BabyLove

BabyLove

BabyLove Team

CHRISTEN CLIFFORD is a performer and writer. Her most recent solo show, BabyLove, had its premier in Ljubljana, Slovenia in October 2005 at the Mesto Zensk International Festival of Contemporary Art.

Her writing has been published in Salon.com, Nerve.com, Bambini, Black and White Magazine, Blue, Identity Theory and The New York Press, as well as anthologized in Salt (Salt press) and the recent Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong (Disinfo press, December 2005).

As an actor, she has performed in New York on Broadway in Brave New World at The Town Hall. Off and Off-Off Broadway credits include HERE, The Public Theatre, Classic Stage Company, The Culture Project, Soho Rep, chashama, etc. Regional work includes Betrayal, The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem, Oklahoma City, The Seagull. She has performed internationally in Italy, France, and Slovenia. Film work includes the award-winning MerchanT/Venice. TV includes The Guiding Light (ABC), As The World Turns (CBS), and The Story Of America (A&E). Her performances have been praised by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Art In America, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, among others.

She was a co-winner of the NFCB's Golden Reel Award (a national award for broadcasting) in 2000, for co-writing and performing in The Erotica Project V. Other radio work includes The Archaeology Of Lost Voices for National Public Radio.

She created HEAT: sexy stories and burlesque at the Culture Project in 2002, where it ran monthly. She has performed and collaborated with many artists, including performance artist Julie Atlas Muz, Fluxus artist Douglas Davis and architect Frank Gehry (Whitney American Century Pt. II), and video artist Alix Pearlstein (Salon 94).

Her solo performance "17 Guys I F*cked" was produced at The Culture Project, Women Center Stage, BRIC Studio Theatre and The Oni Gallery. Performance art includes ?C*nt/*SS? at the Oni Gallery. She has given readings of her work at Galapagos, Makor/92^nd Street Y, Happy Hour Salon, East Side Oral, The Living Room and Coliseum Books in New York.

She has received fellowships and residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Ragdale Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center.

Recently, she has been frequently asked to speak about maternal sexuality and has been featured in articles about mothering in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Time Out New York and on Fox New York News. She was a frequent guest on Metro TV?s Naked New York and has appeared at Mamapalooza! and at The Museum of Sex in New York.

She holds a BFA from NYU/TSOA and has been a guest teacher at NYU, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, and MIT. In 2003/2004 Clifford was a visiting scholar at New York University. She is currently working towards an MFA in Creative Non Fiction from The New School. She is married to writer McKenzie Wark and is the proud mother of Felix Clifford Wark.

Julie Kramer (developed with and directed by) Julie directed the world premiere of BABY LOVE in October for the City of Women Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has directed the winner of the One Act Play Contest at the Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and MOTHER LOAD by Amy Wilson at the Arthur Seelen Theatre. Other recent credits include BOY GETS GIRL by Rebecca Gilman at NYU/Strasberg, ELEMENTS OF STYLE by Wendy Weiner for the New York Fringe Festival; NIXON’S DAUGHTERS by Jacqueline Brogan at the O’Neill Theater Center; NONE OF THE ABOVE by Jenny Lyn Bader at New Georges, ANDREW SECUNDA’S ONE WOMAN SHOW (Best of Comedy, Time Out New York) at Upright Citizens’ Brigade Theater; three shows for the HBO/Aspen Comedy Festival and a showcase for ABC/TV. In August 2006 she will direct the new musical IT’S A HIT! by Melissa Levis, Beth Saulnier and David Weinstein for the 2006 New York Fringe Festival. Julie was the dramaturg for Levis and Weinstein’s musical THE JOYS OF SEX in the NY Fringe and off-Broadway at The Variety Arts. She has been a guest artist at Barnard College and The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, was a Young Director in Residence at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of SSDC.

Julie Atlas Muz (choreographer) Julie Atlas Muz, one of the most acclaimed and prolific conceptual performers and choreographers in New York, sucker punches the boundaries between performance art, dance and burlesque with dark, twisted, come-hither performances that have secured her place in the underworld of nightlife as well as the bastion of the art world. Muz has presented her work at P.S. 122, HERE, The Performing Garage and Arts at St. Anne’s Warehouse, chashama, LaMama, The Kitchen, and Dixon Place. Muz has been awarded Artist- in-Residency status from Chashama (2002), Joyce Soho (2001), Mondo Conne Artist-in-Residency at Dixon Place (2000) and Movement Research Artist-in-Residence (1998-99). 2004 Whitney Biennial Artist and a 2005 Valencia Bienal Artist. 2006 Miss Exotic World. PS 122 Ethyl Eichenberger Commission 2007.

Elizabeth Rhodes (Sound Designer) New York credits include Steve Martin's adaptation of The Underpants and The Winter's Tale with director Barry Edelstein at Classic Stage Company; John Patrick Shanley's Dirty Story and Sailor Song as well as Dutch Heart of Man with LAByrinth; she has worked on numerous projects with director John Gould Rubin including Trial by Water (Ma-Yi), Hamlet, Blood in the Sink, Memoir (LAByrinth), Erin Cressida Wilson's Trail of Her Inner Thigh (LAByrinth) and The Erotica Project. Other New York credits include A Soldier's Wife with the Mint, Broken Journey and Wolfpit with Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Deb Margolin's 3 Seconds in the Key with New Georges and Ajax with Lightbox. Regionally, she designed Lee Blessing's Winning Streak at George Street Playhouse, Stones in His Pockets at the Alley Theatre in Houston and three seasons at The Penguin Repertory Company.

Melissa Schlachtmeyer (Costume Design) Recent designs include: Ashley Montana Goes Ashore in the Caicos, A Heartbeat to Baghdad (JABU, Henry Hewes Award-nomination) and Screenplay (The Flea Theatre), Iphigenia at Aulis (Pearl Theatre Company), The Phoenician Women (Synapse Productions), Mimesophobia (SPF Festival), The A-Word (Greenwich Street Theatre/Lark Theatre), The Lunch Anxieties (DoGooder Productions), Factory Girls (Williamstown Theatre Festival/Bay Street Theatre), L'Heure Espagnole, The Old Maid and the Thief (Berkshire Opera), Camera Obscura, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Schubert: Unfinished/Refinished (Eos Orchestra) and dance designs for BalletTech, Neta Pulvermacher, and The Isadora Duncan Foundation. Associate/Assistant on numerous operas and Broadway productions.

Tyler Micoleau (Original Lighting Design)
New York Off-Broadway design credits include: Orson's Shadow, Eat The Taste, BUG (OBIE Award, Lortel Award / Barrow Street Theater); Counsellor-At-Law (Peccadillo); Carnival Knowledge, Underneath the Lintel (SoHo Playhouse); The Night Heron , Dublin Carol, Mojo (Atlantic Theater); Refuge (Playwrights Horizons); My Marriage To Ernest Borgnine (Vineyard Theater). Regional designs for: Hangar Theatre (NY); Portland Center Stage (OR); Syracuse Stage Company (NY); Portland Stage Company (ME); Barrington Stage Co. (MA); Madison Repertory Theater (WI); Shakespeare Theater (Washington DC); Cornerstone Theater (CA) and Long Wharf Theater (CT). International design credits: Australia, England, Scotland, France, Portugal, Italy, Croatia, Israel, Brazil, Japan. Tyler is a regular visiting-artist at Dartmouth College Department of Theater and part-time faculty at Sarah Lawrence College Department of Dance. He is the recipient of the 2004 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lighting Design, a 2004 Village Voice OBIE Award and a 2000-2002 National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Career Development Program for Directors and Designers.