A D M I R A L G R E Y
A R T I S T C V
RECENT + UPCOMING:
TBA, The Human Dream Project Premiere, The Tank, NYC, April 2024
TBA, Cellular Chaos December Tour/Miami 2023
TBA, Dream Illustration Workshop - artist, director - workshop teaching people performative storytelling through object movement, craft and dreams, Opus 40, September 2023
TBA, Puppetry Mini Festival - featured artist/creator/director - featured performance presenting new scenes from The Human Dream Project as part of puppetry festival, Opus 40, September 2023
Cellular Chaos August Tour 2023 - singer/musician - Overrun Booking - Northeast US Tour, August 2023
Cellular Chaos Spring Tour 2023 - singer/musician - Overrun Booking - Tour with dates in the Midwest and East Coast May 2023
The Plastic Bag Store - deviser/performer/fabricator - Robin Frohardt Co. - installation and puppetry performance - University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, January-February 2023
Little Amal Walks, “When The Pigeons Flock” - puppeteer - Little Amal performance with St. Ann’s Warehouse at Brooklyn Bridge, NY, September 2022
Bethany Arts Community - resident artist - research and development of The Human Dream Project, Bethany Arts Center, Ossining, NY, September 2022
KINOSAITO - resident artist - research and development of The Human Dream Project, Kinosaito Art Center, Verplanck, NY, June-July 2022
“Jungell Toujet Misteria Sex At” - video artist - with Ric Royer & Miriam Atkin - multimedia reading, livestream and performance, Greenkill Arts, Kingston, NY, April 2022
Bedroom Bestiary - video editor - Dana Sherwood - multimedia installation, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, May 2022
St. Ann’s Puppet Lab - writer/director/designer/builder - selections from “The Human Dream Project”, multimedia puppet theater performance, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY, January 2022
The Human Dream Project - writer/director/designer/builder - site-specific puppet theater performance, Opus 40, Saugerties, NY, September 2021, with Snake In The Boot Collective
THEATER:
The Plastic Bag Store - deviser/performer/fabricator - Robin Frohardt Co. - installation and puppetry performance - Fusebox Festivel + Texas Performing Arts, Austin, Texas, March-April 2022
The Wetsuitman - composer - The Cherry Arts - theater piece, The Cherry, Ithaca, NY, March-April 2022
Bad Day In April - performer - The Team/Sanaz Ghajar - performance workshop, South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY, March 2022
St. Ann’s Puppet Lab - writer/director/designer - multimedia puppet theater performance in culmination of the St. Ann’s Puppet Lab Residency 2019-2022, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY, February 2022
The Plastic Bag Store - deviser/performer/fabricator - Robin Frohardt Co. - installation and puppetry performance - Chicago International Puppetry Festival, Chicago, Illinois, January-February 2022
The Human Dream Project at Opus 40 - writer/director/designer - site-specific puppet theater performance, Opus 40, Saugerties, NY, September 2021, with Snake In The Boot Collective
The Plastic Bag Store - deviser/performer/fabricator - Robin Frohardt Co. - installation and puppetry performance - CAP UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, June-July 2021
The Plastic Bag Store - deviser/performer/fabricator - Robin Frohardt Co. - installation and puppetry performance - Times Square, NYC, March 2020 and Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, Australia, 2021
The Attendants 2020 - deviser/lead actor - The Nerve Tank produced by Brookfield Arts - interactive online ensemble performance - June 2020
Weird Dream Project - creator/puppeteer - Snake In The Boot Collective - workshop puppetry performance for Puppet Parlor - HERE, NYC, December 2019
The Origins of Zozobra - creator/composer/performer/puppeteer - Snake In The Boot Collective - puppetry performance for Taos Vortex, Zozofest, and The 2019 Burning Of Zozobra - Santa Fe, NM August 2019
The Pigeoning - deviser/puppeteer - Robin Frohardt Co. - puppetry performance - 2019 touring productions - Singapore; Red Wing, MN; Richmond, VA; Chicago, IL
Brecht Forensics - costume designer - Sister Sylvester - theater piece - various bookings in the US & Europe, May 2019
The Beginning of Nothing - musician/performer - Poncili Creacion and the Yucamax Orchestra - puppetry piece with live music - Wythe Hotel New Arts Residency , February 2019
Plastic Bag Store (workshop) - deviser/performer/puppeteer - Robin Frohardt Co. - installation and puppetry performance - UNC Chapel Hill, NC, September 2018
Madame Lynch, Instructress of Languages - lead actor - The Drunkard’s Wife - theater piece for Ice Factory/Archive Residency - New Ohio Theatre, NYC, August 2018
The Pigeoning - deviser/performer/puppeteer - Robin Frohardt Co. - puppetry performance - 2018 touring productions - Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN
Title Waived - writer/director - Snake In The Boot Collective - staged reading for Mason Holding’s Unseen & Unheard Second Anniversary - The Kraine, NYC, September 2017
Tiny Hornets - lead actor/singer - The Drunkard’s Wife - musical theater piece - Rubulad, Brooklyn, NY, August 2017
Project Woyzeck - composer/sound designer - The Nerve Tank - University Settlement, NYC, April-May 2017
The Pigeoning - deviser/performer/puppeteer - Robin Frohardt Co. - puppetry performance - 2017 local and touring productions - Future of Storytelling-NYC; Cairo, Egypt;
MMW - costume/props designer - Quince Productions - theater piece for GayFest! - The Drake Theater, Philadelphia, PA , August 2016
Wolves - costume/props designer - Quince Productions - theater piece for GayFest! - The Drake Theater, Philadelphia, PA, August 2016
Permanent Caterpillar - lead actor/singer - The Drunkard’s Wife - The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY, May-June 2016
Rafael Nadal Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris In 1782 - writer/director/composer/performer - Snake In The Boot Collective - staged reading for Mason Holding’s Unseen & Unheard - Gene Frankel Theater, NYC, February 2016
Not Today, Salomé - writer/director/costume designer - Snake In The Boot Collective - theater piece for Late Night Theater - Psychic Readings, Baltimore, MD, May 2016
The Pigeoning - deviser/performer/puppeteer - Robin Frohardt Co. - puppetry performance - 2016 touring productions - Easton, PA; Somerville, NJ
Garbage, Death And The City Of Baltimore - lead actor/singer - Psychic Readings Company - Psychic Readings, Baltimore, MD, June 2015
(Selections From) Rafael Nadal Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris In 1782 - writer/director/composer/performer - Snake In The Boot Collective - Little Theater - Dixon Place, NYC, April 2015
The Pigeoning - deviser/performer/puppeteer - Robin Frohardt Co. - puppetry performance - 2015 touring productions - Nuremburg, Germany; Detroit, MI; Minneapolis, MN; Arlington, VA; Philadelphia, PA
The Maiden - composer/sound designer/performer/singer - The Nerve Tank - musical theater piece - La Mama, NYC April 2014
Feather Gatherers - lead actor/singer - The Drunkard’s Wife - musical theater piece - The New Ohio Theatre, NYC, June 2014
The Pigeoning - deviser/performer/puppeteer - Robin Frohardt Co. - puppetry performance - 2013 + 2014 touring productions - Thessaloniki, Greece; Istanbul, Turkey; North Adams, MA, HERE, NYC; Pittsburgh, PA
Flowerama - writer/director/designer/performer - Snake In The Boot Collective - theater piece for Sparrowtree Theatre Company - 17 Frost Space, Brooklyn, NY, December 2012
Waiting… - co-writer/director/lead actor/singer with Michael O’Dell - theater piece for Off-Broadway SOFA - Boulder, CO May 2012
By The Time Kurt Cobain Was Your Age, He Was Dead - deviser/co-director/lead actor/musician with Devin Burnam - Dixon Place, NY December 2011
Maritime - writer/co-director/lead actor - Snake In The Boot Collective - theater piece for Sparrowtree Theatre Company - 17 Frost Space, Brooklyn, NY, October 2011
Hugh Cox Gets The Pink Slip - actor - Sister Sylvester - Kenny Scharf’s Cosmic Cavern, Brooklyn, NY, August 2011
Two Angry Comedies - actor - Sister Sylvester - staged reading at Dixon Place, NYC, May 2011
Peter/Wolf - actor - Marc Arthur - University Settlement, NYC, March 2011
Lotsa Luck, Lucy Lake - lead actor/singer - musical theater piece by Dan Neel - The Kraine, Webster Hall, NYC, November 2010
Play America (Life is short, wear your party pants) - actor - Sister Sylvester - theater piece - St. Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn, NY, April 2010
Missed Connections - actor/musician/dancer - musical theater piece by Chad Raines - Yale University Cabaret , New Haven, CT, January 2010
Poppy! An Enchanted Evening With Poppy Bulova - writer/director/composer/lead actor/singer - musical theater piece for The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) - The Flamboyan Theater, CSV Cultural Center, August 2009 and extended performances at Langdon Street Cafe, Montpelier, VT, September 2009
Suicide Sundays - lead actor - theater piece by Devin Burnam - The Producer’s Club Theater, May 2008
The Carnival At The Funeral - lead actor - theater piece by Devin Burnam produced by Tiny Theater! - The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY, May 2007
Numerals (a fable about knowing) - lead actor - theater piece by Devin Burnam produced by the Strawberry One Act Festival - The Riant Theater, NYC, February 2006
MUSIC - ALBUM RELEASES AND TOURS :
Holy Hell - July 2019 US Tour
Admiral Grey - “Enjoyment” Album Release - March 2019
Cellular Chaos - “Chicago vs. New York” Album Release - Skin Graft Records Compilation - March 2019
Admiral Grey - December 2018 Art Week Miami/Art Basel Tour
Cellular Chaos - “Dirty Girl” EP - ugExplode Records Album Release - May 2018
The Simple Pleasure - Summer 2017 US Tour with VERN
Cellular Chaos - Spring/Summer 2017 European and US Tours
The Simple Pleasure - Spring 2017 US Tour
The Simple Pleasure - “VHS Mixes”Album Release - 2017
Cellular Chaos - Winter 2016 US Tour
The Simple Pleasure - Fall 2016 US Tour
The Simple Pleasure - “The Glamour Of It All” Album Release - 2016
Cellular Chaos - Summer 2016 US Tour
Cellular Chaos - “Diamond Teeth Clenched” Album Release - Skin Graft Records, 2016
The Simple Pleasure - Fall 2015 Tour
Cellular Chaos - 2013/2014 Tours
Cellular Chaos - Fall 2013 Tour
Ecstatics - Summer 2013 Tour
Ecstatics - “1000 Years Of Ecstatics” Album Release - 2013
Cellular Chaos - Summer 2013 US Tour
Cellular Chaos - “Self Titled” Album 2012
The Simple Pleasure - Self Titled, 2012
Admiral Grey/I Feel Awesome - 2011 US Tour
Glass Lamborghini - 2010 US Tour
Glass Lamborghini - “Golden Elegance” Album Release - 2010
Duck and Swallow - 2009 US Tour
Drayton Sawyer Gang - 2008 US Tour
Drayton Sawyer Gang - “Ad Nauseam” Album Release - 2007
Drayton Sawyer Gang - 2007 US Tour
Drayton Sawyer Gang - “Pleasure After Pleasure” Album Release - 2006
Drayton Sawyer Gang - 2004-2006 US Tours
Drayton Sawyer Gang - “The Brown One” Album Release - 2003
PERFORMANCE ART AND SPOKEN WORD:
Water Snake - deviser/performer with Chloe Swantner and Nina Nichols - live performance/movement piece in the Esopus Creek for Order Of Aguoga, Marbletown, NY, October 2019
How to Explain Theater To a Dead Audience - composer/deviser/performer with The Nerve Tank - live performance - Chinatown Soup Gallery, NYC, May 2019
Camgrl - creator/performer - solo performance/video piece - as guest of Vidium for Miami Art Week - Mana Contemporary at 777 International Mall, Womxn Fest, Miami, FL, December 2018
Trash Noise Fashion - clothing designer/musician - live performance/fashion show with Male Model - as guest of Vidium for Miami Art Week - Mana Contemporary at 777 International Mall, Miami, FL, December 2018
Reading/Spoken Word - reading of selection of my writings alongside Lydia Lunch - Ludlow House, NYC, January 2017
Reading/Spoken Word - reading of selections of my writing for the Unseen & Unheard 1st Anniversary, September 2016
Control - live performance/movement piece with Katie Harrington - for BUOY RR fundraiser, Alchemist’s Kitchen, NYC, June 2016
Duality - live performance/movement piece with Katie Harrington - for BUOY RR Gallery Walk, Deep River, CT, July 2015
Reading/Spoken Word - reading of my work alongside Lydia Lunch - California Tour, February 2015
What Is Noise Music? - cryptic composition for oboe, saxophone, and glockenspiel based upon text with live painting, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY 2014
Here I Made A New Year For You - solo performance with live loops and pomegranates - Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY, December 2012
Talk/Show - text/sound/video performance piece with Champagne Sequins - produced by ugExplode at Death By Audio, Brooklyn, NY 2012
Please Look Inside This Box Please Get Me Out Of This Box - solo performance piece with box, clothing and junk - produced by Hanging Papers pop-up gallery, Brooklyn, NY, May 2010
I Like You - solo performance piece with keyboards, stuffed animal & romance - pre-show to "Play America (Life is short, wear your party pants)” St. Cecilia's Convent April 2010
VIDEO WORKS:
Please find a playlist with a selection of my videos here :
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCJIF4Ca6HSKNcXRT0qXUzv75ZwAI-Wtf
FILM:
Plastic Bag Store: The Film, Performer/Puppeteer, 2021
Beacon, Composer, 2016
Advent, Composer, 2015
Hunter & Game, Featured musical performer, 2014
Swim Little Fish Swim, “Foreign Punk Girl”, 2013
Viand, “Woman”, 2012
Welcome To Pine Hill, “Bartender”, 2012
Heartpocalypse, “Angel”, 2010
PODCASTS:
The Lydian Spin, Guest/Interviewee, 2021
I Have Seen Niagra, Performer, 2021
Miss Cthonic Star Dream Pageant, Performer, 2020
RESIDENCIES + GRANTS :
KinoSaito Artist Residency, 2022
Artist Relief Grant Recipient, 2020
St. Ann’s Puppet Lab, Human Dream Project, Brooklyn, NY, 2019-Present
Chinatown Soup Gallery Residency, How To Explain Theater To A Dead Audience with The Nerve Tank, New York, NY, 2019
Franklin Cthonics Residency, The Ram with Psychic Readings Company, Franklin, NY, 2018
NACL Deep Space Residency, Madame Lynch with The Drunkard’s Wife, NACL, 2018
Indie Theater Fund Grant Recipient, 2018
ETC Performance Series, Salaam Salomé, Philadelphia, PA, 2015
Buoy R&R, Movement and experimental performance, Old Lyme, CT, 2015
The Nerve Tank Developmental Residencies, Experimental theater development, Vermont and Southampton, NY, 2013
Field Residency, Chelsea, NY, 2013
La Muse, Writing and Composition, Labastide-Esparbarienque, France, 2006
EDUCATION/JUVENILIA :
Goddard College - Multidisciplinary Study: Theater (writing, directing, performance), Music (theory and performance), Writing (prose, poetry, readings), Sculpture (installation), Philosophy/Theory/Film Theory 1996-1999
Boston University School Of Fine Arts - Acting Conservatory 1995-1996
NYSSSA (with Circle Repertory Company) - Acting/Playwriting Intensive 1995
Hampton Theatre Company - Leading player 1993-2003
Mentatholon - Music and Acting Competitor 1993-1995
Theatricon - Acting Competitor 1993-1995
Quogue Junior Theater Troupe - Leading player 1990-1995
NYSSSA - Music Competitor (trumpet and voice) 1988-1994