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Yvan Greenberg founded Laboratory Theater in 2001 and has since directed the ensemble in ten original pieces. His work has been presented in New York by Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, The Brick Theater, The Tank, chashama, TIXE, New Dramatists, The Performing Garage, The Knitting Factory, Movement Research, WOW Cafe Theater, LOW, and Raw Space. In February 2007, Laboratory Theater was the first Artist-in-Residence at Dixon Place, helping them establish a new on-going residency program. Greenberg was awarded a MacDowell Resident Artist Fellowship in 2006 to collaborate with Corey Dargel and playwright Honor Molloy on material for the experimental music-theater piece Murphy. Murphy was awarded the New Dramatists’ 2007 Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theater. Greenberg has also created dances for Corey Dargel's 2008 experimental music-theater piece Removable Parts and will be choreographing Dargel's upcoming concert-piece with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Thirteen Near-Death Experiences, which will be premiered in May at P.S. 122. Greenberg is also an associate of The Wooster Group. |
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Corey Dargel is a Texas-born, Brooklyn-based composer, singer, and actor who is, according to the New Yorker magazine, "a baroquely unclassifiable artist.” His most recent album, Other People's Love Songs (2008, New Amsterdam Records), is a collection of custom-made serenades commissioned by individuals for their significant others. It was recently profiled on NPR's Weekend Edition. 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.” Removable Parts was recently revived at HERE Arts Center (NYC) as part of the 2009 Under The Radar Festival. His evening-length piece Thirteen Near-Death Experiences, scored for him to sing with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), will have its New York premiere in May of 2009 at Performance Space 122. For more, visit www.coreydargel.com. |
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| Sheila Donovan graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor’s degree in theater from Oberlin College. Donovan has been a singer and guitarist for various bands including Brooklyn-based Tallboys whose EP, Scallywag Tag, was released in February 2003. She is currently collaborating with musicians from the No Neck Blues Band and Volcano the Bear as the band Amolvacy, in which she is a singer and plays violin, drums, and other instruments. Their most recent album, Hohokus, was released in 2007 and their second album, A La Lu La, is to be released in 2009. Donovan also plays in the band Womb Sharks, in which she is singing and playing drums with a member of The Mazing Vids and former member of Tallboys. |  |
| Oleg Dubson was born and raised in Minsk, Belarus, where he acted in theater-studio "Class-A!" After moving to New York, he became a core member of Science Project led by Yelena Gluzman. He has been part of Laboratory Theater since 2003. Dubson holds a BA in Film Production from Brooklyn College, CUNY. His short video, images, was shown in Scanners: The 2007 New York Video Festival. |  |
| Andrew Gilchrist is a writer and performer originally hailing from Kansas City, MO. His one man show, The Exquisite Tale of Ronald Pelican, which he writes and performs, with direction by Julie Rossman, has been seen in various forms at Ars Nova, Galapagos Art Space, Bard College, the Gene Frankel Underground Theater, and at the chashama Windows Space at 37th Street and 8th Avenue, where he performed as Ronald Pelican for 24 hours straight. At the Brick Theater in June and July of 2008, he and director Julie Rossman collaborated again on a production of Birthtaint, which is the first episode in a ten-part serial performance piece. Most recently, he was awarded a Space Grant at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, which presented a work-in-progress showing of his new play, The Intruder. He is currently working on a performance installation piece of his show Birthtaint. |  |
| Alexis Macnab (associate) is an actor, dancer, and puppeteer. New York credits include puppeteering in A Seemingly Unified Spectacle (dir. Kate Brehm) at HERE Arts Center, acting in A Penny Arcade Portrait of a Busby Berklee Dream (playwright, Timothy Braun) also at HERE, and dancing in the New York premiere of The Faker (MayDance) at the Merce Cunningham Studios. She has performed at P.S. 122, The Ontological-Hysteric, Dixon Place, Dance Space Center, Triskilion Arts, and in various puppet shows around the city. Chicago credits include performing and creating with Redmoon Theater, assistant directing Jessica Thebus’ production of Abingdon Square at The Piven Theater, and directing her own play Night Fractal. |  |