Tickets on sale now! | Show runs March 9–16, 2024 |

Tickets on sale now! | Show runs March 9–16, 2024 |

who is CHILD?

CHILD is a company of 15 dancers, actors, musicians, clowns, choreographers, composers, video artists, writers, and designers who make large scale interdisciplinary performances at the collision point between theater, dance, music and experimental performance. Members of CHILD generate shows collectively. We are interested in distorting and rewiring narrative, creating at the friction point where performative mediums collide.

  • Angel Acuña is a dancer and graphic designer from San Diego, California. Drawing on childhood memories from Zacatecas, México, and his Mexican-American upbringing in Southern California, Angel seeks to capture a sensibility informed by the alternative. He actively engages in collaborative environments that purposefully challenge rigid power structures. Valuing diverse perspectives and co-creation, Angel is fascinated by the expansive possibilities of digital media to manifest new worlds rooted in the magnetism of movement. He currently is a designer with FAILSPACE NYC.“I dance with the person I am. I live with the wisdom dance lends.”

  • Catherine Brookman is a Brooklyn-based performer and composer. She will release her debut album “If a song fades out, it’s playing forever somewhere” this year. Along with making her own work, Brookman is an active performer in experimental music and theatre projects including Julius Eastman’s Stay On It with The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Meredith Monk's ATLAS with the LA Philharmonic (Walt Disney Concert Hall), the 2020 Vanguard Gala Honoring Laurie Anderson, as a soloist with Alarm Will Sound at LA Philharmonic (GenX Festival), with jazz and pop acts Esperanza Spalding and Lorde, in Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 off-Broadway and Hair on Broadway. She recently performed at LA’s popular ambient series, floating, in Bronson Canyon. She contributed vocals to the Grammy-nominated records Eastman: Vol. 2 & 3 with LA-ensemble Wild Up and will be touring with them on the west coast this February. Brookman created the original music for upcoming podcast Very Unbecoming (Audible) featuring Amy Sedaris. She will present her new album live with a chamber ensemble at the Carnegie Hill Concert Series in NY in March 2024. She is part of the maximal multidisciplinary ensemble CHILD. She received a 2022 MacDowell Fellowship.

  • Ampersand Paris (they/them) is an interdisciplinary performing artist and fermentation revivalist. Their current practice is coining and cultivating a trans-microbiopolitic for making and being. They concern themselves with taking care of nearly invisible things: bacteria, yeast, lines of code, and the liminal space of trans existence. Their overlapping processes of fermentation, decomposition, self-portraiture, computer programming, and performance improvisation build relationships to these invisible forces and illuminate their world-shaping impacts. Their desire is to learn the technologies of the small in order to care for big transformations necessary to survive, if not effervesce, in climate ruin.

  • Eriq  is a guy who lives in Jersey City and plays bass for a variety of ensembles. He is a multi-media artist and lover of all things beautiful. His favorite flower is the sunflower and his favorite sunflower is the sun.

  • Hannah Mitchell is an actor, theater-maker, and educator whose process is guided by the improvisational arts, especially clown and it’s sisters bouffon, commedia & being a human with a body. She loves to sing, loves hamming it up, is curious about the connection between relaxation and play, is compelled by the ridiculous contained and unleashed, and she loves being part of the pack. She devises new and experimental works of theater, performs live comedy bits, and regularly collaborates with various ensembles, including her clown company, WüfPak, and the experimental theater collective, CHILD (<3). Hannah has performed at many venues around NYC including The Public, The Brick, The Park Ave Armory, The Collapsable Hole, Lincoln Center, LifeWorld, The New Ohio, HERE Arts, Target Margin, and The Brooklyn Comedy Collective, among others. hannahmitchell.net

  • Emma Orme is a Brooklyn-based producer and performer with a focus on new theatrical work. She is the Producing Director of The TEAM, where she collaborates with Founding Artistic Director Rachel Chavkin in running the org. She is also the producer for experimental company CHILD, a Fellow of WP Theater’s 2022-24 Lab, and producer of the Obie award-winning, Off-Broadway premiere of CIRCLE JERK (Fake Friends).  She has produced, performed in, and developed work at NYTW, The Public, Williamstown, LaMama, The Flea, Atlantic Theater, EST, Drama League, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Carolina Performing Arts, Invisible Dog, Colt Coeur, WP Theater, and more. Producing credits include: PLEASURE MACHINE, an audio thriller starring Starr Busby and directed by Tara Elliott (Colt Coeur); RUNNING, a short film starring Danny Pudi (Hypokrit); Time Out Critics’ Pick Brief Chronicle: Books 6-8 by Agnes Borinsky (i am a slow tide); NYT Critics’ Pick Red Emma & The Mad Monk; NYT Critics’ Pick AGNES (Lesser America); workshops of new plays by Ruby Rae Spiegel, Aya Aziz, Sunita Prasad, Justine Gelfman, Gina Femia, Celeste Jennings, Deborah Yarchun, and others; and Xandra Nur Clark’s Polylogues. Before she started with The TEAM, she worked as Producing Director at Hypokrit Productions, BOLD Associate Producer at Northern Stage, Grants Manager at Williamstown Theatre Festival, a video producer for The New York Times, and an associate producer on the documentary The Kleptocrats.  BA: Dartmouth College.

  • Lena Engelstein is a dancer, performer, and choreographer. She is part of the interdisciplinary performance collective CHILD, headed by Lisa Fagan. Her work, lauded as “subtly campy and hilariously queer” by the Brooklyn Rail, has been presented in NYC dance and theater festivals such as Prelude, Exponential Festival, and Fresh Tracks. Engelstein has collaborated with Jo Warren, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, and Magda San Millan on new works. Other recent performance credits include: Alexa West, Barnett Cohen, Brendan Drake, Falcon Dance (company member, 2018-present), Owen Prum + Lili Dekker, and Third Rail Company’s Then She Fell (company member, 2019-2020). She has taught at SUNY Brockport, Colorado Mesa University, Bard College, and The Field Center. Lena holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Colorado College.

  • Lisa Fagan is a choreographer, performer, and experimental performance maker based in NYC whose work has been called “The High Weird” by critics. She makes work within the framework of CHILD as well as without, working with dance in interdisciplinary and theatrical spaces. RECENT: Deepe Darknesse at New York Live Arts’ Live Artery festival, Jan 2024, with collaborator Lena Engelstein. Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC Open Artist in Residence, Oct-Nov 2023) with CHILD in development of experimental ensemble work 1-800-359-2113592. UPCOMING: HILMA (choreographer), premiering June 2024 at The Wilma Theater (Philadelphia), co-produced by New Georges. PAST: Work has been presented in NYC by New York Live Arts, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Prelude, Immediate Medium, Mercury Store, Radiohole, LifeWorld, Target Margin, HERE Arts, The Fisher Center at Bard College (Choreographer: Promenade, Dir. Morgan Green), The Exponential Festival (2019/20 Exponential Fellow), Mabou Mines, Ars Nova, Movement Research, Gibney, Roulette, The 92nd Street Y, and others. She collaborates with many artists across disciplines supporting their shows choreographically and as movement director. On-screen choreography credits include the TV pilot THESE DAYS starring Marianne Rendón and William Jackson Harper, premiering at Sundance 2021, and various music videos. www.lisafagandanceproblems.com @lfdanceproblems

  • Kirsten Harvey is an actor, performance artist and theater maker. Her work is rooted in perversity, melodrama, pop culture, and indulgence, often exploring sexuality and trauma through the genres of horror and fantasy. She is a founding member of CHILD with whom she has developed new work at LifeWorld, Mercury Store, and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Recent credits include DOM JUAN (Bard Summerscape) and Lily Houghton’s ELDERLY (Ensemble Studio Theater). She has performed with or at:  Abrons Arts Center, Playwrights Horizons, PlayCo, The Hearth, Waterwell, Exponential Theater Festival, SohoRep, Normal Ave, New York Stage & Film’s Powerhouse Theater, JACK, and The Richard B Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. She has collaborated with artists such as Lee Sunday Evans, Kedian Keohan, Geoff Sobelle, Stephen Karam, Jordan Fein, Arian Moayed, and Ashley Tata. She is the recipient of the 2017 Don Parker award for Excellence in Theater Performance awarded by Bard College. Photo by Dion Lamar Mills www.kirstensharvey.com

  • Maya Simone Z. is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, dancer, producer, choreographer and arts administrator from the South. Having come up dancing in church, their multidisciplinary movement-based practice centers queer, Black diasporic emotional and spiritual connections between the brain, body and spirit. Their work interweaves movement, writing, sound, installation, video, and performance. They are driven by exciting collaborations and have worked with Sydnie L. Mosley, Jasmine Hearn, Lisa Fagan, Cinthia Chen, and others. They were a recent More Art Fellow, and created a site-specific performance work in More Art’s public programming for Fred Wilson’s installation Mind Forged Manacles, Manacles Forged Minds in May 2023. They are proud to be a performer in CHILD, a company of thirteen talented multi-hyphenate artists devising experimental performance works directed by Lisa Fagan. www.mayasimonez.com

  • Miles Toth (they/them) is a queer, trans composer and producer making music in Brooklyn. Their work focuses on dualities and multiplicities, blending digital with analog, highlighting specificity and restraint over complexity, but also giving way at times to decadence and maximalism. They have toured nationally and internationally, and have a practice of making work outside the formal recording studio, either while in transit or in their home, with minimal and highly accessible gear. They are currently finishing a second album with their band, Leafing, as well as a “miniature” solo album with a run-time of under 15 minutes, of 7 songs-as-vignettes of moments and memories from the past year of their life.

  • Matthew Antoci is a creator and performer going full diva mode in New York City. They work in various mediums, including multi-media theater, internet performance, and drag. Matthew has shown original work onstage at The Brick, The Exponential Festival, We Are Here, IRT Theater, Purgatory, The Kraine, and Celebration Barn, as well as performed at CultureLab LIC, Connecticut Rep, and across the internet. Their original play I AM MY OWN MILF had a sold-out run at the 2023 New York FRIGID Fringe Festival, winning three festival awards. In the summer of 2023, their collaboration with Meaghan Robichaud, MEOW!, was presented at The Brick and The Tank, and in August 2023 they were an artist-in-residence at IRT Theater with collaborator Hillary Gao. Outside of their work in performance, Matthew is a practicing Hellenistic astrologer and freelance dialect coach. www.matthewantoci.com

  • Shannon Yu 余香儒(sha/shas) is a Brooklyn, New York based artist from Taiwan. Sha holds an MFA in Performance and Performance Studies from Pratt Institute, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University.  Shannon has been in floorwork and body motion workshops with BIARA Movement Philosophy, Vim Vigor, Akira Yoshida, Christina Merztani, Alexandros Anastasiadis, and LajaMartin. Shannon has studied street dance form Hip Hop and Breaking under Bboy Heatrock, Bgirl Mantis, CH Dance Crew and Deshawn Da Prince of Royal Thieves. Shannon had practiced Karate and Chinese Martial Arts Northern Shao Lin, and now studies Chinese Martial Arts Wing Tsun under Sifu Ethan at Brooklyn Wing Tsun.  Shannon is the recipient of 2023 Asian American Arts Alliance’s Jadin Wong Fellowship for Dance and Choreography. Shannon has worked and performed with Bill T. Jones, Lisa Fagan, Jesca Prudencio, Nic Billy, and has been in music videos of Lupe Fiasco, Beccs Music and Ehiorobo. Shannon has shown work in La Mama, Judson Memorial Church, Arts On Site, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, Abrons Arts Center, The Landmark Loew's Theater, and has been rewarded residencies with Dance in Bushwick, Spoke the Hub, Chen Dance Center, and the Center at West Park. Sha has been invited to show work with Freeskewl, Pioneer Go East Collective, New Dance Alliance, and The Creators Collective. Shannon was a recipient of City Artist Corp Grant in 2021. Sha has been in festivals such as Performance Mix Festival, the Evolution Festival, YES! Dance Festival, Your Moves Dance Festival, WOW Festival, and AAPI We Belong Here Festival.

  • Nathan Repasz is a New York-based drummer, vocalist, improviser, theatre artist, music director, and composer. His solo language+percussion performance explores the liminality of sense/nonsense and groove/noise – his piece “National Hot Dog Day” will be featured in the 2024 Emergency Index and he recently delivered his “Lecture on Something” as part of ?!: New Works. He has performed in Iceland, Poland, Germany, Czechia, and the U.K., and at Carnegie Hall, The Kitchen, SXSW, NPR’s Mountain Stage, and Philly Fringe. He works as a choral singer, session/pit musician, and goat-cheesemonger in the NYC area.

  • Suz / Murray Sadler (they/them) is a Brooklyn based video artist and filmmaker. Their focus is building non-hierarchical film sets and finding more ethical and sustainable ways to make films and video art. Suz Murray’s 2023 work includes: Director for Bad Decision Music Video and the Infinite Loop Visual Mixtape with artist Lou Tides, Documentation Films: Sad Boys in Harpy Land (Playwrights Horizon) artist: Alex Tatarsky, A Crowded Field (Abrons Arts Center) artist: Morgan Bassichis, im a pause im a fiction im a pervert im a dream (Canal Projects), noposition nolocation (Center for Performance Research), and The Complaint Society (Exponential Festival) artist: Barnett Cohen. suzmurray.com @suzzmurrayy