Biographies

Bill Hayward is a photographer and filmmaker whose endeavors have taken him around the world. Hayward has photographed for numerous national magazines, and his portrait subjects have ranged from Bob Dylan for Interview magazine to President Reagan for the cover of Fortune.

© 2009 Claire Holt

Hayward’s work is exhibited in galleries, museums and film festivals throughout this country and Europe.

Hayward’s latest book, a collection of his portraits of the collaborative-self of people in the arts, (artists, actors, dancers, writers, poets, musicians et al.) entitled bad behavior was published by Rizzoli in 2001. “Amazing and enticing portraits.” —Richard Merkin, Vanity Fair

Hayward is presently at work on a feature film entitled Asphalt, Muscle and Bone.

Asphalt, Muscle and Bone: Unexpected Truths is an artist’s story. The film is a visual feast of an artist’s relentless search, the impossibility of love, a look at what drives us: our hungers, desires and dreams. “Given our drives, would we get to pure white bone?” —NACE

Hayward is also presently at work on a nationwide, multi-year, multi-media art project entitled Unexpected Truths. Predicated on a process of play and invention called portraits of the collaborative-self, a portrait process which Hayward invented, Unexpected Truths is an ongoing series of: films, books, music and a traveling exhibition that address stories of frustration, joy, and lust… the dilemmas of human existence and the persistence of beauty.

© 2009 Claire Holt

Hayward lives in New York City and Montana.

www.billhayward.com |  www.reddressfilms.com

Anna Elman, director, playwright and classical pianist trained in Eastern Europe and at Juilliard, has directed community theater in New York and managed the off-off Broadway Quaigh Theater. Anna’s play Vikings of Voorhees has had two New York readings and is slated for production in the spring of 2010.  In collaboration with Russian artists, musicians and dancers Anna has produced a festival of cross-cultural events in New York City, and has traveled to Eastern Europe and to Prague where she served as development consultant to the Czech Philharmonic. She is currently at work with Bill Hayward and Red Dress Films, on the film Asphalt, Muscle and Bone and a series of live performances titled Three Intimacies and A Beginning—a collaboration between Marinov Dance and Red Dress Films. An earlier film by Hayward and Elman, heartAttack, had its rough-cut screening at Soho House in New York.

Jordan Marinov, earned a BFA in dance magna cum laude from Marymount Manhattan College, where she won an award for choreography. Her work has been shown at Dance Theater Workshop, John Jay College, Wax Works, The Hatch, 60×60 festivals at Galapagos and Winter Garden in the World Financial Center, and Bill Hayward’s studio.  As a dancer she has performed for Heidi Latsky, Pascal Rekoert, Stephen Kopowitz, Dance Council Movement Theatre, and Axis Danz among others. She is currently collaborating with Bill Hayward and Anna Elman of Red Dress Films on Three Intimacies and a Beginning. Her choreography and dancing will also be seen in Bill Hayward’s upcoming film Asphalt, Muscle and Bone.

Billy Blanken graduated from Ball State University with degrees in acting and dance, and then trained at the Joffrey Ballet School under John Magnus, Eleanor D’Antuono and Francesca Corkle. He has worked with Les Ballets Grandiva, Lane & Co Arts, Catherine Gallant Dance, Mobile Ballet, Atlantic City Ballet, Brooklyn Ballet, Eidolon Ballet, Ballet Mink Colbert, isadoraNow!, Neville Dance Theatre, Amy Marshall Dance, and the Red Dress Films/ Jordan Marinov Dance Project entitled The Intimacies Project.

Jason Riker (rikerproductions.com) originally from Dallas, Texas completed his BFA while assisting major commercial photographers for several years before stepping behind the lens full time.  He spent time living and working in New York and enjoys shooting fashion, beauty, portraits, and advertising and incorporates a full post-production workflow with all his work.  He often works in NYC but calls Denver his home with his wife, Ginger.

Jeff T. Johnson’s poetry has been featured on KPFA’s The Writers’ Block, at A Voice Box, Kate Greenstreet’s Every Other Day, in Ocho and The New Yinzer, and is forthcoming in Caketrain, VOLT, Calaveras, and Cannibal. His writing has also appeared in The Encyclopedia Project, Kitchen Sink, Fabula, Pitchfork, Fanzine, and the SF Weekly. He is the author of the poetry chapbooks The Record Room and Grammar Politics, and he attends the graduate program in creative writing at The New School. He lives in Brooklyn.

Claire Donato (somanytumbleweeds.com) lives and writes in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. She is the author of a chapbook, Someone Else’s Body (Cannibal Books 2009). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Action Yes, Lit, and Typo. Claire graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2008 and is currently completing an MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University, where she teaches poetry writing and was the 2008-2009 Peter Kaplan Memorial Fellow. The recipient of a 2009-2010 Brown University Graduate International Colloquia grant, Claire currently curates (with John Cayley and Adam Veal) an international arts colloquium in Providence called Incuhabitations: concepts and languages in poetic practice.

Marciel Irene Greene
New to New York City, Marciel is a graduate of Ball State University with a degree in Theater Design and Technology.  She was awarded the 2009 American College Theater Festival Barbizon Award for Design Excellence in Lighting Design for the Ball State production of In the Blood. Recently Marciel has worked as a production assistant on Superior Donuts, Oleanna, and Brighton Beach Memoirs. Marciel had the great pleasure of spending this past summer at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford Connecticut as the 2009 Lighting Fellow. The Intimacies Project has proved to have been one of the best experiences she’s had. She is thankful to be part of such a creative and supportive group. Marcie would like to thank her family, friends, and most of all labradoodle, Harper, for all their support and love.