Marshall Coid (Founder, Composer, Multi-disciplinary Performer, Educator) has been described by The New York Times as "astonishingly versatile" for his 4-decade career as a composer, countertenor, violinist, actor, librettist, musical/stage director, conductor, educator, and visual artist/stage designer. He trained as a violinist at The Juilliard School and studied other disciplines privately after graduation. He taught as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University for two decades.
Marshall has created scores for Dance, Theater, Opera and Concert presentations both here and abroad. His "Whitman Cantata" won the Dessoff Choirs 75th Anniversary Composers Competition and was premiered at Lincoln Center in 2000. Mr. Coid has scored productions for Intar, The Production Company, 4 plays at Repertorio Espanol, Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival and the International Performers Festival in Belgium. His critically acclaimed opera "The Bundle Man" (Ilsa Gilbert Libretto) was presented at Theatre for the New City in 1993. He created the title role in the late, legendary director, Tom O'Horgan's inspired production, produced and conducted by the late Mimi Stern-Wolfe.
His solo appearances include Live TV Broadcasts from Lincoln Center and The Kennedy Center, MOMA, The Metropolitan Museum, The Guggenheim Museum, Town Hall, National Cathedral, St John the Divine (as Artist-in-Residence for 6 Seasons w/New York's Ensemble for Early Music), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The United Nations, Library of Congress, Spoleto Festival USA and Italy, New York Shakespeare Festival, Oxford and Yale universities, Lincoln Center Great Performers Series, Ithaca Opera, NYC Opera, Connecticut Grand Opera, Center for Contemporary Opera (4 productions), etc. He has also performed/taught throughout the US with Orchestras, Choruses and in Chamber Music and Early Music Series. He is featured in the film ALL THE WAY TOWARD EVENING. Most recently he sang with pianist Mimi Stern-Wolfe in a NY Philharmonic recital event curated by Academy-Award-winning composer John Corigliano.
Marshall's Theatre activities include Broadway (currently he is the onstage violin soloist for CHICAGO), Off-Broadway, Cabaret, and Experimental Theatre/Opera. Most recently he appeared as Puck in Ray Leslee's STANDUP SHAKESPEARE (Steppenwolfe, Chicago) and as the Ghost of Future Past in Leslee's A CHAMBER CHRISTMAS CAROL with Downtown Music Productions.
Lisa Karrer (Guest Filmmaker) is an interdisciplinary artist. composer, vocalist, filmmaker and ceramicist with an international background in live performance, opera, music-theatre works, video, sound, and museum installation. Her projects are inspired and motivated by focused studies of literature, historical fiction and current events, examining topics such as cultural migration and displacement, evolutionary science, dissociative behavior, and global myths and archetypes. She frequently collaborates with visual and performing artists on her own works, as well as theirs.
Karrer has received many funding awards to support her projects, most recently an Individual Artist Grant from New York State Council on the Arts for her large-scale installation SHELTER. This exhibit chronicles the narratives of refugees and their resettlement in American cities, and was premiered at Burchfield Penny Art Center in Buffalo, NY, December 2020-June 2021 https://www.burchfieldpenny.org/exhibition:12-11-2020-03-28-lisa-karrer-shelter/. Plans for touring SHELTER to other US venues are currently in the works. Karrer is also a visiting artist and educator, lecturing on topics such as Cultural Anthropology, theories of Hauntology and the Emancipated Spectator, and hands-on approaches to installation and multi-arts practice. She holds an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice from the city College of New York. https://lisakarrer.wordpress.com/.
Columbine Macher (Founder, Dancer, Choreographer, Dance Educator) began her professional dance education in her native Germany at the Folkwang Hochschule under the direction of Pina Bausch. In 1987 she moved to NYC to continue her studies at the Martha Graham School, the Limón Institute, and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Since then, she has extensively performed and taught throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Described by The New York Times as “a dancer of formidable dramatic potency,” Columbine performed for 15 years as a soloist with the Eleo Pomare Dance Company. She also performed with Ze’eva Cohen, Amanda Miller, Maxine Steinman, filmmaker Kathy Rose, Xavier Le Roy at MoMA PS1, and in the Bessie-awarded MoMA’s exhibition “Judson Dance Theater – The Work Is Never Done” in Simone Forti’s “Dance Constructions”.
Columbine’s solo and collaborative dances have been presented at NYC venues including Merce Cunningham Studio, Center for Performance Research, Kumble Theater, 92 St. Y Harkness Dance Center. She also creates experimental 16mm dance films, which have been screened at festivals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; at Brooklyn Studios for Dance: in Austin, TX; the “Bare Bones Festival” of the American Dance Guild; and the Film Makers’ Coop in NYC.
Columbine has served on the faculties at The Ailey School, Ballet Hispanico, and the Limón Institute in NYC and has taught as an Adjunct Professor for Modern Dance at universities including Saint Elizabeth University, Long Island University, and Hofstra University. Internationally, she has been a guest artist at the Kuopion Konservatorio in Finland, Rotterdamse Dansacademie and Artez Dansacademie in the Netherlands, the Tsai Jui-Yueh Dance Foundation in Taipei/Taiwan, and the Korean National University of the Arts in Seoul. She holds a B.F.A. in Dance from Marymount Manhattan College and an M.F.A. in Dance from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.
Joy McEwen (Guest Dance Artist) was recently a guest artist for the Purdue Contemporary Dance Company in Spring 2022. She danced professionally in New York City as a principal dancer with Erick Hawkins Dance Company. In addition, she performed with Nancy Meehan Dance Company, Gloria McLean/LIFEDANCE, Valerie Green/Dance Entropy, Kipos Dance Company, among others. She so-founded the Wellspring Project (Dance) that was based in New York City. Performance highlights included appearances at the American Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow, Lincoln Center and the Joyce Theater. She has toured internationally, including performances in Canada, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Portugal. Mrs. McEwen has been a guest instructor at UNLV, Marymount Manhattan College. Hunter College and the American Dance Festival. She was also on the staff at Yeshiva University/Stern's College for Women/ Mrs. McEwen graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with an MFA in Performng Arts-Dance and a BFA from the University of Michigan.
In 2021, Mrs. McEwen retired from the Department of Purdue Bands & Orchestras, where she was the director of Auxiliaries and Coach of the Golduster dance Team. At Purdue, she also has taught and choreographed in the Liberal Arts Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Theater. She has also taught classes in the College of health and Kinesiology. In 2012, Mrs. McEwen was named Dance Educator of the Year by the Indiana Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
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