THE BLIND
Presented by #STILLHERE ONLINE [tix link]
conceived & created by Mia Rovegno + Jeanette Yew

music composition – Alaina Ferris
sound design – Jane Shaw | music mix – Leah Shaw
production design consult – Gabe Evansohn
Featuring: Alaina Ferris, Andrew Garman, Chad Goodridge, Aviva Jaye, Matt Korahais, Angel Lin, Tony Torn

The Blind is an immersive audio/visual meditation journey adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck’s 19th century symbolist play Les Aveugles. This dream allegory of a leaderless people grappling with fears of a rapidly changing environment and an unknown future holds a timely mirror to our current economic and environmental crises amplified by a global pandemic.

Wearing headphones, audiences are immersed in a journey through the senses as a hypnotic and disorienting landscape of sound, object, light, animation and shadow puppetry invokes an intimate meditation on our current human condition. For optimal viewing, wear headphones in a darkened room.

Excited to announce I’ve been invited to be a resident artist in The Public Theater’s 2020-22 Devised Theater Working Group.

Video selections from ELEVATOR will be featured in this year’s digital Under The Radar Festival.

The live performance of ELEVATOR will premiere at The Public Theater in Under the Radar Festival 2022.

Learn more about ELEVATOR

Check out our ELEVATOR Work-In-Progress video presented by BRIC

In residence for 2 weeks in a Catskills studio shooting + creating The Blind, a new audio/visual work premiering virtually at HERE Arts Center in December.

Join us for a pandemic-friendly video iteration of ELEVATOR developed through the ONEBRIClab Performing Arts Residency now available to view at BRIC. (run time: 22min)

Written by Mia Rovegno
Created in Collaboration with Tahir Karmali + Liz Thys

Featuring Starr Busby || Daniel K. Isaac || Ben Beckley
Edited by Tyler Jensen ||  Sound by Roman Chimienti

Check out our panel discussion on algorithmic justice, power, biases and discrimination in venture + tech, and the value of artistic expression. Panelists include Jenny Gerow, BRIC Curator of Contemporary Art; Lisa Nash, IDEO Data Scientist; Sean Green, Arternal Founder and CEO; and Wendy Xiao Schadeck, Northzone Ventures Principal.

Spent 2 weeks at BRIC shooting a socially distant pandemic-friendly video iteration of ELEVATOR. First time back in a studio since February 2020.

Excited to announce I’ve been awarded a Catwalk Residency to develop a new audio/visual meditation adaptation project, The Blind, with my collaborator Jeanette Yew.

Excited to announce I am a recipient of the 2020 ONEBRICarts Performing Arts Residency to develop ELEVATOR, a new multimedia performance in collaboration with Tahir Karmali + Liz Thys. Read about the work HERE.

My recent production of Miami Motel Stories (Juggerknot), a site-specific, immersive production reflecting on the undercurrent of histories in an iconic motel slotted for imminent construction and development, was named in Vogue Magazine’s Cultural Guide to Avoiding Art Basel and Inphantry’s Best Brand Experiences and Activations at Art Basel and Miami Art Week 2018 and was just featured in American Way Magazine. Read more about the show here.Watch the trailer:

Excited to announce I am the 2017-18 recipient of the Drama League Directing Fellowship in Film and Television, during which I will shadow director Eric Stoltz on the Season 5 season opener of CBS’s Madam Secretary.

I direct this 2 week residency workshopping TOGETHER by Ally Collier

as resident artists of Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor 6/4-6/18
Original music by Heather Christian
Sound design by Dan Kluger