Collaborators
Dean Taucher - Production Designer
Dean Taucher has designed for the Off-Broadway play “Tabletop” at the American Place Theater and Lansner’s “Holocaust Stories”, “River Deep”, “Frankie’s Wedding” and all four short films. Dean is currently production designer on the NBC show “Law & Order: SVU," which is entering its 15th season.Other episodic shows he has designed include Miami Vice, NY Undercover, Dellaventura and The Sopranos. Other recent work in the theatre includes Off-Broadway, “Snakebit” with Jace Alexander and “More Than a Song” at the Pittsburgh Ballet with director-choreographer Lynne Taylor Corbett. He designedthe play “Blackbird” for Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, July 2009, starring actor William L. Petersen.
Tiffiney Davis - Writer, Narrator
Tiffiney Davis, Brooklyn raised, is the Executive Director of the Red Hook Art Project. She has dedicated her life to breaking barriers in the name of the arts. Using different disciplines to uplift a child’s voice, increasing graduation rates, providing a creative space for children achievement, community awareness and building connections and collaborations with local Red Hook/Brooklyn residents. While many were under quarantine, Tiffiney was still able to transition to a virtual setting and host over 100 virtual art classes to ensure that children were still receiving support. While many families were low on food, Tiffiney hit the pavement and made connections with local restaurants and grocery stores to help get food into homes in need; as well as establishing two community refrigerators.
Dahsir Hausif - Performer
Dahsir Hausif began dancing at the age of 6 at The Ailey School and graduated from the Brooklyn High School of the Arts with honorable awards. His training and mentorship includes the Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts and MOVE(NYC,) Young Professionals Program. Dahsir graduated in 2024 from the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. Dahsir has had the honor of performing renowned works by Alvin Ailey, José Limon, Kyle Abraham and Robert Battle.
Pat Hall - Performer
Pat Hall is a dancer/choreographer and teacher. She has performed and taught on four continents. Her credits include, choreography for Mabou Mines for the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Spoleto Festival in South Carolina, and Sueños at the American Repertory Theater in Massachusetts. Previous collaborations with Lansner include, Salt Chocolate, 2004 and playing the legendary singer in River Deep, A Tribute to Tina Turner, 2006.
As a teacher, she uses her knowledge to create contemporary movements and rituals that celebrate every aspect of life and to create new traditions. Her dance style is influenced by African, Caribbean and contemporary dance forms and an interest in ceremonial and ritual practices of indigenous people.
Philip Hamilton - Composer
Philip Hamilton is recognized as a premier composer of music for dance. Throughout his career, he has worked closely with many iconic figures in the dance world including John Cage, Judith Jamison, Bessie Schonberg and Ann Reinking. He was awarded a “Bessie” for his "Body of Work" in the field of Composition for Dance.
Hamilton has composed for many of the world’s leading choreographers and dance companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet Austin, Ron Brown, Mia Michaels, David Dorfman, Ballet Hispanico, Rennie Harris, Complexions, Robert Battle and Liz Lerman. His music has been called "powerful" and "explosive" by the New York Times. “Ezekiel’s Wheel,” Hamilton’s critically acclaimed work with jazz choreographer Danny Buraczeski was hailed as “a modern masterwork” in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Barbie Leung - Director of Photography
Barbie Leung is a New York based cinematographer with a dark lyrical visual style, as showcased in Todd Bogin’s upcoming feature Left With Only Rain. Her camerawork has screened at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Fantasia, and Outfest. Leung is a 2021 recipient of The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Vision Mentorship Program, and in 2019 was awarded a spot at the AFI Conservatory’s CIW Workshop. Leung is a member of the Society of Camera Operators (SOC), and the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG) Local 600.
Paula McGonagle - Performer
Paula is a founding member gabrielle lansner & company, and has collaborated and performed with Lansner on projects since 1997. Also, Associate Director and performer for Ripe Time Theatre Company’s production “Fire Throws”. Other collaborations with Ripe Time include “Steep Ravines”, ” Innocents” and “Betrothed”. Other credits: “A View from the Bridge” Michael Mayer dir., “Baal” Robert Woodruff dir., “On the Town” Anne Bogart dir., “A Christmas Carol” Tina Landau director. Performed at Harvard Summer Dance, DTW, the Duke, EST, NYTW and LaMama to name a few.
Brian O'Carroll - Director of Photography
Brian is a native of Ireland, and has recently produced and shot BLUE CAPRICE, which sold to IFC after premiering at Sundance 2013, and was nominated for an independent Spirit award in 2014. He photographed THE MEN WHO BUILT AMERICA in 2012 with director Ruan Magan. In 2011 Brian and Ruan made a short called ANGEL, which won best short film in half of the festivals in which it was accepted, including Milan. Brian has been honored by the International Cinematographers Guild, three times for CHERRY BLOOM, 8 FOR INFINITY, and ANGEL with an Emerging Cinematographer Award. He is President and owner of Hi Def New New York HDNY LLC a successful commercial, doc and music video production company. After almost 30 years in NYC, he lives in alphabet city.
Roweena Mackay - Producer
After receiving her M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from the Yale School of Drama in 2005, Roweena co-founded Bone Orchard with director Anna Jones and over the course of three years co-produced five site-specific plays in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 2009she was hired by Le Bureau/Paris to script supervise Jean Christian Bourcart’s feature IN MEMORY OF THE DAYS TO COME.Her first producing credit came as a joint collaboration with Killer Films and Massify for the Ace Hotel Short Film Competition:CHARLEY, written and directed by Dee Robertson. Roweena has been the UPM/1st AD on five short films CHIVALROTIC (Dir. Ryan Velasquez), 143 MAPLE DRIVE (Dir. Yael Mayorek), ROGER, THE CHICKEN (Dir. Matthew Erlbach), SCOTT FREE (Dir. Michael Heitzman) and ONE PAST (Dir. Juli Kobayashi). She has line producedthree features in New York: MUTUAL FRIENDS (Dir. Matthew Watts), HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH IT (Dir. Jon Lindstrom) and SOMEONE ELSE (Dir. Nelson Kim).
Ellen McLaughlin - Writer
Ellen's plays include Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, and Ajax in Iraq. Producers include: the Public Theater, New York Theater Workshop, the Guthrie, MN and The Almeida Theater, London. As an actor she is best known for having been the original Angel in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America on Broadway.
Doug Karr –Director of Photography/Editor
Doug Karr has been creating original independent films since 1997. Karr’s credits include narrative shorts Anniversary Present, The Straitjacket Lottery and award winning documentaries LSD25, The June Bug Symphony, Lifecycles: a story of AIDS in Malawi, and The Face of AIDS. Karr’s last short Ten For Grandpa, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and has gone on to screen at over 50 international film festivals, winning multiple awards. Karr’s latest film, Art Machine, stars Joseph Cross (Milk, Flags of Our Fathers, Running with Scissors), Jessica Szohr (Gossip Girl, Piranha) and Joey Lauren Adams (Chasing Amy, Big Daddy). Karr is the owner of Pie Face Pictures in New York City and is represented by Caliber Media Co, Los Angeles.
Aimee McCabe – Co-producer- In Memoriam
Aimee McCabe works as a New York City based freelance producer, event planner and nonprofit consultant. Seven years ago, she moved from the Midwest to pursue her dreams in the big city. Working in various producing capacities for numerous projects in film, theater and dance, in addition to time spent in front of the camera, she discovered a love for the details that go into making projects happen. She has produced galas and fundraising events for a host of New York nonprofits and has decided to direct that expertise into the film arena. Recently, she directed and produced the documentary Cleanse, currently in post-production.
Joel Pickard - Composer
Portland, Oregon, based composer Joel Pickard writes for film, theatre, and dance. Joel regularly creates music and sound design for HBO, Showtime Networks, Smithsonian Channel, and other commercial clients. Throughout 2010-11 he will be touring and playing pedal steel guitar for The Thank-you Bar; a dance performance piece for which he co-wrote the score. His latest recording Motel Chronicles is a sparse cinematic country noir soundtrack featuring pedal steel guitar.
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