Presents

Friday, June 30 at 8:00pm | Saturday, July 1 at 7:00pm Durham Performing Arts Center Performance: 105 minutes ON THE NATURE OF THINGS (2014)

Created by Robby Barnett, Renée Jaworski, Matt Kent, and Itamar Kubovy in collaboration with Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Benjamin Coalter, Matt Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi, Derion Loman, Nile Russell, and Mike Tyus Performed by Antoine Banks-Sullivan, Nathaniel Buchsbaum, and Krysta Butler Music Vivaldi; Michelle DiBucci and Edward Bilous, Mezzo Soprano, Clare McNamara Violin Solo, Krystof Witek Lighting and Set Design Neil Peter Jampolis On The Nature Of Things was commissioned by The Dau Family Foundation in honor of Elizabeth Hoffman and David Mechlin, Treacy and Darcy Beyer, The American Dance Festival with support from the SHS Foundation and the Charles L. and Stephanie Reinhart Fund, and by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art.

INTERMISASION ECHO IN THE VALLEY (World Premiere) Created by Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn, Renée Jaworski, and Matt Kent in collaboration with Itamar Kubovy, Mark Fucik, Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Krystal Butler, Heather Jeane Favretto, and Jacob Michael Warren Performed by Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Krystal Butler, Heather Jeane Favretto, and Jacob Michael Warren Composed, Arranged, and Performed by Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, Fleck Music (BMI) / Abby In China Music (ASCAP) Sound Design David Van Tiegham Costume Design Liz Prince Lighting Design Thom Weaver Echo in the Valley was commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the SHS foundation and the Reinhart Fund. Echo in the Valley was created through Pilobolus's International Collaborators Project, which is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. [esc] (2013) Created by Penn & Teller, Robby Barnett, Renée Jaworski, and Matt Kent incollaboration with Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Benjamin Coalter, Matt DelRosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi, and Nile Russell Performed by Antoine Banks-Sullivan, Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Isabella Diaz, Zachary Eisenstat, Heather Jeane Favretto, and Jacob Michael Warren Music Maria Schneider; Raymond Scott; G.Schirmer Inc; The Allman Brothers Band; Johnnyangel;ThomasBangalter, Guillaume De Homem- Christo;“Come Fly With Me” Words by Sammy Cahn, Music by James Van Heusen; "You Shook Me All Night Long" Written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Brian Johnson; Mudfoot Jones &The Basement Boy Costumes Design Liz Prince Lighting Design Neil Peter Jampolis Magic Consultant John Thompson Sound Engineer William Burns [esc] was commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the SHS Foundation and the Charles L. and Stephanie Reinhart Fund. [esc] was created through Pilobolus's International Collaborators Project, which received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Xerox Foundation. RUSHES (2007) Choreographed by Inbal Pinto, Avshalom Pollak, and Robby Barnett, based on original material developed with Talia Beck, Otis Cook, Josie M Coyoc, Matt Kent, Renée Jaworski and Andreas Merk, and created in collaboration with Andy Herro, Jeffrey Huang, Renée Jaworski, Jun Kuribayashi, Jenny Mendez, Manelich Minniefee, Edwin Olvera, and Annika Sheaff Performed by Antoine Banks-Sullivan, Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Krystal Butler, Zachary Eisenstat, Heather Jeane Favretto, and Jacob Michael Warren Music Eddie Sauter, Miles Davis, John Blow, “Big Noise from Winnetka” used by permission Dukes of Dixieland (www.dukesofdixieland.com), Arvo Part Costumes Design Avshalom Pollak and Inbal Pinto Lighting Design Yoann Tivoli Film Animation Peter Sluszka Rushes was co-commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the Doris Duke Awards for New Work and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, by the Joyce Theater’s Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work, and by Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, Florida. It was also made possible in part by generous contributions from the Office of Cultural Affairs , Consulate General of Israel in New York and from Jonathan M. Nadler. ABOUT PILOBOLUS PILOBOLUS is a rebellious dance company. For 45 years, Pilobolus has tested the limits of human physicality to explore the beauty and the power of connected bodies. We continue to bring this tradition to global audiences through our post-disciplinary collaborations with some of the greatest influencers, thinkers, and creators in the world. Now, in our digitally driven and increasingly mediated landscape, we also reach beyond performance to teach people how to connect through designed live experiences. We bring our decades of expertise telling stories with the human form to show diverse communities, brands, and organizations how to maximize group creativity, solve problems, create surprise, and generate joy through the power of nonverbal communication. Pilobolus has created and toured over 120 pieces of repertory to more than 65 countries. We currently perform our work for over 300,000 people across the U.S. and around the world each year. In the last year, Pilobolus was featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, NBC’s TODAY show, MTV’s Video Music Awards, The Harry Connick Show, ABC’s The Chew, and the CW Network’s Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Pilobolus has been recognized with many prestigious honors, including a TED Fellowship, a 2012 Grammy® Award Nomination, a Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cultural Programming, and several Cannes Lion Awards at the International Festival of Creativity. In 2015, Pilobolus was named one of Dance Heritage Coalition’s “Irreplaceable Dance Treasures.” Pilobolus has collaborated with more than 25 brands and organizations in finance, retail, media, fashion, sports, and more to create bespoke performances for television, film, and live events. Want more Pilobolus? Learn new skills for facilitating group creativity and forming genuine human connection by registering for one of our 5-day workshop intensives in our beautiful northwestern Connecticut studio next summer. We love working people with no experience in dance, and older adults, too. Includes special programming for dance and theater teachers, and also a Kids Camp. July 11–August 4, 2017. More information at www.pilobolus.org. Find us on our social media feeds… facebook.com/PilobolusDance | instagram: @ Pilobolus | twitter: @Pilobolus WHO’S WHO ROBBY BARNETT (Charter Artistic Director) was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains and attended Dartmouth College. He joined Pilobolus in 1971. MICHAEL TRACY (Charter Artistic Director) was born in Florence and raised in New England. He met the other Pilobolus founders at Dartmouth in 1969 and became an artistic director after graduating magna cum laude in 1973. Michael toured with Pilobolus for 14 years and has choreographed and directed the company ever since. He has set his work on the Joffrey, Ohio, Hartford, Nancy, and Verona Ballets and with Pilobolus choreographed a production of Mozart’s Magic Flute. Michael taught at Yale University for two decades and lives in northwestern Connecticut. ITAMAR KUBOVY (Executive Producer) oversees the many moving parts of Pilobolus. After joining Pilobolus in 2004, he founded Pilobolus's acclaimed International Collaborators Project, a program that invites artists and thinkers from diverse fields to participate in Pilobolus’s collaborative choreographic process. He also grew the business of Pilobolus Creative Services, collaborating with clients to develop custom movement and storytelling for film, advertising, publishing, and corporate events. Itamar was born in Israel and grew up in New Haven, where he studied philosophy at Yale. Prior to joining Pilobolus, he ran theaters in Germany and Sweden, directed plays by John Guare, co-directed the 2002 season finale of The West Wing, and made a film, Upheaval, starring Frances McDormand. RENÉE JAWORSKI (Co-Artistic Director) received her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Upon graduating she began work with MOMIX, performing and teaching throughout the world as well as creating her own work in Philadelphia. She began performing with Pilobolus in 2000. Renée has served as choreographer and creator for exciting projects and collaborations such as the 79th Annual Academy Awards, the Grammy® nominated video for OKGo’s All is Not Lost, Radiolab Live: In the Dark, and has worked with myriad outside artists through the International Collaborator's Project. In 2010, her alma mater honored her with the University’s Silver Star Alumni Award for her work as an artist in the field of dance. Renée lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter. MATT KENT (Co-Artistic Director) has worked with Pilobolus since 1996 as a dancer, collaborator, creative director, and choreographer. Past Pilobolus projects include Head Choreographer for Andre Heller’s Magnifico, a large-scale circus production, choreographer for a Sports Emmy-nominated teaser created in collaboration with the NFL network, and choreographer for a television appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. His work for Pilobolus on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, co-directed by Teller and Aaron Posner, was nominated for Best Choreography by the L.A. Drama Critics Circle. Outside of Pilobolus, he has worked as zombie choreographer for AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead, as movement consultant on the Duncan Sheik musical Whisper House; and created family and children’s performances with Rob Kapilow. Matt lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons. MARK FUCIK (Pilobolus Creative Director) is a native of Walnut Creek, CA. He attended Rutgers University where he earned his BA in Theater Arts. He started dancing at 21 and hasn't looked back. He joined Pilobolus in 2001 and danced with the main company until 2005. He then began working with the company in many different capacities performing with Pilobolus Creative Services, teaching, and serving as Associate Creative Director. He has taught future generations of dancers in Pilobolus workshops, as well as in his own classes at colleges and universities around the US. He was excited to get back into the studio to create Shadowland and toured with the original Shadowland cast for two years. He has spent the last five years as the Assistant Artistic Director of Alison Chase Performance. As always, Mark thanks his family and his patient and understanding husband Collin for all their love and support. ANTOINE BANKS-SULLIVAN (Dancer/Dance Captain) was born and raised in Chicago, IL. He attended Whitney Young Magnet High School where he began dance training under the instruction of Lisa Johnson- Willingham at the age of 16. He has since trained with Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, Ballet Chicago, Joel Hall, and Central Florida Ballet. Since his first contract with Walt Disney Co., Antoine has danced with Busch Gardens Florida, Cleo Parker Robinson, High School Musical Live, Cirque Dreams, and Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater. In his free time Antoine enjoys cooking, party planning, and traveling the world. He would like to thank his friends and family, especially his loving mother and her husband Thomas for their unending support. Antoine joined Pilobolus in 2014. NATHANIEL BUCHSBAUM (Dancer) was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and realized his love for movement while attending high school in Florida. He worked as a guest artist with the Tallahassee Ballet and in 2011 graduated from Florida State University with a BFA in Dance. Nathaniel has had the pleasure of working with KineticArchitecture, Amalgamate Dance Company, Gerri Houlihan, Martha Clarke, Brian Brooks Moving Company, and Doug Elkins. His choreography has been featured in the NewGrounds Dance Festival and the Five By Five event in Tampa, FL, and the Amalgamate Artist Series in New York. Nathaniel is honored to have joined Pilobolus's Shadowland in 2012. KRYSTAL BUTLER (Dancer) began her dance training at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC, under the direction of Sandra Fortune. Krystal moved to New York City and graduated from Long Island University. She has received scholarships and completed summer programs at the Ailey School, ADF, Earl Mosley Institute for the Arts, and Arke' Danza. Krystal was a member of INSPIRIT, a dance company and Forces of Nature Dance Theater. She has toured in Senegal with the theater company Art Creates Life, performing in the play, Junkanoo and in Europe in the show MAGNIFICO produced by Andre Heller with choreography by Pilobolus. She has been a member of Pilobolus since 2011, spending 3 years touring Shadowland and now in her second year with Pilobolus Dance Theater. ISABELLA DIAZ (Dancer) was born in Chicago, IL. She began exploring movement at a very young age through gymnastics, which she pursued for 13 years at a competitive level. Isabella began her dance training her junior year of high school, where she was exposed to ballet and modern dance techniques. She went on to study at Western Michigan University and had the opportunity to perform works choreographed by Peter Chu and Ohad Naharin. She began working with Pilobolus in the beginning of 2017. ZACHARY EISENSTAT (Dancer) was born in Westchester, NY. His interest in dance was born at bar mitzvahs, but it was years before he found his way back. Zachary was an NCAA gymnast throughout his college career. He graduated in 2006 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an SB in Mechanical Engineering. He spent some time working on Wall Street before finding his way to comedy and acting. As theater took him all over the world, he happened upon an opportunity to work with Pilobolus on a production of The Tempest. His bar mitzvah born passion re-kindled, he now finds himself taking the stage again with Pilobolus, this time as a dancer. Zachary would like to thank all those who helped him get here, all those who help him stay here, and you— yes, you—for being a part of this wild ride. HEATHER JEANE FAVRETTO (Dancer) grew up in New Jersey where her hyperactivity as a child drove her parents to place her in dance classes. Sixteen years later, she received her BFA in Dance from Rutgers University and was awarded the Dance Express Honor for four years of consistently outstanding choreography. Upon graduation she worked for Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Cleo Mack Dance Project, and Naganuma Dance. She first joined Pilobolus in 2010 to work on a musical adaptation of James and the Giant Peach at Goodspeed Operahouse. Other favorites with Pilobolus include Radiolab Live: In The Dark, a collaboration with WNYC radio moguls (and personal heroes) Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, and, best of all, Shadowland! She joined the cast in 2012 and has been having a blast ever since! JACOB MICHAEL WARREN (Dancer) was born in San Francisco, CA, and raised in Boston, MA, where he began tap dancing. Tap gave way to ballet and modern dance, and in 2009, Jake graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in Dance. Since graduation, Jake has performed in New York and around the world with Armitage Gone! Dance, The Steps on Broadway Ensemble, TakeDance, and Pilobolus’s Shadowland. He has done multiple film, musical, and theatrical projects including Wind & Tree," a film by Abe Abraham, and Promise, an experimental theatre piece with Chris D'Amboise and Jed Bernstein. Jake is also a dedicated musician and a founding member of The Harmonica Lewinskies, a NYC-based blues/rock band. SHANE MONGAR (Director of Production) is originally from Chattanooga, TN. Shane joined Pilobolus in 2008. JULIE E. BALLARD (Stage Manager) comes on loan from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, where she is the Stage Manager/Head of Props. Julie is also a freelance lighting designer and Owner/Operator of Overlaplighting Productions. LINDSAY CARTER (Production Stage Manager) is from Cleveland, OH, and received her bachelor’s degree in Theatre Production from Oakland University in Rochester Hills, MI. Lindsay has been stage managing and touring for almost 10 years with theater and dance productions including The Nutcracker with Ballet Hawaii and The Illusionists with Magic Space Entertainment. This is Lindsay’s first season with Pilobolus. YANNICK GODTS (Lighting Supervisor) started with Pilobolus in 2013 as a production intern and has been with the company ever since. In 2014, he joined the staff of Shadowland and has been to four continents with the show since then. When not on the road or in the Pilobolus studio, he lives in Washington, DC, and works as a visual artist, graphic designer, and lighting and scenic designer at large. He thanks his family for their encouragement and friends for putting up with the fact that he's never home. JAECHELLE JOHNSON (Stage Ops) is a graduate of UNC School of the Arts school of Design and Production’s Sound Design program. She has recently relocated to NYC where she freelances with the Juilliard School, ADI, and other companies. She’s excited to join Pilobolus for her first season. BÉLA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN (Creative Collaborators), “the king and queen of the banjo” (Paste Magazine), have a musical partnership like no other. Béla is a sixteen-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the instrument across multiple genres, and Abigail Washburn a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who re-radicalized it by combining it with Far East culture and sounds. The pair took home the 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album for their first duo record on Rounder Records and will release their second in October 2017. Béla has the virtuosic, jazz-to-classical ingenuity of an iconic instrumentalist and composer with bluegrass roots. His work ranges from his ground- breaking ensemble Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a staggeringly broad array of musical experiments, including writing concertos for full symphony orchestra, exploring the banjo’s African roots, to jazz duos with Chick Corea. Abigail has the earthy sophistication of an old-time singer-songwriter but her musical journey has also taken her far and wide. She has done fascinating work in folk musical diplomacy in China, given a TED talk titled “Building US-China Relations by Banjo,” presented an original theatrical production, contributed to singular side groups Uncle Earl, The Wu-Force, and The Sparrow Quartet (with Fleck, Casey Driessen, and Ben Sollee) and has most recently started a non-profit with her collaborator and musical sister, Wu Fei, called The Ripple Effect. Whether at home, on stage, or on record, Béla and Abigail's deep bond and creativity makes theirs a picking partnership unlike any other on the planet. INBAL PINTO (Choreographer) was born in Israel in 1969 and began her formal dance training at the age of five. As a dancer, she first joined the Bat Sheva Ensemble and was soon promoted to the senior Bat Sheva Company. In 1990 she began her career as a choreographer. In 1997 and 1998 she was invited to the American Dance Festival to take part in its International Choreographers Program. In 2000 Inbal won a "Bessie," The New York Dance and Performance Award, for her creation Wrapped. Inbal also directed and designed together with Avshalom Pollak the opera Armide by Christoph Willibald Gluck and Cunning Little Vixenby Leos Janacek, and a japanese musical play The cat who lived a million times. In 2000 she was given The Ministry of Culture Award for Dance and the Tel Aviv Municipality Award for Artistic achievements. In 2011, Inbal received Israel’s ministry of Culture Award for the creation of Toros and Rushes Plus. AVSHALOM POLLAK (Choreographer) was born in Israel in 1970. He was trained as an actor and graduated from The Nissan Nativ Drama School, Tel- Aviv, Israel. Avshalom acted in a large number of films and TV programs as well as many theatrical plays at The Habimah National Theater, The Cameri Theater, Gesher Theater, and The Haifa Municipal Theater (Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Casssio in Othello, Valere in The Miser, Tuzenbach in Three Sisters, Phillip in Orphans, and more). Since 1992 Avshalom Pollak has been working with Inbal Pinto, with whom he founded The Inbal Pinto Dance Company. Together, they have created, choreographed, and designed works to be performed by the company. PENN & TELLER (Creative Collaborators) have been amazing and cracking up audiences for over 40 years with their own very special blend of magic and comedy. Emmy Award winners and New York Times best-selling authors, the duo’s live shows have been a hit on Broadway, on sold-out international tours, and for the last 15 years at The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino as the longest-running and one of the most beloved shows on the Las Vegas Strip. Their television appearances have run the gamut from Oprah to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Dancing with the Stars to Piers Morgan Tonight, The Celebrity Apprentice to animated versions of themselves on two episodes of The Simpsons. Their Showtime seriesPenn & Teller: Bullshit! ran for eight seasons and was nominated for 13 Emmy Awards. Their new series Penn & Teller: Fool Us! on the CW Network included a 2016 performance by Pilobolus. JOHN THOMPSON (Creative Collaborator) got his start in show business as a musician and musical arranger. He developed The Great Tomsoni, a parody of serious magical performers, and later joined forces with his wife and partner, Pamela Hayes, to form The Great Tomsoni and Company. John is a noted close-up magic performer, illusion inventor, highly respected trade show spokesman, and magical consultant. He has written, developed and provided material for magicians Siegfried and Roy, Penn and Teller, Doug Henning, Lance Burton, Criss Angel, and David Blaine. John was a member of the magic staff for the FX cable channel’s series, Penn & Teller’s Sin City Spectaculars. He was awarded The L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for his work as the magic consultant on Play Dead, written and directed by Teller, and, in conjunction with Teller, he designed the magic effects for The Exorcist and The Tempest, for which he received both the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award and the Equity League’s Jeff Award. EDWARD BILOUS (Composer) is a composer and Founding Director of the Center for Innovation in the Arts at The Juilliard School. His compositions feature works for film, stage, dance, and multimedia including Lucid Dreams for the American Composers Orchestra, Night of the Dark Moon for Pilobolus Dance Theater, and Mission Eternity for The Juilliard School. His film credits include the scores to Scottsboro (2001 Academy Award nominee), Portraits of Grief - A Tribute to the Victims of the September 11th Tragedy (New York Times Television), and Forgiveness (PBS). Edward is also the creator of BASETRACK a multimedia theatrical experience that tells the stories of one-eight Marines in Afghanistan. BASETRACK began a national tour of performing arts centers and military bases in the fall of 2014. He recently joined the creative team as composer and music director for SACRED, a global- documentary event and multimedia concert produced by WNET-New York Public Television. DAVID VAN TIEGHEM (Sound Designer) Broadway: Doubt, The Lyons, Romeo and Juliet, The Big Knife, Born Yesterday, Arcadia, The Normal Heart, Reckless, An Enemy of the People, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Behanding in Spokane, A Man for All Seasons, Inherit the Wind, Frozen, After Miss Julie, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Constant Wife, The Crucible, Three Days of Rain, The Best Man. Off-Broadway:Wit, The Piano Lesson, Through a Glass Darkly, How I Learned to Drive. Film/TV: Buried Prayers, Working Girls, Penn & Teller, Wooster Group. Dance: Twyla Tharp, Doug Varone, Elizabeth Streb, Elisa Monte, Michael Moschen. Percussionist: Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Steve Reich. Awards/Nominations: Drama Desk, Obie, Bessie, Lortel, Guggenheim. CDs: Thrown for a Loop, Strange Cargo, Safety in Numbers, These Things Happen. LIZ PRINCE (Costume Designer) designs costumes for dance, theater and film and has designed costumes for numerous Pilobolus productions. Her costumes have been exhibited at The Cleveland center for Contemporary Art, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Rockland Center for the Arts and the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie") for costume design as well as a 2008 Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College. NEIL PETER JAMPOLIS (Lighting Designer & Pilobolus Éminence Grise) has been designing for Pilobolus since 1975, creating more than 60 new works for the company. He has also had a fifty-year active career as a set, lighting and costume designer for Broadway— where he has received four Tony Nominations and a Tony Award—and for off-Broadway, dance, regional theater, and opera, which he also directs. His designs, large and small, have appeared on every continent. Neil is a Distinguished Professor of Theater at UCLA. DAVID M. CHAPMAN (Lighting Designer) was Director of Production for Pilobolus from 1978 to 1997. A native of the Berkshires, his early credits include many summers with the Berkshire Theatre Festival and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and winters on the road with rock, mime, and dance tours. David has designed the lighting for numerous Pilobolus works including Day Two, Bonsai, Particle Zoo, and Axons, as well as a number of works for Peter Pucci Plus Dancers. His work has included positions with Spoleto Festival USA, the American Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield, MA. YOANN TIVOLI (Lighting Designer) was born in Angers, Maine et Loire, France. He received his Baccalauréat in electrotechnology from the Lycée d’Enseignement Technologique de Vienne in 1992 and BTS Eclairagiste-Sonorisateur from the Institut Génèral des Techniques du Spectacle in 1994. He has designed lighting for many productions, including those of Cie Kafig, the Orchestre National de Lyon, and the performance group MOI, as well as for Cie Les trios- huit, Cie Les Transformateurs in France, and Inbal Pinto Dance Company of Tel Aviv. Mr. Tivoli resides in Lyon. THOM WEAVER (Lighting Design) studied at Carnegie- Mellon and Yale and has previously worked with Matt Kent and Pilobolus on Teller and Aaron Posner’s The Tempest at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. In NY his work has been seen at NYSF/Public Theatre, Primary Stages, Signature Theatre, Player’s Theatre (Play Dead with Teller), 37ARTS (Frankenstein), Cherry Lane, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Institute, and SPF. Thom has worked regionally at CenterStage, Syracuse Stage, Huntington, Milwaukee Rep, Shakespeare Theatre, Asolo, Theatre J, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Folger Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Roundhouse Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hangar, Spoleto Festival USA, City Theatre, Virginia Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Yale Rep. Thom has received 3 Barrymore Awards (21 nominations), 4 Helen Hayes nominations, and 2 AUDELCO Awards. PETER SLUSZKA (Film Animator) is a NY based animator/director who has manipulated everything from traditional foam latex puppets to meat, origami, snow, and yarn. He was assisted on the project Rushes for Pilobolus by Hayley Morris and Stephanie Zuzzolo.