Thomas Bartlett

Thomas Bartlett, also known as Doveman, is an American pianist, producer, and singer. He has released four solo albums as Doveman, four albums as a member of The Gloaming, duo albums with the composer Nico Muhly and the hardanger d’amore player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, and “Shelter,” an album of solo piano compositions. As a producer, Bartlett has worked with a range of notable artists, including Yoko Ono, St. Vincent, Norah Jones, and many others. “Mystery of Love,” a collaboration with Sufjan Stevens for the soundtrack to Call Me by Your Name, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. Bebel Gilberto’s “Agora,” produced, engineered and mixed by Bartlett, was nominated for Best Global Music Album at the 2021 Grammys, and he also contributed to Taylor Swift’s “evermore,” and Rufus Wainwright’s “Unfollow the Rules,” both nominated that year. Since 2018, Bartlett has worked closely with Florence Welch on a musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Laurie Anderson is a writer, director, composer, visual artist, musician and vocalist who has created groundbreaking works that span the worlds of art, theater, experimental music, and technology.Anderson has created numerous multimedia stage performances, published ten books, and been nominated for five Grammy awards.Her visual work has been exhibited globally, with her largest solo exhibitions to date recently displayed at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.In 2024 she received aLifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy.

Peter Hale is the literary executor of the Allen Ginsberg Estate and has managed Ginsberg’s legacy since his death in 1997.

He is on the board of the Harry Smith Archives, and The Committee on Poetry, Ginsberg’s non profit of writers in need. He has BA in Classics from the Uniersity of Colorado, & studied piano with Peter Barbieri, and guitar with Dave Van Ronk, and Danny Kalb.

Jesse Goodman is a producer and curator working across music, film, and performance, bringing together artists, institutions, and audiences through interdisciplinary collaborations and live events.

He has worked closely with the Allen Ginsberg Estate since 2002, when he helped spearhead the launch of AllenGinsberg.org. With Peter Hale, he co-produced The Fall of America Vol. I & II, internationally collaborative music projects created for the 50th anniversary of Ginsberg’s landmark poetry collection.

With Hale, Goodman is producing the international Ginsberg Centennial (2026–27), a global program spanning poetry, music, film, and performance.

He previously served on the board of the Henry Miller Library, where he curated a long-running series of benefit concerts with leading artists. He also serves on the board of advisors for the OBON Society and Prague Project.

Bio to come.

Mary Ellen Stebbins (Lighting Design) is a New York City–based lighting designer whose work spans theater, dance, opera, music, and live events. Collaborations include MCC Theater, Primary Stages, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theater, Opera Philadelphia, Juilliard, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Pittsburgh Opera, as well as artists and creators such as Theresa Rebeck, Clare Barron, A$AP Rocky, Adrienne Truscott, Monica Bill Barnes, CYI Studio, and American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*.) Recent highlights of her work include the lighting design for a 2023 performance at the Mammoth Cave by the Louisville Orchestra and Chamber Choir, featuring star cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Shimmer and Herringbone with Talking Band in their 50th season. She was a 2020 Bessie Award Honoree for her work on Monica Bill Barnes’s Days Go By and received a Henry Hewes Award nomination for her lighting design for Clare Barron’s I’ll Never Love Again. Her additional honors include the Opera America Tobin Director-Designer Prize, Live Design’s Young Designer to Watch, the USITT Barbizon Lighting Design Award, and a Hangar Theatre Lab Company Design Fellowship. Mary Ellen holds an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.F.A. from Boston University. She is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and currently teaches at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. www.maryellenstebbinsdesign.com

David A. Schnirman (Sound Designer-Mix engineer). David is excited to be coming back to Little Island this season and working with the fabulous Mx.Bond. Last summer, David worked on the Litte Island production of “Arthur Russel, Platform on the sea” with Thomas Bartlett. David designed the sound for Justin Vivian Bond’s “Flaming September” performances at St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn. He also worked on the concert version of Rufus Wainwright’s “Opening Night “at the Town Hall in Manhattan. David has collaborated on sound with many musicians including : Lara Downes, Gogo Bordelo, Ollabelle, Amy Helm, Rosanne Cash, Peter Wolf , Laurie Anderson, Ahnoni, Lou Reed, Rhiannon Giddens, David Byrne, Ornette Coleman and producer Hal Wilner to name a few. David Has designed productions for The New York Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Syracuse Stage, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Spoleto festival. He also teaches live sound engineering at Ramapo college of New Jersey. David is looking forward to coming back to Little Island latter this season for Thomas Bartlett’s celebration of Allen Ginsberg.

Broadway: King Lear with Glenda Jackson. Off Broadway/Regional: Hamlet (National Theater London at BAM); The Seat of Our Pants, Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp, The Vagrant Trilogy, The Outer Space, The Great Immensity, The Apple Family Plays (NYSF/Public Theater); Grief Camp (Atlantic Theater Company); We Are Your Robots (TFANA); Find Me Here, Deep Blue Sound (Clubbed Thumb); Helen (En Garde Arts); Half-God of Rainfall (ART, NYTW); The Jungle (St.Ann’s Warehouse, STC); Becky Nurse of Salem (LCT); Hamlet & Oresteia (Park Avenue Armory); runboyrun, In Old Age (NYTW); The Courtroom (Waterwell). BA: Barnard College.