KATELYN HALPERN | SHE/HER/HERS| Jersey City, NJ

Katelyn Halpern is a multidisciplinary artist from Austin, Texas. Her eclectic body of work ranges from life-sized installations to cut-and-tape zines to concert dance. Her work is frequently constructed around the idea clusters of interiority/intimacy/reflection, strangeness/humor/freedom, and the lived experience of moving through the world in a feminine body.

After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Houston with a B.A. in English Literature and a minor in Dance, she moved to the east coast where she has made work including the evening length danceworks JUICE (June ‘17) and Loose Heart (December ‘17), the immersive visual art installation Heartstrung (created with Talita Cabral, October ‘18), and the public art installation Labyrinth for Reflection and the Generation of Love [No. 9] (June ‘19).

She holds a New Jersey teaching certificate for high school English, is a 2012 Teach for America New Jersey corps member, and is the owner and artistic director of SMUSH Gallery, an art space dedicated to creative and community work in Jersey City.

PAUL PINTO | HE/HIM/HIS | Jersey City, NJ

Paul Pinto creates, performs and produces experimental music and opera-theatre that fuses the musicality of speech, poetry, extended vocal techniques, movement, video, and instrumental and electronic sound.

During the past few months of quarantine, Paul has worked on two online operas (SUBTRACTTTTTTTTT and A SERIES OF LANDSCAPES) with his company thingNY, as well as Zoom theatre and music videos. He also recently created and toured a solo work for dance and extended technique vocals exploring themes of toxic masculinity and medieval epics called 15 PHOTOS.

He is a founding member of the acclaimed collectives Varispeed and thingNY, and has presented music across North America, Europe and Asia. As a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Paul works on a diversity of projects including numerous works of Robert Ashley, Peter Maxwell Davies' EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD KING and originating the Broadway role of Balaga in Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin's hit musical, NATASHA, PIERRE, AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812.