Brian Rogers

Brian Rogers is a director, video and sound artist, co-founder and artistic director of The Chocolate Factory Theater, which supports the creation of theater, dance, music and multimedia performances at its 5,000 sq ft facility in LIC, Queens. Since 1997, Brian has conceived and/or directed numerous large scale performances at The Chocolate Factory and elsewhere including Hot Box (September 2012, co-presented with FIAF’s Crossing The Line  Festival / January 2013, PS122’s COIL Festival / February 2013, EMPAC Center, Troy NY – supported by a MAP  Fund grant), the Bessie-nominated Selective Memory (July 2010, Mount Tremper Arts / September 2011, The Chocolate Factory / January 2011, PS122’s COIL Festival), redevelop (death valley) (2009), 2 Husbands (2007), Gun Play (2006), Audit (2004), and Fundamental (2002).

In addition to his own work, Brian curates The Chocolate Factory’s Visiting Artist Program (now in its 8th year) which supports the work of more than 100 theater, dance, music and multimedia artists each year.

As a video, sound and performance artist, Brian has collaborated with numerous dance and theater artists including Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty (the horror the horror, Movement Research Festival 2010 / Abrons Arts Center 2011), Aynsley Vandenbroucke (Danspace Project, March 2011), Tara O’Con (Danspace Project, January 2009), Jillian Sweeney (September 2009), and the Movement Research Spring 2008 Festival (24x4x4). He presented his first solo exhibition of new video works in November 2012 at Ventana 244 Gallery in Brooklyn; self-released an album of electronic music in September 2013; and will collaborate on a new performance by Irish dance artists Emma Fitzgerald and Aine Stapleton at the Project Arts Center in Dublin in September 2014.

Brian has served as a panelist and/or recommender for numerous organizations including NYSCA, Queens Council on the Arts, ART/NY Nancy Quinn Fund, DTW Outer/Space, the A.W.A.R.D. Show, NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs, Fresh Tracks, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Made Here, Creative Capital, Pew Charitable Trust, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Yaddo, the Macdowell Colony, and others; has lectured and/or worked in a guest teaching capacity at Long Island University, The School at The Art Institute of  Chicago, St. Johns University, Carnegie Mellon University, Sarah Lawrence College, The New School, New York University, University of Colorado Boulder, Velocity Dance Center (Seattle) and others; serves on the board of the MacDowell Colony; and is a graduate of Bennington College.

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