HERE has been a premier arts organization in NYC and a leader in the field of new, hybrid performance work since 1993. Under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Kristin Marting and Producing Director Kim Whitener, HERE has served over 12,000 emerging to mid-career artists developing work that does not fit a conventional programming agenda. Work presented at HERE has garnered 14 OBIE awards, including the 2009 Ross Wetzsteon Award, an OBIE grant for artistic achievement, five Drama Desk nominations, four NY Innovative Theatre Awards, an Edwin Booth Award and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. HERE proudly supports artists at all stages in their careers through full productions, artist residency programs, festivals and subsidized performance and rehearsal space. Work at HERE is curated based on the strength and uniqueness of the artist’s vision.  HERE’s Artist Residency Program (HARP) provides development, commissions and full production for 15-18 artists over one-to-three years. HERE is located at 145 Sixth Avenue, one block below Spring Street. For more info, http://visit www.here.org.

Tanya Selvaratnam is a producer and theater artist based in New York City and Cambridge, MA. She began her career in 1995 working with organizations committed to international, youth, and cultural causes, including the Ms. Foundation, NGO Forum on Women, World Health Organization, Groundswell Community Mural Project, and the Third Wave Foundation. In 1999, Tanya began producing movies with Jed Weintrob’s On_Line, which premiered at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals. She has produced seven films, including most recently Chiara Clemente’s Our City Dreams and Catherine Gund’s What’s On Your Plate?. As a performer, Tanya has toured around the world with The Wooster Group, The Builders Association, and numerous shows directed by husband Jay Scheib. She has also appeared in film and video projects by Zoe Beloff, Candice Breitz, Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Jennifer Reeves, and Carrie Mae Weems. Tanya received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Chinese Legal History from Harvard University.

contact: tanya@here.org

Karina Mangu-Ward attended Columbia University’s MFA program in Theater Management and Producing (Class of 2008), focusing on the intersection of internet culture and live arts. She worked in commercial theater with producers Carole Shorenstein-Hays and Liz McCann before joining the staff of HERE Arts Center as General Manager, now Associate Producer in January 2008. As an independent manager/producer, Karina has collaborated with a variety of artists and companies including 13 Playwrights Inc. (General Manager 2006-2009), Theater of the Two-Headed Calf (Executive Producer, Room for Cream: The Live Lesbian Soap Opera, LaMaMa ETC), the TEAM (365 Days/365 Plays & Board Treasurer), and Lear deBessonnet (Producer, St. Joan of the Stockyards, PS122). In addition, Karina has worked as a documentary video editor for Downtown Community Television and produced shorts for a number of other non-profit organizations. She also produces and directs the web series “Gay’s Anatomy,” www.gays-anatomy.com. Karina is a 2005 Harvard graduate.

contact: karina@here.org

Chiara Clemente (Director) is a film director whose work revolves around questions of identity, cultural contrast and the creative process. Her affinity for art can be traced back to her childhood, tiptoeing around her father's paintings. In 2000 she directed her first art documentary for Rai Sat Art Channel in Italy. Chiara continued to film and collaborate with artists, and in 2005, shortly after moving back to New York, she began work on her first feature documentary, Our City Dreams. Over the course of two years, she followed five women artists: Nancy Spero, Marina Abromovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer, and Swoon, all of whom live and work in New York City. The film opened at Film Forum in February 2009 and has since played in 30 cities around the world as well as on the Sundance Channel. In 2008, Chiara directed a short film Curiosity for Saatchi and Saatchi and another, Remembering Sprouse, for T Magazine. She is currently living in New York and developing a series for the Sundance Channel, while she also develops her first narrative feature.

Editor: Russ Greene

Original Music: Reggie Watts

Camera: Miklos Buk, Theo Stanley

Sound Mixer: David Pruger, Michael Reilly, Christopher Reifeiss

Assistant Editor: Cat Tyc, Kelly Bray

Production Interns: Debby Brand, Brian Bauman

Art Direction & Design
Open
New York, NY

Design & Production
Rich Watts
Brooklyn, NY