Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung (Costume Design)met in 2009 while pursuing fashion design degrees at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. They started designing collaboratively in 2011 and have focused their practice primarily on costuming dance. They frequently design costumes for works by Pam Tanowitz, Kyle Abraham, and Justin Peck. They have devised costume-centric performances for commissions from the Museum of Art and Design and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. In 2023 they made their Broadway design debut with Bob Fosse’s Dancin’. Bartelme and Jung have completed research fellowships at NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. They continue designing costumes and sets for dance productions around the world while expanding the scope of their practice outside the theater.

Creator and director Charlotte Brathwaite (Dramaturge)’sgenre-defying works illuminate the realities and the dreams of the marginalized and center’s unheard, unseen, and overlooked stories. Dealing with subject matter from the historical past to the distant future, her work brings to light issues of social justice, race, sex, power, and the complexities of the human condition. Awards include Art Matters, Princess Grace, Creative Capital, United States Artist and Map Fund. She is an associate professor of Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). www.charlottebrathwaite.com

Sam Crawford (Additional Sound Editor)Crawford’s compositions and sound designs have included works for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (Venice Biennale, 2010), A.I.M by Kyle Abraham (Untitled Love, 2022), Camille A. Brown and Dancers (BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, 2016), and David Dorfman Dance (A(Way) Out of My Body, 2022). Recent film works include 32 Sounds, directed by Sam Green, for which Crawford acted as the headphone experience designer; the film was Oscar shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature in 2024. La Medea, a live film collaboration with director Yara Travieso for which Crawford composed the music and wrote the libretto, premiered at P.S.122’s Coil Festival in 2017. Since 2020, Crawford has taught sound design at the University of Maryland’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. He became co-director of UMD’s Maya Brin Institute for New Performance in 2023.

Leo Gevisser (Musician)

Glenn Ligon (Scenic Design)is an artist living and working in New York. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across bodies of work that build critically on the legacies of modern painting and conceptual art. He earned his BA from Wesleyan University (1982) and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1985). In 2011, the Whitney Museum of American Art held a mid-career retrospective, AMERICA, organized by Scott Rothkopf, that traveled nationally. Important solo exhibitions include Glenn Ligon: All Over the Place, the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, England (2024); Post-Noir, Carre d’Art, Nîmes (2022); Call and Response, Camden Arts Centre, London (2014); and Some Changes, the Power Plant Center for Contemporary Art, Toronto (traveled internationally) (2005). Select curatorial projects include Grief and Grievance, New Museum, New York (2021); Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis (2017);and Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary and Tate Liverpool, England (2015). Ligon’s work has been shown in major international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2015, 1997), Berlin Biennial (2014), Istanbul Biennial (2019, 2011), and Documenta XI (2002).

Giancarlo Llerena (Musician) is an internationally recognized pianist, collaborator, and educator. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Opéra-Comique, the New World Center, Teatro Angelo Mariani, and others. Recent highlights include performances with Joshua Bell, Larisa Martinez, Jessie Montgomery, opening for Apple TV’s Severance Emmys FYC event, and an appearance with the Syracuse Orchestra. He was featured in the North American premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’s “11,000 Strings” with the Klangforum Wien, named one of 2025’s “Best Classical Performances” by the New York Times. In 2026, he also appears in residence at the Georg Solti Accademia in Venice and joins A.I.M by Kyle Abraham on their international tour. A prizewinner of the National YoungArts Competition, he has attended the Tanglewood Institute and the Aspen Music Festival on full scholarship. In increasing demand with singers as a recitalist and coach, he was a Fellowship Pianist for Classic Lyric Arts, where he coached and performed with singers in Europe. Llerena is deeply committed to arts accessibility, dedicating efforts through music education and community engagement initiatives. He is a Steinway & Sons Educational Partner. Llerena earned his master’s and bachelor’s degrees at Juilliard as a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship.

‍Dan Scully (Lighting Design)is a New York–based lighting and projection designer. He has been the resident lighting designer for A.I.M by Kyle Abraham since its founding, including designs for the full-length evening works Pavement, Live! The Realest M.C., and the Bessie Award–winning The Radio Show. Recent dance work includes designs for New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, BODYTRAFFIC, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Misty Copeland, among others. Theater and concert credits include Rocky (Broadway), Jedermann (Salzburger Festspiele), The Orchestra Rocks! (Carnegie Hall), and Peter and the Wolf (John Lithgow/Carnegie Hall). Regional: Trinity Repertory Company, Geva Theatre Center, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and the Two River Theater Company. MFA NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Risa Steinberg (Artistic Advisor)is active in many facets of the dance community as a performer, teacher, reconstructor of the works of José Limón, rehearsal coach, and choreographer mentor. A native New Yorker, Steinberg attended the High School of Performing Arts. She received her bachelor of fine arts from the Juilliard School, where she has served as full-time faculty since 2004 and held the position of associate director of Juilliard Dance from 2008 to 2016. Steinberg has been a guest teacher worldwide and in many summer intensives. In 2022, she received the Dance Teacher Magazine Award of Distinction. As a performer, Steinberg was a principal dancer with the José Limón Dance Company and guested with companies worldwide. She was a cast member of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More from 2015 to 2020. As a choreographic advisor, she has mentored many emerging and established choreographers. Steinberg is the co-director of the Ann and Weston Hicks Choreography Project at Jacob’s Pillow.

Derek Wang (Musician), pianist, moves across performance, collaboration, curation, and public engagement with the “enviable idiomatic rigor” of a connoisseur (The Wall Street Journal) and the relish of “a musical gourmand” (Le Devoir). Wang first came to attention with his interpretations of Liszt, receiving awards at the 12th International Liszt Competition (Liszt Utrecht) in 2022 (Second Prize) and at the inaugural New York Liszt Competition in 2021 (First Prize). Wang’s work across disciplines includes collaborations with leading choreographers at the Vail Dance Festival, with Academy Award–winning animator Hugh Welchman, and with poet-activist Emtithal Mahmoud at the 2025 Aspen Ideas Festival. Wang held a three-summer-long position as pianist of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival. He is presently Creative Enterprise Fellow at Juilliard, where he produces a range of interdisciplinary programs and directs Juilliard Station, a new street-facing performance space. www.derek-wang.com.