Zach Morris (Co-Artistic Director) is a choreographer, director, visual artist and Co-Artistic Director of Third Rail Projects. He is also the organizer and moderator of the NYC Dance Film Lab, a Movement Research teaching artist, and an adjunct faculty member of the Florida State University School of Dance. He has previously served as the Co-Creator and Co-Director of the Westbeth New Works Program and as the Inter/National Program Associate at Dance Theater Workshop. Zach has a BFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Tom Pearson (Co-Artistic Director) is a choreographer, visual artist, and Co-Artistic Director of Third Rail Projects. He is an adjunct faculty member of the Florida State University School of Dance and has choreographed, performed, lectured and taught for more than a decade in New York, Los Angeles, Florida, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and others. He is also a writer whose work has been published in Dance Magazine, Time Out New York Kids, Dance Spirit and through the Public Theater’s Native Theater Journal and interviews for the Hemispheric Institute. Tom holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University.

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Jennine Willett (Co-Artistic Director) is a choreographer and Co-Artistic Director of Third Rail Projects. A former member of Silesian Dance Theater, she has choreographed, performed and taught throughout Poland, Germany, Russia, and the U.S. and has served as an Associate in Performance at Swarthmore College and as a guest teacher at Sam Houston State University and the Limon Institute. She has also served as a contrib uting editor to Dance Europe Magazine and is a Medical Exercise Specialist and Personal Trainer with an MFA in Performance and Choreography from Florida State University.

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Tara O'Con (Collaborating Artist) is a contributing member of Third Rail Projects, O’con also performs regularly for mvworks/Megan Sprenger, and various other freelance projects. O’Con’s own work has been presented in showcases around NYC, including Dancenow | NYC, and Dance Theater Workshop’s Fresh Tracks series. Her work has also been commissioned and presented by Danspace Project and most recently at The Chocolate Factory Theater. Outside the dance world, she and Zach Morris co-choreographed a play by Dawn C. Sellers, which premiered in Tucson, AZ in April 10’. taraocon.wordpress.com.

Zoë Scheiber (Collaborating Artist) In addition to Third Rail Projects, Zoë Schieber, is currently a member of Eva Dean Dance and recently performed again with Noémie Lafrance.  Since 2002, she has shown her own work in the streets and in traditional venues in New York, Asheville, and Glaway.  She graduated Tulane University with an Anthropology degree and is currently teaching the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education. For more information please visit zoozimoves.com.  Zoë is thrilled to be working with TRP this season! 
 

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Other Current Collaborators:

____"an impressive body of work and a team of skillful dancers ___and designers" – Darrah Carr, The Dance Insider


Christopher Cummings (Environment & Interactive Design) is an exhibition designer and digital artisan who has a passion for creating immersive, interactive visitor experiences. In addition to designing environments for Third Rail Projects' Steampunk Haunted House, his exhibit work can be seen at the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site in downtown Manhattan as well as the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences, both of which have been visited by over one million people since opening. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.


Meiko's Starlight Orchestra (Composer) is the solo music project of Denver-based composer Katelyn (Meiko) Morris. Looking Glass marks her fifth collaboration with Third Rail Projects, having created original compositions and soundscapes for The Drifting Encyclopedia, Steampunk Haunted House (’09 & ’10), and The One You Love is Sick. Her focus is on creating intricate, haunting, and whimsical compositions that engulf listeners, delicately moving between beat–driven industrial tones and ethereal melodies, exploring and reflecting on the dual nature of the universe. In addition to her musical pursuits, Meiko makes clothing, designs floral arrangements, and reads books on astrophysics.


Karen Young (Costume Design) has designed costumes for numerous dance and video art projects in New York and internationally. She has collaborated with many renowned video artists including David Michalek’s “Slow Dancing” and “Portraits in Dramatic Time” (currently at Lincoln Center Festival), Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster 5” and “Cremaster 1”, and Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation’s “89 Seconds at Alcazar” and “The Rape of the Sabine Women”. In addition to her work with Third Rail Projects, her design work for dance can be seen in the repertoires of the Martha Graham Dance Company, American Ballet Theater, Benjamin Millepied, New York City Ballet, Pascal Rioult, Karole Armitage, Elisa Monte, Keigwin + Company, Noémie Lafrance, and Pam Tanowitz, among many others. karenyoungcostume.com.