Jaclyn Biskup (Interim Managing Artistic Director) (She/Her) is a director and producer working in theatre, television, and film. She received an Emmy nomination and was a Peabody Finalist for the digital series THE SECRET LIFE OF MUSLIMS, previously served as the outgoing creative producer at New Ohio Theatre and is the founding artistic director of The Mill. Her work has been seen at The Brick, New Ohio Theatre, Theater Lab, MCC Playlabs, New Dramatists, Rattlestick, Dixon Place, Town Stages, and NYC International Fringe Festival. Assistant director to Anna Shapiro on the Broadway productions of THE MINUTES and STRAIGHT WHITE MEN. Digital projects include work for Broad Stream, PBS NOVA, Vox, Delta Air Lines, Caltech, and Harvard. Drama Leauge Alumni and New Georges Affiliated Artist.
Peter Mills Weiss (Interim Producing Artistic Director) (He/Him) is a theater artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He has been nominated for a Henry Hewes Design Award, a New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award. He is a former member of the Soho Rep Writer Director Lab, and the Public Theater Devised Theater Working Group. His work has been presented locally at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Soho Rep, Ars Nova, and Under the Radar Festival, and internationally as part of the Radikal Jung Festival at the Munchen Volkstheater, and most recently at the Noorderzon Festival Groningen.
Lydia Mokdessi (Director of Marketing and Communications) (She/Her) is an artist, editor, and cultural worker. Her performance work has been presented by Center for Performance Research, Roulette Intermedium, Movement Research, Gibney Dance, AUNTS, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, and The Brick Theater. She is the editor of Culturebot and has served on the NY Dance and Performance Bessie Awards selection committee, as curator for the CURRENT SESSIONS, and as co-organizer of Community of Practice, supported by University Settlement. She most recently held the position of Director of Marketing and Communications at Baryshnikov Arts from 2016-2023.
Cameron Stuart (Operations Director)(He/Him) is a writer, composer, and performer, and self-produces as No-Brow Theater Company (formerly Saints of an Unnamed Country). With several friends, Stuart opened and managed The Glove, a DIY performance space in Bushwick. The Glove was a participating venue in the Exponential Festival, which Stuart co-produced from 2017–2022. Born in Florida, he now lives in Queens, NY.
Toney Brown (BrickFlix Curator) (He/Him) is a filmmaker, cinephile, video editor, and sometimes theater artist who grew up on the North Shore of Massachusetts and currently resides in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His documentary short, Mules, played at the NH Film Festival. He is also the co-host of the cinema podcast Mudville at the Movies with Nolan Rabine. Most days, you can find him in the audience at art house cinemas throughout NYC and on IG @toneymovies.
Curation Team
Matthew Antoci (Curator) (He/They) is a creator and performer going full diva mode in New York City. They work in various mediums, including multi-media theater, digital performance, and drag. Matthew has shown original work onstage at The Brick, The Exponential Festival, IRT Theater, Purgatory, and The Kraine. In addition to their own work, Matthew collaborates with many artists at different stages of development, often wearing the hats of director, dramaturg, producer, or facilitator interchangeably. Some of the companies they’ve worked with include Rude Grooms (CultureLab LIC), theater and media company Fake Friends (CultureHub NYC), and experimental performance collective CHILD (Baryshnikov Arts Center, MITU580), of which they’re a member. www.matthewantoci.com
Ann Marie Dorr (Curator) (They/Them) is a theater maker who often works on big-little shows with adventurous and ambitious ideas. Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab 17/19 with Paul Ketchum on an ever evolving piece, Good and Noble Beings. Associated Artist of Target Margin Theater. Currently they are in the Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting program.
Ben Holbrook (Curator) (He/They) is a Brooklyn-based (originally from NC) playwright and filmmaker whose works have been produced, developed, or commissioned by: The High Line, The Exponential Festival, The Brick, Theatre Untitled, Maker’s Ensemble, Fundamental Theater Project, Ruddy Productions, The New York International Fringe Festival, The Memphis Fringe Festival, The Motor Company, Voices of the South (TN), Ugly Rhino(LA), Seoul Players (SK), Holiday House, Find the Light (LA), The Irish Arts Council, 45th Street Block Association, and Paper Lantern Theatre Company (NC). His films have been seen at the Big Apple Film Festival, The Imaginarium Convention, The Comedy of Horrors Festival, The Sickest Short Films Festival, and The Films Open Mic Festival. He’s been awarded the Williamstown Theatre Festival Artist Residency, the Edward Albee Foundation fellowship, the Drama League Rough Draft Residency (partnering with Sam Underwood), Fresh Ground Pepper’s Playground Playgroup Residency, The WildWind Performance Lab Residency at Texas Tech, The New Concepts Theatre Lab at UNC-Greensboro, Magic Time at Judson Church, has been a finalist for Juilliard’s playwriting fellowship and the O’Neill’s National Playwright’s Conference, and is the inaugural recipient of the Peter Shaffer Award for Excellence in Playwriting and a winner of the 47th Samuel French OOB Festival. More info at https://baholbrook.comthological perspective in his writing, but has also worked with Extrapolation Factory, a design based research studio for participatory futures studies, to create pieces for The Ford Motor Company, Walker Art Center, and (currently) Ikea’s Space 10. Ben is the co-owner of Full Metal Workshop, an LLC that creates web based experiences, both original and for clients.
Alyse Lamb (Curator) (She/Her) is a musician, actor, writer, and costume designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the singer/guitarist of the fiery duo Parlor Walls, co-founder of the art collective Famous Swords, and a member of the experimental theater company Title:Point. Alyse holds her degree in musical composition and has used it to make numerous fashionable leotards.
Nadia Pinder (Curator) (She/Her) is a Brooklyn Based performance artist with a background in storytelling, comedy, theater, music, dance and film. Her creative works have been featured in Time Out NY, The New York Times, Vulture, PureWow, Refinery29 and even on JetBlue inflight televisions. She performs regularly around the city at venues like Caveat, Asylum, Union Hall, The Bell House and in the great outdoors for her seasonal picnic show, Comedians In A Blanket in Prospect Park (which for the record, she began doing in 2016).She has been teaching storytelling and comedy for several years and she has a full online storytelling course (with gorgeous video lessons and one-on-one feedback)on Channel Zeitgeist.
Julia Sirna-Frest (Curator) (She/Her) is a performer, musician, director and teaching artist. She is a founding member of the Obie award winning theater company Half Straddle, co-fronts Doll Parts, Brooklyn’s premiere Dolly Parton cover band and is one half of the indie-electro-folk duo Permanent Moves. She has developed work and performed at The Kitchen, Ars Nova, New York Theater Workshop, The Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Incubator, WP Theater, Hartford Stage, St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Brooklyn Museum, La MaMa ETC, Abrons Art Center, The New Museum, Mass MoCA, PS 122, Joe’s Pub, The New Victory Theater, The Bushwick Starr, Soho Rep, New Dramatists and JACK. With Half Straddle she has toured to France, Croatia, Portland Or., Philadelphia and Massachusetts with Seagull (thinking of you), In the Pony Palace/Football and Ghost Rings. Member of the 2022-2024 WP Lab and current New Georges Jam Cohort, Mercury Store Directors Lab Fall 2024
Former Curators and Staff
T Braun (Gender-F*ckery and Drag Curator) (They/Them) is an interdisciplinary artist who creates drag performances, videos, and interactive installations inspired by their Mennonite upbringing, queer theory, pop culture, and historical archetypes. They challenge white fragility and binary notions of gender through multiple performance identities including Egregious Philbin (gender-fuck, shape-shifting alien), Peter Funk (far-right future POTUS) and Paul TERROR (wrestling extraordinaire). They are an adjunct professor in the Art & Design program at Montclair State University, a member of AWFUL Wrestling, and are thrilled to join the BRICK2020 team.
Theresa Buchheister (Artistic Director) (They/Them) is a Kansan New Yorker and founder and co-director of Title:Point, founder and Artistic Director of The Exponential Festival, and co-founder of Vital Joint. Theresa directs, produces, performs, curates, facilitates and writes for theatre and theatre-adjacent performance realms. Their work has been seen at The Ontological Theater, The New Ohio, Dixon Place, HERE, Housing Works, NACL, The Brick, Silent Barn, Vital Joint, The Parlour, Target Margin’s The Doxsee, on rafts, in warehouses, in trucks, in bars. They are also a voice over director, performer, teacher and engineer (current: BoyGirlDogCatMouseCheese, multiple audiobooks and podcasts; past: Pokemon, The Winx Club, World of Winx, How Music Works, Perks of Being a Wallflower, A Young Innovator’s Guide to STEM, Arrow of Time, Recursive Cast, etc).
Garlan Jude Brosnahan (Curator) (They/Them) Garlan is a performance artist, theater director, writer, cabaret artist, emcee and performance curator. They’re attuned in Level I & II Usui Reiki by masters Aki Hirata Baker and Manu DelPrete from MINKA Brooklyn. completed their AmSAT certified training of 1600 hours at Riverside Initiative for the Alexander Technique (RIAT) directed by Nanette Walsh with associate directors Ariel Carson and Lori Schiff.They are currently hired to teach group Alexander Technique classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA).
Ryan William Downey (Associate Artistic Director/Producer/Curator)(He/Him) is an actor, playwright, and co-director of Title:Point, an experimental theater company that has been producing and presenting work in New York City for over 15 years. His play Sleeping Car Porter was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and Biter (Every Time I Turn Around), which he co-wrote, was one of Helen Shaw’s 10 Best Plays of 2015. Other plays include Periscope (featuring Richard Foreman and Mary Harron), Heavy Sleeper, Persistent Dream Body, The Assassination of Julius Caesar and co-written Post:Death, Never Odd or Even, Everything of Any Value, and SPACEtruck. He has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art, La Mama, Incubator Arts Project, Dixon Place, The Brick, Invisible Dog, AS220, Silent Barn, the Gowanus River (in Jeff Stark’s The Dreary Coast) and many more venues in NYC and beyond. As a voice actor he has been heard on podcasts, audiobooks, in many plays and, most notably, on Pokémon film and television series playing a variety of characters. Ryan served as Associate Artistic Director of The Brick from 2020-2024.
Michael Gardner (Co-Founder/Artistic Director) (He/Him) founded The Brick Theater in 2002. He is a playwright, director and served as Artistic Director from 2002-2020.
Devon Wade Granmo (Box Office Manager) (He/Him) is a multi-hyphenate theater artist, producer & administrator. In 2007, he co-founded Action/Adventure Theatre, a theater company and performance venue in Portland, Oregon, and co-managed it for nine years before moving to Brooklyn. He writes & directs his own work and collaborates & performs with Title:Point.
Robert Honeywell (Co-Founder and Secretary) (He/Him) Robert is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) and INSOL International. He is also active in efforts to expand broadband to underserved communities in upstate New York, and serves as a board member of The Brick Theater, an experimental performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Robert co-founded The Brick with Michael Gardner in 2002.
Leigh Honigman (Producer) (She/Her) is an arts administrator and producer working in theater, live events, and film. She is interested in exploring how social frameworks, factors, conditioning, and status affect the individual, and how that can be expressed on stage. Select theatre projects include YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING. (IRT Theater 3B Development Series, 2022), Of the woman came the beginning of sin and through her we all die (Normal Ave, 2019), and The Ugly Kids (Fresh Fruit Festival at The Wild Project, 2018). Events include Mask4Mask (Purgatory, 2021), SLUT Spring Fling (The Paper Box, 2019), and the sold-out Missed Connections and Support Your Local Sex Worker (Museum of Sex, 2018). Recent film producing work includes Zoetrope (Dir. Michelle Rosen, 2021), SLUT (Dir. Madi Van Dam, 2019), Love/Hate Monologues (Dir. Tina Makharadze, 2018), and Furuncles (Dir. Tina Makharadze, 2018).
Travis Just (Associate Artistic Director and Managing Director) (He/Him) is a composer and co-director of performance group Object Collection. He was a curator at Incubator Arts Project/Ontological-Hysteric Theater at St. Mark’s Church from 2008-2014.
Justin Linville (Comedy Curator) (He/Him) is an actor and comedian from San Antonio, Texas living in Brooklyn. Justin has received training from Herbert Berghof Studio, The Annoyance Theater and ColdTowne Theatre. You can see his work on What We Do in the Shadows, Crashing, The Chris Gethard Show, Earwolf, and live all over Brooklyn.
Nicolás Noreña (Curator) (He/Him) is is a Colombian theater maker based in Brooklyn. He is the artistic director of The Million Underscores, an experimental theater company with which he has directed and developed original pieces that have been performed at Target Margin Theater, The Brick, Vital Joint, Triskelion, CAVE and MoMA among others. As a performer Nicolas has worked with Mary Overlie, Richard Foreman, Object Collection, Jess Barbagallo. He teaches six viewpoints at New York University, likes swimming, and runs a biodynamic farm in Colombia.
Cristina Pitter (Curator) (They/She) is a queer afro-latine fat babe artist who wants to burn it all down and plant new seeds in the fertile soil. Founder of The Ashe Collective – an ancestral storytelling and community outreach group, Community Director of Pipeline Theatre Company, and company member of Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Harrison David Rivers (SoundLab Creator and Facilitator) (He/Him) is the winner of the 2018 Relentless Award for the bandaged place. His other plays include When Last We Flew (GLAAD Media Award, Sweet (AUDELCO nom), Where Storms Are Born (Berkshire Theatre Award nom, Edgerton Foundation New Play Award), Five Points (MN Theatre Award for Exceptional New Work), This Bitter Earth (Jeff nom for Best Production, MN Theatre Award for Exceptional New Work) and To Let Go and Fall (Theatre Latte Da). Harrison has received McKnight and Many Voices Jerome Fellowships, a Van Lier Fellowship, an Emerging Artist of Color Fellowship and New York Stage & Film’s Founders’ Award.
Shawna Tang (Gallery Coordinator) (She/They) is an interdisciplinary visual artist with a mission to facilitate non-traditional paths to successful art careers. She also owns and operates Cookie Smut, a cheeky home goods and jewelry brand.
Jack Daniel Woods (Technical Director) (Jack) has traversed the globe conceptualizing and designing production for multi-disciplinary arts companies and performers. In Jack’s recent role as head of production for the Sydney Symphony Jack was internationally recognized for vision, creativity, and for saving an entire concert performance after a steinway grand piano free fell into a hole in the middle of the stage (story for another day).