ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann
ArKtype was established in 2006 under the direction of producer Thomas O. Kriegsmann to support the finest in emerging and established international artists in the strategic development, production and touring of innovative new work. ArKtype’s work has grown to encompass renowned artists from ten different countries, multiple genres and commercial and non-profit support structures resulting in new work for a variety of spaces. Realizing the infrastructural demands of the artist in an environment of limited funding and financial support for creative endeavors, ArKtype aims to balance infrastructural support with creative growth, allowing the artist a long-term relationship with a producorial entity based in establishing the artist’s continued presence in the international arts presenters community.
ArKtype’s acclaimed work has been seen across Europe, South Africa, East Asia, North and South America and Australia, and is very proud to continue relationships with the finest theaters in the world, including Performance Space 122, The Market Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, Barbican Centre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Victoria Arts Centre (Melbourne), Place des Arts (Montreal), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Hartford Stage Company, Actors Theater of Louisville, New York Theater Workshop, Mark Taper Forum, Apollo Theater, The Joseph Papp Public Theater and The Culture Project. The company proudly began its work in the production and development of emerging ensembles and is currently represented off-Broadway and on several tours in the US and beyond, as well as programming the annual Spiegeltent season at South Street Seaport, New York City.
Compagnia
Colombari,
Karin
Coonrod, Artistic Director
Compagnia
de’ Colombari is an international, interdenominational, interracial,
theater company concerned about a world increasingly resistant to
grace. Our current production is La Strada per Emmaus in the 21st
century. Updating a traditional combination of hijinks and solemnity,
the sacred and profane, texts and music, Laude moves theater into
the streets to explore man’s relationship to the divine and
redefine how theater can be true to the present and the eternal.
David Little, composer
Composer/Librettist David T. Little is actively committed
to music of dramatic intensity and direct expression. A two-time BMI
Student Composer Award Winner Little’s composition Screamer!
was chosen by Maestro David Zinman as the winner of the 2004 Jacob
Druckman Award for Orchestral Composition from the Aspen Music Festival, where
Little was a Schumann Fellow during the summer of 2003. He is
a 2003 recipient of the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters and served as the 2001 ASCAP Leonard Bernstein
Fellow in Composition at the Tanglewood Music Center. Little
was awarded the 2004 Harvey Gaul Prize from the Pittsburgh New Music
Ensemble, which resulted in the commissioning of his Soldier Songs,
and was most recently awarded an ASCAP Morton Gould Award. A
composer of great diversity, Little’s music has been concurrently
praised as “smoothly euphonious…with tonal yet original
harmonies” (American Record Guide), and “clanking, almost
industrial” (The Stage). Alex Ross of The New Yorker was “completely
gripped” by Little’s Sunday Morning Trepanation, proclaiming: “every
bad-ass new-music ensemble in the city will want to play him.” Holding
a Bachelor’s degree in Percussion Performance, Little holds a
Master of Music degree in Composition from the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Princeton University,
where he is currently a doctoral candidate.
New
Sounds Theatre
Russell Kaplan, Artistic Director New
Sounds Theatre is a New York City-based theatre company that is dedicated
to advancing and redefining the role of original music in contemporary
theatre. Every NST production prominently features an original musical
score by a contemporary songwriter or composer, which is performed exclusively
by live musicians. Whether it's an experimental rock ballet, an edgy
hip-hop opera, or a Shakespeare classic with cinematic underscoring,
each new NST production sets out to break down the boundaries between
music and theatre in the most innovative ways. And with all of our music
played live, each production is performed with an immediacy that simply
can't be attained with a prerecorded soundtrack.
In
addition to our productions, New Sounds Theatre is committed to artist
development, fostering new collaborations, and education outreach.
Our "NST Sandbox" series allows artists to workshop new music-theatre
pieces in a supportive, low-pressure environment. We also help
musicians and theatre artists to meet and network with like-minded collaborators,
creating unique partnerships that result in truly innovative new
work. And through our developing education and youth outreach
program, we'll be helping children of all ages to discover the joy and
expressive power of music and theatre.
Yana
Ross, Director
Yana
Ross is an award-winning stage, film, and television director with over
200 episodes of television programming for CBS, HBO, CNN and E! Entertainment
networks as well as theater productions including recent No Exit
(2004) by Jean Paul Sartre, The Dragon (2005) by Eugene Shwarts,
The Clean House (2005) by Sarah Ruhl, and Sleeping Beauty
(2006) by Elfriede Jelinek.
In
addition to starting her repertory theater >>PLAY FORWARD>>
in New York, Ms. Ross continues collaboration with Theater magazine
where she served as the co-editor of a special issue “Russian
Theater of the 21st Century.” Her work has been published in Moscow
Times, Theater Der Zeit, and Theater Heute. Ms. Ross received a Master
of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama.
In
Fall 2006, Ms. Ross directed A Kingdom by Lola Arias at Performance
Space 122 in New York City, and in Spring 2007, directs Bambiland
by Elfriede Jelinek at Oskaras Korsunovas Theater in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Ms. Ross is the founding director of Play Forward Theatre.
Yuval Sharon, Director
Yuval Sharon’s directorial work has been described
as “magical” (The Village Voice), “ingenious” (San
Francisco Chronicle) and “having a keen eye to mythology in the
modern world” (Theatermania, New York). With experiments
in the collision of music, text, movement, and visual imagery, Yuval
searches for new ways to unleash the unexpected in the theatrical event.
Yuval’s eclectic tastes have led him to direct a variety of projects
such as a chamber-scale production of Verdi’s Aida, a carnivalesque
mash-up of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, entitled Celebrate Good
Times (Macbeth), a three-hour adaptation of Wagner’s Die Mesitersinger
von Nürnberg, a fusion of Odissi dance and pop songs based on the
classic Indian text Gita Govinda, human beatbox Yuri Lane’s
one-man show Soundtrack City for New York, a collaborative riff on
the themes of Schoenberg’s expressionistic opera Erwartung, the West
Coast premiere production of William Finn’s musical A New Brain,
and the American premiere of Falk Richter’s underground phenomenon God
is a DJ in a production Theatermania called on of the 10 best performances
in New York in 2004. He has worked with San Francisco opera, New York
City Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Berkeley Opera, The
Asia Society of new York, The Deitch Projects, the New York Hip Hop Theater
Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Shotgun Players, and Prospect Theater Company. He
is co-founder of the New York based group Theater Faction.
Elliott Sharp, composer
New York city composer/producer/sound artist Elliott
Sharp leads the ensembles Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane
and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory,
and biological metaphors to musical composition and interaction. His
compositions have been performed by the Symphony of the Hessischer
Rundfunk, The Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Rezonanz, Continuum, Meridian
Arts Ensemble, Flux Quartet, Sirius Stirng Quartet, and Zeitkratzer. His
collaborators have included qawaali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Meredith
Monk; blues legend Hubert Sumlin; playwright Dael Orlandersmith; cello
innovator Frances-Marie Uitti; sci-fi writers Pat Cadigan and Lucius
Shepard; jazz greats Sonny Sharrock, Jack deJohnette, and Oliver Lake;
and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians of Jahjoukah.
Sharp's orchestra piece Calling was commissioned
by the Hessischer Rundfunk to open the 2002 Darmstadt Ferienkurse für
Neue Musik, and the CD won the January 2004 German Critics' Prize. His
composition Quarks Swim Free was premiered at the Venice Biennale in
September 2003, and his chamber opera EmPyre was premiered at the 2006
Biennale. Sharp's most recent CD releases include Quadrature,
a collection of solo acoustic guitar compositions; Calling with
the Radio-Symphony of Frankfurt; Terraplane's Secret Life;
and the string quartet Dispersion Of Seeds.
He founded the ongoing zOaR Records in 1978 both for
his own productions, including the critically-acclaimed compilations Peripheral
Vision and State Of The Union, and for other radical
music. He has recently completed the scores to the feature-films What
Sebastian Dreamt, Commune by Jonathan Berman, and Spectropia by
Toni Dove. Installations include: Suspension, a video and audio
work in collaboration with video artist Janene Higgins at the Chelsea
Art Museum, NYC, 2003; Fluvial, computerized multi-channel audio-work
commissioned by Engine 27 gallery, NYC June 2002; and Chromatine,
an interactive string sculpture/audiowork created for the Gallery of
the School of Museum Of Fine Art, Boston, 2001.
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Sucktion/Pierrot 
This
new musical with book by award-winning playwright Marcus Gardley and
music by roots-rockers Olabelle is set in Israel, Louisiana (population
613) in 1942. Jonah Bell, small-town prophet and struggling fisherman,
lives a humble life amongst God-fearing townspeople who spend their
days lusting for vengeance against the corrupt city of Ninevah. When
Jonah gets the sign they’ve all been waiting for, they send him
to seek their revenge… but does God really want justice, or something
else that only Jonah can see? This innovative spin on the Bible’s
most moving and timeless story promises to stir hearts and minds.
Conceived
by Maira Kalman and composed by Nico Muhly, this new song-cycle set
to the indispensable writing manual, Strunk & White’s
The Elements of Style, incorporates singers with instruments ranging
from viola, banjo, and vibraphone to tea cups, typewriter, and duck
call. 
