Fall 2025 Residency Artists

  • Layale Chaker

    Layale Chaker

    Fall 2025
    Music/Opera

    Layale Chaker, a composer and violinist, was raised on the verge of multiple musical streams in her native Lebanon.

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  • John Jahnke / Hotel Savant

    John Jahnke / Hotel Savant

    Fall 2025
    Literature

    John Jahnke is a New York-based artist, playwright, and director. He is the Artistic Director of the multidisciplinary theater company Hotel Savant.

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  • Yin Mei Dance

    Yin Mei Dance

    Fall 2025
    Dance/Theatre

    Yin Mei is an interdisciplinary artist whose work integrates dance, visual art, and scholarly inquiry. As the Director of Dance and M.A. Performance and Media Studies at Queens College (CUNY), she crafts works that interrogate cultural identity and embodied experience.

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  • Chaery Moon and Alex Munro

    Chaery Moon and Alex Munro

    Spring 2025
    Interdisciplinary

    Chaery Moon embarked on her dance journey with the Korean National Ballet and the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts, earning early recognition by winning the Tanzolymp in Berlin.

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  • THE MNTRO PRJCT

    THE MNTRO PRJCT

    Fall 2025
    Dance

    Chalvar Monteiro received his BFA from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College at SUNY, and has worked with Sidra Bell Dance New York, Elisa Monte Dance, Keigwin+Company, BODYTRAFFIC, GALLIM, A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham, Ailey II, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

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  • Jie-Hung Connie Shiau

    Jie-Hung Connie Shiau

    Fall 2025
    Dance

    Jie-Hung Connie Shiau is a choreographer, dancer, and educator. 

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  • Oleg Stepanov and Dario Minoia

    Oleg Stepanov and Dario Minoia

    Fall 2025
    Dance/Film

    Oleg Stepanov is a versatile artist, excelling as a dancer, choreographer, film and music maker.

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  • Life Jacket Theatre Company

    Life Jacket Theatre Company

    Fall 2025 Artist Labs
    Musical Theatre

    Melding fact and fiction, THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS builds a rich and complex tapestry based on interviews, archival documents, and prison records.

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  • ate9

    ate9

    Baryshnikov Arts Fellowship at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
    Multidisciplinary

    Georgina Pazcoguin, “The Rogue Ballerina,” joined New York City Ballet in 2002 and became its first Asian American female soloist in 2013.

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  • Elinor Kleber Diggs

    Elinor Kleber Diggs

    Baryshnikov Arts Fellowship at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
    Dance/Interdisciplinary

    Elinor Kleber Diggs, currently based in Harlem, New York, is an interdisciplinary artist, dancer, and choreographer from Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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  • inkBoat

    inkBoat

    Baryshnikov Arts Fellowship at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
    Dance/Theater

    Shinichi Iova-Koga serves as the Artistic Director of the dance theater company inkBoat, founded by Iova-Koga in 1998.

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  • Life Jacket Theater Company

    Life Jacket Theater Company

    Spring 2025
    Theatre/Musical Theatre

    Travis Lee Russ, Ph.D. (Book Writer) is a queer playwright and director from a small industrial town in rural Indiana.

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