PAST ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
2025-2026
Jason Wang
Jason Wang is a playwright/actor from Queens, NY. Two working-class immigrant parents left Jason alone to figure out what to do with their free time; he ultimately decided to make...
Jessica Bauman
Jessica Bauman is a director and community-engaged theater maker based in Brooklyn, NY. Together with Mexican director Ramón Verdugo, she co-created and co-directed “The Frontera...
Shannon Yu
Shannon Yu is a dancer-choreographer, multi-disciplinary artist, and queer creator. Sha streamlines Hip Hop, Contemporary dance, and Wing Tsun Martial Arts with video projection...
2024-2025
Audrey Thao Berger
Audrey Thao Berger is a dancer, meditator, and community organizer exploring the transformative power of movement and embodiment. Her work aims to foster healing...
Deniz Khateri
Deniz is an Iranian-American multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her works experiment with form and they focus on memory, grief, immigration and the concept...
Yibin Wang
Yibin Wang is a New York-based theater and performance director hailing from Hangzhou, China. Yibin’s interdisciplinary work delves into cross-cultural experience...
SARAIKA MOVEMENT COLLECTIVE
Founded by Aika Takeshima (Japan) and Sara Pizzi (Italy), immigrants and queer women in New York. sarAika movement collective advocates for diversity, equity, and...
2023-2024
Faustine Lavie/Faustine Lavie Dance Project
Faustine Lavie was born in Toulon, France, where she started ballet at 3 years old. She then studied in different renowned dance schools such as Paris Opera Ballet School & ESDC Rosella Hightower...
Kenneth Keng
Kenneth Keng steals ideas from their lonely childhood, puts them in plays and then pretends to be surprised when their daddy issues come out...
PAIGE “QUEEN TUT” STEWART/THE KINGDOM DANCE COMPANY
Paige "Queen TuT" Stewart hails from Queens, New York. She has been working as a dance teacher at various public schools, dance schools and arts centers as well as all over the Tri-state...
2021-2022
Tuânminh Albert Đỗ
Tuânminh Albert Đỗ (he/him/em) - I am a mixed-Vietnamese, Polish immigrant, interdisciplinary artist based in NYC and I have received my BFA at NYU Tisch Drama...
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles (he/him) treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively through creative experiences that he helps unfold...
Philip Santos Schaffer
Philip Santos Schaffer (they/he) is a playmaker creating interactive performances in intimate and unconventional settings. Philip’s work has been seen in bathtubs across the country...
MODArts Dance Collective
MODArts Dance Collective (MADC), established in 2011 by Leah & Shaun Tubbs, holds space for ALAANA, MENA, & SWANA people through its choreographic work, festivals, concerts...
2020-2021
Cyrus Aaron
Cyrus Aaron (he/him/his) - Advocate of Voice. Doer of Language. Cyrus Aaron is a creative storyteller examining the human experience through the lens of a Black artist...
George Tsz-Kwan Lam
George Tsz-Kwan Lam (he/they) - Hong Kong-born composer George Tsz-Kwan Lam (b. 1981) grew up in both Hong Kong and Winthrop, Massachusetts. George Lam is Associate Professor of Music...
Jasmine Eileen Coles
Jasmine Eileen Coles (she/her) - Jasmine Eileen Coles is a performance artist based in New York City. She is a certified Health and Healing Practitioner and Nutritionist with 10 years...
2019-2020
CELESTE STATION & RYAN CONARRO
Celeste Staton is a proud Brooklynite and is a social practice artist, tenant advocate, community activist, and founding member of the Intergenerational Community Arts Council...
TIMOTHY DUWHITE
Timothy DuWhite is a writer, poet, playwright, performance artist, and activist. His work is both brave and exhilarating, and directly addresses difficult and controversial issues such as HIV, state-sanctioned violence, racism, and queerness.
THE SQUARE
The Square is a theatre collective based in New York City. The name "The Square" comes from a traditional Chinese philosophical concept: The sky is round; the ground is square. It is a metaphor for how nature and society work. The square is where people gather together to share...
Justina Kamiel Grayman
Justina Kamiel Grayman, Ph.D., is a social interventionist creating original art and arts- and psychology-based community programming that connect people in divine and magical ways...
2018-2019
- Dawn Crandell, Jeesun Choi, Kristin Rose Kelly - Creative Traffic Flow (dance/theater)
- Sophia Dawson (theater)
- Brandon Woolf/Ben Gassman - Culinary Theater (theater)
- Jesca Prudencio (theater)
- Najee Omar (ICAC AIR)
2016-2017
- Stefanie Batten Bland/Company SBB (dance)
- Agnes Borinsky (theater)
- Lani Fu & Jeremy Pickard - Superhero Clubhouse (theater)
- Marc Andrew Nunez/Gotham Dance Theater (dance)
- Jody Wood (theater)
2015-2016
- Eric F. Avery (theater)
- Katherine Brook + Liza Birkenmeier / TELE-VIOLET (theater)
- Andre Zachary/Renegade Performance Group & LaMont Hamilton (dance)
- Sydnie L. Mosely/SLM Dance (dance)
- Normandy Sherwood (theater)
- Mei Ann Teo with Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo - Dim Sum Warriors (theater)
- Chris Tyler (theater)