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| CURRENT COMPANY | |
Yvan Greenberg founded Laboratory Theater in 2001 and has directed the ensemble in eleven original pieces. His work has been presented in New York by PS 122, The Brick Theater, Dixon Place, The Tank, HERE Arts Center, chashama, New Dramatists, The Performing Garage, The Knitting Factory, and Movement Research, among others. Greenberg received a MacDowell Fellowship in 2006. In 2007, Laboratory Theater helped Dixon Place initiate and establish their on-going artist residency program. |
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Corey Dargel is a Texas-born, Brooklyn-based composer, singer, and actor whom the New Yorker magazine calls "a baroquely unclassifiable artist...at once uproarious and harrowing.” Dargel was nominated for Outstanding Solo Performance in the 2008 New York Innovative Theatre Awards, and his original music-theater work, Removable Parts, won the award for Outstanding Performance-Art Production. Dargel's theatrical song cycles have been presented by HERE Arts Center, The Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival, the Warhol Museum, Nautilus Music-Theater, and Performance Space 122. His third album, Someone Will Take Care of Me, was released in May of 2010 by New Amsterdam Records. For more, visit www.coreydargel.com. |
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| Oleg Dubson was born and raised in Minsk, Belarus, where he was a member of theater-studio Class-A! He moved to New York in 1998, studied filmmaking and continued his theatrical endeavors with the experimental troupe Science Project. Dubson has been part of Laboratory Theater since 2003. His latest short film, Self, was shown at the Berlin and Sarajevo Film Festivals. |  |
| Wil Smith is a composer and performer based in Brooklyn, and began performing with Laboratory Theater in 2009. His work spans traditional and popular styles, integrating electronics, theatrics, and improvisation. Smith's music has been performed in venues across the US, including REDCAT Theatre in LA with the California Ear Unit, MATA Interval series in Brooklyn, The Wulf in downtown LA, New Directions Cello Festival in Ithaca, and Bang On A Can summer music festival at MassMOCA. He has played keyboards with his experimental rock band Passenger Fish, Matt Mark's post-Christian, nihilist pop-opera The Little Death, Missy Mazzoli's band Victoire, and Hold Yourself, a new project with composer/vocalist Corey Dargel and guitarist James Moore. He also regularly performs jazz, gospel, classical, and improvised music on piano and organ. Smith is organist at First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Heights, where he curates a new music series called "Music at First." |  |
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| Associate members previously involved in the development and performance of past projects: Sheila Donovan (2001–2010), Alexis Macnab (2003–2007), Andrew Gilchrist (2007–2009) |