Category: Interviews

  • Five Questions With Nova Ren Suma

    Name: Nova Ren Suma Title/Occupation: fiction writer, author of DANI NOIR (http://daninoir.com) Organization/Company: self URL: http://novaren.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? When I was a kid, we flung ourselves between the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, but I mostly grew up…

  • Meet the Curator – Patrick Grant

    Name: Patrick Grant Title: Composer/Performer/Producer Affiliation: Curator & Co-Producer of “The MMiX Festival of Interactive Music Technology” URL: http://www.theaterlabnyc.com/Theaterlab3/MMiX.html 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Detroit where I studied music composition and classical performance by day while playing in Punk/New Wave…

  • Five Questions with Derek Ahonen

    Name:  Derek Ahonen Title/Occupation:  Playwright Organization/Company:  The Amoralists 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up just outside of Chicago and I moved here to become someone important at 18. 2. Which performance, song, play, movie, painting or other work of art had the…

  • Five Questions For Michael Krumenacker

    Name: Michael Krumenacker Title/Occupation: Artist Organization/Company: Self URL: Chinati 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in very rural New Hampshire, completely ignorant of anything considered “high” art, although also far away from any suburban sprawl, cable, fast-food restaurants or malls too, so…

  • Five Questions for John Collins

    Name: John Collins Title/Occupation: Artistic Director Organization/Company: Elevator Repair Service URL: www.elevator.org 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Vidalia, Georgia. I now work full time for ERS as Artistic Director and live on The Lower East Side. How I ended up…

  • Five Minutes with Nils Folke Anderson

    I met the artist Nils Folke Anderson at a party a few weeks ago where he told me about his work and showed me some pix on his iPhone. I was incredibly excited by these freestanding sculptures of interlocking rectilinear shapes. Last week I visited his gallery show at Phillips de Pury, just off the Highline,…

  • Five Questions for Kenneth Collins

    Name: Kenneth Collins Title/Occupation: Writer, Director, Designer Organization/Company: Temporary Distortion URL: www.temporarydistortion.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? Born in Freehold, NJ. Spent a number of years in Harrisburg, PA. Moved to NYC in the summer of ’99. 2. Which performance, song, play, movie, painting…

  • Meet The Curator – Michael Green

    Name: Michael Green Title: Artistic Director Affiliation: One Yellow Rabbit/High Performance Rodeo 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born outside of Toronto, the first child of English immigrants to Canada. We lived all over Canada, but the FLQ crisis of 1972 sent us fleeing…

  • Meet The Curator – Ron Berry

    Name: Ron Berry Title: Curator and Creator Affiliation: Fuse Box Festival 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in the Houston suburbs. Strip-malls, bayous, astronauts. I was a NASA kid. My father was an aerospace engineer and my mother a counselor and teacher.…

  • Five Questions for Michael Cyril Creighton

    Name: Michael Cyril Creighton Title/Occupation: Actor/Writer/Sometimes Comedian Organization/Company: Frequent Guest Artist with The Debate Society, Founding Member/Alumni of The New York Neo-Futurists, formerly of VH1’s Best Night Ever, Writer/Creator/Performer of the online sitcom JACK IN A BOX URL: www.youtube.com/mccreighton 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now?…

  • Five Questions for Satya Bhabha

    Name: Satya Bhabha Title/Occupation: Actor Organization/Company: just me 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in London, UK until I was 12 and then in Chicago, IL for most of high school. I went to college at Yale and never planned on moving…

  • Meet the Curator – Chuck Helm

    Name: Chuck Helm Title: Director of Performing Arts Affiliation:  Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa but we left when I was very young and I grew up in Dallas, Texas.  My…