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Brooklyn Bred 2 Curated by Martha Wilson

Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer

Featuring: Clifford Owens (Oct 16) Dynasty Handbag (Oct 17) Pablo Helguera (Oct 18)



Lighting Design by Lenore Doxsee

RUN TIME: Approx 1hr (no intermission) DATES: OCT 16—18 at 7:30 & 9pm LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)

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Time Warner Inc. is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival Sponsor Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Stephanie & Timothy Ingrassia Donald R. Mullen Jr. The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc.

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About the Show MARTHA WILSON Curator, Performer (A Forum for Performance Art, Oct 16) Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director who over the past four decades has created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity. She has been described by New York Times critic Holland Cotter as one of “the half-dozen most important people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s.” In 1976 she founded Franklin Furnace, an artist-run space that champions the exploration, promotion, and preservation of artist books, temporary installation, performance art, as well as online works. She is represented by P.P.O.W Gallery in New York and has received fellowships for performance art from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, Bessie and Obie awards for commitment to artists’ freedom of expression, a Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts, a Richard Massey Foundation-White Box Arts and Humanities Award, and in 2013 received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University.

Photo: Martha Wilson by Christopher Milne

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Clifford Owens: A Forum for Per formance Ar t THURSDAY, OCT 16 Conceived by Clifford Owens Performed by Amanda Alfieri Renee Cox Shaun Leonardo Clifford Owens Martha Wilson Additional support for this performance provided by Agnes Gund SPECIAL THANKS My sons, Inti Owens and Joaquin Owens, my mother, Betty Owens, Agnes Gund, Christopher Y. Lew, Daniella Rose King, Lizzie Gorfaine, RoseLee Goldberg, Esa Nickle, AC Hudgins, Bernard Lumpkin and Carmine Boccuzzi, Michael Maxwell, Todd Rosenbaum and family, Elia Alba and Alex Flores, Dawit Petros, Sarah Riesman, Matthew McNulty, Martha Wilson, Shaun Leonardo, Amanda Alfieri, Renee Cox, Terry Adkins, and Barbara DeGenevieve.

CLIFFORD OWENS Artist, Performer Clifford Owens’ art has appeared in numerous group and solo exhibitions. His solo exhibitions include Better the Rebel You Know (Home, Manchester,

England, 2014), Anthology: Clifford Owens (Museum of Modern Art PS1, 2011—12), and Perspectives 173: Clifford Owens (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2011). His group exhibitions include Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art (Contemporary Arts Museum, 2012), Greater New York 2005 (Museum of Modern Art PS1, 2005), Freestyle (The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2001), and the traveling exhibition Performance Now (2013—14). He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mason Gross School of Visual Arts Rutgers University, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Owens was an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has received numerous grants and fellowships including the William H. Johnson Prize, Art Matters grant, a Louis Tiffany Comfort Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Rutgers University Ralph Bunche Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, and from the New York Community Trust, the Lambent Foundation. Publications, reviews, and interviews about his work include The New York Times, Art +Auction, The Village Voice, Modern Painters, Art in America, Artforum, The New Yorker, BOMB, The Wall Street Journal, The Drama Review, Greater New York 2005, Performa: New Visual Art Performance, Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education, and Why Art Photography? He has written for exhibition catalogues, The New York Times, Artforum, and Performing Arts Journal. Owens has lectured widely

2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL about his art practice. He has been visiting artist faculty and a guest critic at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University, New York University, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His project, “Anthology,” was the subject of a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 and the source for his first book. Owens has recently completed “Seminar,” a project about the pedagogy of performance art at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn; “Five Night’s Worth,” in conjunction with Performa13 and the traveling group exhibition “Radical Presence: Contemporary Black Performance”; “The Kiss” in collaboration with Legacy Russell at Danspace Project in New York City; and “Photographs with an Audience: Philadelphia” and “Photographs with an Audience: Manchester.” Owens was born in Baltimore, MD in 1971 and lives and works in NYC.

AMANDA ALFIERI Artist, Performer Amanda Alfieri is a performance artist from Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2013. In 2008 she attended the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting. In 2011 she was possessed by Tupac Shakur, and in 2012 she was a semi-finalist in the casting process for the reality TV show Survivor.

RENEE COX Artist, Performer Renee Cox is a New York-based photographer and mixed-media artist who is known for her seminal presentation of Afro-futuristic photography. Cox was born in Jamaica and later moved to New York where she received a degree in film studies from Syracuse University. Cox spent several years working as a fashion photographer in Paris, later returning to New York where she continued to work over the years as a photographer for several high-profile fashion magazines. Cox has used her work to express her concern and perspectives on social issues and religious imagery. One of her most notably controversial pieces was a photograph titled “Yo Mama’s Last Supper” exhibited in 2001. In this work, she recreated Leonardo Da Vinci’s iconic “Last Supper” featuring her nude self, sitting in for Jesus Christ surrounded by black disciples. “Yo Mama’s Last Supper” has since been referenced in several scholarly publications and discussed in lectures around the world. Finding the inspiration for her work from her own life experiences, Cox has used her own body to represent her criticisms of society and to celebrate and empower women. In 2006 Cox exhibited her series “Queen Nanny of the Maroons” at the Jamaican Biennale shown at the National Gallery of Jamaica. The body of work was awarded the Aaron Matalon Award, the highest honor given to any artist exhibited. One of the works from the

2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL show, “Red Coat,” has traveled to museums as part of the Caribbean: Crossroads of the World exhibition, including the Perez Art Museum Miami (2014) and the Studio Museum in Harlem (2012). Cox has been featured in other museum exhibitions including the Spelman Museum of Fine Art (2013), Wadsworth Atheneum (2008), Nasher Museum of Art at Duke (2006), Brooklyn Museum (2001), Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (1996), and Whitney Museum of American Art (1993), among others. Cox’s work was recently featured in “Pictures from Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary Carribean Photography” as part of the Contact Photography Festival (Toronto, Canada, 2014). Her latest body of work, “Sacred Geometry,” consists of digitally manipulated black and white portraits that display self-similar patterns. Executed with precision, the works create sculptural kaleidoscopes of the human body while exploring the power of symbols as elements of collective imagination. The inspiration for “Sacred Geometry” comes from fractals, the centuries old mathematical concept used by many ancient African cultures. “Sacred Geometry” has also been the result of Cox’s embrace of the digital world. Bridging the gap between the old and new technology has brought on new challenges and endless possibilities. Work from the new series will be part of an exhibition in Miami later this year.

SHAUN LEONARDO Artist, Performer Shaun Leonardo, a Brooklyn-based artist originally from Queens, is a multidisciplinary artist who uses modes of self-portraiture as a means to convey the complexities of masculine identity while questioning preconceived notions of manhood. The portraits take the form of cutout paintings, drawings, and sculptures, and are brought to life through performance. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has received awards from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York Studio School, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Art Matters, New York Foundation for the Arts, McColl Center for Visual Art, Franklin Furnace, and the Jerome Foundation. His work has been presented in galleries and institutions internationally along with recent solo exhibitions in NYC, and is featured in the current exhibition Crossing Brooklyn at Brooklyn Museum. elcleonardo.com

PING WANG Photographer, Digital Media Assistant Ping Wang was born and raised in Beijing and lives and works in NYC. Wang is a recent graduate of the One Year Conservatory Program in Photography at the New York Film Academy in New York City. His photographic works evidence a delicate balance between Eastern and Western visual culture, resulting in a personal style characterized by drama and restraint. His emotional sensitivity

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drives him to focus on the subtleties of light, architecture, and the moments that often go unobserved.

RADKA SALCMANNOVA Assistant to Clifford Owens, Project Manager Radka Salcmannova was born in 1986 in Prague. She studied at the Institute of Art and Design, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, and the Academy of Fine Arts (all in Prague), and School of Visual Arts in NYC.

MATTHEW MCNULTY Photographer Matthew McNulty is a photographer based in New York City. Approaching the medium via abstraction and representation, he works toward a clearer sense of self.

VANESSA CASTRO Performance Assistant Vanessa Castro is an independent curator, multi-disciplinary artist, musician, and published writer living in Brooklyn. Her practice, which engages with many mediums, explores performance primarily through feminist and post-colonial critique.

PAUL McADORY Performance Assistant Paul McAdory is a senior at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where he focuses on neuroscience, the

arts, and their points of intersection. When he’s not in school, he works as a freelance art handler and writer in New York. His interests include curating, enunciating the inappropriate at inopportune times, his classmates’ interest in the fluid mechanics of identity, and music. Born near Jackson, MS, McAdory came to New York to see another side of the US.

DIANE BAINTON-KIZZEE Make-up Artist You are my masterpiece, you are, and art is in your blood —Arnold Nicolas (Diane’s father) Among the many bright and beautiful faces hair and makeup artist Diane Bainton-Kizzee has worked with are Darlene Love (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2011 Induction Ceremony), country singer Tom McCarthy, Rocsi Diaz of Entertainment Tonight, Michael Blackson, Jaime Hector, Marc H. Morial, producer Eric Lewis, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and fashion designer Keishel Williams. Her music, editorial, and runway work has been seen at BAM, Full Figured Fashion, Mercedes Benz, and African Fashion Weeks, and in The New York Times, Essence magazine, and Infuse magazine. She is a member of the Harlem Alliance, the Powder Group, and New York Women in Television and Film. Bainton-Kizzee is a native of Belize and a proud descendant of the Garifuna people.

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Photo: Clifford Øwens by Sam Fisher

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Dynasty Handbag: Soggy Glasses, A Homo’s Odyssey FRIDAY, OCT 17 Written, directed, and performed by Jibz Cameron Sound design by Jibz Cameron Audio Production by Eli Crews Drawings by Jibz Cameron Animation and additional drawings by Meriem Bennani Costumes and props by Peggy Noland and Hayden Dunham Dramaturgy by Sacha Yanow Production Assistant Morgan Bassichis Produced by Alexandra Rosenberg

SPECIAL THANKS Martha Wilson and Franklin Furnace Archive, Beth Pickens, Jack Black and Tanya Hayden, Emma Reeves and MOCAtv, Allison Michael Orenstein, Jill Soloway, J’nai Cameron + Sadaf Rassoul Cameron, + the Cameron-Kalish family, Arianne Schaffer, OneArchives, Faye Driscoll, Elizabeth Olear, Clyde Cameron, Extra special huge thanks to EVERYONE who supported Soggy Glasses fundraising efforts in NYC and LA (this would not be possible without you!), and ANONYMOUS and good orderly directions. Soggy Glasses was supported by residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and is made possible, in part, by a 2014 LMCC Process Space artist residency (lmcc.net).

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Jibz Cameron is a performance/ video artist and actor who lives and works in NYC. Her work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag has been seen at such institutions as New Museum, The Kitchen, MOCA, Joe’s Pub, PS 122, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, REDCAT, OUTFEST, SXSW Film Festival, and Performa ‘07, ‘09, ‘11, as well as many international dives both great and small. She was heralded by The New York Times as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years” and by The New Yorker as “outrageously smart, grotesque, and innovative.” She has produced numerous video projects and two albums of original music, Foo Foo Yik Yik (2006) and Cosmic Surgery (2013). Her work has been supported by residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. In addition to her work as Dynasty Handbag she has also been seen acting in work by the Wooster Group, the Residents, Kalup Linzy, and in many web series including Ambiance Man, and Rods & Cones. She also works as a professor of various performance and comedy related subjects and is currently in development on a television series with Electric Dynamite. dynastyhandbag.com

Photo: Jibz Cameron by Allison Michael Orenstein

JIBZ CAMERON Writer, Director, and Performer

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Eli Crews is a music producer and recording engineer based in Brooklyn. He currently works mainly out of Figure 8 Recording, a brand new studio in Prospect Heights. He has had the extreme pleasure of working with Dynasty Handbag, tUnE-yArDs, ?uestlove, Yoko Ono, Lorde, Yo La Tengo, Cibo Matto, Kathleen Hanna/the Julie Ruin, Thao Nguyen, Mirah, Deerhoof, Erase Errata, and many other class acts.

MERIEM BENNANI Animation New Yorked-based artist Meriem Bennani grew up in Morocco, and earned an MFA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and a BFA from Cooper Union in New York. Bennani and artist Hayden Dunham are the co-founders of Other Travel, a collaborative curatorial project involving the creation and delivery of extra-terrestrial gifts to seven artists in the New York area. She is currently hard at work on Some Silly Stories, a series of kooky, kinky, hand-animated perversions based on her own crude drawings and a constant dialog with musician Flavien Berger.

PEGGY NOLAND Costumes Peggy Noland is an artist based in Kansas City and Los Angeles. Using clothing as her medium, she opened the storefront Peggy Noland in 2006

with a collection that drew from Pop Art, Japanese streetwear, and club kid fashion. Since then, the concept shop has evolved into an Oldenburglike retail installation that responds to consumer culture by exaggerating trends—most recently creating puffy paint plays on brands and logos. An avant-garde sense of humor is a strong current in Noland’s work, absorbing the world around her and then reflecting it back through the mirror of a distorted funhouse. The result is content-driven clothing whose supporters include Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Gossip. She has exhibited internationally throughout Barcelona, Berlin, and New York, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, Dazed and Confused, Interview, and Women’s Wear Daily.

HAYDEN DUNHAM Costumes Hayden Dunham sometimes prefers the name Quinn Thomas. As Thomas, she works with liquid displays and substances which take on high gloss forms such as silicone plastics and bubble formations. Virtual realms, medical scents, cyborg dreams, and feeling technologies permeate her sculptural work. The concept of mutation is a constant presence, as when an object appears as one thing but quietly performs as another. She is especially interested in the ruptures in this dynamic which occur when a person or object fails to “pass.” Her work has been reviewed by The New York Times and has appeared in the Perez Art Museum Miami, MoMA PS 1 Print Shop, Museum of Arts and Design, New Museum, MOCA, The Perfect Nothing

2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Catalog, Signal Gallery, and with Jackie Klempay and Colette, among others. Dunham received a degree from New York University’s Gallatin School in 2010. She is currently the co-founder of Other Travel, a publication and curatorial project based in NYC. This is her fifth production with Dynasty Handbag, and she could not be more excited to be a part of Soggy Glasses.

has performed at Dixon Place, MIX Festival, HOT! Festival, Wild Project, Recess, and the Garage (San Francisco), and in films by Dia Felix and Maria Breaux. Bassichis’ essays have appeared in the Radical History Review, Captive Genders, and other anthologies. Bassichis is a graduate of Brown University, and is a practitioner of Generative Somatics.

SACHA YANOW Dramaturgy

ALEXANDRA ROSENBERG Producer

Sacha Yanow is a NYC-based performance artist and actor. She has performed in theater, film, and dance works by many artists including Karen Finley, Sarah Michelson, Laura Parnes, Katy Pyle, Theater of the Two-Headed Calf, and Julie Tolentino. Her own performance work has been supported through residencies at the Field, Dixon Place, and Yaddo, and presented at Dixon Place, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Movement Research, and the Kitchen. She currently serves as director of Art Matters Foundation and previously worked as director of operations at the Kitchen. She is a creative consultant for Mercurial Pictures (Elisabeth Subrin), and a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the William Esper Studio’s Actor Training Program. sachayanow.com

Alexandra Rosenberg is a Brooklynbased artist manager, performance producer, and special events producer, with a focus in experimental, contemporary performance. She currently represents Annie Dorsen, Maria Hassabi, Arturo Vidich, Alex Waterman and Robert Ashley’s Vidas Perfectas, Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble, and Jibz Cameron a.k.a. Dynasty Handbag. Recent projects include Robert Ashley and Alex Waterman at the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Attendance at Danspace Project, and producing the acclaimed food event Taste of Bushwick to benefit the Bushwick Starr. Previous to founding her own company Rosie Management, Rosenberg worked as a producer and administrator with ArKtype, The Chocolate Factory, Beth Morrison Projects, Ping Chong & Co., and the New York City Arts Coalition. She is a graduate of Bennington College. rosiemanagement.com

MORGAN BASSICHIS Production Assistant Morgan Bassichis is a NYC-based writer and performer, whose plays include When the Baba Yaga Eats You Alive and The Witch House. Bassichis

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Pablo Helguera: The Parable Conference SATURDAY, OCT 18 Conceived by Pablo Helguera Assistant Director Sarah Hughes Piano Kelly Rogers Event Planner Allison Derusha Presenting Hosts Pablo Helguera Brian Linden Laura Lona Rossella Matamoros Equiano Mosieri Greig Sargeant Corey Tazmania Candace Thompson Table Hosts Gabriela Bonomo de Nobrega Meredith Cristal Alessandra Gomez Adrian Jevicki Zach Lamming Kat Lys Turna Mete Florence Nasar Luca Nicora Tamara Sevunts Clint Tate

Correspondents Ailssa Firth-Eagland Debra Fisher David Harth Production Coordinators Alessandra Gomez Lizzie Hurst Zach Lamming SPECIAL THANKS Joshua Linehan Gracia Ross

PABLO HELGUERA Artist, Performer In a methodical way, returning to strategies connected to the baroque fugue and ars combinatoria (combinatory art), Pablo Helguera (born Mexico City, 1971) often draws improbable relationships between human histories, biographies, anecdotes, and historical events, bringing them all together in a cohesive whole and making all serve as a reflection on our current relationship with art as a society. Helguera often focuses on history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, and anthropology in formats such as lectures, museum displays, performance, and written fiction. His project The School of Panamerican Unrest (2003—11), an early example of pedagogically-focused, socially engaged art, consisted of a nomadic think-tank that physically crossed the continent by car from Anchorage to Tierra del Fuego. He has exhibited widely internationally (MoMA, Havana Biennial, Performa, Reina Sofia, among many others) and has been a recipient

2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL of the Guggenheim, Franklin Furnace, and Blade of Grass Fellowships, and Creative Capital and Art Matters grants. He was the first recipient of the International Award of Participatory Art of the Emilia Romagna Region in Italy. His book Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011), a primer for social practice, has quickly become adopted as a primary textbook for art schools and university programs internationally. He has authored several other books including The Pablo Helguera Manual of Contemporary Art Style, Theatrum Anatomicum (and other performance lectures), What in the World, and Art Scenes: The Social Scripts of the Art World, a book on the sociology of contemporary art. In 2013 he launched the project Librería Donceles, creating the only Spanish used bookstore in New York, a non-profit project intended to draw attention to the perceptions of Latin American culture in the US. Currently touring to Phoenix and San Francisco, the bookstore will return to Brooklyn in 2015. His current project Nuevo Romancero Nuevomejicano for Site Santa Fe, NM, consists of a performance and a series of exhibitions about the history of the Mexican Period of New Mexico using extant music and historical documents.

SARAH HUGHES Assistant Director Sarah Hughes is a director, writer, producer, sound designer, stage manager, and teaching artist. She worked with Elevator Repair Service Theater from 2007—14 and now works with the Office for Creative Research. Other theater projects include: A Star Has

Photo: Pablo Helguera, Courtesy of the Artist

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Burnt My Eye: The Strange Case of Connie Converse (Howard Fishman); On the Future of Art (Pablo Helguera); Brunchtime is Over, The Pickle and Special Cheese (Sam Goodman); Barter (Vox Theater); Big Green Theater (the Bushwick Starr/Superhero Clubhouse); Neptune, Saturn; and Earth (Superhero Clubhouse). She has also worked with Classical Theater of Harlem, Target Margin Theater, and Half Straddle, among other companies. Upcoming: Special Cheese with Sam Goodman at Catch 64.

lation, sound, and video. She creates interdisciplinary work that explores the visceral and metaphysical aspects of the body in relation to language, sound, and movement. Lona is the founder and director of MAAS | Mandragoras Art Space, an organization dedicated to the research and experimentation of new approaches in performance, where she performed Devenir, a piece based on Antonin Artaud’s To Have Done with the Judgment of God.

ROSSELLA MATAMOROS Host 2 BRIAN LINDEN Host 1 Brian Linden has collaborated with Pablo Helguera on On the Future of Art (Guggenheim Museum), The WellTempered Exposition: Book One, Part One (Location One), and The Juvenal Players (The Kitchen and Grand Arts in Kansas City). He recently performed in David Edgar’s Iron Curtain Trilogy with Burning Coal Theatre Company in Raleigh, NC, which will be remounted next month at the Cockpit Theatre in London.

Rossella Matamoros is a Costa Rican artist, MFA, Fulbright Scholar, Japan Foundation Scholar, French Government Scholar, and Licentiate in Fine Arts. She works in visual arts, scenography, dramaturgy of dress, and performance. She has participated in several international biennials, including the 50th Venice Biennial in Italy in 2003. Matamoros explores the themes of trauma and recovery in different stages of human development.

EQUIANO MOSIERI Host 4 LAURA LONA Host 5 Laura Lona is an independent actor and artist, born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1976. She studied anthropology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) in Caracas, and is a 2010 alumna of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) in New York. Her theatrical practice embraces elements of performance art, ritualism, instal-

Equiano Mosieri is a Nigerian-BritishAmerican artist, happily working with Pablo Helguera once again. New York and regional theaters have seen him in a variety of roles from leads to clowns. He has recently been seen in LoudSol’s Summer Blue, Shakespeare Forum’s The Merchant of Venice, and Shakespeare & Company’s Romeo and Juliet. He earned a BA from Tennessee State University and an MFA from Brandeis

2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL University. Currently, the writing of futuristic poetry and perfecting the hard-boiled egg demand most of his attention.

GREIG SARGEANT Host 3 Greig Sargeant is an associated artist of Target Margin Theater and Elevator Repair Service. He most recently appeared in Go Forth/Please Bury Me at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, directed by Kaneza Schaal; Fondly, Collette Richland at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis; Dinner Party at the Johnny Carson Theatre in Lincoln, NE; Gatz at the REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles; and the title role in the TMT production of Uncle Vanya directed by David Herskovits. Off-Broadway credits include The Little Foxes (NYTW, directed by Ivo Van Hove), The Sound and the Fury (NYTW), Strictly Dishonorable (The Vineyard), The Seagull, Dido, Queen of Carthage (Ohio Theater), and Egypt (LaMama E.T.C.), among others. He received his MFA in acting from West Virginia University and trained in New York with William Esper.

COREY TAZMANIA Host 6 Brooklyn native Corey Tazmania has performed in the previous works by Pablo Helguera: On The Future of Art (Guggenheim) and The Well Tempered Exposition (Performa 11). His performances for other artists include: Jen Liu, MK Maher, Chelsea Knight, Elise Rasmussen, Doctor Paco Cao, Anthea Behm, Camel Collective, and

Michael Clark. Theater company credits include: seven seasons with the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, company member of New Jersey Repertory Company, 59E59, Soho Rep, and Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara.

CANDACE THOMPSON Host 7 Candace Thompson is a performer and video maker who lives in Brooklyn. She most recently appeared in Pablo Helguera’s piece On the Future of Art at the Guggenheim Museum, and in the wildly popular web series High Maintenance. A director and member of the video collaborative Other People (otherpeeps.com), she sings and plays autoharp with the band George Sand. It just so happens, the band will be leaving bright and early tomorrow for their first European tour.

LENORE DOXSEE BrooklynBred2 Lighting Designer Lenore Doxsee is a lighting designer for theater, opera, and dance. Designs for dance include John Jasperse’s Within between, Morgan Thorson’s Heaven, and many pieces with Miguel Gutierrez including And lose the name of action (BAM Next Wave 2012) and Last Meadow. Doxsee has received two Bessie Awards for her work with Gutierrez. Other designs include Target Margin Theater’s The Tempest, We are Proud to Present… at Soho Rep, and Orlando at New York City Opera.

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