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Ariel Luckey, Performer, Playwright, Producer
Ariel Luckey is a nationally acclaimed poet, actor, and playwright whose community and performance work dances in the crossroads of education, art, and activism. Named a “Visionary” by the Utne Reader, Ariel seamlessly weaves storytelling, spoken word poetry, dance, acting, and hip hop music in compelling narratives of personal and political transformation. Born and raised in Oakland, California, he has been a featured artist at the North Bay Hip Hop Theater Festival, the Hecho en Califas Festival, Café Cantante in Havana, Cuba, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City, the White Privilege Conference, and the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity. Ariel’s hip hop theater show, Free Land, and his first book of poetry and lyrics, Searching for White Folk Soul, have inspired and informed audiences at theaters, conferences, community centers, and classrooms across the country. Ariel sees his community work in the world as an extension of his most precious and important work as father to his two sons.
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Margo Hall, Director, Dramaturg
Margo Hall is an award winning actor/director/playwright. She recently directed Sonny’s Blues, by James Baldwin for San Francisco based company Word for Word which toured France. She co-directed Bulrusher with Ellen Sebastian Chang, a new play by Eisa Davis, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Margo recently received rave reviews in Jessica Hagedorn’s Fe’ in the Desert as the title character Fe’. She has performed for Arena Stage, Olney Theater, and Source Theater, in Washington, D.C., the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and locally at American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Magic Theatre, Brava! For Women in the Arts, and Word For Word. She is a founding member of Campo Santo, a resident theater company at Intersection for the Arts, which celebrated 11 years in 2007. Her acting credits for Campo Santo also include the world premier of Naomi Iizuka’s Hamlet: Blood in the Brain, Stairway to Heaven, by Jessica Hagedorn, 17 Reasons (Why) a world premier by Naomi Izuka , floating weeds, a world premier by Philip Gotanda, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, by Jose Rivera, Bethlehem by Octavio Solis, Polaroid Stories, by Naomi Izuka, and Hurricane, by Erin Cressida Wilson. She has toured France with Word For Word as Missie May in The Gilded Six-Bits by Zora Neale Hurston, and Oceola in The Blues I’m Playing by Langston Hughes.
She debuted as a Director with The World Premiere of Joyride (a co-production between Word For Word and Campo Santo) from the novel Grand Avenue by Greg Sarris, which was the Bay Area Critics Circle Winner for Best Original Script; the SF Weekly Black Box Awards for Best Production, Best Ensemble, Best Director; Drama-Logue Awards-Northern California for Best Production, Best Ensemble; the Backstage West-Garland Awards- Northern California for Best Production, Best Ensemble, and the Bay Guardian GOLDIE Award Winner for Stage, and directed Mission Indians, a new play by Sarris, with Nancy Benjamin. She CO-Directed Erin Cressida Wilson’s award winning The Trail of Her Inner Thigh with Rhodessa Jones. She also directed Hotel Angulo, by Luis Saguar, Sam Shepard’s Simpatico for Campo Santo. She directed Alice Munro’s Friend of My Youth for Word for Word, the triumphant Funnyhouse of a Negro for Intersections Directions and SPUNK, The Trojan Women, It Falls and Ragtime for Chabot College.
Margo completed her first writing project in April 2005 with the World Premier of The People’s Temple at Berkeley Repertory Theater, which won the Glickman award for best new play in the Bay Area for 2005. She was a part of a collaborative team of four writers who used interviews of survivors, and archival material to form a play exploring the People’s Temple movement and the tragic ending at Jonestown. The play went on from Berkeley Rep. to The Perseverance Theater in Juneau, Alaska and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Margo is also part of the acting ensemble.
Margo received her MFA from Catholic University in Washington DC, and in her spare time enjoys teaching theatre at Chabot College and the Alternative Theater Institute at Intersection for the Arts.
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Ryan Luckey, Composer, Sound Designer
Ryan Luckey, an Oakland-bred pianist and producer, composes music to enliven the senses and create harmony amidst the chaos. His mix of bumping beats and intricate harmonic layers creates a soundscape that has depth and texture, a blend that bridges the realities of today with our dreams for tomorrow. Ryan is currently traveling the world in an experiential education university program, studying the intersections between environmental consciousness, spiritual vision and practice, and holistic health. For more news and music, check out www.myspace.com/rhythmatticproductions.
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Octavio de la Paz, Visual Artist
Octavio De La Paz Echeverria Hernandez was born in Santa Cruz Del Valle, Jalisco Mexico. At the age of three his family moved to Northern California and settled in the city of Napa where he grew up and lived until age 24. He received a B.A. in Visual Arts from U.C. Santa Cruz where he studied Oil Painting and Ceramic Sculpture. His work has appeared in several group and solo shows in art spaces throughout the Bay Area including Napa Valley Arts Council, STUDIO 17, Corazon Del Pueblo, La Peña Cultural Center, Somarts Gallery, Cell Space, Balazo Gallery, and The June Steingart Gallery at Laney College. Octavio De La Paz is an arts educator and is a founding member of STUDIO 17 in Oakland Ca. For more information, write him at octavioivatco@hotmail.com or check out www.myspace.com/octavio_de_la_paz.
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