Department Heads

Steve Long
Music Director: Steve Long
videos on website: https://steve-long.com/videos
link to records on website: https://steve-long.com/sounds
Instagram: nevets.gnol
 
A lifelong New Yorker from Canarsie, Brooklyn, is an artist and organizer working with sound, language, and space. His interest in music began at age 11 when a derelict piece of furniture, formerly known as a piano, was moved into his family’s home. He studied composition at the Manhattan School of Music before receiving his BA in linguistics from the American University of Rome. He received an MMA in contemporary improvisation from the New England Conservatory of Music. 

For him, creative work, as a composer or curator, is an act of facilitation. To this end, he constructs situations that allow collaborators to push out into corners and luxuriate in both physical and metaphysical space. His work organizes collective imagined futures unencumbered by incessant categorization. 

Recordings of his solo and collaborative work have been released on NotArt Records, Biophilia Records, and Tripticks Tapes among others. Forthcoming releases on Astral Spirits and Relative Pitch Records are slated for Fall 2022. 

In Long’s work as an educator, he has delivered guest lectures at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, and Northeastern University, where his workshops trace the lineages of queerness through American Experimentalism. He currently teaches at The New School.
Theater Director: Roman D’Ambrosio
Instagram: badpostroman
 
Roman D’Ambrosio is the resident playwright at Adult Film Theater Collective and the Associate Theater Director at The Williamsburg Arts & Historical Center. His plays have been workshopped and performed at the Detroit Theatre Collective, New York Theater Festival, Sovereign House, Beckett’s and Circle in the Square, including numerous independent spaces and festivals. He has been published in Grand Journal, Apocalypse Confidential, Expat Press, and American Vulgaria.
Peter Dizozza
Website address:  http://www.cinemavii.com/
 
Peter Dizozza is a composer collaborating on songs and/or music for plays, as well as creating new work.  Currently in development moving toward production with art installation at The WAH Center is a musical playscript entitled Mushroom Head.   He studied music at Queens College and Law at St. John’s University.  He received musical theater training at BMI and ASCAP Music Theater Workshops and playwriting through La Mama’s Experiments Series and The Lambs.  His projects include “Prepare to Meet Your Maker,” “Coppélia,” “The Last Dodo,” “The Golf Wars,” “Marriage at the Statue of Liberty,” “The Sea Heiress,” “A Question of Solitude (The James Bond Opera),” “Float,” and a 20-minute musical about plants and gardeners entitled “Bulb.”  He also performs regularly as a piano/singer songwriter.  His 7 song cycle, Pro-Choice on Mental Health is a popular Spoken Word album.  That and other Dizozza songs are directly available through most streaming platforms. 
Dance Director: Robin Cantrell
Instagram: robincantrell Indelibledance,  constant_john_productionsIndelibledance 
 
With a professional performing career spanning two decades, Robin Cantrell has worked with numerous dance companies including City Ballet of San Diego, Rioult, Rebecca Kelly Ballet, and, most notably, as a member of Battery Dance for 16 years. With Battery, Robin performed, taught, and presented her own choreography in over 60 countries. She is the subject of the award-winning documentary Moving Stories, about the company’s cultural diplomacy work, and is a visiting professor at both Vassar College and Pace University. Most recently she created an evening-length, interactive, dance experience for the company’s New York season.
Robin currently dances for Gabrielle Lamb’s PigeonWing Dance and is the Artistic Director of Indelible Dance: a Brooklyn-based dance company that creates otherworldly dance films and presents multimedia immersive dance events.
Her most recent dance films, ODYSSEY, TRIPTYCH, and Sucker Punch, have garnered numerous awards and accolades, including Best Screendance of the Year at the 2022Independent Shorts Awards.
 
Robin recently co-founded Constant John Productions with her creative partner Alexis Gideon. The company creates dynamic films that tell their stories entirely through dance and music. Their fist film, Flatland No. 1 was completed last year year.
Robin Cantrell is a native of St. Paul Minnesota and received her BFA in ballet performance at the University of Utah as a Willem F. Christensen scholarship recipient. 
She loves her bird very much and continues to expand her mindfulness practice.
Synchronized Performance Program: Dance, Music and Theater Director, Rachel Cohen  
Website: www.racoco.org
Instagram: racocotogo, racocosolo
Facebook: www.facebook.com/racocoproductions 
 
Racoco productionsremoves the boundaries between the visual and performing arts, the audience and the performers, and the real and the imaginary. We combine quixotic choreography, absurdist visuals, and raw materials to create theatrical worlds in which movement, music, humor, emotion, and texture are inextricably linked. The body and everyday objects are compared, contrasted, blended, and confused to illustrate the inescapable messiness of existence.Rachel cohen
Reading Director: K Hank Jost
Instagram: acwjournal,  hank_being_a_better_ape
 
K Hank Jost is a writer of fiction, educator, and editor born in Texas and raised in Georgia. He is the author of the novel-in-stories Deselections, the novel MadStone, is editor-in-chief of the literary quarterly A Common Well Journal. His fiction has been recently featured in Vol.1 Brooklyn, Hobart, Poverty House, BULL, Misery Tourism, Archway Editions Journal, and Serpent Club’s New Writing. He is currently seeking representation/a publisher for his newest novel, Aquarium, while he works on his fourth book, Ordinary Time. As an educator Hank has led workshops at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, been a featured editor at the Barrelhouse Conference 2024, and teaches at Gotham Writers Workshop.
Music Director: Daniel Haas
Website: danielhass.ca 
Instagram: dani__ha__
 
Award winning Canadian cellist and composer Daniel Hass has performed as a soloist and chamber musician across the Unites States, Canada, Europe, and Jamaica. He is a founding member of the Renaissance String Quartet, a touring contemporary and classical ensemble whose mission is to articulate an inclusive vision of classical music, as well as modern jazz ensembles the Phillip Golub Quintet and Orlando Furioso, winner of the 2023 German Jazz Awards’ Debut Album of the Year.

As a composer, Daniel has received commissions from the Glenn Gould Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Revolve Dance Project, and the Queens New Music Festival, among others. His upcoming debut album as a composer, “Love and Levity,” features two full length quartets. As an arranger and session musician, Daniel has worked with singer-songwriters such as Maya Hawke, Caroline Rose, May Rio, and Lila Dupont.

A graduate of the Juilliard School, Daniel plays a 1730 Franciscus Celoniatus cello on generous loan from the Canada Council for the Arts.