Draft:Thomas O. Kriegsmann (ArKtype)

Thomas O. Kriegsmann is a Brooklyn-based producer of theater, multi-disciplinary performance and film. He began his production company ArKtype in 2005, and has since produced and premiered over 30 works live performance works.

In 2022 he produced and premiered 32 Sounds, a sonic immersive "live cinema documentary" written and performed by Sam Green, with music composed and performed live by JD Samson. The work was called "one of the most blissful moviegoing experiences I’ve ever had… playful and profound…It’s the greatest documentary you’ve ever heard” by David Fear in Rolling Stone, and was awarded three Cinema Eye Honors for Best Feature, Best Score for JD Samson, and Best Sound Design for Mark Mangini, and shortlisted for an Academy Award. In addition to its live format, the work was distributed in cinematic form by Abdorama across North America and Europe, including a ten week run at New York City's Film Forum, following live cinema iterations at the Fisher Center at Brooklyn Academy of Music.

In 2018 he produced and premiered TRIPTYCH (EYES OF ONE ON ANOTHER) based on the work of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in partnership with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, composed by Bryce Dessner, featuring Roomful of Teeth, with libretto by korde arrington tuttle and featuring the poetry of Patti Smith and Essex Hemphill. TRIPTYCH explored the work of the photographer through the lens of its African-American subjects via Tuttle's deeply personal view of the contradictions and inherent racism in Mapplethorpe's deification of the Black body, often eluding its humanism. It premiered as a concert version conducted by Sara Jobin with co-commissioner LA Philharmonic at Disney Hall in Los Angeles on March 5, 2019, followed by the full theatrical world premiere with co-commissioner and lead producing partner University Musical Society at the Power Center of Ann Arbor, MI on March 14, 2019. Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) was Dessner's first major theatrical work, and among the only rights granted for use of Mapplethorpe's images in performance.

In 2019 he co-founded the Creative and Independent Producer Alliance (CIPA), which grew with the support of the Mellon Foundation out of producer forums instigated by Kriegsmann dedicated to the state of new work development in the US and the experimental producers' role therein. This resulted in the creation of the New Work Development Network, a nationwide plan of partnership across the Presenter Network for the edification and support of new, non-profit based work, currently in process.

From 2009 - 2011 he produced the Ringling International Arts Festival in Sarasota, FL on the campus of the Ringling Museum in collaboration with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Artists commissioned and presented included Elevator Repair Service, Peter Brook, Compagnia Maria Pages, Aszure Barton, Forman Brothers, John Jasperse Company, Mikhail Baryshnikov and more. In 2023 he became Producer of the 19th Edition of the Under the Radar Festival in New York City following its cancellation by The Public Theater and Artistic Director Oskar Eustis the prior year. The 19th edition of the international experimental performance festival was presented in citywide format for the first time.

Born on December 8, 1974 in Summit, New Jersey, he has two children Georgiana Genet "Gigi" Kriegsmann (b. 2005) and Raja Kriegsmann (b. 2015), and one step-daughter Evelyn Gallagher (b. 1996). He has been married to Shanta Thake since 2014, and is the grandson of photographer James J. Kriegsmann.

LIST OF PRODUCED WORKS

No. 001 World/Inferno Friendship Society’s ADDICTED TO BAD IDEAS: PETER LORRE’s 20th CENTURY, Directed by Jay Scheib (World Premiere - Peak Performances, Montclair, NJ, October 2008)

No. 002 The Farber Foundry’s MoLoRa, Adapted and Directed by Yael Farber, Market Theater, Johannesburg, SA (World Premiere, Market Theatre, Johannesberg, SA, March 2008)

No. 003 Peter Brook’s THE GRAND INQUISITOR featuring Bruce Myers, From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Off-Broadway Premiere, Adaption by Marie-Hélène Estienne, Directed by Peter Brook (Fall 2008)

No. 004 IN PARIS (A Play) starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Adapted from the short story by Ivan Bunin, Direction and Adaptation by Dmitry Krymov (Spring 2011)

No. 005 Phantom Limb’s LEMONY SNICKET’S THE COMPOSER IS DEAD, Directed by Tony Taccone (World Premiere, Berekeley Rep, CA, Fall 2011)

No. 006 Phantom Limb’s 69°S., Co-Conceived by David Harrington / Kronos Quartet, Directed by Sophie Hunter (World Premiere, ArtsEmerson, Boston, MA, Fall 2012)

No. 007 Jay Scheib’s WORLD OF WIRES, Adapted and Directed by Scheib after the film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World Premiere, The Kitchen, New York, NY, Jan 2012)

No. 008 Nalaga’at Theater’s NOT BY BREAD ALONE (US Premiere), Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY (Jan/Feb 2013)

No. 009 MAN IN A CASE, from two short stories by Anton Chekhov, Adapted and Directed by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar/Big Dance Theater, featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov (Feb 2013)

No. 010 Aaron Jafferis & Byron Au Yong’s STUCK ELEVATOR, Directed by Chay Yew and Produced in Association with ACT, San Francisco, Festival of Arts & Ideas / Long Wharf Theater, New Haven, CT (June 2013)

No. 011 Dayna Hanson’s THE CLAY DUKE, Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, Holland & On the Boards, Seattle (Workshop Premiere, August 2013; World Premiere, December 2013)

No. 012 Jay Scheib’s PLATONOV or THE DISINHERITED & “THE DISINHERITED” (Live Performance Cinema Simulcast), Adapted and Directed by Jay Scheib, La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA & The Kitchen, New York, NY (October 2013 & January 2014)

No. 013 Mikel Rouse & Ben Neill’s THE DEMO (Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Feb 2014)

No. 014 Denis O’Hare & Lisa Peterson’s AN ILIAD, Touring Version (Fall 2013)

No. 015 Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen’s HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC: BASED ON THE WRITINGS OF LESTER BANGS, Written by Jessica Black & Erik Jensen, Directed by Jessica Blank (October 2015, Under the Radar Jan 2018)

No. 016 Sam Green’s THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS (w/ yMusic & Todd Griffin / Brendan Canty / Catherine McRae), Written and Directed by Sam Green (Spring 2014)

No. 017 Andrew Ondrejcak and Shara Worden’s YOU US WE ALL, in collaboration with Baroque Orchestration X, designed and directed by Andrew Ondrecjak (June 2014)

No. 018 Aaron Jafferis & Byron Au Yong’s TRIGGER (World Premiere: March 2017 @ Virginia Tech’s Moss Arts Center; April 2017 @ MDC Live, Miami, FL; May 2017 @ International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, CT)

No. 019 Peter Sellars & Regg Roc’s FLEXN, in collaboration with members of the FLEXN community (September 2015)

No. 020 Live Ideas: MENA/Future – Cultural Transformations in the Middle East North Africa Region (Feb-April 2016)

No. 021 Andrew Ondrejcak’s ELIJAH GREEN, Written, directed and designed by Andrew Ondrejcak, Choreography by John Jasperse, Soundscape by Kristin Worrall, Additional music by Shara Worden (June 2016, The Kitchen, NYC)

No. 022 Sam Green + Kronos Quartet’s A THOUSAND THOUGHTS, Written & Directed by Sam Green, Featuring Kronos Quartet (Spring 2018)

No. 023 Kaneza Schaal + Christopher Myers’ CARTOGRAPHY, Created by Kaneza Schaal & Chris Myers (World Premiere - Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, January 2019)

No. 024 Bryce Dessner’s TRIPTYCH (EYES OF ONE ON ANOTHER) featuring Roomful of Teeth, with Libretto by Korde Arrington Tuttle and Direction by Kaneza Schaal (Concert Version: LA Philharmonic, Feb 2019; Full Theatrical Version: University Musical Society, Ann Arbor, March 2019)

No. 025 John Cameron Mitchell’s THE ORIGIN OF LOVE featuring Amber Martin (Feb 2019)

No. 026 THIS IGNORANT PRESENT from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, featuring Scott Shepherd, Directed by Paul Lazar (April 2021)

No. 027 Sam Green’s 32 SOUNDS, score by JD Samson, written, performed and directed by Sam Green (World Premiere, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University, CA)

No. 028 John Cameron Mitchell + Amber Martin’s CASSETTE ROULETTE (July 2022 World Premiere - MASSMOCA, North Adams, MA)

No. 029 nora chipaumire’s NEHANDA (September 2022 World Premiere - Peak Performances, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ; New York City Premiere - Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.)

No. 030 Sufjan Stevens & Justin Peck’s ILLINOISE (Workshop Premiere, Bard Summerscape, NY, July 2023; Press Premiere, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago, IL, February 2024)

No. 031 600 HIGHWAYMEN + Talking Band’s THE FOLLOWING EVENING (January 2024 World Premiere, Perelman Performing Arts Center, New York, NY)

No. 032 Penny Arcade’s THE ART OF BECOMING (Workshop)

No. 033 Bryce Dessner + Kaneza Schaal’s UNTITLED OCEAN VUONG PROJECT (Summer 2026, World Premiere)

No. 034 Sam Green's UNTITLED TREES DOCUMENTARY PROJECT in collaboration with Rebecca Solnit, live orchestral score composed by Gabriella Smith, and live band score composed and performed by Yo La Tengo. (World Premiere, June 2026)

No. 035 Lars Jan’s ROAM (2025-26)

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