Cleo Reed 
A student of Black underground sound and intention, Cleo Reed (née Ella Josephine Julia Moore) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice uses participatory art, music composition, instrument-making, bandleading, installation, and fabric arts. Raised in Uptown NYC and DC, Reed’s history with music starts with classical training in percussion at Harlem School of the Arts, to playing guitar and songwriting in the influential New York punk band Pretty Sick, to studying sound engineering and sound design at Berklee College of Music. Since releasing their debut album Root Cause in 2023—including a limited physical release with Vinyl Me, Please—Reed has emerged as a bold, rising talent, forging forward while staying firmly rooted in their ancestral and cultural lineage.

Reed’s sophomore LP CUNTRY (released July 17, 2025) is a sprawling folk-electronic offering exploring the rage that comes with grappling with the grips of labor — both on the body and in the American workplace. A double LP, Side A pulls influence from the canon of American work songs — blues, soul, folk, and country. Side B, sonically dystopian and electronic forward, references the format with a more rap-centric approach. The dueling sides symbolize the binary, as well as the opposing forces represented in Reed’s New York City upbringing vs. her family’s southern roots.

The album is just the beginning of the story, as Reed prepares for a theatrical performance as a part of their residency at Abrons Arts Center slated for Spring 2026, and plans to tour the album and installation with national dates to be announced. CUNTRY is Reed’s statement of purpose — introducing a young, visionary artist with a singular voice and an unwavering commitment to honoring those that came before while subverting the status quo. @cleoforshort

Nazareth Hassan — Director, Co-Writer 
Nazareth Hassan is a writer, director & musician. Performance and theater works include Practice at Playwrights Horizons, Bowl EP at The Vineyard Theater, Untitled (1-5) at The Shed (text published by 3 Hole Press), VANTABLACK at Theatretreffen Stückemarkt in Berlin, Security Theater at Judson Memorial Church, and Memory A at Museo Universitario del Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City. Their first interdisciplinary book, Slow Mania, will be published in 2025 by Futurepoem. In 2022-2023, they were the dramaturg at the Royal Court Theatre in London. They were a 2023–25 Jerome Hill artist fellow and the 2024-25 Tow Playwright in Residence at The Vineyard Theatre. www.nazarethhassan.com 

Chanel Stone — Choreographer 
Chanel Stone is a performer, producer, choreographer, creator, and skater based in Brooklyn, New York. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, she moved to NYC in 2015, where she experienced Black community in dance for the first time. She received a BFA in dance 2019 from LIU Brooklyn. In Fall of 2019, she performed with the Donna Uchizono Dance Company at The Joyce Theatre NY Quadrille. In January 2020, Chanel joined Company XIV and starred as the lead in 4 productions since. While with Company XIV, Chanel began performing in many nightlife venues such as House of Yes, House of X, Somewhere Nowhere and The Stranger where she was rehearsal director for the Core Dancers. She is also a member of the burlesque dance collective: The Painted Ladies. In April of 2021, she became a Resident Artist with Triskelion Arts where she was able to begin the process of undoing and unlearning physical and mental trauma caused by body colonization. Chanel’s first solo show, (inner)bloom premiered in September of 2021, which coupled live performance, art, and film. As Resident Artist, Chanel partnered with Triskelion Arts in presenting Beyond the Black Box- an event and organization founded by her in Spring 2022. Beyond the Black Box (BBB) is an arts & culture organization that is dedicated to celebrating, honoring and healing the Black dance community by building connections and educating people through experiences. Beyond the Black Box has produced 10 events since founding, including a Juneteenth party at House of Yes and a four night event series at Triskelion Arts. As a collective BBB has choreographed five original works that have been presented at Trisk. Chanel danced with Big Dance Theatre and performed “The March” at The Perelman Arts Center choreographed by Annie B Parson, Donna Uchizono, and Tendayi Kuumba. Chanel made her musical theater debut in The Color Purple at Pittsburgh CLO performing the role of Olivia as well as the dance captain for the production.  In addition to performing and creative producing, Chanel works as a movement director & choreographer for musicians such as Anna Wise and Cleo Reed. 

Dyer Rhoads — Scenic Designer 
Dyer Rhoads is an artist, director, and designer. Dyer has designed stages for Kayla Farrish and Cleo Reed and conspires with celebrated inclusive puppet company Pussypaws Puppetry. He runs a gallery and project space in Walpole, Maine currently known as the Walpole Ontological Lab and Farm (W.O.L.F) and is a guest artist with Spindleworks. Dyer is a founding member of Social Security and frequent collaborator with Nile Harris. Their work together has been featured at The Public Theater, Abrons Arts Center, The Shed, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Performance Space New York, and The Serpentine Gallery.  

Matthew Jamal — Performer 
Matthew Jamal is a New York–based performance artist and composer whose interdisciplinary practice merges sound, movement, and visual mediums. Fresh off a six-month world tour with Madonna as featured cellist and dancer, Jamal is completing his debut album. From the ages of 14-18, he was primarily a street performer improvising through use of live looping and double bass in Washington DC and New York. Now, his career includes collaborations with Benjamin Clementine, Obongjayar, J’Nai Bridges, Jason Moran, and Jacob Jonas The Company. As a composer and producer he's worked on albums by Annahstasia, Cleo Reed, and Cktrl. His work has been featured at major events such as the Newport Jazz Festival, Free Arts, the Gucci Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival, and covered by the likes of Vogue Ukraine, Vanity Fair and Notion Magazine. Rejecting genre as a limiting label, Jamal describes his music as queer, fluid and non-conforming. He holds a BM in Classical and Jazz Double Bass Performance from the Manhattan School of Music.

Anna Wotring — Lighting Designer & Director of Production
Anna Wotring is a community-minded dance artist, designer, and production stage manager, dedicated to the practice of collaborative leadership. As the Director of Production at Triskelion Arts, Wotring shapes programming that makes production design accessible to movement artists, whether they're starting to explore an idea or deep in research. Trisk serves as a home, allowing artists to materialize their production vision and find imaginative pathways around and through tangible possibility. Wotring holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the Five College Dance Department in Western Massachusetts. She has had the privilege of working with a wide range of dance artists and organizations, including Alvin Ailey Studios, Annie Heath, Attack Theater, Ballet Des Ameriques, BalletNext, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, the Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh, Dance Place, H2O Contemporary Dance, Jennifer Nugent, Lauren Horn, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, New York Live Arts, the Pillow Project, Prayers of the People, RoseAnne Spradlin, Scapegoat Garden, slowdanger, Time Lapse Dance, and many others. Wotring is deeply grateful and honored to be working, imagining, and making magic with the Trisk team and community.