Alaina Ferris is an interdisciplinary composer, poet, and performer who specializes in choral works, opera, and contemporary theater. She is one half of the indie-folk duo, Physical Kids, alongside Matt Schlatter. She is the recipient of fellowships, grants, and residencies from Hermitage Artist Residency, NYC Women’s Fund, New Music USA Creator Development Fund, Cité International des Arts residency in Paris, The American Opera Project, and National Sawdust. Her composing credits include: Mia Rovegno and Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew’s adaptation of The Blind or Les aveugles, Maurice Maeterlinck’s symbolist play about 12 blind people lost on a forested island (HERE Arts Center); Joshua William Gelb’s adaptation of The Black Crook, the first American Musical (Abrons Arts Center), The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman, a humorous indictment of American foreign policy in Iraq, told through the true story of Hitler and his dog, Blondi (The Connelly Theater); and Scott Adkin’s The Kioskers, which follows two young city dwellers as they escape urban life on a floating kiosk (St. Ann’s Warehouse Puppet Lab); and more. She holds a BA in Music and English (The University of Denver) and an MFA in Poetry (NYU).  alainaferris.com @alainajferris