Stage Door

About the Artists

Larry Keigwin (Artistic Director/Choreographer) is a native New Yorker, choreographer, and curator who has danced his way from the Metropolitan Opera to downtown clubs to Broadway and back. Keigwin is celebrated for his electrifying and refreshing vision of dance that embodies a theatrical sensibility of wit, style, and heart. He founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY (K+C) in 2003 and as artistic director, Keigwin leads the company as it performs at theaters and dance festivals around the world on myriad stages including the Kennedy Center, the Joyce Theater, New York City Center, and others. Keigwin has created 40 works for K+C, including the large-scale community project Bolero, which has been commissioned in 16 communities nationwide.

Commissions include the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Royal New Zealand Ballet, and the Martha Graham Dance Company, among others. Keigwin’s work in musical theater includes Tales of the City (2011) at ACT in San Francisco and off-Broadway’s Rent, for which he received the 2011 Joe A. Callaway Award. In 2013, Keigwin choreographed Broadway’s If/Then, starring Idina Menzel. Keigwin has choreographed special events including Fashion’s Night Out: The Show, which was produced by Vogue and featured 150 of the industry’s top models. 

Keigwin is also the director of dance and a co-founder of the Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls, CO, a multidisciplinary festival designed to increase cultural opportunities in the region. Keigwin is also the dance editor of ArtDesk, a quarterly publication devoted to contemporary art, dance, performance, and thought. He is on the board of Hudson River Park Friends. 

Nicole Wolcott (Choreographer) splits her time between Brooklyn and Missoula, MT. In 2003 she co-founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY. She continues to work with Keigwin on independent projects for Broadway, Off-Broadway, dances on film, and large scale community works. She directs GLUE, a platform for working artists to collaborate, teach, perform, and share in peer-to-peer learning as part of the evolution of an artistic voice. The throughline of her independent work of the last 12 years is her collaboration with sound designer, philosopher, and friend Omar Zubair. Rooted in improvisation, they create hyper-live dance theater performances with whimsy and aplomb. Wolcott has been in show business for over 30 years. This fact astounds her. In that time she danced in the rural and the chic. She was a cultural diplomat for DANCE USA in Africa and a creative movement teacher for toddlers. She was part of creating shows from a major motion picture, the Metropolitan Opera, and Broadway to a small dry patch of earth near an ant hill on a ranch in Texas and her favorite: CBGB’s, the home of Punk Rock. She has been in the ensemble and she has been the star. She loves dance.

Andrea Lodico (Producer) is a New York City–based producer and arts administrator with 20 years of experience. Lodico is also a registered yoga teacher and teacher trainer, teaching at studios across NYC and leading retreats and trainings around the world. She integrates her decade of yoga and mindfulness training into her work daily, providing a nurturing and supportive container for artists to chart their path forward. The hallmark of Lodico’s career has been shepherding the careers of artists from emerging to new stages of growth, including Dance Heginbotham, Gallim, managing Andrea Miller’s yearlong residency as artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and most significantly, in partnership with Larry Keigwin at KEIGWIN + COMPANY for more than 15 years. Lodico has been featured on panels at Capacity Interactive’s Digital Bootcamp, Dance/USA’s annual conferences, Dance/NYC Town Halls, and more. She has served as a mentor through Dance/USA’s Institute for Leadership Training and was a member of Dance/USA’s board of trustees and chair of the Managers Council from 2013 to 2016. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA from Connecticut College in 2004, where she danced with choreographers including Dan Wagoner, David Dorfman, Jeremy Nelson, and Heidi Henderson. Prior to joining KEIGWIN + COMPANY, Lodico worked in development at New York City Center, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, and City Parks Foundation. 

Omar Zubair (Sound Designer), after writing his first book, Disorientation Therapy, in 2007, found that the closer to the core of being he looked, the more blurry it became, so he began to listen to it, instead. And ever since, listening has become his primary compositional technique—whether creating a theatrical score for the Wooster Group or building a sound installation for a national historic landmark, whether sound designing for a blind choreographer so that she can continually orient toward the audience or improvising with a dance class at Juilliard to coax authentic movement out of each student, whether making music to help people grieve at a funeral or celebrate at a wedding. He lets the ear hear twice before acting once. He has helped found composer collectives across the globe in order to promote radical empathy and empower active listening.

Joe Naftal (Lighting Design) is a designer for theater, dance, opera, and themed entertainment. Selected credits include Oliver, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Area Stage Company), The Monster Mash (Holiday World Theme Park), and pieces for Larry Keigwin, Christina Lynch Markham, Robin Becker, Jennifer Archibald, Catherine Murphy, Amy Marshall, Yoshito Sakuraba, Jesse Obremski, Robbie Cook, Rachel List, and many more. Naftal has remounted the lighting for repertory pieces for Paul Taylor Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre, Washington Ballet, Philadelphia Ballet, Nevada Ballet Theatre, Alberta Ballet, and Robin Becker Dance. Naftal is a proud member of United Scenic Artists. www.josephnaftal.com.

Luke Simcock (Costume Designer) has been the director of costumes for the Juilliard School for 21 years. Additional theatrical credits include the Alley Theatre, American Stage Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Boston Ballet, Berkshire Theatre Group, Cedar Lake Ballet, Lincoln Center Festival, Chicago Dancing Festival, Finnish National Opera, Joffrey Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Theater Chemnitz Ballet, Poznan Opera House Ballet, Hungarian State Opera Ballet, and The Shed. Design credits include Semper Fidelis, Episode 31, Smorzando, Hubbub, Thanks for Sharing—Starburst Commercial Trilogy, My Price Point, I Can Only Come So Far, Parallel Lives, A Christmas Story, Uncle Bends: A Home-Cooked Narrative, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Backstory, and The Trojan Women. Film credits include 4:44 Last Day on Earth and I Am My Own Mother. lukesimcock.com.

Andy Dickerson (Production Designer) currently serves as the production manager with College of the Arts Performance Operations at Montclair State University.  He has also served as a production manager with New York Times Live, technical director with Performance Space New York, and technical director and resident lighting designer with Triskelion Arts.  He has had the great fortune to work as a lighting designer with many professional and amateur dance companies in New York and throughout the country.  

Randi Rivera (Production Stage Manager) is a native New Yorker from the Bronx. She has been a freelance stage manager and lighting director since 2009, working both in NYC and on the road. A few favorite colleagues include Tina Satter and Half Straddle; Dance Heginbotham; Harlem Stage; Faye Driscoll; Doug Elkins Choreography, Etc.; Sidra Bell Dance New York; the Chocolate Factory; Andrew Schneider; Ivy Baldwin; Cathy Weis; Gallim Dance; Sean Donovan; Phantom Limb Company; The Kitchen; and Ballez. Rivera served as associate director for the Broadway run of Half Straddle’s Is This a Room in 2021. She has been working with KEIGWIN + COMPANY since 2012 and is thrilled to be on Larry + Nicole’s team once again. All of her work is for her family.

Dancers

Anaya Colon, from Blackwood, NJ, is a highly trained dancer in a variety of styles, including modern, contemporary, jazz, hip hop, and ballet. Colon is a 2023 college graduate from Hofstra University in Long Island, NY, where she received her BFA in Dance. At Hofstra she received training in ballet, a range of different modern techniques, and choreography as well as maintained training in commercial styles on her own time. Colon got to work with many different NY-based choreographers and instructors including William Isaac, Max Stone, Amy Marshall, Christina Lynch Markham, and Janis Brenner, and New York is where she met and trained with Larry Keigwin. Colon now continues to teach and choreograph while also training and performing in NYC to pursue a career as a professional dancer.

Maria DeSario began her competitive and foundational dance training in Massachusetts starting at the age of three. DeSario continued her dance education, receiving her BFA in Dance at Hofstra University. Through Hofstra, DeSario performed in works by Doug Varone, Larry Keigwin, Yoshito Sakuraba, William Isaac, Amy Marshal, and Liz Gerring. DeSario is now living in New York City, continuing her career in dance performance and choreography. DeSario has been seen dancing with KEIGWIN + COMPANY. DeSario has worked with choreographers such as Theresa Stone, Chase Hudson, and Alex Mitchell performing at Kiss My Face and Night of Life in New York City. 

Caitlin Sheppard attended Hofstra University where she performed in works by Seán Curran, Doug Varone, Karla Wolfangle, Maxine Steinman, and many other choreographers. Her choreography premiered at the 2012 and 2013 American College Dance Festival Galas. After graduating, she worked with OB||HB, KEIGWIN + COMPANY, Amy Marshall Dance Company, and Tonya Pinkins. Her Equity regional theater credits include Peter Pan and A Fireside Christmas. Domestic tours include Chuggington LIVE and three seasons with Sesame Street LIVE. She is currently a company member with Amy Marshall Dance Company and performs in night life benefit shows for Leg Up on Life.

Victoria Strata-Bell is a New Jersey native and a summa cum laude BFA Dance graduate from Montclair State University. She was accepted to the Limón Dance Company’s professional training programs on scholarship under the direction of Kathryn Alter and Colin Connor where she performed restaged works of José Limón’s masterpieces. Strata-Bell has been a performing artist with KEIGWIN + COMPANY, Freespace Dance, Brian Friedman’s Performance Project series, Daniel Fetecua Productions, mishiDance, and IndoRican Multicultural Dance Project. Strata-Bell is currently a dance educator and choreographer for multiple dance studios in the Tri-State area, a touring dance competition judge, and a masterclass teacher with Man in Motion.