Producer, Wild Up
Recent projects include Democracy Sessions and To The Fullest: The Music of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell.
“…[R]aucous, grungy, irresistibly exuberant...this group’s boisterously theatrical sensibility...draws out the vitality in the works it plays. [A] fun-loving, exceptionally virtuosic family.” – The New York Times
Democracy Bardo (2024). Featuring Marta Tiesenga and Julia Eichten. Image by Evelina Gabrielle Perez. Courtesy Wild Up & MOCA.
Producer, Jay Carlon
Recent projects include WAKE and TALAGA
Jay Carlon’s projects are inspired by his ancestral past and the rituals of his Filipinx heritage and culture. As a choreographer and community organizer, Jay’s works are interrogations, interventions, and thoughtful provocations that aim to provide audiences and participants a sense of belonging and a space for healing.
“Tender and prescient” — Novena Review Autre Magazine
WAKE (2024) Image by Jonathan Potter.
Producer, Micaela Tobin
APOLAKI: Opera of the Scorched Earth
APOLAKI: OPERA OF THE SCORCHED EARTH is a new experimental opera by Filipino-American composer Micaela Tobin in collaboration with installation designer Carlo Maghirang and dancer/choreographer Jay Carlon. Continuing her celebration of the pre-colonial mythologies of the Philippines, Tobin’s new work tells the story of Apolaki, the precolonial God of Sun and War, who finds themself lost in a foreign and unfamiliar land (present day Tongva Land/Los Angeles) after being displaced from the Philippines by Spanish colonizers. This opera is a radical meditation on the complex relationships between settler colonialism, migration, and diaspora, and invites the audience to join Apolaki in this immersive pilgrimage, premiering at the historic and storied Zorthian Ranch overlooking the Los Angeles Basin.
“A brilliant showcase in the evolution of her art.”
— APOLAKI music review and interview Passion of the Weiss
APOLAKI: Opera of the Scorched Earth (2023). Image by Angel Origgi.
Producer, The Industry
Recent projects include STAR CHOIR, Sweetland, LAB 2022, and The Comet / Poppea
Experimentation, collaboration, and boldness - The Industry has led the operatic, multidisciplinary, and public art fields by developing singular performances in unexpected places.
“STAR CHOIR achieves what important theater is meant to do: transport us, allow an escape from ourselves, while taking us deeper within.” - HYPERALLERGIC
STAR CHOIR Featuring Kelci Hahn.. Image by Michael Thomas. Courtesy The Industry.
Producer, homeLA
Recent projects include Venice, House of Resilience, Neighborhood Universalist Unitarian Church
homeLA is a platform for experimental dance that promotes intersectionality and cultivates inclusivity through site-specific programs that position underrepresented narratives into the embodied exchange of ideas around space and place to reframe Los Angeles’ history and its civic and urban character through varied contextual imaginings of “home”.
Jobel Medina Venice 2023. Image by Andrew Mandinach courtesy homeLA.
Creator + Director - Dead Awaken
A celebrated artist struggles to atone for the sins of his past in hopes to change the course of his future. Part concert, part play, Dead Awaken is about the choices we make for survival.
Created in collaboration with Preston Butler III and Tanya Orellana
Featuring the work of Jasmine Gatewood, Kristin Tripe, Elias Pearlstein, Caleb Fietsam, Max Keene, Harlow Price, Rose Malone, and Rose Strausen.
“A fascinating fusion of theatre and music” -FEST Magazine
Dead Awaken Featuring Preston Butler III, Jasmine Gatewood. Image by Jonathan Potter.
Creator + Director - We Can Only Grow Closer
A war between the foreign and the familiar, two couples desperately try to escape the confines of their partnerships and surroundings in this immersive theater piece. The pairs infect each other with memory and fantasy until everything, including themselves, has been ripped apart.
Featuring the work of Megan Hackett, Chuja Seo, Anatoliy Ogay and Zachary Davidson, Shannon Knox, Athena Lawton, Harlow Price, Alexander Freer, Giuliana Foulkes, and Asuka Lin.
Image by Jonathan Potter.