Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein (Choreographers/Directors/Performers) are NYC-based experimental choreographer-performers whose work has been dubbed “The High Weird” by critics. Since 2017, they’ve functioned as a circulatory idea machine, whose unconventional performative frameworks reimagine what choreography can be used to accomplish theatrically. Recent work includes: This Could Be You (Sugar! Sugar! Festival, Domino Square Park 2025), Friday Night Rat Catchers (Under the Radar / LiveArtery 2026, New York Live Arts Spring 2025), Deepe Darknesse (New York Live Arts’ Live Artery 2024; full-page review in The New York Times; June 2023 at The Collapsable Hole; Nationally in DC, SF), 1-800-3592-113592 (MITU580 2024, with performance collective CHILD), and many more works and experimentations. The duo received the 2025 Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) Grants to Artists in Choreography. Their work has been supported by Baryshnikov Arts Center (2023 BAC Open), NYSCA Individual artists grant, The FCA, Coffey Street, Mercury Store, and others. Along with their work as a collaborative duo, credits include, Fagan: No President by Nature Theater of Oklahoma (dancer), Anne Washburn’s The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire at The Vineyard (choreographer), Peggy Stafford’s Everything Is Here (choreographer), HILMA at Tony Award Winning theater The Wilma (choreographer), Open Throat at Little Island NYC, (choreographer), THESE DAYS short indie series, Sundance 2021 (choreographer), Engelstein: American Idle Concept & Dir. by Maia Chao, commissioned by Times Square Arts (choreographer), this is the beginning, this is the end by Joanna Kotze (dancer), Adult Relationships by Ben Gassman (actor), Oceanic Feeling by Faye Driscoll (dancer), all i want is what you want (Exponential Festival 2022 choreographer w/Jo Warren) Then She Fell by Third Rail Company (dancer, 2019-20). She was nominated for a Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer in 2024 and holds a B.A. in Mathematics from CC.

Marianne Rendón (Performer/Devising Partner) is an actor, performer, and musician.  Film: Charlie Says (Venice Biennale), Summer Solstice (IFC), Mapplethorpe (Tribeca), One Day As A Lion. TV: Imposters, In The Dark (Netflix), producer & lead of These Days (Sundance).  Theater: The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Vineyard/Civilians), Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (Lincoln Center), Who Left This Fork Here (Baryshnikov Arts Center, dir. Daniel Fish). Bard College, Juilliard MFA. @mariannerendon

Iris McCloughan (Dramaturg) is a director, performance maker, and writer in New York. Their original performance works have been presented in New York (PAGEANT, The Poetry Project, Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Ars Nova), Philadelphia (The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Contemporary, FringeArts), and elsewhere. Recent direction includes Sam Bell’s il bunkerini (Clubbed Thumb’s Winterworks), Alex Tatarsky’s Sad Boys in Harpy Land (Playwrights Horizons), and Joan Jonas & Eiko Otake’s Drawing in Circles    WHY? (Castelli Gallery/Danspace Project). Recent choreography includes Zoe Kim’s Did You Eat? (The Public Theater/Ma-Yi). Iris is a past winner of the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review. Their writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Prelude, Tupelo Quarterly, juked, jubilat, Gertrude, Denver Quarterly, and Queen Mob’s Teahouse, among many others. They are the author of three poetry chapbooks, including triptych (greying ghost, 2022). Iris has collaborated with many other artists and writers, including Eiko Otake, Joan Jonas, Alex Tatarsky, Juliana May, Beth Gill, Mike Lala, and Alex Lin. Their work has been supported with residencies and fellowships from Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Mercury Store, JACK, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Daniel Allen Nelson (Associate Stage Manager) is a writer, performer, & producer. Original works include: Microcosmitor, Give Back My Beast, Spoleum, Don’t Peek, Hearts & Tongues, & The Vanishing Play. He has performed at venues including: HERE, PS122, Public Theater, LaMama, Target Margin, Ontological-Hysteric, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, The Kitchen, Mabou Mines, The Tank, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Invisible Dog, Roulette, Issue Project Room; and in many projects by Object Collection, John Jesurun, Richard Foreman, Jeff McMahon, and Normandy Sherwood. Regional Theater/Touring: Berkeley Rep, Guthrie Theater, LaJolla Playhouse, Center Stage, Ensemble Theater, Theatre Jeune Lune, Jungle Theater, Red Eye, Ko Festival, Cafe Oto (London), Birmingham Rep (UK), Echochance Festival (Amsterdam) & Borealis Festival (Norway). BFA: UCSB; MFA: Towson University.

Emma Orme (Creative Producer) is the Producing Director of The TEAM (Rachel Chavkin, Artistic Director) and an Obie award-winning independent creative producer, working with experimental artists like Lisa Fagan & Lena Engelstein, nicHi douglas, Fake Friends, and CHILD.

Emma is the winner of CIPA’s Outstanding Achievement in Creative Producing award for her close-touch approach to producing and steady track-record of stewarding ambitious works from nascent idea to critical acclaim & sold-out runs—with institutions like New York Live Arts, BAM, Theater Mitu, NYTW, The Public, La MaMa, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Flea, Carolina Performing Arts, and more. Hallmark productions include the Obie Award-winning CIRCLE JERK and CHILD’s 1-800-3592113592 (called Best Theater of 2024 by Helen Shaw).

A fellow of WP’s 2022-24 Producers Lab, Emma has also done producing and fundraising work at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Theater Mitu, New York Theatre Workshop, The New York Times, Hypokrit Productions, Media Art Exploration, Northern Stage, and more. BA: Dartmouth College.

Karl Allen (Production Manager) is a Production Manager, Project Manager, and Designer. He has been the Director of Production for PS122, The Flea Theater, Mercury Store, New42nd St Studios, and a touring production manager for Andrew Schneider (YOURARENOWHERE, N O W I S W H E N W E A R E) and Mabou Mines (Lucia’s Chapters), among others. He is currently a Project Manager for Charcoalblue Experience. He has been a theater consultant for Charcoalblue, and an exhibit designer for The American Museum of Natural History, The Montclair Art Museum, and The Wagner Free Institute of Science. He has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from The University of the Arts.

Masha Tsimring (Lighting Designer) Recent projects include – Off Broadway: Practice (Playwrights Horizons); Rheology, A Woman Among Women (Bushwick Starr); Six Characters (LCT3); Cold War Choir Practice, Coach Coach (Clubbed Thumb); Staff Meal (Playwrights Horizons); Grief Hotel (Clubbed Thumb); Sad Boys in Harpy Land (Playwrights Horizons/Abrons Art Center). Regional: the aves (Berkeley Rep); The Inspector (Yale Rep); Primary Trust  (La Jolla Playhouse). Dance/Opera: GEMS, Plenum/Anima, Me. You. We. They. (LA Dance Project); Giulio Cesare (Hudson Hall); morning/mourning (Prototype/HERE); Terce (Prototype); Deepe Darknesse (Lisa Fagan/Lena Engelstein/New York Live Arts); Rodelinda (Hudson Hall/Santa Fe Opera); More info at www.mashald.com. 

Jian Jung (Scenic Designer) is a New York based set designer from Korea. Selected theater credits include STAFF MEAL at Playwrights Horizons, THE FOLLOWING EVENING at PAC-NYC, THE NOSEBLEED at LCT3, Woolly Mammoth Theater (DC), and New National Theater Tokyo (Japan), KISS at Wilma Theater (Philadelphia), OCEAN FILIBUSTER at A.R.T. (Boston), THE DAY YOU BEGIN at Kennedy Center (DC), SUICIDE FOREST at Bushwick Starr, and LUDIC PROXY at Soho Rep and Japan Society. She has been working with Latino theater community in NYC closely for a long time, and designed Spanish and bi-lingual productions in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Venezuela. Her opera and musical work have been in Wolf Trap Opera (VA), Fisher Center in Bard, Huntington Theater (Boston), Juilliard, and Long Beach Opera (CA). Jung won an Obie Award, a Barrymore Award, and Edith Lutyens & Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Awards. Jung received an MFA in Theater Design from New York University, and an MFA in Environmental Design from Ewha Women’s University in Korea, where she was born and grew up. She teaches at NYU Tisch Design and Sarah Lawrence College. www.jianjung.com

Josh Oberlander (Scenic Designer) is a set/costume designer, visual artist, and writer working in theater, opera and dance. His work as a designer and has ranged from drag shows, art installations, music videos, new works, and reimagined classics. He’s designed work off broadway at venues such as BAM, Theater Row, and The Flea, and has supported work at The Metropolitan Opera, The Alliance Theater, Disney Theatrical, and Mabou Mines. @ecstatic_process

Normandy Sherwood (Costume Designer) is a writer, a director, and a scenographer/costumer.  Recent work includes her curtain spectacular PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE (2024 OBIE Award)  and Beast Visit as a part of HERE Arts Center’s  HARP residency, Scenographer/co-creator of Theater in Quarantine’s Nosferatu, a 3-D Symphony of Horror at Skirball in 2023. Her theater company is The Drunkard’s Wife, and from 2001-2017 she was a co-artistic director of The National Theater of the United States of America (R.I.P.).  She has designed costumes for Faye Driscoll, Tina Satter/ Half Straddle, Young Jean Lee, Rachel Chavkin/Anne Washburn,  Kristin Marting. She has been an artist in residence at HERE, MacDowell, Yaddo. She’s a Clinical Associate Professor in Expository Writing at NYU and has an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College. Shows in the works: scenic, prop, costume design for Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods, running at HERE Arts  3/28-4/26 (Rattlestick/New Georges), The Mushroom (a pageant of the forest floor), with Nikki Calonge, developing as a part of the New Georges Audrey Residency; All trees are hardest to feel terrible (an opera) composed by Craig Flanagin; and a new play called Sob Story.  

Tei Blow (Sound Designer) is a media designer and performance maker.  Recent: My #1 Beautiful Chumby, Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble: The Sprezzaturameron, Wet Brain; Practice, Blue Cowboy, Watch Me Walk, Galas(Little Island); Public Obscenities (Soho Rep); Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!(Soho Rep); Rheology(Bushwick Starr). Awards: Henry Hewes Design Award (2023); Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2024); Creative Capital 2016; Bessie Award for Outstanding Sound Design (2015) for I Understand Everything Better (David Neumann / Advanced Beginner Group). Teiblow.com. 

Hannah Bird (Props Designer) (she/they) is a designer, director and artisan based out of Brooklyn. Her work has been seen onstage at The New School Theatre and Opera, WP Theater, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Brick, The Tank, The Chain, Greenside at Edinburgh Fringe, 3 Dollar Bill, The Knockdown Center, Herbert Von King Park Amphitheater, Exponential Festival, and University of Evansville Theatre (of where she is an alumna, BS Theatre Studies 2020). Hannah’s favorite projects tend to live in the world of trash, camp, queer, political, gaudy, and basking in contradiction and interconnectedness. You can find her theatre work on instagram @birdbydesign_, and her experimental photography and writing at @caesarsaladdersny.

Lola Basiliere (Associate Sound Designer) is a sound designer for live performance based in New York City. Recent work: The Cherry Tortured (NYU), The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Assistant, The Vineyard), Cassandra (Teatro LATEA), Shell (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Steve Burns: Alive (La MaMa), Romeo & Juliet (Catskill Mountain Shakespeare), Seagullmachine (GreenSpace), Friday Night Rat Catchers (Assistant, NYLA), I’m Repeating Myself (Associate, The Brick), Radio Downtown (Associate, 59E59), Stop Kiss (The Chain), Where Women Go (HERE Arts), Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom (NYU), Joan of Arc in a Supermarket in California (Associate, The Tank), Weasel Festival (The Brick). BFA: NYU lolabasiliere.com

Kelly Shaffer Allen (Production Stage Manager). Kelly has been a stage manager and production manager for a variety of companies and venues across many disciplines. She is based in Brooklyn where she likes to eat cookies and listen to the radio with her little ones. Credits include: Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Midsummer Night Swing (2014-2018); Let the Right One In and Black Watch (Nat’l Theatre of Scotland); This Was the End (Mallory Catlett/Chocolate Factory); Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage (Banana Bag & Bodice); Chekhov Lizardbrain (Pig Iron Theatre Co.);  Silence! The Musical (Tesseract Theatre Co.); Brief Encounter (Kneehigh Theatre); Bellona: Destroyer of Cities (Jay Scheib); Romeo & Juliet and Euro-Asian Tour of Life & Times Episodes 1 & 2 (Nature Theater of Oklahoma); Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (File 14 Productions).

Ross Werner Winslow (Assistant Stage Manager). Ross has been in the performing arts world for around six years, with experience in stage management, electrics, and scenic. A recent graduate of Bard College, he currently works at the Fisher Center as a carpenter and stagehand. Recent credits include Illinoise, Dalibor, Pastoral, Le Prophete, Ulysses, and SCAT.