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Idris Goodwin
www.idrisgoodwin.blogspot.com
Idris Goodwin is an award-winning play-wright, director, teacher,
documentarian and hip-hop and spoken word recording artist.
In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Idris a Playwright
in Residence grant to explore hip-hop aesthetics in theater. His
play BRAISING was selected in the 2005 National New Plays Showcase
at Stanford University. In 2007 he was awarded the Illinois Arts
Council Ethic Folk Arts Grant.
As a hip-hop and spoken word solo performer, Idris has shared the
stage with renowned poets Sonia Sanchez and Nikki Giovanni, storytellers
Ira Glass and Studs Terkel, and Blues Legend Billy Branch. In 2005,
he released a critically acclaimed self-titled hip-hop CD. Since
then, he's been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and National Public
Radio, as well as in numerous Chicago publications like the Chicago
Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, and Chicago Magazine.
Idris was recently published in the 2007 Spoken Word Revolution
Redux Anthology.
Idris is a frequent guest lecturer, performer and writing workshop
facilitator at prestigious universities throughout the country.
Mark
Handley
mark@hermitsite.com
Actor, writer, and musician Mark Handley joined
Hermit Arts in 2003, after running tech on Braising (2001). Performance credits include How to Brandish a Weapon (also co-writer),
Close To Victory, the DangerFace Trilogy, and most recently, Action Spectacular. Mark is owner and operator of
WhiskeyDrunk Records and leader of Noble Avenue sound pioneers, SHARK!
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Jonathan Putman
jon@hermitsite.com
Jonathan Putman is an actor, director, writer and co-founder of
Hermit Arts. Since graduating from Columbia College Chicago's theater
program in 2000, Jonathan has performed with numerous local companies
including, Congo Square, XO Theater Company, Prop Thtr, Urban Theater,
and Circle Theater. With Hermit Arts he has been a featured performer,
writer, and director of new plays and performances at The Loop Theater,
Prop Thtr, Freestreet Theater, The Museum of Contemporary Art and
the world premiere production of Idris Goodwin's "Braising"
by Tricklock Theater Company in Albuquerque, NM. A seasoned traveler
and educator, Putman has taught English in the United States, South
Korea, and China.
Brett
Neiman
brett@hermitsite.com
www.brettneiman.com
Brett Neiman is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Chicago, He works hard. He designs shows. And builds sets (you'd need your toes to count them), And creates video to project into them. He designs the handbills and programs. He runs sounds and lights, and on occasion, will act. Those credits include Sidewalk Ettiquette, Sox P*rn and Roses, and Danger Face (2008).
Brett's experimental video work has been screened at Congress Theater, Peter Jones Gallery, Empty Bottle, Heaven, and MegaWords in Philadelphia. He's also done set and scene for Elgin Community College, University of New Mexico, and Hell in a Handbag Productions.
Brett is a recovering non-profit arts administrator from the City of Chicago.
A freelance videographer/photographer, editor, and designer,
A painter,a sailor, a baker and a carpenter.
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