Composer/Playwright
CONTACT: christiandegre@gmail.com

Mexican artist, producer and arts executive Christian De Gré Cárdenas has overseen the opening of over 1,000 new theatrical productions in New York City. He served for 15 years as Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer of the critically acclaimed Mind The Art Entertainment and was the General Manager of The New York International Fringe Festival, the largest multi-arts festival in North America. He is the co-creator of 30 award-winning multi-disciplinary works in partnership with The Public Theater, HERE Arts, La Mama Experimental Theater Club, The Brick, The Discovery Channel, The Armory, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, The Drama Desk Awards and The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York. He is a Yaddo fellow and a SPACE on Ryder fellow and is the creator of the popular musical series “Twisted Operettas” and "A Drink with Death" at Joe’s Pub and Feinstein’s/54 Below. A former activist and theatermaker in Eastern Europe, Northern Africa and the Americas, he served as the Global Outreach Partner for Theater for Social Change with the United Nations Y-Peer Network. He is an alumnus of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and The Broadway League’s Commercial Theater Institute and is an advanced member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. Most recently he served as Director of The National Opera Center in New York City and then subsequently guided OPERA America through the pandemic as its Chief Operating Officer. De Gré Cárdenas is a two-time New York Innovative Theater Award nominee, a National Alliance of Musical Theater semi-finalist and is the recipient of numerous awards in creative excellence from FRIGID New York, FringeNYC, The Lark Play Development Center, Fringe ENCORES, The Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce, The Mexico International Film Festival and The New York Musical Festival, among others. De Gré Cárdenas currently splits his time between New York City, where he serves as Executive Director of the world renowned Heartbeat Opera, and a small town near Mérida, Yucatan, where he is developing new works for opera, theater, cabaret, film & television while quietly obsessing over the bugambilias in his garden.
www.cdegre.com
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Librettist/Poet
CONTACT: joereese623@gmail.com

Joseph Reese Anderson has created projects around the globe using poetic language to promote the ideas of awareness, tolerance, and empathy in ways that combine beauty with accessibility. After attending East Carolina University (double BFA Programs: Professional Acting and Musical Theatre), he moved to New York and was introduced to the world of spoken word and performance poetry. Recent works include Fatty Fatty No Friends (FringeNYC Excellence Award Winner, Innovative Theater Award Nomination, New York Musical Festival Best of Fest Concert, Time Out New York Critic's Pick), Whiskey Pants: The Mayor of Williamsburg (Audience Favorite at FRIGID New York, Showscore Critic's Pick, off-broadway premiere at HERE), Cadence: Home, and Red Sky the Musical. As a writer and lyricist, Joseph’s work has been featured in New York City at world renowned organizations like Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, Feinstein's/54 Below, HERE Arts Center, Intersections International, The Stonewall Inn, and La Mama E.T.C. Joseph is an advocate, ally, and activist and enjoys embracing the themes of inclusion in his work. As an outreach coordinator for St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in NYC, he was able to spread awareness and information to others in concrete and meaningful ways, and even more so when he founded Social Socials: Social Events for Social Causes, which was a direct microfinancing event planning organization that benefited many lives, both domestic and international. Most recently he has founded an artist collective in Raleigh, NC called Capital Moments, where artists are offered a space for workshopping and honing their work, and the opportunity to present their work on stage. His greatest hope is to raise his twin daughters, Jolie and Everly, to be joyful and empathetic humans with a desire to better the world with their talents.
www.www.capitalmomentsnc.com.com
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