Team

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.

Co-Director of the MFA Program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts. Artistic Director, Professor of Theatre, Brooklyn College. Areas of research: contemporary performance and technology; Theatre in the Age of Globalization; the Théâtre du Soleil; theories of directing; methods of collaborative creation. Artistic Director, Global Theatre Ensemble. http://www.globaltheatreensemble.org/Global_Theatre_Ensemble/About_Us.html, Co-curator, producer, and dramaturg of Global Theatre Ensemble’s project on Eliminating Violence Against Women, commissioned by the United Nations, 2008. Chapters on the theatre practices of the Théâtre du Soleil, in Actor Training (Routledge), Barrault, Mnouchkine, Stein (Methuen), Jacques Lecoq (Routledge). Editor, online text in progress, A Global History of Performance (Routledge). Worked internationally as stage director and trained with Ariane Mnouchkine of the Théâtre du Soleil, and Sotigui Kouyaté of the Peter Brook Company. Served as Artistic Director of the Stalhouderij Theatre Company, Amsterdam’s award winning English-language theatre, an international ensemble of actors creating new works in the 1990s. Director of The Game, by Mariella Romero, listed as the best production of the year in the Netherlands by Amsterdam’s City Life (later Time Out). Currently working on a contemporary adaptation of Euripides’ Medea, Medea Redux, originally workshopped at Oregon Shakespeare Co., and an opera on American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller. Transcendent, with composer Christopher Drobny. Playwright UBU (Samuel French), Ph.D. in Dramatic Art with an emphasis in Directing, from U.C. Berkeley’s Director/ Scholars program. Editor, Signals: A Contemporary Performance Journal, featuring articles on international performance. Signals can be found at: http://contemporaryperformancejournal.com/)

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 is an interdisciplinary artist and performer interested in art as social practice. From 2002-2012, Justine was co-artistic director of The Glass Contraption, an ensemble-based company that presented original works of performance and film, led artist training and carried out collaborative art projects with communities locally and abroad. Current projects include a performance/media piece created with senior artists from the Westbeth for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Media Lab and the David Lunch Movie Truck, a cinema-cum-theater housed inside a box truck. Education: Brown University (BA), New School (MA in International Affairs/Media & Culture). Faculty: Yale School of Drama.

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.

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.
International exhibitions… include projects at the Pompidou Center, the British Film Institute, ZKM, the Hanover Kunstverien, the Bonn Kunstverein, and F.A.C.T. (Liverpool, UK). Grants include a 2002 Creative Capital Grant for Emerging Fields, a 2005 Wired Rave Award, and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship. Articles about their work have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, Flash Art, Art News, The New York Times, and Newsweek. Residencies include work at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.  Their work is represented in New York by Postmasters Gallery and Gallerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva and can be seen in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and MUDAM in Luxembourg.

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

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.