Adrienne Campbell-Holt

Adrienne is a performer, director, writer and choreographer. After moving to Los Angeles in the fall of 2004, In Communicado was Adrienne’s debut professional work created and mounted entirely in Los Angeles. This year Adrienne co-directed and choreographed Nest's week of Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays at the 727 Gallery downtown, as well as conceiving of, choreographing, and co-directing Tunnel to Bang, Nest's original dance-theater piece in LA's EdgeFest. Adrienne began choreographing at age 11 at Boston Ballet School and has created over 10 original dance/theater works in Boston, New York and LA. She has worked with companies including The Wooster Group and Gale Gates et al., as well as with Sacred Fools, the Blank Theater, BOOTLEG, Son of Semele Ensemble, Ken Roht’s Orphean Circus, and choreographer Mesha Kussman here in LA. Adrienne's film adaptation of Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red won the Audience Award at the NYC Undergraduate Films Outdoors Festival and she is currently at work on more film projects. In 2005 Adrienne was a HeArt Project artist-in-residence at three Los Angeles continuation high schools. Adrienne also founded Nest Arts, and ran The Nest in DUMBO, Brooklyn before moving to Los Angeles.

Why Nest?
After growing up in a working-class section of Boston Nest founder Adrienne Campbell-Holt grew frustrated with the myriad empty buildings, lots, and warehouses in her neighborhood and saw them as symptomatic of the city’s general disregard for the residents of neighborhoods like hers. Lucky enough to have found many rewarding opportunities for inspiration in art and performance Adrienne developed an interest in how she could share her interests with others and how art could have a positive impact on a wider audience. Adrienne was an Urban Studies major at Barnard College, Columbia University; where she wrote her thesis on the role of artists in community-building and gentrification in the neighborhood of DUMBO, Brooklyn.

Erica Rice

Erica is a director, writer and performer. She co-wrote and directed the interdisciplinary play, In Communicado with Adrienne Campbell-Holt, which premiered at the Diavolo Dance Space in downtown Los Angeles in 2004. Erica and Adrienne also co-directed Tunnel To Bang which was selected to premiere as part of Edgefest, L.A.’s only theatre festival for original, on the fringe theatre. She has worked with Ken Roht’s Orphean Circus, where she performed in and assistant directed Growing With Ghosts at The Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, and assistant directed The Peace Squad Goes 99... at the Evidence Room. She directed Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day at The Friends and Artists Studio, which garnered a Critics Pick in LA Weekly and Backstage West and top ten on reviewer Dink O’Neill’s list of great theatre in 2004. She has worked with companies including Son of Semele Ensemble, Rudy Perez Dance Ensemble, Valley Shakespeare Festival, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. She is a member of the Classical Theatre Lab and Son of Semele Ensemble. She recently played Nellie Bly in a film installation that will premiere at the grand opening of The Newseum in winter of 2007 in Washington D.C. She is currently preparing for her film directing debut, Ballet Pequeño, an animated dance film..