Lenora Champagne (www.lenorachampagne.com) has been making work as a performance artist, playwright, and director since 1981. In 2012-13 she lived five months in Tokyo as a Fulbright Fellow to Japan and in Spring 2013 she had a month long residency at the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy, where she wrote I.C., inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and her recent visits to Japan and Italy. She has received 2 NYFA Fellowships and 3 NEA's, NYSCA funding, and has been in residence at the MacDowell and Yaddo. In 2012, she performed her solo Memory's Storehouse as part of Tiny Lights, a collaboration with Lizzie Olesker, at Invisible Dog Arts Center and at the New Ohio. In 2013, she performed in 600 Highwaymen's The Record and an excerpt of I.C. at AUNTS. Champagne's most recent work at Dixon Place was a work-in-progress showing of her play Staying Afloat. Her publications include Out from Under: Texts by Women Performance Artists (TCG, 1990),and Performance Research, Performing Arts Journal, The Iowa Review, Women and Performance, Chain. She is a member of PEN American Center and is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Purchase College, SUNY.
