New London Little Theatre 

Director / Curator of Art by Appointment Bethany Lacktorin, is a performance artist, organizer, media producer and musician. Her practice explores issues and meanings surrounding identity, displacement and our connection to each other through land, place and shared experiences. Expressed as music, sound, story and object, Bethany's work has been presented on stages, galleries and institutions across the US and Europe. A professional audio engineer and sound designer for over 20 years she's earned credit on feature films, documentaries, short films, television and radio. Bethany studied violin at Lawrence University, received her AAS in Music Production at McNally Smith College of Music and her BAFA in Experimental Media at Prague College School of Art & Design.

Cristina Maldonado (1974) is a Mexican artist whose background in body movement lends a unique approach to her visual and conceptual experiments with video, sound, collage and performance. Her work unifies experimental theater, dance, participatory art, new and old media. Her topics are body, communication and intimacy. She creates experiential frames connecting installation, video and live action. She works alone or in collaboration with artists from different disciplines and has recently performed in Mexico, Portugal, Poland, Armenia, Romania, Finland, Cyprus, Germany, Russia and Czech Republic and now in New London, Minnesota, USA.

Dr John Kannenberg, MFA is a multidisciplinary artist whose work investigates the sonic geography of museums, the psychology of collection, the processes of making and observing art, and the human experience of time. John’s work has been presented across the globe including appearances at Tate Modern and the White Cube gallery in London, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Cairo’s 100Live electronic music festival, the First Glance video exhibition in Tripoli, and Neighborhood Public Radio’s American Life project for the Whitney Biennial and now Little Theatre in New London, MN USA.