Composer
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- Alternative name
- Avi A. Amon
- Other works"Unseen" directed by Evren Odcikin at Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2021) "Mlima's Tale" directed by Shariffa Ali at St. Louis Rep. (2020) "The Copper Children" with Shariffa Ali at Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2020) "Stew" with Zora Howard and directed by Colette Robert Soho Rep. (2019) "The Black History Museum" directed by Zoey Martinson at HERE Arts Other Credits: "Salonika" (Berkeley REP) and "The White City" with Julia Gytri (Yale Institute, O'Neill NMTC), and several sound installations in a 100-year-old grain silo in Buffalo, New York (w/ Torn Space Theater, featured at the Prague Quadrennial). Avi's composition and sound-design work has also been developed or presented by Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ars Nova, Atlantic Theater, BAM, The Civilians, Edinburgh Fringe, JACK, Juilliard, Lincoln Center, La Mama, Playwrights Center, Prospect Theater, and Spoleto Festival USA, among others. In development: "Heroine's Guide" with Claire Kiechel (Spotify/Gimlet), "Rated Black" with Kareem Lucas (Woolly Mammoth), and "Inshallah/Mashallah": a 3-D-audio opera re-imagining of the 1,001 Nights (Target Margin Theater). He is a DGF Thom Thomas Prize, Jonathan Larson Grant, and New Music USA Grant-winner; a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a commissioned member of the NNPN Bridge Program, and has been an Artist in-residence with: Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, THEatre Accelerator, Goodspeed Musicals, Princeton, Exploring the Metropolis at JCAL, Hi-ARTS, Judson, New Dramatists, and Weston Playhouse, among others. Avi is the resident composer at the 52nd Street Project and teaches a variety of collaborative art-making courses at NYU Tisch.
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