BAX Artist in Residence (AIR) Alumni

Johnnie Cruise MercerArtist in Residence (2019-2020)Recently acknowledged as a 2021 Princess Grace Award Recipent in Choreography, Johnnie Cruise Mercer is a queer black thinker, maker, performer, educator and social entrepreneur born in Richmond, VA and based in New...

Antonio RamosArtist in Residence (2018-2020)Antonio Ramos was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where he trained in jazz, salsa, and African dance. He later received a B.F.A. in Dance from SUNY Purchase. Antonio began his career performing with Ballet Theatre of Puerto...

Ita SegevArtist in Residence (2018-2020)Ita Segev makes performance, writes, performs, acts and does advocacy & community building work, mainly around the intersection of her personal and sociopolitical contexts as an anti-Zionist Israeli trans woman. Ita was a...

Nia WitherspoonArtist in Residence (2018-2020)Nia Ostrow Witherspoon is a Black Queer theatre maker, vocalist and composer, and cultural worker investigating the metaphysics of Black liberation, desire, and diaspora. Described as “especially fascinating” by Backstage...

Aya OgawaArtist in Residence (2017-2019)Aya Ogawa is a Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based playwright, director, performer and translator whose work reflects an international viewpoint and utilizes the stage as a space for exploring cultural identity and the immigrant...

Maria BaumanArtist in Residence (2017-2019) Maria Bauman is a “Bessie” award winning multi-disciplinary artist and community organizer. She is a 2021 Redtail Artist in Residence and BRIClab residency winner. Recently she was a 2020 Columbia College Dance Center...

luciana achugarArtist in Residence (2009-2010, 2017-2019) luciana achugar is a Brooklyn-based choreographer from Uruguay who grew as an artist in close dialogue with the NY and Uruguayan contemporary dance communities. She has been making work in NYC and Uruguay...

Catherine GalassoArtist in Residence (2016-2018)Catherine Galasso is an independent choreographer and director based in Brooklyn, NY. Galasso is the daughter of internationally acclaimed composer Michael Galasso. She holds a European Baccalaureate in Painting from the...

Mariana ValenciaArtist in Residence (2016-2018)Choreographer and performer Mariana Valencia, is an LMCC Extended Life grantee (2020), a Whitney Biennial artist (2019), a Bessie Award recipient for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer (2018), a Foundation for...

Tanisha ChristieArtist in Residence (2016-2018)Drawing on her many years of practical experience in the arts and facilitation fields, Tanisha Christie’s work is focused on health/mental health, individual, families and couples; arts-based interventions; addiction...

Haruna LeeArtist in Residence (2015-2017)Haruna Lee is an award-winning Taiwanese-Japanese-American theater maker, educator, and community steward whose work is rooted in a liberation-based healing practice. Their plays are often portals into personal and collective...

PerelArtist in Residence (2015-2017)Perel is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is centered on disability and queerness as they relate to care, consent, power, and sexuality. They are a Mertz-Gilmore AIR at Movement Research (2018-2020), which supported the work,...

Sage Ni'Ja WhitsonArtist in Residence (2015-2017)Creative Capital and Bessie Award-winner, gender nonconforming/astral transmogrifier, interdisciplinary artist and writer, Sage Ni’Ja Whitson, has been referred to as “majestic” and “magnetic” by The New York Times and...

Will DavisArtist in Residence (2015-2016)Will Davis is a director and theatermaker focused on physically adventurous new and devised work. Will has developed, directed and performed his work with New York Theatre Workshop and the 2050 Fellowship, Clubbed Thumb, The...

Aurin SquireArtist in Residence (2014-2016)Aurin Squire is an award-winning playwright, reporter, and multimedia artist. He is a two-time recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize from Lincoln Center and has received residencies at the Royal Court Theatre in London, Ars...

Paloma McGregorArtist in Residence (2014-2016) Paloma McGregor (Director, Angela's Pulse/Dancing While Black) is a Caribbean-born, New York-based choreographer, and winner of a 2017 New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for Performance with Skeleton...

Erin MarkeyArtist in Residence (2013-2015)Erin Markey is a “hilariously sociopathic” (NYT) Brooklyn based performer, musician and writer/creator of live performance works. Markey frequently plays Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. Their shows have toured nationally and...

Katy PyleArtist in Residence (2013-2015)Katy Pyle is a multimedia performance artist whose works explore transformation, queer failure, and the lineage of performance. Pyle began studying ballet as a child, becoming an apprentice with Austin Contemporary Ballet at 14,...

Melanie JonesArtist in Residence (2013-2015)Melanie Jones is a Canadian writer, performer, and producer based in Brooklyn. Jones has created full-length theatre and performance works, including CANADIANS ARE MEAN, In You (And You?), ENDURE: A Run Woman Show,...

Anna SperberArtist in Residence (2013-2014)Anna Sperber is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer. Her work has been described by The New York Times as “immediately compelling” and “wonderfully strange” with “moments of theatrical magic.” Her performances are...

Marjani Forté-SaundersArtist in Residence (2012-2014)Marjani Forté-Saunders is a Mother, choreographer, performer, and organizer. She is a 2021 Dance Magazine Harkness Awardee, a 2020 recipient of the Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grants for Artists Award, and a 2...

nia loveArtist in Residence (2012-2014)BAX Artist Advisor (2016-present)nia love. Choreographer, dancer, installation artist, activist, mother, grandmother, warrior and educator, continues to expand and destabilize conversations on intersectionality, transnationalism,...

Max SteeleArtist in Residence (2012-2013)Max Steele is a performer and writer based in Brooklyn. He has presented work at the New Museum, Deitch Projects, BAM, Joe’s Pub, La MaMa, Envoy Enterprises, PPOW Gallery, The Afterglow Festival in Provincetown, and the Queens...

Jess BarbagalloArtist in Residence (2012-2013)Jess Barbagallo is a writer and performer and has performed with Big Dance Theater (The Other Here), Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf (Panic, Drum of the Waves of Horikawa, It Cannot Be Called Our Mother But Our Graves) and...

RoseAnne SpradlinArtist in Residence (2012-2013)RoseAnne Spradlin, the 2017-2019 Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, is an award-winning, New York City-based experimental artist whose choreographic works explore the body and its...

Mariangela LopezArtist in Residence (2011-2013) Mariangela Lopez is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer from Caracas, Venezuela. Her work has been presented in Australia, Mexico, France, Boston and multiple venues in New York City, including Williamsburg Art...

Morgan GouldArtist in Residence (2010-2012)Morgan Gould is a writer/ director who has previously held staff positions at Playscripts, Inc., Lark Play Development Center, Cape Cod Theatre Project, and Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, where Morgan co-created UNTITLED...

Matthew Paul OlmosArtist in Residence (2010-2012)Matthew Paul Olmos is originally from Los Angeles. He is a three-time Sundance Institute Fellowship/Residency recipient, Humana Festival of New Plays Commissioned Playwright, New Dramatists Resident Playwright, Center...

Catherine DillArtist in Residence (2010-2012)Space Grantee (2007, 2009)Catharine Dill is a theater artist working under the company name Exploding Moment. She has produced and directed six projects as Exploding Moment--Date:Time, What I Like About Breasts, Can I Help...

Dan FishbackArtist in Residence (2010-2012), Doris Duke AIR (2016-2018)Dan Fishback is a playwright and performing songwriter in the band Cheese On Bread. He founded The Helix Queer Performance Network in 2013, and directed its programming through 2020. Fishback’s...

Levi GonzalezArtist in Residence (2010-2012)Gonzalez is a dance artist and native Angeleno, who was based in New York City from 1998-2016, and is currently on faculty at Bennington College in Vermont. He collaborates regularly with luciana achugar, and has performed...

Mina NishimuraArtist in Residence (2010-2011)Nishimura is a dance artist from Tokyo whose practice and research focus on ever-changing relationships between internal landscapes and external forms, as well as images and movements. Buddhism-influenced and Butoh-based...

Jenny Tai Mary LiuArtist in Residence (2009-2010) Grand Lady Dance House is the hostname for performance and video projects directed and choreographed by Jennie Liu with a close, evolving group of artist collaborators. Since 2005 their work has been been presented at...

Abby BrowdeArtist in Residence (2008-2010)BAX Artist Advisor (2016-Present) Abigail Browde is a theater artist working with Michael Silverstone under the name 600 HIGHWAYMEN. 600 HIGHWAYMEN has been called the “the standard-bearers of contemporary theater-making” by...

Victoria LibertoreArtist in Residence (2008-2010)VICTORIA LIBERTORE is a performer, writer, actress, improv artist,  curator, emcee and teacher. She is the creator of eight solo shows: "Camille: The Forgotten Artist", "stalk(her)", "The Should Dream", "My Journey of...

Sam KimArtist in Residence (2007-2009)In 1991 Kim moved to NYC to attend Barnard College, Columbia University where she earned a B.A. in English summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1995.  Kim began making dances at 19.  She has been committed to the dance form ever...

Andrew DinwiddieArtist in Residence (2007-2008)Andrew Dinwiddie is the Acting Director of Times Square Arts (TSQ.org/Arts), the public art program of the Times Square Alliance. Andrew has been a co-curator/producer of the OBIE-winning CATCH Performance Series since...

Young Jean LeeArtist in Residence (2006-2008)Young Jean Lee is a writer, director, filmmaker, and experimental playwright. She has written and directed many shows in New York as the artistic director of her nonprofit Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, and toured her...

Faye DriscollArtist in Residence (2005-2007)Faye Driscoll is a Bessie Award-winning performance maker who has been hailed as a “startlingly original talent” (Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times) and “a postmillenium postmodern wild woman” (Deborah Jowitt, The Village...

Shannon HummelArtist in Residence (2005-2007)Shannon Hummel is a choreographer, arts educator and Founding Artistic Director of Cora Dance. Driven to create access to the arts for all people, she opened the Cora Dance Studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn in 2009 as a home for...

Allison FarrowArtist in Residence (2004-2006)Profile in progress!

Fernando ManecaArtist in Residence (2004-2006)Fernando Maneca is an experienced designer, art director, arts administrator, and marketing & communications professional. Maneca was formerly the Marketing & Communications Director at BAX | Brooklyn Arts...

Melissa BriggsSpace Grant (2001-2002)Artist in Residence (2003-2005)Melissa Briggs is a choreographer and dance educator with over 25 years of experience, in New York City, across New England, and in New Mexico. Melissa’s choreography has been presented at venues...

Nami YamamotoArtist in Residence (2003-2005)Parent Artist Space Grant (2012/2013)Nami Yamamoto, from Matsuyama, Japan, holds an MA in Dance Education from New York University and a BA in Physical Education from Ehime University. Her work has been funded by Creative...

Imani HenryArtist in Residence (2002-2004)Imani Keith Henry, MSW, MPA, is an Activist, Diversity Trainer, Writer, and Performer. Since 1993, Imani Henry has been a Staff Organizer at The International Action Center (IAC) working nationally on social justice issues...

Charles DennisArtist in Residence (2001-2003)Charles Dennis is an award winning interdisciplinary artist, director/producer, video cameraman/editor, teaching artist and proprietor of Charles Dennis Productions, a company that produces and distributes digital media...

Christalyn WrightArtist in Residence (2000-2002)Christalyn Wright-Hampton is a casting director and producer who has been in the entertainment field in many capacities for a couple of decades. She has cast several series including, Cutting It In the ATL,...

Judith SloanArtist in Residence (2000-2002)Judith Sloan is an actor, audio artist, writer, radio producer, human rights activist, educator and poet whose work combines humor, pathos and a love of the absurd. For over twenty years, Sloan has been producing and...

Audrey Kindred Artist in Residence (2000-2001) Riffing on her last name, Kindred is inspired by kinship. Born in Ethiopia, and having traveled widely, she has culled a deep commitment to her educational and creative role in the Human Family, and is inspired by the...

Donna Uchizono Artist in Residence (2000-2001)Donna Uchizono is the Artistic Director of Donna Uchizono Company, a New York-based company established in 1990.  Since her choreographic debut in 1990, Uchizono rapidly emerged from the “downtown scene” as a choreographer...

Ivan Talijancic Artist in Residence (2000-2001)IVAN TALIJANCIC is a director and cultural producer working at the intersection of theater, film, dance, performance, music, installation art and new media, in New York City and around the globe. Born in the former...

Peggy Peloquin Artist in Residence (1998-2000)During Peggy's time at LREI as dance, life skills and yoga teacher , she has coached the step team, created and run several choreographers workshops, and collaborated with her students on over 100 choreographic works....

Yasuko Yokoshi Artist in Residence (1998-2000) Yasuko Yokoshi is a choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker. Her work entwines cultures and personal insights to create radical performances through the melding of dance, video and storytelling as layered contemporary...

Martha Bowers Artist in Residence (1995-1998)Martha Bowers focuses on the use of the performing arts for social change. She has taught at numerous colleges and universities, is the recipient of Chancellor Rudolf Crew's Caring Community Award for work with recently...