KT Shorb Director

kt shorb (BM, Oberlin Conservatory; MA, UT-Austin) is a director, writer, and performer who grew up in Massachusetts, rural Japan, and Tokyo. She has trained and worked with Anne Bogart, KJ Sanchez, Pirrone Yousefzadeh, Adelina Anthony, Sharon Bridgforth, Pauline Oliveros, and John Luther Adams. shorb is the Producing Artistic Director of the Generic Ensemble Company. Directorial work includes: THE MIKADO: RECLAIMED; ROBIN HOOD: AN ELEGY; WHAT’S GOIN’ ON?; THE EXPERIMENT; STUCK ON GEE-DOT; THE PSYCHOPOMP PROJECT; RADIO KADUNA; A TORTOISE WALKS MAJESTICALLY ON WINDOW LEDGES; and EAGLE WOMAN POEMS. Her solo show, UNA CORDA (Yvan Greenberg, dir) has been performed in Chicago, Urbana-Champaign, Los Angeles, Oberlin College, and various Texas locations. She has served as faculty at Southwestern University and UT-Austin. She was a 2015 invited fellow at the Peer Leadership Exchange for the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation in Minneapolis, hosted by Pangea World Theater and Art2Action. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas at Austin. 

 

 

 

Bruno-Pierre Houle Media Designer 

I believe every tale is new, whether it is shared for the first time or has been told for centuries. 

As a set and projection designer, I shape spaces, frames and expectations. I explore the thresholds that allow the suspension of our disbelief. I make the familiar strange again. 

As a collaborator, I uncover the details that lead to new possibilities. I investigate the past. I question the now. I expect the challenge. And I embrace the missteps. 

As a visual storyteller, I treasure the dynamic beginnings of new plays and I hunt for potentials of fresh discourse in the classics. With each project, I reconstruct meaningful narratives that empower the audience to make the story their own. 

 

 

 

Keith Allegretti Composer 

A native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Keith Allegretti is a composer and pianist who enjoys working comfortably in many genres, including chamber, orchestral, vocal, and electronic music, and even musical theater. His music has been performed in Santa Fe, Houston, Berlin, Ann Arbor, New York and elsewhere by professional and amateur ensembles, including Santa Fe New Music, Quartetto Indaco, the Rice University Chorale, the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Circuit Bridges, the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, the American Creators Ensemble, and First Readings Project. He holds degrees in composition from Rice University and the University of Michigan.