Brian Rogers is a theater and film director, video and sound artist, and performing arts curator. Since 1997, Brian has created films, performances, albums, and other time- based projects including Small Songs (2023/2024), Screamers (2018), Hot Box (2012, co-presented with FIAF’s Crossing The Line Festival / PS122’s COIL Festival / EMPAC Center, Troy NY and supported by a MAP Fund grant), and the Bessie-nominated Selective Memory (2010). Brian has collaborated as a sound and video artist with numerous experimental dance and theater artists in NY and elsewhere. Brian is the Co-Founder and Artistic Executive Director of The Chocolate Factory Theater , an internationally recognized venue for experimental dance, theater, and interdisciplinary performance based in Long Island City, Queens, New York City. Brian serves as chief curator of the organization’s artistic programming (now in its 21st year) and leads its artistic and administrative operations.

Claudia La Rocco is the author, most recently, of the novella Drive By (Smooth Friend) and the chapbook-length essay Certain Things (Afternoon Editions). With musician/composer Phillip Greenlief, she is animals & giraffes, an improvisation collective that has released three albums and performs with collaborators from various disciplines. Her multi-genre novel petit cadeau was published in live, digital, and print editions by The Chocolate Factory. Her lectures and live works have been presented by The Walker Art Center, Dancehouse Australia, The Whitney Museum of American Art, et al. She edited I Don’t Poem: An Anthology of Painters (Off the Park Press) and Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, the catalogue for Danspace Projectʼs PLATFORM 2015, which she curated. La Rocco was a critic for The New York Times, editorial director of Open Space, and editor of The Back Room. Her second selected writings is forthcoming from Soberscove Press.

Leslie Ross -bassoonist, composer & sound artist, sound installation artist & performer- took a plunge in the 80's into the dance and music improv scene of downtown NYC and has immersed herself in experimental music ever since. Leslie has presented solo acoustic and electro-acoustic programs, exhibited sound installations, worked with choreographers and played and toured with numerous musicians throughout the US, Canada and Europe at: Dance Space Project, PS 122, Jack Tilton Gallery, Lincoln Center Summer Stage, DIA, Roulette Intermedium, Experimental Intermedia, Issue Project Room, The Western Front, Skoll, Het Apolohuis, De Ijsbreker, LOGOS Foundation, Rote Fabrik among other places.

Meg Wolfe is a neuroqueer, interdisciplinary artist and landscape gardener living in Deer Isle, Maine since 2019. Prior to that she was based in Los Angeles and NYC. Wolfe works through an extended process across media, spaces, and practices that are choreographic and intuitive at their core. Her work has been commissioned and performed nationally and internationally and supported through various residencies and grants/awards. Wolfe was founding director of Show Box L.A.; created the residency program we live in space; produced the roving Anatomy Riot performance series; and was co-editor of itch dance journal. She has performed with Vicky Shick, Clarinda Mac Low, Sylvia Palacios Whitman, Susan Rethorst, Ann Magnuson and the Psych Out Dada GoGo Family Band, among others. .