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COREY DARGEL - composer/lyricist/singer
KATHLEEN SUPOVÉ - pianist
EMMA GRIFFIN - director
YVAN GREENBERG - choreographer
RAQUEL DAVIS - lighting and production designer
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Corey Dargel's (composer/writer/singer) gentle assault on the pop idiom creates a tension that pervades his music: Deadpan and detached vocals reveal heartbreaking intimacies, awkward and obtrusive drum patterns struggle against fragile harmonies, vocals and music uneasily opposing each other as songs stumble to their ends. He has shared the stage with Joanna Newsom, Final Fantasy, Grizzly Bear, Anti-Social Music, the American Composers Orchestra, and others. Dargel’s critically acclaimed debut album, Less Famous Than You was released on Use Your Teeth (London) in May 2006 and named one of the Top Ten Albums of 2006 by Time Out New York. His forthcoming album, Other People’s Love Songs, will be released on New Amsterdam Records in the fall of 2008. Dargel is a founding member of the Brooklyn-based experimental theater company Laboratory Theater and a 2007 participant in HERE Arts Center's HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) in NYC. Other residencies include the MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and New Dramatists. |
Kathleen Supové (pianist) is one of America's most acclaimed and versatile contemporary music pianists, known for continually redefining what it means to be a pianist/keyboardist/performance artist in today's world. She regularly presents a series of solo concerts entitled “The Exploding Piano” at The Flea Theater in NYC, in which she has pioneered both repertoire and presentational concepts involving electronics, theatrics, and cutting edge works for Yamaha Disklavier. She has presented a number of Concert Theater works there, most notably the evening-length staged piece for singing/reciting/moving pianist called Jitters, (music by Randall Woolf and texts/directing by Valeria Vasilevski). In addition, Kathleen has been a featured artist in the Summer 2000 issue of Yale Theater Journal, which was devoted to Concert Theater. She has performed throughout the US, at universities and conservatories, and as a featured guest at many new music festivals, most recently the Ussachevsky Festival in CA and the NIME Festival in NYC. Kathleen’s most recent solo CD, Infusion, is on the Koch label. |
Emma Griffin (director) is the Artistic Director of the OBIE-award winning NYC Salt Theater where she commissioned and directed Phil Kline’s Zippo Songs. Other Salt highlights include Stage Door (FringeNYC Excellence Award as Best Director), Inky (world premiere), The Cherry Orchard and Conquest of the Universe. NYC Off-Broadway credits include the premiere of Five Course Love at the Minetta Lane Theatre and productions at numerous other New York companies including Target Margin Theater; Clubbed Thumb; New Georges and Tiny Mythic/HERE. Opera credits include Postcard from Morroco and Die Zauberflote at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Regional work: Geva Theater Center, Southern Rep in New Orleans, Actor’s Express, Virginia Stage, Williamstown Theater Festival. Upcoming productions include Misery at Syracuse Stage, A Christmas Carol at Geva Theater, the new musical Only Children at NYU, Stretch, a fantasia with New Georges, and The Designated Mourner with Salt Theater. She is currently Adjunct Faculty at New York University, where she teaches directing. |
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Yvan Greenberg (choreographer) is the founder of the Brooklyn-based experimental theater company Laboratory Theater in 2001 and has directed the ensemble in ten original pieces. His work has been presented in NYC by Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, The Brick Theater, chashama, TIXE, LOW, The Performing Garage, The Knitting Factory, Movement Research, WOW Cafe Theater, and Raw Space. He was awarded a MacDowell Resident Artist Fellowship in April 2006 to collaborate with Corey Dargel and playwright Honor Molloy on material for the experimental music-theater piece Murphy. Murphy was recently awarded the New Dramatists’ 2007 Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theater. Greenberg is also the General Manager of The Wooster Group and has been involved administratively in the production of To You, The Birdie! (Phèdre), Poor Theater, Hamlet, Who’s Your DADA?!, There Is Still Time..Brother,and La Didone as well as the remounting of three pieces from the Group’s repertory, Brace Up!, House/Lights, and The Emperor Jones. |
RAQUEL DAVIS Raquel Davis (lighting and production designer) is excited to be back at HERE where she last designed for Theatre on the Verge’s Lesbian Pulp-O-Rama! Originally from Seattle, Raquel has lived and designed in New York for the last six years. Recent NYC credits include: The Dybbuk (dir. Liz Swados) and The House of Blue Leaves (dir. Davis McCallum), Ward No. 6 (dir. Jim Calder), and Major Barbara (dir. Susan Fenichell). Raquel spends her summers designing for the O’Neill Playwrights and Cabaret Festivals in Waterford, CT, where she has worked with many of New York’s talented directors and playwrights. She is also a member of the Drama Desk and Obie award winning Keen Company who’s production of The Dining Room can been seen this month at Theatre Row. Raquel started designing while at Middlebury College and received her MFA this spring from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She holds the Kennedy Center’s ACTF Award for Lighting Design Excellence (2000) and the J.S. Seidman award for 2007. |