Anna Lindemann | composer, animator, writer
Lucy Fitz Gibbon | soprano, bird spirit
Anna Lindemann | scientist Alida Kear
Alex Borinsky | director (Colgate performance)
Emma Lunbeck | consulting director (EMPAC premiere)
Kathy High & Jim de Sève | videography (Video)
Kylin Mettler | costume design
Jay Maury | lighting designer (EMPAC premiere)
Julia Alsarraf, Stephen McLaughin | sound engineering & recording (EMPAC premiere)
Eric Lindemann, Jeff Svatek
William Fritz | rigging (EMPAC premiere)
Synful Orchestra | electronic music realization
Anna Lindemann | video and music editing
Nicholas Stipinovich & Sena Clara Creston | props fabrication
Joe Eakin & Mike Roberts | stage technology (Colgate performance)
William Fritz, Geoff Mielke | stage technology (EMPAC premiere)
Eric Brucker, Mick Bello
Angel Eads | master electrician (EMPAC premiere)
Bonnie Mettler | graphic design
Ellie Markovitch & Rose Mitchell | Flying Feast designers (EMPAC prem

Special Thanks | Michael Century, Kathy High, Shawn Lawson, David Rothenberg, Eric Lindemann, Bonnie Mettler, Yehuda Duenyas, Jim de Sève, Ellie Markovitch, Rose Mitchell, Eleanor Liu, Branda Miller, Tomie Hahn, Laura Garrison, Jenn Mumby, Curtis Bahn, Larry Kagan, Bill Bergman, Amina Shabbeer, Jean Purtell, Bill Fritz, Johannes Goebel, Geoff Mielke, Laura Desposito, Eric Brucker, Mick Bello, Todd Vos, Stephen McLaughlin, Jeff Svatek, Stephanie Tribu-Cromme, Angel Eads, Ryan Jenkins, Jason Steven Murphy, Avery Stempel, Ian Hamelin, John Cook, Laura Perfetti, CathyJo Kile, and Zhenelle Falk, Richard Prum and Antónia Monteiro

Anna Lindemann (composer, animator, writer, performer) creates work integrating multi-disciplinary art and biology. Combining music, animation, video, and performance her pieces Theory of Flight (2011), Winged One (2010), Bird Brain (2009), and The Flying Curiosities of the Plant & Animal Kingdoms (2010) explore biological development and evolution. Many of Anna's musical compositions explore nature in its poignancy, absurdity, and complexity—from the musical depiction of the determined dung beetle in Garden Suite, which she composed as an eight-year-old, to recent explorations of music inspired from developmental biology systems in Theory of Flight, Bird Brain, Where do you come from little seedling? (2010) and Evo-Devo Music (2006). Anna has enjoyed artistic collaborations as well—writing the music for two ballets, theater, and film. She has received awards for her musical compositions from the MATA Festival, ASCAP, MTNA, Collage New Music, the Yale Sudler Fund for the Creative and Performing Arts, and the Yale Music Department. Anna graduated magna cum laude from Yale College with a B.S. in Biology. She conducted field research on bird speciation and bird calls in Indonesia, and she received the Edgar J. Boell Prize for her thesis research on genes involved in the patterning of wing eyespots during butterfly development. Anna received the DeWitt Wallace Fellowship, the Ellis and Karin Chingos '37 Graduate Fellowship, and the Rensselaer Graduate Fellowship for her study at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she completed her MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts, presenting Theory of Flight as her thesis work. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Colgate University.

Lucy Fitz Gibbon (soprano) is a versatile performer whose repertoire spans the early baroque to the present. A graduate of Yale College, she is the 2010 recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts, the Wrexham Prize in Music, and the Beekman Cannon Friends of Music Prize. While at Yale, Lucy appeared in principal roles with the Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP), Yale Opera, and Opera Theater of Yale College, including the title role of Sacrati's La Finta Pazza in its modern premier with YBOP. She also appeared as a soloist with the Yale Recital Chorus, the Saybrook Orchestra, and the Jonathan Edwards Orchestra, performing the works of composers from Bach to Barber. She is devoted to performing music from this century and the last, and has both premiered large-scale works by young composers including Anna Lindemann and Ryan Harper and performed such repertoire standards as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Elliott Carter's A Mirror on Which to Dwell. In April she will join The Glenn Gould School's New Music Ensemble, performing works by Kaija Saariaho and Canadian composer So Jeong Ahn. She has appeared at the Miami Bach Society's International Tropical Baroque Festival and Tage Alter Musik festival in Regensburg, Germany, with early music ensemble Ex Umbris, and was a member of the Yale Schola Cantorum under the direction of Simon Carrington and Masaaki Suzuki. The CD she released with the Etherea Vocal Ensemble under the Delos label this fall, "Ceremony of Carols," has been received to much critical acclaim, praised by Opera News for its "elegant nuance." She has received scholarships from Early Music America and SongFest, among others, to attend music festivals in the United States and abroad. She currently studies with Monica Whicher at The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music, where she is the recipient of the Rex Le Lacheur Scholarship. Lucy will also appear in the title role of Cavalli's La Calisto at The GGS this March.

Alex Borinsky (director, Colgate performance) is a playwright, director, and performer. He's worked on Shakespeare and Chekhov in parks, backyards, bedrooms, bars, and theaters. He's a co-founder of American Centaur, an experimental-classical band of well-meaning nutcases, and a member of Youngblood, the Ensemble Studio Theater's collective of emerging professional playwrights. He grew up in Baltimore.

Emma Lunbeck (director, EMPAC premiere) graduated from Yale University in 2008 with a B.A. in Religious Studies. During her time at Yale, she was a member of the experimental theater ensemble The Control Group, serving as Artistic Director for a year. She directed Oscar Wilde's Salome in 2008, collaborating with Anna Lindemann to produce an original score and choreography for the Dance of the Seven Veils. She received weapon certification from the Society of American Fight Directors and went on to choreograph the combat for over a dozen student shows, including Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Troilus and Cressida, and Macbeth. In 2008, she co-founded the non-profit writing education organization DEEP Center in Savannah, Georgia. In 2010 she participated in the Film & Media Program of the India Study Abroad Center in Mumbai.

Kylin Mettler (costume designer) studied at RISD for a BFA in Sculpture, where the swans lit upon the lake, and went on to study in Rome at the European Honors program, where the pigeons abounded in squares, and seagulls dove into the Tiber. Since then Ky has started the Art/Gardening business Kylin Arts LLC — the art of gardening, the cultivation of art which seeks to hire artists and bring a design sense into the garden. Many birds, from grackles to grey herons, are eyed from the garden beds. During the winter, projects of whimsy take flight in the form of art shows, writing projects, dance performances, and wild costumery. Ky's sculptural work currently consists of small wire, sculpy, and found object humanoid figures, some of whom even sprout wings.

Jay Maury (lighting designer) is a New York based lighting and sound designer. He is a resident designer and Technical Director of The Bushwick Starr Theater. Jay also works with the Lake George Opera Festival as master electrician and sound consultant. His recent clients include Travis Bass Inc. and Adelphi University.

Julia Alsarraf (stage manager and sound engineer) is a current undergraduate in RPI's Electronic Arts and Computer Science programs.

Ellie Markovitch (Flying Feast designer) is an Electronic Arts MFA candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a multimedia artist who explores new ways of storytelling. Some of her explorations include relational aesthetics and paths to extend sensory experiences. She uses food as a starting point for conversations. Gathering is part of who she is. She gathers people's stories as a photojournalist. She created the website storycooking.com as a place to capture reflections on the roles of food in our lives, the impact of food on community, and explore people's relationships with cooking and eating. She lives in Troy, New York with her husband and two children.

Rose Mitchell (Flying Feast designer) grew up in a cooking family, learning to participate in every aspect of a meal from a young age. She is now a working mother who makes every effort to feed her family a home cooked meal each night of the week. Her definition of world peace is "everyone having what they need and liking what they have", and she believes that one of the most fundamental rights of humanity is access to good, clean and fair food. She also strongly believes that every morsel of food is a precious gift and should be treated deliciously! Rose is a native to the Capital Region and currently lives in Downtown Albany with her partner, Steve, and their wonderful little boy, Rowan.