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Cristobal Vivar was born in Mexico to an artistic family. His father is a painter, sculptor and jewelry designer, his mother a textile artist. His uncle created model buildings for architects and his grandfather was passionate about photography when not working as a miner. After studying Graphic Design, Cris became interested in animation and photography, and graduating he worked doing interactive websites and motion graphics for television. In 2001 he immigrated to New York and photographed the...

Cristobal Vivar was born in Mexico to an artistic family. His father is a painter, sculptor and jewelry designer, his mother a textile artist. His uncle created model buildings for architects and his grandfather was passionate about photography when not working as a miner. After studying Graphic Design, Cris became interested in animation and photography, and graduating he worked doing interactive websites and motion graphics for television. In 2001 he immigrated to New York and photographed the...

Cristobal Vivar was born in Mexico to an artistic family. His father is a painter, sculptor and jewelry designer, his mother a textile artist. His uncle created model buildings for architects and his grandfather was passionate about photography when not working as a miner. After studying Graphic Design, Cris became interested in animation and photography, and graduating he worked doing interactive websites and motion graphics for television. In 2001 he immigrated to New York and photographed the...

Dylan Tuccillo is an award-winning writer, video producer, and filmmaker. While attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, a feature screenplay that he wrote won a $10,000 award from the Sloan Foundation. A recent short documentary of his was picked up by Upworthy and viewed over 270,000 times. After 15 years of working with advertising agencies and companies, he’s learned how to market content in a media-saturated landscape. His short films have won "Best Short" at the Inwood Film Festival, "Bes...

Dylan Tuccillo is an award-winning writer, video producer, and filmmaker. While attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, a feature screenplay that he wrote won a $10,000 award from the Sloan Foundation. A recent short documentary of his was picked up by Upworthy and viewed over 270,000 times. After 15 years of working with advertising agencies and companies, he’s learned how to market content in a media-saturated landscape. His short films have won "Best Short" at the Inwood Film Festival, "Bes...

Dylan Tuccillo is an award-winning writer, video producer, and filmmaker. While attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, a feature screenplay that he wrote won a $10,000 award from the Sloan Foundation. A recent short documentary of his was picked up by Upworthy and viewed over 270,000 times. After 15 years of working with advertising agencies and companies, he’s learned how to market content in a media-saturated landscape. His short films have won "Best Short" at the Inwood Film Festival, "Bes...

Mary Illes has had a storied Broadway, touring and international acting career. Her Broadway performances include The Phantom of the Opera, The Music Man revival (with more than 80 performances as Marian, I might add), The Scarlet Pimpernel, Steel Pier, and She Loves Me. Internationally, she was in the original Toronto company of Sunset Boulevard with Diahann Carroll, directed by Trevor Nunn, and she played the Gumbie Cat and Griddlebone in Cats/Paris in French, and Cats/Vienna in German. Mary...

Mary Illes has had a storied Broadway, touring and international acting career. Her Broadway performances include The Phantom of the Opera, The Music Man revival (with more than 80 performances as Marian, I might add), The Scarlet Pimpernel, Steel Pier, and She Loves Me. Internationally, she was in the original Toronto company of Sunset Boulevard with Diahann Carroll, directed by Trevor Nunn, and she played the Gumbie Cat and Griddlebone in Cats/Paris in French, and Cats/Vienna in German. Mary...

Mary Illes has had a storied Broadway, touring and international acting career. Her Broadway performances include The Phantom of the Opera, The Music Man revival (with more than 80 performances as Marian, I might add), The Scarlet Pimpernel, Steel Pier, and She Loves Me. Internationally, she was in the original Toronto company of Sunset Boulevard with Diahann Carroll, directed by Trevor Nunn, and she played the Gumbie Cat and Griddlebone in Cats/Paris in French, and Cats/Vienna in German. Mary...

Sanakori Ramos is a cultural keeper and spiritual leader of the Indigenous-Caribbean Tribal Nation, Arayeke Yuyayek. He has served on various Indigenous-Caribbean communities and non-profits for the past 25 years. He founded the NYC Indigenous Day of Remembrance event, NYC Indigenous Mobile Library and traveling cultural center, and Tainoradio.com. Sanakori is a Taino dancer and Powwow Fancy Dancer with years of cultural musical performances. He is also a NYS licensed Social Worker. Get involved...

Sanakori Ramos is a cultural keeper and spiritual leader of the Indigenous-Caribbean Tribal Nation, Arayeke Yuyayek. He has served on various Indigenous-Caribbean communities and non-profits for the past 25 years. He founded the NYC Indigenous Day of Remembrance event, NYC Indigenous Mobile Library and traveling cultural center, and Tainoradio.com. Sanakori is a Taino dancer and Powwow Fancy Dancer with years of cultural musical performances. He is also a NYS licensed Social Worker. Get involved...

Sanakori Ramos is a cultural keeper and spiritual leader of the Indigenous-Caribbean Tribal Nation, Arayeke Yuyayek. He has served on various Indigenous-Caribbean communities and non-profits for the past 25 years. He founded the NYC Indigenous Day of Remembrance event, NYC Indigenous Mobile Library and traveling cultural center, and Tainoradio.com. Sanakori is a Taino dancer and Powwow Fancy Dancer with years of cultural musical performances. He is also a NYS licensed Social Worker. Get involved...

Rory Lutz is a born and raised New Yorker. He’s a comic, writer, and dad to a smaller and more well behaved version of himself. He is a believer in the human connection and helping each other…and that laughter really is the best medicine. Rory hosts comedy shows from his Uptown apartment is and venturing out to start a production company to bring consistent comedy to the neighborhood. Keep up with his comedy schedule on instagram @the_laughing_pad_

Rory Lutz is a born and raised New Yorker. He’s a comic, writer, and dad to a smaller and more well behaved version of himself. He is a believer in the human connection and helping each other…and that laughter really is the best medicine. Rory hosts comedy shows from his Uptown apartment is and venturing out to start a production company to bring consistent comedy to the neighborhood. Keep up with his comedy schedule on instagram @the_laughing_pad_

Rory Lutz is a born and raised New Yorker. He’s a comic, writer, and dad to a smaller and more well behaved version of himself. He is a believer in the human connection and helping each other…and that laughter really is the best medicine. Rory hosts comedy shows from his Uptown apartment is and venturing out to start a production company to bring consistent comedy to the neighborhood. Keep up with his comedy schedule on instagram @the_laughing_pad_

Charlie Kirchen is a music-maker and theorist based in Inwood, NYC. He composes, improvise, plays bass, and lead bands. Roughly situated in the realm of “jazz/experimental music,” his music reflects an aesthetic and technique gained from study of the broad sweep of both jazz and western classical music, as well as immersion in American pop music of the past 50 years. His compositions are made of a handful of notated themes which are related by subtle motivic and structural correspondences and l...

Charlie Kirchen is a music-maker and theorist based in Inwood, NYC. He composes, improvise, plays bass, and lead bands. Roughly situated in the realm of “jazz/experimental music,” his music reflects an aesthetic and technique gained from study of the broad sweep of both jazz and western classical music, as well as immersion in American pop music of the past 50 years. His compositions are made of a handful of notated themes which are related by subtle motivic and structural correspondences and l...

Charlie Kirchen is a music-maker and theorist based in Inwood, NYC. He composes, improvise, plays bass, and lead bands. Roughly situated in the realm of “jazz/experimental music,” his music reflects an aesthetic and technique gained from study of the broad sweep of both jazz and western classical music, as well as immersion in American pop music of the past 50 years. His compositions are made of a handful of notated themes which are related by subtle motivic and structural correspondences and l...

Sarah Seeds has appeared in TV Shows, Web series, Films, Off-Broadway plays, and national Voiceover campaigns. Sarah created and starred in the series, ‘Riding The D with Dr. Seeds,' now distributed worldwide on PlexTV, and can be seen in the feature films, ‘THE MINT,’ and ‘AMERICAN FANGO’ on Amazon Prime. Sarah also filmed a principal role in the TV Pilot "After Life," and played the female lead in the upcoming dramatic short, "Powerful Stuff." She's attached to the dystopian series, "The City ...

James Bosley is the Founding and former Artistic Director of Up Theatre Company; which produced the word premiere of his plays All the Best Ingredients, Broad Channel, and Epic Poetry. His play Fun, was developed at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and premiered at MCC Theater, and has received many subsequent productions in the U.S and abroad. The film version of Fun, for which he wrote the screenplay, was shown in competition at Sundance, among other festivals, and was nomina...

David Friend is an experimental musician living in New York City. A classically-trained pianist, he performs regularly with new music groups and as a soloist at major venues and DIY spaces throughout the city, across the country, and abroad. The New York Times describes him as '[one] of the finest, busiest pianists active in New York's contemporary-classical scene.' He has recorded for numerous labels, including his most recent release for solo piano and electronic processing, 'Post-,' for New ...

Nadema Agard Winyan Luta (Woman Holy Red} is a Cherokee/Lakota/Powhatan artist, illustrator, curator, educator, lecturer, storyteller, writer, poet, published author, museum professional and consultant in Repatriation and Multicultural/Native American arts and cultures. She earned a B.S. Degree from N.Y.U. and M.A. in Art and Education from Teacher's College at Columbia University. Her work spans more than four decades and includes multiple solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, and guest curators...

Franklin Rodriguez, aka Frank Rhodes, was born and raised in Washington Heights, here in NYC. Frank began with writing poetry, which he would later turn into songs while teaching himself how to play guitar. In the Summer of 2020, he released the electronic ballad “un poco.” Then in January of 2022, he began to record his debut album, “The Many Deaths and Life of Frank Rhodes.” Newly signed by the independent record label, Another Dream Records, he gives us an eclectic love letter of the genesis ...

Harry Mandel has been performing magic most of his life. Inspired by the Amazing Randi on Wonderama and Mark Wilson on his Magical Land of Alakazam back in the early days of kids television shows. Harry has always been intrigued by Carnival hucksters and pitchman, as well as the escape artistry of Harry Houdini. For more about his magical life, visit www.mandelmagic.com