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TEAM Hide Your Fires 

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Yokko (Performer, Choreographer, Concept) is an actor, a Butoh & Theatre artist from Japan. She has acted in, devised and choreographed a variety of local and international shows, having won several awards, including “Best One-Woman Show” for Butoh Medea (United Solo 2014 at Theatre Row). Butoh Medea was selected to perform in Warsaw, Poland. (United Solo Europe 2015, Teatre Syrena), toured Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015, nominated The Asian Arts Award. She has been touring Butoh Medea nationally and internationally which includes Atelier Teatro Fisico (Turin, Italy), MONOFEST’17 (Izmir, Turkey), Thespis Festival 2018 (Kiel, Germany). The next stop will be Cheb Monodrama Festival 2019 (Prague, Czech) Other solo show: BALDY (United Solo 2013, HFF2013, FringeNYC 2012). Her choreographed work, SHINKA has been toured and received several awards (Capital Fringe 2017, Planet Connections 2018). Yokko acted in several of local and international films, one of which is the Student Academy Winner film, Cloud-Kumo (2016). Recently she has been appearing several music videos including Ready To Let Go (2019) - Cage The Elephant, AUSENCIAS (2019) - NOIA, and Dream Decay (2019) - POW! She is the artistic director of Ren Gyo Soh, a Butoh & Physical Theatre Company in NYC. Winner of The Best Actress (Butoh Medea, The TVolution Hollywood Fringe Award 2018), Best Physical Theatre, Best Choreography (Butoh Medea, United Solo 2015, 2014). Outstanding Production & Outstanding Choreography (SHINKA, Planet Connections Festival 2018) A recipient of 2019 Brooklyn Arts Fund for her new project, EN. B.A in Theatre (UAlbany), MFA in Acting (The Actors Studio). www.yokko-online.com // @yokko428

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Brian Rhinehart (Director) is an actor, director, professor and Fulbright scholar. An expert in devised theatre and collaborative playmaking, he has worked as a freelance theatre director in the U.S. and Europe for the last nineteen years.  He is also a critically acclaimed actor, who has performed in over fifty productions in New York, Germany, and Florida. The plays he has written or co-written have been seen in the New York International Fringe Festival and a variety of Off-Off Broadway venues. He has given workshops and seminars in acting and devising in Germany, Portugal, China, Japan, Thailand, and all over the U.S. http://brianrhinehart.info/

Sean Michael Welch (Writer) is all in your mind.

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Deepsikha Chatterjee (Costume Design) Deepsikha Chatterjee enjoys teaching theatre, costumes and crafts to a diverse student body at Hunter College CUNY.She received her BA in fashion design and psychology in India and her MFA in Costume Design and Technology from Florida State University. She has worked at several reputed theatre companies across the US. She had been researching costumes, film, makeup and masks from India and Asia and has presented on these topics at several international conferences. Her costume design for Butoh Medea received the best costume design award at United Solo 2014.She has thoroughly enjoyed working with this creative team.
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​Derek Van Heel (Lighting Design) Based in Brooklyn, NY, Derek’s designs have been seen at The Alvin Ailey Theatre, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum, Off-Broadway, and the kinds of basements, bars, churches, and teeny-tiny rooms where New York theatre is often forged, as well as around the U.S. and in Europe. Recent work includes projects with New York City Opera, Syracuse Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Curtis Institute of Music, Shreveport Opera, Red Fern Theatre, EyeKnee Coordination, LeeSaar The Company, Shamel Pitts, Scandanavian American Theatre, Origin Theatre, and The Civilians. BFA: University of Montana MFA: NYU Tisch. www.derekvanheel.com

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Jorge Olivo (Associate Sound Designer)  is a sound designer and composer based in NYC. Recent Theatrical sound design for Remains by Traumaturgy Productions at Theater Lab, Laam Ang  at Midtown Theater Festival, Elvira The Immigration  Play at LIU and Lost in Shanghai for Pan Asia Rep at Theater Row and Flushing Town Hall. Original music for Theater Made in Paradise at NYC fringe 2016 One Flew Over The Cukoo' s Nest at Gallery Players  and Pandemic for Vanessa Long Dance Company.

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Jordan Rosin (Movement Consultant) is a physical theatre artist, butoh dancer, and teacher. He received his BFA in Drama from Syracuse University and has trained with numerous teachers of butoh including Joan Laage, Vangeline, Diego Pinon, Tetsuro Fukahara, and more. Jordan was a co-founder & Producing Artistic Director of the NYC-based physical theatre ensemble, The Ume Group from 2011-2016 and is a frequent collaborator with Ren Gyo Soh. Recent choreography includes The Ume Group’s Butoh Electra; Facet (Hollywood Fringe Festival); Isis Variations (FringeNYC 2014, CoolNY 2014 Dance Festival); and Dream Dances and Lysistrata Project. He lives in Blue Lake, CA with his beautiful wife, Kaitlyn. www.jordanrosin.wordpress.com //@JordanRosin

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Rui Dun (Stage Manager/ Assistant Director) is a theater director from China, based in Brooklyn, New York. She has collaborated with artists from China, Turkey, England, United States to create work that speaks of cross-cultural experience and the human condition. Credits include The Author's Voice (3LD), The Feast (3LD), The Mistress of Wholesome (3LD), Anne Frank Lives! (Hudson Guild Theater), SHINKA (assistant director, PCTF), If Women Rose Rooted (devisor, The Tank), June Is The First Fall (assistant director, New Ohio Theatre). MFA: Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University.

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