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Mary Birnbaum founded art.party.theater.company in 2009 and as its director has led collaborations with Flux Factory, American Opera Projects, The Foundry Theatre and Bryant Park. Her directing credits with art.party include: SCHOOLED: or m. moliere's the learned ladies, Cupcakes and Strippers: Midwestern Plays, Bryant in the Park, Duchess in the Dark, BAD ROMANCE: a couple's therapy session based on Schumann's Op. 48 & 39, STARBOX and MEETING, IMPORTANT. She has assisted faculty member Stephen Wadsworth at Seattle Opera, Juilliard, the Met and, most recently, on Master Class on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club. In 2010, Mary joined the faculty of the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at Juilliard, where she teaches acting to opera singers and will direct La Finta Giardiniera in spring 2012. Mary is an alumna of Harvard College, Ecole Jacques Lecoq and Juilliard, where she was awarded the inaugural James S. Marcus directing fellowship. She was a member of the TS Eliot US/UK Exchange 2011 and is a member of the junior board at New York City Center. Up next: christopher oscar pena's things i found on craigslist at Theater for the New City.
mattie brickman's productions include Playground: The Hallie Flanagan Project, STARBOX, American Catnip, The Imaginary Audience, If Found Please Return to Charles Darwin, The Redundant Colon (also performed), Civil War, Bill Clinton Goes to the Bathroom (or It Might As Well Be Spring) (also directed), and Max Out Loud, a children's musical adapted from books by Maira Kalman. Mattie has been a writing fellow at The Playwrights Realm (Five Second Chances) and a playwright-in-residence at New York Stage & Film, The Millay Colony for the Arts, and The O'Neill at Yale in Provincetown. Her work has also been developed at The Lark. As a journalist, Mattie wrote for Money magazine, The Santa Barbara Independent, and the Montecito Journal. Mattie holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from The Yale School of Drama (Eugene O'Neill Scholarship) and a B.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She trained in ballet and modern dance and was Artistic Director of Expressions Dance Company at Princeton. Mattie is from Santa Barbara, CA.
Andrew Broussard (Artistic Producer) is too young to have such good luck. Shortly after graduating from Boston College with degrees in Political Science & English, he sent an email to art.party about how cool he thought STARBOX was... and then they emailed back. After moving to New York at the end of summer 2010, he found himself as the intern for art.party's LIVE MERMAIDS LIVE and is now thrilled, touched, and honored to officially join the ranks of art.partiers as associate producer. Outside of art.party, he does a number of things theatrical. Performance credits include Play Nice! (59E59), Macbeth/Richard II (Theatre Row), The Atheist (Think Tank Theater), Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, The Shape of Things (BCDS) and producing/directing credits include Cowboy Mouth, The Atheist, Compleat Wrks (abgd) (Think Tank Theater). He is also artistic director of Think Tank Theater Company and writes about books for a couple of online journals/blogs. By day, he works at The Public Theater. Occasionally, he sleeps.
Jess Burkle (art.party artist)'s art.party creator and designer credits include STARBOX, BAD ROMANCE, DUCHESS IN THE DARK, Bryant in the Park. Directing credits so much depends upon [a red wheel barrow] (art.party); Rhinoceros, Knock: or the Triumph of Medicine, and The Maids (HRDC); performance credits include STARBOX, so much depends upon..., BRYANT IN THE PARK, SCHOOLED (art.party); Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hedda Gabler, Caligula (HRDC), L'echange (Avignon Festival OFF); writing credits include MIDWESTERN PLAYS (art.party); Unnatural Acts (co-author; Classic Stage Company, June 2011); translations include Knock or the Triumph of Medicine (Romains), Corporate Takeover (Vinaver). Stand-up comedy credits include Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comic Strip, and web series The Halle and Jess Show. Freelance creative consultant for The Playwrights Realm, French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF), and Clever Consultants. Top 10 Most Creative by The Harvard Crimson, Winthrop House McCord Prize for Achievement in the Arts, Signet Society of Arts and Letters member. Education: A.B. Harvard College, Romance Languages and Literatures (2006). jessburkle.com for more.
NICHOLAS DELANY was fortunate enough to stumble upon art.party's inaugural production, SCHOOLED: or m. moliere's the learned ladies, where he played the avuncular Ariste. Subsequent roles in Stripper Special: Midwestern Plays, Bryant in the Park, so much depends upon a [red wheel barrow], and Meeting, Important, have led Nick to be a proud member of the hub that is art.party. Nick graduated from Eugene Lang College-The New School University where he concentrated in theatre and writing. Other credits include Anna Christie (Metropolitan Playhouse), Romeo & Juliet (Williamstown Theater Festival), & playing an array of characters from the Victorian and Roaring 20's eras for the Beechwood Theatre Co. in Newport, RI. Recent workshops include Girls In Trouble (The Flea) and Five Second Chances (Playwrights Realm/Cherry Lane). Commercial work for ESPN, Atari Dragonball-Z, and others. From Providence, RI.
Leticia Frazao (art.party artist)'s art.party executive producer credits include SCHOOLED: or m. moliere's the learned ladies, Bryant in the Park, so much depends upon [a red wheel barrow] and MEETING, IMPORTANT. Prior to art.party, her credits include 10 productions as stage manager, producer and Executive Director of Bare Bodkin Theater Company (Tufts University), the Scotsman Fringe First winner The Laramie Project in the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and at the Cochrane Theatre in London, England in 2003. Leticia, also a fashion and beauty editor, has worked for magazines such as Town & Country, Redbook, The Knot and Cosmopolitan. Education: Tufts University, BA in Art History and Communications (2007).
David Ingber is.a proud member of art.party, having performed in such shows as Starbox, SCHOOLED, Meeting Important, and Bryant in the Park. Writing credits include Fantasy Football: The Musical? (NYMF Best of Fest Audience Award Winner), A Political Party!, ESPN's Mayne Street with Kenny Mayne, and God Loves My People Best. He writes motivational and educational rap songs. Current projects include the screenplay for Rush Falls: A Hipsterer Burning Man and Zombies Actually, a musical that discourages high school bullying among zombies. I love art.party.bye!
Lauren Jackson is originally from Orange County, California, where she attended the Orange County High School of the Arts (Valedictorian) and later received a BA in Sociology and a Secondary in Women Gender and Sexuality Studies from Harvard University. Broadway: Finian's Rainbow. Off Broadway: The Wiz. Regional: Memphis (La Jolla Playhouse, 5th Ave Theater), Disney Premiere of High School Musical II (Theater of the Stars), Starbox (art.party). Tour: 50th Anniversary World Tour of West Side Story. Film/TV: The Smurfs, Mrs. Santa Claus, Kidsongs, Well Alright (CeCe Winans). Choreography credits include Carousel, The Rocky Horror Show, Company, The Way of the World, Expressions Dance Company, and the Petros Body Glow music video. Bzzzzz.
Jojo Karlin is thrilled to be one of the original members of art.party.theater.company. Originally from Hopkinton, MA, Jojo lives in New York, acts, sings, and throws parties (with baked goods). Credits include: STARBOX, Schooled, Cupcakes and Lemonade, Bryant in the Park, MEETING, IMPORTANT (art.party); Cabaret (2010 Nat'l Tour, Fraulein Kost); Max and Ruby (Theaterwoks/USA); BestParty Ever (Richmond Shepard Theater); Theatrino (Italy); Ping Chong's Reason, Iolanthe (Fairy Queen); She Loves Me (Amalia) (Harvard). Occasionally she does makeup and hair design (Duchess in the Dark, Down in the Valley). She has assisted musical director Rob Fisher, and worked for Vanessa Redgrave on The Year of Magical Thinking and Vanessa Redgrave and James Early Jones on Driving Miss Daisy. Education: A.B. Harvard College, Literature.
grace laubacher has proudly collaborated with art.party since 2009 (STARBOX; Duchess in the Dark). She has spent the last year at Central Saint Martins in London exploring the intersection of performance and fine art; recent projects include Medeama (an original show devised during a residency at Vryssaki Gallery in Athens, Greece), Invisible Cities (a performance/installation created for The Arts Foundation, Athens), and The Art and Craft of Asking Your Boss for a Raise (Goodenough College, London). Set design credits include The Space Between, Mnemonic, Sweeney Todd, The Way of the World, and You Never Can Tell (Harvard); Cabaret (American Repertory Theater – assistant set designer); and Youth View Cambridge (Cambridge Media Arts Studio). She is the recipient of Harvard's Council Prize in Visual Arts (stage design), the first Alan Symonds Memorial Award in technical theater, the Quincy House McCord Prize for achievement in the arts, and a Hoopes Prize for excellence in undergraduate research. Education: MA Performance Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins (2010-11); AB Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard (2009). For more info: gracelaubacher.com.
Carolyn McCandlish first joined forces with art.party for its inaugural production, SCHOOLED. Since then, she has appeared in art.party's Starbox, Bad Romance, Bryant in the Park, and Cupcakes, Lemonade, and Strippers: Midwestern Plays. Carolyn is also a founding member of Playing with Reality, an interactive performance ensemble that seeks to empower and challenge audience participants (Give in to Sin, Properties of Play, and This is Storybox). Other New York credits include: The Spoon River Project (Green-Wood Cemetery), Stomp and Shout (An' Work It All Out) (Babel Theatre Project, Innovative Theatre Award Nomination for Outstanding Ensemble), Mundo Overloadus (P.S. 122), 18 Paintings (HERE Arts Center), Break-Up Night (The Relevance Group). Film credits include: Small Pond, Closed, Thanksgiving, In A Certain Light. Regional: Samantha Darko in the A.R.T.'s stage adaptation of Donnie Darko. Carolyn is a graduate of Harvard College and the William Esper Studio, where she completed a two-year Meisner training program with Terry Knickerbocker. For more information, please visit carolynmccandlish.com.
Roberta Pereira has been an Associate Producer with Bisno Productions since 2010, where she has worked on shows such as Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical (Broadway), Tony-award winner War Horse (Lincoln Center, tour and Toronto), and Through A Glass Darkly with Carey Mulligan (co-production with Atlantic Theater Company). Previously, she was an Associate Producer at Anne Bogart's SITI Company, Executive Producer of Summer Cabaret (New Haven) and Associate Managing Director for Yale Repertory Theatre/World Performance Project, where she produced a series of international music and theater events. Roberta also produced all the auxiliary events for the 2006 Dublin International Theatre Festival. As an independent producer, her credits include the Broadway premiere of David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre starring Sir Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight (Broadway), Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman (Studio 42), USHER (New York International Fringe Festival, Outstanding Musical Award), the production concept of Ainadamar (winner of the Opera America Director-Designer Showcase), and We Declare You A Terrorist (Summer Play Festival). Roberta is on the Board of Directors of Studio 42, a founding ensemble member of Tilted Field and a member of Women's Project Lab. A graduate of Yale School of Drama's Theater Management program, Roberta is originally from Brazil and currently lives in New York City.
Daniella Rabbani is thrilled to be part of the art.party team! Credits include Off-Broadway: Gimpel Tam and The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer (Folksbiene), Israel Horovitz's Mid-East Pices, 70/70 Horovitz Project (Theater Row), Liz Swados' Atonement: an Oratorio. Regional: Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night (Vermont Shakespeare), The Play's the Thing (Actor's Shakespeare Company), American Drama Pocket Edition (Minnesota Fringe), Jihad the Musical (Edinburgh Fringe). Select Concerts: Jazz at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, La MaMa E.T.C. Select Voiceovers: PBS' Fire at the Triangle, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Paris' Grand Palais and National Commercials. With art.party: SCHOOLED, Bryant in the Park, so much depends upon a [red wheel barrow], STARBOX. BFA: NYU Tisch/ Stella Adler. On faculty at the Stella Adler Studio and choreographs for The New Acting Company. Daniella recently collaborated with Rebecca Keren and Elizabeth Swados to write RakheLeah: a New Musical, musical directed by Kris Kukul. More at daniellarabbani.com.
Alexandra Tsocanos graduated from NYU in 2007 (B.A., Cum Laude) with the self-designed major, "Anthropology through the Visual Arts." As an artist, Alexandra works in multiple mediums to develop an on-going conversation about how people tell stories about themselves and others. Creating photo-installations and constructing fashion designs out of unconventional and recycled materials, she examines the relationship between people and their given and created spaces. As a costume designer, she explores cultural and psychological nuances through fashion and uses exciting and innovative ways to express and connect to characters. art.party Costume Credits include: Bryant in the Park and SCHOOLED. Her original, hand-crafted garments, sold under the name Cosmic deBris Designs, can currently be purchased on-line and at the East Village, NYC boutique, AuH2O.
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Mary Birnbaum founded art.party.theater.company in 2009 and as its director has led collaborations with Flux Factory, American Opera Projects, The Foundry Theatre and Bryant Park. Her directing credits with art.party include: SCHOOLED: or m. moliere's the learned ladies, Cupcakes and Strippers: Midwestern Plays, Bryant in the Park, Duchess in the Dark, BAD ROMANCE: a couple's therapy session based on Schumann's Op. 48 & 39, STARBOX and MEETING, IMPORTANT. She has assisted faculty member Stephen Wadsworth at Seattle Opera, Juilliard, the Met and, most recently, on Master Class on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club. In 2010, Mary joined the faculty of the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at Juilliard, where she teaches acting to opera singers and will direct La Finta Giardiniera in spring 2012. Mary is an alumna of Harvard College, Ecole Jacques Lecoq and Juilliard, where she was awarded the inaugural James S. Marcus directing fellowship. She was a member of the TS Eliot US/UK Exchange 2011 and is a member of the junior board at New York City Center. Up next: christopher oscar pena's things i found on craigslist at Theater for the New City.mattie brickman's productions include Playground: The Hallie Flanagan Project, STARBOX, American Catnip, The Imaginary Audience, If Found Please Return to Charles Darwin, The Redundant Colon (also performed), Civil War, Bill Clinton Goes to the Bathroom (or It Might As Well Be Spring) (also directed), and Max Out Loud, a children's musical adapted from books by Maira Kalman. Mattie has been a writing fellow at The Playwrights Realm (Five Second Chances) and a playwright-in-residence at New York Stage & Film, The Millay Colony for the Arts, and The O'Neill at Yale in Provincetown. Her work has also been developed at The Lark. As a journalist, Mattie wrote for Money magazine, The Santa Barbara Independent, and the Montecito Journal. Mattie holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from The Yale School of Drama (Eugene O'Neill Scholarship) and a B.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She trained in ballet and modern dance and was Artistic Director of Expressions Dance Company at Princeton. Mattie is from Santa Barbara, CA.Andrew Broussard (Artistic Producer) is too young to have such good luck. Shortly after graduating from Boston College with degrees in Political Science & English, he sent an email to art.party about how cool he thought STARBOX was... and then they emailed back. After moving to New York at the end of summer 2010, he found himself as the intern for art.party's LIVE MERMAIDS LIVE and is now thrilled, touched, and honored to officially join the ranks of art.partiers as associate producer. Outside of art.party, he does a number of things theatrical. Performance credits include Play Nice! (59E59), Macbeth/Richard II (Theatre Row), The Atheist (Think Tank Theater), Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, The Shape of Things (BCDS) and producing/directing credits include Cowboy Mouth, The Atheist, Compleat Wrks (abgd) (Think Tank Theater). He is also artistic director of Think Tank Theater Company and writes about books for a couple of online journals/blogs. By day, he works at The Public Theater. Occasionally, he sleeps.Jess Burkle (art.party artist)'s art.party creator and designer credits include STARBOX, BAD ROMANCE, DUCHESS IN THE DARK, Bryant in the Park. Directing credits so much depends upon [a red wheel barrow] (art.party); Rhinoceros, Knock: or the Triumph of Medicine, and The Maids (HRDC); performance credits include STARBOX, so much depends upon..., BRYANT IN THE PARK, SCHOOLED (art.party); Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hedda Gabler, Caligula (HRDC), L'echange (Avignon Festival OFF); writing credits include MIDWESTERN PLAYS (art.party); Unnatural Acts (co-author; Classic Stage Company, June 2011); translations include Knock or the Triumph of Medicine (Romains), Corporate Takeover (Vinaver). Stand-up comedy credits include Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comic Strip, and web series The Halle and Jess Show. Freelance creative consultant for The Playwrights Realm, French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF), and Clever Consultants. Top 10 Most Creative by The Harvard Crimson, Winthrop House McCord Prize for Achievement in the Arts, Signet Society of Arts and Letters member. Education: A.B. Harvard College, Romance Languages and Literatures (2006). jessburkle.com for more.NICHOLAS DELANY was fortunate enough to stumble upon art.party's inaugural production, SCHOOLED: or m. moliere's the learned ladies, where he played the avuncular Ariste. Subsequent roles in Stripper Special: Midwestern Plays, Bryant in the Park, so much depends upon a [red wheel barrow], and Meeting, Important, have led Nick to be a proud member of the hub that is art.party. Nick graduated from Eugene Lang College-The New School University where he concentrated in theatre and writing. Other credits include Anna Christie (Metropolitan Playhouse), Romeo & Juliet (Williamstown Theater Festival), & playing an array of characters from the Victorian and Roaring 20's eras for the Beechwood Theatre Co. in Newport, RI. Recent workshops include Girls In Trouble (The Flea) and Five Second Chances (Playwrights Realm/Cherry Lane). Commercial work for ESPN, Atari Dragonball-Z, and others. From Providence, RI.Leticia Frazao (art.party artist)'s art.party executive producer credits include SCHOOLED: or m. moliere's the learned ladies, Bryant in the Park, so much depends upon [a red wheel barrow] and MEETING, IMPORTANT. Prior to art.party, her credits include 10 productions as stage manager, producer and Executive Director of Bare Bodkin Theater Company (Tufts University), the Scotsman Fringe First winner The Laramie Project in the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and at the Cochrane Theatre in London, England in 2003. Leticia, also a fashion and beauty editor, has worked for magazines such as Town & Country, Redbook, The Knot and Cosmopolitan. Education: Tufts University, BA in Art History and Communications (2007).David Ingber is.a proud member of art.party, having performed in such shows as Starbox, SCHOOLED, Meeting Important, and Bryant in the Park. Writing credits include Fantasy Football: The Musical? (NYMF Best of Fest Audience Award Winner), A Political Party!, ESPN's Mayne Street with Kenny Mayne, and God Loves My People Best. He writes motivational and educational rap songs. Current projects include the screenplay for Rush Falls: A Hipsterer Burning Man and Zombies Actually, a musical that discourages high school bullying among zombies. I love art.party.bye!Lauren Jackson is originally from Orange County, California, where she attended the Orange County High School of the Arts (Valedictorian) and later received a BA in Sociology and a Secondary in Women Gender and Sexuality Studies from Harvard University. Broadway: Finian's Rainbow. Off Broadway: The Wiz. Regional: Memphis (La Jolla Playhouse, 5th Ave Theater), Disney Premiere of High School Musical II (Theater of the Stars), Starbox (art.party). Tour: 50th Anniversary World Tour of West Side Story. Film/TV: The Smurfs, Mrs. Santa Claus, Kidsongs, Well Alright (CeCe Winans). Choreography credits include Carousel, The Rocky Horror Show, Company, The Way of the World, Expressions Dance Company, and the Petros Body Glow music video. Bzzzzz.Jojo Karlin is thrilled to be one of the original members of art.party.theater.company. Originally from Hopkinton, MA, Jojo lives in New York, acts, sings, and throws parties (with baked goods). Credits include: STARBOX, Schooled, Cupcakes and Lemonade, Bryant in the Park, MEETING, IMPORTANT (art.party); Cabaret (2010 Nat'l Tour, Fraulein Kost); Max and Ruby (Theaterwoks/USA); BestParty Ever (Richmond Shepard Theater); Theatrino (Italy); Ping Chong's Reason, Iolanthe (Fairy Queen); She Loves Me (Amalia) (Harvard). Occasionally she does makeup and hair design (Duchess in the Dark, Down in the Valley). She has assisted musical director Rob Fisher, and worked for Vanessa Redgrave on The Year of Magical Thinking and Vanessa Redgrave and James Early Jones on Driving Miss Daisy. Education: A.B. Harvard College, Literature.grace laubacher has proudly collaborated with art.party since 2009 (STARBOX; Duchess in the Dark). She has spent the last year at Central Saint Martins in London exploring the intersection of performance and fine art; recent projects include Medeama (an original show devised during a residency at Vryssaki Gallery in Athens, Greece), Invisible Cities (a performance/installation created for The Arts Foundation, Athens), and The Art and Craft of Asking Your Boss for a Raise (Goodenough College, London). Set design credits include The Space Between, Mnemonic, Sweeney Todd, The Way of the World, and You Never Can Tell (Harvard); Cabaret (American Repertory Theater – assistant set designer); and Youth View Cambridge (Cambridge Media Arts Studio). She is the recipient of Harvard's Council Prize in Visual Arts (stage design), the first Alan Symonds Memorial Award in technical theater, the Quincy House McCord Prize for achievement in the arts, and a Hoopes Prize for excellence in undergraduate research. Education: MA Performance Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins (2010-11); AB Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard (2009). For more info: gracelaubacher.com.Carolyn McCandlish first joined forces with art.party for its inaugural production, SCHOOLED. Since then, she has appeared in art.party's Starbox, Bad Romance, Bryant in the Park, and Cupcakes, Lemonade, and Strippers: Midwestern Plays. Carolyn is also a founding member of Playing with Reality, an interactive performance ensemble that seeks to empower and challenge audience participants (Give in to Sin, Properties of Play, and This is Storybox). Other New York credits include: The Spoon River Project (Green-Wood Cemetery), Stomp and Shout (An' Work It All Out) (Babel Theatre Project, Innovative Theatre Award Nomination for Outstanding Ensemble), Mundo Overloadus (P.S. 122), 18 Paintings (HERE Arts Center), Break-Up Night (The Relevance Group). Film credits include: Small Pond, Closed, Thanksgiving, In A Certain Light. Regional: Samantha Darko in the A.R.T.'s stage adaptation of Donnie Darko. Carolyn is a graduate of Harvard College and the William Esper Studio, where she completed a two-year Meisner training program with Terry Knickerbocker. For more information, please visit carolynmccandlish.com.Roberta Pereira has been an Associate Producer with Bisno Productions since 2010, where she has worked on shows such as Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical (Broadway), Tony-award winner War Horse (Lincoln Center, tour and Toronto), and Through A Glass Darkly with Carey Mulligan (co-production with Atlantic Theater Company). Previously, she was an Associate Producer at Anne Bogart's SITI Company, Executive Producer of Summer Cabaret (New Haven) and Associate Managing Director for Yale Repertory Theatre/World Performance Project, where she produced a series of international music and theater events. Roberta also produced all the auxiliary events for the 2006 Dublin International Theatre Festival. As an independent producer, her credits include the Broadway premiere of David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre starring Sir Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight (Broadway), Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman (Studio 42), USHER (New York International Fringe Festival, Outstanding Musical Award), the production concept of Ainadamar (winner of the Opera America Director-Designer Showcase), and We Declare You A Terrorist (Summer Play Festival). Roberta is on the Board of Directors of Studio 42, a founding ensemble member of Tilted Field and a member of Women's Project Lab. A graduate of Yale School of Drama's Theater Management program, Roberta is originally from Brazil and currently lives in New York City.Daniella Rabbani is thrilled to be part of the art.party team! Credits include Off-Broadway: Gimpel Tam and The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer (Folksbiene), Israel Horovitz's Mid-East Pices, 70/70 Horovitz Project (Theater Row), Liz Swados' Atonement: an Oratorio. Regional: Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night (Vermont Shakespeare), The Play's the Thing (Actor's Shakespeare Company), American Drama Pocket Edition (Minnesota Fringe), Jihad the Musical (Edinburgh Fringe). Select Concerts: Jazz at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, La MaMa E.T.C. Select Voiceovers: PBS' Fire at the Triangle, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Paris' Grand Palais and National Commercials. With art.party: SCHOOLED, Bryant in the Park, so much depends upon a [red wheel barrow], STARBOX. BFA: NYU Tisch/ Stella Adler. On faculty at the Stella Adler Studio and choreographs for The New Acting Company. Daniella recently collaborated with Rebecca Keren and Elizabeth Swados to write RakheLeah: a New Musical, musical directed by Kris Kukul. More at daniellarabbani.com.Alexandra Tsocanos graduated from NYU in 2007 (B.A., Cum Laude) with the self-designed major, "Anthropology through the Visual Arts." As an artist, Alexandra works in multiple mediums to develop an on-going conversation about how people tell stories about themselves and others. Creating photo-installations and constructing fashion designs out of unconventional and recycled materials, she examines the relationship between people and their given and created spaces. As a costume designer, she explores cultural and psychological nuances through fashion and uses exciting and innovative ways to express and connect to characters. art.party Costume Credits include: Bryant in the Park and SCHOOLED. Her original, hand-crafted garments, sold under the name Cosmic deBris Designs, can currently be purchased on-line and at the East Village, NYC boutique, AuH2O.