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The NTUSA's theatrical environments promote a kind of complicity in which the roles of character and performer, spectator and participant, fiction and reality, break down. Through their repertory, the NTUSA has re-created a vaudeville theater (Garvey & Superpant$), a 50's tropical csino floorshow (Placebo Sunrise), an underground seminar and self-help group (SuperConfidence!), an amusement park ride and game show (What's That On My HEAD!?!), and most recently, an early 20th century tent revival (the OBIE Award Winning ABSN:RJAB).

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Individual Artist Biographies

Ryan Bronz

BRONZ has created seven original pieces, most recently tap tap and Randy Lineset Twenty at the Ontological Theater. Bronz collaborated with Yehuda Duenyas on Phase 1, an environmental extravaganza on 42nd Street. Other acting credits include original roles in Speed Freaks and Downhill at the Ontological Theater and Richard Maxwell's Ute Mnos vs. Crazy Liquors. In addition, Bronz has toured in a production capacity with Richard Foreman's Pearls for Pigs, Laurie Anderson's Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, and Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project. Bronz was the director of photography on several independent films including Jonathan Jacobs' Space. He received a degree in theater from Skidmore College and has studied with Anne Bogart and Philippe Gaulier.

Mark Doskow

DOSKOW has appeared in Ken Nintzel's Lapse at PS122. Doskow has performed in Tony Kaye's film Lobby Lobster, which, to the best of his knowledge, might be released someday. Doskow spent a year performing in Richard Foreman's production of Paradise Hotel, both in New York and across Europe. Other New York credits include work in The Blueprint Series, The Downstairs Series, EST's Festival of Short Plays, and the Fringe Festival. Doskow also starred in 86 Customer, a Silver Moon production written and directed by Marc Meyers. Before moving to New York City, Doskow participated in an apprenticeship at the Williamstown Theater Festival, the highlight of which was a role in the festival's main stage production of Moliere's Learned Ladies, directed by Jim Simpson. Doskow is a graduate of Skidmore College.

Yehuda Duenyas

DUENYAS is a director, performer, and founding member of the OBIE award winning collaborative NTUSA. Recent directing credits include Thomas Bradshaw's PURITY (world premiere, PS122), 00:07 SEC (a workshop based on the best-selling book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, NYU/Experimental Theater Wing), The Citizens Band (Hiro Ballroom), NTUSA's ABSN:RJAB (OBIE award for design, PS122), George Saunder's Pastoralia (Time Out New York top 10 of 2005, PS122), and Young Jean Lee's Christmas (The Brick). His original works include X9601733 (HERE), The Disappearing Act (Ontological), Brains (Walker Space), 7 Minutes in Heaven (Ontological), 5 (SoHo Rep.), hors-la (chashama), Phase 1 - selling out to the bare walls (created with longtime collaborator Ryan Bronz; chashama). In additiona, Duenyas worked in multiple capacities (including director) on NTUSA's critically acclaimed undergound hits Garvey & Superpant$!: Episode #23 and Placebo Sunrise (chashama, ESB Dublin International Fringe Festival), Jack Russell's Superconfidence! Seminar (Galapagos), What's That On My HEAD!?! (NEST/2-Trees DUMBO), and her recently played Don Juan in NTUSA's Le Workshop de Don Juan (chashama). Duenyas has performed and toured with Richard Maxwell's OBIE award winning House, Richard Foreman's OBIE award winning Pearls for Pigs, Phil Soltanoff/Maddog's to whom it may concern, and has performed and designed in various venues and festivals around the world including BITEF (Serbia), Festival D'Automne (Paris), Theatre Der Welt (Berlin), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Dublin Fringe Festival, Wienner Festwochen (Vienna), Festival Theatre Des Ameriques (Montreal), Teatro San Marin (Argentina), Teatro Valle (Rome), The Roxy Theater (Prague) and the Williamstown Theater Festival, among others. He has adapted one novel and one short story for the stage - Molloy by Samuel Beckett and "Pastoralia" by George Saunders. He is currently developing new adaptations of Malcolm Gladwell's best selling book Blink, and George Saunder's short story "Brad Carrigan, American". He is the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, studied theater and clown with Philippe Gaulier and holds a BS in theater cum laude from Skidmore College. In the summer of 2007, Duenyas will present a new original work called One Million Forgotten Moments for the LMCC as part of the River to River Festival.

Jesse Hawley

HAWLEY is an NTUSA performer and collaborator. Most recently, she collaborated on SuperConfidence! at Galopagos, and Garvey & Superpant$: Episode #23 at the Dublin Fringe Festival. Other company work includes Episode #17 of our Fathers, Garvey & Superpant$: Placebo Sunrise at chashama’s Pleasure Center. Other recent performances include Juliana Francis’ Saint Latrice and Ken Nintzel’s Lapse, both at P.S. 122. Hawley performed in Richard Foreman’s Benita Canova (OBIE award: best play, 1998) and Hotel Fuck at the Festival D’Automne in Paris and the Kannonhaller Theater in Copehagen. She has studied Suzuki and Viewpoint techniques with Anne Bogart in the SITI program, and Clown and Le Jeu with Philippe Gaulier. She has a degree in painting from Skidmore College. Hawley is also a decorative painter in New York where she continues the practices of music, visual art, yoga and African dance.

Jonathan Jacobs

JONATHAN JACOBS is a writer, director, filmmaker, performer and DJ. He is a founding member of the Obie Award-winning theater company, The National Theater of the United States of America and has co-created and performed with the company since its inception in 2001. Jonathan most recently directed NTUSA’s celebrated production of Moliere’s "Don Juan". Jonathan has also presented his work as a Director at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater and Soho Rep in New York City as well as in Chicago, Boston and at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Jonathan wrote and directed a short film "Space", and has written two other works for the stage, "GO!", an absurdist exploration of success and happiness in the workplace and "Howard" (an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s "The Fountainhead"). He also directed a production of Euripides’ "Medea", while attending the graduate directing program at the University of California, San Diego. Highly acclaimed in his guise as The Vintage DJ, Jonathan can be found around town spinning an array of forgotten audio delicacies from the 30’s through the 70’s on a pair of vintage tube-powered classroom record players. According to Bruce Tantum, TimeOut NY's Clubs Editor, "no retroist holds a tallow candle to Mr. Jacobs.” As The Vintage DJ, Jonathan has been presenting his critically acclaimed radio show The Time Machine on East Village Radio since 2003. He produces and presents "The Vintage DJ Trans-Temporal Dance Party" and "Sonic Spectacular", working with an array of NY’s renowned cultural institutions and theaters, including PS 122, The Moth, The Kitchen, The Box, Bard Summerscape Festival, Spiegelworld, Magnum Photos and M on the Bund in Shanghai, China.

Normandy Sherwood

SHERWOOD is a member of NTUSA. Her specialties include: writing, performing, making costumes and dances. Sherwood's own plays and dances have been presented in New York at the Ontological Hysteric Theatre, Galapagos, Tonic and chashama. As an actress, she has appeared in movies by Hal Hartley and Jeff Burns and in plays by Kristen Kosmas, Dome Theatre and Proto-type theatre. As a costumer, she has worked on productions by Ami Goodheart, Pants Avengers, Young Jean Lee and The Flea Theatre. She is currently working on a number of NTUSA projects and an adaptation of "The Mysteries of Paris" in collaboration with Dylan Latimer that will be presented at the Ontological Hysteric Theatre in the Fall of 2007. Sherwood is pursuing an MFA in playwriting with Mac Wellman at Brooklyn College.

James Stanley

STANLEY is a founder and vice president of the NTUSA. He is a performer, designer, builder and writer for the company. Stanley's plays include Garvey & Superpant$: Episode #23, Placebo Sunrise, Jack Russell’s SuperConfidence! Seminar (with company), What’s That On My HEAD!?! (with company) and ABSN:RJAB (with Normandy Sherwood). He also edited and performed in Moliere’s Don Juan, to premiere at the Chocolate Factory in 2008. Outside of the company, he has performed in shows by Hal Hartley, Young Jean Lee, Yehuda Duenyas, Richard Maxwell and “Boxcar” Billy Burns. He is a member of MadDog Theater with whom he collaborated on many shows from 1996 to 2003 (including to whom it may concern, Experimental Actions, Strange Attractors and others) and is an artistic associate of Division 13. He studied film at Boston University, theater at LAMDA, “le Jeu” with Phlippe Gaulier. He is currently pursuing an M.A. in Visual Culture at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education.

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