Matthew Seidman
MATTHEW SEIDMAN
EDUCATION
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA. MFA, Interschool � Program Film/Video & Creative Writing. May, 2017
Eugene Lang College, The New School For Social Research, NYC. BA, Liberal Arts, writing (fiction) and theater. May, 1997.
EMPLOYMENT
Instructor. �Writing With Film,� California Institute of the Arts; Program Film/Video. Post-Grad Teaching Fellowship. Fall, 2017.
A class I devised, in which students write, direct & edit two short films: one of their own, and one of a classmate�s, both assigned by random lottery. Students � undergrad and graduate � workshop & critique scripts-in-progress, films-in-progress, crew for one another, watch short films and excerpts, & read related texts throughout the semester. Class culminates in a screening, open to the Institute.
Instructor (with B�r�nice Reynaud). �Chantal Akerman: An Intimate Passion,� California Institute of the Arts; School of Film/Video. Fall, 2017.
Research seminar on the work of this under-considered Belgian director.
Writing Instructor. California Institute of the Arts; 2015-2017. Intro to Critical Studies (Undergrad). (Institute curriculum.)
Yoga Instructor. Certified, 1998-present. Individuals, groups, workshops.
Yoga Instructor. NYC Public Schools, grades 4-12. For �Bent On Learning� not-for-profit, bringing yoga & meditation into NYC schools. 2009-2012.
Theater Instructor. 2002-present. Writing, performance, movement, and theory workshops.
Guest Instructor, NYU. 2002, 2003, 2006. Workshops on yoga and performance; Artaud; performance and pain; Shir haShirim (Song of Songs), erotics & performance.
Playwrighting Instructor.
6 week workshop, Trinidad, West Indies. Co-taught with Trinidadian theater artist Tony Hall, and in conjunction with Hartford, CT-based Trinity College Study Abroad program. 2004. Brought European theater practices into collision with Trinidadian/Caribbean Carnival practices.
Theater. 1995-present. Playwright, director, designer, performer. NYC; Berlin, Germany; Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies.
Various.
1980�s-1997. Carpentry & construction � from rough to finish. NYC.
1986. Film subtitle translation, Japanese to English. Japan Society, NYC.
1980�s. Restaurant work (mostly Japanese cuisine) � cooking, serving. NYC.
1981-1988. English teacher, freelance. Tokyo, Japan & NYC.
1980�s. Odd jobs. Foot messenger, Herald Sq. ice cream vendor, van driver, artist�s assistant, etc. NYC.
ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS & GRANTS
�M Kennedy Volcofsky: A Critical Forum�: An evening-length consideration of my work in Film & Theater, held at PAM, a performance space in Highland Park, Los Angeles. May, 2018
:() Film. 2015; 43 min; DV. Selected for the CalArts 2015 REDCAT Showcase � Program Film/Video, Long Form. May, 2015.
Winner, 2012 Summer Literary Seminars (SLS) Fiction Prize, for short story See Oh Oh Pee [that], judged by Mary Gaitskill. SLS is a Montreal-based literary contest, which [out of 1300+ entries] awarded me publication, flight and two-week stay in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Edward F Albee Creative Persons Award/Fellowship. Three time recipient: 1997 (playwrighting); 1999 (fiction); 2011 (fiction). A month-long residency at �The Barn� in Montauk, NY, for selected writers, artists & composers. Twenty fellows selected annually out of 800+ entries.
�Nomadic New York� � Berlin, Germany. August, 2007. World Premier of durational, solo theater work Fur Egg. Curated and produced by dance/performance writer & theorist Andr� Lepecki, and Berlin�s Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
�Festival Mau� � Faro & Lisbon, Portugal. 2006 & 2007. Snow Vein and Shivah, two video works, selected for inclusion in this [now financially defunct] Arts Festival. Viewable at ------------/mkennedyvolcofsky
PUBLICATION
Sherry critique of experimental documentary film Sherry, by Eliane Lima; Philosophy Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4. Sophia, Bulgaria, 2017.
Bright, MT (tv pilot, excerpt). Next Words; California Institute of the Arts, 2016.
C�sura (fiction). Lemon Hound, November 2013.
------------/2013/11/22/m-k-s-v-o-l-c-o-f-s-k-y-caesura/
A (fiction). Paraphilia Magazine, winter-spring 2013.
------------/periodical/a/
See Oh Oh Pee [that] (fiction). Black Warrior Review, 39.1, fall/winter 2012.
0-1-12-14 (fiction). H.O.W. Journal, #8, fall/winter 2011.
A Well Placed Hole (online writings). 2005-2008. ------------/
�Seizure/Theater� (essay) in Backstage, journal of the National Drama Association of Trinidad & Tobago. 2004.
�Trembling In The Archive� (image & text, with Karmenlara Ely); Performance Research, December 2003; published by Routledge.
The New York Press (free paper); fiction. 1992.
The Greenline (local newspaper/reportage), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY. 1991.
CURRENT WORK
PRESENTLY MARKETING:
green cap Feature film. (2017, HD. 78m.)
A �ritual fiction� � experimental narrative � exploring our fundamental bifurcation by � or into � language, time, sex, death and love. Six characters� response to being not-One.
End, low sung Fiction. (2017, 146 pgs.)
Eight-story collection. Children and adults standing at each others� closed doors � heads bowed, listening. Arrival at the threshold � even without its opening � means consequences legal, filial, intimate & mortal. Story itself � perhaps � a temporary shelter for an ethics in exile.
Bright, MT. (2016). 1 hour TV pilot; traumedy.
E (2015). full length screenplay; NY-Tokyo drama.
OTHER WORK
A Sacred Misunderstanding (2014). 16 piece fiction collection.
Artist�s edition: ------------/b/4653124-a-sacred-misunderstanding
Letter To A Story [a] novel, two-thirds complete.
PLAYWRIGHT / THEATER DIRECTOR
The scripts of 12 original works, including those below, are available at my site, A� Traveling Yeshiva Sideshow. ------------/live-art
All plays produced by venue or festival as listed.
Sand Assistant director; performer. Script by Peter Jacobs. The Chocolate Factory Theater, LIC, NY. 2011.
Kicked Out Of Death; a folie � deux Duet. Co-authored, -directed, and �performed with theater artist Peter Jacobs. A work of confined nomadism, of two Jews whom have no congregation but each other. �One wants what the other has; the other wants what�s missing.� The Chocolate Factory Theater, LIC, NY. 2008.
Fur Egg Solo. Script, performance, design, direction. A 3 hour solo; performed late on a Friday night in Berlin; an explicit, deliberately transgressive American Jew-in-Berlin performance. Moving from the masculine to the illuminate-wombed feminine, beginning by wrapping t�fillin and a cockring and then wearing both throughout, half the time naked. It included three original short films (Shivah, Broom Thirst, and Pinned), an interval of anal praying, a 9-11 vaudeville softshoe, and an enormous mound of Berlin trash I�d collected from which I built a female totem, whose face I painted from memory: the face of a prostitute, a mother and addict, ritual-victim of a serial killer in Atlantic City the previous year; a case � to-date (2017) � never solved. While painting her memory image I told her story and improvising other spoken text. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, part of the Nomadic New York performance programme, Berlin, Germany. 2007.
Stickfigure Script. A monologue for two bodies, one living, one unliving. National Museum, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies. 2004.
Shivah/Proper Script, cast member, designer, director (2003). Script, designer, director (2004). A four-part blues of interweaved mourner�s monologues � two men, two women. Includes a vomiting of pennies; davening; adult breastfeeding; male shadowboxing bottom-half-naked in high heels; and an aria of text from Senatspr�sident Daniel Paul Schreber�s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Many armed Lord Shiva may be there too � as a woman. Williamsburg Art Nexus, Bklyn, NY. 2003; New York International Fringe Festival, Schaeberle Studio Theater at Pace University, NYC. 2004.
Holy Wa(te)r Co-author and -performer. Duet with Karmenlara Ely. A direct response to the September 11th attack. Wordless performance between a man and a woman, whom � after an exchange of gifts and a joyous vaudevillian dance and song � reenact the Fall of the Towers (considering their visible twinness an essential element of the trauma of witnessing their collapse); ending huddled together, naked, seeking shelter under newspaper flotsam. �Theaters Against War,� HERE Arts Center, NYC. Jan. 2002.
MINE, An Inner-Chamber Play Script, direction. A mine in the aftermath of catastrophe, with a dog-headed figure that wraps t�fillin (Jewish phylacteries); a Slave & a Master whom eventually hermaphroditize one another and marry, and a crew of dancers with yahrzeit (mourning) candles attached to their legs. Ezekiel�s chariot moves along the mine�s rails. Again exploring history, tale telling, and the historic, political, and sexual remains of catastrophe in/as the body itself. Williamsburg Art & Historical Society, Bklyn, NY. 1997. Staged reading.
BlackBox Script, cast member, design, direction. A work constructed from two texts: Lady Macbeth�s unsex me now monologue, and the black box recording-transcript of a survivorless commercial airline crash. A six-person piece, it opens with the blowing of a shofar, ends with ner shel ?oshekh, the lamp of darkness. Williamsburg Art & Historical Society, Bklyn, NY 1997.
Sap (One Plays) Script, cast member, design, direction. A response, in part, to my experience interning for Steven Spielberg�s Shoah Project, as assistant videographer for 50+ Holocaust survivor testimonies. A play investigating sexual violence & barter, story telling, and physical addiction to grief. Atrium Theater, NYC. 1996.
Surrepetition (A Little Power Play) Script, design, co-direction. My first performed play, it takes place on the 50th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and is the portrait drawing session (fatal, for her) of the first woman on American paper money. The Mourner�s Kaddish � and precarious hope � at the end. New School, NYC. 1995.
ONGOING WORK
Film � scripted & non; short & feature.
Live-arts (theater & performance).
Fiction.
Experimental, personal Mishnah Torah.
YOGA STUDIES
My ongoing practice and teaching of yoga � physical postures, breathing techniques, philosophy � fulfills my desire�s need to be of service and an advocate for healing, while exploring its quarrelsome/interrogative relationship to [my own] secular Judaism, my study of Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis, and my creative life.
Certified Yoga Instructor, 1998.
I opened and ran my own studio in NYC in 2005; although the studio was successful and gave me great pleasure (it also functioned as a rehearsal/performance space), the business partnership ultimately proved unwise; I left the studio the following year.
Studios and locales:
Private instruction. Individuals at their homes. 1998-present.
The Shala, NYC and Brooklyn. Group instruction. 2010-2014.
Iguana Lodge, Costa Rica; private instruction. 2012.
Bent On Learning � teaching in NYC Public Schools, grades 4, 6, 7, & 8. 2010-2011.
Yoga People, Brooklyn Heights. Senior instructor & Director of Teacher Training. 2006-2010.
Ashtanga Yoga @ LA Sports Upper East Side/Rockefeller Center, & Millennium Sports/Reebok. 2002-2007.
Yoga Sutra, vinyasa class exploring sequences from Iyengar�s Light On Yoga�s appendix of courses. 2006.
Yoga~Yoga, NYC. 2005-2006. Studio director.
Yoga Jivana, Upper East Side, NYC. August 2004 � August 2005. Closed.
Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies � Trinity College Study Abroad Program, Yoga & Carnival Arts (�The Body Transformed�) classes. Jan. � June, 2004.
�New� OM Yoga Center; Ran the Ashtanga Yoga Limb. 2003. Three classes per week. (Program dismantled in 2004.)
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts; �Yoga & Performance�, as Guest Lecturer. Three separate lectures/yoga classes. 2000-2005.
Randy Warshaw Studio, Soho; Wednesday night class, run on my own. Sept. 2002-Dec. 2003/Winter 2004-Winter 2005.
Sal Antony�s Movement Salon, 3rd Ave., NYC; Teaching a combination of Mysore style (self-practice)/Led Ashtanga. Jan-June 2002.
Downtown World Gym, NYC; Teaching mixed-level astanga classes, three classes per week. 1998-2003.
Astanga Yoga Shala, East Village NYC; covering Mysore classes for Guy Donahaye, Director of the studio. 2000.
Bhava Yoga Center, East Village NYC; Original Staff Member. 1999.
Dai Bosatsu Zendo (Zen Monastery), Livingston Manor (Catskills) NY. Three consecutive years Rohatsu Sesshin Yoga Instructor for Monks and Laypeople (a week-long meditation sitting at the end of the year). 1998, 1999, 2000.
OM Yoga Center, NYC; Senior Teacher (Ashtanga Yoga Limb). 1998-2002.
TRAINING
Writing Instructor (California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA). 2015-2017.
Certified Yoga Instructor (OM Yoga Center, NYC). 1998.
Acting/performance. Eugene Lang College, NYC; HB Studios, NYC; �Rasa Box� workshops (w Richard Schechner), NYU; ongoing movement practices, various locales.
TRAVEL
Living abroad: Tokyo, Japan 1981-1983. Trinidad, West Indies. Dec-June 2004.
Travel: South Korea, Thailand, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, France, Germany, London, Canada, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, continental US.
MATTHEW SEIDMAN
EDUCATION
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA. MFA, Interschool � Program Film/Video & Creative Writing. May, 2017
Eugene Lang College, The New School For Social Research, NYC. BA, Liberal Arts, writing (fiction) and theater. May, 1997.
EMPLOYMENT
Instructor. �Writing With Film,� California Institute of the Arts; Program Film/Video. Post-Grad Teaching Fellowship. Fall, 2017.
A class I devised, in which students write, direct & edit two short films: one of their own, and one of a classmate�s, both assigned by random lottery. Students � undergrad and graduate � workshop & critique scripts-in-progress, films-in-progress, crew for one another, watch short films and excerpts, & read related texts throughout the semester. Class culminates in a screening, open to the Institute.
Instructor (with B�r�nice Reynaud). �Chantal Akerman: An Intimate Passion,� California Institute of the Arts; School of Film/Video. Fall, 2017.
Research seminar on the work of this under-considered Belgian director.
Writing Instructor. California Institute of the Arts; 2015-2017. Intro to Critical Studies (Undergrad). (Institute curriculum.)
Yoga Instructor. Certified, 1998-present. Individuals, groups, workshops.
Yoga Instructor. NYC Public Schools, grades 4-12. For �Bent On Learning� not-for-profit, bringing yoga & meditation into NYC schools. 2009-2012.
Theater Instructor. 2002-present. Writing, performance, movement, and theory workshops.
Guest Instructor, NYU. 2002, 2003, 2006. Workshops on yoga and performance; Artaud; performance and pain; Shir haShirim (Song of Songs), erotics & performance.
Playwrighting Instructor.
6 week workshop, Trinidad, West Indies. Co-taught with Trinidadian theater artist Tony Hall, and in conjunction with Hartford, CT-based Trinity College Study Abroad program. 2004. Brought European theater practices into collision with Trinidadian/Caribbean Carnival practices.
Theater. 1995-present. Playwright, director, designer, performer. NYC; Berlin, Germany; Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies.
Various.
1980�s-1997. Carpentry & construction � from rough to finish. NYC.
1986. Film subtitle translation, Japanese to English. Japan Society, NYC.
1980�s. Restaurant work (mostly Japanese cuisine) � cooking, serving. NYC.
1981-1988. English teacher, freelance. Tokyo, Japan & NYC.
1980�s. Odd jobs. Foot messenger, Herald Sq. ice cream vendor, van driver, artist�s assistant, etc. NYC.
ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS & GRANTS
�M Kennedy Volcofsky: A Critical Forum�: An evening-length consideration of my work in Film & Theater, held at PAM, a performance space in Highland Park, Los Angeles. May, 2018
:() Film. 2015; 43 min; DV. Selected for the CalArts 2015 REDCAT Showcase � Program Film/Video, Long Form. May, 2015.
Winner, 2012 Summer Literary Seminars (SLS) Fiction Prize, for short story See Oh Oh Pee [that], judged by Mary Gaitskill. SLS is a Montreal-based literary contest, which [out of 1300+ entries] awarded me publication, flight and two-week stay in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Edward F Albee Creative Persons Award/Fellowship. Three time recipient: 1997 (playwrighting); 1999 (fiction); 2011 (fiction). A month-long residency at �The Barn� in Montauk, NY, for selected writers, artists & composers. Twenty fellows selected annually out of 800+ entries.
�Nomadic New York� � Berlin, Germany. August, 2007. World Premier of durational, solo theater work Fur Egg. Curated and produced by dance/performance writer & theorist Andr� Lepecki, and Berlin�s Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
�Festival Mau� � Faro & Lisbon, Portugal. 2006 & 2007. Snow Vein and Shivah, two video works, selected for inclusion in this [now financially defunct] Arts Festival. Viewable at ------------/mkennedyvolcofsky
PUBLICATION
Sherry critique of experimental documentary film Sherry, by Eliane Lima; Philosophy Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4. Sophia, Bulgaria, 2017.
Bright, MT (tv pilot, excerpt). Next Words; California Institute of the Arts, 2016.
C�sura (fiction). Lemon Hound, November 2013.
------------/2013/11/22/m-k-s-v-o-l-c-o-f-s-k-y-caesura/
A (fiction). Paraphilia Magazine, winter-spring 2013.
------------/periodical/a/
See Oh Oh Pee [that] (fiction). Black Warrior Review, 39.1, fall/winter 2012.
0-1-12-14 (fiction). H.O.W. Journal, #8, fall/winter 2011.
A Well Placed Hole (online writings). 2005-2008. ------------/
�Seizure/Theater� (essay) in Backstage, journal of the National Drama Association of Trinidad & Tobago. 2004.
�Trembling In The Archive� (image & text, with Karmenlara Ely); Performance Research, December 2003; published by Routledge.
The New York Press (free paper); fiction. 1992.
The Greenline (local newspaper/reportage), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY. 1991.
CURRENT WORK
PRESENTLY MARKETING:
green cap Feature film. (2017, HD. 78m.)
A �ritual fiction� � experimental narrative � exploring our fundamental bifurcation by � or into � language, time, sex, death and love. Six characters� response to being not-One.
End, low sung Fiction. (2017, 146 pgs.)
Eight-story collection. Children and adults standing at each others� closed doors � heads bowed, listening. Arrival at the threshold � even without its opening � means consequences legal, filial, intimate & mortal. Story itself � perhaps � a temporary shelter for an ethics in exile.
Bright, MT. (2016). 1 hour TV pilot; traumedy.
E (2015). full length screenplay; NY-Tokyo drama.
OTHER WORK
A Sacred Misunderstanding (2014). 16 piece fiction collection.
Artist�s edition: ------------/b/4653124-a-sacred-misunderstanding
Letter To A Story [a] novel, two-thirds complete.
PLAYWRIGHT / THEATER DIRECTOR
The scripts of 12 original works, including those below, are available at my site, A� Traveling Yeshiva Sideshow. ------------/live-art
All plays produced by venue or festival as listed.
Sand Assistant director; performer. Script by Peter Jacobs. The Chocolate Factory Theater, LIC, NY. 2011.
Kicked Out Of Death; a folie � deux Duet. Co-authored, -directed, and �performed with theater artist Peter Jacobs. A work of confined nomadism, of two Jews whom have no congregation but each other. �One wants what the other has; the other wants what�s missing.� The Chocolate Factory Theater, LIC, NY. 2008.
Fur Egg Solo. Script, performance, design, direction. A 3 hour solo; performed late on a Friday night in Berlin; an explicit, deliberately transgressive American Jew-in-Berlin performance. Moving from the masculine to the illuminate-wombed feminine, beginning by wrapping t�fillin and a cockring and then wearing both throughout, half the time naked. It included three original short films (Shivah, Broom Thirst, and Pinned), an interval of anal praying, a 9-11 vaudeville softshoe, and an enormous mound of Berlin trash I�d collected from which I built a female totem, whose face I painted from memory: the face of a prostitute, a mother and addict, ritual-victim of a serial killer in Atlantic City the previous year; a case � to-date (2017) � never solved. While painting her memory image I told her story and improvising other spoken text. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, part of the Nomadic New York performance programme, Berlin, Germany. 2007.
Stickfigure Script. A monologue for two bodies, one living, one unliving. National Museum, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies. 2004.
Shivah/Proper Script, cast member, designer, director (2003). Script, designer, director (2004). A four-part blues of interweaved mourner�s monologues � two men, two women. Includes a vomiting of pennies; davening; adult breastfeeding; male shadowboxing bottom-half-naked in high heels; and an aria of text from Senatspr�sident Daniel Paul Schreber�s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Many armed Lord Shiva may be there too � as a woman. Williamsburg Art Nexus, Bklyn, NY. 2003; New York International Fringe Festival, Schaeberle Studio Theater at Pace University, NYC. 2004.
Holy Wa(te)r Co-author and -performer. Duet with Karmenlara Ely. A direct response to the September 11th attack. Wordless performance between a man and a woman, whom � after an exchange of gifts and a joyous vaudevillian dance and song � reenact the Fall of the Towers (considering their visible twinness an essential element of the trauma of witnessing their collapse); ending huddled together, naked, seeking shelter under newspaper flotsam. �Theaters Against War,� HERE Arts Center, NYC. Jan. 2002.
MINE, An Inner-Chamber Play Script, direction. A mine in the aftermath of catastrophe, with a dog-headed figure that wraps t�fillin (Jewish phylacteries); a Slave & a Master whom eventually hermaphroditize one another and marry, and a crew of dancers with yahrzeit (mourning) candles attached to their legs. Ezekiel�s chariot moves along the mine�s rails. Again exploring history, tale telling, and the historic, political, and sexual remains of catastrophe in/as the body itself. Williamsburg Art & Historical Society, Bklyn, NY. 1997. Staged reading.
BlackBox Script, cast member, design, direction. A work constructed from two texts: Lady Macbeth�s unsex me now monologue, and the black box recording-transcript of a survivorless commercial airline crash. A six-person piece, it opens with the blowing of a shofar, ends with ner shel ?oshekh, the lamp of darkness. Williamsburg Art & Historical Society, Bklyn, NY 1997.
Sap (One Plays) Script, cast member, design, direction. A response, in part, to my experience interning for Steven Spielberg�s Shoah Project, as assistant videographer for 50+ Holocaust survivor testimonies. A play investigating sexual violence & barter, story telling, and physical addiction to grief. Atrium Theater, NYC. 1996.
Surrepetition (A Little Power Play) Script, design, co-direction. My first performed play, it takes place on the 50th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and is the portrait drawing session (fatal, for her) of the first woman on American paper money. The Mourner�s Kaddish � and precarious hope � at the end. New School, NYC. 1995.
ONGOING WORK
Film � scripted & non; short & feature.
Live-arts (theater & performance).
Fiction.
Experimental, personal Mishnah Torah.
YOGA STUDIES
My ongoing practice and teaching of yoga � physical postures, breathing techniques, philosophy � fulfills my desire�s need to be of service and an advocate for healing, while exploring its quarrelsome/interrogative relationship to [my own] secular Judaism, my study of Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis, and my creative life.
Certified Yoga Instructor, 1998.
I opened and ran my own studio in NYC in 2005; although the studio was successful and gave me great pleasure (it also functioned as a rehearsal/performance space), the business partnership ultimately proved unwise; I left the studio the following year.
Studios and locales:
Private instruction. Individuals at their homes. 1998-present.
The Shala, NYC and Brooklyn. Group instruction. 2010-2014.
Iguana Lodge, Costa Rica; private instruction. 2012.
Bent On Learning � teaching in NYC Public Schools, grades 4, 6, 7, & 8. 2010-2011.
Yoga People, Brooklyn Heights. Senior instructor & Director of Teacher Training. 2006-2010.
Ashtanga Yoga @ LA Sports Upper East Side/Rockefeller Center, & Millennium Sports/Reebok. 2002-2007.
Yoga Sutra, vinyasa class exploring sequences from Iyengar�s Light On Yoga�s appendix of courses. 2006.
Yoga~Yoga, NYC. 2005-2006. Studio director.
Yoga Jivana, Upper East Side, NYC. August 2004 � August 2005. Closed.
Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies � Trinity College Study Abroad Program, Yoga & Carnival Arts (�The Body Transformed�) classes. Jan. � June, 2004.
�New� OM Yoga Center; Ran the Ashtanga Yoga Limb. 2003. Three classes per week. (Program dismantled in 2004.)
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts; �Yoga & Performance�, as Guest Lecturer. Three separate lectures/yoga classes. 2000-2005.
Randy Warshaw Studio, Soho; Wednesday night class, run on my own. Sept. 2002-Dec. 2003/Winter 2004-Winter 2005.
Sal Antony�s Movement Salon, 3rd Ave., NYC; Teaching a combination of Mysore style (self-practice)/Led Ashtanga. Jan-June 2002.
Downtown World Gym, NYC; Teaching mixed-level astanga classes, three classes per week. 1998-2003.
Astanga Yoga Shala, East Village NYC; covering Mysore classes for Guy Donahaye, Director of the studio. 2000.
Bhava Yoga Center, East Village NYC; Original Staff Member. 1999.
Dai Bosatsu Zendo (Zen Monastery), Livingston Manor (Catskills) NY. Three consecutive years Rohatsu Sesshin Yoga Instructor for Monks and Laypeople (a week-long meditation sitting at the end of the year). 1998, 1999, 2000.
OM Yoga Center, NYC; Senior Teacher (Ashtanga Yoga Limb). 1998-2002.
TRAINING
Writing Instructor (California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA). 2015-2017.
Certified Yoga Instructor (OM Yoga Center, NYC). 1998.
Acting/performance. Eugene Lang College, NYC; HB Studios, NYC; �Rasa Box� workshops (w Richard Schechner), NYU; ongoing movement practices, various locales.
TRAVEL
Living abroad: Tokyo, Japan 1981-1983. Trinidad, West Indies. Dec-June 2004.
Travel: South Korea, Thailand, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, France, Germany, London, Canada, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, continental US.