Joseph Amodei
Joseph Amodei (Creator/Designer) is a new media artist, theater designer, and activist. Their work combines innovative technology, extensive research, and hope for alternate futures to invite audiences into a communal process of debriefing and re-learning. Joseph received a BFA in studio art from UNC-Chapel Hill and their MFA in video and media design from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama. They are a newly-appointed Professor of Immersive Media at Chatham University in Pittsburgh. Recent work has explored voter suppression, mental health, the AIDS crisis, and attention’s relationship to technology and has been presented at HERE Arts Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Temple University, UNC Process Series, Hidden Voices, and The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. www.jamodei.com
Rachel Gita Karp
Rachel Gita Karp (Creator/Director) makes rigorously-researched performances about politics and public policy. She has developed and directed new performances in Pennsylvania, New York, Maine, and Kentucky, through The Drama League, the Center for Artistic Activism, Irondale, Mabou Mines, Ars Nova, Actors Theatre of Louisville, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, The Wild Project, The Brick, The Flea, IRT, Dixon Place, Incubator Arts Project, Women Center Stage, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Barn Arts, the Orchard Project, and Columbia University's graduate and undergraduate schools. Rachel is currently the Beatrice Terry Resident Director at The Drama League, a Directing Fellow at Clubbed Thumb, an Affiliated Artist with New Georges, and she is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied theater and public policy. www.rachelgitakarp.com
Packing and Cracking has been developed in close collaboration with Joshua Kery, Rory Kulz, and Aubyn Heglie; with additional collaborators Jacob Russell, Eben Hoffer (check out his podcast!), Caitlyn Ayer, Kalyne Coleman, Ryan Dumas, Madison Fae, David Jackson, Rachel Michele Lin, Yaron Lotan, Roma Scarano, and incredible students at Chatham University: Anna Betar and Clara Laube, and at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: Maria Cade, Alayna Fennell, Kim Siboura, and Wesley Wood.