About

The “Artist in Residence Program” program was born out of a desire to promote experimentation in the performing arts, support artists in a transitional, or new period in their career, give visibility to artistic work that we believe in and that might be under the radar in Philadelphia, create a safe, exciting space for performing artists to test out new ideas, to promote exchange of ideas and practice between the mediums, and to support a dialogue between performing artists, philosophers, scientists, and regular people.

Current Artists in Residence

We are currently reimagining the artists in residence program. Please check back in the future for more information!

Past Artists in Residence

Michael McDermott
For the past 15 years Michael McDermott has been an active member of the Philadelphia electronic music scene. He has hosted a recurring open forum electronic music event (now called SHARE Philly) at various venues for the past 10 years, most recently at thefidget space. Read more.

Matthew Daher & Rachael Ahn Harbert
Matthew Daher is a percussionist, improviser, composer, and producer based in Detroit, MI. Rachael Ahn Harbert is a Detroit based movement artist and educator, with an ever so special interest in performance improvisation. Read more.

Zornitsa Stoyanova
Zornitsa Stoyanova is a performance artist, curator, organizer, lighting and video designer based in Philadelphia, PA. A native of Bulgaria, she holds B.A. in Dance and Sound Design from Bennington College, VT. After concluding her studies, she moved to Philadelphia, PA where she started creating, producing and presenting performing art and video under the name Here[begin] Dance. Read more.

Adam Vidiksis
Adam Vidiksis is a composer, conductor, percussionist, and technologist based in Philadelphia whose interests span from historically informed performance to the cutting edge of digital audio processing. Equally comfortable with both electronic and acoustic composition, his music has been heard in concert halls and venues around the world. Read more.

Joo Won Park
Joo Won Park (b. 1980) is an electronic musician residing in Philadelphia. His music has been featured in several conferences such as the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States Conference, Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Bourges Electroacoustic Music Festival, and International Computer Music Conference. His research is printed in Electronic Musician, Computer Music Journal, The Audio Programming Book and The Csound Book. Read more.

Kelly Bond/Melissa Krodman
Kelly and Melissa began working together in 2010 on Kelly’s experimental dance trio Elephant, which was also the piece that began their relationship with thefidget space. Their 2012 duet Colony, which they co-choreographed and continue to perform, has been presented in Philadelphia (thefidget space, Thirdbird, Philly Fringe), Washington D.C. (Capital Fringe, FallFringe), New Orleans (NOLA Fringe and more. Read more.

Nicole Elizabeth Cook
Nicole Elizabeth Cook (b. 1986) is the 2012 Playwright in Residence at , a collective promoting experimentation in the performing arts and supporting a dialogue between performing artists, philosophers, scientists, and audiences. Read more.

Lauren Mandilian Huot
Lauren Mandilian Huot graduated from Drexel University with her Bachelor of Science (2006) and Master of Science (2007) in Digital Media. While in college, Lauren enjoyed dancing and was a member o8f the Drexel Dance Ensemble. Combining her interest in dance with digital media, Lauren developed a collaborative multimedia dance performance named “Information Overload”. Read more.

Mauri Walton
Mauri Walton is an actor, dancer, movement-artist, cabaret/host/singer/performer and multi-media performance creator. She has appeared in over 70 different productions across disciplines in film and theatre, and in countless and assorted venues in Philadelphia and beyond. Read more.

Chris Mandra
Chris Mandra is a composer and performer whose work has been performed in Europe, Asia, Canada and the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA; a certificate of study from the Liszt Ferenc Zeneakademia in Budapest; two Master’s degrees – one in music composition and one in computer music, both from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University where he also completed all of the coursework for a Doctor of Musical Arts degree before abandoning that program. Read more.

Bonnie Lander
Bonnie Lander is a coloratura soprano based out of Philadelphia, PA. Classically trained, Bonnie performs a wide range of contemporary music in a wide variety of spaces. Most recently, she performed with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society under the baton of Leon Fleisher and as a participant in the Yellow Barn Kurtág Residency studying with soprano Susan Narucki, who affectionately termed her “the Janis Joplin of modern music.” Read more.

Daniele Strawmyre
Daniele Strawmyre is a multi-media artist, choreographer, performer and educator based in Philadelphia. She directs the collaborative arts company readySetGO. Currently an artist in residence at thefidget space in Philadelphia, she’s developing a performance installation inspired by Japanese ghost stories for October 2010 titled Kaidan Insuto. Read more.

Gloria Justen
Gloria Justen, Violinist and Composer, is both a passionate performer of the classics and an innovative artist trying new approaches to music. Ms. Justen grew up in Houston, Texas, and from 1984-1990 she attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her principal violin teachers were Fredell Lack and Szymon Goldberg. Currently residing in San Francisco, Gloria is dividing her time between East Coast and West Coast. Read more.

Nora Gibson
Gibson is an American choreographer and multimedia artist evolving ballet for the 21st century. Gibson is interested in the beauty of the natural world, as evidenced in mathematics and science. Her hallmark is her collaborations, expanding the understanding of ballet through her work with scientists, mathematicians, and programmers. Gibson creates multimedia work that features both dance and generative digital graphics. Read more.