Nicholson Billey is of the Chahta and Muscogee Peoples of Oklahoma and is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He has created and incorporated into his performance work a polyfocal/polyprojective expressivity called Indigenous talk-a-logue, that is influenced by the Indigenous theoretical and methodological land-based/place-based approaches and practices for everyday acts of Indigenous resurgence. Nicholson hopes to demonstrate that individual everyday Indigenous acts can actively contribute toward the collective generativity of Indigenous resurgence.

江峰 Jiang Feng is a non-gendered artist working in movement/dance, theatre, voice, text, modeling, film, photography, and theory. He attained her B.A. in English and Chinese literature from National Taiwan University. They are the receiver of the Government Fellowship and “Grants for 20-40-Year-Old Writers” from Ministry of Culture in Taiwan. He has performed in Taiwan, the U.S., Germany, and Ireland. In 2018, they were the performer in the MoMA retrospective “Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts.”

Renae Michelle Govinda. Midwestern transplant. Psychology, BA. Family farm. Simply is, always has. Settled on: driving east and taking chances. Built a foundation on: silence, loss, women’s issues, and mental health. Arti/mposter/st. Still figuring it all out. www.renaegovinda.com

Catherine James is a proud Essex girl. She is a work in progress who has spent twenty years making theater and poetry alongside people with developmental disabilities. She will soon complete her MFA from the Performance and Performance Studies program at Pratt Institute thanks to her family, friends and the support of loved ones.

Waqia Kareem is a black trans* interdisciplinary artist and scholar from Baltimore and currently based in Brooklyn New York. Their work includes theory, performance, text, sound, video, and works to imagines new, radical ways of inhabiting the black trans* body. They have performed at various venues and institutions in New York, Philly, Baltimore and Washington DC, including the Hirshhorn Museum, Abrons Art Center, Jack Theater and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Mary Mulford has done nothing with her life so far, which is why she applied to grad school. Since being accepted and moving all the way from Arkansas to NEW YORK CITY, she has realized that she may have made a huge mistake, but she’s always wanted to do a one-woman show, so maybe things will work out. She is in a long-distance relationship with her dog and likes to follow pigeons. Your thoughts and prayers are greatly appreciated.

Yeha Park 박예하 believes that arts can make the world right. She creates performances around politics, resistance, and history. Her background is in opera singing and theatre directing and she has been performing on stage since the age of 8. The stage was her playground before she thought “I will be an Artist!” Now she says, “I don’t want to be called an Artist.” Her skills include singing, visual art, film, photography, ceramic, glass, and welding.

Mora-Amina Parker is a performance artist whose practice is rooted in Black dance aesthetics and sonics. She has had the pleasure of dancing with a variety of companies, notably Philadanco and Camille A. Brown and Dancers. As a founding member of CAB, the company was awarded a Bessie—New York Dance and Performance Award for outstanding production for Mr. Tol E. RanCE in 2014. Ms. Parker looks forward to the continued development of her first solo work.

Sarah Olivia Shulman is from Brooklyn, and still lives there. Even though she understands the subway system she still gets lost (mainly because she wasn’t paying attention).  She worked as a stage manager after college, along with other jobs in the service industry. She has an incredibly supportive family. She wanders, sings, jiggles, moves, barks, babbles, attempts to defy gravity, splatters, builds, doodles, dribbles, drags, overreacts, at times underwhelms, loves, and laughs.

Dana Sumner-Pritchard is a comedic storyteller whose work seeks to inject delight into painful experiences. She is a former apprentice at the Institute for Collaboration and Play under Catherine Mueller, and looks forward to taking her next solo work to festivals around the country. She would not be graduating from Pratt without the support of her parents, Catherine, her perfect older sister, her beautiful cat, and of course, Gabe, who makes anything seem possible.

Victor Spielberg Verdejo is a New York based theatre practitioner/storyteller. Originally from Chile, Victor has lived and performed all over Latin America, in Switzerland and toured in the Middle East.  He received a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Sherifa Omade Edoga Prize. Victor is fascinated with anarchist politics, translation, queer performance/joteo, transnational solidarity, and spicy food.

Shannon Yu 余香儒 is a Taipei-born, New York-based artist using movement, sound, and photography. With a background in civil engineering, Shannon performs intimacy with public space, transforming and illuminating aspects of such space using a wide range of movement vocabulary. She also seeks inspiration in quotidian sounds and scenes. Shannon has shown her works at La Mama, Movement Research in Judson Memorial Church, and New Step Series at Chen Dance Center in New York.

Jaguar Mary X is a performance artist, glossolalia vocalist, filmmaker, and hoop dancer. Jaguar Mary aka Jocelyn Taylor has shown internationally, at the Johannesburg (1997) and Havana (2000) Biennials, in galleries in Venezuela, Canada, France, Netherlands, the New Museum, and Museum of Modern Art in New York. JM has an MFA in Film and Video from California Institute of the Arts and is excited to be part of this year’s graduating MFA class in Performance and Performance Studies at Pratt Institute.