BIOGRAPHIES
MACHINE DAZZLE Costume Designer / Performer
Machine Dazzle ( né Matthew Flower ) moved to New York City in 1994 after attending The University of Colorado Boulder . Mixing odd jobs by day with art and dance clubs by night erupted in a unique lifestyle grounded in costume and performance art . Machine ’ s DIY and transgressive nature comes face to face with his conceptualist-as-artist identity ; the results can be seen on stages all over the world . Machine has worked with Taylor Mac , Justin Vivian Bond , Joey Arias , Julie Atlas Muz , Big Art Group , The Crystal Ark , The Dazzle Dancers , Pig Iron Theater , Stanley Love Performance Group and The Pixie Harlots , to name a few .
NIEGEL SMITH Co-Director
Niegel Smith is a theatre director and performance artist . Niegel is the Artistic Director of New York ’ s Obie Award-winning theatre The Flea ; Associate Artistic Director of Elastic City ; and ringleader of Willing Participant an artistic activist organization that whips up urgent poetic responses to crazy shit that happens . Niegel ’ s theatre work has been produced by The Alley Theatre , Classical Theatre of Harlem , The Flea Theatre , HERE Arts Center , Hip Hop Theatre Festival , The Invisible Dog , Luna Stage , Magic Theatre , Mixed Blood , New York Fringe Festival , New York Live Arts , Phoenix Theatre Ensemble , Playwrights Horizons , Pomegranate Arts , The Public Theatre , St . Ann ’ s Warehouse , Summer Play Festival , Todd Theatre and Under the Radar . Before surviving high school in Detroit , Niegel grew up in the North Carolina piedmont , fishing with his dad , shopping with his mom and inventing tall-tale fantasies with his two younger brothers .
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JOCELYN CLARKE Dramaturg
Jocelyn Clarke is currently Theatre Adviser to the Arts Council of Ireland and dramaturg at American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage in Washington , D . C . Jocelyn has taught dramaturgy at the John Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts , Columbia University and Trinity College Dublin . Jocelyn was the Commissioning and Literary Manager of the Abbey Theatre for four years and lead theatre critic with The Sunday Tribune for nine years . An associate artist with The Civilians and Theatre Mitu in New York , Jocelyn has written six plays for Anne Bogart and the SITI Company — Bob , Alice ’ s Adventures Underground , Room , Score , Antigone , and Trojan Women ( after Euripides ). Jocelyn is currently working on a new collaboration about composer and philosopher John Cage . Jocelyn ’ s libretto for new electronic opera by Roger Doyle about the philosopher Giordano Bruno , Heresy , premiered in Dublin in late 2016 .