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Brittney Brady is a theatre artist from the humid Gulf Coast of Florida. In 2012, she co-founded Ghostbird Theatre Company, an ensemble of artists dedicated to producing new and site-inspired performances. Since moving to the desert of California, she has received her MFA in Directing from CalArts. Her work has been seen at the Walt Disney Modular Theatre and REDCAT.

She is currently working on a series of international performance/installation projects, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Beginning in her hometown of southwest Florida, One Island travels along the International Appalachian Trail, an ancient mountain range that runs through North America, crosses the Atlantic to England and Ireland, and then terminates in Northern Africa. With a steady awareness of deep time, the work walks in circles, crosses borders, falls over itself, backtracks, seeking to unearth what the landscape may be able to tell us about our histories and our future at this moment.  

Julie Reames (she/her) is a vocalist, actor, conductor, writer, and producer. A 2021 graduate of CalArts with a B.F.A. in VoiceArts and a Creative Writing minor, Reames performs in a wide array of vocal music genres like art song, musical theatre, classical and contemporary choral music, cabaret, jazz, folk, pop, and theme park and video game music. Throughout her performance works, Reames recontextualizes pre-existing pieces to explore universal elements of the self. For instance, her Japanese ancestry inspired her BFA graduation recital The Cat Dreamed of the Jūnishi, a cabaret style show set in the round. The performance centered on the Japanese zodiac animals with each animal represented by music of different genres and original poetry.

Reames has performed in operas like Dada Din-Din and SWEAT, an a cappella opera, at CalArts as well as musicals like Nice Work If You Can Get It as Duchess and Little Women as Amy March. She has also performed in numerous choirs such as the Santa Clarita Master Chorale and the CalArts Contemporary Vocal Ensemble. In addition to vocal performance, Reames has conducted for various musical occasions like Gillian Rae-Perry’s album Lost Children, Zach Rosensteihl’s interdisciplinary graduation recital If You Leave These Woods. . . Remember Me, and Debatable Productions’ The Drowsy Chaperone as assistant music director, co-conductor, and percussionist. When she is not onstage, Reames is writing poetry or producing concerts, most recently, the three-day 2022 CalArts World Music Festival.

Performance Art is the ever present ticking of the heart that cannot be expressed in words. All realms of Kevin’s art encompasses an evolutional language where breath steers the human form. This Pennsylvania native has a passion for physical theater and the surrounding calls of his environment. He has trained in a wide variety of physical techniques. His pallet of movement fluctuates in and out of contact improvisation, aerial dance, trapeze, corporeal mime, Skinner Releasing, and abstract body flux.  In all his creations, there is zero limitation when it comes to the body and its capabilities of storytelling. He holds an MFA from CalArts and aspires to one day outrun an ostrich in a 100 yard dash.

Morgan McGlothan is a proudly fat, black, and neurodiverse artist from Los Angeles. She received her BFA in Film/Video from CalArts in 2017. Since then, her film transmission has screened at numerous festivals - including Slamdance Film Festival in 2018. 

Morgan has worked in the world of arts education since grade school, when she would volunteer to mentor younger students in film and writing classes. Her passion for assisting aspiring artists & students on their journeys has led her back here, to CalArts.

Beyond making art & connecting with artists Morgan treasures the California sunshine, her two cats, and any music she can dance to. 

Patrick Schmid is a writer and artist from Los Angeles.

Rodrigo Arruda is a language obsessed visual artist and activist. Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Rodrigo earned his BFA from Universidade de São Paulo and his MFA from the Program in Art at CalArts. He is currently investigating colonial relations between Brazil and the US through imagery of cattle, cannibalism, and the zombie, as well as intersections between sign language (Brazilian Sign Language and American Sign Language) and verbal, spoken languages (Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French). He has been part of exhibitions and festivals in the US, Brazil, and Europe in institutions such as the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, High as the Sky Foundation, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Museu do Estado do Pará, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, FFFriederich, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, SESC Ribeirão Preto, Ateliê 397, Galeria Sancovsky, OMA Galeria, e Prefeitura de Santo André.

Rose Andersen is a writer, academic and currently working towards an MA in Clinical Psychology. Her debut memoir, The Heart and Other Monsters, about the life and death of her younger sister, is now available from Bloomsbury. She received BA in LIberal Arts at Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA in Creative Writing (18’) at California Institute of the Arts where she was awarded the CalArts Emi Kuriyama Thesis Prize. She is published in The Cut, Glamour, The California Sunday, Lit Hub, and Crime Reads among others.