Chimera. Deborah Stein

      CHIMERA

      STEIN | HOLUM PROJECTS (SHP) is the ongoing creative partnership of playwright Deborah Stein and performer Suli Holum. Drawing on over a decade of experience in both experimental and regional theatre, SHP works with a core group of designers to create a unique hybrid of the highly visual and dexterously verbal; interdisciplinary physical theater with complex and nuanced characters. Chimera was developed with a HARP residency and premiered in 2012 at HERE as part of Under the Radar, where it was a NY Times Critics’ Pick and nominated for a Drama Desk Award. The Wholehearted premiered at ArtsEmerson in April 2014 and our next, Movers + Shakers, has been workshopped at New Dramatists and Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor.

       Stephen Arnold – Associate Lighting Designer

      Stephen’s lighting style reflects a provocative movement in sculptural lighting. His work strives to build a cohesive visual environment, amplifying the overt, and subtle intentions associated with each collaboration’s unique arc and vision. With a degree in Theatre Lighting Design from Columbia College Chicago, his work spans the genres of live performing arts. Stephen has worked on collaborations with a diversity of artists and companies including Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Robert Ashely, Maya Beiser, Rennie Harris, Ralph Lemon, Ibrahim Quarishi, Norscq, Mike Ladd, Vijay Iyer, Pamela Z, Atalee Judy, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Mabou Mines and Theatreworks USA. His work has been presented in festivals including Under The Radar, The Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, Springdance, Kontracom, Venice Bienalle, BAM’s Next Wave, Dance Chicago, and Festival Internacional Música y Escena, and in 27 countries around the world.

       Ed Borgnis – Production Manager for Jamie Hendry Productions

      Jamie Hendry Productions are leading West End theatrical producers and managers. Recent Production Management includes: Neville’s Island (Duke of York’s); Let It Be (Garrick); Uncle Vanya (St James’); Far Away (Young Vic); Once a Catholic (Tricycle); The Empty Quarter (Hampstead). For more information, visit www.jhpuk.com

       Kate Freer – Video Designer

      Kate is a multimedia designer working in live performance, film, and installation. Her work has been seen in venues across the United States and Internationally. Her recent credits include: designed the acclaimed Stuck Elevator directed by Chay Yew for ACT San Francisco and Healing Wars for Arena Stage (Washington DC) created by Liz Lerman in collaboration with Bill Pullman. Frequent collaborators include Liz Lerman, Kamillah Forbes, Andrew Scoville, and Tamilla Woodard. Her background in film and computer science combine to generate work that is not only aesthetically beautiful but pushes the boundaries on conventional theatrical video. Kate is a founding member of Imaginary Media.

       Suli Holum – Performer/Co-Director

      Suli is an award-winning theatre maker based in Brooklyn, NY. She was a co-founder of Pig Iron Theatre Company, developing original work between 1995 and 2006 including Shut Eye with legendary director Joseph Chaikin. Her text for Gentlemen Volunteers was recently published in Pig Iron: 3 Plays (53rd Street Press). She received a Barrymore for the choreography of PITC’s wordless Cafeteria, a Drama Desk Award for her role in Lebensraum off-Broadway and a Helen Hayes nomination for her turn as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday at Arena Stage. Her first solo show, The Lollipop Project, was developed through an Independence Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship and a Shell Fellowship in Drama from the National Institute of Education, Singapore. She was awarded a TCG/Fox Resident Actor Fellowship to support the development of Chimera, a second solo show conceived and created with Deborah Stein through a HARP residency at HERE. Chimera premiered as part of the Under the Radar Festival, earned Holum a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance, and launched Stein | Holum Projects. As Co-Artistic Directors of SHP, Holum and Stein are committed to the development of original work through intensive training, experimentation, and research, and to the ensemble devising model which encourages long-term, multi-project relationships with designers and performers. Holum’s work outside of SHP has been supported by The Orchard Project and the MacDowell Colony, and commissioned and produced by Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, the National Constitution Center, the Visionary Voices Project at Temple University, and RedCape