N I L E B A K E R
Nile Baker is a native of California and, as well as being a professional dancer, has been designing and making clothes since 2014.
Nile is a self taught designer and clothing maker. His interest in clothing design and manufacture started when he had to create a dance costume for his senior year BFA concert. Nile takes an artisanal and slow approach to creating, using hand sewing techniques, dyeing by hand, and working primarily with natural fibers. Nile enjoys fusing old world craft with unique and unusual, modern and avant-garde design details.
Nile has worked in the ateliers of Zam Barrett, an avant-garde designer based in Brooklyn, and Robert Danes, a women’s evening wear designer based in New York City. Nile has designed costumes for Indelible Dance, Lucinda Childs Dance Company, and other New York dance artists.
K Y L E G E R R Y
Kyle Gerry currently dances for Lucinda Childs and has also danced in many projects for Christopher Williams, Jessica Gaynor, and the Merce Cunningham Trust, including several of Merce’s solo roles. He choreographed a response to an architectural rendering as part of Lu Valena’s interdisciplinary Bait/Switch series and, in collaboration with composer Drake Andersen, an original evening-length opera based on Roland Barthe’s Mythologies. His theater credits include playing Mr. Ramsay in Stephanie Lane’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. Kyle is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia University.
K B JONES
KB Jones is an artist living, working, and teaching in New York City. Her paintings were included in Plein Air, an exhibition at MOCA Tucson and The Armory Center for the Arts in Los Angeles. Recent solo shows include The Land and the Fog, at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York City and Green Lights, in Fairbanks, Alaska. In 2020, Jones was awarded a residency at The Chinati Foundation. She has a BA in Philosophy and Visual Arts from Columbia University and an MFA in Painting from The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
STEPHANIE JEAN LANE
Stephanie Jean Lane is an actor, dancer, director, and teacher based in New York City. She was a company member of Sleep No More from 2018-2022, and has performed at Lincoln Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Guthrie Theater, Berkshire Theatre Group, Barrington Stage Company, Elm Shakespeare, in Edinburgh and Shanghai, and on TV and film. She danced for Ani Javian, Rocha Dance Theater, and The Painted Ladies. She teaches movement, voice, and acting at New York Film Academy, coaches privately, and makes original work for stage and film. Stephanie is honored to be working on Orlando, and has previously worked in dance dramaturgy alongside Amy Shoshana Blumberg, for choreographer/performers Ani Javian and Benjamin Roach. MFA: NYU Grad Acting. www.stephaniejeanlane.com
JUSTIN LYNCH
Justin Lynch is from Kingston, Jamaica. He has worked with the Merce Cunningham Trust, Molissa Fenley, the Metropolitan Opera, Elisa Monte, Christopher Williams, Megan Williams, and others. Since 2015 he has collaborated regularly with Third Rail Projects, performing in and co-creating several of its productions. Justin studied piano at the Royal College of Music in London and Boston University, graduating with a degree in music before earning a law degree at Columbia University. When not dancing, he is an immigration and business attorney for creative people, and a collaborative pianist at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.