Meet The Team
DIRECTOR
MARION SCHOEVAERT
Marion has been developing her own style of physical theater for 25 years in New York, Seoul and France. She has directed, produced more than 20 theater shows, operas and shadow plays, blending dance-theater, rhythmic text and live music.
She the Artistic Director of NYC In Parentheses Company.
For the young public, she has worked in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic for 10 years with shadow-theater (Androcles and the Lion, Tortoise and the Hare) and 30 other concerts with illustrations and narration. At Florence Gould theater, the Marriage de Figaro.
In Seoul, a Pansori opera the Rabbit and the Tortoise at the Sea Palace, The Ant and the Grasshopper, the Bear and the Bee at Hi Seoul Festival.
In France, The Great Black Panther, a story with shadow theater, Indian music and dance.
She was a teacher of theater, writing, and Act French at the Upward Bound Program at City College, and experimental theater at the Korean National University of Art.
LEAD ANIMATOR
KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOBIN
After Effects Animator 2001-present (motion graphics, compositing, VFX)
Broadcast and film Design, animation and graphic credits include: The Collector, dir. Jeff Folmsbee (HBO); Saint Misbehavin’ dir. Michelle Esrick (Showtime); Pixar Story dir. Leslie Iwerks; Oprah’s Roots, an African American Lives Special, Kunhardt Productions.
Video installations for the National Civil Rights Museum, the Morgan Library, the Basketball Hall of Fame, and the Newseum.
Also live event projections and animated infographics.
Paper and Object theater includes 2019 Hulk and Fleet, w-i-p at Object Movement Fest; Bolshevik Re-enactment of the Storming of the Winter Palace October 1917, Target Margin Theater 0,2012: Last Futurist Lab at the Bushwick Starr, Toy Theater Fest, St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Education: Yale University, BA
COMPOSER
PABLO MAYOR
One of the contemporary voices of Colombia, Cali-born pianist, composer, and arranger Pablo Mayor has toured with his Folklore Urbano orchestra throughout the USA, Canada, and Colombia, and recorded three albums.
His current production-El Barrio Project-brings together his experience in Latin American styles with the renowned Afro-Cuban charanga band Orquesta Broadway.
He was commissioned by Arturo O’Farrill, and his music recorded on his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s Grammy-award winning album “Offense of the Drum,” his arrangements recorded by Colombian folkloric singer Totó la Momposina.
With choreographer Daniel Fetecua and theater producer German Jamarillo, he was recently awarded a prestigious Culpeper Arts and Culture grant (2020).
He has worked with Carnegie Hall, 92Y, the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, PAMAR, is currently a Paul Simon Music Teaching Fellow, and is the founder of the 15-year old annual Colombian music festival Encuentro NYC.
2020 Folklore Urbano, album, “El Barrio Project,” making musical connections with NYC’s diverse neighborhoods through the traditions and stories of its immigrants. 2019 Pablo Mayor wins Arts Alive artist grant for creation of new work! Pablo Mayor
ART DIRECTOR
ANNA KIRALY
Anna is a visual artist, set and video designer.
Her collaborations include set design with the Pig Iron Theatre Company, set and video for the Talking Band, set design for WALK ACROSS AMERICA (with Taylor Mac/The Talking Band). Other productions include set for Lehigh University, set/video for S. Fogarty at Barnard College and J. Randich at 59E59, installation design for N. Canuso Dance Company, set for Pearl/D’Amour at PS 122/COIL, costumes for KAFKA FRAGMENTS (P. Sellars).
She is a recipient of the Arts Link Grant, the NEA/TCG Program for Designers and the TCG New Generations (with the Talking Band). Her "noir" multimedia pieces THE QUAKE (at Ideal Glass), SLOW ASCENT and UFO (St. Ann’s Warehouse) won the Jim Henson Foundation’s support. Anna has collaborated with universities and colleges such as Barnard/Columbia, Fordham, The New School, Smith, Monclair and Lehigh and designed for opera productions (AOP, Hungarian Opera, Zankell Hall) and concerts (YPC/ New York Philharmonic). In her time away from theater Anna enjoys exploring and drawing impossible spacial geometry. http://www.annakiraly.com/
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
IRINA PATKANIAN
PLAYWRIGHT
CARLOS JOSÉ REYES POSADA
Born in Bogotá; March 12, 1941.
Reyes is a playwright, screenwriter, researcher and theater theorist, considered one of the founders of modern theater in Colombia with Santiago García or Enrique Buenaventura.
He has had several public positions such as Director of the National Library. Winner of the 2008 Life and Work Award from the Ministry of Culture.
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