Honor

Suzanne Bocanegra is a visual artist living and working in New York. Bocanegra’s Artist Lecture performances have been presented in museums, galleries, and theaters across the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Hammer Museum, the Pulitzer Foundation, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and in the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Bocanegra is the recipient of numerous awards, including grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2020 she received the Robert Rauschenberg award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2019, a major show of Bocanegra’s work titled Poorly Watched Girls was presented at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Also in 2019, her solo show Wardrobe Test was the inaugural exhibition at ART CAKE, an exhibition space in Brooklyn. Her work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, among others.

Lili Taylor is an acclaimed American actress known for her subtle, deeply felt performances across film, television, and theater. Emerging in the late 1980s independent film scene, she gained recognition for roles in projects such as Mystic Pizza and I Shot Andy Warhol and has since built a career defined by emotional precision and artistic range. Taylor has remained closely connected to experimental and interdisciplinary performance. She collaborates frequently with Suzanne Bocanegra, including originating her roles in Bocanegra’s pieces Farmhouse/Whorehouse and Honor.

Geoff Sobelle is a U.S.-based theater artist devoted to making original actor-driven performance works. His shows include: FOOD, HOME, The Object Lesson, The Elephant Room, all wear bowlers and machines machines machines machines machines machines machines (among others). He has received commissions from BAM, Lincoln Center, Arizona State University, Center Theatre Group, Edinburgh International Festival, and The New Zealand Festival. His shows have been recognized by a Bessie Award, an Obie Award in design, two Edinburgh Fringe First Awards, the Best of Edinburgh Award, a Total Theatre Award, and an Innovative Theatre Award. He is a Pew Fellow and a Creative Capital Grantee. Geoff was a company member of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company from 2001 to 2012. He trained in physical theater at the Lecoq school in Paris and is a graduate of Stanford University.