Cover image by Eileen Meny.
MISSION
Piehole investigates the process of collaboration and collective authorship to create live events. We draw from a shared fascination with objects and media, and continually reimagine our process, driven by an ongoing pursuit of surprise, delight and beauty in unexpected places. We invite audiences into this pursuit to encourage agency in one’s thinking, perceiving, and feeling, as well as an expanded sense of potential realities.
Piehole has made 11 major projects since 2008, performed at art galleries, theaters, warehouses, and hotel rooms, in NYC, Philly, and Prague.
Read what the press has had to say about some of them.
Piehole has received residencies from New York Theatre Workshop, The Drama League, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace program, and most recently, The New Ohio/IRT Archive Residency, and grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Fund, the BAX Space program, the Mental Insight Foundation, Puppeteers of America and is featured on the Creative Capital “On-our-Radar” list.
Read what the press has had to say about some of them.
Piehole has received residencies from New York Theatre Workshop, The Drama League, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace program, and most recently, The New Ohio/IRT Archive Residency, and grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Fund, the BAX Space program, the Mental Insight Foundation, Puppeteers of America and is featured on the Creative Capital “On-our-Radar” list.
CURRENT MEMBERS
Tara Ahmadinejad
Tara is a NY director, originally from Philadelphia. She has directed/co-created shows with Piehole since its founding in 2008. Outside of Piehole projects, Tara develops and directs new plays, and teaches and directs in educational settings. She's currently working with playwright Chana Porter on a new play set to premiere in Houston in 2018. New Georges Affiliated Artist; NYTW Usual Suspect; MFA: Columbia University.
Tara is a NY director, originally from Philadelphia. She has directed/co-created shows with Piehole since its founding in 2008. Outside of Piehole projects, Tara develops and directs new plays, and teaches and directs in educational settings. She's currently working with playwright Chana Porter on a new play set to premiere in Houston in 2018. New Georges Affiliated Artist; NYTW Usual Suspect; MFA: Columbia University.
Allison LaPlatney
Allison has been devising, performing, and riding in UHauls with Piehole since 2008. She's interested in little tiny local histories, unremarkable spaces, and nice clean data entry. She does her best to write a poem every day during January, and currently works a day job in Collections and Exhibitions Technology at the Museum of Modern Art.
Allison has been devising, performing, and riding in UHauls with Piehole since 2008. She's interested in little tiny local histories, unremarkable spaces, and nice clean data entry. She does her best to write a poem every day during January, and currently works a day job in Collections and Exhibitions Technology at the Museum of Modern Art.
Alexandra Panzer
Alexandra is a Danish-American performer and visual tinkerer -- and a Piehole member since 2010. Alexandra also works at TED-Ed as a social media manager and storyteller for the TED-Ed Clubs program, where she tries to find ways of sharing the ideas of students around the world with each other and with a social media audience.
Alexandra is a Danish-American performer and visual tinkerer -- and a Piehole member since 2010. Alexandra also works at TED-Ed as a social media manager and storyteller for the TED-Ed Clubs program, where she tries to find ways of sharing the ideas of students around the world with each other and with a social media audience.
Elliot B. Quick
Elliot is a dramaturg, producer, director, educator, and founding member of Piehole. He received an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama. He has worked as a Literary Associate with Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, and Page 73, and as an Editorial Associate for The Civilians’ Extended Play. As a freelance dramaturg and director, his work has been seen at Under the Radar’s Incoming Series, the Invisible Dog, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Access Theater, The Fisher Center at Bard College, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He currently teaches Theater History and Playwriting at the Maggie Flanigan Studio.
Elliot is a dramaturg, producer, director, educator, and founding member of Piehole. He received an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama. He has worked as a Literary Associate with Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, and Page 73, and as an Editorial Associate for The Civilians’ Extended Play. As a freelance dramaturg and director, his work has been seen at Under the Radar’s Incoming Series, the Invisible Dog, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Access Theater, The Fisher Center at Bard College, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He currently teaches Theater History and Playwriting at the Maggie Flanigan Studio.
Emilie Soffe
Emilie is a Brooklyn-based actor and director with a focus in devised and experimental work. She also sings background vocals and noodles on the omnichord in the band OxenFree. As the Social Media Editor at TED-Ed, TED's youth and education initiative, she has spent years studying, organizing and implementing online learning communities across the web.
Emilie is a Brooklyn-based actor and director with a focus in devised and experimental work. She also sings background vocals and noodles on the omnichord in the band OxenFree. As the Social Media Editor at TED-Ed, TED's youth and education initiative, she has spent years studying, organizing and implementing online learning communities across the web.
Ben Vigus
Ben is an actor and sound designer from Seattle living in NY. As an actor he has helped develop work at New Dramatists, Clubbed Thumb, NYTW, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and as a designer with Ars Nova, The Flea, NYU grad, and others. He is an alum of the Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Company.
Ben is an actor and sound designer from Seattle living in NY. As an actor he has helped develop work at New Dramatists, Clubbed Thumb, NYTW, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and as a designer with Ars Nova, The Flea, NYU grad, and others. He is an alum of the Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Company.
Jeff Wood
Jeff Wood is an interdisciplinary artist & educator in NYC, and a co-founder of Piehole. As a full-time instructor with the non-profit Beam Center, he creates collaborative hands-on projects with public school students and teachers across NYC boroughs, leading students in learning new skill sets currently absent from most schools, including wood and metal-working, electronics, video production, digital fabrication, etc. He received his MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College. His other experiment in durational friendship-collaboration is Lame Drivers, a power pop trio he plays drums in.
Jeff Wood is an interdisciplinary artist & educator in NYC, and a co-founder of Piehole. As a full-time instructor with the non-profit Beam Center, he creates collaborative hands-on projects with public school students and teachers across NYC boroughs, leading students in learning new skill sets currently absent from most schools, including wood and metal-working, electronics, video production, digital fabrication, etc. He received his MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College. His other experiment in durational friendship-collaboration is Lame Drivers, a power pop trio he plays drums in.
FOUNDING MEMBERS
Tara Ahmadinejad
Danny Cannizzaro
Allison LaPlatney
Elliot B. Quick
Emily Friend Roberts
Anika Schwarzwald
Laura Vitale
Kathryn Wallem
Jamie Wilber
Jeff Wood
Alice Winslow
Danny Cannizzaro
Allison LaPlatney
Elliot B. Quick
Emily Friend Roberts
Anika Schwarzwald
Laura Vitale
Kathryn Wallem
Jamie Wilber
Jeff Wood
Alice Winslow