Valeria is a director and writer with deep roots in the theater, extending back to original work with Jerzy Grotowski ('74) and evolving through performance art, dance theater, music theater and concert theater. This season she is collaborating on a concert theater work with Kevin Norton based on The Society of Spectacle by Guy Debord; with Neil Rolnick on a large music theater piece, The Pachinko Project; and with Frances White and Kristin Norderval on an original chamber opera, She Lost her Voice That's How We Knew. The Singing Bridge, another dramaturgy project, opens at Stonington Opera House in July. She thanks The Joyce SoHo for this great opportunity to work with Larry again!

Hapi was born (in a trunk) in Brooklyn. Best known as the emcee of Whispers at The Pyramid Club, he has appeared in numerous downtown performance art, theater, and film productions, He wrote or co-wrote and starred in I Told You These Heels Were Killing Me, Katz, Lincoln, The John Wayne Gacey Story, Cocinando Con Frida Kahlo, Sara Lee Entermann:Undercover Dietician, and My Tiny Life. Thank you, water