Re:creation creative team

JAD ABUMRAD (Composer) has created a few shows - Radiolab, More Perfect and Dolly Parton's America, - which are downloaded about 110 million times a year, all produced by WNYC Studios. He makes audio stories for a living, and he's a musician. He's won three Peabody Awards, and in 2011 he was named a MacArthur Fellow.

KITTY DALY (Costume Designer) created costumes for Pilobolus’s Molly's Not Dead, The Detail of Phoebe Strickland, Bonsai, The Empty Suitor, Moonblind, Lost in Fauna, Mirage, What Grows in Huygen's Window, Stabat Mater, Elegy for the Moment. She has designed for the Ohio Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Milwaukee Ballet, Merce Cunningham, Crowsnest, and Parker/Pucci. Ms. Daly lives in northern Vermont, creating custom evening gowns and beautiful tracks in the snow.

NEIL PETER JAMPOLIS (1943-2019) (Lighting Designer) designed for Pilobolus since 1975, spanning 40 years and creating more than 60 new works for the company. He also had a fifty-year active career as a set, lighting and costume designer for Broadway—where he received four Tony Nominations and a Tony Award—and for Off-Broadway, Dance, Regional Theater, and Opera, which he also directed. His designs appeared on every continent. Neil was a Distinguished Professor of Theater at UCLA.

GASPARD LOUIS (Collaborator)- Founder/Artistic Director of the Durham, NC based company Gaspard&Dancers (G&D). Gaspard received a BFA in dance from Montclair State University and studied at Gus Giordano's in Chicago and Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab in New York. Following his studies, he joined the New York based AllNations performing traditional dances from many parts of the world. Later, he joined Pilobolus and traveled worldwide with the company. In 2012, Gaspard received an MFA from the Hollins University/American Dance Festival Program and became the Director of ADF’s year-round creative movement outreach program. Since forming G&D in 2009, he has created over 25 works, presented around the world, and has been a guest teacher and choreographer at University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), Duke, Elon and North Carolina Central Universities.

DERION LOMAN (Collaborator) is a Multimedia Artist/Dancer based in Los Angeles. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and B.F.A. in Dance, both from the University of California Santa Barbara. He began his career in Ballet Hispanico’s Second Company, then joined Pilobolus, touring internationally and domestically from 2013-2017. In 2017 he joined the cast of DIAVOLO: Architecture in Motion, competing on America’s Got Talent and touring. He was a Finalist on NBC’s World of Dance Season 3 and now is a freelance choreographer with organizations including Portland Opera, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, and The Los Angeles Dance Film Festival. Recently, he was awarded two wins for films in the Pacific Northwest Ballet Film Festival.

MADISON OLANDT (Collaborator) is a movement artist graduating from UCLA with a B.A. in WAC/Dance and a B.S. in Psychology. Madison has worked with Diavolo Architecture in Motion, Whim W'HIM Seattle Contemporary Dance Company, Jacob Jonas The Company, Dallas Black Dance Theater, UCSB Dance Company, Peridance Company, Springboard Montreal, GOOGLE, Pilobolus Dance Theater, Marriott Bonvoy, Coachella, K-pop Star Jackson Wang, Kanye West, NBC's World of Dance and America's Got Talent. Play is Madison’s greatest source of power and part of her mission as a creator is to nurture a process that stems from embodiment, discovery, and soul expansion.

LIZ PRINCE (Costume Designer) designs costumes for dance, theater and film and has designed costumes for numerous Pilobolus productions. Her costumes have been exhibited at The Cleveland center for Contemporary Art, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Rockland Center for the Arts and the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) for costume design as well as a 2008 Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College.

VALERIE ST. PIERRE SMITH (Costume Designer) White Earth Ojibwe-kwe, mischief maker, scholar, and author has an eclectic design background including stage, fashion, dance, film, opera, and themed entertainment. Her designs have been seen at The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Sea World: San Diego, the National Museum of the American Indian and more. Valerie’s scholarly work on cultural appropriation, inspiration, and representation in design has her presenting for a variety of institutions and conferences, including Central Saint-Martins Fashion Programme in London, England, and writing for a variety of publications.

STEPHEN STRAWBRIDGE (Lighting Designer) has many works in the repertory of Pilobolus Dance Theatre. His designs have been seen on Broadway, off-Broadway and at most major regional theaters and opera houses across the country. Internationally he has designed the lighting for major premieres in Bergen, Copenhagen, The Hague, Hong Kong, Linz, Lisbon, Munich, Naples, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, and Vienna. He has taught lighting since 1980 and became Chair of Yale School of Drama’s Lighting Design Program in 2004.

BRIAN TOVAR (Lighting Designer) is an award-winning and Drama Desk nominated lighting designer who has created original work for major Off-Broadway and regional theaters, everywhere. His body of work spans theater, dance, installations and live events. As a Creative Director and Producer, Brian has developed and collaborated on multiple groundbreaking and award-winning live experiences, earning multiple Clio Awards. Brian is a frequent collaborator with the City of New York and has created and designed multiple art installations in New York City.

MICHAEL WALL (COMPOSER) has established a reputation as one of the most innovative and impactful voices in the world of music and dance, writing approximately 200 new commissions a year for leading international dance organizations, and collaborative projects including the Grammy-nominated album “Spirit Song” by Kenny Barron. Michael also organized, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered the recording “Music for Changing Parts” by Philip Glass with the Salt Lake Electronic Ensemble. In dance, Michael has collaborated with Flockworks, Shen Wei, Charles Anderson, The Jose Limon Company, Jesse Zarrit, David Dorfman, Jennifer Nugent, Bebe Miller and many more. He is currently developing online educational resources to teach composing for dance, accompanying dance classes, and teaching music for dance to dance educators, which will be available through his website www.soundformovement.com

THOM WEAVER (Lighting Designer) studied at Carnegie-Mellon and Yale and first worked with Pilobolus on Teller and Aaron Posner’s The Tempest at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. In NY his work has been seen at NYSF/Public Theatre, Primary Stages, Signature Theatre, Player’s Theatre (Play Dead with Teller), 37ARTS, Cherry Lane, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Institute, and SPF. Thom has worked regionally at CenterStage, Syracuse Stage, Huntington, Milwaukee Rep, Shakespeare Theatre, Asolo, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Folger Theatre, Roundhouse Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hangar, Spoleto Festival USA, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Yale Rep. Thom has received 3 Barrymore Awards (21 nominations), 1 Helen Hayes Award (4 nominations) and 2 AUDELCO Awards.

re:CREATION Production Team

DANIELLE DEVITO (Stage Manager) grew up just outside of NYC and was introduced to the production side of the performing arts at her high school’s performing arts curriculum program, PACE. She continued her studies at The American University in Washington DC, majoring in both Film and Dance Production. Danielle has worked summers at the American Dance Festival, and has worked with dance companies such as Parsons Dance, Dorrance Dance, and Passion Fruit Dance Company. Danielle has also worked for The Broadway Education Alliance, putting together kids ensemble programs at locations such as Carnegie Hall and The Macy’s Day Parade.

YANNICK GODTS (Lighting Supervisor) joined Pilobolus as a Production Intern in 2013 and has since toured with the company to eighteen countries across four continents, in addition to designing multiple works for the company. He received his BA from Vassar College in 2013 and now resides in Washington, D.C., where he designs lighting for several theater and dance companies. When not on the road, he draws, hikes, bakes, and enjoys the company of his thirty or forty houseplants.

MAXWELL JABARA (Deck Manager) hails from southeastern Michigan and went on to study Technical Theatre at Kent State University in Ohio. Just out of college, Max worked with Pilobolus as a production intern and after completing his internship joined the crew of Blue Man Group. He returned to Pilobolus in 2021.