Winsome Brown at Issue Project Room
“Monologues in Stereo”
Including
Hit the Body Alarm
By Samuel Corso
Performed by Winsome Brown
With music written & performed by Dave Soldier
Miss Furr & Miss Skeene
By Gertrude Stein
Performed by Winsome Brown & Sheryl Moller
Winsome Brown—filmmaker, performer, writer, director—most recently wrote and directed “The Violinist” (2009, 44 min), a 16 mm silent experimental narrative with an opulent score by Dave Soldier. It was her second collaboration with noted avant-garde filmmaker Jennifer Reeves, who was director of photography for the film. She is currently developing the live Performance Concert of Soldier’s music for performance across the US and internationally. As a film actor, Winsome has performed in “Heights” (Merchant Ivory, dir. Chris Terrio) for which the Seattle Weekly awarded her a two-minute Oscar, the B-movie “Nightfall” with David Carradine, “Shadows Choose Their Horrors” (2005, dir. Jennifer Reeves, New York Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival) which she also co-wrote, “On-Line” (2001, Sundance, Berlin Film Festival) and more. As a theatre actor, Winsome most recently won an Obie award for her performance in Heather Woodbury’s “Tale of 2Cities: An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks,” (2007) at the UCLA Live festival in LA and PS 122 in New York. Selected stage credits: “Taking Sides” (Odyssey Theatre, LA), “Welcome to Winsomeland” (Tamarind Theatre, LA). American Living Room Series (HERE), Blueprint Series (Ontological-Hysteric Theatre). Her series of one-woman shows, “Fits & Starts” played in New York, Los Angeles, and Hyderabad, India. Winsome’s writing has been published in Elle India, The Outrider (Toronto), Gothtober.com, Boiler Magazine, City Magazine, and more. She is a founding member of the international theatre ensemble Hopballehus. Winsome attended the University of Toronto Schools (Toronto) and Harvard College (Cambridge, MA) where she graduated with a degree in English. She serves on the board of the Church Street School for Music & Art in Tribeca. She is in the process of completing her first novel.
Dave Soldier (Music) lives two lives: as neuroscientist and as composer, violinist, guitarist, and producer. He founded the seminal punk chamber group the Soldier String Quartet in 1985, pioneering the use of amplified instruments and a repertoire that erased boundaries between classical and popular music, and now leads the Andalusian band the Spinozas and the Delta punk group the Kropotkins. He founded the first orchestra for animals, the Thai Elephant Orchestra of Lampang, in 2000. Recordings and scores of many of his works written for classically trained players are available from Mulatta Records (mulatta.org). He has recorded almost 100 albums as a composer, leader, arranger, and/or musician. As Dave Sulzer (his real name) he is professor in the Neurology and Psychiatry departments at Columbia University, as well as head of a neuroscience laboratory.
Sheryl Moller has completed two films in the last year, Everything Must Go and Profile. She appeared recently with the Unofficial New York Yale Cabaret in Most Happy. With director Michael Bergman she starred in the film La Primavera. She has worked on various projects with Andre Gregory and has worked with the Work Center of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. As a founding member of Water Theatre Company she appeared in many productions, including the critically acclaimed Pilgrims written by Elizabeth Gilbert, directed by Shira Piven, and produced by Mike Nichols.