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PERFORMERS
	ELIZABETH DEMENT (Dancer) was born in Ukiah, California. She began her training with Mary Knight at the Mendocino Ballet Company as well as the Marin Ballet School. After dancing professionally with Riverside Ballet Theatre, she moved to New York to study at the Juilliard School, under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy. She has danced with Liz Gerring Dance Company, Big Dance Theater, Patrick Corbin/Corbindances, Peridance Ensemble, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, The Limon Dance Company, Christine Dakin and Scott Rink. Elizabeth worked with Annie–B Parson on a piece with the string quartet Ethel as well as David Byrne’s Radio City Music Hall concert.
	AARON MATTOCKS (Dancer) a Pennsylvania native and Sarah Lawrence College alumnus, received his initial training from Viola Farber, Sara Rudner and Mark Morris. He joined OtherShore in 2009, performing in works by Annie-B Parson/Paul Lazar, Jodi Melnick and Stephen Petronio. He has also danced with John Jasperse, Christopher Williams, Yoshiko Chuma, Ursula Eagly, Kathy Westwater and John Heginbotham. Upcoming: Nut/Cracked with David Parker and The Bang Group at Dance Theater Workshop; and Supernatural Wife with Big Dance Theater, opening in Paris in March 2011, subsequently at the Walker Arts Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Formerly the general manager of the Mark Morris Dance Group, he is now a contributing writer to Culturebot, and studies dance at the Merce Cunningham Studio and with Janet Panetta. www.aaronmattocks.com
	MIGUEL ANAYA (Dancer) is a Mexican-American artist living and working in New York City. Anaya, dancer, choreographer and photographer has performed with Bill.T.Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co, Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, Liz Gerring Dance Co, OtherShore and Martha Clark's Garden of Earthly Delights among other dance projects. In 2007 Anaya was assistant choreographer to Bill.T.Jones on the Tony award-winning show, Spring Awakening. A proud alumni of the 23rd annual highly prestigious Eddie Adams " photography" Workshop, he is also one of the founding members of NYC Bridge Project, a photography program designed to support at risk youth in the Bronx. Anaya continues to fuse his dance and photographic worlds, and is currently creating his next dance piece Ceremony in the Air mentored by Ron Brown funded by Harlem Stage, E-Moves. www.miguelanaya.com
	EMILY COATES (Dancer) received the School of American Ballet’s Mae L. Wein Award for Outstanding Promise and joined New York City Ballet that same year. After six years with NYCB, she subsequently danced with White Oak Dance Project (1998 – 2002), Twyla Tharp Dance (2002 – 2003) and Yvonne Rainer (2005 - present). Career highlights include three duets with Mikhail Baryshnikov: Mark Morris’ The Argument, in Karole Armitage’s The Last Lap, and in Erick Hawkins’ Early Floating, leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp, Lucinda Childs’ canonical solo Carnation, and Christopher Janney’s solo HeartBeat, originally performed by Sara Rudner and later Baryshnikov. In her own creations, she has a special interest in cross-cultural dialogue. Her recent work includes Empty Is Also, created in collaboration with Israeli sculptor Tamar Ettun and commissioned by Performa 09 to critical acclaim. Currently, she is developing a duet with Burkinabe dancer and choreographer Lacina Coulibaly titled Ici Ou Ailleurs/Here Or Anyplace Else, a project supported by a fall 2009 residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, where she was a Martha Duffy Memorial Fellow. With Joseph Roach, she is co-editor of Theater Magazine’s February 2010 issue focusing on postglobal dance, with additional essays published in Transformations and PAJ (forthcoming). She is the artistic director of the World Performance Project and a lecturer in Theater Studies at Yale, for which she supervises the dance studies curriculum. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a BA in English.
	ROBBIE COOK (Dancer) is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer and teacher whose work has been seen in NYC at The 92nd Street Y, The Flea, Club La MaMa, Tonic and BRIC studio (Danspace Project), all over Chicago at venues including The Dance Center of Columbia College, Athenaeum Theater and Links Hall; as well as nationally at Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Colorado College, Summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska and at Wellspring in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He received a Finalist Grant from the Illinois Arts Council for choreography in 2001. Robbie is currently dancing for Liz Gerring and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and has danced for Keith Thompson, Margaret Jenkins, Deborah Hay (Solo Performance Commissioning Project/2001 & 2007) and Jan Erkert among many others. He has taught dance at Bennington College, Long Island University and master classes at UCLA and ADF. He earned a BFA in Visual Art from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Dance from Bennington College.
	PETER BRANDENHOFF (Dancer) was born in Denmark and recently ended a fourteen year career with San Francisco Ballet. He trained at The Royal Danish Ballet. He performed with the Royal Danish Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, Boston Ballet, South African Ballet Theatre and in various festivals and theaters throughout the world. He has worked with choreographers John Neumeier, Val Caniparoli, Julia Adam, Redha, Mark Morris, David Bintley and James Kudelka to name a few. Peter has enjoyed dancing in the widest range of repertoire as possible, dancing everything from modern to character roles. He is currently performing with the San Francisco Opera and will be teaching and dancing throughout the Bay Area.
	ROSALYNDE LEBLANC (Dancer) received her BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase (1994), and has since been dancing professionally in New York. She was a member of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (1993-1999) and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (1999-2002). She has also danced with The Metropolitan Opera and at the Salzburg Festival in Joachim Schloemer’s, Irrfahrten. She can be seen in the dance documentaries, Free to Dance, StillHere, and Dancing in the Light; and in Burt Barr’s short film, Roz. Currently Ms. LeBlanc is on faculty at Long Island University and continues her work with Bill T. Jones in the restaging of his pieces at universities around the country.
	JOHN HEGINBOTHAM (Guest, Dancer) is from Anchorage, Alaska. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School (BFA ‘93) and has danced in the companies of Susan Marshall, Pilobolus Dance Theater (guest artist), John Jasperse, and Ben Munisteri. His choreography is featured in the work of recording artists Fischerspooner, and in Champ: A Space Opera (New York International Fringe Festival). As a teacher, John works regularly with members of the Brooklyn Parkinson Group. He currently dances for the Mark Morris Dance Group, which he joined in 1998.
	STANFORD MAKISHI (Guest, Dancer) was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1992 to 1999. As an administrator, he has served as Executive Director of the Baryshnikov Arts Center and Director of Creative Services at Carnegie Hall, and he is currently the Artistic Advisor for New York City Center’s Fall for Dance festival. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Mr. Makishi is a graduate of Harvard University.
	SASCHA RADETSKY (Guest, Dancer) was born in Santa Cruz, California, where he began his ballet studies in the San Francisco Bay Area with Damara Bennett and Ayako Takahashi. At the age of 15, he was invited to study in Moscow at the Bolshoi Academy under world-renowned men’s teacher Pytor Pestov. After a year in Russia, he studied on scholarship at the Kirov Academy in Washington, D. C. under Rudolph Kharatian and Andrei Garbouz. He toured with the Kirov Ballet throughout the United States and internationally. He also studied on scholarship at the summer programs of the School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre’s School of Classical Ballet with Mikhail Baryshnikov, the San Francisco Ballet School and the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Vail, Colorado. Radetsky joined American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice in 1995, became a member of the corps de ballet in 1996 and a Soloist in 2003. He has danced the works of acclaimed choreographers such as Balanchine, Morris, Taylor, Lubovitch, MacMillan, Tharp, Tudor, Cranko, de Mille, Elo, Robbins, Reinking, Wheeldon and Kylian. He is an original member of the troupe “Stiefel and Stars” and has been a frequent guest performer and teacher will ballet companies across the United States and abroad. In 2000, Radetsky starred as Charlie in the movie Center Stage as well as in pop singer Mandy Moore’s music video "I Wanna Be With You" from the Center Stage soundtrack. He has appeared in numerous television and print commercials as well as starring roles in the PBS movie Home at Last and in the NBC television series Midnight Caller. In September 2008, Radetsky joined Dutch National Ballet as a principal dancer, where his repertoire included Albrecht in Giselle and Masetto in Don Giovanni.
	BRYN TERFEL (Guest, Bass-Baritone) The Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel rose to prominence when he won the Lieder Prize in the 1989 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. In 2003, Bryn was awarded a CBE for services to Opera in the Queen’s New Year Honours list and received the Queen’s Medal for Music in 2006. He is also the last recipient of the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg. He has performed in all the great opera houses of the world, and is especially recognised for his portrayals of Figaro and Falstaff. Other roles include Wotan in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, Holländer in Der fliegende Holländer, Méphistophélès in Faust, both the Title Role and Leporello in Don Giovanni, Jochanaan in Salome, Scarpia in Tosca, the title-role in Gianni Schicchi Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress, Wolfram in Tannhäuser, Balstrode in Peter Grimes, Four Villains in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Dulcamara in L’Elisir d’Amore and the Title Role in Sweeney Todd. Bryn is also known for his versatility as a concert performer, with highlights ranging from the opening ceremony of the Wales Millennium Centre to Last Night of the Proms and the Royal Variety Show. In 2007 he sang the title role in concert performances of Sweeney Todd as part of the re-opening of the Royal Festival Hall, London .He has given recitals in the major cities of the world and hosts his own festival every year in Faenol, North Wales. He is a Grammy, Classical Brit and Gramophone Award winner with a discography encompassing operas of Mozart, Wagner and Strauss, as well as more than ten solo discs including Lieder, American musical theatre, Welsh songs and sacred repertory. Operatic Highlights in 2010 include Bryn’s debut in the role of Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for Welsh National Opera, his return to Metropolitan Opera, New York as Scarpia in Tosca and Wotan in Das Rheingold and his debut for Monte Carlo Opera in the title role in Falstaff. Concert highlights in 2010 include a European concert tour to promote his album “Bad Boys” released in November 2009 and recitals in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Bryn is pleased to have an association with several companies, most notably Rolex, Clogau Gold and the Penderyn Distillery. www.iclassics.com/brynterfel
	PEDJA MUZIJEVIC (Guest, Pianist) has performed with the Milwaukee Symphony, the Residentie Orkest in The Hague, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Shinsei Nihon Orchestra in Tokyo, Orquesta Sinfonica in Montevideo, Zagreb Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Greensboro Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Napa Valley Symphony and the Richmond Symphony among others. He has played solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall in New York, Casals Hall and Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile, Da Camera of Houston, The Frick Collection in New York, National Gallery in Washington, DC, Lincoln Center’s What Makes It Great Series in New York, for Arizona Friends of Chamber Music in Tucson, Lane Series at University of Vermont, the Aldeburgh Festival, Great Britain, and many others. His Carnegie Hall concerto debut playing Mozart Concerto K. 503 with Oberlin Symphony and Robert Spano was recorded live and has been released on the Oberlin Music label. His many festival engagements encompass, among others, performances at Tanglewood, Spoleto USA, Mostly Mozart, Newport, OK Mozart, Bridgehampton, Bay Chamber Concerts, San Miguel de Allende, Aldeburgh, Lucerne, Holland, Melbourne, Aix-en-Provence, Dubrovnik, Merano and Bratislava Festivals. He has toured with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project throughout the United States, South America, Europe and Asia and with Simon Keenlyside in Trisha Brown’s staged version of Schubert’s Winterreise at Lincoln Center in New York, Barbican in London, La Monnaie in Brussels, Opera National de Paris, as well as in Amsterdam, Lucerne and Melbourne. www.pedjamuzijevic.com

CHOREOGRAPHERS
	ANNIE-B PARSON, PAUL LAZAR (Choreographers) founded Big Dance Theater with Molly Hickok in 1991. The company and its directors have been honored with a BESSIE in 2002, an OBIE in 2000, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, the first annual Jacobs Pillow Creativity Award for Choreography in 2007, and NYFA Fellowships in 2000 and 2005. They have created fifteen pieces for the company, touring the work both nationally and internationally to such venues as The Walker Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art/ Chicago, The American Dance Festival, The Spoleto Festival USA, On the Boards/Seattle, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Yerba Buena/San Francisco, and UCLA, Live!, as well as international festivals and venues in the Netherlands, France, Italy, Tbilisi, Brazil and Germany. In New York City, their work has been presented at many venues but most often at Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, Classic Stage Company, and the Guggenheim Works & Process Series. Their next Big Dance show will premiere in Lyon, France at Les Subsistances and in NYC at FIAF/Alliance Francaise. It is a choreographic adaptation of an Agnes Varda film from 1961 entitled Comme Toujours Here I Stand.
	STEPHEN PETRONIO (Choreographer) was born in Newark, New Jersey, and received a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, where he began dancing in 1974. Initially inspired by the dancing of Rudolf Nureyev and Steve Paxton, Petronio was the first male dancer of the Trisha Brown Company (1979 to 1986). He has gone on to build a unique and powerful language of movement in a career than spans 25 years. He has received numerous accolades, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, an American Choreographer Award, and a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award. He has created over 35 works for his company, and has been commissioned by some of the world’s most prestigious modern and ballet companies, including William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet (1987), Tulsa Opera (1990), Deutsche Oper Berlin (1992), Lyon Opera Ballet (1994), Maggio Danza Florence (1996), Sydney Dance Company (2003, full evening), Norrdans (2006), the Washington Ballet (2007), and The Scottish Ballet (2007). Stephen recently completed an evening-length work for 30 dancers in collaboration with composer Ryan Lott (aka SON LUX) for Ballet-de-Lorraine. The dance, titled Tragic/Love, premiered in Montpellier, France in June 2009. His company works have been set on Norrdans in Sweden, The Scottish Ballet, Dance Works Rotterdam, Diversions Dance Company of Wales, and X Factor Dance Company in Edinburgh, among others. Major repertory works have recently been set on Ballet National de Marseille, Ballet-de-Lorraine, and London Contemporary Dance Theater. www.stephenpetronio.com
	JODI MELNICK (Choreographer) a NYC based choreographer, dancer, and teacher. Her most recent works Fanfare and Suedehead were presented February 2009 at The Kitchen in NYC, Fanfare in collaboration with artist Burt Barr. These works were chosen in Time Out New York's Best in Dance 2009. Other works have been presented in New York City at Dance Theater Workshop and La Mama. Melnick's work has been commissioned by Rex Levitates, Dublin, Ireland, performed at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, for the Dublin Dance Festival, Maiden Voyage Productions in Belfast, Ireland, throughout Estonia, Russia, Japan, Bates College in Maine, and for Monmouth college in Oregon. This year, Melnick is also creating new work for Barnard College, George Washington University, The Dublin Dance Festival, and Kansai, Japan. Melnick was a member of Twyla Tharp Dance Company (1990-1994) and worked with her again in 2009. She continues to perform and work with Sara Rudner, Susan Rethorst, Vicky Shick, Jon Kinzel, and John Jasperse, with whom she created Becky, Jodi, and John. She recently revisited working with Donna Uchizono, creating and performing in a trio with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Melnick has been an assistant director to Trisha Brown, creating and re-staging two Operas, Schubert’s Winterreise (2002) and Scrainno’s De Gelo a Gelo (2007). She has performed in the video/film works of Burt Barr and Charles Atlas. As a teacher, Melnick has taught master classes, technique, improvisation, and composition workshops throughout the US, Europe, Australia, and Asia and is currently teaching at Barnard College in New York City. Ms. Melnick has been honored with two Bessie Awards for sustained achievement in dance (2001 and 2008).
	EDWAARD LIANG (Choreographer) was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He was raised in Marin County, CA, and began his ballet training at the age of five at Marin Ballet. In 1989, Mr. Liang entered the School of American Ballet . He joined New York City Ballet in the spring of 1993, and that same year he was a medal winner at the Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition and the Mae L. Wien Award. He was promoted to Soloist in 1998. Mr. Liang danced with NYCB until 2001, when he joined the Broadway cast of Fosse, performing a leading principle role. In 2002 Mr. Liang became a member of the acclaimed Nederlands DansTheater 1, where he danced, choreographed and staged ballets. After returning from Holland, Mr. Liang returned to NYCB until 2007. Mr. Liang has also performed as a Guest Artist with various companies like the Norwegian National Ballet, Morphoses and Complexions. Mr. Liang is now a freelance choreographer and dancer. Edwaard Liang has choreographed a number of works. Starting with Nederlands Dans Theater 1 workshop, FLIGHT OF ANGELS, which has since been staged for Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and Configurations. Mr. Liang was invited to do a piece for the 2004 New York Choreographic Institute. Mr. Liang’s DISTANT CRIES, danced by NYCB Principal Dancers Peter Boal and Wendy Whelan, was premiered to rave reviews from the New York Times for the Joyce Theatre, New York City Ballet Gala, and in City Center. Edwaard Liang has since choreographed various ballets for companies and projects such as NYCB, San Francisco Ballet, Shanghai Ballet, Washington Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Hubbard Street 2, Guggenheim’s Works and Process, and Morphoses the Wheeldon Company, Cedar Lake Dance. Mr. Liang was named one of the TOP 25 to Watch for 2006 by Dance Magazine, winner of the 2006 National Choreographic Competition, a part of the 2007 National Choreographers Initiative, and nominated for a Golden Mask Award in Russia. Mr. Liang was featured in the NYCB Workout book and its accompanying video and Richard Corman’s book of photographs Glory. Mr. Liang’s television appearances include the nationally televised PBS Great Performances broadcast Dance in America: From Broadway: Fosse which has subsequently been made into a DVD. www.edwaardliang.com
	STACY MATTHEW SPENCE (Choreographer) is an independent choreographer, dancer, and teacher living in New York City. He graduated with an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and went on to dance with several New York choreographers and artists including Polly Motley, Molly Davies and Phyllis Lamhut. Stacy joined The Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1997, performing nationally and internationally with the company until 2006. He continues to work with the company, leading classes, workshops and lectures focused on Trisha Brown’s repertory, and he has participated in the restaging of several of her works, among them Trisha Brown’s production of Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo. Stacy directed the restaging of several Trisha Brown repertory works, including Set and Reset/Reset, 5 Part Weather Invention, Canto/Pianto, and sections of Newark at London Contemporary Dance School’s EDge, the University of Southern Florida, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, France. In 2006, Stacy’s own work I wanted to be close to you was commissioned by EDge at London Contemporary Dance School, followed by Adjusted Space for the University of New Mexico in 2007. Stacy also continues to teach internationally as well as locally, most recently at Tisch School of the Arts and Movement Research.

SOUND DESIGN
	CORNELIUS DUFALLO (Violinist/Composer) Heralded by The New York Times as one of the “new faces of new music,” violinist/composer Cornelius Dufallo has quickly risen to the forefront of the American contemporary music scene. He is currently director of the creative music ensemble Ne(x)tworks; since 2005 he has also been a performer/composer member of the world-renowned amplified string quartet known as ETHEL. His ongoing commitment to cutting edge musical innovation has produced collaborations with many of today’s most compelling performers and composers. His own music has been performed by ETHEL, the Flux Quartet, the Cutting Edge Ensemble, Ne(x)tworks, and pianist Jenny Lin. Dufallo has recorded for Koch International Classics, Mode Records, Cantaloupe, and Tzadick, and his own compositions can be heard on Cantaloupe and Koch International Classics. Music for Electric Violin is a study in intermittence, repetition and abstraction. The opening music (based on the upper harmonic partials) descends slowly from the violin’s highest register, passing through three variant phases before returning to the musical stratosphere. This piece is inspired by the purity and inherent musicality of Stacy Spence’s choreography. Some material is derived from my earlier Suite for Electric Violin, but has been reworked for this new piece. It is a great pleasure to write music for the masterful artists of OTHERSHORE. www.corneliusdufallo.com
	SON LUX (Composer) is Ryan Lott. After studying composition and piano at Indiana University School of Music, Ryan moved to Cleveland, OH, where he lived for six years, earning a reputation as a versatile and zealous collaborator. Equally at ease in the creative company of choreographers, classical musicians, and break dancers, he cut his teeth spear-heading multi-disciplinary "performance parties," composing music for modern dance companies, and collaborating with musicians across many genres. His works have been performed dozens of times in NYC and throughout the US and Europe. In the cracks of time and energy between Ryan's collaborations, his creative alter-ego "Son Lux" was born out of an urge to finally set about making an album of his own. What Ryan, as Son Lux, wove together over 4 years in his attic studio, is critically acclaimed as one of the best records of 2008. It is At War With Walls and Mazes, an impressive debut which earned Son Lux the title of Best New Artist by NPR's All Songs Considered. Ryan moved to New York City in 2007 while still finishing up the Son Lux record, and has since become a sought-after arranger and remixer, reimaging the music of Beirut, Nico Muhly, My Brightest Diamond, Anathallo, and many others. Film credits include arranging and programming for the score for The Brothers Bloom (2008). Present projects include a series of new releases under the Son Lux moniker. www.sonlux.blogspot.com
	TEI BLOW (Sound Designer) was born in Japan and raised in the US, Tei Blow is a Brooklyn-based artist whose recent projects include songs for the film "Loveless" by Ramin Serry, interactive video sets for Steve Burns and the Struggle, sound designs for Deganit Shemy & Company and Big Dance Theater, and touring video for Mikhail Baryshnikov and Ana Laguna. As a musician, he performs with the bands Perfect Shapes and Frustrator! Most recently at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT, Dance Theater Workshop, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and the Movement Research Festival in NYC. An archive of his projects can be found at www.sciencecompany.org.
	ELIAS ORLING (Sound Designer) has been a musician for over ten years. He is self taught on the bass, guitar, banjo, keys, ukulele, voice and drums. His musical talent has landed him in several bands, with which he has performed at many venues in New York, Boston, and London. Though primarily a bassist, Orling also has formal training as a visual artist—approaching his musical collage and song writing with strong attention to texture as well as rhythm and atmosphere. His compositions have been used in performances by Maria Colaco Dance Co. and Wobble Dance Co. Currently he is working with his new band, Car On The Moon to create a rhythm driven, blues inspired experience with hints of soul and traditional songs. He lives, writes, and records in Brooklyn, NY with his cat Mel.

LIGHTING DESIGN
	JENNIFER TIPTON (Lighting Designer) is an internationally recognized lighting designer whose distinctive designs have redefined the relationship between lighting and performance. Tipton has been an important presence throughout her prolific career in dance, drama, and opera productions of all scales, and she is regarded as one of the most versatile designers working today. Jennifer Tipton received a B.A. (1958) from Cornell University. She has designed lighting for numerous dance performances for such companies as the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre, Twyla Tharp Dance, and the Paul Taylor Dance Company, and for theatrical productions at such venues as St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Public Theatre, and the Metropolitan Opera, among many others. Since 1994, she has served as an adjunct professor of lighting design at the Yale University School of Drama. Her numerous awards include the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award, the Tony Award and the Joseph Jefferson Award.

SET DESIGN
	MARK KOSTABI (Artist) became a leading figure of the East Village art scene in 1984. By 1987 his works were widely exhibited in New York galleries and prominently throughout the United States, in Japan, Germany and Australia. In 1988, inspiring extensive international press coverage, he founded Kostabi World - his large New York studio known for openly employing numerous painting assistants and idea people. In 1996 be began dividing his time between New York and Rome and consequently his work's already strong presence in the Italian art scene was vigorously enhanced. Kostabi produces a weekly cable TV show, Title This, where noted art critics and celebrities compete to title his paintings for cash awards. He writes an advice column for artists, Ask Mark Kostabi, for Artnet.com. Kostabi has designed album covers for Guns 'N' Roses (Use Your Illusion) and The Ramones (Adios Amigos), Jimmey Scott (Holding Back The Years) and numerous products including a Swatch watch, limited-edition vases, espresso cups, computer accessories and a Giro d'Italia pink jersey. Kostabi is also known for his many collaborations with other artists including Enzo Cucchi, Arman, Howard Finster, Tadanori Yokoo, Enrico Baj and Paul Kostabi. Kostabi has performed music as a soloist and with other musicians including Ornette Coleman, Jerry Marotta, Tony Levin, Puccio Panettieri and Paul Kostabi. His compostions have also been performed independently by Rein Rannap, Kristjan Järvi, Maano Männi, Delilah Gutman and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. His CDs include I Did It Steinway, Songs For Sumera and New Alliance. Retrospective exhibitions of Kostabi's paintings have been held at the Mitsukoshi Museum in Tokyo (1992) and the Art Museum of Estonia in Tallinn (1998). Kostabi's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Gallery in Washington D.C., the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and the Groninger Museum in Holland. His permanent public works include a mural in Palazzo dei Priori in Arezzo, Italy, a large bronze sculpture in the central square of San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, and a bronze portrait of Pope John Paul II in Velletri, Italy. Kostabi has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, A Current Affair, Nightwatch (with Charlie Rose), The Oprah Winfrey Show, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Nonsolomoda, West 57th, CNN, MTV and numerous television programs throughout Europe and Japan. In print he has been featured in The New York Times, People, Vogue, Architectural Digest, The Face, Playboy, Forbes, New York Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph, Domus, Corriera Della Sera, Panorama, Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Flash Art, Arte, Arte In and Tema Celeste. The many books published about Kostabi include Sadness Because the Video Rental Store Was Closed, Kostabi: The Early Years, Conversations with Kostabi, The Rhythm of Inspiration, Mark Kostabi and the East Village Scene 1983-1987 and Mark Kostabi in the 21st Century. kostabi.com
	JACK WARREN (Artist) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is represented by Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY. www.jackwarrenart.com

COSTUME DESIGN
	NINA KATAN (Designer) Bio coming soon
	ELIZABETH CANNON (Designer) is a clothing designer based in New York City. She studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design where she received a BFA in illustration. She originally wrote and illustrated children’s books working closely with Pantheon Books and the Gotham Book Mart where she had three solo shows. After a nine-month stay in Paris, she became interested in the world of couture & began designing and fabricating costumes and clothing. She was the fashion editor of Bomb Magazine from 1988- 1990. She has often collaborated with other artists, and her work has been included in and has been the subject of many gallery shows in New York City. She maintains a design studio where she creates clothing for a private clientele. She began designing costumes for dance in 1998. She has worked with Jodi Melnick, Nancy Turano and extensively for The Trisha Brown Dance Company, including three Operas : Wintereisse, Da gelo a gelo and Pygmalion and several dance pieces including O composite, O Zlotony with the Paris Opera Ballet in 2004. She recently collaborated with OtherShore dance company on Songs of Travel with Bryn Terfel at the Baryshnokov Arts Center. www.elizabethcannoncouture.com
	JEAN YU (Designer) was born in South Korea. After growing up in LA, she arrived in New York City to attend F.I.T. in 1990. Her first collection of dresses, which were specifically developed for high end specialty retailers, graced the likes of Barneys New York, LA and Japan, Neiman Marcus, Louis Boston, Fred Segal, and Harvey Nichols. In December 2001, Jean Yu launched her signature collection of silk lingerie with the opening of 37=1, her free standing retail store and showroom in Soho. The jewel-like store with its in-house atelier serves as showcase, office and work shop for Jean Yu inc. The last decade has seen a collection of accolades and exhibit inclusions celebrating Jean’s designs. In 1999, Jean was recognized with the Innovator Design Award from Cotton Incorporated; in 2005, she was a CDFA finalist; and in 2007, she was honored with Designer of the Year by Avenue L/ Lotte, Souel Korea. In 2005, Jean was included in the FIT museum’s permanent collection, and in 2007, her designs were showcased internationally in a New York Fashion Exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Most recently in 2009, her designs are incorporated into an exhibition aptly named “American Beauty” to celebrate innovative American designers at the F.I.T museum - the first of its kind. www.atelierjeanyu.com