konverj/directors
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CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Tiffany (she/her) is a New York-based Filipino dancer, choreographer, and ballet teacher, as well as a founding co-artistic director of konverjdans. Most recently, she has premiered her choreography at New York Live Arts, been awarded a Micro MAP Fund Grant, and been rehearsal assistant to Caili Quan for Quan’s choreographic debut at the New York City Ballet.
Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, Tiffany began her professional career with the Philippine Ballet Theatre when she was 15, and went on to become a principal dancer, performing the lead roles in full-length ballets like Swan Lake and David Campos-Cantero’s Carmina Burana, the Dew-Drop Fairy in Gelsey Kirkland and Michael Chernov’s The Nutcracker, and featured roles in the contemporary ballets of renowned Filipino choreographers like Enrico Labayen, Edna Vida, Tony Fabella, Gener Caringal, Ronilo Jaynario, Julie Borromeo, Felecitas Radaic, Alden Lugnasin (for Ballet Philippines), and many others. She moved to New York City in 2012 and spent four years performing with BalletNext under the directorship of former American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet principal dancers Michele Wiles and Charles Askegard, and helping to create original roles in ballets by choreographers like Mauro Bigonzetti, Katarzyna Kozielska, Peter Quanz, Brian Reeder, Tobin Eason, and Wiles.
She has since enjoyed a rich freelance career in NYC, performing as a dancer with The Metropolitan Opera as well as with contemporary and modern ballet companies such as Gabrielle Lamb’s Pigeonwing Dance, Gleich Dances, Indelible Dance, John Passafiume Dancers, Abanar, Emery LeCrone DANCE, Claudia Schreier & Company, Trainor Dance, Terra Firma Dance, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, and Brookoff Dance Repertory Company. She has performed on several prestigious New York stages, such as The Joyce Theater, New York Live Arts, BAM Fisher, The Metropolitan Opera, and others. She has performed in extended runs of Brendan Fernandes’ performance-installation work, including The Master and Form at The Whitney Museum of American Art; Contract and Release at The Noguchi Museum; Returning to Before at The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA; and many other works. She stars in Robin Cantrell’s film Triptych, which won Best Screendance Short at the 2022 IMDb Independent Shorts Awards.
Tiffany has choreographed several works for the stage and had her work performed at festivals like Battery Dance Festival, Periapsis Open Series, the Women in Dance Leadership Conference in NYC, and the Riverside Dance Festival in Vero Beach, Florida. Tiffany’s work was shown for two years in a row at Norte Maar’s CounterPointe festivals and been performed by Barnard College/Columbia University at New York Live Arts, by Columbia Repertory Ballet at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, by Woman in Motion Dance Co at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, and by Carolina Ballet at the North Carolina Museum of Art.
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CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Jordan (she/her) grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, training at pre-professional arts high school Project Ballet (formerly New American Youth Ballet) under the direction of Beth McLeish. In 2011, at the age of 16, Jordan moved to New York to train at the ultra-prestigious School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet. She trained closely with Suki Schorer, Susan Pilarre and Kay Mazzo, among others, and in 2013 was awarded the Mae L. Wein Award for Outstanding Promise and asked to join New York City Ballet as an apprentice. Jordan performed in several Balanchine classics such as Chaconne, Emeralds, Symphony in C, Swan Lake, Walpurgisnacht Ballet, Cortège Hongrois, Divertimento No. 15 (1st solo),and of course, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. At the conclusion of her apprenticeship in 2015, Jordan began working with BalletNext under the direction of former American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Michele Wiles before embarking on an enriching freelance career. As a freelance artist, Jordan has had the pleasure of dancing with a variety of companies and choreographers such as Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Gleich Dances, Indelible Dance, The Ashley Bouder Project, Claudia Schreier & Company, Cail Quan, Gabrielle Lamb, George Williamson, Stephanie Martinez, Alia Kache and Michelle Thompson Ulerich.
Since co-founding konverjdans with Mangulabnan and Saunder in 2016, Jordan has served as a co-director, choreographer and dancer for the company. Her first work for the company, Cetacean Shadow (2018), premiered on konverjdans’ first ever national tour to her hometown of Fort Wayne, IN. Jordan’s other works include Carve the Night Swells (2021), Windowsill (2020) and Ghost Warning (2021), with the latter two choreographed specifically for the unique challenges and perspectives of Zoom. Jordan has also choreographed and directed several dance films in close collaboration with filmmaker Sergio Carrasco, including When I Learned to Sing (2020), Falling Dreams (2021), and Windowsill (2020). She is currently in the process of directing her first full-length dance film, Motherland, in collaboration with Carrasco and Brooklyn-based musician Sean Cronin.
In addition to all of her artistic work, Jordan also has a passion for teaching and mentorship. Her teaching ethos combines “a classical dancer's keen awareness . . . a Pilates teacher's understanding of physical cause and effect, and a contemporary dance practitioner’s dedication to movement-based question-asking and decision-making” (J.L. Williams). Jordan is a certified Pilates instructor (Balanced Body and the Kane School of Core Integration) and has studied closely with renowned instructors Marimba Gold-Watts and Lesley Powell. She has taught both ballet and contemporary classes for institutions such as American Midwest Ballet, Riverside Theatre, The Launchpad, Fort Wayne Dance Collective, Project Ballet and New York Community Ballet.
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CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Amy (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based artist who was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe. She studied classical ballet at Baltimore School for the Arts and at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts under the tutelage of Ethan Stiefel. Upon graduating from high school she furthered her ballet studies with Charlotte Ballet and Richmond Ballet.
Amy began her professional career with The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, where she performed at The Kennedy Center in numerous George Balanchine works such as Valse Fantaisie, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Dances Concertantes, Divertimento no. 15, and Episodes. In 2014 she moved to New York City to work with Michele Wiles’s company BalletNext, where she performed soloist roles in work by Brian Reeder, Peter Quanz, and Wiles. Living in New York City, Amy was introduced to the rich freelance arts scene, and she started to work and travel around the United States as a freelance dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker. She has worked with companies such as Indelible Dance, Traverse City Dance Project, MorDance, Movement Headquarters, Gleich Dances, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, and Ballet Vero Beach, and has performed in the works of Brendan Fernandes in The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Noguchi Museum.
Since co-founding konverjdans with Miller and Mangulabnan in 2016, she has choreographed original new works for the company such as SHINE (2017), Quantum Entanglement (2019), and Picture Me Afloat (2021) and has had the pleasure of performing in brand new works by Gabrielle Lamb, Caili Quan, Ariel Grossman, Peter Cheng, Tiffany Mangulabnan, and Jordan Miller. Most recently she has collaborated with cinematographer Joe Raffanti on several short dance films, including Diagonally (2020), which was recently featured in Dance Magazine, Oceans Ago (2020), and Hurt a Little (2020). In 2021 she was commissioned by Battery Dance to work as Director of Photography for a new dance film by Robin Cantrell.
konverj/dancers
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DANCER
Antuan (he/him) is a dancer, model, creative entrepreneur, and arts organizer. Basing his multidisciplinary practice in Lenapehoking, Manhattan, New York, he is using movement as a catalyst for societal change. As a freelance dancer, he regularly works with distinguished institutions as a performer; however, he shares his time building communities, creating resources, and finding innovative avenues to support his community.
Performing extensively around the globe, he has gone on to perform with organizations such as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, Mark Morris Dance Group, the Washington National Opera Ballet, MorDance, and konverjdans. Antuan is currently dancing with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in a diverse repertory in principal and ensemble roles. His work has been witnessed by thousands worldwide through his numerous productions with The Met: Live in HD.
Antuan is the proud Founder and Creative Executive Officer of Black Dance Change Makers, a group of Black dancers redefining performance through choreographed movements of change. He is also the Vice President of the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), the Operations Director of Darkness RISING Project, serves on DanceNYC's Dance Workforce Resilience Taskforce, and is an Artist Advocate in Residence with New York for Culture and Arts.
In 2022, Antuan was named on Urban Arts Magazine's 2022 40 Under 40 List for his work as a dancer, activist, and leader.
Antuan is paving his own path, on a mission to create an equitable future for all creatives. As a dancer, innovator, and activist, he is using his craft to ignite the creative spark in new communities, ensuring that those behind him have the freedom and acceptance to achieve even their wildest dreams.
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DANCER
JoVonna (she/her) is a native of Philadelphia, where she began her intense formal training in Ballet, Horton and Graham techniques. She attended Ailey/Fordham under the direction of Ana Marie Forsythe and graduated with her BFA in dance in 2012. She has had the pleasure of working with and performing works by Camille A. Brown, Ronald K. Brown, Donald McKayle, Hofesh Shector, Robert Battle, Jill Echo and many others. JoVonna has also had the opportunity and pleasure to work with Ty Jones and The Classical Theatre of Harlem in their productions of MacBeth (soldier/ensemble), The Three Musketeers (Kitty/ensemble), Antigone (ensemble) and she served as dance captain production of A Christmas Carol in Harlem. JoVonna performed with Elisa Monte Dance under the direction of both Elisa Monte and Tiffany Rea-Fisher from 2014-2019.
Whether performing or creating, she also teaches ballet, modern and contemporary techniques in the greater NYC and New Jersey area. Presently, she teaches at Essential Elements Dance Studio in Hazlet, NJ. She is currently a freelance dance artist in NYC with Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company, Clymove, Konverjdans and has been a guest artist with Ballet Vero Beach. Her own creations have been performed at Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company: Solo Suites as well as the all-female collaborative choreography festival CounterPointe in 2019, 2022 and 2023. She recently made an appearance in Season 2 of HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness. JoVonna is a recipient of the NYFA City Corps Grant as well as a recipient of the 2021/2022 UMEZ grant from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as choreographer in collaboration with Nite Bjuti. She is also the recipient of a microgrant from The Map Fund in its first microgrant initiative.
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DANCER
Peter (he/him) is a New York based Taiwanese-American dancer, choreographer, and art model originally from San Francisco, CA. He holds a B.F.A. in Dance from the University of California at Santa Barbara with early training under Christopher Pilafian (Jennifer Muller/The Works), Nancy Colahan (Lar Lubovitch Dance Company), and Tonia Shimin (Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble).
Peter continued on to pursue professional training with Alonzo King LINES Ballet, ODC/Dance, SFCD, Post:Ballet, Sidra Bell Dance NY, Visceral Dance Chicago, Springboard Danse Montréal, Yin Yue, NW Dance Project, Lotem Regev, and had the pleasure of learning works by Robert Dekkers, KT Nelson, Brenda Way, Liss Fain, Sharon Eyal, Stijn Celis, Ihsan Rustem, Patrick Delacroix, Flavien Esmieu (BalletBoyz). He has performed as a guest artist with Lydia Johnson Dance, Project44, and Cacho Falcon’s ANONYMOUS at the XXV. As a company artist with Brooklyn-based konverjdans since 2017, Peter has performed works by Caili Quan (BalletX), Amy Saunder, Tiffany Mangulabnan, and Jordan Miller.
Since 2014, Cheng has created work under PETER + CO. and has presented at ODC Theater, Center Stage Theater, CPRNY, 92nd St. Y, Judson Memorial Church, Dixon Place, the Mark O'Donnell Theater, Arts On Site, Dance Gallery Festival (Livingston Manor, NY) and Open Podium curated by Henny Jurrïens Studio in Amsterdam, NL.
Guest Artist master class credits include: Alonzo King LINES Ballet Dance Center (2014-2020), ODC Dance Commons, Brockus Project Studios, SALT Contemporary Dance, Barlow Arts Conservatory, UC Santa Barbara, Purdue Contemporary Dance Company, and Arizona State University. (More at peterandco.org)
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DANCER
Alyssa (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist working through the mediums of performance, film, & visual arts based in New York City. Originally from Hartford, Connecticut, Alyssa trained at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and the Hartford Ballet School from a young age. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Dance from California State University of Long Beach.
In her professional career as a dancer she has performed and collaborated with Winston Dynamite Brown, Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich of Metamorphosis Dance, Andrea Miller of Gallim Dance, Jay Carlon, Keith Johnson, Ashley Robicheaux, Amy Gardner, and Ani Taj, among others. She has had the pleasure of performing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Ace Hotel NY, Gibney Dance, Gallim Dance Studio, Judson Memorial Church, Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, Triskelion Arts, The 92nd St Y and more. Her solo work has premiered internationally and nationally on film, live performance, and live television. She was invited to perform her solo work, Unk Now Ing, as a part of The Georgian Youth Ambassador’s Tribute to George Balanchine in 2017. Her choreographic work for a collaboration with visual artist, Kenneth Tam, recently premiered at The Kitchen NYC (The Crossing, 2020), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (Silent Spikes, 2020), and will be installed at the Queens Museum in February, 2021.
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DANCER
Allegra (she/her) is a native New Yorker and Bessie Award winning dancer based in Brooklyn, NY. She trained classically at both Manhattan Youth Ballet and the School of American Ballet, where she performed in numerous productions with the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center. She furthered her contemporary training at prestigious programs such as the Nederlands Dans Theater summer intensive, Springboard Danse Montreal, and b12 Berlin.
Allegra currently performs at The Metropolitan Opera, appearing both as a dancer and an actress. She is also a member of Pigeonwing Dance, under the direction of choreographer Gabrielle Lamb, with whom she’s performed at The New York Botanical Gardens, Wave Hill, The Moody Center at Rice University, Harvard University, and The Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA. Allegra has danced with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, the Little Orchestra Society, and Trainor Dance. She has performed works by Crystal Pite, Doug Varrone, Fernando Melo, Roy Assaf, Peter Chu, George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins, among others. From 2018-2019, she toured the US with the first national tour of Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Bartlett Sher and choreographed by Hofesh Shechter. Allegra serves as the Head of Contemporary Curriculum and is on the ballet faculty at Rye Ballet Conservatory, and is also a guest teacher at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. She holds a degree in French Language and Literature from Columbia University.
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DANCER
Łukasz (he/him) is a professional dance artist, choreographer, teacher and sound healer based in New York. He shares movement and sound that come from deep intuition and an understanding of how the psychical and mental bodies connect. He is currently a dancer with the ballet of The Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
The path of studying the indigenous sacred traditions of the world has opened a new chapter in his life. With the intention of bringing peace, harmony and transformation, Łukasz and his partner Danica Paulos share workshops in Dance as a Healing Art, Gong playing, and Sound Healing.
He is based and works in New York and frequently visits his homeland Poland, where he shares his passion for movement and sound.
konverj/music
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MUSICIANS/COMPOSERS
Bandits on the Run is a musical trio comprised of Adrian Enscoe, Sydney Shepherd, and Regina Strayhorn. Formed upon a chance encounter while busking in the subways of New York City, the Brooklyn based outfit has gone on to receive accolades from NPR Music’s All Songs Considered, American Songwriter, NPR Weekend Edition, and the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project. 2020 found them busy writing and recording their EP “Now Is The Time” with producer Ryan Hadlock (Brandi Carlile, The Lumineers) and producing a short musical film “Band At The End Of The World” commissioned by NYC based Prospect Theater Company. Recently they have composed music for the Netflix children’s animated series “Storybots”, provided scoring for the upcoming Peter Hedges movie "The Same Storm", and are touring the globe with appearances at the Cambridge Folk Festival, Floydfest, Milwaukee Summerfest, Americanafest, and the Singapore Grand Prix.
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MUSICIAN/COMPOSER, CINEMATOGRAPHER
Sergio Carrasco (he/him) is, in his own words: “a guy from Texas that steadily crawled north to end up in NYC. I have been a content creator since before I knew what a buzzword was. I write poetry, I make music, I take photos, and I shoot video. If ever my work improves the life, day, moment of another - I will consider that a success."
Sergio's photography can be seen all over konverjdans's website, Facebook page and Instagram. He has been collaborating with the company on photography and film since the fall of 2016.
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COMPOSER
Alexis Gideon (he/him) is an American visual artist, composer and performer, best known for his innovative animated live video operas and interdisciplinary techniques.
Gideon has performed and exhibited throughout the world, including at Moderna Museet Stockholm, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and Time Zones Festival Italia.
His work is in the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, the Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection in Miami, FL, The Benter Foundation in Pittsburgh, PA as well as a number of private collections.
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COMPOSER/MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST/VOCALIST
Sean Cronin (he/him), a multi-instrumentalist and formally-trained double bassist who is both a composer in the traditional sense and a songwriter in the popular sense, has worked primarily in the realm of jazz (bebop, swing, New Orleans, modern, etc.) over the last 20 years.
From Sean’s notes for his album ‘Adulthood’, the third with his project Very Good:
“. . . Cronin has essentially lived several musical lifetimes in one. From classical piano training as a young child to his first real gig at age 12 playing country music in bars with his father, it was on to punk bands, then the orchestra pit for musicals followed by touring with bluegrass acts, theatrical scoring work, indie rock, collaborations in modern dance, etc.
Musically speaking, Adulthood comprises all of those things. . . But Cronin has become such a master weaver you almost don't notice all the threads of other styles that each song contains. . . . Where theatricality and absurdity have long been hallmarks of the Very Good stage show, Adulthood as an album coheres into an almost shockingly unified complete listen. No mere genre hybrid, the album captures Cronin's step away from all the previous styles and mediums he's pursued in the past.”
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COMPOSER/PIANIST
Bradley Harris (he/him) is an American composer from Atlanta, Georgia whose work is influenced by styles such as jazz, classical, progressive rock, hip hop, gospel, film music, and more. He appeared in the documentary “Hear Us”, which told the story of three young and gifted musicians from around the world who then commissioned Mr. Harris to write the Trio Concerto, “Yo”. The show premiered on PBS in over 300 U.S. cities and is currently on Amazon Prime and Apple TV. During his graduate studies, he was awarded first prize in the Ohio Federation of Music composition contest and was a semi finalist in the national MTNA composition competition.
Bradley’s cultural sensitivity in music was celebrated in the “30 Americans” exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum, where he composed and debuted a series of pieces inspired by the works of significant African-American artists.
Bradley graduated from Shorter University with a degree in piano performance and received his master’s in composition from the University of Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music. He currently resides in New York City.
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COMPOSER/MUSICIAN/SINGER-SONGWRITER
Sweet Megg (she/her) was born in Manhattan, raised in New Jersey, matured in Paris, Asheville, and Brooklyn. Her music encapsulates all of her travels and experiences into one beautifully eclectic blend of honest simplicity and musical sophistication. When she was 16, she began singing in the East Village. At 18, she left New York for North Carolina where she lived on the river guiding boats down rapids by day and writing songs (with lots of water imagery) by night. Her sound had already been deeply steeped in the blues but now took on a southern feel with the influence of her time in North Carolina and Tennessee. In college, she began studying jazz and eventually took a year to go to a small jazz school in the quaint Parisian neighborhood of Montmartre. Her music retained the stomp of the Southern influence and the blues of her childhood influences but added a new level of vocal and harmonic complexity. Paris gave her a new grounding in music as well as years' worth of writing material. Since moving back to America, she has been living in Brooklyn. She continued playing with her rowdy folk group The Whiskey Social but soon with her new found success in the jazz world, little time was left to pursue her original music. She began singing full time with her jazz group Sweet Megg & The Wayfarers in 2013 and has been growing exponentially as a vocalist ever since. Her success in that world has allowed her freedom now to begin working on her original music once again. This recent album, Fear Nothing, which begin recording last year, is her first re-entrance into the original music world. She has proven herself worthy as a jazz singer and is now ready to devote herself once again to her own music. Her new album Fear Nothing is a mix of songs she has written throughout these years of growth, travel, romance, sorrow, and unabashed joie de vivre.
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COMPOSER/BASSIST/VOCALIST
Carmen Quill (she/her) is an upright bassist working at the intersection of creative, improvised, and contemporary music in New York City. She has performed with Andrew D’Angelo, David Murray, Ben Monder, Bill McHenry, Dave Douglas, Cuong Vu, Ted Poor, Wally Shoup, Wayne Horvitz, Jacob Sacks, and Kenny Wollesen, among many others.
Originally from Seattle, WA, she grew up playing in school bands and orchestras, and went on to study music in the University of Washington’s Jazz Studies program. She quickly became a prominent voice in Seattle’s jazz and improvised music scenes, earning the Earshot Jazz award for Emerging Artist of the Year in 2014. She moved to NYC in 2016 and has since been performing and collaborating with some of the most creative jazz musicians on the scene, as well as with improvisers, songwriters, and interdisciplinary artists across many genres. She currently plays a central role in ongoing Brooklyn-based groups TRIO (with Andrew D’Angelo and Allan Mednard), Scree, and VALES, and has recently been developing a repertoire of solo music for bass and voice. Recent recordings include Scree’s “Live at the Owl” (2019) and Dave Douglas’ “Dizzy Atmosphere” (2020).
konverj/visual
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CINEMATOGRAPHER
Joe Raffanti (he/him) was first introduced to documentary film at the age of 11: while living on the Navajo Reservation of Arizona, he helped edit a feature-length documentary on the topic of intergenerational trauma in post-colonial indigenous populations. Since 2012, he has been directing, shooting and editing films and photo stories focused on telling human stories, with projects taking him around the world to film in remote communities in Nepal, India, Mexico, Uganda, Tanzania, Cambodia, Guatemala and New Mexico. Joe is currently based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and works in New Mexico, California and New York City on a variety of projects as a freelance filmmaker and photographer. (More at joeraffanti.com)
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COSTUME DESIGNER
Reshma Patel-Cline (she/her), originally from Leicestershire, England, studied fashion design and pattern cutting at Manchester Metropolitan University.
A career in design and trend across multiple disciplines and lots of inspiring travel continually fuels the language of clothes and costumes made.
Living in Manchester, Ohio and now Brooklyn. From pure sport and athleisure with Reebok to vintage inspired sweatshirts with Abercrombie & Fitch, approachable trend concepts for Osh Kosh B'Gosh and the softest of sweaters for Gap, the road has been varied, always celebrating the people met along the way.
Currently working freelance with brands (Danskin et al), custom clothing clients and forever collaborating with konverjdans to make fabric shapes for their beautiful movement. (More at studiorcreative.space)
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LIGHTING DESIGNER
Conor Mulligan (he/him) is an artist and lighting designer. His design work represents an ongoing exploration of light in live performance.
Born in Dublin, Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day; at five years old Conor immigrated to the United States with his mother, father, and older brother. Eighteen years later he became an American citizen. Growing up in rural Maryland Conor found a creative outlet in theatre. Theatre offered a sandbox to explore the complexities of being human, and the diversity of perspective he found lacking in his small-town life.
Currently, Conor lives in Harlem, New York with his fiancé Joseph and his cat Moe. Conor designs lighting for stage productions in New York City as well as regionally throughout the United States. Internationally his work has been featured in the Despertaresimpulsa 2019 arts festival, (Guadalajara Mexico) in collaboration with the Criro Collective, a Boston based dance company.
Other collaborations include: Konverjdans, Joe’s Pub, Manuel Vignoulle-M/motions, Ballet NEXT, The Satellite Collective, BAM, Russian Arts Theatre & Studio, Roberto Araujo, IndieWorks, Smith Street Stages, Bristol Riverside Theatre, REP Stage, 1st Stage, Luna Stage, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, National Children’s Chorus, The Little Orchestra Society, Cygnet Theatre, MOXIE Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Iron Crow Theatre Company.
While primarily focusing on design work, Conor also freelances as an assistant lighting designer. As an assistant designer, Conor has been exposed to a diverse range of production styles. Conor’s assistant lighting design experience includes; Broadway touring productions, international remounts, Off-Broadway, regional theatre, themed entertainment, Opera, site-specific productions, immersive escape room, corporate events, galas, and architectural.
Conor received a Bachelor of Science in Theatre from Towson University in 2012. In the spring of 2015, Conor received an MFA in Theatre Arts from San Diego State University. That same year Conor was named one of Live Design Magazine’s Young Designers to Watch 2015. In 2017 Conor received the San Diego Critics Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Lighting Design. Conor has been a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 since 2017. (More at conormulliganld.com)
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PRODUCTION TEAM
Nine Mile Productions is a New York City-based production company co-founded by Amy Saunder and Joe Raffanti. They create and build films, photos and multimedia worlds for konverjdans.
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MOTION DESIGN DIRECTOR
Mike Martin (he/him) is an NYC-based Motion Designer and the current Group Design Director of Motion at Huge, where he leads the global creative vision for the motion design discipline. He guides and mentors a talented team of designers while staying hands-on, actively contributing to high-impact client work across brand, product, and content.
He earned his BFA in Media Arts & Animation from The Art Institute of Dallas in 2010. In 2012, he co-founded Motion Addicts, which evolved into Commotion.tv in 2018—an artist collective focused on experimental, design-driven motion work.
His career has spanned agencies, studios, and networks including Element X Creative, AlreadyBeenChewed.tv, MSG Networks, Ignite Partnership, Brazen Animation, and Post Asylum.
Past work spans Google, Apple, Samsung, McDonald’s, Verizon, Hublot, SK-II, Gatorade, and more.
