Rod Williams [PIMA MFA 2007-9]
is a Composer, Arranger and Keyboardist. He moved to New York in 1981 from Detroit, Michigan. Started touring and performing with Cassandra Wilson,Olu Dara, Lester Bowie, Dewey Redman, George Lewis, Henry Threadgill, David Murray, Steve Coleman, Greg Osby, Marty Ehrlich etc. Recently, received a BA in Electro/Acoustic Music from the CUNY Baccalaureate Program. Recently, just finish participating in an adaption of James Baldwin's "Another Country". Adapted and Directed by Diane Paulus, Original Music Composed by Deidre Murray for Columbia Stages and featuring the Columbia University MFA Acting Class of 2008.
Melissa Rocha [PIMA MFA 2007-9]
One time my friend, Jimmy started beating up this guy. He almost started crying because he felt so bad.
I am from Texas, but live in New York. I'm trying to find the comfort in between.
Let's do things well, then let's do them again.
Brent Stansell [Dramaturgy MFA 2007-9]
is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate in Dramaturgy and Theatre Criticism at Brooklyn College. For his graduate thesis he will be creating a queer theatre collective. He is currently interning at Roundabout Theatre Company in their Education Department. NYC: Theatre Curator for the Crown Point Festival (formerly The Fall Collection). Brent has worked as a dramaturg with Moises Kaufman and solo performer Josh Lefkowitz. He comes from DC where he worked as dramaturg on a new play by Sarah Sander as part of Forum Theatre’s Hatchery Project. Brent has worked as an actor at Round House Theatre, Rorschach Theatre, Actors’ Theatre of Washington (where he also served as Assistant Communications Director), Horizons Theatre, The American Century Theater, and the National Air and Space Museum. He is proud to be a theatre educator, currently teaching Introduction to Acting at Brooklyn College, having taught summer classes at Round House Theatre, and having started Kid Power, an after school theatre program for DC kids. Brent is an alumnus of National Player’s Tour 55 out of the Olney Theatre Center, having performed Our Town and A Midsummer Night’s Dream across the eastern US. He is a graduate of The George Washington University with an Honors BA in English and Dramatic Literature.
Cory Einbinder [PIMA MFA 2007-9]
As the Artistic Director of Adhesive Theater Project, Cory has directed his adaptation of Chikamatsu Monzaemon's The Battles of Coxinga which will be published in Taiwan in 2008, Les Mauvais Garcon by Jake Hooker (which had the honor of being included in the Best of the American Living Room Series at HERE Arts Center), the dance theater piece Hysteria: HYSTERIA! also by Jake Hooker, Kirby by the Adhesive ensemble, Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind (which was hailed as "Nothing short of extraordinary…" by nytheater.com), Chantecler by Edmond Rostand (praised by the New York Times as "especially memorable... creative, interesting... witty... ". Cory wrote and directed R.U.R. A Futurist Folk Opera – a retelling of Karol Capek's Rossum's Universal Robots through music and dance. He has choreographed fights for numerous theater companies and films. He is a member of Actor's Equity Association and the Screen Actor's Guild. Cory is also known as "Short Stride" Clyde Everett Eubanks the songwriter and washboard player of the legendary Brooklyn Jugs.
Cory currently teaches at the City University of New York's College of Technology.
Linsey Bostwick [PIMA MFA 2007-9]
is a freelance video artist, performer and producer. She has worked with international known company Big Art Group since 1999 when she has traveled through Europe and the USA. Bostwick is the Managing Director for Accinsoco Inc. and is a video artist and educator with Live Project, Inc. She is currently working on a new video performance piece, I am Here, collaborating with choreographer Nina Winthrop, Dramaturg Andi Stover and Italian Director Riccardo Fazi.
Kara Bohnenstiel [PIMA MFA 2007-9]
is an artist who utilizes Film, Sound, Drawing, Sewing, Installation and Performance in her work. She has performed with Drew McDowall at various New York clubs and galleries under the project ‘Captain Sons and Daughters’. Kara and Drew make limited edition records that have been exhibited and sold at multiple art galleries including Printed Matter, Inc. She received her Bachelor of Arts at Hunter College, studying Video Art under Constance DeJong. Her work strives to achieve moments of magical bubbles despite angular momentum and the heaviness of cynicism.
Jared Mezzocchi [PIMA MFA 2007-9]
graduated from Fairfield University in May 2007, receiving a B.A. in Film and Theatre. Over the past six years, he has explored the interactivity of film and theatre, as well as a recent study comparing the physics of sound in both art forms, to unpack his undying fascination with the combination of the two mediums. His most recent projects, "A Pienocchi" ('06) and "The One Stoplight in Hollis," ('07) incorporated film and theatre together into a collaborative performance where actors jump in and out of the movie screens. Outside of this interactive art, Jared has written and directed several one-acts and short films that have been produced in festivals around Fairfield, CT. Beyond writing and directing, Jared considers himself, first and foremost an actor, having been performing for over a decade. Most recently: "As you Like It" (Orlando), "Cabaret" (Emcee), and "Picasso at the Lapin" (Picasso). Jared is currently working with his filmmaking colleague Brian McAllister on several short films that are to be produced in and around New York City throughout the year. He continues to work with his cast and crew from "Stoplight" as well as with many long-term artistic colleagues, and has begun creating the ground plan for an artistic performative, collaborative, interdisciplinary community set in Brooklyn, NY.
David Gladden [PIMA MFA 2007-9]
was educated at Miskatonic University in the field of geology. His first summer of field research took him to the plateau of Leng where he was impressed by the impossible architecture of the ancient ruins and the strange natural formations of the forbidding landscape. He saw rocks anthropomorphize into tortured, expressionistic faces and trees transform into silent, dancing dryads. Science lost its meaning for him. He abandoned his geologic tools and wandered to the far places. He has returned to the center of civilization to share his visions. He paints, sculpts, performs music, and writes verse; vain strivings to express the ineffable.
Tara Gladden [PIMA MFA 2007-9]
Tara Gladden has a past as we all do. But what does it matter when every moment is a new starting point where constant reinvention can occur? When one wanders through this existence long enough, one realizes that the only thing to wander with is a belief in constant change. Over time, through this constant change, all evolves, and ideas form in surprising and organic ways. If one can gather enough perspective to work honestly and yet relinquish control, this natural flow will bring forth the unpredictable gifts of a creative existence. One must simply be awake enough to recognize them. Free of denial, free of resistance, each moment is different from the last and the next. Each creative act simply yields another creative act, beyond labels, distinctions and separations.
Gloria Llompart [PIMA MFA 2007-9]
Dance artist & choreographer. Performing and Healing Arts Educator. CURRENT & Past INVESTIGATIONS: Connecting technology & metaphysics in Performance. Improvisational Arts as tools for sharpening Intuitive response. Arts, Culture & Politics in Performance. Natural Healing modalities. Investigating the boundaries where traditional & contemporary movements in Eastern and Western arts, medicine & philosophies intersect.
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