{"id":809,"date":"2019-06-09T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=809"},"modified":"2020-08-18T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T21:58:11","slug":"brian-rogers","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/brian-rogers\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Rogers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Brian Rogers <\/b>is a director, filmmaker, video and sound artist, and co-founder and artistic director of The Chocolate Factory Theater, which supports the creation of theater, dance, music, and multimedia performances at its 5,000 square foot facility in LIC, Queens. Since 1997, Brian has conceived and\/or directed numerous large scale films and performances at The Chocolate Factory and elsewhere, including <em>Screamers<\/em> (Abrons Arts Center, 2018 \/ Baryshnikov Arts Center, 2019),\u00a0 <em>Hot Box<\/em> (September 2012, co-presented with FIAF\u2019s Crossing The Line Festival \/ January 2013, PS122\u2019s COIL Festival \/ February 2013, EMPAC Center, Troy NY \u2013 supported by a MAP\u00a0 Fund grant), the Bessie-nominated <em>Selective Memory<\/em> (July 2010, Mount Tremper Arts \/ September 2011, The Chocolate Factory \/ January 2011, PS122\u2019s COIL Festival), and<em> the horror the horror <\/em>(Movement Research Festival 2011, Abrons Arts Center \/ 2012). Brian recently composed the soundtrack for Shaun Iron &amp; Lauren Petty\u2019s film S<em>tanding By: Gatz Backstage,<\/em> and he has collaborated as a sound and video artist with numerous experimental dance and theater artists in New York and elsewhere. In addition to his own work, Brian curates The Chocolate Factory&#8217;s Visiting Artist Program (now in its 15th year), which supports the work of more than 100 theater, dance, music, and multimedia artists each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Rogers is a director, filmmaker, video and sound artist, and co-founder and artistic director of The Chocolate Factory Theater, which supports the creation of theater, dance, music, and multimedia performances at its 5,000 square foot facility in LIC, Queens. Since 1997, Brian has conceived and\/or directed numerous large scale films and performances at The [&hellip;]","protected":false},"featured_media":867,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}