Charlotte Crowe

Charlotte Crowe holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MA in English from the University of Oxford, where she completed a dissertation on Virginia Woolf and Jane Ellen Harrison, the first female classicist and archaeologist in the UK. A 2017 Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction, she currently works at the Brooklyn Public Library and is writing her first novel

Spencer Huffman

Spencer Huffman is a playwright, actor, and director based in Chicago. His plays include: When We Were Little, Shine Down On Us, The Swamp Play, Like Some Deep Booming, and If Only We Were Ghosts. His plays have earned finalist and semi-finalist nominations from The National Playwrights Conference, American Stage’s 21st Century Voices New Play Festival, Landing Theatre Co. New American Voices Festival, and The New Colony. Spencer’s plays have received staged readings from Three Cat Productions (Chicago, IL) and Broken Bell Productions (Chicago, IL). He was a member of the Writers Room 7.0 at The New Colony in Chicago. His directing credits include Bug by Tracy Letts and Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth. Spencer earned a BA Kenyon College with majors in Theatre and English.

André & Evan Lenox-Samour

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André & Evan Lenox-Samour (b. Boston, MA) are an identical twin artist duo, and members of the 4-person collective Miami-Dutch, a collaborative that revisits sites of public assembly and memorial, and addresses the rise and fall of civic entities through fictional and ancestral narratives. The name utilizes a hyphenate of regional dialects to suggest a fabricated encounter during the colonization of the Americas, creating a satirical nation-state and imagined lingua franca. Informed by the collaborative’s inherited narratives of Cambodian, Iraqi-Jewish, and Palestinian diasporas, Miami-Dutch’s practice centers on the formation of new identities as borders and political climates shift. André & Evan attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving their BFAs in Studio Art in 2012. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Honor Fraser (Los Angeles, CA), Club Pro Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), Shoot The Lobster (New York, NY), Interstate Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Rod Barton (London, UK), and Queer Thoughts (Chicago, IL), among others. Their work has been published in Post Internet Survival Guide (Ed. Katja Novitskova, Revolver Publishing, Berlin, Germany, 2010), with press including Art21, Artspace, Cultured Magazine, and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles.

http://miami-dutch.org/

Etan Nechin

Excerpt from Text for a Performance UTTER: The Violent Necessity for the Embodied Presence of Hope, Venice Biannale 2015

Etan Nechin is an Israeli writer living in New York. His writing has been published at ZYZZYVA, Apogee, Columbia Journal, Huffington Post, MonkeyBicycle, Entropy, MutualArt and more. His text for a performance, UTTER: The Violent Necessary for the Embodied Presence of Hope, was shown at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Currently, he is the online editor of The Bare Life Review, a journal of immigrant and refugee literature.

https://cargocollective.com/etan-nechin

Hà Ninh Pham

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Hà Ninh Pham is an artist from Hanoi, Vietnam, who works primarily in drawing and sculpture. His work explores the way in which we construct an understanding of a territory from afar. Ha Ninh earned his BFA in painting form the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in 2014, and his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2018. He has been in residence at the Showhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Wassaic Project. Ha Ninh received the Silver Medal in the Young Talents of Vietnamese Fine Arts Universities in 2015 and the Murray Dessner Travel Award in 2018. His work has been shown in New York, Philadelphia, and Hanoi, Vietnam. As a winner of the 2018 open call of the Passenger Pigeon Press, he will have his second solo show at the FRONT Art Space in New York in 2019.

www.haninh.com

Leslie Rogers

Leslie Rogers Victory Dance 2016 Quilt and Video

Leslie Rogers is a sculptor, performance artist, and puppeteer. Her arts background is in puppetry and quilting, with degrees from the Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA) and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Sculpture & Extended Media program (MFA). Her work draws from slapstick entertainment, collaborative relationships, gender tropes, and the fiber arts to disregard or erase perceived hierarchies between performer and object, and amongst art forms and social groups. Rogers has been awarded artist residencies at ACRE, AS220, Art Farm Nebraska, Mildred’s Lane, the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, and postdoctoral research fellowship from the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. She lives and works in Detroit.

www.leslierogers.net

Michael Dwan Singh

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Michael Dwan Singh is an artist, producer, and stage actor based in Cambridge, MA. One of the very few sarangi players in the United States, he comes under the lineage of the legendary Sultan Khan via his teacher, Dr. Kashyap Dave. Singh is a seasoned stage performer who has brought the soulful haunt of his instrument and tonality to audiences across the US and India. As a producer, he founded Desi Standard Time Studio in 2008, transforming the second floor of a mechanic’s garage into a makeshift audio paradise. There, he remixes archetypes, cooks hooks and writes groove across decaying tape machines, obscure Indian instruments, and overdriven synths. His most recent work has been with his band, The Shadow Notes, and as Tapewallah- his solo project. Singh is also one of the main organizers for SubDrift Boston- a monthly open mic for the South Asian Diaspora. 

www.ashram885.com

Katie Workum

Workum began making dances in 1999. Since 2013, she’s been researching improvisational performance and practice as an alternate, feminist model of working and presenting work. Currently she’s an AIR at CPR and Marble House Project for the development of her new piece Anna, Darrin, David, Eleanor, Jess, Katie, Leslie & Weena. Most recently her work was presented by The Wassaic Project Summer Festival curated by Charmaine Warren, and she mounted a 40-person improvisational dance within Nick Cave’s The Let Go at The Park Avenue Armory. The Airy Road of the Meteor at Movement Research/Judson Church, was an experiment in community co-creation, featuring 30 audience members and one company member. Additionally she’s been presented by Gibney Dance, MASS MoCA with Jacob’s Pillow Dance, Danspace Project, Mount Tremper Arts, The Chocolate Factory, PS122’s Catch/Coil, Gibney In the Works/American Realness, BKSD, Dance Theater Workshop, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Kitchen, Dance New Amsterdam, 92nd St Y, Symphony Space and others. She has been an Artist in Residence at CPR (2018), MASS MoCA (2015), Chez Bushwick (2014), Dance New Amsterdam (2008, 2009), Mount Tremper Arts (2010, 2014), Tribeca Performing Arts Center (2006), and The Kitchen (2005). She’s received funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant (2015) and NYSCA through DNA (2010). Workum holds a Master’s in Dance Education at New York University. Workum teaches improvisation and Authentic Movement at BKSD and has taught at Gibney Dance, School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Barnard College, NYU Experimental Theater Wing, and Lehman College

www.katieworkum.org