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Michelle Sutherland Personal Bio: Michelle is a visual artist and activist working across genres: video production, dance theater, painting, public and performance art. Her work is an exploration of the feminine. Feminine wisdom, intelligence, beauty, and power. Title of Piece: Darkwave Feminism Talk #1 Description: Darkwave Feminism Talk #1 is a musical experience incorporating women singers, spoken word artists, performance artists, djs, and musicians to educate the audience about the sexualization of women’s bodies: what it is and how it negatively impacts everyone’s lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538417656312-2JHZ13DUM8XXUK39AW6J/SQh3AmTa_400x400.jpg Director's Weekend I Series A - 1. Michelle Sutherland Personal Bio: Michelle is a visual artist and activist working across genres: video production, dance theater, painting, public and performance art. Her work is an exploration of the feminine. Feminine wisdom, intelligence, beauty, and power. Title of Piece: Darkwave Feminism Talk #1 Description: Darkwave Feminism Talk #1 is a musical experience incorporating women singers, spoken word artists, performance artists, djs, and musicians to educate the audience about the sexualization of women’s bodies: what it is and how it negatively impacts everyone’s lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538417056105-5LGAPEM30YW7D8S850OR/Rania+Lee+Khalil+.png Director's Weekend I Series A - 2. Rania Lee Khalil Personal Bio: Rania Lee Khalil (director, There is a Portal) works in performance and moving image. Interweaving reflections on post colonialism, ecology and third world feminism, Khalil’s artworks meditate on the beauty and displacement of indigenous plant, animal and human (culture)s. Her works have been seen in such places as The Judson Church, Utopia Station and The Ontological-Hysteric Theater in New York; Aomori Art Museum Japan, Al Ma’mal Contemporary Art Foundation Jerusalem, Palestine, Zawya Cinema, Egypt, Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Finland and the artistic research pavilion of the 2015 Venice Biennale. She is presently completing a practice based doctorate at Theatre Academy/ University of Arts Helsinki. Between 2007 to 2016, she was based between Cairo, Egypt and Europe, and has recently returned to Brooklyn, where she lives, works and is the mother of one daughter. Website: www.raniakhalil.co Title of Piece: There is a Portal Description: There is a Portal is a multimedia, one-woman performance that uses storytelling and participatory theater to create a space for dialogue and healing. Written by 2016 White House Champion of Change and Emmy award winning writer, performer and activist Kayhan Irani, There is a Portal chronicles Irani’s experiences of immigration from Tehran to Queens as a girl, set against the backdrop of 9/11 in her early adulthood. Designed for schools and community centers as well as theaters, There is a Portal hopes to create openings for conversation and healing among immigrant communities affected by Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism (including folks neither Muslim nor Arab) and for all who’s experience of citizenship, safety and belonging is compromised by the anti-immigrant policies of our government. It is dedicated to a new generation of youth, growing up in the shadow of these policies upon our lives and bodies. Cast/Creative: Kayhan Irani: writer, performer Gazelle Samizay: video artist Gargi Shinde: dramaturg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538416958121-APJVCKHDXHQ4UBN857FW/Rania+Lee+Khalil+.png Director's Weekend I Series A https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538417155962-N9L2RA2YSYNK6G7KIAB1/Kate+Mueth.png Director's Weekend I Series A - 3. Kate Mueth Personal Bio : Founder and Artistic Director of Neo-Political Cowgirls Title of Piece : Title: One Flag, United in Hell Description: OFUIH is an exploration into the dangers and depravity of nationalism. Flag identity politics, no matter the country, hit hardest the extreme ends of the female experience. The child and the elderly, the beginning and the end of a life, bookend the pained experience of nationalism's crushed hope and wilted endings. Within the female entity lies promise and possibility. Nationalism defeats these with the blunt smack of fear and "otherness" while vibrant achievement and communal outcomes are depleted and replaced with a neutralizing allegiance. Performers: Marina Gregory, Janet Sarno, LaWanda Hopkins, Ziyao Yu, Camila Sander, Sayoko Kojima, Kate Kenney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538417455259-35DDWLEVKYGFYMG9H1YZ/Holly+Cinnamon.png Director's Weekend I Series A - 4. Holly Cinnamon Personal Bio: Holly Cinnamon is an actor, writer, director, songwriter and Alexander Technique teacher based in New York. Directing credits include Qualia (New Works Fest), The Woman in the Red Dress (NextFest), This Is the Kind of Animal I Am (NextFest / Fringe) and Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (Boston Conservatory). She appeared in Dear Jane ( Off-Broadway) and is a recurring guest on Season 3 of Marvel/Netflix’s Daredevil . Holly teaches Alexander Technique to actors and offers private lessons at the Balance Arts Center in Manhattan. She frequently performs her original music on her ukulele at the West End Lounge and venues around town. You can read her poetry and articles, find out more about AT and see her past work at www.hollycinnamon.com . Holly completed her MFA in Musical Theatre at the Boston Conservatory and her BA in Drama at the University of Alberta. Insta: @holly.cinnamon Title of Piece: Mary / Frank: the Ellis Island Story Description: “I had been told that I looked like a man, and I knew that in Canada some women have put on men’s clothes do men’s work. So the thought took shape in my mind. If these women had done it why could not I, who looked like a man? ... I bought men’s clothes and began to wear them. Then things changed. I had prospects.” Mary Johnson was a Canadian immigrant who entered New York through Ellis Island in 1908 as Frank Woodhull, dressed in a suit and asserting that they had lived under a male identity for fifteen years. Woodhull was brought before a Board of Special Inquiry at Ellis Island, which declared him a “desirable immigrant who should be allowed to win her livelihood as she saw fit.” This is the story of a transgender immigrant who was accepted freely into this country in 1908. Cast/ Creative: TBA https://www.cultureproject.org/directors-weekend-ii-series-b daily 0.75 2018-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538418744855-2EZIGDTY36HT2Z7T0ZK9/Juliacks.png Director's Weekend I Series B - 1. Juliacks Personal Bio: Juliacks is the author and creator of the transmedia fictions made from networks of performances, films, comic books, exhibitions, installations, paintings and multiform social interactions. Her play, Swell based upon her graphic novel (directed by Kathleen Amshoff,) was a headlining production of the 2012 Women Center Stage Festival. Her work has been shown at MoMA PS1, the Moderna Museum, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, as well as many art spaces, galleries, alternative venues, and festivals in North America and Europe. Her comic art book, Architecture of an Atom was published in 2017 and can be found at all book places. Splitting her time between Amsterdam and New Jersey, she was a recipient of the NJ Council Fellowship for the Arts, the Fulbright Fellowship and most recently the Mondriaan Project Investment Grant which supported this project, Transversal Scepters | The Antecedents specifically. Title of Piece: Transversal Scepters | The Antecedents Description: Transversal Scepters | The Antecedents is a fiction which uses legal archives from the 17th century Netherlands to think about the history and future of crime and punishment in the United States and the Netherlands. Focusing on the first prison of Haarlem in the Netherlands and its subsequent first prison uprising/strike in 1613 with its parallels with our present and future, this trans-historical science fiction is a sensory performance essay / plenary, a menu against prisons with immersive video, trans-historical morsels, live music, tapestries and shadow puppet dance. This performance looks at the trans-historical parallels of 'reforms,' laws, incarceration institutions and their uprisings as well as new technologies, fiction, poetry, movement, food and textiles as a means to imagine alternative futures. Cast/Creative: Director, Writer, Costumes, Design, Tapestries : Juliacks Performance Artist, Research, Food Art: Laura Linda Miller Projection Mapping & Design, Camera: Lars Berg Shadow Dance Choreography: Julia Bengtsson Dancers : Abby Marchesseault, Cara Treacy, Julia Bengtsson Original Live Music Composed by Brian Morales Original Pre-Recorded Music Compositions by Emilia Pennanen 17th Century Archival Research & Dramaturgy: Suzanne Sanders Support from the Mondriaan Foundation & Haarlemseherfst https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538418744855-2EZIGDTY36HT2Z7T0ZK9/Juliacks.png Director's Weekend I Series B - 1. Juliacks Personal Bio: Juliacks is the author and creator of the transmedia fictions made from networks of performances, films, comic books, exhibitions, installations, paintings and multiform social interactions. Her play, Swell based upon her graphic novel (directed by Kathleen Amshoff,) was a headlining production of the 2012 Women Center Stage Festival. Her work has been shown at MoMA PS1, the Moderna Museum, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, as well as many art spaces, galleries, alternative venues, and festivals in North America and Europe. Her comic art book, Architecture of an Atom was published in 2017 and can be found at all book places. Splitting her time between Amsterdam and New Jersey, she was a recipient of the NJ Council Fellowship for the Arts, the Fulbright Fellowship and most recently the Mondriaan Project Investment Grant which supported this project, Transversal Scepters | The Antecedents specifically. Title of Piece: Transversal Scepters | The Antecedents Description: Transversal Scepters | The Antecedents is a fiction which uses legal archives from the 17th century Netherlands to think about the history and future of crime and punishment in the United States and the Netherlands. Focusing on the first prison of Haarlem in the Netherlands and its subsequent first prison uprising/strike in 1613 with its parallels with our present and future, this trans-historical science fiction is a sensory performance essay / plenary, a menu against prisons with immersive video, trans-historical morsels, live music, tapestries and shadow puppet dance. This performance looks at the trans-historical parallels of 'reforms,' laws, incarceration institutions and their uprisings as well as new technologies, fiction, poetry, movement, food and textiles as a means to imagine alternative futures. Cast/Creative: Director, Writer, Costumes, Design, Tapestries : Juliacks Performance Artist, Research, Food Art: Laura Linda Miller Projection Mapping & Design, Camera: Lars Berg Shadow Dance Choreography: Julia Bengtsson Dancers : Abby Marchesseault, Cara Treacy, Julia Bengtsson Original Live Music Composed by Brian Morales Original Pre-Recorded Music Compositions by Emilia Pennanen 17th Century Archival Research & Dramaturgy: Suzanne Sanders Support from the Mondriaan Foundation & Haarlemseherfst https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538418979592-XRVE4EJHSYALVK4DBIQ2/Natalie+Cook.png Director's Weekend I Series B - 2. Natalie Cook Personal Bio: Natalie Cook is a filmmaker, playwright, and poet. She has been a spoken word artist since the age of 13 and has shared the stage with artists such as Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Saul Williams, and MC Lyte. Natalie founded Atlanta Word Works (501c3) when only sixteen in hopes that young people would find ways to express themselves through creative writing and spoken word poetry, just as she had. She is the writer and director of MANIKIN, an interdisciplinary theatre production that explores gender relations between Black men and Black women living in modern day America. Natalie obtained her Master’s at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she designed her own program, “Revitalizing Black Education through the Arts”. Her current projects consist of the short film , Ellie , which is set to be in production in 2019, as well as her one-person show, Cat Got Your Tongue . Title of Piece: Cat Got Your Tongue Description: Cat Got Your Tongue is a mixed media production that reveals the literal images that metaphors invoke when language — that is typically attributed to femininity — is [ab]used. Misogyny is often normalized because it is embedded within the fabric of entertainment, media, interpersonal interactions, and systems that American citizens’ operate within. Particularly looking at rap music, the songs that are typically popularized contain lyrics and visual images that objectify and degrade women. Cat Got Your Tongue cautions and invites audiences to see the pictures that a violent vernacular paints. The production begins with a warning: The metaphor is literal. Cast/Creative: TBD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538419070301-D9H0D61M2H2QQBF6RRRB/Ashley+Wren+Collins.png Director's Weekend I Series B - 3. Ashley Wren Collins Personal Bio: is a New York City-based producer, director, choreographer, actor and writer. She received her BA in English and Theatre Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School IATT at Harvard University. Collins produced and acted in the feature film, Chasing Taste, “Best Comedy” winner of the 2013 Burbank International Film Festival and the 2014 Manhattan Film Festival. Recent directing: The Bedbug and the world premieres of Gay Boy, I’m Mindful...of My Anxiety, Flak House: The Musical. She is the author of several books and short stories. Ashley is the recipient of a writing fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation. The musical she co- created, Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood, has been optioned for an off- Broadway production. Ashley was also a participant in the 2015 Directors Lab at Lincoln Center Theater. Website: www.ashleywrencollins.com Title of Piece: Land Grab Description: Land Grab addresses the thought-provoking and timely themes of oil, multiculturalism and American imperialism and asks us to examine our motivation behind the morals and ethics of the choices we make in our families, at work, in our communities and the world. When should we be passive and step down? When should we be aggressive and fight? What is worth it and what is not? Are we too far gone? When do we say yes? And when do we say no? Land Grab questions the level of personal accountability we should have not only for our own actions, but also for the actions of our country. Cast/Creative: Actors: Dan Domingues, Tom Green, Hugh Sinclair, Natalia Cuevas Playwright: Lori Fischer https://www.cultureproject.org/directors-weekend-ii-series-a daily 0.75 2018-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538423490213-0PP85Z9I8UZUAZRSRW30/IMG_0746_sRGB-1-599x600-1531257801.jpg Director's Weekend II Series A - 1. Tracy Cameron Francis Personal Bio: Tracy Cameron Francis is a first-generation Egyptian-American director and has directed and developed work with HERE, Atlantic Theatre Co, Red Bull Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Williamstown Theatre Festival, NY Arab American Comedy Festival, Pen World Voices Fest, NY International Fringe Festival, LaMama Culture Hub, and Alwan For the Arts. Internationally with Ubumuntu Arts Fest (Rwanda), Falaki Theatre (Egypt), LaMama Umbria (Italy) and regionally with Teatro Milagro, Corrib Theatre, T.B.A. festival, and Boom Arts. Cameron has created and curated original performances for Bushwick Open Studios Performance Art Showcase, Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, the W Hotel, Alwan Center for the Arts, JAW at Portland Center Stage, Queens Arts Council, and Hybrid Theatre Works. TCG 2017 Rising Leader of Color. Member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab and associate member of SDC. BA Middle Eastern Studies and Theatre Arts, Fordham. Website: www.tracyfrancis.com Melody Erfani is a NYC based theatre creator and director specializing in devising, new works, and classical adaptations. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of LES Shakespeare Co. with a M.F.A in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School and was a participant of 2013 Lincoln Center Director's Lab. She graduated with a B.F.A. in Theatre Arts during which she procured an internship with Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. Favorite credits: The Sacrifice of Belonging (Creator), Bee (Creator and Director), Antigone, R+J (LES Shakespeare), 97 Orchard St. (Creator/Director), All an Act (The Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Our Town (Stagedoor Manor, NY). Website: www.melodyerfani.com Title of Piece: The Stars Fall Upside Down Description: A new devised movement based work investigating displacement, inspired by Ancient Egyptian text and recent interviews with Syrian refugees. Cast/ Creative: TBD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538423490213-0PP85Z9I8UZUAZRSRW30/IMG_0746_sRGB-1-599x600-1531257801.jpg Director's Weekend II Series A - 1. Tracy Cameron Francis Personal Bio: Tracy Cameron Francis is a first-generation Egyptian-American director and has directed and developed work with HERE, Atlantic Theatre Co, Red Bull Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Williamstown Theatre Festival, NY Arab American Comedy Festival, Pen World Voices Fest, NY International Fringe Festival, LaMama Culture Hub, and Alwan For the Arts. Internationally with Ubumuntu Arts Fest (Rwanda), Falaki Theatre (Egypt), LaMama Umbria (Italy) and regionally with Teatro Milagro, Corrib Theatre, T.B.A. festival, and Boom Arts. Cameron has created and curated original performances for Bushwick Open Studios Performance Art Showcase, Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, the W Hotel, Alwan Center for the Arts, JAW at Portland Center Stage, Queens Arts Council, and Hybrid Theatre Works. TCG 2017 Rising Leader of Color. Member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab and associate member of SDC. BA Middle Eastern Studies and Theatre Arts, Fordham. Website: www.tracyfrancis.com Melody Erfani is a NYC based theatre creator and director specializing in devising, new works, and classical adaptations. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of LES Shakespeare Co. with a M.F.A in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School and was a participant of 2013 Lincoln Center Director's Lab. She graduated with a B.F.A. in Theatre Arts during which she procured an internship with Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. Favorite credits: The Sacrifice of Belonging (Creator), Bee (Creator and Director), Antigone, R+J (LES Shakespeare), 97 Orchard St. (Creator/Director), All an Act (The Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Our Town (Stagedoor Manor, NY). Website: www.melodyerfani.com Title of Piece: The Stars Fall Upside Down Description: A new devised movement based work investigating displacement, inspired by Ancient Egyptian text and recent interviews with Syrian refugees. Cast/ Creative: TBD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538423452674-7POCO01ZYFC7JR3L4C82/Creative+Traffic.png Director's Weekend II Series A - 2. Creative Traffic Flow Personal Bio: Creative Traffic Flow (DawN Crandell, Kristin Rose Kelly and Jeesun Choi) is a theatre collective formed to create ensemble-driven performances with queer people of color and women as leaders. DawN, Jeesun and Kristin met at the 2017 National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation hosted by Pangea World Theater and Art2Action, which fosters artists of color and LGBTQ-identified artists for arts leadership. Creative Traffic Flow is 2018-19 Artists In Residence at the University Settlement. Their play, "Voices from the Roanoke River," has been commissioned by Clear Valley Council and was developed at 2018 Works On Water Governors Island Residency. Creative Traffic Flow's process honors all experiences and skills involved in the creation. They strive to present and perform at the highest level of artistic integrity while honoring multiple forms of expressions and perspectives. Title of Piece: Duets of Difference Description: “Duets of Difference” is a dance-theatre performance that explores how we find unity and equity despite conflict and difference. It has been developed through a five-month-long multidisciplinary community workshops. The workshops brought two strangers, unlike each other in age, identity, faith and culture, who may not get to connect in real life, together to foster a deeper understanding of themselves and each other. Through multidisciplinary performance building methods, we are creating dance/theatre duets that are informed and inspired by the participants' identities while also exploring how two contrary voices can hold space for one another. In this age of fast information consumption, we want to cultivate time and space for real exchanges instead of leaning into our current political impulses to polarize and hate. How do the duets challenge and enforce each other? What can the audience and artists learn from this pluralistic framework? Cast/Creative: Performers: Nancy Shan, Stevie Xiong Wu, Gladys Solano, Elijah Rasheed, Allyn Wong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538420813398-JSI2RLO6PKVHJ88JELEG/Jennifer+Tuttle.png Director's Weekend II Series A - 3. Jennifer Tuttle Personal Bio: Jennifer Tuttle is a professional actor and director. She is a member of Name of BIRD Theatre Company in NYC, is an Equity member, and teaches at The City College of New York (CCNY). Jennifer is based out of Queens where she lives with her husband, Ryan, and son, Noah. New York directing credits include: The Seedling Project for Partly Cloudy People Theatre Company NYC, This is My Last Attempt at Fame at Dixon Place NYC, REDlight for the NYC Fringe Festival, and Hay Fever, The Arabian Nights, Working! Top Girls and Macbeth at CCNY. Regional directing credits include: Much Ado Para Nada for Shakespeare in Detroit, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Music Man, The Sound of Music at The Straw Hat Players, The Seafarer at Theatre B, Hamlet, Tartuffe, Cabaret and Three Sisters at Minnesota State University, and True West at Le Chat Noir NOLA. Title of Piece: Immigration Stories: A Celebration of the Individual and Collective Voice Description: Immigration Stories: A Celebration of the Individual and Collective Voice , is a piece reflecting young adults' feelings about the political climate and their desire to add their voices to the dialogue about injustice, human rights, identity, and belonging. Each actor/collaborator has researched their familial history, interviewed family members to create their own individual immigration story. The individual stories have been woven together chorally through devised physical and voice work to fully embody the atmosphere and qualities of the stories in the style of story-telling theatre. We want to share these stories with the audience as something to think about, absorb and pass along, because immigration isn't just "an issue," it's personal, and the beginning of a new story. Cast/ Creative: Actor/Writer: Hanna Ventura, Caleb Ricke, Zunairis Velazquez, Bibin Shrestha, Lucius Seo, Kayla Rodriguez Dramaturg: Kathleen Potts https://www.cultureproject.org/directors-weekend-ii-series-b-1 daily 0.75 2018-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538421133084-WP1025SPQUK0AFDXOY4Y/Kate+Bergstrom.png Director's Weekend II Series B - 1. Kate Bergstrom Personal Bio: Kate Bergstrom is a west coast director and performance artist whose eclectic work has been seen at Ars Nova, Rattlestick, REDCAT, UCLAlive!, Highways Performance Space, UCLA, La Mama Umbria, Theatre at Monmouth, LACMA and more. Founding Artistic Director of On The Verge Summer Repertory Company in Santa Barbara, Kate was named 2016 Central Coast BroadwayWorld.com’s Person to Watch. Featured projects include The Children’s Hour: a Queer Explosion (operetta -Granoff Center for the Arts), The Taming of the Shrew, A Map of Virtue a nd Neva at Brown/Trinity, WHOLED at REDCAT and HOTBOX (also co-creator/performer) for Ars Nova’s Ant Fest, + the Explosions From the Other Canon project. Other: Three Days of Rain and Enchanted April- Theater at Monmouth, At the Table (West Coast premiere; Best Play 2017, Broadwayworld.com,) Sometimes the Rain (nominated Best College Play 2018 Motif Magazine), Caridad Svich’s Red Bike - Rattlestick’s TheatreJam + The Wilbury Group. Recent: A.D. for Sky on Swings at Opera Philadelphia. Kate is also a professor at RISD. MFA, Directing: Brown University/Trinity Rep BA: UCLA. Website: www.katebergstrom.com Title of Piece: QUAKE Description: In 2010, 7 out of 10 senior executives in the United States were white men. One day, a female colleague presents a pitch to her team and a board of executives for a new product line. As her presentation begins, a 4.0 magnitude earthquake hits. The building begins to shake. Chaos. Evacuation. The men rise to flee. This woman does not. She continues presenting. The room: torn, afraid, suspended. The woman continues forth with her slides. A man changes his career... and what else? A Natural Disaster, a fight for a system that subsumes and disregards ones corporeality, the suspension of reality through performance, persistence and power, high stakes gambling. Music, media and subversive queer joy... The story re-calibrates and investigates the narrative of victimization of women, specifically women of color in the the subtle and deadly politicized mechanization of corporate america. Cast/Creative: Co-writer: Octavia Chavez-Richmond Composer + Performer: Martim Galvâo Digital Poet + Perfomer: Todd Anderson Guitarist + Performer: Alex Dupuis Design consultant: Josiah Davis Collaborators: Octavia Chavez-Richmond, Martim Galvão and Todd Anderson, also featuring Jayne Katherin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538421133084-WP1025SPQUK0AFDXOY4Y/Kate+Bergstrom.png Director's Weekend II Series B - 1. Kate Bergstrom Personal Bio: Kate Bergstrom is a west coast director and performance artist whose eclectic work has been seen at Ars Nova, Rattlestick, REDCAT, UCLAlive!, Highways Performance Space, UCLA, La Mama Umbria, Theatre at Monmouth, LACMA and more. Founding Artistic Director of On The Verge Summer Repertory Company in Santa Barbara, Kate was named 2016 Central Coast BroadwayWorld.com’s Person to Watch. Featured projects include The Children’s Hour: a Queer Explosion (operetta -Granoff Center for the Arts), The Taming of the Shrew, A Map of Virtue a nd Neva at Brown/Trinity, WHOLED at REDCAT and HOTBOX (also co-creator/performer) for Ars Nova’s Ant Fest, + the Explosions From the Other Canon project. Other: Three Days of Rain and Enchanted April- Theater at Monmouth, At the Table (West Coast premiere; Best Play 2017, Broadwayworld.com,) Sometimes the Rain (nominated Best College Play 2018 Motif Magazine), Caridad Svich’s Red Bike - Rattlestick’s TheatreJam + The Wilbury Group. Recent: A.D. for Sky on Swings at Opera Philadelphia. Kate is also a professor at RISD. MFA, Directing: Brown University/Trinity Rep BA: UCLA. Website: www.katebergstrom.com Title of Piece: QUAKE Description: In 2010, 7 out of 10 senior executives in the United States were white men. One day, a female colleague presents a pitch to her team and a board of executives for a new product line. As her presentation begins, a 4.0 magnitude earthquake hits. The building begins to shake. Chaos. Evacuation. The men rise to flee. This woman does not. She continues presenting. The room: torn, afraid, suspended. The woman continues forth with her slides. A man changes his career... and what else? A Natural Disaster, a fight for a system that subsumes and disregards ones corporeality, the suspension of reality through performance, persistence and power, high stakes gambling. Music, media and subversive queer joy... The story re-calibrates and investigates the narrative of victimization of women, specifically women of color in the the subtle and deadly politicized mechanization of corporate america. Cast/Creative: Co-writer: Octavia Chavez-Richmond Composer + Performer: Martim Galvâo Digital Poet + Perfomer: Todd Anderson Guitarist + Performer: Alex Dupuis Design consultant: Josiah Davis Collaborators: Octavia Chavez-Richmond, Martim Galvão and Todd Anderson, also featuring Jayne Katherin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538421083157-KK89JZX2DL924U76UO8M/Kate+Bergstrom.png Director's Weekend II Series B https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538423388811-47T20YJBSDVG21775Z8T/Untitled+presentation+%281%29.png Director's Weekend II Series B - 2. Carmen Caceres, Devin Southard, Sriya Sarkar Personal Bios: Carmen Caceres (Choreographer) is a dance artist, originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her dance works have been presented in several venues in NY such as Dixon Place, Green Space Studio, Triskelion Arts Center, and Center for Performance Research. Her company, DanceAction has participated in international dance festivals such as the First International Contemporary Dance Festival of Mexico City (FIDCDMX) in 2016, and the Contemporary Dance Festival Ticino in Danza, in Switzerland on July 2018. As a dancer she worked with artists Isabel Lewis, Jillian Peña, Elia Mrak, Lisa Parra, Jody Oberfelder, and Sarah Berges among others. Website: www.carmencaceres.com Devin Southard is a filmmaker originally from Baltimore, Maryland. After receiving her BA in Media Production at Temple University, Devin worked on a number of documentary and sports projects before starting her current job at MTV in New York City. Devin continues to work on a variety of television and film projects and is currently in pre-production on a documentary. Sriya Sarkar is a digital media producer, comedian, and filmmaker working at the intersection of digital media, comedy, and activism. She is the producer of Speakout Laughout , a comedic storytelling show about abortion, as well as lolvote, a comedy variety show and accompanying Twitterbot encouraging youth voter turnout. She's worked with Upworthy, Lady Parts Justice, and Hillary for America, and performed in a variety of bar basements and stages of all sizes. More juicy details can be found at sriyasarkar.com Title of Piece: 2 Minutes Hate Description: "2 Minutes Hate" is a movement narrative inspired by George Orwell's 1984. It explores our participation in a system that rewards us for enabling its power to destruct. What happens when we're hit with that realization? Cast/ Creative: Talent: Carmen Caceres, Nicole Rae Jones, & Thomas Gunderson Bond Musician: Eran Fink Other Collaborators: Paige Louise Stella & Samsam Yung https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538421871576-UY3BNS753V72WF0300OX/Joey+Lorraine+.png Director's Weekend II Series B - 3. Joey Lorraine Personal Bio: Joey Lorraine is a dance artist who showcases her work through experimental theatre, video, and film. As a dancer, Ms. Lorraine has performed with the Morgan Scott Ballet (formerly Joffrey II) and presented her own choreography for Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, aka. BAAD!, Balasole Dance, and Flexicurve Dance, among others. Her short films have been presented at film festivals nationwide, most notably “Pigeon Hole” inspired by the tragedy of the Venus Hottentot, which received an Honorable Mention Award by the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. Ms. Lorraine is also a Teaching Artist for Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Videographer for Classical Indian Dance Company, Jiva Arts. She is from Bear Valley, a suburb of Denver, CO, and has been a resident of East Harlem since 1998. Ms. Lorraine holds a BFA in Film and Television Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Title of Piece: Black Girl Rising Description: Black Girl Rising is a choreopoem that juxtaposes the matriarchal lineage of a bi-racial suburban born woman and the Mexican women of her current community in Spanish Harlem. Themes of motherhood, parental separation, racial awareness, and social standing emerge through a story of the pain of being abandoned by a parent, and the journey of discovering one’s identity and embracing one’s cultural heritage. Dance, poetry, music, and theatre meld into a stream of conscious dramatization of a fractured human experience that blossoms into feminine power. Cast/ Creative: Dancer & Actor: Joey Lorraine Orator & Actor: Valerie Alexander Composer: Moise Mamouzette https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1538421997151-KLYN8IB5U55IANSIHM2E/Michelle+Hawkins+Jones.png Director's Weekend II Series B - 4. Michelle Hawkins Jones Personal Bio: Michele Jones, a native of Washington, D.C. Currently the Director of Works/Artistic Resident of INCARN at the Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Brooklyn. Michele has developed stories and directed original work that teaches African American history. Nat Turner, Thurgood Marshall, Honorable Distinction, Emancipated Glory, Resurrection and MAAFA to name a few, Michele has trained and worked with artists that are currently seen in Cloak & Dagger, Hamlet, Fences, Lion King and more. Only movie credit Salina P! An acting coach/teacher she is passionate about working with children and developing those with the heart for theatre. Privileged to work with an amazing team, the future is bright! She is a member of SDC, Lincoln Lab ‘09/’10. Michele can be reached at michele.ivory@gmail.com. Namaste. Title of Piece: In This America Description: In this America is a twenty minute theatrical experience that examines the history of Black people from the early 1800’s slavery until now. This piece starts out with old Negro spirituals and progresses into songs of the 60’s 70’s 80’s and beyond. It forces us to remember the cruelty of a people kidnapped from their country while also celebrating the triumph obtained by these same people such as the election of President Barack Hussein Obama. We are reminded of Shaft and Action Jackson as well as the Panthers and Aretha. We are saddened with the pain of remembering the assignation of Malcom and Martin. It is accentuated with dialogue, song and movement of these different eras. It is wrapped neatly in a package and delivered into this dramatic presentation. The project explodes with facts and messages that leads to a shocking conclusion. In this America is not only entertaining but it is education as well. Cast/ Creative: Director: Michele Hawkins Jones Asst: Kenya Cagle Musician: DaVaughn Screen Lights: Ulric flaherty Stage Mgr: Demetrya Ford Costumes: Pamela Blount Props: Molisha Jones Sound: Kim Brothers Carl Grant, Ivan Rawls, Aboti Kaseem Waters, Roseanne Rock, Michele Houston, Kendra Williams, Celestine Jones, Sharon Brothers https://www.cultureproject.org/wcs daily 0.75 2018-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1539193536964-0R7REQN80X2GFBN0CHDU/Untitled+presentation.png Women Center Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1539024281438-V063ZM7CCB5ED20LOM71/Women+Center+Stage_white.png Women Center Stage https://www.cultureproject.org/press-release-wcs daily 0.75 2018-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1539193536964-0R7REQN80X2GFBN0CHDU/Untitled+presentation.png Press Release WCS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1539024281438-V063ZM7CCB5ED20LOM71/Women+Center+Stage_white.png Press Release WCS https://www.cultureproject.org/wcs-initiatives daily 0.75 2018-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1539193536964-0R7REQN80X2GFBN0CHDU/Untitled+presentation.png WCS Initiatives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1539024281438-V063ZM7CCB5ED20LOM71/Women+Center+Stage_white.png WCS Initiatives https://www.cultureproject.org/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2018-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1539198478895-THZKF4C376NA0MRPP01L/cultureproject.org_highlights_wcs-2012-festival_%28iPad+Pro%29+%282%29.png WCS Initiatives - Director's Weekend At the core of Women Center Stage is the next iteration of our unique and successful Directors’ Weekend, in which we invite 14 directors to create 15-30 minute pieces on a prompt and present them over the course of two weekends. This year’s director-driven pieces use theatre in a unique way to address issues of immigration, presidential impeachment, criminal justice reform, and racism in our community or in our nation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1539198478895-THZKF4C376NA0MRPP01L/cultureproject.org_highlights_wcs-2012-festival_%28iPad+Pro%29+%282%29.png WCS Initiatives - Director's Weekend At the core of Women Center Stage is the next iteration of our unique and successful Directors’ Weekend, in which we invite 14 directors to create 15-30 minute pieces on a prompt and present them over the course of two weekends. This year’s director-driven pieces use theatre in a unique way to address issues of immigration, presidential impeachment, criminal justice reform, and racism in our community or in our nation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1539197711136-DIUE7H3O5NKXAFPRJN6S/cultureproject.org_highlights_wcs-2012-festival_%28iPad+Pro%29+%282%29.png WCS Initiatives - Director's Weekend At the core of Women Center Stage is the next iteration of our unique and successful Directors’ Weekend, in which we invite 14 directors to create 15-30 minute pieces on a prompt and present them over the course of two weekends. This year’s director-driven pieces use theatre in a unique way to address issues of immigration, presidential impeachment, criminal justice reform, and racism in our community or in our nation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1539194389314-DBB571OQ6XCUPH6QBEUL/White+Right+Meeting+the+Enemy.png WCS Initiatives - Film Series Both full length and short films will be presented with a Q & A and panels with the directors. Our feature filmmakers will include Deeyah Khan, Helen Whitney, Abby Disney, Lekha Singh, and Pamela Yates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8ce4644eddec6f136f1311/1539194714580-E84E8H418YB5R7X1K9QB/Medea+%282%29.png WCS Initiatives - Playreading In WCS 2018, We will be producing a canon of Greek plays as they relate to modern day politics. A reading of reimagined Medea and Working 2018 will be presented in the festival. 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