NINA ROLLE is a hybrid artist - singer, composer, actor and clown- and pioneer in the genre Sonic Theater . Her original show, Zen Cabaret, was named Best of Denver 2007 by the Denver Westword and won Pick of the Fringe at the Boulder International Fringe Festival in 2005 and 2006. Nina has acted with Seattle's UMO Ensemble and has performed her original scores for LA's Zoo District theater company, a Colorado production of Suzan-Lori Parks’Venus and Tiger-Lion Works' outdoor pageant-play, The Buddha Prince in L.A., N.Y., and Minneapolis. From 1995-2000 Nina recorded and toured nationally as singer and accordionist with the Bay Area band Charming Hostess, and performed regularly with Moshe Cohen’s Clown Conspiracy. Nina is a graduate of Naropa University, where she worked with Barbara Dilley, Meredith Monk, and Allen Ginsberg. She is currently employed as adjunct faculty in Naropa's music department. Nina has studied Butoh in Japan with its originator, Kazuo Ohno, and trained intensively in physical theater forms with Ruth Zaporah and Anne Bogart's SITI company. 

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JULIE ADLER is a singer, composer, visual artist and writer, has performed at many Los Angeles venues including REDCAT, Highways, Cal State Long Beach, and Cal State Fullerton as part of Women’s Listening Room events. She is also a frequent collaborator with sound/visual artist Jacki Apple and was co-producer on EARJAM, LA’s annual new music festival for a number of years. She is a producer on the radio show, THE TIBET CONNECTION, on KPFK Radio Pacifica. She is a graduate of Cal Arts and Cooper Union (NY). For more info, go to: http://myspace.com/julieadler

SARAH BARAB

ELIZABETH BARON

GLEASON BAUER received her BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University in Boulder, CO. Prior to graduate school she was the Artistic Director of Zoo District, a multi-award winning theatre company that she helped found in 1997. She directed, designed and appeared in numerous Zoo District productions, including the World Premiere of Heart of a Dog at the First Annual Bulgakov Festival in Kiev, Ukraine. Gleason has also performed, devised, designed, produced, taught and/or directed with: Tectonic Theatre Project, Theatre of NOTE, Sacred Fools, We Tell Stories, the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Public and the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. In Los Angeles she was nominated for an LA Weekly Award for her Costume Design of Brecht's Drums in the Night in 1997. Her production of Williams' The Two-character Play won Best of Downtown 2000 and she most recently won the 2004 LA Weekly Award for her Production Design of [ h o m e ]or the Quest for the Lost Tablet of Ur, an original piece that she also co-devised and directed.

AMY BIONDO

SONDRA BLANCHARD

CARLYLE COASH

DAVINA COHEN

KRISTA DENIO is a choreographer and movement theater

performer/director/educator, recently re-located to New York from the San Francisco Bay Area.  Krista has produced her own work, and collaborated with Jo Kreiter and Flyaway productions, Kim Epifano/ Epiphany Productions, violent dwarf, Gabriel Todd, Rachael Lincoln, Susannah Martin, Joan Bruemmer and others in the Bay Area over the last decade.  Recently she has choreographed work for playwright/director, Leigh Fondakowski, as well as, the San Francisco Playhouse's production of The Man of La Mancha, directed by Jon Tracy.  She co-founded the Experimental Performance Institute (EPI) at the New College of California (2002), where she has served as Administrative Director, movement/theater faculty, and most recently, Outreach Director (www.epi.newcollege.edu).  Krista received her BA in Dance/Dramatic Art from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Theater: Contemporary Performance from Naropa

University.  One of her current movement theater works, Sally:MIA, was produced at CounterPULSE in San Francisco (February 2007), where she was an Artist-In-Residence.

DEBRA DISBROW is a movement and theater artist, writer and a founding member of Workshop for Potential Movement, a dance theater company in Philadelphia. For WPM she has performed and co-written pieces for the Live Arts Festival, Williamsburg Art Nexus, Painted Bride, nEW Festival at the Arts Bank, Spirit Wind, Female Funny Fest, and the Dog Days Festival in upstate NY. Her one-woman play These are the Deb Tapes was performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and the Walnut Studio Theatre 5. She is a recent graduate of the MFA program in Theater-Contemporary Performance at Naropa University where she has worked and collaborated with Merideth Monk, Moises Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski, Steve Wangh and Katsura Kan. She also performs a one-woman cabaret called Little Debbie and the Snack Cakes.

SKYE DOWNING

SAM ELLMORE

ANNELIESE EULER’s original comic cabaret work as Brie Feingold-Africa was chosen as one of Philadelphia City Paper's "Best Theatrical Moments of 2002".  She has sung with Meredith Monk and made performances with Pig Iron, Group Motion, New Paradise Laboratories, and Griftheater.  She is a Pilates matwork instructor with a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from Naropa University.  For her album and more, visit ruby7empire.com and cdbaby.com.

SHANNON FORNEY

JOHN GRIGSBY

GARY GRUNDEI is a composer, pianist, and sound designer whose music has been heard at the Kennedy Center, Denver Center, New York Stage and Film, Boulder’s Chatauqua Community House, Naropa University, Occidental College, the Ohio State University, and various modern dance performances. He has worked with Meredith Monk and Bill Pullman, among others, and is the founder of the experimental music ensemble, the living room project.

ASHLEY HUGHES

STACEY JACK

KATHRYN JONES

JON KELLAM

MARKELL KIEFER

JOHN LACQUES

TYSON LIEN

BETH LORIO

JULIA NORSTRAND

LOREN OLDS

DAVID ORTOLANO

AMY RAASCH

MAX REGAN

LIZ STANTON received her MFA in Theater: Contemporary Performance from Naropa University in May of 2006. New York credits include: The Rover, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night (Clark Studio Theater), Hedda Gabler, Hamlet (Raw Space), Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Changeling (Culture Project). Regional credits include: The Buddy Holly Story, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Cole, Closer Than Ever, Romeo and Juliet, Parallel Lives, Zen Cabaret, Letting the Body Speak and Persephone. Her most recent show: Power to Pleasing: The Sex Lives of Teenage Girls won Pick of the Fringe at the Boulder International Fringe Festival in 2005 and 2006.

JAYME STONE

JULIANNA ZAZOU TALLEY

JAMES THORPE

GABRIEL TODD