Banana Bag and Bodice

BANANA BAG & BODICE IS...

	Jason Craig is Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Banana Bag & Bodice. His primary roles in the company include writer, performer and set designer/technical director. His work with BBB has won him awards nationally and internationally. He has been commissioned as a writer by The Exit Theatre to write Gogol: A Clown Opera, which he adapted along with Sean Owens and Dave Malloy, and also commissioned by Mallory Catlett of Juggernaut Theatre to write Oh What War which was presented at Here Arts Space, September 2009. As a performer, he has worked on various productions outside of BBB, working with such companies as Gale Gates et al, foolsFURY, Misery/Loves Company, Inverse, Radiohole , The Exit Theatre and Shotgun Players. He has trained with the SITI Company and received a BA (hons) in Architecture from Hull University, England.

	Jessica Jelliffe is Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Banana Bag & Bodice currently residing in NYC. Primary roles include performing, costume design, direction, company management and production management. Additional performing credits include Oh What War and As You Like It (NYC) directed by Mallory Catlett, Valparaiso, Attempts On Her Life, and Jacques and His Master (foolsFURY Theater, SF), the final production of gALE gATES et al, History of the World Pt IV (NY), and Gogol: a clown-opera (Exit Theater, SF). Training includes: The American Conservatory Theater, the SITI Company and Butoh and Kyogen performance styles under Shinichi Iova-Koga and Jubileth Moore respectively.

ALONG WITH

	Peter Blomquist is an independent film maker with creative partner Jeff Wiens. Together they are Franco & Billy LLC. Peter also makes it.

	Mallory Catlett is a director and dramaturg working in theater, opera, dance, and installation art. Recent projects include RED FLY/BLUE BOTTLE & OH WHAT WAR. Other company affiliations include: Latitude 14, Juggernaut Theatre Company NYC, Restless NYC and Restless YVR in Vancouver. Her work has been funded by Rockefeller MAP Fund, the Greenwall Foundation, NY State Council for the Humanities, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, The Strickland Family Foundation, NYSCA, The Hamber Foundation, ArtsFact, the Puffin Foundation, Bel Geddes, Digital Performance Institute, LMCC, British Columbia Arts Council & the Canada Council for the Arts.

	Miranda k Hardy light designer also makes shadow events, drawings and experiments in tiny food. Recent projects include Beowulf: A Thousand years of baggage with Banana Bag & Bodice, Red Fly Blue Bottle at HERE Arts Center, Problem Radical(s) with Object Collection, Untitled Mars (this title may change) with Jay Scheib and Ko’olau with Tom Lee. Having toured with the Builders Association’s Supervision all over and Porgy & Bess in the UK, she has begun to take her own designs on the road with The Sewers[BBB] in San Francisco and Dublin IR, Untitled Mars in Budapest HU, and Beowulf [BBB] in NYC from its Will Glickman Award winning premier in Berkeley CA. Productions she has designed have been honored HMS Pinnifore Drama Desk nomination, The Cenci Henry Hewes nomination, The Sewers Best Production Dublin Fringe. She has designed 6 Ontological Hysteric Theater Incubator shows, participated in 3 Incubator one night performance events and is now very proud to be a primary artist in the Incubator Short Form series Spring 2009. A recent drawing series features the Monster vs the Panda and will be viewable online soon. She is a founder and Co Artistic director of tinyelephant a performance collective dedicated to the performing object and pursues continuing artistic relationships with Banana Bag & Bodice, Mallory Catlett, TENT, Object Collection, Tom Lee, and Hoi Polloi. Miranda holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.

	Rod Hipskind brings his experience as a freelance photo stylist and art director, actor and director to his continued ensemble collaborations with Banana Bag & Bodice. He resides in San Francisco having graduated from SF State University with a double emphasis in acting and directing. Most recently he directed the Best of San Francisco Fringe production, Turn of the Screw with foolsFury Theater. Acting credits with fF include, Michael Majeski in Don Delillo's, Valparaiso and as Lorko Levic in the U.S. premiere of The Devil on all Sides. As artistic director of the now defunct underground ensemble Wit's End, he adapted George Buchner's Woyzeck touring to Montreal in 1998. He recentley completed the scenic design for the West Coast premiere of Charles Mee's Gone for Crowded Fire Theater Company.

	Peter Ksander works with a slew of other artists like the Theater of the Two-Headed Calf, TENT, Jay Scheib, Richard Foreman, Compagnia de' Colombari, designing things and making art and making events, and sometimes he makes stuff under the name of tinyelephant which is pretty funny looking and sometimes he makes collages too. (MFA from CalArts)

	Dave Malloy is a composer/musicaldirector/pianist/performer /sound designer working in NYC and the Bay Area. He is a 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant recipient and a mean raccoonist. He has been the music guy for Banana Bag & Bodice since 2002; other recent highlights include Clown Bible, an original musical (#1 Play of the Year, Best Music, East Bay Express 2007), and (The 99 Cent) Miss Saigon with Ten Red Hen, Bride at PS122 (Time Out New York Best of 2008) and California Shakespeare Theater's The Merry Wives of Windsor (Best Sound Design, 2006 Bay Area Critic's Circle). www.davemalloy.com

	Heather Peroni has just started her own holistic health counseling business with clients across the country, has happily discovered landscaping/gardening and has honed her skills at some of the best restaurants/bars in SF, NYC and Nantucket, has worked with such talented people/companies such as Gillian Chadsey, Nate Weiss, Misery/Loves Company and the sketch comedy group Old Man McGinty, is a part time assistant swim coach, she rides her bike without a bike light, lives only steps from the beach and most importantly, she is currently learning to play the bass guitar.

AND ALSO
	Mary Archias Sarah Engelke Jamie McElhinney Ed McKeaney Casey Opstad Morgan von Prelle Pecelli and many many others.