Thomas O. Kriegsmann

Thomas O. Kriegsmann is the Director of Programs at New York Live Arts, a venue for the development of new, innovative work in movement-based performance, and the founder of ArKtype, a management and production agency supporting emerging and established domestic and internationally based artists. His work includes projects with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Brook, Yael Farber, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, Ohad Naharin, Lisa Peterson, Jay Scheib, Julie Taymor, and Tony Taccone. For three seasons he produced the Ringling International Arts Festival in Sarasota, Florida and recently presented Big Dance Theater/Mikhail Baryshnikov's Man In A Case, the US premiere of Nalaga'at Deaf-Blind Theater's Not By Bread Alone, and Andrew Ondrejcak & Shara Worden's You Us We All. Kriegsmann's current collaborations include work with 600 Highwaymen (Brooklyn), Rude Mechs (Austin), Andrew Ondrejcak & Shara Worden (Brooklyn/Detroit), Theatre for a New Audience (New York), and Baryshnikov Productions (New York). In 2015, he served as an LOI panelist in Performance.