UNDER THE RADAR SYMPOSIUM ITINERARY 9:45AM 12:00PM WAITING ROOM OPEN ON ZOOM INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE GROUP PANEL INTRODUCTION: Alicia Adams and Diane Ragsdale PANELISTS: Guillermo Calderón, Ligia Lewis, 10:00–10:50AM Eiko Otake, Annie-B Parson SYMPOSIUM SESSION ONE MODERATOR: Olga Garay-English SPEAKERS: Mark Russell, Lisa Richards Toney, Shanta Thake, Oskar Eustis KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Marc Bamuthi Joseph 12:45PM 10:50AM BREAKOUT ROOMS: SESSION TWO BREAKOUT ROOMS: SESSION ONE INTRODUCTION: Kelly Kerwin 1:15PM REVERSE KEYNOTE 11:20AM SPEAKER: Kristy Edmunds COMING ATTRACTIONS INTRODUCTION: Jon Grenay 1:25PM ARTISTS: Tania El Khoury, Roger Guenveur Smith, FINAL REMARKS Anna Maria Nabirye and Annie Saunders, Héctor Flores Komatsu SPEAKER: Mark Russell

11:40AM 1:30PM DIANE RODRIGUEZ TRIBUTE SYMPOSIUM SENDOFF SPEAKER: Olga Garay-English FROM ANOTHER TIME: CHOIR! CHOIR! CHOIR! with TRIBUTE VIDEO: “In the Boardroom Where It Happens” from Theatre Communications Group EST Time zone. Times subject to change.

11:45AM BREAK UNDER THE RADAR SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH, Vice President and Artistic Director OSKAR EUSTIS, Artistic Director, of Social Impact at The Kennedy Center Oskar Eustis has served as the Artistic Director of The Public Theater since Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, an inaugural recipient 2005, after serving as the artistic director at Trinity Repertory Company of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the United in Providence, RI from 1994 to 2005. Throughout his career, Eustis has States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. He is also the winner of the 2011 been dedicated to the development of new work that speaks to the great Herb Alpert Award in Theatre, and an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke issues of our time and has worked with countless artists in pursuit of that Performing Artist Award. In pursuit of affirmations of Black life in the public aim, including , Suzan-Lori Parks, , Lin- realm, he co-founded the Life is Living Festival for Youth Speaks, and created Manuel Miranda, Richard Nelson, Rinne Groff, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and the installation “Black Joy in the Hour of Chaos” for Creative Time. Joseph’s . He is currently a professor at New York University and has held opera libretto, We Shall Not Be Moved, was named one of 2017’s “Best professorships at UCLA, Middlebury College, and Brown University. Classical Music Performances” by . His evening length work, /peh-LO-tah/, successfully toured across North America for three years, SHANTA THAKE, Associate Artistic Director/Director of Artistic including at BAM’s Harvey Theater as a part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival. Programs, The Public Theater His piece, “The Just and the Blind” investigates the crisis of over-sentencing Shanta Thake oversees the growth and development of Public Works, in the prison industrial complex, and premiered at a sold out performance at Mobile Unit, Under the Radar, Joe’s Pub, The Shakespeare Initiative and Carnegie Hall in March 2019. Bamuthi is currently at work on commissions for Public Forum. Previously, she spent 10 years as the Director of Joe’s Pub, the Perelman Center, , and the Washington National Opera as the intimate cabaret venue which hosts over 700 shows annually and is as a new collaboration with NYC Ballet Artistic Director Wendy Whelan. consistently hailed as one of ’s most prestigious venues for both He joins Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, and a star-studded cast in HBO’s emerging and established artists. In addition, Ms. Thake is the co-producer of screen adaptation of “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehesi Coates, GlobalFEST, North America’s world music festival and non-profit organization premiering in the Fall of 2020. Formerly the Chief of Program and Pedagogy whose mission is to foster cultural exchange and to increase the presence at YBCA in San Francisco, Bamuthi currently serves as the Vice President and of world music in diverse communities nationwide. Ms. Thake received a BA Artistic Director of Social Impact at The Kennedy Center. in theater as well as a degree in management from Indiana University and currently lives in Brooklyn. SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS CONT. LISA RICHARDS TONEY, President and CEO of APAP Ms. Richards Toney currently serves as the Strategic Planning Chair of the Lisa Richards Toney became President and CEO of APAP on July 1, 2020. Mosaic Theatre Company of DC and Co-Chair of the DC Chapter of Jack and Jill Ms. Richards Toney brings more than 20 years of experience leading a range of America’s Jumoke Black History Festival. She was previously a booking and of small and large arts and humanities organizations, managing change, producing consultant for cellist Okorie “OkCello” Johnson, consultant for the and building stability. She most recently served as Executive Director of the Reel to Reel Filmmaker’s Project for the Prince George’s County Arts Council, Abramson Scholarship Foundation, where she increased funding and steered and provided tour management and planning support for Moving Forward Dance the foundation through a period of change management in programming, Company/Dana Tai Soon Burgess. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in finance, development, and governance. She also improved the scholar Drama and English as a Presidential Scholar from Spelman College, a Master experience by curating innovative professional development opportunities of Arts Degree as a John Beinecke Scholar in Arts Education from New York in financial literacy, professional visioning, and mental health awareness University, and was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study Black while utilizing professional networks to build exposure for scholars pursuing Dance in , as well as a Vilar Arts Management Fellowship with the John careers in the arts. As Deputy Director and later Interim Executive Director F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, she worked tirelessly on behalf of the diverse resident artists and arts organizations of the District of Columbia. Her additional leadership experience includes Director, Writers and Schools at the Pen/Faulkner Foundation; Director, Literature to Life at The American Place Theatre, where she presented performances at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and The Library of Congress; and the first Executive Director of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy. SPECIAL THANKS Teresa Eyring and Theatre Communications Group TANIA EL KHOURY ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH COMING

ATTRACTIONSHÉCTOR FLORES KOMATSU ANNA MARIA NABIRYE & ANNIE SAUNDERS TANIA EL KHOURY She is associated with Forest Fringe collective of artists in the UK and is a CULTURAL EXCHANGE RATE co-founder of Dictaphone Group in Lebanon, a research and performance The cruelest of borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday collective aiming at questioning our relationship to the city, and redefining its life. The death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed public space. militarization of faraway border villages. CONTACT: Ania Obolewicz at Artsadmin, [email protected] Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria. One marked by war survival, valueless currency collection, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards the colonial and national borders. The audience is invited to immerse their heads into one family’s secret boxes to explore sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings. Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.

BIO: Tania El Khoury is a live artist whose work focuses on audience interactivity and is concerned with the ethical and political potential of such encounters. She creates installations and performances in which the audience is an active collaborator. Tania’s work has been translated to multiple languages and shown in 32 countries across 6 continents in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars. She is a 2019 Soros Art Fellow and the recipient of the Bessies Outstanding Production Award, the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award, and the Arches Brick Award.

Tania holds a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research and publications focus on the political potential of interactive live art. Tania is currently a festival guest curator at Fisher Center Bard College. HÉCTOR FLORES KOMATSU BIO: Héctor Flores Komatsu is an international theatermaker, based in IX-KIK: BLOOD, MOON, SISTER México and the US. Artistic Director of Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral, and Ix-kik: blood, moon, sister brings together three indigenous women (Zapotec, fellow at the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown Tzotzil, and Raramuri) and a live musician into a living, theatrical tapestry where University. HFK founded Makuyeika after a yearlong journey across México the feminine territory of native Mexico is evoked through body, music, and conducted as an inaugural recipient of The World Theatre poetry. Ix-kik reveals and intertwines the voices of both present and ancient Fellowship. Original creations: “Andares”, The Game (based on the Popol women, their hidden song an echo of both womanhood and humanity. From the Vuh), and the upcoming Ix-kik. His critically-acclaimed work has performed Mayan prefix ix“ ” [pronounced “sh”], referring to all that belongs to the feminine, all over México, in the ( Shakes, The Public’s UTR), and “kik,” blood, moon, or sister. With: Luvia Lazo, Nicté Valdés Cházaro, Beatriz China, Germany, Chile, and more. He’s worked with Peter Brook as an Cadena, and Tania Chan. Directed and devised by Héctor Flores Komatsu. apprentice in Battlefield, as an actor in The Valley of Astonishment, and most

the Spanish-language premiere of The Suit. Graduate of the University of Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral, a theatre ensemble dedicated to creating Michigan (BFA Theatre Directing). Has trained with the Suzuki Company original works about the narratives and theatricalities of Mexico’s peoples, of Toga, Japan, interned with Théâtre de la Ville - Paris, and facilitated particularly the voices of those least heard of, touching with keen, artistic theatre workshops in prisons and favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. sensibility themes of great social, cultural, and human value. Fragment: performance: https://youtu.be/gevgj7YcHRI Click on the CC button English captions.

CONTACT: [email protected], makuyika.co, hectorfloreskomatsu.com +52(777)363 4155 ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH OTTO FRANK Otto Frank is the latest solo written and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith. It is inspired by the father of diarist Anne Frank and features live sound design by Marc Anthony Thompson. An intimate meditation on the negotiation of loss, Frank speaks to his daughter from beyond her time and his own, addressing our present moment.

BIO: At The Public Theater, Smith and Thompson have presented the -winning A Huey P. Newton Story, the Bessie Award-winning , Frederick Douglass Now, The Hendrix Project, Juan and John, Christopher Columbus 1992, and Iceland.

CONTACT: Steven Adams, [email protected], 213.210.4876 ANNA MARIA NABIRYE AND ANNIE SAUNDERS The project consists of multiple engagement points: the intimate portrait UP IN ARMS and dialogue experience for two friends, colleagues, or family members, the Up in Arms​ is a transmedia performance project that removes the boundaries documentation of that process (which is edited into a multimedia live performance between process and product, utilizing performance, visual art, and social practice. by the artists as a part of the engagement), and the resulting “Final products”—the Created by Ann-Maria Nabirye and Annie Saunders, participants are invited, two at footage, audio and portraits—which comprise a visual art installation. Using the a time, to re-embody and re-create the iconic 1971 portrait of activists and friends materials generated through residency and installation, the artists are compiling a Dorothy Pitman-Hughes and Gloria Steinem. In doing so, the artists create a space book project, the Up​ in Arms Handbook for Intersectional Collaboration. for meaningful dialogue around racism, feminism, and friendship. The work is bespoke to each presentation and can be made for digital, live, timed, socially-distant audiences and participants or a combination of the above.

“Bridging history, media, action, and introspection, the resulting alchemy is an artistic process which cracks you open, reflects your humanity back to you while encouraging you to feel the complexities of your racialized body in relationship to another. Or put more simply: this project promotes the healing and repairing of relationships that have been decimated by white supremacy.” –Nicole Brewer, Founder, Conscientious Theatre Training, Yale School of Drama

ANNA MARIA NABIRYE & ANNIE SAUNDERS CONT. Engagement History: Up in Arms h​as been developed with residencies, Annie Saunders is a director and live artist. Her company, Wilderness, has performances and live events at The Showroom Gallery, Toynbee Studios, and presented The Day Shall Declare It in a disused warehouse in the Downtown no.w.here space. London, UK, MANA contemporary, Jersey City, USA, The Arts District with Los Angeles Performance Practice and in London International Women’s Film Festival, Dortmund, Germany, The Association of with Theatre Delicatessen in the former BBC Studios and the Bush Theatre. Austrian Women Artists, Vienna, and online for the WOW (Women of the World) The company has also presented work at The Public Theater’s Under the Global 24 Festival. Radar Festival, REDCAT, the 14th Factory, The Broad Stage, the San Francisco Playhouse and the Getty Villa. She is a core performer with Lars Jan’s Early BIOS: Morning Opera, and has appeared in Holoscenes, The Institute of Memory Anna-Maria Nabirye is a multi-disciplinary artist who performs, collaborates and (TIMe), and Abacus. She was a participant in the 2017/18 Devised Theater initiates projects across fiction, documentary, theatre, screen, visual arts and Working Group for next-generation performance-makers at The Public Theater fashion. She is interested in amplifying the stories of marginalised peoples with in New York. an emphasis on Black Women in the western Diaspora. Annie Saudners has also devised and performed original work in the UK with Neil As a collaborative artist/performer she has co-directed/devised Ruptures Bettles (Frantic Assembly, Thickskin) and Gemma Fairlie (RSC) on Full Stop, a (London Film Festival/Home), Hold Your Ground - Film and Video Umbrella & co-commission for the Lyric Theatre, Watford Palace, Greenwich Festival and The Paper Man (Improbable Theatre). Her own projects include Motherhoody Latitude. She holds an MA in literature and critical studies from the University (With Jess Mabel Jones, Albany 2019), Up in Arms currently in development of London, and trained at the Sanford Meisner Center for the Arts, the American (with Annie Saunders), No Word For A Pier in Lusoga (De La Warr Pavilion), Conservatory Theater and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. She worked for Strong & Wrong (Brighton/Edinburgh Fringe( & AFRORETRO; a creative ten years as a creative activist with Eve Ensler’s V-Day. entity which tells stories of the diaspora through upcycled fashion and textiles (commissioned by Royal Court, V&A, SBC, Brighton Museum and awarded Yinka CONTACT: North America: Octopus Theatricals, Sophie Blumberg, Shonibare’s Guest Projects residency). Recent acting roles include Mephisto [email protected]​, 917.922.3645 UK/Europe: Artsadmin, [A Rhapsody] (The Gate 2019), Les Blancs (National Theatre) and Macbeth/ Nicky Childs, [email protected] Boudica/A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Globe), Informer, Collateral (BBC).

Anna-Maria has developed relationships combining roles as actor, collaborator, and co-director with; Half Moon YPT, Imongen Knight, METIS - Zoe Svendsen, Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler. She is currently working with LPO creating a communication programme for their Junior Artist mentorship for underrepresented musicians. INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE GROUP PANEL ALICIA ADAMS (Speaker), For over two decades, Alicia Adams has been KRISTY EDMUNDS (Speaker), Executive and Artistic Director of presenting work from national and international arenas at the John F Kennedy UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA), is responsible for the Center for the Performing Arts. As Vice President of International Programming artistic vision, programs and creative initiatives of the Center as part of the and Dance, she produces the distinguished international theater series UCLA public mission. Under Edmunds’ leadership since 2011, the Center has World Stages each year. Since 1997, Alicia has curated and produced major evolved as one of the nation’s most respected and versatile organizations international festivals including most recently Artes de Cuba, an unprecedented for contemporary performing arts across all disciplines. CAP UCLA presents festival in 2018 that brought together 400 Cuban and Cuban American artists. numerous performances annually at the iconic Royce Hall on the UCLA campus, She also curates the Center’s Contemporary Dance programming and annual the Theatre at Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, and in collaboration with Lunar New Year Celebration. Active in the performing arts community, Alicia leading organizations locally and internationally. CAP UCLA supports the has served on numerous boards and planning committees including the creative development of new work through residencies and awards a three-year Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts, the Caine Prize for African Artist Fellow for acclaimed master artists while building creative and scholarly Writing (UK), Africa 95 (UK), the All Roads Project of National Geographic, the contexts in the public presentation of their work(s) over time. To date, Edmunds International Society of Performing Arts (ISPA) the Association of Performing has dramatically expanded and diversified the organization’s public engagement, Arts Presenters (APAP), the National Dance Panel of the New England and has involved CAP UCLA’s staff and visiting artists in the academic and Foundation on the Arts, the Advisory Council for Georgetown University’s research areas throughout UCLA. Laboratory for Global Performance and Circle World Arts. In 2011 she received the APAP Fan Taylor Distinguished Service Award for exemplary service to the As an artist, curator, artistic director, and frequent advisor, Edmunds holds field of presenting. She is also an elected member of the Cosmos Club. In 2013, a reputation for innovation and insight within numerous art practices. She is Adams was awarded the Insignia of Member First Class of the Royal Order of the widely regarded for championing the role of artists in a dynamically changing Polar Star by the Swedish government. In 2014 Adams was awarded Insignia of world, and for her depth in the presentation of their work. Her entrusted Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland by the Finnish government. professional relationships with artists have resulted in ambitious commissions for new work, broad surveys of the range of their work, retrospectives and GUILLERMO CALDERÓN (Panelist), Playwright, theater director, international collaborations. screenwriter. Plays: Neva, Clase, Diciembre, Villa, Discurso, Beben, Feos, Escuela, Mateluna, Kuss, Goldrausch, B, Dragon. Film writing: Violeta se fue As a leader in the arts Edmunds is a frequently sought keynote speaker, nominator a los Cielos, El Club, Neruda, Araña, Ema, Homemade. He has directed at The and conduit for “blasting open creative tributaries” in settings as globally-minded Public Theater; Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus; Theater Basel; The Play Company. as the 2017CultureSummit in Abu Dhabi (where Edmunds served as one of eight Publications include: VILLA + DISCURSO, Theater Magazine, Yale University. NEVA, Faculty members to the international delegation) to serving as a Scholar-in- Theater Communications Group. B, Oberon Modern Plays. Kiss, Samuel French. Residence for the Pew Center for Art & Heritage (Philadelphia). INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE GROUP PANEL CONT. KRISTY EDMUNDS CONT. She is as committed to what can happen in OLGA GARAY-ENGLISH (Moderator), is an independent arts consultant. a Los Angeles classroom for elementary school students as she is to adding She is Senior Advisor for International Affairs to Chile’s Fundación Teatro a Mil, her perspective at national policy tables. Edmunds has been a panelist for the producer of Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil, one of the top Festivals in many of the nation’s most prestigious national grants and awards, has been a Latin America. She was Senior Advisor to France Los Angeles Foundation (2014- consultant for major cultural initiatives internationally, and serves on various 2019), funding collaborations of LA and French artists. In 2016, the County of Los Advisory Boards within the not-for-profit arts sector. Angeles named her Executive Director of the Ford Theatres, a 1,200-seat historic amphitheatre in the Hollywood Hills, until the end of 2019 when the Los Angeles At 28 Edmunds founded the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Philharmonic assumed responsibilities of the venue. She is Senior Advisor to Staging and its annual TBA Festival (Time Based Art) in Portland, Oregon, and Change, a research project of the John Brademas Center of New York University continues to be an Advisor to the organization. In 2004 she was appointed as and the Social Impact of the Arts Project at the University of Pennsylvania, which is the Artistic Director of the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2005-2008 funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. From 2007 to 2014, Olga was Executive and was the first to serve an unprecedented four-year term. Her festival Director, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs reporting to LA Mayor programs were considered a high-water mark artistically and were acclaimed Antonio Villaraigosa. As founding Program Director for the Arts for the Doris Duke internationally. Following, Edmunds was appointed to lead the School of Charitable Foundation (1998-2005), Olga was responsible for one of the largest Performing Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts/University of Melbourne. national arts funders in the United States awarding $145 million to arts organizations After just one year she was appointed as Deputy Dean of the College. Upon in the U.S. and abroad. The Western Arts Alliance named Ms. Garay-English one of her departure, she was awarded as an Honorary Professorial Fellow of the 2013’s Fifty Most Powerful and Influential People in the Nonprofit Arts and one of the University. top five Local Arts Agency Leaders. She was named a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 2012. Born in Santa Clara, Cuba, she became a United States citizen In characteristic fashion Edmunds carried dual responsibilities. While working in 1978. She is the widow of Dr. Kerry English, a developmental pediatrician who in Melbourne, , she was also appointed as the Consulting Artistic dedicated his life to serving abused and foster children in South Los Angeles. Director for the formative beginning of the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, before returning to the US in 2011. Through 2009 to 2012, Edmunds LIGIA LEWIS (Panelist), was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, established the annual programming footprint of the critically heralded and raised in Florida. In her practice Lewis takes on a variety of roles— organization and curated noted works of scale by artists such as Peter choreographer, director, dancer, performer—staging her work in different types Greenaway and Ann . of venues, including theaters, galleries, and museums. She carefully considers how the site of presentation shapes the experience of her work, how a body is In recognition of her contribution to the arts, Edmunds was bestowed with the ultimately seen. Each of her pieces explores genre through different forms of honor of Chevalier (Knight) de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French physical expression and a rotating cast of performers. Her recent performance Government in 2016 was the first recipient of the inaugural Berresford Prize trilogy includes Water Will (in Melody) (2018), a gothic tale set in black and white; by United States Artists (USA) in 2018. She is married with two sons, and now minor matter (2016), a poetic work illuminated by red; and Sorrow Swag (2014), calls Los Angeles home. presented in a saturated blue. She recently produced, deader than dead (2020), for the Made in LA Biennial at the Hammer Museum, creating a film as a document of the performance with the same name. ligialewis.com INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE GROUP PANEL CONT. EIKO OTAKE (Panelist), Born and raised in Japan and a resident of New DIANE RAGSDALE (Speaker), is a speaker, writer, researcher, lecturer, York since 1976, Eiko Otake is a movement-based, interdisciplinary artist. and advisor on a range of arts and culture topics. She works with a number She worked for more than 40 years as Eiko & Koma but since 2014 has been of institutions including, at the moment, as director and co-lead faculty of the performing her own solo project A Body in Places. In 2017, she launched a multi- Cultural Leadership Program at Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity. In June 2020 year Duet Project, an open-ended series of cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural and she completed a three-year appointment at The New School in Manhattan, cross-generational experiments with a diverse range of artists both living and where she successfully launched, built, and directed a one-of-a-kind MA in Arts dead. Eiko has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, the Samuel H. Scripps Management and Entrepreneurship for performance-based artists and designed American Dance Festival Award, the Dance Magazine Award, the Guggenheim and launched a new graduate minor in Creative Community Development. She Fellowship, and the first Doris Duke Artist Award. For her solo work, she has teaches an annual workshop series on Aesthetic Values in a Changed Cultural received a Bessies Special Citation, an Art Matters fellowship, the Anonymous Context for Yale University’s Theater Management MFA. She previously worked Was a Woman Award, and the Sam Miller Award for Performing Arts. Between as a program officer for theater and dance at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; 2014 and 2019, she and photographer/historian William Johnston travelled five was managing director of the contemporary performing arts center On to post-nuclear meltdown Fukushima and collaborated on creating A Body Boards, in Seattle; was executive director of a music festival in the resort town of in Fukushima, an extensive and expanding project that documents her body Sandpoint, Idaho; worked for the Sundance and Seattle film festivals, as well as in places of nuclear contamination. Eiko has presented A Body in Fukushima for Peter Gabriel’s music festival WOMAD USA and Seattle’s Bumbershoot; and internationally at conferences and panels on environmental disasters. In January began her arts career as a theater practitioner. She is a doctoral candidate at 2020, Eiko travelled to China for a month to collaborate with choreographer Wen Erasmus University in the Netherlands, where she lectured from 2011-2015 in the Hui, during which the Covid-19 pandemic was identified. cultural economics program.

ANNIE-B PARSON (Panelist), is a choreographer; she co-founded Big Dance Theater in 1991. She has also made dances and stagings for the work of David Byrne, David Bowie, St. Vincent, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Wendy Whelan, Laurie Anderson, Nico Muhly, Jonathan Demme, Salt ‘n Pepa, Esperanza Spalding, David Lang, Anne Carson, Jonsi, Ivo van Hove, and the Martha Graham Dance Co. Her most recent work with David Byrne, American Utopia, was made into a film by . The live show will return to Broadway next year. She will premiere a new work with her company at BAM/The Kitchen; The Walker/The Wexner/CPA/Philly Fringe, and other theaters in 2021. UNDER THE RADAR STAFF MARK RUSSELL, Director, Under the Radar at The Public Theater KELLY KERWIN, Associate Producer of Under the Radar Mark Russell created the Under the Radar Festival in 2005. The Festival Kelly Kerwin is a producer, performance curator, and dramaturg originally moved to The Public in 2006 and became an integral part of its season. From from the Ozarks. She is currently the Associate Producer for the Under 1983-2004, Russell was the Executive Artistic Director of Performance Space the Radar Festival at The Public, where she supports the Devised Theater 122 (P.S. 122). Working Group and she has line produced The Line, A Bright Room Called Day, Soft Power, We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time, Mlima’s Tale, JON GRENAY, Associate Director of Under the Radar and the Onassis Festival, a collaboration with Onassis USA and The Public Jon Grenay is the Associate Director of The Under the Radar Festival at The Theater. Previously, she has been on the artistic staff at Yale Repertory Public Theater. The Under the Radar Festival provides artists from all cultural Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, , The and socioeconomic backgrounds a high-visibility platform to present their House Theatre of Chicago, Collaboraction, and she was the co-artistic work at The Public. Additionally, Jon Grenay supports the Devised Theater director for Yale Cabaret’s 46th Season. She also helped establish, with Jane Working Group. Formed as a complementary program to the Under the Radar Beachy, Chicago’s Salonathon—a weekly series specializing in underground Festival, DTWG creates an infrastructure to support collaborative collectives performance. She was the dramaturg for the world premiere of Ike Holter’s and other untraditional originators as they forge new theater. Throughout Hit the Wall (Steppenwolf’s Garage Rep; The Inconvenience), which made his 14 years with The Public he has led several major programs, including the Chicago Tribune’s “Top Ten Plays” list. ​She has a BFA from The Theatre Shakespeare in the Park, Public Works, and Under the Radar as Production School at DePaul University, and an MFA in Dramaturgy/Dramatic Criticism Manager. Born in Flint Michigan, Jon received a BA from the University of from Yale School of Drama. Kelly also teaches in the theater department at Michigan-Flint before moving to NYC. Connecticut College. kellykerwin.com ABOUT regionally across the country and around the world. The Public has received 59 UNDER THE RADAR , 184 Obie Awards, 55 Drama Desk Awards, 58 Lortel Awards, 34 Outer Critic Circle Awards, 13 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards, 53 AUDELCO SYMPOSIUM Awards, 6 Antonyo Awards, and 6 Pulitzer Prizes. publictheater.org Under the Radar Symposium: A Creative Summit is a half-day event on January 7, featuring conversations and panels about the field at this moment in time. Artists and arts leaders from around the globe will participate in a virtual summit. Digital UNDER THE RADAR attendance at the Symposium is open to all those who would like to participate. Under The Radar Festival (UTR) has presented over 240 companies from 42 countries over the last 17 years. It has grown into a landmark of the New York City theater season and is a vital part of The Public’s mission, providing a high-visibility platform to support artists from diverse backgrounds who are redefining the act THE PUBLIC THEATER of making theater. Widely recognized as a premier launching pad for new and cutting-edge performance from the U.S. and abroad, UTR has presented works by The Public is theater of, by, and for all people. Artist-driven, radically inclusive, and such respected artists as Elevator Repair Service, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, fundamentally democratic, The Public continues the work of its visionary founder Gob Squad, Free Theatre, Guillermo Calderón, and . This Joe Papp as a civic institution engaging, both on-stage and off, with some of the most year’s free Under the Radar will feature a robust line-up of digital livestream and important ideas and social issues of today. Conceived over 60 years ago as one of streaming on-demand performances. These artists have risen to the occasion and the nation’s first nonprofit theaters, The Public has long operated on the principles answer the unprecedented challenges of this time with fearlessness and heart. that theater is an essential cultural force and that art and culture belong to everyone. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, The Public’s wide breadth of programming includes an annual season of new work at its landmark home at , Free Shakespeare in the Park at The in , the Mobile Unit touring throughout New York City’s JanArtsNYC five boroughs, Public Forum, Under the Radar, Public Studio, Public Works, Public Every January in New York City, more than 45,000 performing arts leaders, artists, Shakespeare Initiative, and Joe’s Pub. Since premiering in 1967, The Public and enthusiasts from across the globe converge for JanArtsNYC. A partnership continues to create the canon of American Theater and is currently represented on among 11 independent multidisciplinary festivals, indispensable industry convenings, Broadway by the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda and international marketplaces, JanArtsNYC is one of the largest and most influential and Girl From the North Country. Their programs and productions can also be seen gatherings of its kind. For more info visit, janartsnyc.org. Promotional support provided by the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.