About Katie Faulkner:
Originally from North Carolina, Katie Faulkner received her MFA in dance performance & choreography from Mills College in 2002. Since graduating from Mills, Faulkner has performed the works of Bill T. Jones, Randee Paufve, Stephen Petronio, June Watanabe, Victoria Marks, Abigail Hosein, Kim Epifano and Ann Carlson. She has worked with several of these choreographers as a dancer with AXIS Dance Company, with whom she performed both locally and nationally from 2003-2007. She has enjoyed teaching students of all ages and abilities around the country and at institutions such as Santa Clara University, Marin Ballet, University of California, Berkeley, and Mills College and she is currently on faculty at the University of San Francisco, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, and ODC.

Faulkner’s choreography and film work have been presented by the Renaud-Wilson Dance Festival, the WestWave Dance Festival, Hampshire College, Motion Pictures, the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts’ Dance IS Festival, the Oakland Dance Festival, 8x8x8, ODC Theater and the Monterey Dance Festival. She has been commissioned to choreograph works for the Mills College Repertory Company, Kate Mitchell & Dancers, AXIS Dance Company, the University of California, Berkeley, the Erika Shuch Performance Project, and the University of San Francisco Dance Ensemble and has received support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the Theater Bay Area CA$H Grant. She has been awarded residencies with the Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Marin Headlands, the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, and will be in residence at ODC Theater from 2009-2011. She was an Isadora Duncan Dance Award (Izzie) nominee in Visual Design with collaborators Benjamin Goldman and JC Earle for her 2008 trio, ‘The Dry Line’, and she received a Special Izzie Award with Benjamin Goldman for her 2008 dance film ‘LOOM’ . She was nominated for an Izzie in the category of Music/Text/Sound for her musical performance in Manuelito Biag’s 2009 ‘Terra Incognita’ and she recently received the top prize for her duet “Until We Know For Sure” in the Joyce Theater/ ODC Theater A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2011 competition in San Francisco.

About Michael Trigilio:
Michael Trigilio is a multimedia artist living in San Diego. Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, he received his B.A. in Humanities from the University of Texas at San Antonio. His fear of religion notwithstanding, he was ordained as a lay-ordained priest in the Zen Buddhist Tiep Hien Order (Order of Interbeing) in 1997, a role from which he resigned five years later. He received his M.F.A. from Mills College in 2003. Michael's work is inspired by material that balances sarcasm and prayer, giving rise to works that examine religion, humor, narcissism, and demystification.

Michael is a founding member of the independent radio project Neighborhood Public Radio which was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial exhibition. This work in public-practice/public-culture/public-sonification will be hosted in a three-month residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles in the Spring of 2011. Michael's work in video, sound, and radio has been presented in many venues nationally and internationally, notably the Anthology Film Archives in New York, Southern Exposure in San Francisco, the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, and recently in a commission for an interactive soundwork for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Michael teaches courses in Media Arts and Sound at UC San Diego.