Genée Coreno

Genée Coreno (Director, Alien Girls) is the Artistic Director of WAM Theatre and founder of Fringe and Fur. She is a director, theater-maker, and arts administrator dedicated to bold, socially engaged, cross-disciplinary storytelling. Selected Theatre Credits Elsewhere: The New York Times-reviewed Madge Love (Theater Mitu’s Artists at Home Residency & The Exponential Festival), described as “a good-looking production… about the connection between sex, violence, and female suffering at the hands of men.” The Hopelessly Hopeless Story of All Good Girls (The Brick Theater), Is This Clear Enough? (The Poetry Project), a workshop of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party (Harlem Repertory), Dutchman by Amiri Baraka (UnUrban Cafe), The Future is in Eggs by Eugene Ionesco (A.R.T. NY workshop), and 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane (Purchase College). Additional Artistic Credits: Genée served as Company Manager for The Public Theater’s first national Mobile Unit tour of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, as well as for Twelfth Night (Under the Radar Festival, Mobile Unit) and the Brooklyn College Play Festival. Her company management work also includes projects with Big Dance Theater, such as Short Form (American Dance Institute, Fusebox, The Kitchen), This Page Left Intentionally Blank (Mass MoCA, CounterCurrent Festival), Cage Shuffle (American Realness Festival, Poet’s House), and 17c. (American Realness Festival). Other: Additionally, she worked in Development at Every Mother Counts, Artistic Associate and Line Producer for Ripe Time’s The World Is Round (BAM Fisher) and a Marketing Intern for Third Rail Projects’ Then She Fell (Art Mill Residency, Art@Renaissance). Selected Training: Genée holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU and a B.A. in Drama Studies from Purchase College. She has trained with Theater Mitu, Song of the Goat, and SITI Company. Connect: www.fringeandfur.org

Alien Girls Creative Team