COLLABORATOR & GUEST ARTIST BIOS
RENA ANAKWE ( Electronic Score ) Rena Anakwe is an interdisciplinary artist and performer working primarily with sound, visuals, and scent. Exploring intersections between traditional healing practices, spirituality, and performance, she creates works focused on sensory-based, experiential interactions using creative technology. Most recently, she was awarded a 2021-2022 MacDowell Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Arts and a 2022 Jack Nusbaum Artist Residency at BAM. Anakwe has collaborated, produced, and shown work at NYC institutions, including: En Garde Arts/Brookfield Place, Weeksville Heritage Center, Dia Foundation, Fridman Gallery, Knockdown Center, Lincoln Center. MoMA PS1, CultureHub, Pioneer Works, and Montez Press Radio. She is based in Brooklyn, New York, by way of Nigeria and Canada. NICK HALLETT ( Composer & Music Director ) Nick Hallett is a musician, artist, and curator. His scores for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company include Deep Blue Sea (2021), What Problem? (2020), the Analogy Trilogy (2015-2017), A Letter to My Nephew (2015), and Fishkill/Movements 1-45 (2014). He has served as vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and music director for the international tours of these works. Hallett received a 2017 Bessie Award with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Miguel Gutierrez for Variations on Themes from Lost & Found; Scenes from a Life and Other Works by John Bernd. In 2020, his opera collaboration with artist Shana Moulton, Whispering Pines 10 , premiered in digital form at www. whisperingpines10.com. His music and transdisciplinary projects have been presented in New York at MoMA, the Whitney, the Guggenheim, Hayden Planetarium, BAM, Performa, New Museum, The Kitchen, Danspace, Roulette, and ISSUE Project Room. Hallett is on the faculties of The New School and School of Visual Arts. MARK HAIRSTON ( Dramaturg ) A native of Washington, DC, Mark Hairston is a director, performer and educator with a primary focus on American theater and theater of the African diaspora. He is particularly drawn to classical works, innovative literary adaptations, and theater for community development. His recent directing highlights include Julius Caesar , The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom , King Lear , The Cherry Orchard , and The Henry Dumas Project . Along with directing, Mark Hairston has worked extensively as a professional actor with some of the nation’s leading theater companies. He is a graduate of the MFA Directing program at Columbia University School of the Arts, received his BFA in Acting from Rutgers University, and was classically trained at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. Mark Hairston is an Assistant Professor of Directing and Acting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. HPRIZM aka HIGH PRIEST (Electronic Score) Hprizm aka High Priest is an American avant- garde artist, composer, new-media artist and performer whose work spans performance art, pop music and multimedia projects. Formally trained as a visual artist, Hprizm, later developed from the axis of poetry, hip hop and the experimental arts community of the Lower East Side in the early 90’s. Prizm is the founding member of the Antipop Consortium and a cited figure in the Afrofuturist canon. Prizm has shared stages with The Roots, Radiohead, MF Doom, Matthew Shipp, Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, and others. His musical compositions have been presented at the Whitney, Guggenheim, Walker, and The New museums, as well as MoMA PS1, Cal-Arts, and the Mazzoli Gallery. At his PRIZMLABS, his clients include Kehinde Wiley, Simone Leigh, Moor Mother, Ursula Rucker, The Barnes center, Bahamadia, The Banff Centre, Meredith Monk, and the So Percussion ensemble, among others.
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