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Idris Goodwin
idris@hermitsite.com
Idris Goodwin is an award-winning play-wright, director, teacher,
documentarian and hip-hop and spoken word recording artist.
In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Idris a Playwright
in Residence grant to explore hip-hop aesthetics in theater. His
play BRAISING was selected in the 2005 National New Plays Showcase
at Stanford University. In 2007 he was awarded the Illinois Arts
Council Ethic Folk Arts Grant.
As a hip-hop and spoken word solo performer, Idris has shared the
stage with renowned poets Sonia Sanchez and Nikki Giovanni, storytellers
Ira Glass and Studs Terkel, and Blues Legend Billy Branch. In 2005,
he released a critically acclaimed self-titled hip-hop CD. Since
then, he's been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and National Public
Radio, as well as in numerous Chicago publications like the Chicago
Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, and Chicago Magazine.
Idris was recently published in the 2007 Spoken Word Revolution
Redux Anthology.
Idris is a frequent guest lecturer, performer and writing workshop
facilitator at prestigious universities throughout the country.
He currently resides in Santa Fe, NM.
Mark
Handley
mark@hermitsite.com
Actor, writer, and musician Mark Handley has officially been with
Hermit Arts since 2003. He has acted in and helped out on numerous
productions including: How to Brandish a Weapon (also co-writer),
Close To Victory, and DangerFace. Mark is owner and operator of
WhiskeyDrunk Records and leader of junk-rock pioneers, SHARK!
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Jonathan Putman
jon@hermitsite.com
Jonathan Putman is an actor, director, writer and co-founder of
Hermit Arts. Since graduating from Columbia College Chicago's theater
program in 2000, Jonathan has performed with numerous local companies
including, Congo Square, XO Theater Company, Prop Thtr, Urban Theater,
and Circle Theater. With Hermit Arts he has been a featured performer,
writer, and director of new plays and performances at The Loop Theater,
Prop Thtr, Freestreet Theater, The Museum of Contemporary Art and
the world premiere production of Idris Goodwin's "Braising"
by Tricklock Theater Company in Albuquerque, NM. A seasoned traveler
and educator, Putman has taught English in the United States, South
Korea, and China.
Brett
Neiman
brett@hermitsite.com
Brett Neiman, a multi-disciplinary artist based in Chicago, has
exhibited his drawings/paintings at the Chicago Cultural Center,
Reynolds Whitney Gallery-NIU, and the David Adler Cultural Center;
his video work screened at Congress Theater, Peter Jones Gallery,
Ice Capades, Empty Bottle and Heaven Gallery; and his projections
and scenery on the stages of Elgin Community College, Tricklock
Performance Space/University of New Mexico, The Loop Theater, Freestreet
Theater, Prop Thtr, and the Chicago Cultural Center.
Brett received a BFA from Northern Illinois University in the mid-nineties.
He was a staff cartoonist at the Northern Star for three years where
he penned a daily comic strip "The Vanity Slums," in addition
to inking cartoons for the editorial staff. Brett has worked in
non-profit arts administration for the past 10 years, and freelances
in graphic design and videography. His clients have included Young
Chicago Authors, Teatro Luna, Kevin Coval, Interfaith Youth Core,
Cool Classics, and the Big Buddy Program/WordPlay teen poetry program
of Baton Rouge.
Neiman is co-founder and director of Hermit Arts, a Chicago-based
performing arts collective and a past contributor to Group312films.
His fine art can be found in private collections in Los Angeles,
Conneticut, Michigan, New Mexico and Illinois.
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