The Lost Notebook

FULLY IN THE FOLD
roster of artists/organizations who have received
producing, curatorial, dramaturgical and/or development support

Banana Bag & Bodice - www.bananabagandbodice.org
Banana Bag & Bodice (BB&B) was founded in 1999 by artistic compatriots Jason Craig and Jessica Jelliffe.  The BBB ensemble is driven by theatrical revolution, rejuvenation and reclamation as well as a grandiose but heartfelt mission to redefine and revitalize the traditional notion of performance through original texts and music.  BB&B creates compelling, visceral, whimsical experiences that provoke and inspire our live audiences.  Known for intricate, intimate and complex design elements, sound and costume, their shows often result passionate and outlandish “theater experiences”.  BB&B has produced 8 shows since 1999 in New York and San Francisco as well as Montreal, Canada and Dublin, Ireland.  They have won multiple Best of awards from the San Francisco and Dublin Fringe Festivals.

Object Collection - www.objectcollection.us
Object Collection was founded in 2004 by director/writer/designer Kara Feely and composer Travis Just as a collaborative theater/music performance group solidly rooted in the experimental tradition. Drawing on their broad and varied collective experience in experimental performance, Object Collection constructs their hybrid performances using an extremely focused palette of live sound and found text. Based in Brooklyn, New York, the group presents its projects at home and abroad.

The Paper Industry- www.thepaperindustry.com
Jamie Peterson - Creator/Director
Formed in 2006, The Paper Industry is a New York based theater company that aims to create theatrical works that place emphasis on the visceral understanding and experience of the audience. Its mission is to produce all original works using original scores. By sponsoring events from both music and theater, it expands the definitions and boundaries of experimental theater and music and by doing so becomes a culturally inclusive, community-oriented theater.

Tarmac - www.tarmactransmissions.com
A temporary vitalist installation (with sounds, images, stones, whispers, papers, letters, clothing, particles: details of a detail).

The Prelude Festival - www.preludenyc.org
Prelude is a festival and symposium celebrating and discussing the very best of new and unconventional theatre being created by NYC-based theatre artists and companies. The festival features short performances, readings, and open rehearsals with a focus on works-in-progress for the upcoming season and beyond and gives audiences the rare chance to see the work of NYC’s most distinctive contemporary theatre under one roof. Experience the in-progress work of the city’s most exciting, unconventional theatre – with all performances followed by talkbacks with artists.

 

LOOSE LEAVES
roster of artists whose work the Lost Notebook has supported in some way either through producorial advising, benefit committee membership, general promoting or has curated in the past and would whole-heartedly recommend to anyone looking for new artists or collaborators:

13P - www.13p.org
13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.) was formed in 2003 by 13 midcareer playwrights concerned about what the trend of endless readings and new play development programs is doing to the texture and ambition of new American plays. 13P realizes full productions of new plays. The resources of the company are placed at the disposal of the playwright at work, who serves as the company's artistic director during the production of her play.

31 Down - www.31down.org
31 Down creates audio-based performance work with a heavy emphasis on imagery and mood. There is an invested use of new technologies and interactive systems to create and control the performances; all of the works are automated and controlled by the performers on stage.

Kevin Augustine - www.lonewolftribe.com
Lone Wolf Tribe is a puppet theatre ensemble creating visceral and challenging multidisciplinary work since 1997. Tribe productions are virtuosic, psychologically dark and brutally poetic. Deceptively simple (using elegant theatrical minimalism) or rigorously complex
(employing aerial puppetry sequences), the common denominator is Artistic Director, Kevin Augustine and his foam rubber puppets. Acting in the plays he writes while animating the puppets he makes, Augustine and friends explore the terrifying edges of existence and creation--while touching the heart...and breaking it sometimes.

Theresa Buchheister - titlepointproductions
Theresa Buchheister is a peformer/writer/director and co-founder of Title:Point Productions. Her work evolves from collaboration, experimentation and exhaustion. She gravitates towards theater with with magic, music, interactive design, pirates, audience awareness and physical challenges (among other things).

Mallory Catlett - website
Mallory Catlett is a freelance director & dramaturg. Her work has been seen at The Ontological, 3LD, the Collapsable Hole, HERE, the Culture Project, New York Theatre Workshop, the Public, Women’s Interart, Chashama, SUNY Purchase & Bard College and funded by NY State Council for the Humanities, NYSCA, The Hamber Foundation, ArtsFact, the Puffin Foundation, Abrons Art Center, Chashama, LMCC, British Columbia Arts Council, & the Canada Council for the Arts. New York City Company affiliations include: The Juggeranut Theatre Company, Banana Bag & Bodice, Restless NYC and the 2005-06 Soho Rep Writers/Directors Lab.

Company SoGoNo - www.sogono.org
Under the artistic direction of Tanya Calamoneri, Company SoGoNo employs an innovative movement vocabulary that draws from contemporary dance-theater, Ruth Zaporah’s Action Theater, and Japanese Butoh dance. Movement ranges from wild and boldly expressive to quiet and intricate. The characters are typically archetypal, referencing fairytales and dream symbolism. The mood of the work is often surreal and darkly humorous.

G. Lucas Crane - www.unicornsounds.com
G Lucas Crane mixes tapes and broken forgotten sound.

The Debate Society - www.thedebatesociety.org
The Debate Society is a Brooklyn, NY based company that creates new plays through the collaboration of Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler. This development of new work relies on the writing and adaptation of actors Ms. Bos and Mr. Thureen combined with the rehearsal experimentation and direction of Mr. Butler.
Debate Society Shows & Touring information - tour

Andrew Dinwiddie - www.catchseries.org
Andrew Dinwiddie's choreography has been performed at Galapagos, P.S. 122, St. Anne's Warehouse, Ur, BAX, the Chocolate Factory, the Club at LaMama, Downstairs at the Ontological, the Red Humor Salon, Minneapolis' Bryant-Lake Bowl and WAX at University Settlement. He is a 2007-2008 Resident Artist at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, where he is making The Accursed Items, which will premiere at the Ontological Theater in September 2008. With Jeff Larson, he co-curates Catch, a bimonthly performance series that will destroy your mind with short works by emerging artists and downtown luminaries.

Alec Duffy - www.hoipolloiworld.com
Duffy is Artistic Director of Hoi Polloi, a New York-based theater company that combines music, theater and dance to create pieces that reflect on how we find fellowship in a world of increasing alienation. Hoi Polloi's "Dysphoria" was performed to critical acclaim at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in summer 2007. Duffy's play "The Top Ten People of the Millennium Sing Their Favorite Schubert Lieder" was selected for publication in "Best Plays & Playwrights 2006", edited by Martin Denton, and was presented at the Bank Street Theater in New York, and at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. He is a Drama League Directing Fellow, and was recently one of seven directors nationwide to be selected for the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors.

D UNDERBELLY - www.dunderbelly.com
D UNDERBELLY derives its name from the ?underbelly? of a slave ship; excavating the energy that surfaces from the depths of our cultural experiences. D UNDERBELLY is a performative forum for exploring the multi-layered dimensions of culture as it relates to societal notions of "blackness". An underground network of independent artists of color invested in interdisciplinary experimentation through the excavation of 'new work' and communal exchange, D UNDERBELLY acts as a catalyst for shifting perceptions; demystifying racism and recognizing the underlying contributions Africans have made to this new world culture.

Nellie Fleischner - no site
Nellie makes custom-made (or bought) props and costumes. She is also a skilled artist, useful if you need drawings/paintings for announcements, invitations, posters, web-sites, advertisements, props or sets. She does not have a website but has photos of work that she can send if you are interested.

Richard Foreman's The Bridge Project - www.bridgefilm.com
Established by Richard Foreman and Sophie Haviland in 2004, the Bridge Project promotes international art exchange between countries around the world through workshops, symposiums, theater productions, visual art, performance and multimedia events.  The Bridge Project is a world-wide network of institutions, professional artists and students.  Through international workshops and other art-making events the Bridge Project explores avenues for creative and cultural exchange across borders.

Nick Golebiewski - www.foedesigns.com/nick/
Nick Golebiewski is a Media Artist working in Shadow Puppetry, Super 8, Video, and Protest Fashion based in Brooklyn NY.  He showed his Star Wars Story at the Ontological Theater as part of our Tiny Theater festival in 2006.  It was spectacular.

Ezekiel Honig - www.virb.com/ezekielhonig
Ezekiel Honig concentrates on emotively warm, and largely minimal, music. While referencing elements of techno, house, dub and ambient, he imbues his fragile compositions with acoustic sensibilities and deconstructed found sounds. In addition to producing music, he runs the Anticipate and Microcosm labels.

Travis Just - www.objectcollection.us
Composer and performer Travis Just comes from a background of improvisation and experimental performance. His work often uses texts, gesture and unconventional technologies in addition to instruments and electronics.

Peter Ksander -
Peter Ksander is a theater artist working primarily as a designer and design concentrated dramaturg.  He is a founding member of both TENT(www.pbdgroup.com) and Tiny Elephant.  And has continuing artistic relationships with Banana Bag and Bodice, the Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, Jay Scheib and the Compagnia de Colombari.  He is a resident artist at the Ontological Hysteric Theater where he serves as technical director and one of the curators for the Ontological Incubator.  The primary focus of his design work are the properties of and interactions between time, space, and history.  

John Moran + Saori - johnmoranandsaori
John Moran has generally been considered the protege of composer Philip Glass, having been discovered by Mr. Glass at a young age.  The New York Times has aptly described Saori as, "...a performer of astonishing ability and precision." Beginning in 2005, their collaborative series of theatrical self-portraits (under the name, 'John Moran...and his neighbor, Saori') have been presented at a host of venues internationally.Moran's works are unusual, in that performers are generally considered to be mimes, performing (silently) against a detailed, pre-recorded soundtrack. Subtle gestures and timings are composed (in the soundtrack) as a work of music beforehand. Often, performers are responding to something around 300 sound-cues per minute. This technique creates a work that is difficult to classify; a unique blending of music, choreography and theater as a single gesture.

Stephen Mosblech - asbestosproject.blogspot.com
Stephen Mosblech founded the Asbestos Project to examine the beautiful, crippled bodies of ourselves we amputate by performing everyday living. He is a Brooklyn/Copenhagen based writer, director, designer. Play-style occurs in corpsed minimalism.

Brian Osborn - Heat Retention Records
Percussionist Brian Osborne is an active performer of improvised music, and has been organizing and participating in DIY music events throughout the US and in Europe for over 13 years. Brian's current projects include George Steeltoe Ensemble, Paper Legs, DOSDEDOS, and Blastocyst.

Sally Oswald - www.papertheatre.org
Sally is a playwright and also a co-editor of Paper Theater.  Paper Theatre publishes daring new plays, performance texts, and ephemera including Play A Journal of Plays, Postcard Plays, and DEVICE, our newest effort - an internet theatre collection. The Editors started Play A Journal of Plays in 2002 to expand the notion of what a play can be and to create more opportunities for innovative theater artists. Forty contributors, eight postcards, three print volumes, two parties, and one online gallery later we're still publishing the most exciting work we can find, in addition to working out in the world ourselves as playwrights. Up next: making a home for digital media with our new online gallery DEVICE.

Proto-type Theater - proto-type.org
Proto-type Theater is a company of multi-disciplinary artists interested in live performance. Creating original works that are diverse in scale, subject and medium, Proto-type is currently exploring the relationship between sight and sound, the virtuoso performer, and the role of the spectator in performance. Proto-type’s work is demanding and intricately crafted to create experiences for a diverse audience of intelligent, modern humans.

Radiohole - www.radiohole.com
"The history of Radiohole is as rich as their shows themselves , dating back more than a thousand years. The first Radiohole shows were said to have come from the Horn of Africa on the shores of the Red Sea. Originally, Radiohole was taken as a food and not as theater....."

Brendan Regimbal - Creator/Director

Ric Royer - www.ricroyer.com
Ric Royer is a writer of performances and performer of writings. He wants to talk to you, spin lies both mordant and morbid, and sing songs of hope and disaster. Sometimes he will whisper into your trusting ear, sometimes he will scream in your face. Ric tours regularly as a performance lecturer for the Performance Thanatology Research Society, a group of performing scholars dedicated to the advancement of higher histrionics since 1999. He is also an organizing member of the Transmodern Festival, an annual performance festival that takes place in Baltimore.

David Silverstein - www.anotherpointlessproduction.com
(Writer, photographer, participant) David Silverstein is fascinated by the collusion and collision of patterns, both man-made and natural - and is particularily obsessed with dendrites in all forms: oaks, rivers, capillaries, mountain ranges, collaborations, galaxy clusters, fractured glass, etc. He says repetition creates identity. He wrote this.
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Temporary Distortion - www.temporarydistortion.com
Since its inception in 2002 Temporary Distortion has earned a reputation for pushing the boundaries of theater by staging unsettling, meditative performances in claustrophobic, boxlike structures. Featuring minimal physical movement and a uniquely restrained acting style, these four-dimensional theatrical installations bridge the gap between performance and visual art.

Tiny Elephant
a collaborative project led by designers/technical artists Peter Ksander and Miranda Hardy

Jonathan Zalben - www.jonathanzalben.com
Jonathan Zalben (composer/musician/installation/film artist) explores the intersection between interactive art and music composition. Bringing live instruments and recorded sound into a space, Zalben designs pieces where the audience is the performer and the creator is the architect. Zalben received a BA in Music from Yale University, an MA in music composition and multimedia from New York University, and has also studied violin and music composition at Juilliard Pre-College.