Tavia Nyong’o teaches at New York University. His first book, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory(Minnesota, 2009), won the Errol Hill Award for best book in African American theatre and performance studies. Nyong’o has published articles on punk, disco, viral media, the African diaspora, film, and performance art in venues such as Radical History Review,Criticism, TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Women Studies Quarterly, The Nation, and n+1. He is co-editor of the journal Social Text.
Geo Wyeth is an artist and musician. His work has been included in exhibitions and performances at The Studio Museum in Harlem, PS1 MoMA, Joe’s Pub, Danspace at St. Mark’s Church, The New Museum, Kate Werble Gallery, Human Resources, Joe’s Pub, La MaMa ETC, SF MoMA, his apartment, etc. He has received funding from the Jerome Foundation and Art Matters. He is a two time Yaddo fellow. He was born in New York City in 1984 and raised in Hell’s Kitchen and Montclair, New Jersey. If you are interested in bringing him to show his work somewhere, please email him: geo.wyeth (at) gmail.com. Ciao tutti.
Sacha Yanow is an NYC-based performance artist and actor. She has performed in theater, film and dance works by artists including Karen Finley, Julie Tolentino, Laura Parnes, Katy Pyle, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, and Sarah Michelson. Her own performance work has been supported through residencies at The Field and Yaddo, and presented at Dixon Place, the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Movement Research and The Kitchen. Yanow currently serves as the Director of Art Matters Foundation and previously worked at The Kitchen as the Director of Operations. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the William Esper Studio’s Actor Training Program.
