Company
Dodeska Performance Ensemble integrates theater, sound, music and technology to create innovative performance works designed to activate the spectator. Founded by Robert Quillen Camp in 2003, Dodeska has created several full length site-specific works including DAYS OF RAGE (2004), an audio performance piece that follows several ill-starred would-be successors to the Weather Underground (originally performed in a Manhattan apartment, then re-created at Temple University, at a church in Chicago, and in a luxury apartment in Chicago (produced by the Third Coast International Audio Festival & The Illinois Humanities Council), THE OPRICHNIKI (2004) a site-specific theater piece for an audience wearing headphones set in a former factory in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and ALEXIS POLEDOURIS AND BIRDS (2005) an experiential performance in which audience members are given mp3 players with a unique, synchronized soundtrack providing a guide to navigate and interact with Alexis Poledouris' world, a SoHo loft infested with giant immigrant bird puppets., Dodeska has created a series of short transportation-themed performance operas, collectively titled FIELD TRIP (2003-2007), which have been performed at the Bowery Poetry Club, Little Theater at Tonic, The Makor, Dixon Place, and at ACA Galleries in NYC. Dodeska takes its name from Akira Kurosawa's 1970 film, Dodeskaden , in which Rokkuchan, a mentally handicapped boy, propels an imaginary trolley car through a slum shouting his made up onomatopoeic word for the sound the trolley makes: "Dodeskaden! Dodeskaden!"

Creator
Robert Quillen Camp 's work (aside from his work with Dodeska) has been seen at HERE (NYC), The Empty Space (Seattle), the Constant Theater (Portland), the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Brown and Columbia Universities. He recently collaborated on two productions with the Obie award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company, as the writer and sound designer of PAY UP (Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, 2005), and as the writer of CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN (Philadelphia, 2007). He was nominated for a 2006 Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play for PAY UP, performed at Montclair State University (3/08). Variety wrote that PAY UP "entertains with high theatricality while provoking with serious ideas," and the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote, "...if you go to the brilliantly conceived and executed [Pay Up] I can guarantee you'll get your money's worth.... It's going to be the runaway hit of the festival." Philadelphia Citypaper called CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN, which will be performed at the Ohio Theatre in NYC in Fall 2008,   "...a surprising success, a beautifully realized but abstract meditation." His plays and play-like texts have been published in the literary journals Conjunctions (Bard College), Chain (Temple University), Conundrum, Factorial, and Play A Journal of Plays. He is on the editorial staff at Paper Theatre, where he is editing DEVICE, an online journal of theater. His play TURNTABLE was awarded the 2000 Portland, OR Drama Critics Circle award for Best New Work, and was recently cited by Willamette Week as one of the Top Theatrical Events in Portland of the past seven years. He was a Lucille Lortel playwriting fellow at Brown University, where he received his MFA.

Performer
Ryan Eggensperger is an actor and monologist whose work has been met with critical acclaim all over North America. Frequently garnering comparisons to John Leguizamo, Anna Deavere Smith, and Eric Bogosian, his 'edgy, funny, and uncensored' solo, "Completely Satisfied Men," has been produced five times since 2002, was rated five stars by Eye Magazine (Toronto), and won "Pick of the Fringe" at the 2005 Boulder Int'l. Fringe Festival. As an actor, he was called 'a confident and generous performer with an exciting angry streak' (NOW magazine, Toronto), won numerous awards (Best Actor, Westport Young Playwrights Festival, 1994; Honorable Mention, National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, 1996; Best Actor, Conn. Drama Association, 1996, Best Ensemble, NYC Fringe Festival, 2004) and has worked professionally in theater, film, and TV since 1992. Ryan has trained with David Mamet's Atlantic Theater Company at NYU, the Peoples' Improv Theater (NYC), avant-garde theater legends Lee Worley and Barbara Dilley at Naropa University, and has taken master classes with Lynn Redgrave and William H. Macy. In 2006, was awarded a residency (with collaborator Krista DeNio) at CounterPULSE in San Francisco. Ryan resides in SF, where, in addition to writing and performing his own work, he is a member of the Dodeska Performance Ensemble.

Composer
Alec Duffy wrote the music for Robert Quillen Camp's play "Alexis Poledouris and Birds."  In 2005, Duffy received the chashama A.R.E.A. Award for his original musical, "Liberty and Cruise Ship: A Study in Revolution (DangerShip!)."  As his alter ego, The Gentle Troubadour, he has been featured on NPR and was the resident songwriter for Theaters Against War (THAW). He is a playwright and director, and is the Artistic Director of the theater company Hoi Polloi. The Ontological Theater presented Hoi Polloi's Dysphoria as part of their 2007 Summer Residency.  Duffy's play The Top Ten People Of The Millennium Sing Their Favorite Schubert Lieder was produced at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and the Bank Street Theatre in NYC, and was recently published in the collection Plays and Playwrights 2006 , edited by Martin Denton. Duffy was selected by The Drama League as one of four directors nationally to be awarded the Drama League Directing Fellowship and was also recently selected for the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors.

Co-Director
Alexis Poledouris Born and bred in LA, Alexis has lived and directed in Portland, Seattle, London, and NYC. She has directed or co-directed many of Robert Quillen Camp's plays, including the award-winning Turntable, Ariadne and the Bull , and Kissing Booth (Kaboom!) (Constant Theater, Portland, OR) Bad to Worse:a history play (Columbia University and Smash Club, NYC) Babette Torquemada (HERE American Living Room) and The Oprichniki (with the Dodeska Performance Ensemble) Other credits in NYC include: All This Beautiful Life (The Production Company/chashama); Baby Face by Ashlin Halfnight (Electric Pear Productions/walkerspace); Momma by Edith Freni (PS122, Best of the Boroughs Festival); God's Waiting Room by Ashlin Halfnight (Performance Lab115/ FringeNYC at PS122, awarded "Best Play," toured to The Merlin Int'l. Theater, Budapest, Hungary); and Cascando , a radio play, by Samuel Beckett (WKCR/NY and NJ). She was a Dean's Fellow in the MFA directing program at Columbia University. She has collaborated with Ensemble Studio Theater, NY Neo Futurists, Young Playwrights Inc., Barnard College ( 365 Days/365 Plays) . Current projects include Cherubina by Paul Cohen and an original adaptation of Istvan Orkeny's The Flower Show . Alexis is a member of the Dodeska Performance Ensemble.