TAL YARDEN  Video Design

Tal Yarden is a founding partner of EyeMag Media, Inc. He has designed and directed multi-media installations utilizing film, video, slides and light for corporate and theatrical clients since 1990. He has created theatrical designs for works by numerous directors and choreographers including Ivo van Hove's Dutch production of Rent (with Patricia Fox) Reza Abdoh's Tight Right White and Quotations from a Ruined City and Stephen Petronio's Not Garden (with Patricia Fox) and The King is Dead (with Cindy Sherman), and Tim Feldmann's Twin-Project all of which have toured in Europe. He designed John Jesurun's Chang in a Void Moon, Mikel Rouse's Dennis Cunningham, Mark Wing-Davey's Monkey in the Middle and Tina Landau's Stonewall.

As a multi-media staging director and producer, he has supervised numerous live events ranging from fashion shows to gala benefits to product launches to corporate parties. He has also designed two of Juilliard's Gala benefits and the Arts on the Highwire Benefit. Previously he directed music videos for various bands including 10,000 Maniacs, Throwing Muses, Barkmarket and The Silos. His designs for beauty and fashion industry clients include: Conde Nast, Ford Motors, Healing Garden, Holland and Holland, Clarins, Matrix, Ghost, Levi's, LG Electronics, Timberland, Virgin and Visionaire.

Other clients include The New Yorker Festival, Philips Electronics and Johnnie Walker. He has also worked as a film, commercial and television producer for Arcadia Films, Vanguard Documentaries, Manic Tango Productions, Sea Lion Productions, and R/Greenberg Associates.

JOE LEVASSEUR  Lighting Design

Joe Levasseur is a New Hampshire native and a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts. Joe is proud to have worked at such institutions as the American Stage Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the American Dance Festival. Most recently Joe has collaborated with Sarah Michelson Daylight at P.S. 122 and worked with John Jasperse on the lighting for à double face for the Lyon Opera Ballet. As the touring lighting director for John Jasperse Company, he co-designed just two dancers and CALIFORNIA. Other recent lighting credits include shows for Kari Hoaas, Anna Sperber and Pavel Zuštiak as well as Jenna is Nuts, In a Strange Room and Francoise changes her mind at the Brick Theater, and off-Broadway play Edge.

RACHEL CHAVKIN  Dramaturgy

Rachel Chavkin is the Artistic Director of The TEAM, a NYC based physical theatre company, with whom she has directed/devised works including Twelfth Night, a Thousand Natural Shocks, inspired by Hamlet and other visions of the end of the world, Give Up! Start Over!, a solo show about reality television, paranoia, and Nixon, Faster, inspired by the book by James Gleick, and Howl, based on the poem by Allen Ginsberg. In addition to her work with The TEAM she recently directed the NYC revival of Kurt Vonnegut's Happy Birthday, Wanda June (7th Sign), which was called "inspired" with "nonstop theatrics" by NYTheatre.com. She has also dramaturged/assistant directed for a number of plays and dance pieces, including Macbeth (SITI Company, dir. Leon Ingulsrud), Anne Washburn's The Ladies (The Civilians, dir. Anne Kauffman) and choreographer Pavel Zuštiak's Blind Spot. She received her BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and has served on the Directing Faculty at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. She is an associate artist at New Georges, and was a 2004 Drama League Directing Fellow at the Hangar Theatre, where she directed productions in both the experimental "Wedge Theatre" and Hangar Mainstage, and served as co-Artistic Director of the Lab Company. Rachel will be receiving her MFA in Directing from Columbia University in 2008.

NICK VAUGHN  Set and Costume Design

Nick Vaughn is a New York based scenic and costume designer. Recent projects include Particularly in the Heartland with the TEAM, Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major at the Kennedy Center, The Monument and Two Rooms at Theater Alliance, The Girl in the Goldfish Bowl at MetroStage, Nerve and The Silent Concerto with Packawallop Productions. He has collaborated on numerous projects at Columbia University with Kim Weild, Pedro Salazar, Marike Splint and Javier Antonio Gonzales. He received the 2005 NYC Fringe award for outstanding set design, the 2005 USITT Oren Parker Award for Set Design, the Lloyd Weninger Award for Stage Design, and was selected for exhibition in the US entry to the 2007 Prague Quadrennial. Nick is also a company member of the TEAM (Theater of the Emerging American Moment).

ROBERT FLYNT  Photography and Visuals

Robert Flynt's work in photography and photographic-based installation has been widely exhibited both in the United States and abroad since the early 80's. The work has been shown in traditional museum and gallery settings, in alternative spaces, as part of performance art and dance performances, and is featured in numerous publications.

In 1992 his work was included in the "New Photography" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where his work is now part of the permanent collection. It is also in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, The International Center of Photography (NY), The L.A. County Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among many others. Other museums that have shown his work include the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, as well as numerous university galleries. His notable one-person exhibitions have been at Witkin Gallery, Wessel+O'Connor Gallery and ClampArt in New York, the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, the G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle, and the Gomez Gallery in Baltimore. He has been included in over 50 group exhibitions since 1980.

Flynt's interest in collaborative projects have resulted in commissions from the Brooklyn Academy of Music with choreographer Bebe Miller in 1989, the L.A. International Arts Festival with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dennis Cooper in 1990, with Yoshiko Chuma and the Daghdha Dance Company of Ireland in 2003, and most recently with Benoit Lachambre and Su-Feh Lee on Body-Scan, which premiered at Le Quartz in Brest, France in March 2008. This dance/image collaboration will tour Europe and North America in 2009. In 1994 he collaborated with writer Chris Packard for the installation piece and artist's book Blind Trust, which premiered at Temple University in Philadelphia and traveled throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Along with numerous visiting artist and residency engagements throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe , Flynt has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Light Work, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Art Matters, and most recently the Peter S. Reed Foundation. His 1996 monograph, Compound Fracture (Twin Palms Publishers) received one of the Best Books of the Year Awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He currently divides his time between New York and Arizona. www.robertflynt.com