Karinne Keithley Syers is an artist and teacher whose work spans writing, film, sound, song, dance, bookmaking, game design, scholarship, and points in between. Recent work includes the short film, Henry at the Golden Hour (directed by Maureen Towey). She won a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Production for Montgomery Park or Opulence (Incubator Arts Project). Other shows: Another Tree Dance and A Tunnel Year (both at The Chocolate Factory), ASTRS (Dixon Place), Tenderenda (Danspace Project), Islander (Galapagos), Four Fruits (Surf Reality). Fellowships and residencies at New Dramatists, MacDowell, St. Ann’s Warehouse Puppet Lab. Collaborations as a performer and designer: Big Dance Theater, David Neumann, Sibyl Kempson, Young Jean Lee, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, The Civilians, Talking Band, Chris Yon, Sara Smith, and many others. Founder: 53rd State Press, the Pelagic School. She spent years digging into strange poetics at CUNY (MFA Brooklyn College, PhD Grad Center) and currently teaches middle school English and theater.

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