Portrait of artist Marike Splint

Marike Splint (concept, text, voice) is a Dutch French-Tunisian theater maker based in Los Angeles on Tongva/Kizh land, specializing in creating work in public space that explores the relationship between people, places and identity. She has created performances in sites ranging from a bus driving through the streets of a city, to wide open meadows, taxicabs, train stations, beach piers, subways and the virtual map of Google Earth. Presenters and commissioners of her original work include La Jolla Playhouse, Center Theater Group, UCLA Center for the Art of Performance, Skirball Cultural Center LA (USA); Oerol Festival, Theaterfestival Boulevard (The Netherlands); Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires (Argentina); Urbane Kuenste Ruhr (Germany); GeoAIR (Tbilisi, Georgia); Anciens Abattoirs de Casablanca (Morocco). Marike received her MFA in directing from Columbia University and serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Theater at UCLA.

www.marikesplint.com

 
Portrait of Artist Jonathan Snipes in his recording studio holding a cat.

Jonathan Snipes (Original Music, Sound Design and Implementation) is a Los Angeles-based composer and sound designer. He teaches theater sound design at UCLA and is a member of the rap group clipping.

www.jonat8han.com

 
Portrait of app developer Stewart Blackwood in a forest, looking up at a tree.

Stewart Blackwood (App Developer and Technical Sound Design) is a composer, sound designer, and creative coder. He is currently an Audio Experience Engineer at Boomcloud360 and holds an MFA in Sound Design and Technology from UC San Diego. Places his work has been shown/heard: Center Theatre Group, Cleveland Play House, Island Shakespeare Festival, Cygnet Theater, Hangar Theatre, Black Lives Black Words, Maelstrom Collaborative Arts, Factory of Terror, Rubber City Theater, Kent State University, University of California San Diego, Black Squirrel Radio.

www.stewartblackwood.com

 
Cartoon portrait of and by Cristina Bercovitz

Cristina Bercovitz (App User Interface and Visual Design) is an artist, sculptor and puppeteer from Los Angeles. She also makes a nice little Instagram comic @sortaroundy.

 
Portrait of Jon Massey

Jon Massey (Additional Sound Design and Implementation) is an Undergraduate Student at The Pennsylvania State University in Mathematics and Music Technology, studying the physiology and psychology of music perception and performance. As the current manager of the Pitch Exploration Lab at Penn State, he conducts research in musical error detection, perception in circular speaker arrays, and component skills of melodic dictation. He has presented on these topics at the University of South Florida, and received the New York Community Trust Harris Scholarship Award.