| Sebastienne Mundheim (creator/director/writer/designer)
is a writer, director, designer, performer, educator, and recently filmmaker. She has created 17 original performances commissioned by institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, The Rosenbach Museum and Library, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Franklin and Marshall College. She is known for synthesizing complex, sophisticated academic content into lyrical educational performances geared toward young audiences, appealing to all ages. Using sculptural props, shadow puppets, dancers, actors, and music, her performances teach lessons and ask questions. Her shows have been performed locally and internationally. Performances include: “Were the Sunny Sombreros Somber Somehow: Stories of 20th Century Mexican Revolutionary Painters,” “ Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne,” “Under the Hat: Life and Works of Poet Marianne Moore,” “A Potable Joyce: A Watered-down Version of Ulysses, the Story of James Joyce and his Manuscript,” and “Currently Franklin: the Story of a Paper Boy. “ She has collaborated with other visual and performing artists including, but not limited to: Whit McLaughlin, New Paradise Laboratories, Thaddeus Phillips, Lucidity Suitcase, Madi DiStefano, Brat Productions, Kate-Watson Wallace, Agita Dance, and the Reactionaries. Sebastienne has also been a community artist/educator since 1992, creating programming through the Fleisher Art Memorial, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Young Audiences, Big Picture Alliance, and many other organizations and schools in Philadelphia and New Orleans. Sebastienne received her BA/BFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990, and her EdM from Harvard in 2000. |
| Kate Watson Wallace (Choreographic Consultant/Workshop leader) is a site-based choreographer who lives in Philadelphia. Her movement installations have been housed in a machine shop (The Mentalist), a nightclub (Gone), in a row home (House), a car (CAR), in warehouses, bars, galleries, churches and cabarets, as well as for the concert stage. She is a 2007 Pew Fellow in the Arts in choreography. She has received funding from Dance Advance, a Pew program, the Rockefeller Map Fund, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Independence Foundation. Her dancing, choreography and study have taken her throughout Europe, and across the U.S. Her work has been presented at DanceBoom at the Wilma Theater, The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, The New Dance Alliance at The Joyce SoHo, The Walt Whitman Arts Center, and the Wave Rising Series. As a dancer, she performs regularly with Headlong Dance Theater and Scrap Performance Group. She has also worked with Jane Comfort and Company, Carol Brown, Gin MacCallum and Nichole Canuso, among others. She was a member of Group Motion Company for four years, with whom she toured nationally and abroad. She has been in residence at the Community Education Center in Philadelphia and is a resident choreographer at Susan Hess Modern Dance. She has been a guest artist at Drexel University, The University of the Arts, Franklin and Marshall College, and at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has been a teaching artist at Curatin Call Creations, an after school arts education program, since 2003. |
| Raphael Diluzio (Videographer) Raphael Diluzio was born 1960 and began his formal studies of art with private studies in drawing at the age of nine. Raphael graduated with a BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University Long Beach, later attending graduate school first at Cornell University and then the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his MFA in Painting. In the early 1990s, he moved to New Orleans where his career as a painter took hold. In the mid-nineties, DiLuzio began working with emerging digital mediums as formats for creative expression. By the late nineties he was creating digital works in addition to painting. Currently, he is working in digital time-based projected painting and installation. Since the beginning of 2000 he has exhibited internationally, with works installed in Slovenia, Venice, Italy and at the Prague Biennale. He also teaches media arts at the University of Maine. |
| James Sugg (Composer) is an actor, sound designer, composer/musician who draws from all three disciplines on any one job. He received his Bachelor of Music at Oberlin Conservatory for vocal performance, an opera or musical theatre singer. He is a member of Pig Iron Theatre Company, with whom he has created/performed in Joan of Arc, Gentlemen Volunteers, Mission To Mercury, The Snow Queen, Anodyne, Shut Eye, Flop, James Joyce Is Dead and So Is Paris, Hell Meets Henry Halfway and Chekhov Lizard Brain. As an actor, he has worked with director Aaron Posner at the Arden Theater, Folger Shakespeare and Actors Theater of Louisville in a series of Shakesperean clowns, Dogberry, Touchstone and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. James continues to perform in the occasional choice musical, most recently the world premier of Polly Pen’s Embarrassments at The Wilma, Pirelli in the Arden Theater’s Sweeney Todd and presently, the role of Charles Guiteau in The Arden's Assassins. After having success with his first two sound design projects, Gentlemen Volunteers (Barrymore award "Outstanding Sound Design" 1999), The Lorca Cycle (Philadelphia Weekly's Best Sound Design, 1999), he began working as sound designer for Pig Iron, The Wilma, The Arden Theatre, Seattle Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville, Freedom Theatre, UArts, Princeton University and Lantern Theatre. James has received the Barrymore for “Outstanding Sound Design” four times and has been nominated for design and composition ten additional times. Most recently, he has turned to composition with the rock and roll score of Pig Iron's James Joyce Is Dead and So Is Paris and the bluegrass/country music to a new Mark Twain musical, A Murder, A Mystery and a Marriage(10 Barrymore nominations) which had it’s world premiere at Delaware Theatre Co. in the 05-06 season. James also premiered his rock and roll song cycle, The Sea, in '06 as part of the LiveArts festival. Finally, James is the front man in the band The Brothers Suggarillo, and regularly whips three hundred sweaty people to a bouncing froth. |
