Adrienne Campbell-Holt (Director) Upcoming: The Long Tail (Gavin Brown/Abrons Art Center, NYC) and Seven Minutes in Heaven (Ars Nova ANT Fest). Recent credits: Three Days of Rain (Amphibian Stage), Sam Marks’ Frogs and Emily Conbere’s Boy. Girl. God. at Williamstown Theater Festival (Director’s Studio), Tunnel to Bang (EdgeFest LA) and Seeds (Elephant Theater, LA), 365 Days/365 Plays (Center Theater Group/Nest Arts at Gallery 727). Adrienne is a recent recipient of the EST/Sloan grant and is currently co-writing an original musical with Emily Conbere.  She co-wrote and co-directed In Communicado at LA’s DIAVOLO Space and Radio Sintesi at The Nest in DUMBO. Adrienne founded the production company Nest Arts in 2002 and produced Nest productions in NY and LA including Joanna Laurens’ The Three Birds (Sam Gold, director). Assistant/Associate credits with director Alex Timbers include: Fat Camp (NYMF), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Public Theater) and The Language of Trees (Roundabout). She has also assisted directors Michael Greif and Roger Rees.  Adrienne was a member of the 2009 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.

Adrienne is also a performer and choreographer. 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 in LA.

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 ThePeace 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 Peque�o, an animated dance film.

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