Tiffany Mangulabnan (she/her) is a Filipino dancer, choreographer, writer, director, and a co-founder of konverjdans. She was born and raised in Manila, Philippines, and began her professional career with the Philippine Ballet Theatre when she was 15. She went on to become a principal dancer with the company, performing the leads in ballets like Swan Lake, Paquita, David Campos-Cantero’s Carmina Burana, the Dew-Drop Fairy in Gelsey Kirkland’s The Nutcracker, and performing in the contemporary ballets of renowned Filipino choreographers like Enrico Labayen, Edna Vida Froilan, Tony Fabella, Ronilo Jaynario, Alden Lugnasin (for Ballet Philippines), Gener Caringal, and countless others. She moved to New York City in 2012 to perform with BalletNext under the directorship of former American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet principal dancers Michele Wiles and Charles Askegard for four years, and helped create original roles in works by choreographers such as Mauro Bigonzetti, Katarzyna Kozielska, Peter Quanz, Brian Reeder, Tobin Eason, and Wiles herself. She then went on to join other New York-based contemporary ballet companies such as Emery LeCrone DANCE, Pigeonwing Dance, Gleich Dances, Indelible Dance, Claudia Schreier & Company, Trainor Dance, Terra Firma Dance, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, and Matthew Brookoff Dance. As a performer, she has earned praise for delivering “the most intense moment [of a piece] . . . in a thrashing solo” (The New York Times), for having “the most magnetism and spirit [among a group of performers],” and showing “improvement and more depth of character with each performance” (Broadway World).

Since co-founding konverjdans with Amy Saunder and Jordan Miller in 2016, Tiffany has performed as well as choreographed, collaborated on and directed several works for the company, such as (Listening) Through Walls (2017), which was presented at the 38th Annual Battery Dance Festival; Realigned (2018), which was presented at the 2018 Periapsis Music & Dance Festival; You Can Be Baby Too (2018); Nobody Knows Our Names (2019); Cascata (2020); Waking/Dreaming Space (2020); and Las Piezas (2021). She has also directed, written, filmed, choreographed, edited and designed the sound for her own dance films, such as HER PRIDE (2020), a collaboration with NY-based dancer Cortney Taylor Key intended to elevate the voices of queer Black artists in dance; Parecemos (2021), a collaboration with Colombia-based worldbeat band Numasbala; She is Water (2021), which won Filipino dancer Tessa Tordesillas the gold medal in the International Youth Dance Competition in Hong Kong; and Behind the Puzzle Pieces (2021), a documentary short film featuring konverjdans and Dance Initiative Carbondale. Most recently, she was selected as one of four choreographers for Dance Lab New York’s 2021 Female Choreographers of Color in Ballet Lab cycle.

Jordan Miller (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.

Amy Saunder (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.

James Anthony (he/him) is a native from The Bronx, New York. He Graduated from Point Park University in 2020, with a degree in Dance. He began his formal training at the age of eighteen at The Summer Arts Institute in The Frank Sinatra School of the Arts. James continued his training at The Graham School, Dwana Smallwood PAC, and Manhattan Youth Ballet. During his Junior year in College, he was given the opportunity to work with Broadway Sacramento’s summer stock production of In The Heights The Musical, Choreographed by Rickey Tripp. James has worked with leading choreographers such as Christopher Huggins, Edwaard Liang, Matthew Powell, and Katarzyna Skarpetowska.

Antuan Byers (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.

Peter Cheng (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)

Courtney Renee Cochran (she/her) is a New York City based dancer, choreographer, and Pilates teacher. She trained at Crockett Deane Ballet in Sacramento, CA and with CDB was chosen as an emerging choreographer for Regional Dance America’s 2008 Festival. Courtney continued her training at Alonzo King LINES’ BFA Program (Marina Hotchkiss) and later at Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Professional Training Program (Endalyn Taylor, Robert Garland). Since moving to New York in 2013, Courtney has continued choreographing; in 2019 she was nominated for Dance Lab New York’s collaboration with The Joyce Theatre, where her work was featured in Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum. Courtney has spent four seasons with Brooklyn Ballet and was a guest artist with Sierra Nevada Ballet, Gleich Dances, The Black Iris Project, Collage Dance Collective, and Dance Theatre of Harlem. Finding Pilates to be a gratifying way to redefine, realign, and strengthen her body, Courtney began her teacher training journey in 2017 completing her mat certification with Power Pilates and received her comprehensive certification from Ellie Herman Pilates in 2019. (More at iamcourtneyrenee.com)

Landes Dixon (he/him) is from Jacksonville, Florida, where he began his dance training at Sally B. Mathis Elementary School. After studying at LaVilla Middle School of the Arts, Douglas Anderson High School of the Arts, and Jacksonville Center of Arts, Landes graduated from Southern Methodist University with a B.F.A in Dance Performance. Landes has performed and collaborated with
various repertory companies such as The Bruce Wood Dance Project, Steps Repertory Ensemble, Heidi Latsky Dance, Trainor Dance, and BalletNext.

Ariel Rebecca (Rivka) Grossman (she/her) was born and raised in New York City, she trained at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts and at the Joffrey Ballet School under the direction of Gerald Arpino for ten years. She earned a B.S. in Dance, with honors, and a Minor in Women’s Studies from Skidmore College. Upon graduation, Ariel was commissioned to set a work on Skidmore dancers. She founded Ariel Rivka Dance in 2008.

Ariel is drawn to dancers with strong technique who are willing to take creative risks and collaborate. Ariel draws inspiration from the struggles and joys of the human experience, particularly finding emotional depth through being a woman and a mother. She and the dancers work together to transform these emotions into shapes and stories. Ariel encourages dancers to bring themselves to the work—molding pieces that are striking, evocative, and layered. Ariel Rivka Dance reflects this evolution from classical training to boundary-pushing work.

Gabrielle Lamb (she/her), winner of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, is a New York City-based choreographer and dancer. Born in Savannah, Georgia, she was trained at the Boston Ballet School and joined Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal in 2000, earning her soloist promotion in 2003. At the invitation of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon she moved to New York City in 2009 to join his company Morphoses.

Ms. Lamb, who began choreographing in 2005, has won a Princess Grace Award for Choreography (2014) and the National Choreographic Competition of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (2009), as well as, in 2013, 1st Prizes in Milwaukee Ballet’s Genesis International Choreographic Competition and Western Michigan University’s National Choreographic Competition. She was named winner of the Banff Centre’s 2014-15 Clifford E. Lee Choreography Prize; and in 2014 she was honored with a NY City Center  Choreography Fellowship. Most recently she was awarded the S&R Foundation's Washington Award Grand Prize for 2018.  She was also selected to create for David Hallberg's inaugural American Ballet Theater Choreographic Incubator in both 2018 and 2019.

She is also self-taught video artist and animator. Her choreography and dance films have been presented by, among others: American Ballet Theater, Works and Process at the Guggenheim, Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Amy Seiwert's Imagery, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, Big Muddy Dance Company, Marymount Manhattan Dance Company, New Chamber Ballet, Whim W'Him, BalletX, The Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada), Sacramento Ballet, Ballet Austin, Hubbard Street 2, Milwaukee Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet Concert Group (NYC), Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Ballet Memphis, SALT Contemporary Dance (Utah), The University of Utah, SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance (Class of 2015 Fall Concert), Western Michigan University, The 92nd Street Y, The Dance Theatre of Harlem, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center, Dance Camera West (Los Angeles), ReelDance Australia, The Bravo and ARTV networks of Canada, New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC), Festival du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal), The American Dance Festival, Festival VideoDanzaBA (Buenos Aires).

(More at pigeonwingdance.com)

JoVonna Parks (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.

Caili Quan (she/her) was raised on Guam, trained in New York, and was a dancer with BalletX from 2013-2020. Caili has choreographed for BalletX, Owen / Cox Dance Group, konverjdans, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, DanceWorks Chicago’s ChoreoLab, CelloPointe, and St. Paul’s School. While with BalletX, she performed new works by Matthew Neenan, Nicolo Fonte, Gabrielle Lamb, Penny Saunders, and Trey McIntyre and danced at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Vail Dance Festival, Central Park SummerStage, Belgrade Dance Festival, the Joyce Theater, and the Kennedy Center during DEMO by Damian Woetzel. Her duet Fancy Me was performed at the Vail Dance Festival in 2018, and in the summer of 2019, Caili served as an Artistic Partnership Initiative Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. She subsequently choreographed and edited a short dance film 100 Days, a virtual commission for The Guggenheim’s Works & Process. Before retiring from BalletX in Summer 2020, she virtually choreographed Love letter, a dance film inspired by Guam’s culture for BalletX’s virtual platform, BalletX Beyond. Caili is currently an Adjunct Instructor of Ballet at DeSales University.

Łukasz Zięba (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. (More at lukaszieba.space)

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.”

Jake (he/him) hails from Long Island, where he took up the trombone at age 10, and piano at the age of 5. Jacob studied music (trained classically and contemporary jazz styles) at a young age from a preparatory school at Queens College called CPSM. It was in this era in which he focused on the principle of composition and the art of creating, or "composing" ones own voice. After learning a sonatina, he would attempt improvising his own. After a while, his talent paid off. This fine musician has played with Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks, Baby Soda, Gordon Au and the Grand Street Stompers, and the Gordon Webster Sextet. It was under the great tutelage of Dr. Robert Bowen and Jacob Sacks that he became familiar with the "older" melodies of big band swing. Jacob continues to play in many swing bands in the Metropolitan area, and also attends the Mona's weekly jam session on Tuesday nights, led by Dennis Lichtman (clarinet). He also writes and arranges his own compositions for various videos and smaller independent video games. He strives to write music for anime, cartoons, video games and other commercial media. Jake has an attention to detail for artistry. He carries a unique style through his music and other aspects of art.

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.

Carmen Rothwell (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).

(More at carmenrothwell.com)

Noé Socha (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based guitar and harmonica player originally from the small town of Carpi, Italy. He is influenced by folk artists such as Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Delta blues musicians such as Mississippi John Hurt, Muddy Waters, and Lightnin’ Hopkins plus a hint of Hendrix-esque flavor. Noé has created his own signature sound, pairing fiery guitar technique with virtuosic harmonica playing.

After winning several awards at Berklee College of Music including the ”Jimi Hendrix Award” for the college’s leading guitarist and the “Billboard Magazine Endowed Scholarship” presented to the college’s top student, Noé has had the great honor of touring, performing, and recording with artists such as Nona Hendrix (Labelle), Vernon Reid (Living Color), and GRAMMY Award-Winners, Javier Limón and Paula Cole.

Currently, Noé is gigging, recording, and touring as one half of Likho Duo. They released their first album, Blues and the World Beyond, in August of 2017.

(More at noesocha.net)

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.

(More at sweetmeggswayfarers.com)

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)

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)