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Spring 2008: Rees will be further documenting the Kattaikuttu Theatre School in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India.

Fall 2007: Rees continued to work with 13P on the production Have you Seen Steve Steven by Ann Marie Healey directed by Annie Kaufman at the 14th Y Theatre. She also worked on an Off Broadway production of Amazons and their Men by Jordan Harrison directed by Ken Rus Schmoll at the Ohio Theatre in January 2008. Animations were produced for a dance piece choreographed by Amy Chavasse at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and for Double by Nick Brooke for New Music Festival in Toronto. Dance piece You go when you can no longer stay choreographed by Terry Creach for Joe Poulson was shown at the University of Maryland and at The Kennedy Centre, including live and recorded video projections.

 

Fall 2006: Rees worked on a restaging of Lemkin’s House by Catherine Filloux at the Vital Theatre in New York. She also continued her association with the Kattaikkuttu Gurukulum near Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India, producing video and animations combined with English subtitles, which were projected during the performance of The Milky Ocean. This performance took place at The Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai, India, in November 2006, as part of a festival celebrating 100 years since the birth of Prithviraj Kapoor.


Summer 2006
: Rees will be creating sets for At Said by Gary Winter directed by Tim Farrell at PS 122 produced by 13P; Alice the Magnet by Erin Courtney directed by Pam MacKinnon at the Ohio Theatre produced by Clubbed Thumb; and Millicent Sculworthy by Rob Handel directed by Ken Rus Schmoll as part of the New York Summer Theatre Festival on Theatre Row. She will also be re-staging Farewell by Nugent+Matteson Dance in Miami Beach as part of the Florida Dance Festival; re-staging The Dispute by Marivaux directed by Jean Randich at the Abingdon Theatre, NY City produced by NAATCO; and re-staging Lemkin's House by Catherine Filloux directed by Jean Randich at Vittal Theatre, New York City.

In 2005 Rees created sets, video and animations for the productions of Jabu by Elizabeth Swados for which she was nominated for a 2005 Hewes Design Award and Margo Veil by Len Jenkin (The Flea Theater), The Unknown by Janet Allard/Jean Randich (New York Music Festival), Saviour by Timothy Cooper directed by Ian Morgan (The Culture Project/Women Center Stage), Commedia del Smartass by Sonya Sobieski directed by Jean Randich (New Georges Theater), Aphrodisiac by Rob Handel directed by Ken Russel Schmoll for 13P (Long Wharf Theatre, CT), and A Likeness for Creach/Company (Joyce Soho). Upcoming shows include Fare Well by Jennifer Nugent and Paul Matteson (Danspace Project/St. Mark’s Church), and Lemkin’s House by Catherine Filloux directed by Jean Randich, video projections for Enemies by Amy Chavase (Middlebury College), and later in the year two productions for 13p: At Said by Gary Winter at PS122, and Have you seen Steve Steven? By Ann Marie Healy to be directed by Anne Kaufman.

Bennington magazine, May 2005: Rees designed sets for Aphrodisiac by Rob Handel. The play, which showed at P.S.122 in NYC, was directed by Ken Russel Schmoll with lighting design by Garin Marschall ’00. Rees and Marschall also worked on Jabu, written and directed by Elizabeth Swados ’73, at the Flea Theatre in NYC. In February 2005, she was in Tamil Nadu, India, to document a traditional theater festival.

Swept Away, a video short by Rees, was chosen for the Thailand New Media Festival held in Bangkok in February 2004. She designed the sets for Len Jenkin’s Like I Say at The Flea Theater Tribeca and for The Internationalist by Anne Washburn, produced by 13P at Culture Project in New York City. That play was directed by Ken Russell Schmoll, with lighting by Garin Marschall ’00. Rees also produced a live video feed for Joe Poulson’s dance performance, choreographed by Terry Creach, at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. This year she was an artist-in-residence at Middlebury College’s dance program and at the Vermont Carving and Sculpture Center in Rutland.

Bennington magazine, May 2004: An exhibition at the Fleming Museum in Burlington, VT, featured the work of Rees. Through her inclusion in Ten Vermont Women: Sculpture, Painting, and Craft, Rees is a finalist in the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ From the States program. She also designed the set for the Roxbury Arts Group’s production of Kraken, which was directed by Jean Randich. Garin Marschall ’00 and Adam Sussman ’04 provided lighting design and assistant direction, respectively.

Bennington magazine, September 2003: Rees was part of a group exhibition at the Goethe Institut, and still images from the video pieces were published in ANON magazine. She recently collaborated with filmmaker Fern Sneiden on a film project in Stockholm, Sweden.

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