Kate Valk began working with The Wooster Group in 1979 and since then has co-composed and performed in all of the Group’s productions. Valk has also worked on and been featured in all of The Wooster Group’s radio, film, and video projects. Valk founded and directs The Wooster Group’s in-school partnership with Dr. Sun Yat Sen Middle School and the Summer Institute, a performance intensive for public high school students conducted at The Performing Garage every summer. Valk received an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence, a BESSIE Award for her performance in TO YOU, THE BIRDIE! (PHÈDRE) and a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Individual Artist Award. This year Ms. Valk has been chosen as a mentor for The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
Kate Valk has co-composed and performed in the following Wooster Group projects:
HAMLET - 2006
WHO’S YOUR DADA?! - 2006
HOUSE/LIGHTS (reprise) - 2005
POOR THEATER - 2004/5
Brace Up! - 2003
To You, The Birdie! (Phèdre) - 2002
North Atlantic (reprise) -2000
House/Lights - 1999
The Hairy Ape - 1995
Fish Story - 1994
The Emperor Jones - 1993
Brace Up! - 1991
North Atlantic - 1984
The Road to Immortality
Frank Dell’s The Temptation of St. Antony-1987
LSD (Just the High Points)-1984
Route 1 & 9-1981
Hula & For the Good Times (two dance pieces)-1981 & 1983
Miss Universal Happiness & Symphony of Rats-1985 & 1988 –written and directed for the company by Richard Foreman
Radio
The Peggy Carstairs Report-2002
Racine’s Phèdre-2000
The Wooster Group’s The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill-1998
–each radio piece was a BBC Radio 3 Broadcast of a Festival Radio Production
Film & Video
House/Lights DVD and DocumentarY-2003
The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill-2000
Wrong Guys-in progress
Rhyme ’Em to Death-1994
White Homeland Commando-1992
Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It-1986
Andrew Schneider is a multimedia designer and performer. He is the co-founder and Associate Artistic Director of the Chicago-based theatre company, bigpicturegroup. His performance work has been seen at P.S. 122, The Prelude Festival, The Conflux Festival, The Tank, and O’Reilly Media’s ETech. His multimedia work has been featured in Art Review, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, TimeOut NY, Make, SIGGRAPH, DorkbotNYC, Sony Tech Wonder Labs, the Telfair Art Museum, and at the Center Pompidou in Paris. His Solar Bikini has been featured in galleries internationally. His latest projects include Experimental Devices for Performance (.com) and Acting Stranger (.com). Andrew Holds a Masters Degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU. He is currently working with The Wooster Group and Fischerspooner. More at www.andrewjs.com.