Biography
Faye Driscoll was hailed as "1 of 25 to watch out for in 2008" by Dance Magazine. Her recent work, 837 Venice Boulevard, was named "one of the top 5 dance shows of 2008" by the New York Times. Driscoll’s video flip book dance, Loneliness, was featured in Younger Than Jesus the first edition of the New Museum’s new signature triennial in which fifty select artists from twenty-five countries are presented. Driscoll began creating There is so much mad in me this summer through a commission from the American Dance Festival and has continued it’s creation through the support of residencies at Kaatsbaan, University Settlement and The Joyce SoHo.
In addition to creating her own work, Driscoll is inspired by her collaborations with several theater artists. She is currently choreographing for Cynthia Hopkins new show, The Truth: A Tragedy, premiering at Soho Rep in 2010. Recently she directed and choreographed for Taylor Mac's 5-act epic extravaganza, The Lily's Revenge, a sold-out hit at HERE Arts Center in October 2009. In the recent past she choreographed for Jennifer Miller's Cracked Ice, the National Theater of the United States of America's Chautauqua! and Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment and Church.
Driscoll is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Joyce SoHo, was a member of the HERE Artists Residency Program 2007-2009 and a BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange Artist-in-Residence 2005-2007.
Driscoll was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers, performed extensively with Yasmeen Godder and was choreographic assistant to David Neumann in his creation of The Common Foreign Language of the Red-Haired People with Mikhail Baryshnikov. She holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School for the Arts.
photo (c) Sophie Morner