Gregory Barnett is a performing and visual artist based in Los Angeles.  He has worked and collaborated with Meg Wolfe, Cid Pearlman, Hana van der Kolk, String Theory, and others.  In 2006, Gregory founded DANCEGOOD.DAMNIT!!, an interdisciplinary performing experiment based in universal acceptance and lowbrow ideals.  DGDI creates entertainingly adversarial work for theatres, bars, and galleries.  As a visual artist, Gregory is currently completing a series of quilted “Penis Monster” dolls as well as a coloring book inspired by dysfunctional love letters.

Harmony Bench recently received her PhD in Culture and Performance from the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU as well as a BA in Women’s Studies and a BFA in Ballet from the University of Utah. As both dancer and scholar, Harmony divides her time between dancing, writing, and teaching. Her dissertation, entitled Choreographing Bodies in Dance-Media, considers the ways in which dances created for screen reconceptualize dancing bodies and choreography. She is beginning a new research project that includes mobile media, video games, and social media as sites for choreographic inquiry and analysis. As a performer, Harmony is interested in creating new gestural vocabularies and exploring structures for generating and organizing movement. She has danced for and toured with choreographer Cid Pearlman in Small Variations (2005–2007), for which Harmony was a Horton Award nominee, choreographer Hana van der Kolk in Still Point (2007, 2009), and Rebecca Pappas in Monster (2007–2009). She is currently an adjunct instructor at Chapman University. You can follow her on Twitter, if you do that kind of thing.

Megan May Daalder is a recent graduate from UCLA’s Design|Media Arts program, exploring the sociological implications of new technologies through performative videos, writing, documentary filmmaking, and by any other means necessary. She tends to interfere in business as usual to explore alternate modes of operation and is, among other things, currently finishing a full-length documentary about the “internet generation” for Dutch Television at the Los Angeles based production company American Scenes Inc.

Christopher Kuhl is a lighting and scenic designer based out of Los Angeles, CA and Portland, OR. Currently he is one of the resident assistant designers at Center Theater Group and was also the resident lighting designer at REDCAT for the 2006-2008 seasons. His recent work includes lighting design for Eclipsed, Next Stop Amazingland (Center Theater Group); Under Polaris (REDCAT); Monster (Pappas and Dancers); A Guide to an Exhibitionist, Laundromatinee, My Beowulf, C’Opera receiving a Horton Award nomination (Collage Dance Theater); Model Behavior, Monster of Happiness receiving an Ovation Award nomination (Theater Movement Bazaar); Wasteland Arrival (Oni Dance); Everyone, Undine, Dos Pueblos, Project X at the Bumbershoot Festival (Hand to Mouth Theater). Associate Design for Mycenean (BAM Next Wave Festival) and Drums of the Waves of Horikawa (Theater of the Two-Headed Calf). He has also assisted regionally at Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center Stage, the Kirk Douglas Theater, South Coast Rep, and the Geffen Playhouse. Chris is originally from New Mexico and a graduate of CalArts.

Jane Pickett’s plays have been performed in New York at CSV, The Williamsburg Arts Nexus, The Bushwick Starr, Tom Noonan’s Paradise Factory, as well as in The Redcat NOW Festival and The Philadelphia and Edinburgh International Fringe Festivals. Jane received her MFA in Playwriting from California Institute of The Arts. CalArts produced her play That Untravelled World in 2008, directed by Phil Soltanoff.  Jane directed and produced her play Someone in Florida Loves Me at Tom Nonan’s Paradise Factory this past June.

Justin Streichman is an actor, performing artist, and dancer.  He is primarily interested in original work that is collaborative, interdisciplinary, and experimental in nature. Justin has performed in theater, dance, and solo performance throughout Los Angeles, having performed in the works of Hana van der Kolk, Emily Mast, Sara Wookey, and Rebecca Pappas.  He is currently working on original performance projects with Hana van der Kolk, Patrick Kennelly, Gregory Barnett, and Audrey Malone. Justin has studied acting with Sandra Caruso, Gregory Berger-Sobeck, Karen Hensel, Michelle Gossett, Donna Pescow, and Timothy Landfield, and has trained with Mabou Mines, Double Edge Theater (Ashfiled, MA), Eiko & Koma, Simone Forti, Paula Weston Solano, and Cont Mhlanga. He holds a BA from UCLA’s World Arts and Cultures Department, and an AA in acting from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood, CA.