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Written and Directed
by Dmitry Krymov
Presented by by BRIC Arts Media
in partnership with Under The Radar
Mark Russell, Festival Director &
ArKtype // Thomas O. Kriegsmann &
Sami Pyne, Festival Producer
More information at utrfest.org
DMITRY KRYMOV (Writer/Director) is a theatre director, scenographer, and visual artist known for his innovative, design-centric style, sometimes called “theatre of the artist.” He is internationally beloved for his visually stunning, richly layered reinventions of classics, where he and his company combine fine art, prose, poetry, music, and popular culture in a mercurial tapestry of original, inventive, and surprising moments. In his productions, the design goes on a journey alongside the characters; often, the actors transform their environment, using props and scenery to construct new worlds right before the audience’s eyes. He has been hailed as “one of the world’s finest theatermakers” (New York Times), and has won many awards for his work including five Golden Mask awards (Russian National Theater Award), four Crystal Turandot awards (first post-Soviet Theater Award) and a Herald Angel Award (Edinburgh International Festival). Krymov was born in Moscow in 1954 to theatrical luminaries Anatoly Efros and Natalya Krymova. Trained in stage design from a young age, he graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School’s scenography department in 1976. Over the next two decades, he designed over a hundred productions throughout Russia and abroad. In 2002, Krymov began teaching stage design at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS), and, as a director, launched the Dmitry Krymov Laboratory in 2004. Headquartered in Moscow and regularly touring internationally, the Lab created over 20 productions including Demon. View from Above. (2006); Opus 7 (2008); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (As You Like It) (2012); and O-Y. Late Love (2014). In 2016, Krymov created his first English language production: The Square Root of Three Sisters at the Yale School of Drama (now the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University). Krymov’s more recent Russian works, created outside the Lab, include Mozart. Don Juan. Dress Rehearsal (2021); We Are All Here (2021); and Kostik (2022). In early 2022, Krymov traveled to Philadelphia to create a new production of The Cherry Orchard with the Wilma Theatre. When the Russian government invaded Ukraine, he publicly stated his opposition to the war, and took up residence in New York City. In fall of 2022, he launched his new company, Krymov Lab NYC.
TATYANA KHAIKIN (Executive Director of Krymov Lab NYC / Interpreter / Casting Director) is an interpreter, translator, teacher, and producer with over 30 years’ experience. Upcoming/recent work includes: Uncle Vanya at Lincoln Center (language consultant), Krymov Lab NYC’s inaugural production of Big Trip at La MaMa (executive producer, interpreter), and Krymov’s The Cherry Orchard at the Wilma Theater (interpreter, language consultant). Since the early 1990s, Tatyana has been actively involved in many educational and theatrical projects between the US and Russia, at institutions including the Raikin School, the Moscow Art Theater School, the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, Yale University, the New School for Social Research, Wayne State, Northern Illinois University, and Hunter College. Throughout her career, Tatyana has worked with acclaimed directors including Oleg Efremov, Roman Kozak, Konstantin Raikin, Adolf Shapiro, Marina Brusnikina, Alla Sigalova, Janosz Szasz, John Tiffany, and Steven Hoggett. Her theatrical translations include The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, Out of the Blue by Vladimir Zaytsev, and three one-acts by American playwrights for the Book Wings International Writing Program at the University of Iowa (co-sponsored by the American Embassy in Moscow). She has also interpreted for a number of US State Department-sponsored seminars for Russian legislators, journalists, and medical professors. Tatyana has been working as an interpreter/translator for almost 30 years. Recent translations include The Mountaintop by Katori Hall; three one-acters by young American playwrights for the Book Wings International Writing Program at the University of Iowa (co-sponsored by the American Embassy in Moscow).
TIM ELIOT (Managing Director of Krymov Lab NYC / Understudy) is a cofounder of Form & Pressure Films with his wife, Lauren Sowa. He wrote and acted in their first short, Marisol, which aired for two years on HBO, won awards from HuffPo and Cabbagetown FF, and played at over 60 festivals worldwide. He has been featured on Blue Bloods, The Gilded Age, The Deuce, The Plot Against America, Boardwalk Empire, and Godfather of Harlem. Recent films include Diaries of an Exchange Student, Paris is in Harlem, The Rainbow Experiment, and Seven Lovers. A veteran of classical and downtown theater, Tim played MacBeth with Everett Quinton and Sleep No More alums in a Catholic Church in Chinatown, Hamlet at the cell, and Romeo at Yale. He directed Romeo & Juliet in an abandoned garage in Long Island City, Much Ado in a garden/gallery in Chelsea, and Erdman’s Suicide!? in a former piano factory in Hell’s Kitchen. Tim currently teaches both Shakespeare in performance and a survey of storytelling media at NYU. He studied with Bob Krakower and Bill Esper, and got his MFA from the ART/MXAT Institute at Harvard and his BA from Yale.
NATALIE BATTISTONE (Actor) is an actor and director originally from Connecticut. She was in the American Repertory Theater’s world premiere of O.P.C. (Obsessive Political Correctness) by V (formerly Eve Ensler) and the western/regional premieres of Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Abby Rosebrock’s Dido of Idaho and Robert Askins’ Hand to God at The Spot where she also works as a Creative Director. Other credits include: Eurydice, Macbeth, and The Trestle at Popelick Creek, The Spot; Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, Moscow Art Theatre School; How I Learned to Drive, The Royall Tyler Theater; and developmental productions of Bride*Widow*Hag and Heroin/e (Keep Us Quiet), A.R.T. Institute. Natalie frequently directs theater, teaches, and works as a creative/art director in film/tv. She received her MFA from Harvard/American Repertory Theater/ Moscow Art Theatre School (MXAT.) Natalie also trained at MXAT through the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center/National Theater Institute program in 2011 where she first experienced the visionary work of Dmitry Krymov at a performance of Demon. View from Above. She is immeasurably grateful to be part of the Krymov Lab NYC. www.nataliebattistone.com | IG: @semelee
SHELBY FLANNERY (Understudy) is an actor whose long career in the theatre has brought her to many stages, from The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis to La MaMa here in NYC. Since graduating from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2018, Shelby has explored bringing her performances to the screen; her most recent credits include the role of Hope in the hit CW series The 100; and appearances on Law and Order SVU (NBC) and FBI Most Wanted (CBS), among others. Shelby is thrilled to be back in the rehearsal room with such a brilliant group of players, doing what she knows best: making weird and wonderful theatre.
KWESIU JONES (Actor) is an actor, director, and producer. Originally from Alabama, Kwesiu has worked in LA, NYC, and Atlanta. He studied Acting at The New School for Drama in New York, where he received an MFA, and studied Engineering at Tuskegee University. Films include “The Confidant” and the upcoming feature “Release,” and he can be seen on TV in “General Hospital” and Tyler Perry’s “The Oval.” He recently directed his first short film, “Elucidation.” His theater credits include MTA Radio Plays (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), “The Bluest Eye” (Miles Playhouse), “The Trials and Tribulations of Staggerlee Booker T. Brown” (C. Arts Theater), “Ragtime” (Woodland Opera Playhouse), “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Of Mice and Men” (La Mirada Theater). In addition to working as an engineer, he taught middle school for 10 years. Kwesiu believes that art heals and has dedicated his life to spreading love through it. He is honored to be doing just that through his Krymov Lab NYC work.
JEREMY RADIN (Actor) is an actor and writer and is absolutely thrilled to be making his professional New York theater debut at La Mama. He’s appeared in films such as The Way Back (dir. Gavin O’Connor) and The New World (dir. Terrence Malick) and TV shows like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Criminal Minds, and CSI. He was most recently in the world premiere of The Ants at the Geffen Playhouse. He’s an original member of the LA-based theater company The Public Assembly and studied and taught at The Beverly Hills Playhouse. His poetry has been published widely in magazines and journals and he’s the author of two full-length collections: Slow Dance with Sasquatch (Write Bloody, 2017) and Dear Sal (Not A Cult, 2022). He owns and operates Lanternist Creative Consulting, through which he coaches writers and performers. He is deeply grateful to Dima and the rest of this extraordinary company. Instagram: @germyradin
JACKSON SCOTT (Actor) is an actor and musician. For the past ten years Jackson has been touring extensively in Europe, the Middle East and Russia, playing with his Spanish punk band Mano de Dios. More recently, backed by a growing group of top virtuoso musicians from South America, France and the US, his English project The Jackson Scott Band has kicked off with a sound blending Latino with American Trad Jazz. He has released a full length studio album with Mano de Dios, followed recently by a Jackson Scott LP. In 2013 he was commissioned to write the sound track for Angus McQueen ́s documentary “Druglord, the Legend of Shorty” a film about the elusive Mexican drug baron El Chapo. In the same year he began an ongoing project based in Cuba recording Spanish versions of Nat King Cole standards for which he will be returning to complete a live album. Currently based in NYC.
ELIZABETH STAHLMANN (Actor) is delighted to be back with KrymovLabNYC! Other theater credits include: Tectonic Theater Project’s world premiere of Here There Are Blueberries (La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare Theater of DC); Slave Play (Center Theater Group, understudy for Broadway); Grounded (Westport Country Playhouse- CT Critics Circle Award); The Alley Theatre; three tours with The Acting Company; The Guthrie Theater. TV/film credits include: “City on a Hill,” “The Equalizer,” “Law & Order: SVU,” The Snare (in production). Graduate of University of MN/Guthrie Theater (BFA), Yale School of Drama (MFA). Elizabeth is a proud member of The Actors Center.
ANYA ZICER (Actor) is an Israeli, American, New-York based actor, curator and educator. Born in St. Petersburg, raised in Tel-Aviv, she currently lives and works in NYC. Anya worked with acclaimed theatre directors such as Alexandre Marine, Gera Sandler and completed courses with Konstantin Raykin (The Higher School of Performing Arts) and Anne Bogart, on the Viewpoints Technique. Anya came to the US at the age of 16 and after graduating from AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), she founded Lost & Found Project, an ensemble based laboratory theatre company working with the verbatim documentary theatre technique. The company conceived over ten original productions including the recent production of Bad Roads by Natalka Vorozhbyt at La MaMa Experimental Theatre. Anya appeared in productions such as Covers and KNOCK directed by Alexandre Marine, Old New Year and The Singing Windmills directed by Gera Sandler, Le Grand Voyage by Aelita West, Revolution in One by Theatre in Asylum, as well as an appearance in The Americans. Anya is a believer in the synergy between education and theatre and often creates multidisciplinary theatre productions as part of her Edges & Borders immersive production series. She recently curated a site specific theatre installation RE:LOCATION featuring plays by current Ukrainian dramaturgs in upstate New York. Anya is represented by BMG talent agency in the US.
EMONA STOYKOVA (Production Design) is a NYC based designer for theater and live performance, with a special interest in new plays and adaptations. Her work is focused on empathy, collaboration and seeking experimental and non- traditional approaches of storytelling. She holds an MFA, Set Design - Yale School of Drama; BA, Scenography - National Academy of Arts, Bulgaria and is a graduate of the National School of Fine Arts, Bulgaria.In Europe she’s collaborated with such storied directors as Alexander Morfov, Robert Wilson, Galin Stoev, among others. American credits include more than 30 shows, including An Enemy Of The People (Yale Repertory Theatre) {Outstanding Set Design Nomination}; world premieres of The Seventeenth Chapel (A.R.T. New York Theatres), Ella in the Tundra (The Signature), The Gold Room (HERE), Coop (Paradise Factory), The Hour of Great Mercy and Bulgaria! Revolt! (Iseman Theatre). She’s honored to be a founding member of KrymovLab. NYC. EmonaStoykova.com
LUNA GOMBERG (Costume Design / Second Puppet Designer) is a multimedia artist and costume designer, who has participated in productions all around the world, including several large- scale costumed performances and installations in the Berkshires and in New York City, and a show which participated in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017. An emigrant, Luna speaks Russian and English fluently. Her work is often based on the cultural diversity of her background; for example, her detail work and embroidery elaborates on Slavic and Jewish traditions, creating new fusion stitches and imagery. Luna’s past experience includes work in analog stop motion animation, set and costume design as well as hair and makeup for theatre and opera productions, independent sculptural and fiber-arts work, as well as installations and collaborations with other artists such as Uta Bekaia and Doug Fitch and Tommy Nguyen.
KRISTA SMITH (Lighting Designer) is a Philly based Lighting Designer and Visual Artist. Recent design work includes: Wig Wag (Fringe Arts), The Thanksgiving Play (Dorset Theatre), What the Constitution Means to Me (Weston Theater), sandblasted (Theatre Horizon), Red Riding Hood (Arden Theatre Co), Head Over Heels (Theatre Horizon), One-Man Nutcracker (Theatre Exile), The Mousetrap (Hartford Stage), TOWN (Theatre Horizon), Letters You Will Not Get (American Opera Project), Threshold of Brightness, It is a Comfort to Know (Beth Morrison Productions), Ni Mi Madre (Rattlestick Theater), and Zoetrope (Exquisite Corpse Company). Artistic Team Member of Rattlestick Theater. MFA Yale School of Drama. Proud member of USA 829. www.KristaSmithLD.com
KATE MARVIN (Sound Design) is a New York-based sound designer and composer for theater, film, puppetry and podcasts. Recent designs: Vanessa in Bed (Audible), Merry Me (New York Theatre Workshop), Bulrusher (McCarter Theatre/Berkeley Rep), Wolf Play (MCC/Soho Rep/Ma-Yi), The Best We Could (MTC), Dial M for Murder (Westport Country Playhouse), Sense & Sensibility (Northern Stage), The Legend of Georgia McBride (Playmakers Rep), Three Sisters (Two River), Fidelio (Heartbeat Opera), Bloodmeal (Theater in Quarantine), Chimpanzee (HERE, The Barbican, Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes). Kate is an Associate Artist with Target Margin Theater and a member of USA829. MFA, Yale School of Drama.
YANA BIRYUKOVA (Projection Design) is a video artist and theatre designer. Born and raised in Moscow, she is currently based in New York City. Her theatrical designs include collaborations with Resident Ensemble Players, Krymov Lab, Miami New Drama, Carnegie Hall, Barrington Stage Company, Westport Country Playhouse, Red Bull Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale Opera, Yale Cabaret, Irish Repertory Theatre and many more. Associate credits include Harry Potter and The Cursed Child; Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Broadway). Yana’s film and installation credits include Palimpsest: Tales Spun from Sea and Memories (Venice Biennale 2022), Promise Land (Yale University), Alphabet City (Yale Art Gallery), Not Just Me (Catskill Art Society) among others. The recipient of the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Projection, Yana has lectured at Harvard University and Colgate University. MFA: Yale School of Drama yanabiryukova.com
LEAH OGAWA (Puppet Design) is an installation artist and puppeteer based in New York City and raised in Yamanashi, Japan. Leah has worked with puppeteers, artists, and companies including The Metropolitan Opera, Dan Hurlin, Tom Lee, Phantom Limb, Nami Yamamoto, La MaMa, and many more. She has performed across the US as well as at the Musée de Quai de Branly in Paris and across Asia. Leah is a recipient of the Jim Henson Foundation’s workshop grant for her original piece, Growing Not Dying. Her recent work, Divine Generations, has been featured in the New York Times. For more visit leahogawa.com and follow @leahogawa on instagram.
RACHEL MCMULLIN (Choreography) first started dancing as part of musical theater performance. After receiving her degree in theater from NYU she discovered the world of partnered social dance. Specializing in lindy hop for the past 15 years, Rachel can be seen performing at swing events and private parties around the city. She teaches swing dance and vernacular jazz at You Should Be Dancing studios.
SHARI PERKINS (Dramaturg, Translator) is a freelance dramaturg and editor. She earned an MFA in Dramaturgy at the ART Institute and Moscow Art Theatre School. She wrote her master’s thesis at Hunter College on literary adaptation and the chernukha aesthetic in contemporary Russian drama, served as the Senior Editorial Advisor for Slavic and East European Performance and spent a year cataloging Russian avant-garde ephemera for a rare bookseller. Shari has provided dramaturgy for productions ranging from Euripides’ The Bacchae and Freyda Thomas’s Splitting Heirs to the Pulitzer Prize-nominated rock opera Orpheus X. She worked on the US premieres of Kirill Serebrennikov’s productions of Playing the Victim and Zoya’s Apartment. Recently, she was the writing assistant and technical advisor for Serebrennikov’s first English-language film, Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie. In addition to her work with Krymov Lab, Shari was recently dramaturg for Argia Copolla’s Love is Blonde and Arseniy Fariatiev’s The Chaikas.
KATIE ROSIN, KAMPFIRE PR (Publicist) Off-Broadway highlights include The Creeps, Playhouse 46 at St. Luke’s; KHAN!!! The Musical, The Players Theater; Daughter of the Wicked, City Center | Stage II; The Lucky Star, 59E59; GLAAD Award Nominee, She Like Girls, Ohio Theater; IT Awards recipient, Elizabeth Rex, Center Stage; 2007 Drama Desk Nominee (mis)UNDERSTANDING MAMMY: The Hattie McDaniel Story, Theatre 5. During the pandemic, she served as Director of Communications at the Broadway Podcast Network. www.kampfirefilmspr.com IN: @kampfirefilmspr
JACOB RUSSELL (Production Supervisor) is a creative multi-disciplinary theatrical Stage Manager. Currently he is continuing to work with Tectonic Theatre Project on the new play, Here There Are Blueberries which will be making its NYC premiere across the street at NYTW in the Spring of ‘24! Select theatre stage management credits, NYC: Good Vibrations, Chekhov’s First Play (Irish Arts Center), The Essential Straight and Narrow (The Mad Ones @ New Ohio Theatre), The Library (The Public Theater), Temporary Occupant (Clubbed Thumb), Sarah Flood in Salem Mass (The Flea Theater). Regional: The Outcasts of Penikese Island (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse), Here There Are Blueberries (Jolla Playhouse & Shakespeare Theatre Company), to the yellow house, Kiss My Aztec!, The Who’s Tommy benefit concert (La Jolla Playhouse), David Mamet’s The Christopher Boy’s Reunion (Odyssey Theatre), Lisa D’Amour’s Mad Moon (The NOLA Project), This Random World (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Other stage management credits include Pilobolus’s Big FIVE-OH tour (PSM), Dave Harris’s Cat Sitter (1st AD/Oregon Shakespeare Festival), SummerFest ’18 (La Jolla Music Society). Education: M.F.A. from University California San Diego.
PATRICK DUNNING (Assistant Stage Manager / Sound Design) is a stage manager, actor, and sound designer based in Brooklyn. He has performed at the Tank, Wild Project, BAM, New York Theatre Workshop and more. Hailing from Salem, MA, Patrick has worked as a director and teaching artist for Salem’s Rebel Shakespeare Company since 2014. He recently appeared as Mercutio in Theater at Woodshill’s Romeo and Juliet and served as Production Stage Manager for Double Feature’s Macbeth (dir. Mikhaela Mahony), and he is co-creator of Pat Reads THE KING IN YELLOW (2021). Patrick holds a degree in Drama from Vassar College, and has studied acting at the Atlantic Theater School and abroad at the Moscow Art Theatre School and under Konstantin Raikin (The Higher School of Performing Arts). Upcoming projects include Talking Band’s Existentialism (dir. Anne Bogart), to be performed in La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theater in Spring 2024. patrickdunning.com
SHARON FALLON PRODUCTIONS (General Management) Sharon Fallon founded her boutique production company with a mission to bridge the gap between art and business, with a special interest in providing executive producing and general management services for early-career producers and artist-driven projects.
KATYA CHOODNOVSKIY (Company Manager) is thrilled to be the Company Manager of Krymov Lab NYC this season! Born and raised in New York City, she loves to explore all the forms of theater the city has to offer. She has worked at Signature Theatre and TRACT (Theater of Russian Actors) on productions like The Watering Hole, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, and Raskolnikov and the Pawnbroker. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in Communication.
KATYA POPOVA (Graphic Design) is a multidisciplinary artist, graphic designer, and educator. Coming from Moscow with a Fine Arts background, she graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MA from Boston University. / She works at the intersection of physical texture, shadow, and sound. Her works explore what could have been by tracing the physical gestures and material qualities of everyday things. She often collaborates with sound artists. / As a graphic designer, Katya has twenty years of professional experience, working in major publishing houses. Katya taught design and visual art classes at universities—RISD, Mass Art, and Boston College. Presently she teaches courses on visual art and design at the New England Conservatory of Music.
https://www. popovadesign.com, https:// popova.space/
BRIC Arts Media is a leading arts and media institution anchored in Downtown Brooklyn whose work spans contemporary visual and performing arts, media, and civic action.
For over forty years, BRIC has shaped Brooklyn’s cultural and media landscape by presenting and incubating artists, creators, students, and media makers. As a creative catalyst for our community, we ignite learning in people of all ages and centralize diverse voices that take risks and drive culture forward. BRIC builds Brooklyn’s creative future.
Its main venue, BRIC House, offers a public media center, a major contemporary art exhibition space, two performance spaces, a glass-walled TV studio, and artist work spaces.
MARK RUSSELL (Festival Founder + Director) Mark Russell has been working in the downtown dance/performance and theater world for over 35 years. From 1983-2004 he was the Executive Artistic Director of Performance Space 122. He brought the space from a low-tech artist rental space to a world-renowned presenting institution committed to developing the work of New York City artists. In January 2005 Russell launched the Under the Radar Festival at St. Ann’s Warehouse. UTR focuses on theater-based contemporary performance. The festival moved to the Public Theater in 2006 and became a centerpiece in the New York City theater season; mixing international performances with national and local artists. Russell has been involved with many artists over his career, creating opportunities for them to grow and reach wider audiences. He is now involved in re-imagining The Under the Radar Festival for a new generation.
ArKtype (Festival Producer) ArKtype is recognized as among the world’s leading supporters of new, experimental work. Established in 2005 by producer Thomas O. Kriegsmann to support the finest in emerging and established artists based in NYC and worldwide, we support risk in live performance – creating an ever-shifting mechanism for the fulfillment of artists’ visions for new work, international collaboration, production and touring. The company has grown to encompass renowned artists from twenty-five different countries at any given time, limitless genres and commercial and non-profit support structures for a variety of spaces. Realizing the infrastructural demands of the artist in an environment of limited funding and financial support for creative endeavors, ArKtype aims to balance infrastructural support with creative growth, allowing the artist a long-term relationship with a producing entity based on establishing the artist’s continued presence in the national and international regional theater, festival and arts presenter communities. More information at arktype.org.
Thomas O. Kriegsmann (ArKtype President) Thomas O. Kriegsmann specializes in new work development and touring worldwide. His past work includes projects with Kaneza Schaal, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Brook, Daniel Fish, Victoria Thiérrée-Chaplin, Yael Farber, Anna Deavere Smith, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen, Dmitry Krymov, Peter Sellars, Julie Taymor, John Cameron Mitchell and Tony Taccone. Recent premieres include Justin Peck & Sufjan Stevens’ ILLINOISE, 600 HIGHWAYMEN’s A THOUSAND WAYS, nora chipaumire’s NEHANDA, Sam Green’s 32 SOUNDS w/ JD Samson (Oscar 2024 Shortlist), Bryce Dessner’s TRIPTYCH (EYES OF ONE ON ANOTHER) directed by Kaneza Schaal, John Cameron Mitchell’s THE ORIGIN OF LOVE, Kaneza Schaal & Christopher Myers’ CARTOGRAPHY, Sam Green & Kronos Quartet’s A THOUSAND THOUGHTS, Big Dance Theater / Mikhail Baryshnikov’s MAN IN A CASE, Toshi & Bernice Johnson Reagon’s PARABLE OF THE SOWER and Nalaga’at Deaf-Blind Theater’s NOT BY BREAD ALONE. Ongoing collaborations include Bryce Dessner, Sophia Brous, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Sam Green, Timothy White Eagle, Andrew Schneider, Big Dance Theater, John Cameron Mitchell, and Compagnia T.P.O. Premieres include Sufjan Stevens & Justin Peck’s ILLINOISE, Bryce Dessner & Kaneza Schaal’s UNTITLED OCEAN VUONG PROJECT, Sam Green’s UNTITLED TREES DOCUMENTARY PROJECT, and Penny Arcade’s autobiographical epic THE ART OF BECOMING. He is a founding member of CIPA (The Creative & Independent Producer Alliance).
Sami Pyne (ArKtype Producing Director) Sami Pyne is an independent producer invested in decluttering and demystifying the process for creators. Recent new work producing credits include Jeesun Choi’s To the Ends of the Earth / 땅끝까지 at JACK, Alex Hare and Julia Izumi’s Capricorn 29 at The Tank, Jen Pitt’s TRASH BODY MONKEY HOUSE at New Ohio’s Ice Factory Festival, Christina Tang’s TRAFFIC at The Brick’s Exponential Festival, and Keenan Tyler Oliphant’s Kyk Hoe Skyn die Son [Look how the Sun Shines] at Clubbed Thumb’s Winterworks. Additionally, she’s had the pleasure of producing work with companies such as 600 Highwaymen, The Arts & Climate Initiative, New York Theatre Workshop, Aeon, Prelude (festival producer 2019, 2020), The Play Company (PlayCo), Theatre Development Fund (TDF), and HERE Arts Center. WP Producers Lab Fellow 2022-2024. Columbia MFA Theatre Management & Producing 2020. Proud member of the Creative & Independent Producer Alliance (CIPA).