Banana Bag and Bodice

BIOS

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 Gogol: a clown-opera (Exit Theater, SF), 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 Oh What War and As You Like It (NYC)directed by Mallory Catlett. 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 makes films with Jeff Weins, together they are Franco and Billy LLC and the independents, and he is writing a new bio for being posted here and so as soon as he does there will be more information about him for you to read about.

	Mallory Catlett directs and dramaturgs for other theater, dance, opera and installation art projects such as her own work Oh What War which just closed at HERE Artspace in October 08, Red Fly Blue Bottle to perform in April 09, Screaming Flea in Vancouver, Juggernaut Theatre Company NYC, Restless NYC and Restless in Vancouver.

	Miranda Hardy makes shadow events, draws things, tours with The Builder's Association, experiments in tiny food, hangs lightplots and Jillwork at St. Ann's Warehouse, drafts things, tells old/new stories, is a focus specialist for theatricals and tracklights, assists designers, finds images, learns Italian, is a company member TENT and tinyelephant, takes pictures of the robot in compromising positions, rigs things, and made a Manga, oh and she has an MFA from CalArts.

	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 works with Ten Red Hen (Clown Bible, {The 99-cent} Miss Saigon) Shotgun Players (Beowulf, Cabaret), Hoi Polloi (Dysphoria), mugwumpin, The Exit Theater, and a bunch more. He won a big fancy Bay Area Critics Circle Award, Best Sound Design 2006, for The Merry Wives of Windsor at California Shakespeare Theater. He music directs high school musicals. And he's got mean pants on.

	Jamie McElhinney just recevied the 2007 - 2009 NEA/TCG Career Development Grant Program for Designers, was the Technical Manager for the the International Tour of "SuperVision" by The Builder's Association, is the Sound Director for the International Tour of "Must Don't Whip Um" by Accinosco, a part time Audio Engineer for Dizzy's Club Coca Cola inside Jazz at Lincoln Center, is a Co-founder and collaborator with the performance group TENT, and a freelance sound and video consultant and Designer for: St. Ann's Warehouse, New York Theater Workshop, The Ontological Hysterical, PS-122, STREB, and others (MFA from CalArts), and just got married!

	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, Casey Opstad, G. Lucas Crane, Sarah Engelke, and many many others.

AND EVEN
	all of our very lovely supporters without whom our shows would not have been / be possible to join this illustrious list just go to our contribute page!
	Bananas (total gifts = $1-$250) Ieva Aldins Jesica Avalone Conor Bastable Patrick Duggan Kayla Fell Douglas Filmore Sandra Garner Alicia Harding David Herskovits Ryan Jensen Lisa Lee Christine McHugh John McNally Dan Novy Joshua Polacheck Jason Ries & Karen Krolak Zebu Recchia Josha Rubin James Andrew Shaver Simon Sinek Shannon Sindelar Elizabeth Spreen Ariana Truman Nathaniel Weiss Christopher White Willie White Bags (total gifts = $250-$750) Norene K Jelliffe Bodices (total gifts = $750+) Sian Clark and the Yahoo! Global Impact Matching Gift Program Sue Jelliffe Bridget Suttle Mental Insight Foundation &s (in-kind) Sarah Brown The Best The Builders Association Christina Campanella Michael Casselli and NYTW Brian Coleman Collapsable Giraffe Jennifer Wright Cook Andrew Dinwiddie and Jeff of the Catch Series Alec Duffy Robert Elmes of Galapagos Artspace Ivan Evangelista of Warren St. Studios Doug Filamina Nicole Ganas Eileen Goddard Joshua Higgason Hooker Owen Hughes Nick Jaeger and Brenna Thomas Ryan Jenson Ryan Karels Bill Kennedy and Aaron Rosenblum of St. Ann's Warehouse Brian Lilienthol Arwen Lowbridge of Fractured Atlas Corey McAbee Miklem and Ms. Danielle Laura Mroczkowski Jeff Nash Ontological-Hysteric Summer Interns 05 and 06 Performance Space 122 and all of its staff Kelly Rae Powell Radiohole Risa Shoup of chashama Nathan Salsburg Mark E. Smith Scott Sowers Sfoglia Restaurant Jeff Sugg Marty Tuber Kara Tyler Morgan von Prelle Pecelli Jeff Weins Jay Wegman and David Bonilla of Henry Street Settlement/Abron Arts Center

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