Albee Fellows: Summer/Fall 2025
Visual Artists
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Martirene Alcantara: Bio Coming Soon...
Scott Bluedorn: Bio Coming Soon... Chris Coffin: Bio Coming Soon... Sarah Faux: Sarah Faux is a painter whose somatic work explores the delights and contradictions of living in a body. Faux works primarily on large scale paintings in oil and cut-out canvas collages. She has held solo exhibitions at Hales Gallery (NYC), M+B (Los Angeles) and Capsule Shanghai (Shanghai), among others. She has shown in group exhibitions as well, including at Eric Firestone (NYC), Sim Smith (London), Loyal Gallery (Stockholm) and Lyles & King (NYC). Faux has been the recipient of residencies and grants, including an Institute Residential Fellowship at the Clyfford Still Museum (Denver, CO, 2024), a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2023-2024), and a Keyholder Fellowship at the Lower East Side Printshop (NYC, 2018-19). Faux holds an MFA from Yale University and a joint BA/BFA from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Kathryn Lynch: Kathryn Lynch (b.1961) is a visual artist presently living in Catskill, NY with a studio in Foreland. She paints with a poetic sensibility distilling everyday scenes into evocative, memory infused compositions. June 3 she has a solo show at Victoria Munroe Gallery in NYC and in July a group show "A Particular Kind Of Hell " Karma Gallery outpost in Maine. Lynch was awarded a NYFA Fellowship, Colstoun House Residency in Scotland, Free Studio Space from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation NYC , she has been to Yaddo, Skowhegan Alumni residency and the Vermont Studio School - she has a BA from William Smith College and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She is in numerous corporate and private collections. Edie Nadelhaft: Edie Nadelhaft (b. Pittsburgh, PA) is a realist painter and mixed-media sculptor whose work explores the impact of digital culture on human experience, as well as the exhilaration and quiet drama of existing in a finite physical state. Edie studied at SUNY Purchase and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and earned her BFA with honors from the Massachusetts College of Art (1995). Her work has been exhibited widely, including solo shows at Lyons Wier Gallery (New York, 2017, 2020, 2022) and William Scott Gallery (Provincetown, 2016), and a two-person exhibition at Frosch & Portmann (New York, 2018). Her work is in the collections of the Ford Foundation, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, and Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, and has been shown at the Yellowstone Art Museum, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and the Provincetown Art Association & Museum. She has received residency awards from the Catskill Center (2008, 2018) and the Yellowstone Art Museum (2015). Edie has lived and worked in Lower Manhattan since 1998. Sheila Nadimi: Sheila Nadimi is a visual artist currently based in Montréal, Québec. She holds a B.A. Honours in Geography from McGill University, an MFA from Utah State University and a post-graduate diploma from the Arnhem Academy of Art in the Netherlands. Her work has received grants and awards from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Mondriaan Fund in the Netherlands. She has held various residencies including Hospitalfield in Arbroath Scotland, Paintings Edge in Idyllwild California and the Cooper Union in NYC. Her studio practice is rooted in an engagement with modes of abstraction. Alongside her studio practice, she has maintained a long-term visual chronicling of a set of vacant buildings in Utah which is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art and a recently published artist book Eagle Village: A Deep Mapping of Fallow Architecture. Elly Reitman: Elly Reitman (b. 1990) is a multi-disciplinary artist working mainly in sculpture, painting and performance, based in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal, Quebec. As an artist and bodyworker, they are concerned with the human body in both physical and metaphysical dimensions, investigating and researching how it feels and what it means to live in a destabilized world. They received a BFA at The Cooper Union, an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and diplomas in TCM Acupressure and Naturopathy at École Setsuko. Recently they have exhibited work at The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Rumpelstiltskin, Romance, and Bad Water. Pete Schulte: Pete Schulte is an artist based in Birmingham, Alabama. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at Mckenzie Fine Art in New York; The Lamar Dodd School of Art at The University of Georgia; The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; and Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, New York. Exhibition reviews have appeared in Hyperallergic, Art in America, and World Sculpture News, among other publications. Schulte has been awarded residencies at The Chinati Foundation, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, Yaddo, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and Threewalls. He received an MFA in painting and drawing from The University of Iowa in 2008. He is currently Professor of Art at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. In 2013, Pete Schulte and Amy Pleasant founded The Fuel and Lumber Company curatorial initiative. Lia Sutton: Bio Coming Soon... Georgia Wall: Georgia Wall is an artist & ceremonialist who works with the mediums of performance, video, paper, song, time, and composition. In New York, Wall has performed at St. Marks Church, Gibney Dance, HERE, Judson Church and New York Live Arts. Her visual work has been exhibited at Document in Chicago, Team Gallery in New York and Faena Art Center in Miami. Wall has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center, Joan Mitchell Center Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, PearlArts Studio in Pittsburgh, Catwalk Institute and The Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Italy. Georgia Wall was born in New York City in 1986 and now lives and works in Queens, NY. She holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
Writers |
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán: Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán is a multimedia artist, activist/organizer, and educator. A Tulsa Artist Fellow and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, he is author of the chapbooks, Archipiélagos; Inquillry; Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking; and South Bronx Breathing Lessons. Bodhrán is editor of the international queer Indigenous issue of Yellow Medicine Review, the first global queer/trans Indigenous collection; and co-editor of the Nativedance/movement/performance issue of Movement Research Performance Journal. Co-founder of the world's first transgender film festival, which became the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, he organized the world's first transgender Arab roundtable dialogue for Sinister Wisdom. His visual art and videos have been shared across the U.S., Australia, and Morocco. He continues to work with diverse communities to create compelling multimedia dance works. He has received scholarships/fellowships from Canto Mundo, Macondo, RAWI/Soul Mountain, VONA, and Lambda Literary.
Anjeli Chapman: Anjeli Chapman is a British-American playwright from New York City. She studied postcolonial theory at Lucy Cavendish, Cambridge. In 2024, she began her career in theatre and television as the writing assistant for Lucy Prebble and Ed Solomon. She worked as an Oscar nominee researcher for Amelia Dimoldenberg at the 96th Academy Awards. Chapman was a member of the 2024 Royal Court’s playwriting group. Her academic work on Lord Byron has been published in Romantic Textualities. Her debut short story anthology is entitled SPITE. David Crespy: David A. Crespy is a professor of playwriting, acting, dramatic literature and theatre history at the University of Missouri. He founded MU's Writing for Performance program and Missouri Playwrights Workshop and received the Gold Medallion from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Of late, he focuses on dreamwork and Sephardic Jewish drama for which he received two Fulbright Scholar Awards. Crespy has written six books, forty plays, many journal and book articles. Selected books include Off-Off Broadway Explosion, (Watson-Guptill, 2003); Richard Barr: The Playwrights' Producer (SIU Press, March 2013); Lanford Wilson: Selected Stories, Sketches, and Poetry (University of Missouri Press, 2017), and Dreamwrighting: Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing for Stage & Screen (Brill, 2024). Agnes Borinsky: Agnes Borinsky (b. 1986, Baltimore) is a writer, performer, and convener of people. Her most recent play, The Trees, premiered in 2023 at Playwrights Horizons, in a co-production with Page 73. With Yasser Abu-Shaqra, she is co-editor of the forthcoming Futures: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab Theater. Her plays have been published by Methuen and 3 Hole Press. She lives in Los Angeles. Ron Fromstein: Ron is a largely self-taught playwright from Toronto, who has also lived in Vancouver, Chicago, New Orleans and Iceland. He is a four time winner of the Canadian National playwriting competition and seventeen time winner-finalist of Toronto-Hamilton fringe playwriting competitions. In 2020-21, he was a member of the Road Theatres Playwrighting Group (online), where he worked on the play Solitary, and in 2024 he was a playwright-in residence at the Seven Devils Playwriting Conference (in-person). Performed works include: The Big Smoke, Dianne & Me, Seven VIrgins & One in a million (a micromusical). When not writing Ron can often be found playing basketball on courts throughout the land. Michelle Meyers: Bio Coming Soon... Mariana Newhard: Mariana Newhard is a Filipina-American writer/performer specializing in hybrid/devised work. She was awarded the New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists Grant in 2024 for her opera, Queen of the Nile. Plays include: Assembled Identity (premiered at HERE Arts Center, co-created with Kristin Marting and Purva Bedi), Andromache at the Edge of the World, Zenith, Otherworld and Da Food is Da Food. She has received support and endowments from: HERE Arts Center, Rogers Arts Loft, Bethany Arts Community, The Puffin Foundation, The Drama League of New York, the North American Cultural Laboratory (NACL), the Dorset Theater Festival's Women Artists Writing Group, and Drop Forge and Tool. Originally from Manila, Mariana lives in New York where she received her BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She studied writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard University and the Asian American Writer's Workshop. Itto Outini: Itto Outini writes about America, Morocco, and all those caught in between. Her work integrates a variety of eclectic influences: the Amazigh oral tradition in which she was raised; classic Arabic, French, and Russian literature; thinkers ranging from Aurelius to Sartre; and most importantly, life itself. She's placed fiction and nonfiction in The North America Review, Modern Literature, Southland Alibi, Good River Review, Gargoyle, and elsewhere around the globe and has received support from the Fulbright Program, the Steinbeck Fellows Program, and the MacDowell Foundation. She's also spoken for organizations including Cal Tech University, Verizon Wireless, The International Trade Centre, and the United Nations. Itto and her husband, Mekiya, are currently collaborating on several books and running The DateKeepers, an author support platform. Itto holds an MA in journalism and strategic media from the University of Arkansas. Graham Techler: raham Techler won the Richard Rodgers Award for Helsinki (Selection; National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Semifinalist; O'Neill National Music Theatre Conference, American Music Theatre Project) with composer Barrett Riggins. His plays include The Panic of '29 (59E59), The Tycoons! (Less Than Rent), Lane Gaullson's Revenge (The Brick), and Trust Fund (Finalist; O'Neill National Playwrights Conference). He is a member of EST/Youngblood, a resident artist with Colt Coeur, a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, and an alumnus of the Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project. He regularly contributes humor writing to The New Yorker and McSweeney's, performs monthly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and writes songs for the burlesque variety show Stage Time with PJ Adzima (The Slipper Room). BFA: University of Michigan, where he won the Hopwood Drama Prize. He is represented by UTA. www.grahamtechler.com Bailey Williams: Bailey Williams is a playwright, performer, and producer. Past productions include *Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods *(written with Emma Horwitz), dir. Tara Elliott, Rattlestick/New Georges, 2025; Coach Coach, dir. Sarah Blush, Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks 2024; Events, dir. Sarah Blush, The Hearth at The Brick, December 2022; I thought I would die but I didn't, dir. Sarah Blush, The Tank, May 2019; Buffalo Bailey's Ranch for Gay Horses, Troubled Teen Girls and Other: a 90 Minute Timeshare Presentation, The Exponential Festival, January 2018. MFA: Brooklyn College. www.baileywilliams.live |