Ann Boyd
Performer, choreographer, director, writer and teacher. This past year she directed the Sweat Girls in Sweatily Ever After, choreographed Dead Man’s Cell Phone at Steppenwolf, created a 10 person physical theater piece in 10 hours for Collaboraction’s Sketchbook, performed her solo No Time Like the Present at Finch Gallery, directed Maia Morgan’s solo And now, the octopus for Live Bait’s Filet of Solo Festival, directed Arlene Malinowski’s one-woman show Aiming for Sainthood at 16th Street Theater in Berwyn and performed her original contemporary fairy-tale Naguales at Chicago Public Schools as part of Urban Gateways Touring Program. Ann is currently teaching body movement for actors at Columbia College, solo performance at the University of Chicago and drama for 4-9 year olds at Greeley School. Ann’s teaching is influenced by her interdisciplinary approach to making work and draws upon viewpoints and constraint-based composition as generative tools.
Works: Falling Into the Sky (1996)
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Mary Brogger
Mary Brogger is an internationally recognized artist whose diverse practice includes sculpture, site-responsive installation, and photography, as well as art direction, fashion, jewelry, furniture, and light fixture design. Brogger’s knowledge of the history of art and design, along with her refined and accomplished use of materials, provide the visual richness, technical agility, and conceptual cohesion that characterize her practice. Until relocating her studio to Los Angeles in 2009, Brogger served as an instructor in the Sculpture and the Fiber and Materials Studies Departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a recipient of distinguished awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council and has been nominated for awards and fellowships from the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Brogger’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in many distinguished private and public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Works: A Room of Wishes (1988)
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Kris Cahill
Kris is a psychic, energy healer, teacher, writer, speaker, and the host of Art of Energy podcast. She graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1982, then went on to work as a self-employed fashion and accessories designer, textile artist, costume designer for dance and theatre. Later Kris added film into the mix and became a set decorator and art director for several feature films. She also did some photo styling, and taught art to both kids and adults. As an abstract painter, Kris exhibited and sold my paintings from 1992 until 2010.
Works: Flight Distance (1986); The I Depend on Tango (1988); The Story’s Body (1998); Viva! (1995); Open Windows (1987); Conversation II (1995); Slask (For Busia) (2003)
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Lezlee Crawford
Lezlee have been a professional dancer, musician and teacher for over 30 years. From 2000 to the present, I have taught modern in the Fine Arts Bldg and performed Dance On, which was choreographed for a group of dancers all age 50+, all over Chicago. From 1990 to 2000, she taught weekly classes at Links Hall. From approximately 1982 to 1990 Lezlee taught many modern and ballet classes at MoMing Dance and Arts Center and had an extensive performing career. She has also taught at Columbia College, University of Chicago, Harper College, and several Chicago Park Districts. Lezlee currently teach Movement with Music and Drum Circles to the blind and visually impaired.
Works: Amma (2000)
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Kate Elswit
Kate Elswit is an academic and dancer whose research on performing bodies combines dance history, performance studies theory, German cultural studies, and experimental practice. In 2009, she received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge and joined the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities at Stanford University, where she taught in the Departments of Drama and German Studies and in the Division of Dance. She now holds a Lectureship in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Bristol.
Works: Collecting Tears (2002)
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Carol Genetti
Carol Genetti is an experimental vocalist, costume and graphic designer. She has designed costumes for Hedwig Dances, Asimina Chremos and Jan Erkert as well as for her own performance work. Based in Chicago, Genetti has toured as a vocalist throughout the U.S., Canada, France and Germany and has collaborated with a large number of like-minded artists including multi-disciplinary performances with dancer Asimina Chremos. Carol has appeared on recordings published by Spring Garden Music, Last Visible Dog, Balance Point Acoustics, and Recorded, among others.
Works: Dance of Forgotten Steps (2010); Sawdust Palace Suite (2010); Wet Dreams (2006); Resound: Season to Ripen (2008); Rein, Bellow (2007)
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Sue Haas
Sue Haas is a costumer and maker of soft goods, living and working in Chicago. Her credits include the Department of Cultural Affairs, Redmoon Theater, Lookingglass Theater, About Face Theater, Blair Thomas & Company, as well as many other independent works.
Works: What Lies Between (2003); BLUES DANCES (2004); Nunca Tarde (2003); The Vibe (2003)
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Alison Heryer
Alison Heryer is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines costume, installation, performance, and community engagement. She designs costumes and scenery for theatre, film, and print. She also creates site-specific art and performance experiences for public spaces. Her collaborative work as a costume and scenic designer has been exhibited in venues, festivals and galleries across the globe, including The New Victory Theater (New York), Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago), Kansas City Repertory Theatre, The New Victory Theater (New York), Austin Museum of Modern Art, DODGE Gallery (New York), 808 Gallery (Boston), ZACH Theatre (Austin), and the Prague Quadrennial. In 2010, she won the Michael Phillppi Emerging Artist Award and the Austin Critic’s Table Award for Costume Design.
Works: Dances of Many Lands (1982); Ache of the Arc (2002)
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Julie Hopkins
Julie was a company member with Hedwig Dances from 1994-1996.
Works: Delegging Doral (1995);
Atalee Judy
Atalee Judy is a genuine DIY girl (keeps the overhead low). Credits may include at any given time: Choreographer, Dance Artist, Athlete, Director, Musician, Costumer, Graphic Artist, Web Designer, Set Maker, Contrarian, and Punk Rocker. A self taught costume designer, she originally began making costumes while still in college and not being able to afford to hire someone to make costumes for her dances. Her spare beginnings consisted of a $75 thrift bought sewing machine, many replacement needles, de-constructed clothing to make patterns from, and the idea that someday the task of sewing would become easier. Fast forward about 18 years, Atalee has gone on to design (or fix) costumes for most of Chicago’s established modern dance companies including: Chicago Moving Company, Mordine & Company Dance Theater, Mad Shak Dance, The Dance COLEctive, Same Planet Different World, Colleen Halloran Performance Group, Peter Carpenter Performance Project, The Seldoms, Hedwig Dances, and many more. Her list of creative ventures and performances in Chicago spans over 19 years.
Works: Last April (2002); Vena Cava (2000); Ripped (2001); Marma-Laid (2001)
Judy Lundberg
Judith has designed for several area theatres including Victory Gardens, Apple Tree Theatre, Remy Bumppo, and Lifeline Theatre. In Milwaukee she has designed for First Stage and Chamber Theatre. Judith has been a resident designer at American Player’s Theatre since 1993, designing seven productions including this season’s Much Ado About Nothing. Judith spent five years in New York City assisting on Broadway, TV and film while freelancing for several theatres including Chelsea Repertory Theatre, Rockland Opera Society, and Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre. She is currently a freelance costume designer for the Northern Illinois University School of Theater and Dance.
Works: After the Fall, Desire (1999)
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Tetyana Martyanova
Tetyana was born in Odessa, Ukraine and moved to the United States at the age of 16. She currently lives in New York City and dances professionally with Diablo Ballet.
Works: Night Blooming Jasmine (2007);
Christy Munch
Christy Munch is a 4th grade elementary school teacher in the Beloit, WI area. Christy was a company member with Hedwig Dances.
Works: Clearing, Made of Dream (1994); To Sleep, To Dream (1999); Sweet Baby, Baby Suite (1993); 2/Rumi (2004)
Tatjana Radisic
Ms. Radisic is considered one of the most creative scenic artists, having a major influence on other designers working in her field at the moment. Ms. Radisic’s designs for theatre, dance and opera productions are marked by a synthesis of her European training and her own whimsical imagination. Her work has been seen on stages throughout the country, internationally and on screen.
Works: Sleep of Reason (2005); Short Stories (2006); Earthly Tongues (2008)
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Cybele Moon
Cybele Moon is an artist with a passion for creating characters on stage who excels at developing the nuances that tell the tales in every theatrical show she designs. Her costumes for dance are created as works of art in shape, form and color, which complement and enhance each movement the choreographer has chosen. Originally from Detroit, as a young artist, Cybele took ballet lessons, acted in musicals, and studied drawing, sculpture and puppetry. Continuing her creative study through high school and into college, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio University. Development as an artist continued with her move to Chicago, where she began a career as a costume designer, educator and textile artist.
Works: One, Two (and a half), Three (2004); Long Trip (2002)
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Joe Novak
Works: Of Love and Shadows (1989)
Vin Reed
Vin Reed is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Art, Architecture & Planning, Vin Reed is grateful to combine his skills in graphic design, photography, illustration, and fashion in dance partnerships with companies including; Chicago Dancing Festival, DanceWorks Chicago, Hedwig Dances, Piel Morena, Same Planet Different World, and The Visitors. Vin’s work has been featured on the NBC morning show, and in Time Out Chicago.
Works: ASCENDance (2013); Line of Sighs (2012)
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Megan Turner
Megan E. Turner graduated this June from The Theatre School at DePaul University with a BFA in Costume Technology. Megan is currently living, working and designing in Chicago, but she hails all the way from Seattle, WA.
Works: Trade Winds (2014)
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Caryn Weglarz
Caryn in a professional costume designer in the Chicago area. In 1992, she was the costume designer for Jerry Bock’s musical, “The Rothschilds,” at the Apple Tree Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, of which she was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Costume Design. Caryn was also the designer for Jerry Herman’s musical, “La Cage Aux Folles,” at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1999.
Works: Waltz #3 (1993); Heartthrob (1993); Flight/Fight Dance (1991)
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Wendy Winters
Wendy has designed costumed for established choreographers such as Donna Uchizono, Lar Lubovitch, Jennifer Monson, Luciana Achugar, Jodi Melnick, Oren Barnoy, Yasmeen Godder, Aszure Barton, Bill Young & Colleen Thomas, Levi Gonzalez, Troika Ranch and Jeremy Wade.
Works: Rein, Bellow (2007)
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