http://www.kristy-dodson.com/about-1 daily 0.75 2024-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/30fdf776-ea77-4581-a9cd-519106bbe389/Dodson+HS.jpg About http://www.kristy-dodson.com/waiting-for-godot daily 0.75 2016-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1450892196262-ROA7VLJFL4HRXFUH2DIE/Godot+3.JPG Waiting for Godot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1450892296489-PZGZ2QBXBNFZ7B29N8JO/Godot+3.JPG Waiting for Godot https://static1.squarespace.com/static/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/567adb7f7086d7d3f802f1b5/567adc8f40667a86b9ede676/1450892431719/ Waiting for Godot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1452270769616-773183MS296KFOL8ZN2D/Godot+4.JPG Waiting for Godot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1452270770462-6CV5PRLM1H5450DP8JRU/Godot+5.jpg Waiting for Godot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1452270770566-378ZCW18BB5GNAQHYKOW/Godot+6.jpg Waiting for Godot http://www.kristy-dodson.com/teaching-2 daily 0.75 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1642524613948-VOZR7SD5310NQ6VYP9EN/image.jpg Teaching - PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (MCCARTER THEATER) As an educator in the arts, I teach techniques incorporating design, voice, and experimental physicality. I focus on techniques that steer away from a universal body, preferring to focus on individual creativity and individual honesty. My education work has spanned from universities to community centers to district 75 schools, from private coaching for professional actors, to professional development training for fellow educators, to intergenerational collaborations with elders, to work with immigrant communities, to underserved youth facilities, to the Little People of America National Conventions. I have worked as a teaching artist, program leader, and educational head for institutions such as Lincoln Center Theater, Princeton University, UNC Chapel Hill, West Chester University, Rowan University, Villanova University, Whitworth University, Brooklyn College, Little People of America, and have developed curriculums for educational arts programming for Art House Productions in Jersey City funded by The Ford Foundation as well as Delaware Theatre Company and Queens Theater. I am a very active advocate of artists with disabilities, where I aim to empower those with disabilities to disrupt or ease the sharing of their unique expression with all audiences. I sit on many committees addressing issues with accessibility, sensory, and sensitivity throughout the five boroughs of NY as well as New Jersey and Michigan. I have been a co-curator and guest artist with The Dwarf Artist Coalition for the last seven years and is the founder and artistic head of the Dodson-Levine Fellowhship, that provides a year long artistic mentorship to little people across America. I have been invited as a guest artist to work with disabled populations from Jackson Heights to Uruguay. I began my career in performance as an acrobat, where I performed and competed internationally for 14 years, notably performing with Ringling Brother’s & Barnum and Baily’s Circus’ Midwest Touring Company. After an acute back injury I turned my focus toward the theatrical. I gained extensive training in many forms of physical & experimental theatre such as Lecoq, Viewpoints and Composition, Suzuki, Commedia del Arte, Bouffon, Contact Improv and multiple forms of Mask. I have studied with the legendary Anne Bogart, Felix Ivanov, Per Brahe, David Bridel, Richard Crawford, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune. I am regularly commissioned to devise physical theatre pieces with multiple institutions. My initial training, like most Americans, comes in the form of the more modern Stanislavsky inspired methods such as Meisner, Strasberg, and Hagen, among others. And while I often use these methods to help bridge the gap of introducing new vocabulary, it is my focus to get students toward a more universal base of expression, methods that are physically experienced before analyzed. Encouraging students to feel and think in impulses with the result being behavior is the first hurtle to my pedagogy. It is my passion to assist students of all backgrounds, shapes, colors, and sizes to find the link between physical and vocal expression using both newer and older methods & design both familiar and foreign to the American acting training institution. Helping students get out of their heads and into their bodies, learn how to empathize with others and recognize they’re part of a larger struggle. I offer students critical thinking skills, and knowledge outside of the ways knowledge is traditionally valued. My kind of Theatre can help students engage with and recognize broken systems and structures that are designed to reproduce inequality, learning to advocate for themselves and others. These techniques give priority to a person-centered approach that is respectful of each individual's path towards discovering their own storyteller, in whatever medium they chose to explore it. Giving students insights into how they typically absorb and react to the world around them and creating new modes of possibilities in life and in art. By focusing on the individual's experience, I prioritize authenticity in the learning process while also developing professional vocabularies and developing self generated work as well as approaches to established texts. Focusing on training the mind and attitude of the artist to transform their work from the conventional and safe, into something genuinely profound and repeatable. My work aims to improve body control and concentration, enhance stage presence adding beauty and depth to movement and voice, encouraging artists as creators, embodying script, character, and design in a fully transformative way, and developing a passionate sense of self and unstoppable sense of humor in order to be a great collaborator. - M.F.A. in Directing Brooklyn College - B.F.A. in Acting The Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film at SUNY Purchase -DEI Basic certification through CUNY -ADA Building Blocks certified - Sensitivity/Sensory training from City College - Team Based Learning Certified - USAG member & safety certified (since 2007) - Valid passport & NY drivers license For CV please email kristy.dodson@gmail.com http://www.kristy-dodson.com/projects daily 1.0 2025-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1527295992064-5D237Z41QV48341Q5OHC/the+hollower_selects-1.jpg Projects - the hollower by Liza Birkenmeier Starring: Patrena Murray, Reyna de Courcy, Samuel Im, Ryan Wesley Stinnett, and ToniAnne DiFilippo Produced by Michael Aguirre & Sarah Norris Casey Robinson (Fight Choreography), You-Shin Chen (Scenic Design), Max Archimedes Levitt (Costume Design), Jules G. Peiperl (Assistant Costume Design), Carolyn Wong (Lighting Design), Andy Evan Cohen (Sound Design & Music Direction), Original Music by Tara Amber, Leila Ben-Abdallah (Prop Design), Lindsey Hurley (Stage Management), Emma Silverman (Production Assistant), ToniAnne DiFilippo (Technical Direction), Press Representation by Karen Greco, Casting by Courtney Knysch Photos by Hunter Canning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1492549277504-3MB2J9R97ONZRTK0IGN3/IMG_0125.jpg Projects - DRYPP (created by EyeKnee Coordination) Arktisk Kultursenter Hammerfest, Norway Co-produced by Dansearena nord, and generously supported by Arts Council Norway starring: Einy Åm Sparks, Kevin Ho, and Stephanie Sleeper Einy Åm Sparks (choregrapher), Manger Åm (composer), Tyler Sparks (cinematographer), Derek Van Heel (lighting & set design), Stephanie Sleeper (costume design), Bryce Cutler (media design), photos & trailer by Tyler Sparks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1451941819304-S367LGXFH9EHPCT5C310/9.jpeg Projects - Miss Julie by August Strindberg New Workshop Theater (Frank McGuinness translation) starring: Sofiya Cheyenne, Jordane Christie, Heather Zoll, Sergio Mauritz Ang, Catleen Kelly, Gillian Rougier, Miles Butler, and Ian Axness Sarah Johnston (lighting design), Einy Am Sparks (choregrapher), Ian Axness (music director & pianist), Hyunsung Nam (composer), Jihyun Kim (costume design), Mary Capers (hair & makeup) Rebecca Grazi (set design), Kristy Dodson (sound design), Kip Marsh (production management), Naeema Abdur-Rahman Surin (assistant stage management) Nick Cotz (stage management) photos by Zoe Markwalter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1450891788361-523E9SO24UWHIAXOJO8H/_MG_9701.jpg Projects - Robot 4 Christmas by Will Ditterline touring production produced by Stages on the Sound Music by Messy Beds starring: Kineta Kunutu, Sergio Ang, Stephan Amenta, Mauricio Pita, and Sadie Schwolsky Lauren Stern (stage manager) Brian Kafel (set design) Derek Van Heel (lighting design) Kristy Dodson (sound design) Rebecca Grazi (costume design) Ken Nintzel (puppet design) Zac Messick (music director/composer) Scott Borrow (eductaion director) Amy Eingold (house management) Robert Choiniere (company management) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1450889339241-EVJDJ918RP7LSPW4HN60/Assoc+2.jpg Projects - Associations of Hip by Diana Stahl Produced by Overturn Theatre Milagro Theater starring: Kristin Villanueva, Sarah Saunders, Lorelei Prince, Will Gallacher, Casey Robinson, Aimee Jolson, and Patrick Cann Hilarion Banks (lighting design), Adam Sauermilch (video design) , Quel Beast (graffiti artist), Alexandra Phipps (music direction & sound design), Dana Covarrubias (costume design), Tim O'Rielly (set design), Einy Am Sparks (video editing) *trailer of only media footage used in the production photos by Hunter Canning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1451940063370-DWG4NXZB2DQOPO8LZ3U5/sfV4-bl7YFQHIdG5eZYUR2LaVoQ9s2vqkceYMvAO7cc.jpeg Projects - Last Chapter by Jose Anthony Roman Produced by Center Stage NY Center Stage NY starring: Joshua Levine, Casey Robinson, Kristin Villanueva, and Sarah Sanders Hilarion Banks (lighting design), Tim O'Reilly (set design), Kristy Dodson (costume design), Nelly Base (stage management), Jose Anthony Roman (sound design), Casey Robinson (fight direction) * stills drawn from video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1452271621256-Y6GCWULK9OMITXFS3DB1/Still+1.jpeg Projects - We Too Are Mammals by Daniella Shoshan Produced by Overturn Theatre Flamboyan Theater starring: Casey Robinson, Maria Peyramaure, Alexander Flores, Zuleyma Guevara, Mary Schneider, Matt Luceno, Meredith Autry, Enoch Porch, Benito Borgas, Flavio Sanchez, Gabrielle Moranchel Jennifer Schriever (lighting design), Joseph Varca (sound design), Kristy Dodson (costume design), Anita LaScala (set design) * stills drawn from video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1577387986663-0Y9MU1HOCWTTTBLJY1T5/Request+Programme+10.jpg Projects - REQUEST PROGRAMME by Franz Xaver Kroetz Starring: Nadia Diamond Produced by Princeton University site specific Tracy Bersley (Co-Director), Jules Peiperl (Costume Design), Kristy Dodson (Lighting/Sound Design), Alexandra Geiger (Scenic/Prop Design), Abby Rose Jean-Baptiste (Stage Management), Jules Peiperl (Production Assistant), Carmelita Becnel (Production Manager) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1577387924611-MXJ33UG4Z0CCWVO4PFSR/Red+Noses+1.jpg Projects - RED NOSES by Peter Barnes Produced by Princeton University at The McCarter Theatre Center Tracy Bersley (Direction), Jeff Van Velsor (Scenic Design), Brad Scoggins (Costume/Puppet Design), Jen Schriever (Lighting Design), Steven Tran (Music Direction), Carmelita Bechnel (Stage Management) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1577387273141-VWX97PP773EFNCA9VP2Q/Dance+Nation-0942.jpg Projects - DANCE NATION by Clare Barron Starring: Cherubs of 2019 Produced by National High School Institute at Northwestern University Kristy Dodson (Choreography), Lauren Nichols (Scenic Design), Beckie Price (Costume Design), Dan Friedman (Lighting Design), Grover Hollway (Sound Design), Erin Gautille (Prop Design), Anushka Agarwala (Stage Management), Jamine Moore (Assistant Direction), Alyssa Mahon (Production Assistant), Brian Back (Production Manager) Bec (Technical Direction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1666561076742-Y2AUSTHLATZEPV21WNLF/12.jpg Projects - MEN ON BOATS Produced by Villanova University at The Mullen Center Stefanie Hansen (Scenic Design), Janus Stefanowicz (Costume Design), Lily Fossner (Lighting Design), Damien Figueras (Sound & Projection Design), Joshua Peters (Stage Management), Hannah Deprey-Severance (Dramaturg) photos by Paola Nogueras https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1683332172994-ZUU43LX99VNLIVB31OPS/ROEarch-87.jpg Projects - ROE by Lisa Loomer Starring: Zoe Rossouw, Margaux Wellman, Mallory Freeze, Faviana Petru, Emily Gustafson, Jessie Urbania, Cinnamon Stoner, Colin Smith, Calvin Rubes, David Snee, Hartley Somerville, Symone Spencer, and Seania Burnett Produced by UNC Greensboro @ The Sprinkle Theater Kristy Dodson (Choreography), Caitlyn Baldwin (Scenic Design), Taylor Gantt (Costume Design), Ray Ward (Lighting Design), Keenan Harmon (Sound Design), Tannis Boyajian (Prop Design), Alex Oaks (Stage Management), Amabel Prisk (Assistant Direction), Chip Haas (Technical Direction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1639497958591-HADY6KJJKF0U2UAA53H6/IMG_4856.jpg Projects - The Arsonist by Max Frisch (translated by Alistair Beaten) Michigan Technology University starring: Joshua Levine*, Matt Koss, Brian Briseno, Tara Vohs, Ahnikah Bachleitner, Alyssa Helminen, Sebastian Adams, Bradley Maycroft, Anna VanNiejenhuis, Ally Southgate, Dalton Knight Sara Gosses (lighting design), Kristy Dodson(choregrapher), Sound Advisor (Christopher Plummer), Mary Cyr (costume design), Kent Cyr (set design/TD), Sage Moser, Grayson Dunham, Matt Anderson, Riley Mekhi, Mason Waldrip, Isabella Capanda, Grayson Asbury, Izzy Walde (sound design), George Hommowun (production management), Laurel Schmidt & Matt Fisher (assistant stage management) Madi Wentela (stage management) photos by Laura Bufanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1733239482756-UI7T5UJR4ZRFT90TED98/HuthPhoto-KAH_2214.jpg Projects FAILURE: A LOVE STORY BY PHILLIP DAWKINS Starring: Irene Denniston, Aryan Kale, Sydney Patterson, Laura Westray and Tim Yardley Produced by Kathryn Robinson @ Kenan Theatre Company Kristy Dodson (Choreography), Lucas Branch (Scenic Design & Technical Director), Madison Bender (Costume Design), Simba Mauridi (Lighting Design), Madi Ugan (Sound Design), Alex Woo (Prop Design), Megan Cvijanovich (Stage Management), Cal Stoke (Assistant Stage Manager), https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/567acceedf40f3a5265bdba9/1743290934603-IGY65N0IP37KOOEGFOHX/IMG_1089.jpg Projects - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens Produced by William & Mary College at The Glenn Close Theater Patrice Davidson (Scenic Design), Jeremy D. Quick (Costume Design), Johnny Williams III (Lighting Design), Mahmoud Khan (Sound Design), Kristen Olinger (Projection Design), Sarah Colatriano (Stage Management), Ni Li (Production Manager) Photos by Ryan Goodman