PIMA FACULTY
The Faculty of the PIMA program is comprised of members from the graduate Theater, Music, Film, Television & Radio, Art and Computer and Information Science departments.

Helen E. Richardson
Program Co-Director
Co-Director of the MFA Program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts, Artistic Director, Professor, Theater Department, Brooklyn College.

André M. Zachery
Adjunct Lecturer
André M. Zachery is a Chicago bred and now Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, scholar and technologist with a BFA from Ailey/Fordham University and MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts from CUNY/Brooklyn College.

Andrew Kircher
Adjunct Lecturer
Andrew Kircher is a CUNY teaching fellow with the Theatre department and adjunct lecturer for the Performance And Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) MFA program.

Ryan Holsopple
Adjunct Lecturer
Ryan Holsopple is a performer, programmer and designer who creates interactive hardware and software for live performance.

David Grubbs
Program Co-Director
David Grubbs is an associate professor in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He is the author of Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, The Sixties, and Sound Recording (Duke University Press).

Erwin Maas
Faculty Member
Erwin Maas is a New York based theatermaker, educator and international arts advocate from the Netherlands. With a passion for creating arts with communities and organizations around the world and connecting artists globally, he has worked extensively in Australia, Europe, South Africa, South Korea and USA.

Justine Williams
Adjunct Lecturer
Justine is an interdisciplinary artist and performer interested in art as social practice. From 2002-2012, Justine was co-artistic director of The Glass Contraption.

Jennifer McCoy
Faculty Member
The work of the American artists team Jennifer and Kevin McCoy has been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, P.S.1, The Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum.

Margaret Araneo
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Margaret (Meg) Araneo is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theater at Brooklyn College. She holds a Ph.D. in Theater History from the Graduate Center, CUNY, an MFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University.
![Briggan Krauss in an internationally recognized saxophonist, composer and sound artist who has been a strong presence on the New York creative music scene since 1994. He is a founding member of the band Sexmob, has played on Grammy Award winning and nominated recordings, and leads several of his own projects as well as collaborating with many other improvisers and composers in New York City and around the world. He has recently earned an MFA from Brooklyn College’s Performance and Interactive Media Arts [PIMA] program.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b09f78_ed2db005dfa54ae6b9b5546e773cd10d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_300,h_300,al_c,lg_1,q_80/briggankrauss.jpg)
Briggan Krauss
Adjunct Lecturer
Briggan Krauss in an internationally recognized saxophonist, composer and sound artist who has been a strong presence on the New York creative music scene since 1994.