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Thank You for Coming: Play CHOREOGRAPHY and TEXT SET DESIGN Artist Residency Award Program Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Thank You For Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Coming: Play Katy Clark, President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Faye Driscoll Season Sponsor: DATES: NOV 16—19 at 7:30pm Faye Driscoll is the recipient of The Harkness Dance Residency at the LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) BAM Fisher in 2016. RUN TIME: Approx 1hr 15min, no intermission Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Harkness Foundation for Dance. Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation. Commissioned by BAM Programming in the BAM Fisher by New York City artists supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Support for dance at the BAM Fisher provided by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. This production is made possible with #FayeDriscoll support from the Joseph V. Melillo BAM Fisher #BAMNextWave Fund for Artistic Innovation. Thank You For Lead commissioner for Thank You Faye Driscoll is the 2016 Harkness Coming: Play for Coming: Play is the Wexner Foundation Artist in Residence at Center for the Arts at The Ohio State BAM Fisher. Additional residency University through its Wexner Center support for Thank You for Coming: Play CHOREOGRAPHY AND TEXT SET DESIGN Artist Residency Award program. was provided by the Wexner Center, Faye Driscoll Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin Co-commissioning partners are Walker Art Center, the Museum of Arts in collaboration with the performers Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM); and Design, The Performing Garage GARMENT AND PROPS DESIGN Summer Stages Dance at the Presents visiting artist series, and a PERFORMERS Jamie Boyle Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; Production Residency grant funded Sean Donovan Walker Art Center with support from by the New England Foundation for Faye Driscoll LIGHTING DESIGN the William and Nadine McGuire the Arts’ National Dance Project, with Alicia Ohs Amanda K. Ringger Commissioning Fund, The Andrew W. funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Paul Singh Mellon Foundation, and the National Foundation. Thank You for Coming: Laurel Snyder STAGE MANAGER Endowment for the Arts; Center Play was supported, in part, through Brandon Washington Giulia Carotenuto for the Arts at Wesleyan University a generous rehearsal space grant from Lindsay Head (understudy) in Middletown, CT; and the Lower chashama. ARTISTIC ADVISOR Manhattan Cultural Council developed SOUND DESIGN Jesse Zaritt as part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Bobby McElver Development program made possible ADDITIONAL TEXT AND in part by The Andrew W. Mellon MUSICAL DIRECTION TEXT DRAMATURGY Foundation. Additional commissioning Bobby McElver and Sean Donovan Amanda K. Davidson support was provided by Mass Live Arts through a multi-year residency and ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS REHEARSAL ASSISTANT presentation commitment. Sean Donovan Marina Fong Bobby McElver Thank You for Coming: Play is made Faye Driscoll PRODUCTION ASSISTANT possible, in part, by the New England Kedian Keohan Foundation for the Arts National Dance VOCAL ARRANGEMENT Project, with lead funding from the Sean Donovan SET DESIGN ASSISTANT Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Aaron Minerbrook The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, LYRICS with additional support from the Faye Driscoll GARMENT AND PROPS ASSISTANT National Endowment for the Arts. Jonatan Amaya Additional project funding provided by ADDITIONAL LYRICS Creative Capital’s MAP Fund, which is Sean Donovan INTERN supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Ali Perkins Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Thank You for Coming: PRODUCED BY Play is a project of Creative Capital. Faye Driscoll with Aaron Rosenblum Makers: the MAD Biennial, the first title Donovan & Calderón. Their biennial at the Museum of Arts and original works include the site-specific PAUL SINGH Design. Driscoll has collaborated with bilingual piece Se Vende (2008) at the Performer theater and performance artists such FAE Festival in Panama; The Climate Who’s as Young Jean Lee, Cynthia Hopkins, Chronicles (2011) at The Incubator Paul Singh earned his BFA in dance Taylor Mac, Jennifer Miller, and the Arts Project, New York; and 18 1⁄2 from the University of Illinois. He National Theater of the United States Minutes (2013) at JACK, New York. has danced for Gerald Casel, Jane of America and recently choreographed Comfort, Risa Jaroslow, Douglas Dunn, Who for a new film by Josephine Decker. Christopher Williams, Will Rawls, Driscoll has been funded by The MAP ALICIA OHS and was part of Punchdrunk Theatre FAYE DRISCOLL Fund, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Performer Company’s American debut of Sleep Choreography and text Creative Capital award, the New York No More. Last year Singh was a dancer State Council on the Arts, a Foundation Alicia Ohs is a dancemaker and in Peter Sellars’ new opera The Indian Faye Driscoll is a Bessie award-winning for Contemporary Art grant, the Jerome community builder interested in Queen and most recently danced for performance maker whose works Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, what makes people laugh, cry, and Peter Pleyer (with collaborators Meg include Wow Mom, Wow (2007), 837 the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, continue. She has worked with youth Stuart, Sasha Waltz, Eva Karczag, Venice Boulevard (2008), There is so and from NEFA she has received a and taught yoga for over 10 years, and Jeremy Wade) in a large-scale much mad in me (2010), You’re Me National Dance Project, Production collectively organized a CSA farm, improvisation work in Berlin. He has (2012), and Thank You For Coming: Residencies for Dance Grant, and a and developed health and wellness presented his own work at Judson Attendance (2014). Thank You for French—US Exchange in Dance grant. strategies in activist communities. In Memorial Church, New York Live Coming: Play (2016) is the second She is a grateful recipient of a 2016 New York she has presented work Arts, Joe’s Pub, Dixon Place, and La work in the Thank You For Coming Doris Duke Artist Award. at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, trilogy. Each work in the trilogy desires Place, Movement Research at Judson and in 2004 his solo piece Stutter to extend the sphere of influence of Memorial Church, CATCH, and Dance was presented at Kennedy Center. performance to create a communal SEAN DONOVAN New Amsterdam. She has worked Singh has taught contact improvisation space where the co-emergent social Performer with Movement Research as a curator around the world during CI training moment is questioned, heightened, and educator, and is a founding festivals in Israel, Spain, Ukraine, and palpable. Her work has been Sean Donovan is a New York–based member and facilitator of the Artists of Germany, France, Finland, and India. presented nationally at venues such actor, dancer, and writer. As a Color Council. From 2008—11 Ohs He currently teaches for Movement as the Wexner Center, the Walker Art performer he has worked with Faye co-produced and directed multiple Research, Sarah Lawrence College, Center, the Institute for Contemporary Driscoll, Miguel Gutierrez, Jane works in San Francisco, where her and The Juilliard School. While in Art/Boston, MCA/Chicago, Wesleyan Comfort and Company, The Builders work was described as “feisty, clever New York he continues dancing and University, Danspace Project, The Association, Witness Relocation, 600 and poignant” by the San Francisco choreographing for his company, Kitchen, and the American Dance Highwaymen, Jennie Marytai Liu, John Bay Guardian. She is currently a Singh & Dance. Festival, and internationally at the Jesurun, and others. He has performed collaborating and performing member Théâtre de Vanves’ Festival Artdanthé, at BAM, The Kitchen, Danspace in Faye Driscoll’s Thank You for Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Festival Project, PS 122, New York Live Arts, Coming series, and has performed d’Automne in Paris, Croatian National La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, with Sally Silvers, Andrea Geyer, niv Theatre in Zagreb, Melbourne Festival, the Chocolate Factory, HERE Arts Acosta, Sondra Loring, Laura Arrington, Belfast International Arts Festival, Center, the Joyce Theater, the Duke, RoseAnne Spradlin, and others. She is and Centro de Arte Experimental Baryshnikov Arts Center, Incubator Arts a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts’ (Universidad Nacional de San Martín) Project, the Ohio Theatre, and others. Experimental Theatre Wing. in Buenos Aires. Her work was He creates theater and mixed media exhibited in Younger Than Jesus, at works in collaboration with Sebastián New Museum, and included in NYC Calderón Bentin under the collaborative projects with Ryan McNamara, Dana the New York Foundation for the Arts LAUREL SNYDER Katz, and Robin Becker. In New York BOBBY MCELVER Fellowship and recipients of grants Performer he has performed at various venues Sound design from the MAP Fund and mediaThe including Lincoln Center, MoMA PS 1, foundation inc. Vaughan and Margolin Laurel Snyder is a dancer, educator, the Guggenheim Museum, New York Bobby McElver is a sound designer are members of the devised theater and musician based in Brooklyn. She Live Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and composer for theater, dance, company TEAM with whom they received the majority of her physical French Institute Alliance Française, and film, and also designs interactive created five plays—RoosevElvis, training at New York University’s 92nd Street Y, Danspace at St. Mark’s audio-visual technology for bands and Waiting for You on the Corner of..., Tisch School of the Arts and various Church, Dixon Place, and Judson live events. McElver was a company Mission Drift, Architecting, and dance festivals throughout the US Memorial Church, among others. member of The Wooster Group from Particularly in the Heartland—that and Europe. As a performer Snyder He has performed internationally 2011—16 where he worked on have won numerous awards and toured has collaborated with such artists as with Driscoll and others in Vietnam, productions including The Room; Early throughout the world to venues such Faye Driscoll, Tere O’Connor, Tatyana Argentina, France, and Croatia.
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