TEAM Hide Your Fires 

Yokko (Performer, Choreographer) is an actor, a movement & Butoh Artist, solo performer 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. Other Solo show: BALDY (CRS, United Solo 2013, HFF 2013, Fringe NYC 2012), Yokko also acted in several of local and international films, one of which is the Student Academy Winner film, Cloud-Kumo (2016). She is the associate artistic director of The Ume Group as well as the artistic director of Ren Gyo Soh in NYC. Winner of Best Physical Theatre Show, Best Choreography (Butoh Medea, United Solo 2015, 2014). B.A in Theatre (UAlbany), MFA in Acting (The Actors Studio). www.yokko-online.com
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) was awarded the 1999 Kennedy Center / American College Theatre Festival John Cauble Short Play Award for Earl the Vampire, and won the 2000 KC/ACTF Region III Ten-Minute Play Competition for Charleston's Finger. Past productions of his work include Slab, Try Not to Step on the Naked Man,Rise Up You Bloody Animals, All an Act, Staged Reading, and Boise, Idaho. His published work includes Earl the Vampire (Samuel French, 2000), Boise, Idaho (Zoetrope: All-Story, 2000 and Playscripts, Inc., 2012), and Try Not to Step on the Naked Man (Zoetrope: All-Story, 2002). His play All An Act premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2102. His novel 1897: Aliens! Zombies! Vampires! was released in 2015.
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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
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.
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