Baltimore-based percussionist and performer Adam Rosenblatt has a penchant for finding interesting and uncommon ways to present and perform contemporary music. He has a keen interest for growing an interdisciplinary performance practice, believing that a mix of media and art forms can speak more directly and powerfully to our current modern context.
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ellen cherry is a singer, songwriter, musician, designer, artist, producer, recording engineer, and human. Emmy nominated Song and Story Alchemist, ellen cherry (lowercase letters intentional!) is a full-time touring and working performer based in Baltimore, MD. In 2018, ellen co-produced a podcast that examines fame and celebrity from a working musician's viewpoint, called "Why Aren't You Famous?" In 2017, ellen presented a new touring project called Portraits in Song.
Amadou Kouyate is the 150th generation of the Kouyate family of Manding Diali (oral historians/musicians of West Africa) and the first generation born of his father’s lineage in America. Amadou performs a musical montage on the 21-string Kora, and rhythmic presentations on Djembe and Koutiro drums. His repertoire ranges from traditional songs from the 13th century to contemporary original compositions incorporating blues and jazz riffs.
Hailed by JazzTimes as one of the most "original saxophone voices” of his generation, Gary Thomas has secured a central place in jazz history.
As a saxophonist, flutist, composer and educator, Thomas is absolutely second to none. One of the few true pioneers of our time, his contributions place him in a class of wholly individual artists who have simultaneously set the technical standard for and reinvented the language of their art. His resume evidences this, as he has worked extensively with the top names in the business, including:
Degree in Architecture from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and in City Planning from MIT. Emeritas professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland. Weaver of MAXIMILIAN scarves.
James Patrick Sheehan lives in Baltimore City. His produced plays include one-acts Holidays In, Ball Lightning and Urban Pioneers; full-length comedies R.G.B. and Random Dríft, or the Finches of Galapagos; and the two-man show Wicked Pudding (co-written with Ed Valentine). His plays have been presented in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Baltimore.
He also has written libretti for two chamber operas, Dummy (Gil Kline, composer)and The Window Seat (Kendall Kennison, composer), both of which received premieres at Goucher College.
Ms. Perrin is a MFA graduate from Towson University where she wrote her thesis on the advantages of being a self-producing playwright. Her first episode of Dyke Tracy, Detective ("Murder Most Vile in Fakesville") has been shown at an international festival in Bratislava and produced by several states, including Maryland. She has been selected twice (2017 & 2018) by Fells Point Corner Theatre to be part of their 10x10x10 Festival and by Rapid Lemon Productions for their 2017 Variations on Magic festival.
James Magruder is a fiction writer, playwright, and translator. His stories have appeared, in The Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Subtropics, Bloom, The Normal School, The Hopkins Review, Gargoyle, New Stories from the Midwest, and elsewhere. His début novel, Sugarless, (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009) was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, the VCU Cabell First Novelists Award, and shortlisted for the 2010 William Saroyan International Writing Prize.
Alexander Heilner is a multi-disciplinary artist and photographer whose work inhabits both fine art and documentary initiatives as he investigates the relationships between artificial and natural elements within the environment, and within our culture. A winner of the prestigious Baker Artist Prize, Alex has exhibited, screened, and performed his work nationally and internationally, Photography festivals including Pingyao, Sienna, and Daegu have featured his aerial photography, and he has been awarded numerous grants and commissions in support of his ongoing environmental projects.
Kei Ito is a US-based photographer and installation artist who graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art ('16) with an MFA in Photography, following his BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology ('14).