September 6-9, 2012 at The Bushwick Starr
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Director: Katy Pyle
Choreography and Performance: Katy Pyle and Jules Skloot
Costumes: Katy Pyle
ROYGBIV(the band): Margot Bassett, Daniel Burnam, Erica Livingston, and Katie Workum
Text: Francis Rabkin
Lighting Design: Carrie Wood
Set Design: Katy Pyle and Daniel Burnam
Stage Manager: Audrey Lowry
ARTIST BIOS
Katy Pyle is a multimedia performance artist
whose works explore make-believe, fantasy,
transformation, and queer failure. Katy has created
collaborative works in many forms: as asubtout
(with Eleanor Hullihan), JERK (with Jillian Peña,
Eleanor Hullihan, and Rebecca Brooks), Dirty Power
(with Weena Pauly and Katie Workum), and
currently with Jules Skloot. Her performance works
have been presented at Brooklyn Arts Exchange,
Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, PS 122, La
Mama, Dance Theater Workshop, Movement
Research at the Judson Church, and many other
venues in the city. She has been in collaborative
creative/performance processes with Ivy Baldwin,
Faye Driscoll, John Jasperse, Karinne Keithley Syers,
Jennifer Monson, Young Jean Lee, Anna Sperber
and Katie Workum. She has received creative
support from Danspace Project at St. Mark's
Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Dragon's
Egg in Mystic, CT, and the Rockbridge Artist's
Exchange in Lexington, VA.
Jules Skloot is a dancer, performance maker, and
teacher based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Once upon a time
Jules received a BA from Hampshire College and an
MFA in dance from Sarah Lawrence College. In
addition to collaborating with and performing in
the works of Katy Pyle, Jules performs with Sara
Rudner, and has also performed in the works of niv
acosta, devynn emory, Peggy Gould and Fritha
Pengelly. Jules teaches creative movement and
choreography at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)
and at the Brooklyn Friends School, and is assistant
director of an arts and social justice focused
summer camp for young people in Northern
Virginia every summer.
Francis Rabkin is a writer interested in
collaborative live events, i.e. play-like things. F.R.
studied poetry at Wesleyan University. F.R. has
written and directed the plays The Downtown
Train, The Tragic Fall of the Blind Tightrope Walker,
The Magic Lantern, Collecting Dust: A Play in Verse,
and is currently working on a new play, Yay!
Synchronicity in the Universe. F.R. founded the
Backyard Theater Company in Chicago, and
produced four summers’ worth of low-budget
magical plays in backyards. F.R.’s work has been
seen on a farm, in a Philadelphia warehouse,
backyards, and once or twice in theaters. As a
performer, F.R. has danced as a butch prince in
Katy Pyle’s ballez, The Firebird, and played a bit of
dust in Casey Llewellyn’s The Quiet Way. F.R. has
had the pleasure of attending residencies at
Naropa University, The Wassaic Project, and the
Millay Colony. Francis is thrilled to be collaborating
across disciplines with Katy Pyle and Jules Skoot.
Erica Livingston makes theater in NYC. Most
recently she developed and appeared in the Drama
Desk Award nominated show, “The Complete and
Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill Vol
1: Early Plays/Lost Plays.”Her work has appeared at
The Public Theater, St Ann’s Warehouse, Barrow
Street, Abrons Art Center, Here Arts Center,
Bushwick Starr, Theater for the New City, Dixon
Place, CATCH! Performance Series, The Brick
Theater and Ars Nova. She was a member of the St.
Ann’s Warehouse Puppet Lab (2010-2011.) She was
a co-artistic director of The New York Neo-Futurists
(2006-2011.) Awards include: Café Cino Fellowship
Award, Village Voice Reader’s Poll for Best
Performance Artists, People of the Year
(nytheater.com), Drama Desk nomination for
Unique Theatrical Experience and Best
Performance Art Production Nominee (NYIT.) She is
a proud mother and dog owner.
Margot Bassett is a vocalist, mover, and
performance-maker based in Brooklyn, NY. She has
collaborated and/or performed with Meredith
Monk (BAM), devynn emory/beast productions
(New York Live Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange,
Abrons Art Center, Parish Hall, LAB Space, Mascher
Space, Bodega), Daria Faïn (Danspace, DTW,
Governor’s Island, The LAB Gallery), Abigail Levine
(CPR), Deborah Black (Judson Church, The Tank),
Marisa Michelson (Signature Theatre DC, York
Theatre), Magic Names vocal ensemble (Issue
Project Room), & Eliza Ladd (Berkshire Fringe), and
she sings with Cantori New York. Margot received
her MFA in Contemporary Performance from
Naropa University, and has also studied at The
Juilliard School and the European American Musical
Alliance in Paris.
Katie Workum played alto saxophone in junior high
band and she is thrilled to return to her native
horn for Katy. You wont believe it after you hear
her tonight but Katie works primarily as a
choreographer and performer. She has made
numerous evening length works, most recently
Fruitlands for The Chocolate Factory this spring.
She has danced for Ivy Baldwin, Young Jean Lee
and more wonderful peeps. When not jamming
with the band or making dances Katie spends her
time playing with her two daughters, and thinking
about maybe going running.
Carrie Wood (Lighting designer): Select design
credits include: Luciana Achugar:
FEELingpleasuresatisfactioncelebration-holyFORM
(Abrons Art Center), Katie Workum: Fruitlands (The
Chocolate Factory), TARGET::furnace (The
Chocolate Factory), Walter Dundervill: Asthetic
Destiny 1: Candy Mountain (Dance Theatre
Workshop), Melanie Maar: Spaces & Bones (The
Chocolate Factory). Landscape with the Fall of
Icarus (Abrons Art Center), Walter Dundervill: Dear
Emissary (The Chocolate Factory), Reggie Wilson/
Andreya Ouamba: The Good Dance (BAM), The
Sarah Michelson: Dover Beach (The Kitchen), Sonya
and Layla go Camping (The Kitchen), Daniel Charon:
Conduit (Joyce Soho), Helen Simoneau (Joyce
Soho), VIA Dance: Lullaby in Surrealism (Ailey
Citigroup Theatre), A Dream Play (St Ann’s
Warehouse), Ivy Baldwin: Could be nice (La
Mama).Carrie is a graduate of the North Carolina
School of the Arts.
THANK YOUs
Thank you to Jules for showing up, listening, being
challenged, challenging, and for your magical
performance. Thank you Francis for pondering and
questioning, wondering, watching and writing.
Thank you Erica for being willing to go out on a
limb and back to your piano playing roots. Thank
you Katie and Margot for your incredible talents
and willingness to play. Thank you Danny for going
the long haul, for carrying and supporting this set
and me while I tried to reinvent the wheel, and
banging on a bucket!. Thank you Carrie for your
dedication, clarity and beautiful design.
Thank you to Noel and Sue and the whole staff at
The Bushwick Starr for propelling me and believing
in me! And for the use of this incredible space
alongside the gift of your continual care and
support. Thank you to Eileen Casterline, Linwood
Young, and Viola Glick for helping to make the set
and lights a reality, with great spirits and energy.
Thank you to Matt Pokoik and Aynsley
Vandenbroucke of Mt Tremper Arts for giving me
an incredibly beautiful residency space to gestate.
And thank you to Rebecca Brooks and Nancy Saylor
of Rockbridge Artist Exchange for the Goshen Pass
residency that started this whole project!
Thank you to Andrew Dinwiddie, Faye Driscoll,
Cassie Mey, Sacha Yanow, Christy Pessagno, Jess
Barbagallo, and Rebecca Brooks for giving
important feedback.
Thank you Hedia Maron for being my love and my
constant support, alongside the best cat babies in
the world, Beatrix and Pruin.
Thank YOU for coming to this show and supporting
live performance, and ME! I am profoundly grateful
for your attention. Tell your friends and share the
love!
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OUR STAFF
SUE KESSLER - Executive Director, Founder
NOEL JOSEPH ALLAIN - Artistic Director, Founder
JAY MAURY - Technical Director, Resident Designer
MARK SITKO - Associate Artistic Director
MARIA PORTMAN KELLY - General Manager
WILLIAM BURKE - Operations Manager
JOHN BUDGE - Box Office Manager
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Brenda Davis
Missy Flower
Matthew Harrison
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Charlie Veprek
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