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FSU in NYC Faculty
Zach Morris
Zach Morris is a Bessie award-winning choreographer, director, visual artist and the Co-Artistic Director of Third Rail Projects. He is also the organizer and moderator of the NYC Dance Film Lab, a Movement Research teaching artist, and an adjunct instructor for the Florida State University School of Dance’s FSU in NYC program. His work has been seen nationally and internationally at Danspace Project, Joe’s Pub, Abrons Arts Center, Dance Theater Workshop, with the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Sitelines series, Arts Brookfield, and more. He has previously served as the Co-Creator and Co-Director of the Westbeth New Works Program and as the Inter/National Program Associate at Dance Theater Workshop. Zach has a BFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University. Learn more at thirdrailprojects.com
Tom Pearson
Tom Pearson is a Bessie award-winning choreographer, visual artist, writer, and the Co-Artistic Director of Third Rail Projects. He is an adjunct instructor for the Florida State University School of Dance’s FSU in NYC program and has choreographed, performed, lectured and taught for more than a decade both nationally and internationally. He has also received commissions from premiere institutions such as: Danspace Project, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Arts Brookfield, the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama ETC, 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, and others. Pearson’s writings on dance have been published in Dance Magazine, Time Out New York Kids, Dance Spirit and through the Public Theater’s Native Theater Journal and interviews for New York University's Hemispheric Institute. Tom holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. Learn more at thirdrailprojects.com
