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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, chashama, TIXE, LOW, The Performing Garage, The Knitting Factory, Movement Research, WOW Cafe Theater, 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 April 2006 as director for MURPHY, an experimental music theater piece, with playwright Honor Molloy and composer Corey Dargel. MURPHY was recently awarded the New Dramatists’ 2007 Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theater. From 2002-2007, Greenberg was also an administrator for The Wooster Group. |
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Corey Dargel is a "baroquely unclassifiable artist" (The New Yorker) who writes and performs songs that "smartly and impishly blur the boundaries between contemporary classical idioms and pop" (New York Times). In 2007, his original music-theater piece about love and voluntary amputation, REMOVABLE PARTS, premiered at HERE Arts Center in New York City and was hailed as "brilliant and truly original" (Flavorpill) and "almost perversely pleasurable... as moving as it is impressive" (New York Times). He has received awards and residencies from the American Composers Forum, the New York State Music Fund, the American Music Center, ASCAP, New Dramatists, the Frederick Loewe Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony. |
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| Sheila Donovan studied at the Moscow Art Theater through the National Theater Institute. In the summer of 2002 she performed with the Brooklyn Pageant Project, a theater that hitched onto the back of a truck and performed on the streets of Brooklyn. Donovan has been a singer and guitarist for various bands including Tallboys, a Brooklyn-based punk group whose EP, Scallywag Tag, was released in February 2003. They have toured with popular music groups such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and played at numerous New York Venues including The Knitting Factory and Mercury Lounge. She has recently formed a new band, Amolvacy, collaborating with local and international musicians including members of the No Neck Blues Band, Volcano the Bear, and The Mazing Vids. Donovan is currently in the process of recording for an upcoming album. |  |
| Oleg Dubson was born and raised in Minsk, Belarus. As a core member of Science Project for four years, he performed in Howard Barker's "Scenes from an Execution" (Horace Mann Theater, NYC), "School for Salomes" (Chashama, NYC, and The New York International Fringe Festival), "I'm So Sorry for Everything. Henrik Ibsen's Doll House" (The Performing Garage, NYC), "The Real Life of Pinocchio" (a collaboration with Stoka Theater from Slovakia, performed at The Culture Project, NYC and Stoka Theatre, Bratislava, and sponsored by The Trust for Mutual Understanding), and "I Didn't Know It Could Be Like This. Henrik Ibsen's Doll House" (The Old American Can Factory, Brooklyn, NYC). In 2003, Dubson joined Laboratory Theater. He holds a BA in Film Production from Brooklyn College, CUNY. |  |
| Andrew Gilchrist is a writer and performer originally hailing from Kansas City, MO. His one man show, The Exquisite Tale of Ronald Pelican, has been seen in various forms at Ars Nova, Galapagos Art Space, Bard College, the Gene Frankel Underground Theater, in the One Million Forgotten Moments Festival curated by Yehuda Duenyas, and at the chashama windows space at 37th Street and 8th Avenue, where he performed as Ronald Pelican for 24 hours straight. As a performer and writer for the theater company Polybe and Seats, he performed at P.S. 122 (as part of the Mabou Mines suite), the Brooklyn Fire Proof and the Arthur Miller Theater at the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of Bard College. |  |
| 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”. |  |