SEAN DEVARE (Producer, Writer, Performer) is a New York-based interdisciplinary performer, designer, musician, writer and director. His solo show ‘First Violin,’ premiered at HERE Arts Center and United Solo Festival, and hopefully will return to the stage at Mabou Mines in 2021. Sean’s work explores questions of cultural inheritance and hybridization through reinterpreting folklore and Asian diasporic 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, The Flea and more. Founding member of Trinacria Theatre Company and The Transit Ensemble. MFA Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College; BFA Illustration, RISD.
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ALEX M. LEE (Director) 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.
KATE AUGUST (Lighting Designer) has hidden out in downtown theater spaces, turning things on and off for the past decade. When not turning lights on and off, they’re often found in tech closets muttering. Past projects include but are not limited to Devil in a Box, a sex thing (or, a bunch of liberals getting uptight about the sociopolitical implications of their desires), Basil Twist’s Puppet Parlor, and Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire. They have a profound enjoyment of waffles.
GLENN POTTER-TAKATA (Stage Manager) is a performance artist from Los Angeles. Shiba Inus are his favorite dog. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College.
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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
www.seandevare.com
ALEX M. LEE (Director) 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.
KATE AUGUST (Lighting Designer) has hidden out in downtown theater spaces, turning things on and off for the past decade. When not turning lights on and off, they’re often found in tech closets muttering. Past projects include but are not limited to Devil in a Box, a sex thing (or, a bunch of liberals getting uptight about the sociopolitical implications of their desires), Basil Twist’s Puppet Parlor, and Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire. They have a profound enjoyment of waffles.
GLENN POTTER-TAKATA (Stage Manager) is a performance artist from Los Angeles. Shiba Inus are his favorite dog. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College.
gorngorngorn.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
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
