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| Created by | Stein | Holum Projects |
| Written and directed by | Deborah Stein |
| Performed and directed by | Suli Holum |
| Set Design | Jeremy Wilhelm |
| Lighting Designer | James Clotfelter |
| Sound Designer | James Sugg |
| Video Designers | Kate Freer and David Tennant |
| Costume Designer | Tara Webb |
| Associate Lighting Designer | Stephen Arnold |
| Sound Associate | Paul Piekarz |
| Original Music | Troy Herion |
| Initial Sound Concept | Zachary Humes |
| Initial Video Concept | Paulina Jurzec |
| Stage Manager | Lisa McGinn |
| Tour Production Manager | Stephen Arnold |
| Producing Associate | Shelley Carter |
| Production Manager | Lloyd Thomas |
| Production Manager | Ed Borgnis |
| Press | Kate Morley for Kate Morley PR |
| (kate@katemorleypr.com | |
| 07970 465648) | |
| Artist in Residence | Julia R. Gallego |
STEIN | HOLUM PROJECTS (SHP) is the ongoing creative partnership of playwright Deborah Stein and performer Suli Holum. Drawing on over a decade of experience in both experimental and regional theatre, SHP works with a core group of designers to create a unique hybrid of the highly visual and dexterously verbal; interdisciplinary physical theater with complex and nuanced characters. Chimera was developed with a HARP residency and premiered in 2012 at HERE as part of Under the Radar, where it was a NY Times Critics’ Pick and nominated for a Drama Desk Award. The Wholehearted premiered at ArtsEmerson in April 2014 and our next, Movers + Shakers, has been workshopped at New Dramatists and Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor.
Stephen Arnold – Associate Lighting Designer
Stephen’s lighting style reflects a provocative movement in sculptural lighting. His work strives to build a cohesive visual environment, amplifying the overt, and subtle intentions associated with each collaboration’s unique arc and vision. With a degree in Theatre Lighting Design from Columbia College Chicago, his work spans the genres of live performing arts. Stephen has worked on collaborations with a diversity of artists and companies including Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Robert Ashely, Maya Beiser, Rennie Harris, Ralph Lemon, Ibrahim Quarishi, Norscq, Mike Ladd, Vijay Iyer, Pamela Z, Atalee Judy, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Mabou Mines and Theatreworks USA. His work has been presented in festivals including Under The Radar, The Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, Springdance, Kontracom, Venice Bienalle, BAM’s Next Wave, Dance Chicago, and Festival Internacional Música y Escena, and in 27 countries around the world.
Ed Borgnis – Production Manager for Jamie Hendry Productions
Jamie Hendry Productions are leading West End theatrical producers and managers. Recent Production Management includes: Neville’s Island (Duke of York’s); Let It Be (Garrick); Uncle Vanya (St James’); Far Away (Young Vic); Once a Catholic (Tricycle); The Empty Quarter (Hampstead). For more information, visit www.jhpuk.com
Kate Freer – Video Designer
Kate is a multimedia designer working in live performance, film, and installation. Her work has been seen in venues across the United States and Internationally. Her recent credits include: designed the acclaimed Stuck Elevator directed by Chay Yew for ACT San Francisco and Healing Wars for Arena Stage (Washington DC) created by Liz Lerman in collaboration with Bill Pullman. Frequent collaborators include Liz Lerman, Kamillah Forbes, Andrew Scoville, and Tamilla Woodard. Her background in film and computer science combine to generate work that is not only aesthetically beautiful but pushes the boundaries on conventional theatrical video. Kate is a founding member of Imaginary Media.
Suli Holum – Performer/Co-Director
Suli is an award-winning theatre maker based in Brooklyn, NY. She was a co-founder of Pig Iron Theatre Company, developing original work between 1995 and 2006 including Shut Eye with legendary director Joseph Chaikin. Her text for Gentlemen Volunteers was recently published in Pig Iron: 3 Plays (53rd Street Press). She received a Barrymore for the choreography of PITC’s wordless Cafeteria, a Drama Desk Award for her role in Lebensraum off-Broadway and a Helen Hayes nomination for her turn as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday at Arena Stage. Her first solo show, The Lollipop Project, was developed through an Independence Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship and a Shell Fellowship in Drama from the National Institute of Education, Singapore. She was awarded a TCG/Fox Resident Actor Fellowship to support the development of Chimera, a second solo show conceived and created with Deborah Stein through a HARP residency at HERE. Chimera premiered as part of the Under the Radar Festival, earned Holum a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance, and launched Stein | Holum Projects. As Co-Artistic Directors of SHP, Holum and Stein are committed to the development of original work through intensive training, experimentation, and research, and to the ensemble devising model which encourages long-term, multi-project relationships with designers and performers. Holum’s work outside of SHP has been supported by The Orchard Project and the MacDowell Colony, and commissioned and produced by Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, the National Constitution Center, the Visionary Voices Project at Temple University, and RedCape Theatre, UK. Suli teaches at Sarah Lawrence and Pace University.
Lisa McGinn – Production Stage Manager
Recent credits include Chimera and The Wholehearted (Stein Holum Projects, ArtsEmerson); The Object Lesson (BAM, Philly Fringe Festival, LCT3); Jacuzzi, Eager to Lose and Game Play (Ars Nova); How to Build a Forest (PearlDamour + Shawn Hall); The Perfect Play (Banana Bag and Bodice); Forbidden Creative Virgin Whore and From the Spot Where We/ You/I Stand (Stood) (Miller Rothlein Dance); You, My Mother (Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf); Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb); PRELUDE Festival 2011 and 2012; The Seagull and Ivanov (Chekhov at Lake Lucille); Temporal Powers and Donogoo (Mint Theater Company); The Peripherals and Hot Lunch Apostles (Talking Band), Richard II…on Trapeze! (Matchbook Productions/Sonnet Rep); PRELUDE Festival 2011 and 2012. Regional credits include: Trinity Repertory Company, Two River Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, Passage Theatre.
Paul Piekarz – Sound Associate
Paul is a live audio-visual specialist and video designer from Brooklyn, NY. Recent work includes: Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Atlantic Theater Company); Facing our Truth (National Black Theater); Asymptote to Zero Gravity and Perchance to Dream (Mich-Mash Productions).
Deborah Stein – Writer/Co-Director
Deborah is a playwright, director, and producer originally from New York. As Co-Artistic Director of Stein | Holum Projects, she has written and co-directed Chimera (created in residence at HERE, where it premiered in the 2012 Under the Radar Festival; subsequently nominated for a Drama Desk Award) and The Wholehearted (premiere at ArtsEmerson in April 2014; upcoming at the Kelly Strayhorn in Pittsburgh). Stein | Holum Projects has workshopped new works at Philadelphia FringeArts, Kelly Strayhorn, Playwrights’ Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, and at Perry-Mansfield. Other plays include: Heist! (Actors’ Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival commission); God Save Gertrude (Workhaus Collective, Theatre @ Boston Court); Wallflower (Stages Repertory Theatre); and Bone Portraits (Stillpoint Productions). Deborah has created collaborative original work with artists such as Joseph Chaikin, Dominique Serrand, Lear deBessonet, and most frequently the Pig Iron Theatre Company, with whom she collaborated since 2000 on six original works, for which she received three Barrymore Award nominations. Her work has been developed nationally at Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, the Guthrie, Seattle Rep, the Women’s Project, and the Wilma Theatre, among others; and internationally in Poland, Ireland, Edinburgh (the Traverse) and Prague. Her writing has been published in Theatre Forum, Play: A Journal of Plays, and The Best American Poetry of 1996. Deborah has taught writing and theatrical collaboration at Yale School of Drama, NYU/Tisch, Princeton, Northeastern, St. Olaf, Parsons and received her MFA from Brown University, where she studied with Paula Vogel. She has received the NYSCA, the Bush Artist Fellowship, two Jerome Fellowships and a McKnight Advancement Grant at the Playwrights’ Center, and is a proud alumna of New Dramatists. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Playwriting at the University of California – San Diego.
James Sugg – Sound Designer
James is a member of Pig Iron Theatre Company with whom he has created 18 original pieces. He has also worked with Actors Theater of Louisville, Milwaukee Rep, Arena Stage, Seattle Rep, The Wilma, Woolly Mammoth Theater, The Arden Theater, Folger Theater, Headlong Dance Theater, Rainpan 43, Stein | Holum Projects and Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental. Composer credits include: A Murder, A Mystery And A Marriage (book and lyrics by Aaron Posner); James Joyce is Dead and So Is Paris (Pig Iron), The Sea (a one-man electric chamber opera); Cherry Bomb (book and lyrics by Jen Childs). Awards include: two Obies, four Barrymores for Outstanding Sound Design, the F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Theater Artist and a Pew Fellowship.
David Tennant – Video Designer
David creates interactive video installations, custom theatrical software, and projections designs for theater. Off-Broadway and Downtown: Love Machine (Incubator Arts Project); La Ruta (Working Theater); P.S. Jones and the Frozen City (New Ohio); Bullet For Adolf (New World Stages); How to Break (HERE); The Language Archive (Fordham); Chimera (HERE, Under The Radar 2012). Regional: Interior Designs (NJPAC, Jersey Moves); Pinkolandia (Two River Theater); Twelfth Night (Aquila Theatre); The Clean House (Syracuse Stage); Holiday Review (Oregon Ballet Theater). Associate Projections: Sweet Bird of Youth (Goodman Theater, Chicago); Crowns (Goodman Theater, Chicago). David is a founding member of Imaginary Media.
Tara Webb – Costume Designer
Tara is a Swarthmore college alum and a theatre artist specializing in costume design. She is especially interested in the nodes where technology and performance intersect as well as sustainability in the arts. She has collaborated with companies in New York and Philadelphia on productions that include substantial multimedia components. She worked with the Wooster Group in New York from 1998 to 2004 on both costume and video for the productions of House/Lights, North Atlantic, Hairy Ape, To You The Birdie! and the restaging of Brace Up! (2003). She also joined the Collapsable Giraffe from 1999 to 2007 as a performer, costumer, and video artist. More examples of her costuming in New York include: Chimera, with Stein | Holum Projects and Cynthia Hopkins’ internationally toured trilogy of Accidental Nostalgia, Must Don’t Whip ‘Em, and Failure of Success. Current design work in the Philadelphia area includes: costumes for the Swarthmore College Dance Program and Theater Department, costumes for Drexel University Dance Program, props and costumes for Midway Avenue, The Garden and Return, Return Departure for Nichole Canuso Dance Company, and costumes for New Paradise Laboratories’ 27. In 2013, she helped construct a series of community driven garden sculpture installations with designer Heidi Barr and the East Park Revitalization Alliance at Woodford Mansion. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Hacktory for 2014.
Jeremy Wilhelm – Set Design
Jeremy is a Minneapolis-based theatre artist. He is the recipient of a MAP Fund grant for Clandestino with Wilhelm Bros & Co. and has created and performed with Thaddeus Phillips’ Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental, currently touring Red Eye to Havre de Grace (premiered off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop in May). Wilhelm Bros. & Co. has been commissioned by Tectonic Theatre Project to write and perform music for its new project about Autism Spectrum Disorder which begins touring in July of 2015. Other theatre credits include: directed/designed/developed new plays by Carson Kretizer, Sylvan Oswald, Lisa D’amour, Jackie Reingold, Victoria Stewart and Cory Hinkle, and has designed and collaborated with choreographers Karen Sherman, Morgan Thorson and Emily Johnson.
Julia R. Gallego – Artist in Residence
Julia is a Spanish artist based in London. She studied MA printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts, were she started experimenting with performance. Her practice explores the representation of the opening of the body, and looks at how gender, religion and anatomy intersect when the skin is trespassed. She draws inspiration from medieval anatomical and religious illustrations and bodyart, drawing connections between the dissector’s cut, the wound in Christian iconography and the female reproductive organs. She proposes to look at accesses to the interior of the body taking the vagina as a central analogy and exploring menstrual and birthing symbolism. She is currently a PhD candidate at Central Saint Martins and has published ‘The Dissector’s Cut, the Wound and the Orifice: Looking at Ron Athey’s performances through a cultural anatomy of the vagina’ for Performance Research journal.
