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Ken Nintzel

Ken Nintzel is a theater artist whose original works include Twas the Night Before the Twelve Days of a Nutcracker Christmas Carol, a mash-up of holiday classics; The Rite of Spring, a re-imagining of Stravinsky’s ballet through the guise of contemporary football culture; Antidepressant, inspired by backstage musicals of the Depression; and Lapse, a year in the life of a comatose woman as measured by holidays. These works have been presented at Cal-Arts, P.S. 122, the Whitney Museum at Altria, and New York University. Nintzel also contributed video material to Richard Foreman’s 2007 work The Bridge Project in Vienna. He is the recipient of a Lambent Fellowship in the arts from Tides Foundation.