04.16.09 - 8:00pm

Kate Valk & Andrew Schneider

Buy Tickets | Admission: $15 / $10 for members

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kate Valk began working with The Wooster Group in 1979 and since then has co-composed and performed in all of the Group’s productions. Valk has also worked on and been featured in all of The Wooster Group’s radio, film, and video projects.  Valk founded and directs The Wooster Group’s in-school partnership with Dr. Sun Yat Sen Middle School and the Summer Institute, a performance intensive for public high school students conducted at The Performing Garage every summer. Valk received an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence, a BESSIE Award for her performance in TO YOU, THE BIRDIE! (PHÈDRE) and a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Individual Artist Award.  This year Ms. Valk has been chosen as  a mentor for The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. 

 

Kate Valk has co-composed and performed in the following Wooster Group projects:

 

HAMLET – 2006

WHO’S YOUR DADA?! – 2006

HOUSE/LIGHTS (reprise) – 2005

POOR THEATER – 2004/5

Brace Up! – 2003

To You, The Birdie! (Phèdre) – 2002

North Atlantic (reprise) -2000

House/Lights – 1999     

The Hairy Ape – 1995     

Fish Story – 1994

The Emperor Jones  – 1993

Brace Up! – 1991

North Atlantic – 1984 

The Road to Immortality

Frank Dell’s The Temptation of St. Antony-1987

LSD (Just the High Points)-1984

Route 1 & 9-1981

Hula & For the Good Times (two dance pieces)-1981 & 1983

Miss Universal Happiness & Symphony of Rats-1985 & 1988

–written and directed for the company by Richard Foreman 

Radio

The Peggy Carstairs Report-2002

Racine’s Phèdre-2000

The Wooster Group’s The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill-1998

–each radio piece was a BBC Radio 3 Broadcast of a Festival Radio Production 

Film & Video

House/Lights DVD and DocumentarY-2003

The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill-2000

Wrong Guys-in progress

Rhyme ’Em to Death-1994

White Homeland Commando-1992

Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It-1986

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew Schneider is a multimedia designer and performer. He is the co-founder and Associate Artistic Director of the Chicago-based theatre company, bigpicturegroup. His performance work has been seen at P.S. 122, The Prelude Festival, The Conflux Festival, The Tank, and O’Reilly Media’s ETech. His multimedia work has been featured in Art Review, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, TimeOut NY, Make, SIGGRAPH, DorkbotNYC, Sony Tech Wonder Labs, the Telfair Art Museum, and at the Center Pompidou in Paris. His Solar Bikini has been featured in galleries internationally.  His latest projects include Experimental Devices for Performance (.com) and Acting Stranger (.com). Andrew Holds a Masters Degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU. He is currently working with The Wooster Group and Fischerspooner.  More at andrewjs.com.