Antigravity Performance Project is a devising company interested in hybrid performance forms. We are Co-Artistic Directors Kym Moore, Francesca Montanile Lyons, Michael T. Williams, and Michael Costagliola (Resident Sound Designer/Composer), together with Associate Artists Megan Thibodeaux, Alicia Crosby, Shanti Pillai, Marc Gomes, and Oona Curley.
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Kym Moore is co-founder/co-artistic director of Antigravity Performance Project and Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. Moore’s directing style is grounded, yet imaginative. An interest in String Theory, Intersectionality, and Quantum Physics shape her approach to crafting performance. Her works are designed to reveal the multi-sensory, multi-dimensional, and mythic dimensions of reality. Moore is a highly skilled artisan and wily magician of theatrical expression. Her well-honed sense of craft and keen understanding of the materials of theater (actor, text, space, light, sound, etc.) grounds and elevates her work beyond the ordinary. Moore’s aesthetic is designed to feed all of the senses as she creates a multisensory experience for the audience that is hard to forget: “Your Romeo and Juliet changed my whole idea of what theater could be!” exclaimed a now professional lighting designer who had seen her production when he was an undergraduate 30 years ago! In a recent production of Miss Julie (Chain Theatre, NYC) critic Natalie Rine, OnStageBlog notes: “Overall Kym Moore’s direction is crisp and snappy with not a minute wasted. In Moore’s masterful hands, Miss Julie is a stirring invitation to wake up, an invigorating exploration of choice and consequence, gender and class, freewill and authority that will make you will want to lean forward in your chair to not miss a beat.” kymmoore.com
Michael T. Williams is co-founder/co-artistic director of Antigravity Performance Project, and a theatre director, performer, and educator. Driven by visual storytelling and sonic languages, his work explores hybrid performance forms, unreliable first person narratives, and theatricalization of non-dramatic and autobiographical texts. With Antigravity and solo Michael has worked with: FringeArts, La MaMa ETC, Ars Nova, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williams College, New Ohio, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Soho Rep, Trinity Rep, Montez Press Radio, and in Arena Stage’s Downstairs Series for New Work and Voices of Now Festival. His work has been presented at FringeArts, Ars Nova, Ice Factory Festival, New Ohio Theatre Presents, and at Haverford College through the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship. He has received artist residencies from Bethany Arts Community, Barn Arts, Adelphi University/New York Theatre Workshop, and FringeArts’ Camp Fringe Residency Program. michaeltimothywilliams.com
Francesca Montanile Lyonsis co-artistic director of Antigravity Performance Project and a director, performer, educator, and experimental artist currently based in Philadelphia. Her work as a solo performer and director has toured nationally across the US, with her most recent solo show (VILE) earning a Staff Award at the MN Fringe and an Encore performance from Cannonball in the Philadelphia Fringe. Her work has received support from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Painted Bride, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, the Bartol Foundation, Bethany Arts Community, the Network of Ensemble Theaters, FringeArts, New York Theater Workshop, and the Puffin Foundation, among others. As a performer she can be found at venues across Philadelphia, exploring the overlap of alt-comedy, clowning, buffon, and burlesque. Her areas of expertise as a director include clown and buffon, ensemble devising, physical/dance theater, staging verbatim non-theatrical text, and new work development. francescamontanilelyons.com
Michael Costagliola(Resident Sound Designer/Composer) is a New York-based sound designer and composer, and co-artistic director of Antigravity Performance Project. His work has been heard in New York in productions by The Public, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, La MaMa, Page 73, Rattlestick, Little Island, and Ars Nova among others, as well as regionally at the Guthrie, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Two River Theater, Yale Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, St. Louis Rep, and at various other theaters across the U.S. and abroad. AB in Music from Brown University, MFA in Sound Design from Yale School of Drama. michaelcostagliola.com
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