Dancer-choreographer-teacher, Garfield Lemonius, has had career adventures that include performing as a principal dancer with the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, working with noted American choreographers, tours across the US and Europe, serving on numerous boards and panels at dance conferences and teaching and choreographing for a variety of companies, festivals and academic institutions across the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

He currently serves on the advisory board for the Pittsburgh Dance Council, the advisory committee for the national high school dance festival, the National Association of Schools of Dance Committee on Ethics and is the Chair of Dance and Associate Artistic Director in the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University.

Adding to Garfield’s many accolades, he received the 2018 National High School Dance Festival Outstanding Service Award, the Festival’s highest honor.

Garfield is a graduate of York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance and Bachelor of Education degrees. He also holds his Master of Fine Arts in dance, choreographic theory and practice, from Southern Methodist University.

Garfield Lemonius

  February 6, 2019 
Dancer-choreographer-teacher, Garfield Lemonius, has had career adventures that include performing as a principal dancer with the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, working with noted American choreographers, tours across the US and Europe, serving on numerous boards and panels at dance conferences and teaching and choreographing for a variety of companies, festivals and academic institutions across the U.S., Canada, and Australia.He currently serves on the advisory board for the Pittsburgh Dance Council, the advisory committee for the national high school dance festival, the National Association of Schools of Dance Committee on Ethics and is the Chair of Dance and Associate Artistic Director in the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University.Adding to Garfield’s many accolades, he received the 2018 National High School Dance Festival Outstanding Service Award, the Festival’s highest honor. Garfield is a graduate of York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance and Bachelor of Education degrees. He also holds his Master of Fine Arts in dance, choreographic theory and practice, from Southern Methodist University.

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Dancer-choreographer-teacher, Garfield Lemonius, has had career adventures that include performing as a principal dancer with the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, working with noted American choreographers, tours across the US and Europe, serving on numerous boards and panels at dance conferences and teaching and choreographing for a variety of companies, festivals and academic institutions across the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

Mark Clayton Southers is an award-winning playwright, photographer, scenic designer, theatrical producer and stage director. He is the founder and producing artistic director of the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company where he’s produced over 140 full-length and one-act plays, including August Wilson’s complete ten-play Pittsburgh Century Cycle.

Not long after Mark attended a master class in playwriting conducted by August Wilson at the Grahamstown Arts Festival in South Africa, he attended the Edward Albee Theatre Festival in Valdez, Alaska, where he did seated readings with August Wilson of all of his plays. These encounters encouraged Mark to take up playwriting and devote more time to theatre arts. In 2003, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company was born, producing August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which received critical acclaim and high praise from the playwright himself.

Mark’s play, Ma Noah, was the recipient of the 2004 Theodore Ward prize at Columbia College, Chicago. His poem play, Angry Black Man Poetry, had a successful run at Teatr Śląski in Katowice, Poland in 2009.

A few of his directing credits include: Paul Robeson for the Griot Ensemble Theatre Company; Dutchman for Bricolage Production Company; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, and Radio Golf for American Stage Theatre in St. Petersburg, Florida; Gem of the Ocean for Human Race Theatre in Dayton, Ohio, receiving a Best Director nod by the Dayton Metro News; Passing Strange for North Short Stage in Columbus, Ohio. And for the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company Mark has directed Dorothy Six, The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, which was named one of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s top ten plays of the decade, Seven Guitars, VALU-MART, Jitney (which was voted one of the Post-Gazette’s top ten best plays of 2010), and Gem of the Ocean.

Mark is a four-time recipient of the AACTA Onyx award for Best Director.

You can discover much more about Mark at markclaytonsouthers.com.

Mark Clayton Southers

 January 30, 2019 Mark Clayton Southers 
Mark Clayton Southers is an award-winning playwright, photographer, scenic designer, theatrical producer and stage director. He is the founder and producing artistic director of the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company where he’s produced over 140 full-length and one-act plays, including August Wilson’s complete ten-play Pittsburgh Century Cycle.Not long after Mark attended a master class in playwriting conducted by August Wilson at the Grahamstown Arts Festival in South Africa, he attended the Edward Albee Theatre Festival in Valdez, Alaska, where he did seated readings with August Wilson of all of his plays. These encounters encouraged Mark to take up playwriting and devote more time to theatre arts. In 2003, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company was born, producing August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” which received critical acclaim and high praise from the playwright himself.Mark’s play, Ma Noah, was the recipient of the 2004 Theodore Ward prize at Columbia College, Chicago. His poem play, Angry Black Man Poetry, had a successful run at Teatr Śląski in Katowice, Poland in 2009.A few of his directing credits include: Paul Robeson for the Griot Ensemble Theatre Company; Dutchman for Bricolage Production Company; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, and Radio Golf for American Stage Theatre in St. Petersburg, Florida; Gem of the Ocean for Human Race Theatre in Dayton, Ohio, receiving a Best Director nod by the Dayton Metro News; Passing Strange for North Short Stage in Columbus, Ohio. And for the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company Mark has directed Dorothy Six, The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, which was named one of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's top ten plays of the decade, Seven Guitars, VALU-MART, Jitney (which was voted one of the Post-Gazette's top ten best plays of 2010), and Gem of the Ocean.Mark is a four-time recipient of the AACTA Onyx award for Best Director.You can discover much more about Mark at markclaytonsouthers.com.

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Mark Clayton Southers is an award-winning playwright, photographer, scenic designer, theatrical producer and stage director. He is the founder and producing artistic director of the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company where he’s produced over 140 full-length and one-act plays, including August Wilson’s complete ten-play Pittsburgh Century Cycle.

Tami Dixon and Jeffrey Carpenter are the award-winning co-founders of Pittsburgh-based Bricolage Production Company, one of the most innovative and forward-thinking theater companies in the world. While Tami is Bricolage’s Creative Principal, Jeffrey is the company’s Artistic Director.

Tami specializes in creating intimate, personalized and embodied immersive encounters. Jeffrey envisions theater not as a passive experience, but as a vehicle for heightened involvement for artist and audience alike.

With Bricolage, Tami and Jeffrey have created numerous, memorably unique immersive experiences, including “OjO,” “DODO,” which was produced in collaboration with the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh in which the experience was set, and “STRATA,” which was named 2012’s Top Production of the Year by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and featured on the cover of American Theatre Magazine.

Tami is the writer and director of “The Forest of Everywhere,” Bricolage’s first immersive for children with developmental differences. She also co-created Bricolage’s Immersive Encounters program; a bite-sized, sensory-based theatrical initiative developed as a laboratory for training immersive artists and experimenting with participatory storytelling.

Jeffrey’s work explores dynamic and deep modes of connectivity, placing each audience member at the center of the experience from which everything else spins. In this style, in 2018, he co-created “The Clearing.”

Bricolage’s layered works often utilize sensual, dreamlike environments to heighten awareness, stir memories, and promote deeper participation among audience goers.

Together, they also produce, write, and direct the highly acclaimed and popular Midnight Radio series.

Tami Dixon & Jeffrey Carpenter

 January 23, 2019 
Tami Dixon and Jeffrey Carpenter are the award-winning co-founders of Pittsburgh-based Bricolage Production Company, one of the most innovative and forward-thinking theater companies in the world. While Tami is Bricolage’s Creative Principal, Jeffrey is the company’s Artistic Director. Tami specializes in creating intimate, personalized and embodied immersive encounters. Jeffrey envisions theater not as a passive experience, but as a vehicle for heightened involvement for artist and audience alike. With Bricolage, Tami and Jeffrey have created numerous, memorably unique immersive experiences, including “OjO,” “DODO,” which was produced in collaboration with the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh in which the experience was set, and “STRATA,” which was named 2012’s Top Production of the Year by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and featured on the cover of American Theatre Magazine. Tami is the writer and director of “The Forest of Everywhere,” Bricolage’s first immersive for children with developmental differences. She also co-created Bricolage’s Immersive Encounters program; a bite-sized, sensory-based theatrical initiative developed as a laboratory for training immersive artists and experimenting with participatory storytelling. Jeffrey’s work explores dynamic and deep modes of connectivity, placing each audience member at the center of the experience from which everything else spins. In this style, in 2018, he co-created “The Clearing.” Bricolage’s layered works often utilize sensual, dreamlike environments to heighten awareness, stir memories, and promote deeper participation among audience goers. Together, they also produce, write, and direct the highly acclaimed and popular Midnight Radio series.

Listen Now: Tami Dixon & Jeffrey Carpenter Interview

Tami Dixon and Jeffrey Carpenter are the award-winning co-founders of Pittsburgh-based Bricolage Production Company, one of the most innovative and forward-thinking theater companies in the world. While Tami is Bricolage’s Creative Principal, Jeffrey is the company’s Artistic Director.