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Karesia Batan has danced for Nancy Meehan, Anne Zuerner, Jenny Rocha, Emmagrace Skove-Epes, VESSEL, Abby Bender, Frances Rosario-Puleo, and Neville Dance, in addition to working with several film and installation artists.  She currently dances for Beth Soll & Company and Craig Hoke Zarah.  Karesia's choreography has been presented in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and in New York at Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, HERE Arts Center, Northside Townhall, Theaterlab, and the Secret Theater. She is also founder and director of the annual Queensboro Dance Festival.  www.karesia.com
Ivan Božičević is an award-winning composer and a versatile, sought-after musician. His opus encompasses three symphonies, orchestral, chamber, choral and solo works, as well as numerous electronic compositions. Ivan is interested in a variety of genres (early and baroque, electronic, jazz, world music) and the possibility of “cross-fertilizations“ between those genres, always aiming for the stylistic amalgamation on a deeper level.
Eka Chabashvili is one of the most important and interesting representatives of the Georgian composition school of 90s. Her music is performed in many different countries.  She does research in the field of musical genetics and micro acoustics and is the author of the new multi-topophonic composition technique and atomic-nuclear musical system. Among her main compositions are: the piano piece "Panorama", the ballets “Radiance” and “Dancing with Death," the opera/exhibition "Wandering Wishes"” after Kafka's novellas, the musical novel "The Sound and the Fury" for holographic theatre, and "Chorale" (awarded with the MDR prize in Germany). Her music is full of European and non-European cultural musical traditions. In her works, the listener encounters meditative dramaturgy and static types of composition. She develops the musical materials inside of different psycho-times. Her music’s richly colored sound palette often evokes visual associations because of the connection between her musical thinking and visual sources. Thus, Eka often speaks about her wish to paint music and also to make painting heard in music. As Karlheinz Stockhausen writes: “In her works she creates timbre-theatrical pieces, compositions. Often, coming from the verbal music she creates rhythmic-melodic intonation compositions of ‘oratory-artistic’ nature. Eka’s composition technique is quite unique and interesting, her music is intuitive and her scores are based on the principle - repeat and vary.”
Meghan Finn. Recent directing: The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman (Connelly Theater, The Tank/3LD Productions), American Power by Mitch Epstein and Erik Friedlander (V&A London, Wexner Center), DAREDEVIL by Gary Winter (The Brick), The Downtown Loop by Ben Gassman (3LD/3D+ Productions/Teeth of Tooth Atelier) and Take Me Home by Alexandra Collier, which is set in a taxi cab (Incubator Arts Project/LPR), The Service Road by Erin Courtney (Adhesive Theater Project), Motel Cherry by Peggy Stafford (Summerworks Clubbed Thumb/New Georges HERE) and 3 2's; or AFAR by Mac Wellman (Dixon Place). MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College and a BA in Theater from the University of Southern California. 2016 New Georges Audrey Resident and co-founder of the Longest Lunch (2002-present).

Jack Frederick is an improviser, writer, and multi-instrumentalist from Brooklyn, NY. Past performances include The Return at the Metropolitan Museum, Daredevil at the Brick Theater, and Cock-Strong at La Mama.
Haejin Han (Stage Manager) is a stage manager and a lighting designer. She was an assistant production manager for "Brigadoon" on Broadway and was an assistant technical director for th"Hero" at Lincoln Center, David H. Koch Theater. She stage managed at the BAM Harvey Theater for "Sweet Science Suite" and for "Horseplay Or, the Fickle Mistress: A Protean Picaresque" at LaMaMa Ellen Stewart Theatre. In 2014, she received the outstanding stage manager award at the New York Innovative Theater awards. She has worked with many dance companies, including Elisa Monte, Nimbus Dance Works, ITE, Francesca Harper Dance Company, and Life Dance. Currently, she is working at the TheaterLab as a technical director and at John Jay College as a production manager.  She is touring with "Burq off" as stage manager/lighting designer in the US and the UK. For more information, go to:  www.haejinhan.com
Lara G. Mahler is a dancer, choreographer and educator, originally from Toronto, Canada, and currently residing in Queens, NY. She holds a BFA in dance from Ryerson University (Toronto), an MFA in Dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a B.Ed from Niagara University. Lara has performed and worked with choreographers and companies in New York and Toronto including, Jim Marten (NY), Brook Notary (NY), and dance critic Deborah Jowitt (NY).  Toronto choreographers include D.A Hoskins,  Andrea Nann, Robert Glumbeck, Malgorzata Nowacka, Ryan Lee; she was also a member of Typecast Dance Company.  Lara choreographs and performs her own work, with Katherine Morales under the aegis of their company name, L&K Dance; they have performed in Brooklyn and Queens.  This is the second time Lara has worked with Beth Soll: she was in the 2010 performances of "Restless Geometry," in both New York and Boston.
Michelle Amara Micca is a Queens-based movement artist originally from Winchester, CT. She began her dance training with her mother at Valley Ballet and later received a BFA from Elon University. Micca has presented choreography at many locations, including the IRT Theatre, Queensboro Dance Festival, Greenspace Blooms, REVERB Dance festival, Elon University, and the Young Choreographers Festival. She collaborates with various artists to create for film, theatre, site-specific works, music concerts, and dance performances, including Space Guns, one of her three NY film collaborations, which won Best Film in the Sparrow Film Festival 11. Micca is a founding member of Lu, an interdisciplinary artist collective that has presented works with the LIC Arts Open, experi-MENTAL festival, Red Bull Music Academy's A Class of Their Own, and Spectrum Theater's Ambient Chaos. She has been featured as a local artist in two Queens magazines; the BORO and Idlewild. Micca is a member of Kinesis Project dance theatre and currently performs for Shandoah Goldman’s Carte Blanche. Micca performed for Beth Soll & Company in 2014 and is grateful to be performing with the company again.

Abby Rosebrock* is a New York-based actress and playwright from South Carolina. Recent acting credits include Masha in Three Sisters (Jolla Playhouse/WOW Festival), Meg in Chiara Atik's bicoastal hit WOMEN, and roles in several original plays: Dido of Idaho (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Singles in Agriculture (The Brick/Dixon Place), and Different Animals (Cherry Lane). Abby makes the web series @MyExIsTrending with Layla Khoshnoudi and is a proud of member of the Obie Award-winning playwrights' collective EST/Youngblood. www.abbyrosebrock.com

*"This Actor appears courtesy of Actor's Equity Association."

Beth Soll, who moved to New York in 2000, directed her own company in Boston from 1977-1997 and in California from 1997-2000. Praised as “the most accomplished choreographer to have emerged from New England,” she is known for her enigmatic and powerfully expressive work. With her company, she has performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia and has worked with dance companies in the Midwest and with Dance Collective, the Ina Hahn Company, and the Harvard Dance Center companies in Boston and with many choreographers, including Janet Aisawa, Bill Evans, Ina Hahn, Dawn Kramer, Rosalind Newman, Wendy Perron, and Mel Wong. Ms. Soll’s goal is to choreograph dances that evoke feelings, offer insights, and present the viewer with the familiar seen in a new light. Soll’s choreography has been supported by seven Choreography Fellowships and numerous Dance Company Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, many grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and other state and civic agencies, and funding from many private foundations and corporations, such as Jacob’s Pillow, the LEF Foundation, the Bank of Boston, the Polaroid Foundation, and the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation.  Ms. Soll, who has a Ph.D. Dance from the University Professors Program at Boston University, has been on the dance faculties of the University of Wisconsin, Boston University, the Harvard Summer Dance Center, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where she directed the dance program for 20 years), UC Santa Barbara, Hofstra University, The New School, and numerous private organizations. She is currently performing and choreographing in New York City and is an adjunct faculty member in Dance at Manhattanville College. In addition, she teaches at the American Language Institute NYU. Soll's book, Will Modern Dance Survive? Lessons to be Learned from the Pioneers and Unsung Visionaries of Modern Dance, was published in 2002.
photo: Stephen Brian Phillips
Andrew Trego: At 14, Andrew began his dance training in Houston at the High School for Performing & Visual Arts and at Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy. While completing a BFA in Dance at the Boston Conservatory (’11), he performed lead roles in works by Anthony Tudor, José Limón, Alwin Nikolais, and Anna Sokolow. He also performed in several productions for the notable opera companies, Opera Boston and Boston Early Music Festival. Andrew moved to New York City in 2011 to join the Peridance Contemporary Dance Company. In 2012, he performed with The Paris Opera Ballet in Bejart’s Bolero at Lincoln Center, and, in 2013, he joined The Metropolitan Opera. Andrew now performs with The New York Baroque Dance Company, Boston Early Music Festival, BALAM Dance Theater, and Beth Soll & Company. Additional performance credits include Opera Lafayette, Four Nations Ensemble, and The People Movers Contemporary Dance Company.
Gary Winter was a member of OBIE Award Winner 13P-thirteen playwrights who produced their own work. His plays have been produced at the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville (2015 Heideman Award), P.S. 122, The Flea Theater, The Chocolate Factory, Defunkt Theatre, HERE, the Brick, and The Cherry Lane Alternative. Gary has received support from: The New Group, Playwrights Horizons, The Jewish Play Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Goldberg Award, Lark Theater Fellow, SEG Voices, The Puffin Foundation, Dramatists Guild Fellow, MacDowell Colony, and YADDO. Gary helps organize Pataphysics, non-profit workshops for playwrights at the Flea Theater. He has an MFA from New York University.

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