SEAN DEVARE (Producer, Writer, Performer) is a New York-based interdisciplinary performer, designer, musician, writer and director. ‘First Violin,’ premiered at HERE Arts Center and Theatre Row in 2019 as a solo show, and returned to the stage at Mabou Mines in 2021. Sean’s work explores questions of cultural inheritance and hybridization through reinterpreting folklore via Asian performance traditions, from mask-making and shadow puppetry to Carnatic violin. He has worked on original ensemble pieces with artists in Singapore, Ecuador, and Sicily, and performed in NYC at BAM, Signature, Target Margin, La MaMa and more. Founding member of Trinacria Theatre Company and Artistic Associate at Fault Line Theatre. He is a Visiting Lecturer in Theatre at Williams College. MFA Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College; BFA Illustration, RISD.
www.seandevare.com
LUKE SANTY (Musician, Sound Designer) is a Brooklyn-based musician and theater artist particularly interested in the fields of sound design and creative tech. He is Co-Artistic Director and Musical Director of puppet-based theatre company Little Did Productions, which has performed at St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta, GA), and at the National Puppetry Festival (Storrs, CT). Other Favorite Credits include Meditating with My Parents (The Brick, Dixon Place), Lost and Found (EMPAC), LA Party (Dartmouth College), Yo Miss! (Dancer’s Workshop, Jackson Hole, WY), Electricidad (Lehman College). Listen at LUKEINTERNET.bandcamp.com
TUÂNMINH A. ĐỖ (performer/deviser) is a multidisciplinary Mixed Asian artist based in NYC. His artistic practice strives to heal, reinvigorate, interrogate and empower, to bridge the multiple truths of our humanity. Recent projects: Lời Ru (Bai-Ka), Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead (Jessie Field & James Salem), Transplant (Deana Taheri). Buziaki dla rodzinki! Tôi đứng trên vai bạn. @tuanminhalbert w: bai-ka.org
ALEX M. LEE (Collaborator) is a director, writer, and visual artist from Seoul, Korea, recently based in New York City. She is a graduate of the Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program from which she holds a BA in Theatre Arts and a BFA in Film/Animation/Video. Her personal work is focused on intimate storytelling through transformative media, and she is thrilled to make her NYC directorial debut working with a piece and collaborator both very close to her heart. When she is not in the theatre you can find her down the hall in the HERE office, where she works as a graphic designer.
www.seandevare.com
LUKE SANTY (Musician, Sound Designer) is a Brooklyn-based musician and theater artist particularly interested in the fields of sound design and creative tech. He is Co-Artistic Director and Musical Director of puppet-based theatre company Little Did Productions, which has performed at St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta, GA), and at the National Puppetry Festival (Storrs, CT). Other Favorite Credits include Meditating with My Parents (The Brick, Dixon Place), Lost and Found (EMPAC), LA Party (Dartmouth College), Yo Miss! (Dancer’s Workshop, Jackson Hole, WY), Electricidad (Lehman College). Listen at LUKEINTERNET.bandcamp.com
TUÂNMINH A. ĐỖ (performer/deviser) is a multidisciplinary Mixed Asian artist based in NYC. His artistic practice strives to heal, reinvigorate, interrogate and empower, to bridge the multiple truths of our humanity. Recent projects: Lời Ru (Bai-Ka), Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead (Jessie Field & James Salem), Transplant (Deana Taheri). Buziaki dla rodzinki! Tôi đứng trên vai bạn. @tuanminhalbert w: bai-ka.org
ALEX M. LEE (Collaborator) is a director, writer, and visual artist from Seoul, Korea, recently based in New York City. She is a graduate of the Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program from which she holds a BA in Theatre Arts and a BFA in Film/Animation/Video. Her personal work is focused on intimate storytelling through transformative media, and she is thrilled to make her NYC directorial debut working with a piece and collaborator both very close to her heart. When she is not in the theatre you can find her down the hall in the HERE office, where she works as a graphic designer.
First Violin was made possible by the generosity of:
Brian Alford • Aaron Blanton • Myken Bomberger • Francis Boncales • Patti Bradshaw • Ryan Caraballo • Jordan Carey • Connie Castanzo • Maren Celest • Lisa Chu • June Chung • Chris Cook • Mahua V. Dandekar • Anna Dart • Alida Rose Delaney • Doria Devare • Jenna Devare • Sushil Devare • Helen Diagama • Robert Dowling • Pat Dwyer • James Green • Teddy Hahn • Quinton Kappel • Jonathan Key • Allison Kiphuth • Alexander Kushi-Willis • David Lane • Jae Hyun Lee • Richard Liu • Zoe Lohmann • Claire Lordon • Jessica Lorence • Danitra Faithe • Jesse Freedman • Evan Maltby • Cary Patrick Martin • Susannah Melone • Paul Morejon • Alex Mumford • Sara Jane Munford • Sabina Nilakhe • Alison Novelli • Will O’Hare • Tiffany Peng • Jonathan Plotkin • Jonathan Posner • Glenn Potter-Takata • Allan Prikhodko • Joel Putnam • John Racioppo • Jeremy Rafal • Sarah Rhoads • Ari Rodriguez • Rita Rosenfeld • Aeneas Sagar-Hemphill • Gustavo Sampaio • Neil Samuels • Luke Santy • Eloise Sherrid • Sooyoun Shim • Andrew Simon • Erin Elisabeth Smith • Adam Souza • Stew Stewart • Nicholas Truss • Jennifer Tsay • Stefan Uddenberg • Emma E. Wade • Samantha Weinryb • Rachel Yong
