC and regionally, including Roundabout Theatre, Signature Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage Theatre, The Public Theatre, Juilliard Drama, LCT3, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Williamstown Theatre Festival, ArsNova, Long Wharf Theatre, American Conservatory Theater and Prince Theatre. From time to time she works on indie films with friends. Tiny Mammals, a short film she art directed, premiered at the Florida Film Festival in 2017. It had its international premiere in Leiden International Film Festival in the same year, and Gasparilla Film Festival in 2018. youshinchen.com
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Katie Down, (MT-BC, LCAT) is a licensed creative arts therapist, Reiki practitioner, and performing musician. She has created sound scores for theatre, film, and dance including the recent commission of NewBorn Trio's live sound score for the BAM production of Murakami's Sleep at the Next Wave Festival, Roland Schimmelpfennig's The Golden Dragon which garnered her a Drama Desk nomination, and Aditi Kapil's Agnes Under the Big Top at Long Wharf Theatre for which she won the Connecticut Critics Circle Award. As a multi-instrumentalist, Katie performs regularly with NewBorn Trio, The Ukuladies and the Sephardic ensemble Sofie Salonika and has traveled to the Balkans, South Africa and Ecuador creating workshops in song writing and improvisation for young people in post-conflict regions for music to be an agent for healing and connection. Katie teaches mindfulness meditation through sound and deep listening at MNDFL, Maha Rose Center for Healing, MINKA Brooklyn, and has been a guest lecturer at NYU, The School of Visual Arts, Cal State Fullerton, The Jewish Theological Seminary, The Expressive Arts Therapy Summit, The International Conference on Deep Listening, and at many grand rounds presentations for area hospitals. soundwellcenter.com
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Sarita Fellows was born in Freetown Sierra Leone, and grew up in Sudan, Zimbabwe, Uganda, England and the US. She has traveled to over 30 different countries and continues to enjoy travel and living in different environments and has found her home and career in scripts and defiant stories. Fellows earned her MFA at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU in 2008. Amongst her credits are: Alvin and the Chipmunks Live! with 2SBN, 5 Kinds of Silence, Fabuloso! The Good Body and Prospect with The Boundless Theater Co, A Midsummer’s Nights Dream, Hairspray, Pericles, Insidious and The Wiz with the Black Rep at St. Louis MO. Big River, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown and Carousel with the Summer theater of New Canaan CT, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Spring Awakening the musical, and Kingdomwith ReVision Theatre Co NJ. Her latest films include Dirt, Midway and Evolution of a Criminal written and directed by Darius Clark Monroe, Everybody Dies, and Afronauts written and directed by Francis Bodomo. She recently opened The Block with the Working Theater Co and is Susan Hilferty's associate designer for Familiar at Playwrights Horizon and Turn Me Loose at the Westside Theater. saritafellows.com
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Darryl Montgomery [artist pseudonym Darryl Hell] is an arts educator who teaches media literacy, American cultural history and engaged civics, a citizen journalist, arts mentor / educator, strategic consultant, veteran multi / mixed media artist & producer, musician, documentarian, turntablist, artivist, community organizer, public speaker, and theatrical technical director. Since the late 1970's, he has focused his efforts on studying the intersections between innovations in technology, personal / community development, and organizational structure. From 2003 to 2012, he was an Internet Strategic Consultant for six-term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, with a Congressional win in 2004. His community work includes creating a community greenspace in Bed-Stuy, restructuring and bolstering block associations, mentoring, and providing community / infrastructural development workshops for Green Thumb.
Darryl is the founder of Purpose Lounge, which creates and teaches innovative strategies of personal and community team building and outreach. We address issues of personal development, non-ownership complex, and social / media literacy through historical civics. Our program takes the perspective that cultural history, media literacy, and civics are the cornerstones of any truly empowered person and/or community. S6K.com |
Numinous is a flexible and unique ensemble of up to 25 musicians that was founded in 2000 by composer Joseph C. Phillips Jr. to perform his music. Part chamber orchestra, part contemporary alternative ensemble, Numinous deftly and organically transmutes inspiration from contemporary classical, jazz, world, and popular music as well as cinema, literature, and science. Numinous and Phillips's music generate emotions in the listener that resonate with beauty, mystery, and wonder in order to challenge, enlighten, and refresh. Joseph C. Phillips Jr. has been awarded a American Composers Forum J Fund grant, Meet the Composers grant, an American Music Center CAP grant, two Live Music for Dance commission grants, and was finalist for the Sundance Film Composers Lab Fellowship and the Opera Company of Philadelphia Composer-in-Residence; in addition new works have been commissioned by the BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Next Wave Festival, the Ecstatic Music Festival, Simone Dinnerstein's Neighborhood Classics concert series, and a number of other musicians and ensembles. numinousmusic.com
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James Scruggs is a writer, performer, producer and arts administrator who creates large scale topical, theatrical, multi-media work usually focused on inequity or gender politics. He was awarded a 2016 NJSCA Fellowship for artistic excellence, a 2016 Creative Capital Grant, and a 2015 MAP Grant to create 3/Fifths, a piece exploring race and racism today. He conceived, wrote and produced 3/Fifths. It was inspired by Disposable Men, his 2005 multi-media solo performance work, which juxtaposed images from Hollywood monster movies with the harsh reality of the historical treatment of black men in America. It was produced by HERE Arts Center. Previous theatrical works include Touchscape, An Emotional Striptease; Tickets To Manhood and more recently Deepest Man, an experimental work with a 3D holographic projection surface exploring freediving as a cure for grief. He’s a consultant and Fieldwork facilitator for The Field, and is also currently a Professional Development Program facilitator for Creative Capital. James Scruggs has a BFA in Film from School of Visual Arts. jamesscruggs.com
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Mark Turgeon, who holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design from 1987, has spent most of the past twenty-plus years as an artist, rooted in New York City. He has had solo exhibitions at the Knitting Factory, The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, the Dillon Gallery - all in New York. He has participated in many group exhibits through the country. Turgeon has organized and performed in a number of spoken word evenings. He has created sets and props, posters and graphics for theater companies, film projects, restaurants, retail and private residences. mtartworks.com
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