A.R.T.: Debut. Lisa D’Amour is a playwright, educator and interdisciplinary collaborator from New Orleans, LA. She grew up in a world of ritual, activism, group spectacle and care, all of which continues to thrive in her work. Her theater company PearlDamour makes interdisciplinary, often site-specific works which range from the intimate to large scale. Recent work includes MILTON, a performance and community engagement experiment rooted in 5 U.S. towns named Milton, and How to Build a Forest, an 8-hour performance installation created with visual artist Shawn Hall. Lisa’s plays have been produced in many theaters across the country, including Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Broadway, Steppenwolf Theater (Chicago), Children’s Theater Company (Minneapolis), Woolly Mammoth Theater (Washington D.C.), Southern Rep Theater and ArtSpot Productions (both in New Orleans). Lisa’s play Detroit was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn prize. She is the recipient of the 2008 Alpert Award for the Arts in theater, the 2011 Steinberg Playwright Award, and a 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. She is a former Jerome Fellow, a Core Alum of the Playwrights’ Center, and an alumna of New Dramatists. She serves on the Board of the Tennessee Williams / New Orleans Literary Festival and on the collaborative leadership team of the Black and Blue Story Project.

A.R.T.: Sxip’s Hour of Charm, Zero Arrow. Sxip Shirey is a composer/producer/curator/performer based in NYC. He is the composer and music director for the theater/circus arts production LIMBO, produced by Melbourne-based Strut N Fret Productions House and London-based Underbelly and South Bank Center. LIMBO and its sequel LIMBO UNHINGED have been touring internationally for six years to great acclaim, appearing in venues and festivals that include Sydney Opera House, London’s Southbank Center, the Bogota International Theater Festival, and a special performance at Madonna’s 57th Birthday Day party.

A.R.T.: Debut. Lisa D’Amour is a playwright, educator and interdisciplinary collaborator from New Orleans, LA. She grew up in a world of ritual, activism, group spectacle and care, all of which continues to thrive in her work. Her theater company PearlDamour makes interdisciplinary, often site-specific works which range from the intimate to large scale. Recent work includes MILTON, a performance and community engagement experiment rooted in 5 U.S. towns named Milton, and How to Build a Forest, an 8-hour performance installation created with visual artist Shawn Hall. Lisa’s plays have been produced in many theaters across the country, including Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Broadway, Steppenwolf Theater (Chicago), Children’s Theater Company (Minneapolis), Woolly Mammoth Theater (Washington D.C.), Southern Rep Theater and ArtSpot Productions (both in New Orleans). Lisa’s play Detroit was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn prize. She is the recipient of the 2008 Alpert Award for the Arts in theater, the 2011 Steinberg Playwright Award, and a 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. She is a former Jerome Fellow, a Core Alum of the Playwrights’ Center, and an alumna of New Dramatists. She serves on the Board of the Tennessee Williams / New Orleans Literary Festival and on the collaborative leadership team of the Black and Blue Story Project.

A.R.T.: Sxip’s Hour of Charm, Zero Arrow. Sxip Shirey is a composer/producer/curator/performer based in NYC. He is the composer and music director for the theater/circus arts production LIMBO, produced by Melbourne-based Strut N Fret Productions House and London-based Underbelly and South Bank Center. LIMBO and its sequel LIMBO UNHINGED have been touring internationally for six years to great acclaim, appearing in venues and festivals that include Sydney Opera House, London’s Southbank Center, the Bogota International Theater Festival, and a special performance at Madonna’s 57th Birthday Day party.

A.R.T.: Debut. Katie Pearl is a director, educator, and collaborative performance-maker whose work ranges from conventional plays to community-wide collaborations to experimental performances. Her practice is motivated by the conviction that personal encounter and creative exchange are essential to a humane world. She is Co-Artistic Director of the Obie Award-winning interdisciplinary company PearlDamour, with whom she creates interdisciplinary, often site-specific work which range from intimate to large-scale. Recent projects include MILTON, a performance and community engagement experiment made for and with 5 U.S. towns named Milton, and LOST IN THE MEADOW, commissioned for a 40-acre meadow at the Longwood Botanical Gardens. Pearl was the 2017 Quinn Martin Guest Chair of Directing at UCSD, a 2016 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton, and a 2018 visiting lecturer of Socially Engaged Art at Harvard. She currently splits her time between Brooklyn NY and Middletown CT, where she teaches theater at Wesleyan University. She is a Drama League alum and a proud member of SDC. katiepearl.com

A.R.T.: Debut. Jian Jung is a New York-based set designer for theater and opera. Theater credits include New York venues includes HERE Arts, Classic Stage Company, The Kitchen, The Bushwick Starr, The Flea, Abrons Arts Center, Theater Row, ART/NY, and Soho Rep, in addition to projects in Venezuela, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Korea, and Los Angeles. Opera/Musical: Juilliard School at Lincoln Center, Fisher Center at Bard, Long Beach Opera (CA), Huntington Theatre Company, Manhattan School of Music, Hofstra University, Waterfront Museum. Honors: 2015 Edith Lutyens & Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Award (Ludic Proxy), 2019 Henry Hewes Design Award nomination (Suicide Forest). Upcoming: The Nosebleed, Claire Tow Theater, Lincoln Center; Der Freischutz, Wolf Trap Opera. Education/Training: MFA, Theater Design, New York University; MFA, Environmental Design and BA, Philosophy, Ewha Women’s University in Korea. Teaching: New York University and Sarah Lawrence College.

A.R.T.: Debut. Olivera has 150+ theater, opera, dance and film productions to her credit. Among others: Salzburg Festival, Vineyard Theatre, Juilliard School, Here, Pig Iron, CSC, Lake Lucille, Talking Band, Two River, Arden, Trinity Rep, PSF, and many other regional theaters. Olivera has collaborated on four productions with PearlDamour. Olivera is recipient of the 2004 NEA/TCG CDP for Designers, 2010 IT Award, 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, 2012 Barrymore Award, and recently the 2014 Bessie Award. oliveragajic.com

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Is This A Room. Off-Broadway: The Undertaking, A (radically condensed and expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, House For Sale, Paris Commune, Evolution, 10 Things to Do Before I Die, Gone Missing. Regional: The Little Dog Laughed (Kevin Kline Award). Opera: Powder Her Face. Music: KLANG: The 24 hours of the Day. Dance: Epochal Songs; Nottthing Is Importanttt (Bessie Award).

A.R.T.: Debut. Germán Martínez is a freelance Sound Designer and Audio Engineer based in NYC/NJ. As a designer, he seeks original and enticing plays to help develop, and bring forward the stories of bold playwrights. Recent works include: Fruma Sarah, Waiting in the Wings, The Cell; Derecho, Brooklyn College; Gárgola!, MCC; The Merit System, Long Wharf; MAC BETH, Lucille Lortal and Hunter College; The Fre, The Flea Theatre; MIRRORS, NYTW. Education/Training: Sound Design and Management, Montclair State University. Instagram: @GermanTheSoundDesigner.

A.R.T.: Sxip’s Hour of Charm, Zero Arrow. Sxip Shirey is a composer/producer/curator/performer based in NYC. He is the composer and music director for the theater/circus arts production LIMBO, produced by Melbourne-based Strut N Fret Productions House and London-based Underbelly and South Bank Center. LIMBO and its sequel LIMBO UNHINGED have been touring internationally for six years to great acclaim, appearing in venues and festivals that include Sydney Opera House, London’s Southbank Center, the Bogota International Theater Festival, and a special performance at Madonna’s 57th Birthday Day party.

A.R.T.: Ocean Filibuster. Other projects: Geoff Sobelle’s FOOD, Home, The Object Lesson, and Elephant Room: Dust from the Stars; Underground Railroad Game, Ars Nova, tour;   Those with Two Clocks, A Tall Order; PearlDamour’s How to Build a Forest, Detroit Red, ArtsEmerson; User Not Found, Dante or Die, BAM; Sleep, Ripe Time Theatre; Chimera and The Wholehearted, Stein | Holum Projects; Jacuzzi, The Debate Society/Ars Nova; The Light Years, The Debate Society/NYSAF; Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. and Winners and Losers, Soho Rep.

A.R.T: Moby Dick (Father Mapple/Captain of the Albatross/Captain Boomer/Captain Gardiner). Off-Broadway: Brothers ParaNormal (Delia), Anne of Green Gables (Mrs. Lynde), Year of The Monkey (Igloo), As Much As I Can (Patrice). Regional: black odyssey (Alsendra/Carib’dis/Diana Ross, BATCC nominee), Sister Act (Delores Van Cartier, BATCC nominee), Death of a Salesman (Linda Loman), Spunk (Blues Speak Woman), Aida (Aida), Ragtime (Sarah), Memphis (Emsemble), Color Purple (Shug Avery), Big River (Maid), Once On This Island (Mama Euralie), Caroline or Change (Radio 2). Workshops: Memphis, Little Princess, Funkentine Rapture, The Giver, Rebel Genius, Anne of Green Gables, Moby-Dick.

Broadway: Waverly Gallery (Assistant Director). Off-Broadway: Assistant Director at Signature Theatre, Joe’s Pub, New Ohio, HERE, The Kitchen. Off-Off-Broadway: Ars Nova, New Georges, Wild Project, LPAC, Dixon Place, Incubator Arts Project. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Philadelphia Fringe, Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics. Residencies/Fellowships: The Drama League, Clubbed Thumb, Mabou Mines, Irondale, The Flea, IRT, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Barn Arts, Orchard Project, Monson Arts, Marble House Project. BA, Columbia; MFA, Carnegie Mellon.

A.R.T.: Debut. Opera: Mila, Great Sorcerer (Man in Black), New York Prototype Festival; Die Zauberflöte (Chorus), Clarion Music Society; Cendrillon (Le Doyen de la Faculté), Utopia Opera; Tosca (Chorus), New York City Opera. Performances with Pomerium, Musica Sacra, Tenet Vocal Artists, The Clarion Choir, American Classical Orchestra Chorus, St. Thomas Fifth Avenue, Amherst Early Music Festival, Ensemble VIII (Austin, TX). Member, Imitation Crab. BA, The College of William & Mary.

A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Taylor Mac’s A 24 Decade History of Popular Music (Dandy Minion), The Faghag and Her Friends in the Summer of Love (Various). Off-Off Broadway/Regional: Mouthbrain, And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens (Candy Delaney), The Lily’s Revenge (Lily), The Mutilated (Bruno/Maxie), Creep Cuts. TV/Film: “Creep Cuts in Freeze Response” (co-director, Mx. Asa Metric). Constantly stalking around in drag as Mx Asa Metric. Instagram: @evspig @mxasametric

A.R.T: Debut. Regional: Baskerville (PSM), Gloucester Stage Company; Bare Stage (ASM, World Premiere), Festival Theatre Company; Vietgone (PSM), Miss You Like Hell (PSM), Leftovers (PSM, World Premiere), CompanyOne; Opera: Svadba (2nd AD, Film, Winter 2022), Cavalleria Rusticana (ASM2), Fellow Travelers (PA), I Pagliacci (PA), Schoenberg in Hollywood (PA, World Premiere), Boston Lyric Opera; PermaDeath (ASM, World Premiere), White Snake Projects. Education: BFA, Stage Management & Lighting Design (dual), Boston University.

A.R.T.: Sxip’s Hour of Charm, Zero Arrow. Sxip Shirey is a composer/producer/curator/performer based in NYC. He is the composer and music director for the theater/circus arts production LIMBO, produced by Melbourne-based Strut N Fret Productions House and London-based Underbelly and South Bank Center. LIMBO and its sequel LIMBO UNHINGED have been touring internationally for six years to great acclaim, appearing in venues and festivals that include Sydney Opera House, London’s Southbank Center, the Bogota International Theater Festival, and a special performance at Madonna’s 57th Birthday Day party.