BAX AIR Alumni & History
Founded and designed by BAX’s Founding Director Marya Warshaw, BAX’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program has been renowned for over 30 years for nurturing and supporting a diverse range of dance, theater, and interdisciplinary performance artists. Many of these artists have become leaders in social justice initiatives within the arts sector and beyond. BAX AIRs are given the opportunity to delve into their research inquiries, creative ideas, and artistic practices within a supportive community of peers. AIRs benefit from mentorship, studio space, financial stipends, and producing support to develop new works, with opportunities to present their progress through open studios, workshops, community engagement events, and public presentations. Enclosed is a growing timeline of this esteemed residency and the remarkable alumni who contribute to its legacy.
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AIR Alumni 2024–2025
Cheri Stokes
Cheri L. Stokes, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, received her M.F.A. in Choreography and …
Elisabeth Motley
Elisabeth Motley (she/her) is a Disabled, neurodivergent, and Mad choreographer, scholar…
Ogemdi Ude
Ogemdi Ude (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based dance and interdisciplinary artist, doula…
AIR Alumni 2021–2023
Andrea Ambam
Andrea Ambam (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based performance artist and playwright whose roots…
Jessie Young
Jessie Young is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, performer and teacher originally from Port Angeles, WA.
Shenny De Los Angeles
Shenny De Los Angeles is a Dominican-American interdisciplinary performance artist. Shenny strives to tell…
Yo-Yo Lin
Yo-Yo Lin (she/ they) is a Taiwanese-American interdisciplinary artist who explores the possibilities for…
AIR Alumni 2019–2021
Johnnie Cruise Mercer
Johnnie Cruise Mercer (he/him), a 2022 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Award Recipient, and a 2021…
So + Bex
As participants of EMERGENYC, So and Bex’s first performance together was a part of a partnership with Art in Odd…
AIR Alumni 2018–2020
Antonio Ramos
Antonio Ramos was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where he trained in jazz, salsa, and African dance.
Ita Segev
Ita Segev makes performance, writes, performs, acts and does advocacy & community building work…
Nia Witherspoon
Nia Ostrow Witherspoon is a Black Queer theatre maker, vocalist and composer, and cultural worker…
AIR Alumni 2017–2019
Aya Ogawa
Aya Ogawa (they/them) is an award-winning Brooklyn-based playwright, director, performer and…
luciana achugar
luciana achugar is a Brooklyn-based choreographer from Uruguay who grew as an artist in close dialogue…
Maria Bauman
Maria Bauman is a “Bessie” award winning multi-disciplinary artist and community organizer.
AIR Alumni 2016–2018
Catherine Galasso
Catherine Galasso is an independent choreographer and director based in Brooklyn, NY.
Dan Fishback
Dan Fishback (he/him) is a playwright and performing songwriter, and has released several musical…
Mariana Valencia
Mariana Valencia (she/her) was born in Chicago amidst multicultural collaboration, went to college with a…
Tanisha Christie
Drawing on her many years of practical experience in the arts and facilitation fields, Tanisha Christie’s work…
AIR Alumni 2015–2017
Haruna Lee
Haruna Lee (they/them) is a Taiwanese/Japanese/American theater maker, screenwriter, educator and…
Perel
Perel is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is centered on disability and queerness as they relate to care…
Sage Ni’Ja Whitson
Creative Capital and Bessie Award-winner, gender nonconforming/astral transmogrifier, interdisciplinary artist…
Will Davis
Will Davis is a director and theatermaker focused on physically adventurous new and devised work.
AIR Alumni 2014–2016
Aurin Squire
Aurin Squire is an award-winning playwright, reporter, and multimedia artist. He is a two-time recipient of…
Daniel Carlton*
Based in Brooklyn and New Orleans, Daniel Carlton (he/him) facilitates creation of new performance work…
Paloma McGregor
Paloma McGregor, (Founder, Angela’s Pulse), she/her, is a Caribbean-born, New York-based choreographer…
AIR Alumni 2013–2015
Anna Sperber
Anna Sperber (she/her), is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer. Her work has been described…
Erin Markey
Erin Markey is a “hilariously sociopathic” (NYT) Brooklyn-based performer, musician and writer/creator of live…
Katy Pyle | The Ballez
Katy Pyle is a multimedia performance artist whose works explore transformation, queer failure, and…
Melanie Jones
Melanie Jones is a Canadian writer, performer, and producer based in Brooklyn.
AIR Alumni 2012–2014
Marjani Forté-Saunders
Marjani Forté-Saunders is a Mother, choreographer, performer, and organizer. She is a 2021 Dance…
nia love
Choreographer, dancer, installation artist, activist, mother, grandmother, warrior and educator…
AIR Alumni 2011–2013
Jillian Peña
illian Peña is a dance artist whose work seeks to make visible the confusion and desire between self and other…
Mariangela Lopez
Mariangela Lopez is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer from Caracas, Venezuela…
matthew paul olmos
matthew paul olmos (he/him) is a Mexican-American playwright who focuses on the creation of space for…
Morgan Gould
Morgan Gould is a writer/ director who has previously held staff positions at Playscripts, Inc., Lark Play…
AIR Alumni 2010–2012
Catharine Dill
Catharine Dill (she/her), creates and directs performances under the company name Exploding Moment…
Dan Fishback
Dan Fishback (he/him) is a playwright and performing songwriter, and has released several musical…
Levi Gonzalez
Levi Gonzalez is a dance artist and native Angeleno, who was based in New York City from 1998-2016…
Mina Nishimura
Mina Nishimura is a dance artist from Tokyo whose practice and research focus on ever-changing relationships…
AIR Alumni 2008–2010
Abby Browde
Abigail Browde is a theater artist working with Michael Silverstone under the name 600 HIGHWAYMEN…
Jennie Mary Tai Liu
Grand Lady Dance House is the hostname for performance and video projects directed and…
luciana achugar
luciana achugar is a Brooklyn-based choreographer from Uruguay who grew as an artist in close dialogue…
Victoria Libertore
Victoria Libertore is a performer, writer, actress, improv artist, curator, emcee and teacher…
AIR Alumni 2007–2009
Andrew Dinwiddie
Andrew Dinwiddie is the Acting Director of Times Square Arts (TSQ.org/Arts), the public art program of the…
Sam Kim
In 1991 Kim moved to NYC to attend Barnard College, Columbia University where she earned a B.A. in…
AIR Alumni 2006–2008
Barak adé Soleil
Barak adé Soleil (he/they) has been part of the contemporary art scene since 1991. A progressive artist…
Young Jean Lee
Young Jean Lee is a writer, director, filmmaker, and experimental playwright. She has written and…
AIR Alumni 2005–2007
Faye Driscoll
Faye Driscoll is a Bessie Award-winning performance maker who has been hailed as a “startlingly original…
Shannon Hummel
Shannon Hummel is a choreographer, arts educator and Founding Artistic Director of Cora Dance…
AIR Alumni 2004–2006
Fernando Maneca
Fernando Maneca is an experienced designer, art director, arts administrator, and marketing…
AIR Alumni 2003–2005
Melissa Briggs
Melissa Briggs is a choreographer and dance educator with over 25 years of experience, in New York City…
Nami Yamamato
Nami Yamamoto (she/her), from Matsuyama, Japan, holds an MA in Dance Education from NYU…
AIR Alumni 2002–2004
Imani Henry
Imani Keith Henry, MSW, MPA, is an Activist, Diversity Trainer, Writer, and Performer…
AIR Alumni 2001–2004
José Joaquín García
José Joaquín García—director, composer, actor, singer, writer—is the Artistic Director of Rubí Theater…
AIR Alumni 2001–2003
Christalyn Wright
Christalyn Wright-Hampton is a casting director and producer who has been in the entertainment field in…
Charles Dennis
Charles Dennis is an award winning interdisciplinary artist, director/producer, video cameraman/editor…
AIR Alumni 2000–2002
Ivan Talijancic
IVAN TALIJANCIC is a director and cultural producer working at the intersection of theater, film, dance…
Donna Uchizono
Donna Uchizono is the Artistic Director of Donna Uchizono Company, a New York-based company…
Audrey Kindred
Riffing on her last name, Kindred is inspired by kinship. Born in Ethiopia, and having traveled widely, she has culled a deep…
Judith Sloan
Judith Sloan is an actor, audio artist, writer, radio producer, human rights activist, educator and poet…
AIR Alumni 1998–2000
Yasuko Yokoshi
Yasuko Yokoshi is a choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker. Her work entwines cultures and personal insights…
Peggy Peloquin
During Peggy’s time at LREI as dance, life skills and yoga teacher , she has coached the step team, created…
AIR Alumni 1995–1998
Martha Bowers
Martha Bowers focuses on the use of the performing arts for social change. She has taught at numerous…
Dean Moss
Dean Moss is an interdisciplinary choreographer and video artist who makes work investigating perception…
AIR Alumni 1993–1995 (Inaugural Cohort)
george emilio sánchez
george emilio sánchez is a writer, performance artist and social justice activist…
Reggie Wilson
Reggie Wilson (Executive and Artistic Director, Choreographer, Performer) founded Fist & Heel…