Creative Capital

Red Dive

Maureen Brennan Huskey: Maureen Huskey (formerly Brennan) is an award-winning theater director based in Los Angeles since 2007. Her work reflects a strong commitment to pursuing a wide range of material, performance styles, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and audience-performer relationships.

Huskey’s work with Red Dive earned her a Bessie Award and her original theater projects in New York have been supported by numerous foundations and residencies including the Jerome Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, New Dance Alliance, The Brooklyn Arts Exchange and the New York State Council for the Arts, among others.

Her directing and collaborative work with dancers and performance artists has been presented throughout New York as well as festivals in Chicago, San Francisco and Vienna, Australia. She has taught at several colleges and universities, holds an MFA in theater directing from California Institute of the Arts, a BA from Western State College in Colorado, and as a Rotary Fellow she received a Diploma with Merit in Drama from the University of Kent at Canterbury in England.

Huskey is an artist leader in Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program.

Ellen Baird: Baird is a dancer and choreographer who has performed at the DIA Center for the Arts and the Mulberry Street Theater in New York City, as well as at New Performance Gallery in San Francisco. She holds an MFA in dance from Mills College, Oakland, CA.

Kerry Lowe: Kerry Lowe joined Red Dive in 2000. Prior to becoming a member she worked with Red Dive as a performer in both Inhabited–Ghosts of Home and Inhabited–Afterlives. Kerry is a writer and performer whose work has been seen at The Present Theater Company, The Red Room, The Irish Arts Center, and the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater. She received her BFA in Acting/Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington.

Ashley Smith: Ashley Smith is a dancer, choreographer, and performer. She is a former Eric Hawkins Dance Company member and co-founding member of the Wellspring Project.