ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Providing support & opportunities to local artists
For more information on this program and The Performance Project @ University Settlement, please email arts@universitysettlement.org.
Creating high-quality performance-based art while embedded within the rich complexity of a truly diverse community – this is the opportunity for Artists-in-Residence (AIRs) at The Performance Project @ University Settlement. Our AIRs have the opportunity to experiment with their creative processes, narrative structures and forms.
The residency is open to performance-based artists including choreographers, theater artists and interdisciplinary performance artists. AIRs are supported in creating a new work within the context of University Settlement’s community and organization and which integrates our neighbors’ voices.
Throughout the residency, we work with our AIRs to nurture both their creative work and their relationships with our artist cohorts, Settlement staff and Settlement participants. Together we collaboratively build the skills and scaffolding needed to support creative risk-taking and authentic relationship-building.
Artists who have participated in our Artists-in-Residence program may also receive Guest Artist rental rates at Speyer Hall, our white box theater.
We are now accepting applications for the 2025/26 Artist in Residence program. To apply and for more information, please visit: https://forms.gle/3VuKo2isr4DPXUt1A
Check out this video featuring our 2022-23 Artists-in-Residence, and learn more about our current and past cohorts below:
Artists-in-Residence receive…
- An opportunity to develop a new performance-based project
- A stipend of $2000
- $500 reimbursement towards supplies and technical support for culminating event/performance
- Technical and artistic support with community engagements, and culminating project
- Rehearsal and performance space in Speyer Hall (184 Eldridge Street) based on space availability
Artists-in-Residence are required to…
- Engage with the University Settlement community in a meaningful way as part of their creative process
- Be in regular contact with The Performance Project staff
- Engage with The Performance Project Fellows by presenting a short 45 minute workshop/interaction during one of the Fellows' meetings
- Have a mid-residency sharing of work-in-progress or a public engagement related to artist's community workshops/ engagements (Winter 2025)
- Have a culminating event or performance at the end of their residency (Spring 2025), incorporating aspects of the artist's community engagement
Meet Our Current Artists-in-Residence
The Performance Project @ University Settlement Artists-in-Residence are selected because of the quality of their work and the open, welcoming nature of their process. These artists believe that creativity is a skill set that can be shared and learned. They have also demonstrated a commitment to restoring the notion that everybody has an artistic birthright to reclaim and, in doing so, quality of life can be improved.
Drye/Marinaro Dance Company
Co-Director Jamie Drye is a Queens, NY-based artist with a BA in Dance Performance & Minor in Education from Winthrop University. Co-artistic Director Francesca Marinaro is a Stroudsburg, PA-based artist with a BA in Dance from DeSales...
in-version ensemble
in-version ensemble is a performance collective founded by a shared mission to redefine center and periphery. They amplify female, queer, and AAPI narratives through ensemble-based works rooted in collaboration, research, and audience interaction...
Wisteria Deng and Vermilion Theater
Wisteria Deng (邓钰山) is a theater creator and clinical psychologist based in New York City. Her work lives at the intersection of bilingual performance, migration, and collective healing. She is the founding artistic director of Vermilion Theater...