Benjamin Akio Kimitch (Director, Choreographer, Performer)

Benjamin Akio Kimitch is an artist and producer living in Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of a Bessie Award for Outstanding Choreographer, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, and Creative Capital Award. Kimitch’s commissioned works have been presented by Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow, The Shed, The Noguchi Museum, The Kitchen, and Danspace Project. He has been awarded fellowships and residencies with Asian Cultural Council, MacDowell, Yaddo, Movement Research, MANCC, Mercury Store, and others. Kimitch brings to his artistic work nearly two decades of experience as a professional producer for new opera, music, theater, and dance. Most recently, he was a Producer at PAC NYC, which included developing Cats: The Jellicle Ball before its Broadway transfer. Kimitch began his career at Dance Theater Workshop.

Jessica Cook (Performer)

Jessica Cook is a choreographer and performing artist based in NYC since 2005. She has presented her work in venues such as La MaMa Moves Festival, LMCC’s River to River Festival, Pageant, Roulette Intermedium, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, and other venues.  Her upcoming show at Roulette Intermedium received a NYSCA Supporting Artist grant premiering in late Fall of 2026. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Chocolate Factory Theater, Movement Research, NY Live Arts Fresh Tracks, and MoMA PS1. As a performer she currently works with Kim Brandt, Tess Dworman, Sam Kim, and Benjamin Akio Kimitch. She is a 2005 graduate of the SUNY Purchase Dance Conservatory.

Lai Yi Ohlsen (Performer)

Lai Yi Ohlsen is an artist and researcher whose work considers systems and narrativizing their histories. She has been in residence at BRIC, Movement Research and Pioneer Works, and was a member of NEW INC’s Art + Code Track in partnership with Rhizome. Her performances, lectures, essays and artworks have been presented and supported by Pageant, Printed Matter Art Book Fair, e-flux Architecture, Columbia GSAPP’s Computation Design Practices program, Triple Canopy, Canal Street Research Association and more. She is currently Head of Cloudflare Radar, Cloudflare’s data platform reporting on Internet outages and technology trends. Additionally, she is a part-time lecturer at The New School, teaching in the Parsons Design & Technology and University Lecture programs.

Glenn Potter-Takata (Performer)

Glenn Potter-Takata is a Japanese-American artist, media designer, and educator based in the Bronx. His original performance works have been shown in New York City at Danspace Project, Mabou Mines, Pageant, Kestrels, Movement Research at Judson Church, Grace Exhibition Space, Flux Factory, and with Pioneers Go East, among other places. Nationally, his work has been presented by Cannonball (Philadelphia, PA) and Rogers Studio Gallery (Las Vegas, NV). As a performer, he has appeared in works by Mina Nishimura, Kathy Westwater, Alex Romania, Julie Mayo, Maho Ogawa, and Kestutis Nakas. He is currently a teacher of sound and projection design for live performance at Sarah Lawrence College. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College.

Nami Yamamoto (Performer)

Nami Yamamoto, from Matsuyama, Japan, holds an MA in Dance Education from New York University and a BA in Physical Education from Ehime University. Nami is a Bessie Awardee (The New York Dance and Performance Award) for the outstanding production of Headless Wolf, which was presented at Roulette in 2017. Nami enjoys teaching dance at NYC public schools through Together in Dance and currently teaches at Lehman College. She is a 2024–2025 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, a USA Fellow in 2025, and a TOPAZ ARTS’ APPI Dance Artist in Residence 2025–26.

evan ray suzuki (Understudy)

evan ray suzuki is a dance artist and filmmaker of yonsei Japanese descent. Presentations of evan‘s choreographic work include the Umbria Factory Festival (Spoleto, Italy), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Pageant, Ars Nova, JACK, CPR, Offerings, CATCH/LMCC River to River Festival, Cannonball Festival, Salish Sea Butoh Festival, Performance Mix Festival, and many parks, beaches, galleries, and basements. As a performer, evan’s credits include works with Kim Brandt, maura nguyễn donohue, Ayano Elson, Gordon Hall, David Neumann, Mina Nishimura, and Glenn Potter-Takata, and as a member of La MaMa’s Great Jones Repertory Company. evan is a 2026 Movement Research Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellow.

Carlos Soto (Costume Designer)

Recent works: Perle Noire (dir. Peter Sellars), Paris Opera; 200 Motels (dir. Daniel Kramer), Grand Théâtre de Genève; The Black Clown (dir. Zack Winokur), Opera Philadelphia; Strike (dir. Wu Tsang) NTGent; Der Messias (dir. Robert Wilson), Houston Grand Opera. Since 1997, Soto collaborated closely with the late artist and director Robert Wilson. Since 2017, he has collaborated with Solange Knowles on a multitude of projects across various media as creative director and designer. Upcoming: Power of Love, choreographed by Jamar Roberts for The Alvin Ailey Dance Company; La Cenerentola (dir. Daniel Kramer) La Monnaie/De Munt; Let ‘Em Eat Cake! (dir. Zack Winokur) Opera Philadelphia.

Jian Jung (Scenic Designer)

Jian Jung is an Obie Award winning set designer from Korea, based in New York City. Her productions range from classic masterpieces to new plays. Recent theater credits include Staff Meal at Playwrights Horizons, The Following Evening at PAC NYC, The Nosebleed at Lincoln Center Claire Tow Theater and Woolly Mammoth Theater (DC). She has been working with the Latino theater community in NYC closely for a long time, and designed Spanish and bi-lingual productions in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Venezuela.

Serena Wong (Lighting Designer)

Serena Wong is a Brooklyn-based freelance lighting designer for theater and dance. Her designs have been seen at Seattle Repertory Theater, The Ford, Lincoln Center, New York City Center, the Joyce, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, among others in the US and abroad- including, oddly enough, a Celebrity cruise ship. Most recently she has designed for choreographers Baye & Asa, Celia Rowlson-Hall, LaTasha Barnes, Kyle Marshall, Caleb Teicher, and John Heginbotham. She enjoys biking, baking, and pottery.

Jeffrey Gan (Dramaturg)

Jeffrey Gan is a dramaturg, curator, and performance critic specializing in non-western and experimental performance. He holds a PhD in performance studies from UT Austin, and his writing has been featured in Imagining: A Gibney Journal, Performance Research, Hyperallergic, and imprint. His curation and performance installation projects include work with ART Gado Gado (Berkeley, CA) and W139 (Amsterdam). Past artistic collaborations include work with Ruben Grijalva, travis l. tate, and Detour Productions. As a dancer, he trains and performs with Gamelan Sekar Jaya and Nā Lei Hulu i Ka Wēkiu.

Fumiya Otonashi (Gagaku Advisor)

Fumiya Otonashi is a performer of shō, a traditional Japanese instrument used in Gagaku, the ancient court music of Japan. He first encountered Gagaku during his studies in computer music, which led him to pursue formal training under Hideaki Bunno, former Chief Court Musician of the Imperial Household Agency. In 2015, he co-founded Kabuchoka Fuyugekkyo Gagaku Ensemble, a contemporary group reimagining tradition with elegance and playfulness, offering fresh, imaginative interpretations. Alongside his work in Gagaku, he explores new contexts and possibilities for the shō and Gagaku through contemporary projects, including Tim Hecker’s world tours, Shuta Hasunuma Philharmonic Orchestra, and intercultural collaborations such as Persian music and Khmer dance. His diverse body of work spans improvisation, film, installation art, contemporary dance, music for public spaces, video games, and television—including the Emmy-winning series Shōgun.

Yasuko Yokoshi (Cultural Advisor and Mentor)

Yasuko Yokoshi is a choreographer and dancer. Her recent work explores embodied transmission, dance lineage, and dance as a living archive. Based in New York from 1996 to 2015, she received two Bessie Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a NYFA Artist Fellowship, and awards from Creative Capital and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her work has been presented internationally. Since relocating to Kyoto in 2015, she has developed research-based projects examining the relationship between contemporary dance and Japanese traditional performing arts. Since 2022, she has collaborated with Benjamin Akio Kimitch on *dojojiproject*, an ongoing research project focused on embodied transmission.

Victoria Bek (Costume Supervisor)

Victoria Bek is a New York based Costume Artist. Her work maintains a multifaceted approach through design, construction, and collaborative curation. Victoria works regionally and internationally in Dance, Theater, Opera, and Interdisciplinary Performance Art. Her recent collaborations include the Park Avenue Armory, Twyla Tharp Dance, Opera Philadelphia, The Juilliard School, The Shed, L.A. Dance Project, AMOC*, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Gibney Company, New York Philharmonic, Oregon Ballet Theater, The Little Island and more.

Josh Oberlander (Associate Scenic Designer)

Josh Oberlander is a set and costume designer, visual artist and writer for performance, working across theater, opera and dance. His design work has ranged from drag shows to art installations, from music videos to new works, world premieres, adaptations and reimagined classics. His work has been seen at BAM, the Alliance, Theater Row, JACK, The Flea, MSM. He’s supported work at the Met Opera, Disney Theatrical and Mabou Mines for designers such as Jan Pappelbaum, Dane Laffrey, dots and Jian Jung. His installation/visual art work has been exhibited at MSM. Graduate NYU Tisch Design (MFA) and Emory University (BA). 

Emily Duncan (Production Manager)

Production manager and flutist Emily Duncan delights in works that live at the intersection of music, technology, literature, and art. Recent production management projects include TRASH (PAC NYC/Out of the Box Theatrics), PIERROT (City Lyric Opera), and See What I Wanna See (Out of the Box Theatrics). Her current personal projects include Easy Baby, an experimental opera based on the work of Shirley Jackson, and The Poe Project: interdisciplinary commissions for each work in Edgar Allan Poe’s canon. https://www.rebelflute.com/.

Taeuk Kang (Production Stage Manager)

Taeuk Kang is a New York-based AEA/AGMA Stage Manager. His credits include Shifters (Cherry Lane Theater), What Happened Was… (Audible Theater), Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Marquis Theatre), Moulin Rouge! (U.S. Tour), Did You Eat? 밥 먹었니? (The Public Theater/Ma-Yi Theater), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Lyric Theatre/U.S. Tour), An American Soldier (PAC NYC), and KPOP (Circle in the Square). Taeuk holds an MFA in Stage Management from Columbia University and is passionate about cross-cultural storytelling, collaboration, and creating connections between artists and communities through theatre. IG: @smtaeuk

Hanna Yurfest (Artistic Administrator)

Hanna Yurfest is a director and producer. She co-founded and leads The Tank’s artist group, TAG, and creates work with her company, Needy Lover, including directing Lobster (Best Theater of 2025: New Yorker and Vulture). She was a 2025/26 Clubbed Thumb New Play Directing Fellow.

OHYUNG (Composer, memorial)

Lia Ouyang Rusli (she/they) is a film composer and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She scored A24’s Sorry Baby (dir. Eva Victor), Happyend (dir. Neo Sora), A24’s Problemista and HBO’s Fantasmas (dir. Julio Torres), and more. She makes solo music, DJs, and performs as OHYUNG, drawing on ambient soundscapes, harsh noise and euphoric pop. Her 2025 album You Are Always On My Mind was described by Paste Magazine as an “unpredictable masterpiece.” Her ambient records include IOWA, celebrated by Pitchfork as a “chilling, starkly beautiful ambient album,” and imagine naked!, named one of NPR’s 50 Best Albums of 2022 and PopMatters’ #1 Ambient Record of 2022. She hosts Lot Radio’s Stray Dogs, highlighting asian diasporic experimental and electronic music. 

ShowShow (Producer)

ShowShow bridges ambitious artistic vision with operational fluency to realize complex performance with care. We partner with artists and organizations to build sustainable production, financial, and touring structures, treating strong producing as an artistic practice essential to an equitable arts ecosystem. ShowShow proudly champions work by Benjamin Akio Kimitch, jaamil olawale kosoko, Joanna Kotze, Tea Alagić, Lila Blue & Jillian Jetton, Li(sa E.) Harris, Amy Rose Khoshbin, Denisa Musilova/Tami Stronach; as well as The Ford/Hill Project for Waterwell, and Soho Rep’s production of Anne Gridley’s Watch Me Walk. ShowShow is Jenni Bowman, Melissa Kievman, Janet Rucker, Jason Goodman and is powered by Producer Hub. showshow.co