Inwood Art Works On Air

Jesse Lauter is a rock-doc/concert film director, music producer/engineer/mixer, and DJ. His production credits include artists such as the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Stephen Stills & Judy Collins, and Ben Harper, among others. Jesse directed, produced and co-edited Learning To Live Together: The Return of Mad Dogs & Englishmen about Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour, featuring the la...

Maite Bonilla made her debut as the director, co-writer and lead character in her first short film “La Entreviú.” She won Best Actress, Best Screenwriter and Best Short film for the film at FEMUJER film festival (2019) in her hometown of the Dominican Republic, and won third place in The Dominican Film Festival in New York City (2018). And, her second short film I AM POEM is a recipient of the 202...

Carol Diamond's engagement, and entanglement - with the urban landscape has traveled with her through the various neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Manhattan, developing a lifelong passion for urban forms, spaces, and architecture.   Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Carol received a B.F.A. in Painting from Cornell University and studied at the New York Studio School. She is a tenured adjunct profes...

With over 25 years in the costume and wardrobe world, Erin Brooke Roth has worked in regional theater, summer stock, bus & truck tours, national tours, and has spent the last 13 of those years working on Broadway, and the past 4 in Film and Television. Erin is a graduate of Butler University with degrees in theater & history and received an MFA from the University of Cincinnati College-Con...

KarynRose Bruyning is an award winning writer/director/producer and the “July” in CHRISTMAS IN JULY 1982,(a film and theater production company which she co-found} the produced the hit docu-series, P.OP. which would later be licensed by Mass Appeal and the SMOKE AND MIRRORS web series. She has worked as co-creator/ co-writer for the web series BEYOND COMPLICATED with Andrea Lewis, written/directed...

Joe Foley is an award winning cinematographer who has been working in the industry for over two decades. He has shot eighteen feature films including Killing Time that premiered at Sundance and Dogs: The Rise and Fall of an All Girl Bookie Joint that premiered at Rotterdam. The last two features he completed (The Understudy and Brief Reunion) had successful runs in New York and Los Angeles and are...

Steven Hansen specializes in working for nonprofit organizations and community projects around the U.S. His clients include NBCUniversal Publishing, Comcast, MetroBeat TV, Anythink Libraries, Open Library, The City of Denver, National Audubon Society, The Center for Digital Archeology, and Starbucks. He has also freelanced as a greeting card illustrator, an exhibition designer, and a user-experien...

A 2020 Pollock-Krasner awardee and currently an artist research fellow at the Hispanic Society of Americas, Ana Paula Cordeiro thrives in the communal space. A founding member of the Introspective Collective , in 2018 she co-curated a multi-media installation at The Clemente and co-authored a book about making books titled Bookforms. Originally from Brazil, she does her work at The Center for Book...

Jimmy Delgado is best known for his timbale playing, however he is well versed in all elements of Latin percussion. With a career spanning over 5 decades, he has played with Ray Barretto’s Big Band, Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente, Harry Belafonte, and many others. He has a discography to long to mention, but just released the new single “Algun Lugar Bajo El Sol” this past February, and has a new albu...

Inwood Art Works On Air puts its spotlight on local theatermakers, Leslie and Joe Burby.  Leslie Kincaid Burby is thrilled to be directing live theatre once again as the Covid pandemic (hopefully) winds down. Last fall she directed Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars for Pied Piper Theater of New York, an open-air production in the spectacular outdoor setting of the Audubon Terrace. The p...

Born in New Haven, Connecticut to Sri Lankan immigrants, Dileepan Ganesan is a filmmaker based in Inwood, NYC. His films share a common thread: humanism and love struggling to prevail in an often unforgiving society. He has made one feature film "Sometimes Why," which was selected by the Inwood Film Festival in their Feature Film category and is also a recipient of a grant from Inwood Film Festiva...

Dorkys Ramos is a Washington Heights/Inwood-based writer and illustrator. She writes for various publications both in print and online all the while managing and designing for her stationery company Porcupine Hugs. Her writing has been featured in Travel + Leisure and TravelandLeisure.com, BET.com, Latina and Latina.com, Parents Latina, Time Out New York, Time Out New York Kids, The Manhattan Time...

Sloka Iyengar is a dancer and scientist, passionate about the power of science to change the world for its most vulnerable populations, and the importance of communication to effect that change. She is a practitioner of Bharatanatyam and is interested in using its narrative and storytelling aspects to reach wider audiences. She is also interested in the convergence of arts and sciences and has cre...

Bruce Katz is an architectural, portrait and fine art photographer based in New York City. Working regularly for a diverse clientele over a 40-year career, his work has appeared in Architectural Digest, New York Magazine, Landscape Architecture, and The Washington Post as well as for top hospitality, design and advertising firms throughout the country. Recent NYC gallery exhibitions include SPF 16...

Maggie Clarke is a long-time Inwood resident and is the singer and rhythm guitarist for classic rock cover bands, The Apple Bonkers and The Meetles. She is also a concert and Landscape photographer, and the main concert photographer for the Zombies (band). In her non-musical life, she is a Zero Waste Professional, community environmental activist, founder and President, RING garden on Dyckman Stre...

Marella Martin Koch is an Inwood-based librettist, director, and playwright that has been praised by the press for her “cleverness in constructing humor for opera” (from DC Theatre Scene) for her 20-minute opera Pepito; written with composer Nicolas Lell Benavides, for Washington National Opera at its Kennedy Center premiere in 2019. Marella also wrote the lyrics for Marianne Dashwood, Songs of Lo...

Brandon Stirling Baker is an Inwood-Based filmmaker and lighting designer working internationally in the areas of dance, opera, theatre and film. His lighting can be seen internationally in the repertories of New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and many others. Baker’s work has been presented by major venues includ...

Jeffrey James Keyes is an interdisciplinary writer and artist living Uptown NYC. He is a New York Times best-selling author for  Killer Chef,  which he co-authored with James Patterson. Keyes was the inaugural L’Engle-Rahman Prize recipient for Mentorship through PEN America. His award-winning short film Uniform was featured in over thirty film festivals worldwide and his short 181 was part of the...

Matt Higgins is an original member of the spontaneous theatre troupes Centralia and Burn Manhattan. His improvisation bears the indelible influence of past directors Paul Sills and Shira Piven, as well as teachers Ralph Buckley, Paul Lazar, and Josh Broder. Matt is an Andy Kaufman Award Finalist and his stand-up has appeared on Comedy Central. His TV Credits include: The Jim Gaffigan Show, Late Ni...

Steven Burneson is an independent filmmaker and video production professional based in Washington Heights. He currently serves as head of post production at Red Summit Productions, having created content for clients such as PayPal, Mars, and Walmart. Steven’s upcoming narrative short, Beautiful Strokes, was a 2020 recipient of the Inwood Film Festival Filmmaker Fund. Steven’s first play, Cross Sti...

Born and raised in Washington Heights in New York City, Miguel Mike Medina is a Dominican-American actor, writer, and filmmaker. His acting career began when he performed two One-Act Plays: Poison and The Game while he was attending the City College of New York. Following his graduation, he has directed, produced, written, and starred in multiple short films, including: The Grade, Bittersweet Holi...

Kirby Fields is a neighborhood writer and the Artistic Director of UP Theater Company, which produced his full-length plays K COMMA JOSEPH and LOST/NOT FOUND. His short plays have been featured in the Sam French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, the Gallery Players One-Act Play Festival, and the NY 15-minute Play Festival. His plays have also been produced or developed in Los Angeles, Chicago,...

This is our On Air 2021 Live N’ Local Seasonal Sampler - Volume 2. We’re going to share with you one live selection from each local musical artist we presented in the second half of 2021.   This is less of a greatest hits, and more of a critic’s pick - a mix-tape, if you will, curated by hosts Aaron Simms and Jonathan Bell, with the hope that if you like what you hear, it will prompt you to check...

Filmmaker Carlos Hiciano was born and raised in the NYC tri-state area where he developed an affinity for both film and music. This led him to achieve his Bachelor’s degree in Multimedia Studies from CUNY- Lehman College. He freelances in both production and post-production in film, television, and the music industry; and often works alongside fellow filmmaker and cousin, Alfonso Rodriguez. His fi...

Heather Godfrey has been teaching dance and working with children for over 20 years. After moving to NYC to attend Barnard College where she earned a B.A in Dance, Heather went on to pursue a career in musical theater for nearly 10 years. Highlights of her performing career included the national tour of The Will Rogers Follies, West Side Story, White Christmas, Damn Yankees, and Fiorello! She has...