MALLORY CATLETT.
an Obie Award winning creator/director of performance across disciplines from opera to installation art.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.
Mallory Catlett is a Obie Award winning creator/director of performance across disciplines from opera to installation art. In NY her work has premiered and performed at HERE, Harlem Stage, Roulette, Mabou Mines, Ontological-Hysteric, PS122, Abrons, Chocolate Factory, EMPAC, Collapsable Hole, LaMama; featured at Prototype and BAM’s Next Wave; and toured internationally to Canada, France, UK, Ireland, The Netherlands & Australia. She is a recipient a 2016 Creative Capital Grant, a 2015 Foundation for the Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. She is the Artistic Director of Restless NYC, an Associate Artist at CultureHub/LaMama, a member of the Collapsable Hole an artist-run development and performance venue and a Co-Artistic Director of Mabou Mines. Her first book, The City We Make Together, co-authored with Aaron Landsman, was published by the University of Iowa's Humanities and Public Life Series in 2022.
ARTIST INTERVIEW.
Stay tuned for the interview, to be released on June 22.
A lot of people who don’t have any experience of the process have this thing in their mind, which is that, “Oh yeah, the director has the answers.” And then the performers just execute those answers. We have to dispel that.
Chekhov wrote in a naturalistic style; Ms. Catlett prefers a
A SUPERNATURAL ONE.
A meditation on memory and decay, This Was the End... is less of a play and more of an apparition, a ritual,
A HAUNTING IN ONE ACT
THE NEW YORK TIMES
GALLERY.
CREDITS: THE VICKSBURG PROJECT, created by Eve Beglarian, Mallory Catlett, and Karen Kandel, Produced by Mabou Mines & piece by piece productions, photo by Marc Millman; Headshot courtesy of the artist; THIS WAS THE END, creator/director Mallory Catlett, Text Chekhov, performed by and co-created with Black-Eyed Susan, G. Lucas Crane, Jim Himelsbach, Rae C Wright & Paul Zimet, photos courtesy of the artist; CITY COUNCIL MEETING, Co-Creator/Director Mallory Catlett, Co-Creator/Writer Aaron Landsman, Co-Creator/Designer Jim Findlay. Performers: City Council Meeting is performed by the audience and facilitated by an entirely local working group comprised of artists, activists and the genuinely interested, photo courtesy of the artist;DECISION, created by Dred Scott, directed by Mallory Catlett, performed by Dred Scott, Clifford Owens, Lawrence Graham-Brown, Wilmer Wilson IV and “Roc” Belizaire, photo courtesy of the artist; RAINBIRD, Composer Aaron Seigel, Libretto Aaron Seigel and Mallory Catlett, Films by Andrew Denton, Set Peiyi Wong, Lighting Yuki Nakase Link, Props Oscar Escodedo, Costume Olivera Gajic, Projection Attilio Rigotti. Performers: Gelsey Bell, Chris DiMeglio, Katie Geissinger, Shurmi Dhar, Jeff Tobias, Andie Tanning, Jess Tsang and Sugar Vendil, photo by Maria Baranova; DECODER, Text by William Burroughs, Directed by Mallory Catlett, Performed and Set by Jim Findlay, Performed, Sound and Video Manipulation by G Lucas Crane, photo courtesy of the artist; OH WHAT WAR, Conceiver/Director Mallory Catlett, Writer Jason Craig, Composer/Music Director Lisa Dove. Set/Lights Peter Ksander, Video Zbigniew Bzymek, Sound G Lucas Crane. Performers/Co-Creators: Jason Craig, Scott Sowers, Jessica Jelliffe, Kelli Rae Powell, Magin Schantz, Tom Lipinski, G Lucas Crane, photo courtesy of the artist; ECHODRIFT,Composer Mikael Karlsson, Libretto Elle Kunnos de Voss & Kathryn Walat, Conductor Nicholas DeMaison, Set Designer Elle Kunnos de Voss, Lighting Designer Chris Kuhl, Prop & Costume Design Andreea Mnicic. Performers: Blythe Gaissert AND John Kelly, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), photo courtesy of the artist.