COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS

 

EPHEMERA opened in NYC June 22 - 25

Created by Sophia Treanor and Deborah Black in collaboration with Mary Overlie and live musician contributed by Adam Gundersheimer, Ephemera wass being presented by the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theater (MAD) at the Stella Adler Center for the Arts.

In a final co-creation between living artists Sophia Treanor and Deborah Black with their late collaborator Mary Overlie, Ephemera is a dance theater performance that explores entropy and the emergence of difference in our universe. Prompted by Overlie's directions and her last choreographic drawing, the two choreographers study the webs of artistic lineage within a molecular dance. Amidst a forest of sequined cook’s aprons and caps, vacuums, microwaves, and clowns, Ephemera makes visible the invisible. The logic and illogic of life’s beginnings are made material by explosions of movement and sound, expansion, contraction, symmetry, asymmetry, and popcorn, to ultimately ask: Is this all there is?



Ephemera, drawn by Mary Overlie. After drawing these two floor patterns, she requested that it be transformed into a dance. This piece is where that request has led us.

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THE HAROLD CLURMAN CENTER FOR NEW WORKS IN MOVEMENT AND DANCE THEATER PRESENTS:

EPHEMERA

CREATED BY SOPHIA TREANOR AND DEBORAH BLACK IN COLLABORATION WITH MARY OVERLIE

Thing 1 and Thing 2: SOPHIA TREANOR AND DEBORAH BLACK

Music by: ADAM GUNDERSHEIMER

The Particalists:

JOANNE EDELMANN, OUMOU TRAORE, MARTIKAH WILLIAMS, MAIA VIRGIL, SYDNEY EKANAYAKE-LIN, ANNIE SMOCK, DEVIN JOYNER, YOULIM NAM, SUSANNAH WILSON, AMANDA LINDAMOOD, JADEN SINGH, ROGER ELLIS, FLOOR GROOTENHUIS, ASSIA TURQUIER, MASHA ZHAK, NATALIE DJONDO, CLAUDIA CONTE BUENROSTRO, JAYLEN TAYLOR, LESLIE RODRÍGUEZ, STEPHANIE JACCO, LILA LIVINGSTON, ANNI BAUMANN, MAXIMILIAN JOHNSSON, LEJING LIU, REBECCA LLOYD-JONES, XINYI ZHANG, ALISON QUIN, HRABAN LUYAT, BRIAN YEUN, STEPH MCISAAC, AND ORIANA MEJER

Costume Design DEBORAH BLACK + SOPHIA TREANOR

Costume Construction DEBORAH BLACK

Lighting Design LIBBY J’VERA

Production Assistant NATALIE DJONDO

Lightboard Operator JULES ATTEBERRY

Technical Support EMMA HENRY, WANGECHI WARUI, RODRIGO REICHARDT ROIG

A NOTE FROM THE ARTISTS:

This postmodern work is in the debt of the intertextuality of Africanist aesthetics and Eastern practices. Moreover, we couldn’t have made this work if it weren’t for the lineage of artists and scientists that have come before us. There are quotes inside this work that include moments of perceptual practices of Deborah Hay and compositional wrecking of Susan Rethorst, Anne
Teresa de Keersmaeker’s Fase, costume inventions of Rei Kawakubo, Carlos Castaneda’s concept of the nagual as described in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope 2022 images of the Carina Nebula and the Southern Ring Nebula, Sara Fresard’s research on parasites at the Jayne Raper Lab, Mary Overlie’s dances Hero, The Figure, Summer Garden, and archival footage of Mary’s early studio practice. Mary asked Sophia and Deborah to create a dance from three different drawings shortly before she passed in 2020, and this is the result.

Ephemera is made possible by the generous support of the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Artist in Residency program (MADAIR), the Mary Overlie Legacy Project, and our sponsors.

Created in loving memory of Mary Overlie, and in gratitude for the continuing adventures she set us off on.

- Deborah Black + Sophia Treanor

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR COLLABORATORS AND SUPPORTERS WHO MADE THIS WORK POSSIBLE:

Joan Evans, Tom Oppenheim, Nina Capelli, Libby J’Vera, Wendell Beavers, Paul Langland, Erika Berland, Nina Martin, Sara Fresard, the Jayne Raper Lab at Hunter College, Bill Bowers, Kai Kozlowski, Rachel Smith, V Haddad, Emily Sprague, Nicolas Noreña, Timothy Scott, Hannah Gross, Maya Jocelyn, Janet May, Youlim Nam, Nicole Lehrman, Jef Van Gestel, Simone Tetrault, Bryan Turley, Matt Trucano, Marianne D’Amore, Michael Treanor, Liv Saether, Janice Orlandi, Doug & Peggy Black, Maya & Ryan Kelley, Martha Burns, Judy & Bill Kelley, JC & Nancy Hotchkiss, Amber Herzog Lyman, Movement Research, Kathryn Fox, Susan Oetgen, Caitlyn Ference-Saunders,  Catherine Fitzmaurice, Shangbin Xie, and the DeWeese Family.

MAD MISSION STATEMENT

The Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theater (aka MAD) endeavors to produce vital and visceral work that responds to our world and has meaning for our lives. MAD offers developmental Space Grants and Residencies that culminate in performances in one of our black box theaters or studios. MAD supports artists at all stages of their careers, and is dedicated to fostering original work.

MAD ADMINISTRATORS

Joan Evans, Artistic Director
Sophia Treanor, Artist in Residence (MAD AIR) Coordinator

SPACE GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

The Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theater (aka MAD) offers space grants and residencies to guest artists and faculty for the creation of new movement and dance theater work.

To apply for a space grant or residency, please contact MAD@stellaadler.com for application guidelines.

PRODUCTION STAFF:

MAD BOARD OF ADVISORS

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Margie Gillis, Bill T. Jones, Yoshi Oida, Alexandra Wells

MAD FOUNDING MEMBERS

Steve Cook, Joan Evans, Joanne Edelmann, Steffany George

Artistic Director TOM OPPENHEIM
Supervising Producer J. STEVEN WHITE
Director of Cultural Programming NINA CAPELLI Director of Marketing RYAN CHITTAPHONG
Director of Development ADAM GERBER Production Manager LIBBY J’VERA
Graphic Designer CASEY MORRIS

MAD ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

2019 Insects in Heat by Dawn Saito
2017 The Asylum Project by Elizabeth Mozer
2016 Johnny Got His Gun by Bill Bowers
2015 Scotty by Faye Simpson
2014 Scotty by Faye Simpson
2013 Is It Already Dusk? by Joan Evans and Harry Rubeck (off-Broadway)
2012 A workshop production of Is It Already Dusk? by Joan Evans and Harry Rubeck 2011 A Series of Questions by Shannon Gillen and Sherri Kronfeld
2011 A showing by Margie Gillis
2011 Me Michelle: A Duet by Michelle Mola
2011 A Crack in Everything by zoe | juniper
2010 A showing by Margie Gillis
2010 I-dem or Same/Different Theme #1 by Alanna Kraaijeveld and Arianna Bardesono 2010 Decade at a Glance by Joan Evans
2010 Point of Suspension by Amber Lee Parker
2010 A Beautiful Mess by Lauren Marie Albert and Adam Barruch
2010 hardwearsoftdrive by Josh Rowe
2009 Les plaisirs, avec ou sans by Lauren Albert, Adam Barruch and Sebastien Forgues* 2009 While We Were Waiting by Kate Hilliard
2009 Decade at a Glance by Joan Evans
2009 A Long Walk Home by Lauren Albert
2008 WinterSource by Steve Cook
2008 Grieving to Light by Margie GIllis
2008 Koferi by Nelly van Bommel
2008 My Beautiful Grunt by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
2008 The Point of Saturation by Dorian Nuskind Osker with Regina Gibson*
2008 1-2-1-2 by Kyle Abraham
2008 Conductivity by Sidra Bell
2008 A showing by Margie Gillis
2008 Chimeras by Sidra Bell
2008 Chanson de Rolande and Recombination by Andrea Miller
2007 Devout created by Steve Cook
2007 The Brutes by Kate Hilliard and Corinne Donly*
2007 Naked Product by Brock Labrenz
2007 MAN and Untitled by Gelan Lambert Jr.
2006 New Contemporary Works & Works in Progress by Sidra Bell
2006 Baby Carriage Opera by Joan Evans
2005 CatchReflect by Steve Cook
2005 9/11, 9/12, 9/13, etc. by Stanley Love and Stanley Love Performance Group 2005 Glorious Blame and Crazy Way to Fall by Motley Dance Theatre

EPHEMERA ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

MARY OVERLIE was born January 15, 1946 in Terry, Montana; conceived Movement Research, a cooperative dance organization of international renown; founded Danspace Project with Barbara Dilley, a dance presenting organization in New York City; first teacher hired to establish the Experimental Theatre Wing at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University; a choreographer and performer with an international reputation in the field of experimental dance, for many years teaching and performing as a part of theInternational Tanz Wochen working with Ismael Ivo and Karl Regensburger in Vienna.

THE SIX VIEWPOINTS was her child and it has done a unique thing in the world of theater and performance philosophy; it has a quiet and infectious ability to represent itself without her. She joined those who worked to elevate theater. Her leveling of the creative hierarchy by focusing on the materials has conceptually and practically innovated the performance worlds of both theater and dance.

SOPHIA TREANOR is a director, performer, and educator. She worked with Mary Overlie as a student, teaching assistant, performer, and close companion throughout the United States, Europe, and China from 2011 until Overlie’s death in June of 2020. Sophia served as a primary reader for the Viewpoints book, Standing in Space: The Six Viewpoints Theory and Practice. She is currently co-directing a documentary about Mary Overlie (www. overliefilm.com), teaching the Viewpoints internationally along with the Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique, and is a faculty member of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Sophia’s live performance work has been seen in private and public spaces, theaters, and galleries across New York City, including Danspace Project, the Living Theater, the Center for Performance Research, CAVE, Triskelion Arts, and Dixon Place.

DEBORAH BLACK is a dance and theater artist, writer, and educator. She has performed in the work of Deborah Hay, Mary Overlie, and Susan Rethorst. While living in Rotterdam from 2013-16, she created and toured with the Tuning People (BE) and Ymist Company (NO). Her choreography has been presented in New York at the TANK, Judson Church, Roulette, Joyce SoHo, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Dixon Place, AUNTS and in Germany at the Lucky Trimmer Tanz Performance Serie and ArToll. Deborah taught physical theater and dance at the Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Tilburg. She taught guest and master classes at Goldsmiths University London, NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing, Drama Studio London, Ohio University, as well as private workshops in New York City and all across Europe.

ADAM GUNDERSHEIMER is a cinematographer, filmmaker, and musician. Adam graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2011 with a concentration in cinematography. He has been the cinematographer on over one hundred short films, music videos, documentaries, and commercial projects. He has filmed commercial work for Nike, The New York Times, J. Crew, and other major brands. Adam’s short films have played at multiple prestigious film festivals (including SXSW, Telluride, Palm Springs) and his music videos (for bands such as Big Thief, Andy Shauf, Florist, Quinnie) have generated millions of views. He co-produced the feature length documentary Monkey Business about the creators of Curious George, and directed the short documentary Kay about a hard-of-hearing woman receiving a cochlear implant. Adam's goals as an artist are to empathize, work collaboratively, and amplify less heard voices.

JOAN EVANS (Artistic Director of MAD) has been creating, performing, and directing physical theater and dance work since 1975, when she premiered her signature solo, Dinner and the News. She won a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival, for the ensemble work Where Ravens Rule, a response to the war in Bosnia; an UNIMA Award for combining acting, dance and puppetry in Rico and Dolores; multiple National Endowment Fellowships in Theater and Choreography. She has performed her work in Brazil, Germany, Austria and Scotland and at such theaters as Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in CT, Performing Garage and Irondale in NYC, MoMing in Chicago and National Puppetry Festival at Bryn Mawr. She is Head of Movement at Stella Adler Studio where she teaches the physical acting technique she originated in the Conservatory and NYU/Adler Programs. She has also taught at Michael Howard Studios, National Shakespeare Conservatory, University of the South/ Sewanee, where she was a Tennessee Williams Fellow, Stage School in Hamburg, Germany, John Abbott College, Quebec, National Puppetry Festival at Bryn Mawr. and in her own teacher training workshops and Performance Salon in New York. She holds a BA Degree in philosophy from Wheaton College, Massachusetts, and an MFA in dance from NYU/Tisch. She studied with Viola Farber, Barbara Dilley, and David Gordon, appearing in the New York premiere of Gordon’s The Matter. She contributed a chapter to Wendy Perron’s recent book, Grand Union, Anarchists of Downtown Dance 1970-1976.

THE PARTICALIST ENSEMBLE

Natalie Djondo studied with Sophia Treanor for 2 years at the Stella Adler Studio where she was introduced to Mary Overlie's theories and practices. This Spring, Natalie made her TV debut in Wu-Tang:An American Saga (S3).In February, she appeared in Home Is Where the Fund Is, a play educating audiences about abortion access and Reproductive Justice in Post-Roe America (Elevate Theatre Company). And in the Fall 2022 she played Rhonda in the family drama Leaves, a 4 time nominated play at NY Theater Festival ( BSOU Repertory Theater Company). Natalie is represented by LS Talent Agency. www.nataliedjondo.com 

Oumou Eden Traore is a performance artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. She has performed in films with Elara Pictures, Amazon Prime and in playhouses throughout New York City such as Ars Nova and Dixon Place. In 2021, she was a recipient of NYFA’s New York City Artist Corps, through which she completed and screened a short documentary film Trust in Love. Her creative work is focused in compassionate inquiry and playful exploration of the nature of self. It is fueled by a yearning to understand the interconnectedness of all that is. She deeply feels life to be a journey towards total freedom and love to be an omnipresent energy through which desires flourish, spirits are rendered powerful, and all things are kept evolving.

Roger Ellis (they-them) is an intermedia artist-director whose work explores the space where the somatic and synthetic intertwine through the mixed-reality of black-queer-aspec experience. Recent work includes the docu-musical series Happy Songs About Unhappy Things (co-directed with Nikki Lynette), Get Out Alive (director - stage, film adaptation), and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (movement director - Horizon Theatre/Paramount Theatre Company). MFA San Diego State University; BA Oklahoma City University. Extended study with Fay Simpson, Stephen Wangh, Mary Overlie, Deborah Black, Sophia Treanor, Wendell Beavers, and Erika Berland. Ellis serves on the music theatre and MFA Acting faculty at Northwestern University. Web: rogerellis.com Instagram: @rogerellis   

Oriana Mejer is a Mexican actress and filmmaker. She recently graduated from Stella Adler's Evening Conservatory. You might've caught her playing Maddie in Pete McElligott's new play 'The Blood in The Walls', here at the Stella Adler Studio. She has traveled the world. From running around Chile – to touring Spain with her mother and gang of poets. In 2016, Oriana attended and played a part in a film featured at the Kochi Muziri’s Biennale Kerala, India. Inspired by who she grew up around, she now writes and produces her own ‘poem films’. Mostly collaborating with musicians, creating a new multimedia form to communicate political/emotional ideas.

Leslie Rodriguez is a Dominican actress and dancer, based in New York, Florida and Dominican Republic. Some of her latest projects include the final production of Stella Adler Studio of Acting “Self Defense or murder of some salesmen”, a small production “Men On Love”  and the Stella Adler Studio Rehearsal Project “Bluefish Cove”. As a dancer she was able to be part of some important events back in the DR such as “Premios Soberano” and “Edanco”. Movies are her passion, and she had the opportunity to participate in some local productions in her home country as “Que León” and “Sofia”

Jaylen Taylor is a first-year graduate student in New York University Steinhardt’s Dance Education program, pursuing a degree in Teaching Dance in the Professions: ABT Pedagogy. Mr. Taylor is a 2021 graduate of Thee Jackson State University where he received a Bachelors in Journalism and Media Studies with a concentration in Integrated Marketing. During his tenure at JSU he was a member of The JSU Cheer and Tumbling Squad, PRAM, Men of Excellence, Transfer Ambassador, Mr Debonair for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., also served as the president of the Delta Psi Chapter of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc. and the Secretary for the NPHC.  Mr. Taylor has performed in Italy and on world-renowned stages such as Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center. He is now A member of NYU’s Cheer Competition Team, a peer representative for SDEA at NYU, and actively representing for the Steinhardt Dance Program. Mr. Taylor believes that “There is no passion to be found playing small , in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” -Nelson Mandela 

Xinyi Zhang, a dancer, choreographer, and educator, originates from China. Graduating from Beijing Dance Academy in 2015 with a degree in performance, Xinyi is now a graduate student in the Dance Education program at New York University. With a diverse background in dance training encompassing both Eastern and Western systems, Xinyi Zhang skillfully employs movement as a language to communicate the essence of life. Her passion for dance resonates through her choreography, captivating audiences and inspiring others to embrace the profound artistry of movement.

Rebecca Lloyd-Jones is a performance creator using dance, voice, and videos. Her work explores the psychology and the fluidity of the self and complexity and contradictions of human relations. As a performer, she has worked with artists and companies such as Marianela Boan, Leah Stein Dance Company, Yelena Gluzman’s science project, Kilowatt dance theater, VOID Theater Company, Merian Soto, Abigail Levine, PISO Proyecto and many others, and has performed in various cities in United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and Puerto Rico. For more info, www.rebeccalloydjones.com

Susannah Wilson (she/they) is a NYC-based performer. Credits include: Pericles (Target Margin Theater); Aida (Metropolitan Opera); King Lear (Hamlet Isn’t Dead); Richard III, Macbeth (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co); Twelfth Night (Verdi Square Arts Festival); Both/And: A Quantum Physics Play (Catalyst Collaborative with MIT); Once a Blue Moon, Shahrazad (Double Edge Theatre); and the titular role in Richard III (Emerson Stage). Susannah spent a year training with New York’s SITI Company as a Conservatory Artist and holds a BA in Acting from Emerson College. 

Lejing Liu is a first-year graduate student in NYU Steinhardt’s Dance Education program, pursuing a degree in Teaching Dance Grades K-12 certification track. Lejing received a BA in Dance Science from Beijing Dance Academy. Her research and practice focuses on health and dance therapy for non-dancers and people with special needs, including a focus on dementia and autism from early childhood through college. Lejing’s training encompasses Contemporary Dance, Chinese Classical Dance, Modern Dance and Ballet. 

Youlim Nam is a Brooklyn-based actor and playwright, hailing from Seoul, Korea. Her experimental play ‘a connected place’ was both directed by Sophia Treanor in 2021 and Cady McClain, a three-time Emmy winner actress in 2023 as a staged reading on Off-off Broadway and at the Dramatists Guild, in which she also played the lead role. Pursuing her creative path in particalism has been expanding her artistic freedom, and she’s grateful to be part of this project. She’s a member of the dramatists guild, and an ensemble member of Axial Theatre. youlimnam.com 

Jaden Singh is from Toronto Canada, and is a rising junior at NYU Tisch Drama studying in the Experimental Theatre Wing. He is an actor singer and dancer who has had the absolute privilege of being in work ranging from staged plays and musicals to dance showcases, art installations and self scripted works. Most recently, he was in the company of the Tisch Drama Stage production of the Threepenny Opera. He is filled with gratitude and feels so lucky to explore this work and help bring it to life. Much love and appreciation. 

Floor Grootenhuis is a New York based Dutch-Kenyan artist currently in residence at the Jayne Raper Lab in the Hunter College Biology department  and a fellow with Social Practice CUNY. She has an MFA in Social Practice from Queens College, CUNY,  was a More Art fellow 2017 and in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program 2018/19. She received grants from the City Artist Corps of New York, the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, the Vilcek Foundation, and Queens Art Intervention. She exhibited at Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Museum, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Five Myles Gallery in New York, and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona. www.fgrasa.com

Alison Quin (AEA) is an actor, singer, and voice teacher. As a San Francisco transplant and recent graduate of The Stella Adler Conservatory. Holds her BM in Classical Voice Performance from SFSU. She is very excited to be in New York pursuing her life long dream. Regional theater credits can be found at www.alisonquinactor.com Instagram: @alison.quin.nyc 

Claudia Conte Buenrostro is a Mexican actress currently based in New York City. She has a B.A. in Audiovisual Media from the University of Baja California, in Mexico and recently graduated from the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.  Her latest T.V. and Film credits include the Netflix show Monarca and  Amazon Studio’s Un Papá Pirata. She is very excited to be back at the studio and being part of this team today!

Sydney Ekanayake-Lin is from Durham, NC, and trained in various dance styles at Encore Academy of Dance and UNCSA, including ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, lyrical, modern, and acrobatics. While an undergraduate student at NYU, she also began Ballroom and Latin dance. She has danced alongside companies such as Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE and KT Collective. Sydney is currently completing her MA in Dance Education at NYU. 

Hraban Luyat is a mover from Holland who moved to London and learned Grotowski, contemporary dance, and ballet. In New York he studied at the Stella Adler Studio and spends his time moving around dance clubs, when he is not moving apartments. He is a classically trained actor, co-founder of a New York theatre company called Pink Bullet Productions, and used to be a software developer, but he moved careers.

Lila Livingston is from Bozeman, Montana. She is a Master of Divinity student at Union Theological Seminary concentrating on Buddhism, interreligious engagement, and chaplaincy. She spends much of her time as a compost associate at the Lower East Side Ecology Center, stewarding food scrap drop off locations in Union Square and Tompkins Square Park. Lila approaches Mary Overlie’s Six Viewpoints as a practice of spiritual care, ecological attunement, and contemplative awareness. Lila lives in Flatbush with her partner, two dear friends, and cat Oscar.

Anne Marie Robson Smock is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, performer, and dance educator. She received her MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a MA in Dance Education from NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. Originally from Salt Lake City, she holds a BFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah. She is currently adjunct faculty at NYU Steinhardt, faculty for the youth program at Steps On Broadway and a Pilates instructor. @amrsdance

Brian Yeun is a New York based actor and recent graduate from Stella Adler’s Evening Conservatory.  Born in Korea and raised in Michigan, Brian is relatively new to the arts.  A former restaurant owner of 10 years, Brian began training at the Deb Aquila Studio right before the pandemic in Los Angeles.  An avid amateur athlete and self-proclaimed repressed Asian-American, Brian is interested in our individual “conditioning” and how we can create art even with our conditioned bodies.  He has studied with Sophia Treanor and Bill Bowers at the Conservatory and credits them in allowing him to explore storytelling through movement and no sound.

Devin Joyner is a performing artist from Virginia. She has spent her early career teaching dance theater in dentention centers in Chicago and helping youth explore the confidence building and transformation that comes with telling their stories. She is now a graduate Dance Education student at NYU who uses every chance she gets to share the heart of Christ by storytelling through movement.

Steph McIsaac (they/them) is a multidisciplinary dance artist and educator currently based between New York and Portland, Maine.

Assia Turquier-Zauberman is a contributor in several fields ranging from live art to anthropology and cinema. She works as an interpreter in film festivals and academic settings. She is currently doing graduate research negative theology, apophatic optics, lecture-performances and documentary fiction at NYU.  @ashhka / assia.t.zauberman@gmail.com

Martikah Williams is a multidimensional artist, a graduate of Stella Adler Studio of Acting, student and friend to Sophia Treanor. She is incredibly grateful for the opportunity to support Sophia and Deborah on their journey creating Ephemera and hopes all enjoy! IG: @martikahw, martikahwilliams.com

Juliana Atteberry enjoys working on both sides of the spotlight. For this show she is running lights but has experience with every aspect of putting on a show. Her theater credits include 'When We Where Young And Unafraid' as Mary Anne, 'V Is For Vitality' as Valicity and more, for TV she has been Betty Erikson for 'Bloom' and 'That Bitch'. She has formal training from Stella Adler and with Loyd Williamson and Steve Blum. You can learn more about her at Linktr.ee/DearJules.

Steph Jacco is an interdisciplinary artist who has her fingers in a number of different pies. A trained dancer and professional musician, she is interested in the intersections of dance, music and film, in particular super 8. She was based in Western Massachusetts for the past 12 years, surrounded by the Holyoke Mountain Range and meadows of the Connecticut River. Steph has been living in New York for the past 10 months, where she is pursuing a masters in dance education at NYU.