Category: Five Questions

For a relatively young theater company, Working Man’s Clothes has garnered a sizable amount of attention for its daring productions and strong work ethic. Culturebot spoke to Maggie Hamilton, the Managing Director of Working Man’s Clothes, about the origins of the company and its production of Anthony Nielson’s Penetrator, which opens at the end of…

Nick Jones is a playwright, director, puppet designer, and licensed real estate agent. His work has been performed at chashama and the Bowery Poetry Club, as well as the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, the Dublin Fringe Festival (first runner up, “Most Entertaining”), Ars Nova, the Brick Theater, The Kitchen, and P.S. 122.…

Megan Sprenger, artistic director of mvworks, received a BFA in dance with a focus in composition from the State University of New York at Purchase College. She has had the pleasure of working with Annie Kloppenberg and is currently working with Catherine Tharin and Tina Croll & Dancers. Her work has been presented at the…

The Debate Society creates new plays through the collaboration of Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler. This development of new work relies on the writing and adaptation of actors Ms. Bos and Mr. Thureen combined with the rehearsal experimentation and direction of Mr. Butler. The trio began their work together with A Thought About…

Familiar to theater mavens as an editor for Show People and Time Out New York magazines, Erik Jackson has also written three plays: Charlie! (Performance Space 122 and the HERE Theater); Tell-Tale (Cherry Lane Theater, GLAAD nomination for Best Play); and Doll (PS 122). He co-wrote the book for Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,…

Choreographer Saar Harari trained as a dancer in Israel until the age of 18 when he began his compulsory military service with the Israeli Defense Forces, eventually becoming a commanding officer of a special combat unit. Upon returning to civilian life he resumed his career as a dancer. Herd of Bulls uses the movement vocabulary…

Tamar Rogoff is a choreographer, director, filmaker and teacher. She teaches at New York University’s Experimental Theatre Wing and leads an ongoing class at P.S. 122. Rogoff has worked for decades with people who have both physical and psychological disabilities at various centers in NYC- with children at the Rusk Institute awaiting prosthesis, with individuals…

Colin Gee has an extensive background in physical theatre, having trained at the Lecoq school in Paris and Dell’ Arte School of Physical Theatre. He is a former principle clown for Cirque du Soleil and co-founder of The Flying Machine, an international theatre collaborative. In his latest work from Dakota, Colin combines experiments in identity…

Praxis (Brainard Carey and Delia Bajo) is an internationally acclaimed art and performance collaborative best known for their appearance in the Whitney Biennial 2002, in which they performed by offering services that included hugs,foot washings and other acts of intimacy. Forget Me Not (opens September 7th at P.S. 122) is a Mass which celebrates living…