Playwright, professor, and Performance artist Anna Deveare Smith grounds her avant-garde theater in the infinitely strange world of reality. "I look for the poem that the person is," Smith says of the real-people inspirations for her dramatic characters. Instead of creating intricate backgrounds for

Collage, Huge, Layered, Open-ended, Political, Polychromatic, Sincere, Social protest, Solo performance

Rachel Rosenthal spent her early childhood in pre-war Paris among the Monets, Chagalls, and Pissarros in her family's art collection. Her parents, frustrated artists themselves, gave her ballet and painting lessons, and when the war struck, they sent her to the High School of Music and Art in New Yor

Catastrophe, Collage, Improvised, Political, Solo performance

 

The work of Australian artist Georgie Roxby Smith challenges the relationship between analog and digital systems, questions materiality and explores new possibilities of virtual reality software. In her recent Watermill Center residency, Smith collaborated with new media and theater

Absurd, Agitated, Deconstructive, Dystopic, Electronic, Experimental, Figurative, Grotesque, Hallucinatory, Hi-tech, Solo performance, The digital era, Theater of the absurd, User interface, Utopian visions, Virtual reality, Young british artists