Fall Dance

Department of Theatre and Dance 

Daniel Gurskis, Dean, College of the Arts

Kathleen Kelley, Chair, Department of Theatre and Dance 

Artistic and Cast Biographies

Stefanie Batten Bland - (SBB) is a global award-winning director/choreographer who creates proscenium, cinematic, and immersive worlds that answer the quest for belonging. 2025 NYSCA Artist, 2023 Dance Magazine cover artist, 2022 BAM NEXT WAVE commissioned artist, SBB was raised in SoHo when it was led by artists. She interrogates contemporary and historical cultural symbolism – their categories of cultural identifiers and how these identities influence human relationships.

Producer/Director of THE LAST - PHARAOH, Artistic Director of Atelier SBB, Creative Casting & Movement Director for Life & Trust, SBB pioneered the methods which made her Performance-Identity liaison for Sleep No More, and the Artistic Director of the first immersive theatre summer intensive in the USA CONCRETE. She is Associate Professor at Montclair State University and researches boundaries of mixed reality art. @sbb_land.

Jessica DiMauro Marks holds an MFA in Choreography from Jacksonville University and a BFA in Dance from Marymount Manhattan College. Jessica has taught and choreographed for pre-professional and professional dance companies throughout the US. She is on faculty at Montclair State University and Purchase College, and is the Artistic Director for her own company, DiMauro Dance. She is also Artistic Director for the Steffi Nossen School of Dance, a celebrated dance organization, in its 90th Anniversary year (White Plains, NY). She has been on faculty at Marymount Manhattan College and is a frequent guest artist for workshops and intensives including the Martha Graham School and EMIA. Jessica is Certified in May O’Donnell Technique, as well as in Kripalu Yoga. dimaurodance.org

David Dorfman Choreographer and Dance Activist David Dorfman has been making movement-based dance theater since graduating with an MFA in Dance from Connecticut College in 1981, the college where he has been a professor since 2004 and David Dorfman Dance is currently Company-In-Residence. In 1987, he founded David Dorfman Dance in NYC with the intention of creating accessible, politically and socially relevant work. DDD has toured the world from Tajikistan to El Salvador via the State Department/Brooklyn Academy of Music for “Kinetic Diplomacy” and with USAID on Violence Prevention with Youth Dance Groups. David choreographed Broadway’s “Indecent” for which he was awarded a Lortel for its Off-Broadway run and has also received a 2019 USA Fellowship in Dance, a Guggenheim, 4 NEA fellowships and a Bessie. In his copious spare time, he continues to dance profusely with cherished wife Lisa Race and beloved son Samson Race Dorfman. Next up is “The Front Line,” an examination of democracy in the US through the eyes and bodies of poll workers and voters on Election Day 2040, which will premiere at ADF, June ’27, and for which DDD received a Democracy Cycle Commission via PAC/NYC. daviddorfmandance.org

Corinne Lohner is a performing artist and choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Their current work includes explorations of queer transformation, cycles, and departures. Currently, they freelance in NYC with companies like David Dorfman Dance,  Yin Yue Dance Company, Douglas Dunn +  Dancers, and more. Notable past credits include Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and Boston Dance Theater. As a choreographer, they have received residencies and commissions from Green Lung, Conspire, InQUAD Dance amongst others and was a 2025 Performance Project Fellow at University Settlement. They received their B.F.A. in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. They have assisted/co-created work with David Dorfman at Alma College, Muhlenberg College, Girls Preparatory School, and were thrilled to be part of the Montclair State University process.

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd is a Brooklyn based dance artist originally from Albany, NY. He is a 2025 graduate of the DAS Choreography master’s program in Amsterdam, Netherlands. As a performer, he has had the pleasure of working with David Dorfman Dance, Jonathan Gonzalez, Beth Gill, Tere O’Connor, Netta Yerushalmy, Donna Uchizono, Monica Bill Barnes, Joanna Kotze, and more. His teaching practice has brought him to The American Dance Festival, Rutgers University, New York University, University of the Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Gibney Dance Center, and Mark Morris Dance Center. His work has been produced by: Danspace Project, New York Live Arts, BRIC, ISSUE Project Room, LaMama, BAAD!, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and The Center for Performance Research. Lloyd received the 2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, two New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award nominations, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts dance research fellowship, and was listed on Dance Magazine's 2023 “25 to Watch” list. For more head to jordandlloyd.com

Bren Lamb is a senior at Montclair State University majoring in Theatre Studies! They are a double concentration, focusing in Stage Management and Costumes. They are a graduate of County College of Morris, from which they hold an AA. Bren is happy to be making their Montclair PSM debut with this show! Special thanks to Addie & Riley for being amazing ASM's, and to friends and family for coming out to see the show!

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