Works & Process at The Guggenheim Announces PETER AND THE WOLF with Isaac Mizrahi

In what has become an annual holiday tradition, Works & Process at the Guggenheim presents ten performances of Sergei Prokofiev's charming children's classic, Peter & the Wolf. Reviving the sold-out 2015 production, for the tenth year, renowned fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi will narrate the production. Brad Lubman will conduct Ensemble Signal.

Mizrahi will narrate, direct, design the set and costumes, and his special cast will perform choreography by John Heginbotham, in which the familiar characters come to life in the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Peter B. Lewis Theater at the Guggenheim. The story brings 30 minutes of suspense, including a happy ending, and allows the young and young-at-heart to hear and learn the various instruments in the orchestra.

The performance is recommended for children ages 5. The schedule is as follows: December 3, 4, 10, and 11 at 2:30pm and 4pm, and December 9 at 5pm and 6:30pm. For ages 5 and up.

Tickets & Venue, $40, $35 Guggenheim members and Friends of Works & Process. Premium front row ticketing $100, $90 Guggenheim members and Friends of Works & Process Box Office (212) 423-3575, (M-F, 1-5pm) or online at worksandprocess.org

Peter B. Lewis Theater

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1071 Fifth Avenue, New York

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Isaac Mizrahi (libra) has directed numerous theatrical productions and operas including a 2014 production of The Magic Flute at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Mizrahi has worked extensively in the theater both as a performer and a designer of sets and costumes. He received a Drama Desk Award and four CFDA awards. He was the subject and co-creator ofUnzipped, a documentary following the making of his Fall 1994 ready-to-wear collection which received an award at the Sundance Film Festival. He has been a leader in the fashion industry for nearly 30 years and currently serves as the Chief Designer for the IMNYC Isaac Mizrahi and Isaac Mizrahi Live! collections. He hosted his own television talk show for five years, has written two books and has made countless appearances in movies and television. He serves as a weekly judge on Project Runway: All-Stars. He is currently writing a memoir due out in 2017.

Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, John Heginbotham (Choreographer) graduated from The Juilliard School in 1993, and was a member of Mark Morris Dance Group from 1998 - 2012. In 2011 he founded Dance Heginbotham (DH), which has been presented by institutions including Baryshnikov Arts Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, The Kennedy Center, The Joyce Theater, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, among others. In 2016, DH toured to Indonesia, Laos, and the Philippines with DanceMotion USASM, a cultural diplomacy initiative of the U.S. Department of State, produced by the Brooklyn Academy of Music. John's recent independent projects include choreographing Candide for the Orlando Philharmonic (2016); Daniel Fish's Oklahoma! at Bard Summerscape (2015); Angels' Share for Atlanta Ballet (2014); and Isaac Mizrahi's The Magic Flute at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (2014). John is the recipient of the 2014 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award and is a 2016 Fellow at NYU's Center for Ballet and the Arts. www.danceheginbotham.org

Brad Lubman, conductor/composer is founding Co-Artistic and Music Director of Ensemble Signal. Lubman is one of the foremost conductors of modern music and a leading figure in the field for over two decades. A frequent guest conductor of the world's most distinguished orchestras and new music ensembles, he has gained widespread recognition for his versatility, commanding technique, and insightful interpretations. His flexibility in a variety of settings has led him to conduct a broad range of repertoire from classical to contemporary works, and to direct projects including orchestra, opera, multimedia, and mixed ensemble. Lubman has led major orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Dresden Philharmonic, DSO Berlin, RSO Stuttgart, WDR Symphony Cologne, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Finnish Radio Symphony, the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, and the National Symphony. In 2016-17, Lubman makes his debut with the San Fransisco Symphony. In addition, he has worked with some of the most important ensembles for contemporary music, including London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, musikFabrik and Steve Reich and Musicians. His own music has been performed in the USA and Europe, and can be heard on his CD, Insomniac, on Tzadik. Brad Lubman is on faculty at the Eastman School of Music and the Bang on a Can Summer Institute.

Ensemble Signal, described by the New York Times as "one of the most vital groups of its kind," is a NY-based ensemble dedicated to offering the broadest possible audience access to a diverse range of contemporary works through performance, commissioning, recording, and education. Signal was founded by Co-Artistic/Executive Director Lauren Radnofsky and Co-Artistic Director/Conductor Brad Lubman. Since its debut in 2008, Signal has performed over 150 concerts, given NY, world or US premieres of over 20 works, and co-produced 8 recordings. Signal has appeared at Lincoln Center Festival, Walt Disney Concert Hall, BIG EARS, Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, and Miller Theatre, and has worked with artists including Reich, Lachenmann, Wuorinen, Knussen, Gordon, Lang, Wolfe and Irvine Arditti. Their recording of Reich's Music for 18 Musicians released in May 2015 on harmonia mundi received a Diapason d'or and appeared on the Billboard Classical Crossover Charts. Beginning in January of 2017, they will give the US premieres of a new work for 19 musicians by Steve Reich at venues across the US. Their educational activities include community performances and educational outreach, as well as workshops with emerging composers at the June in Buffalo Festival, where they are a resident ensemble.

Derrick Arthur (Hunter) grew up in Grand Island, Nebraska. For the better part of 20 years, football and sports ruled his life. He first studied sports administration at the University of Nebraska-Kearney before finding his true calling as an actor, which prompted him to move to New York City to attend the New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. Some of his credits include "Delivery Man" starring Vince Vaughn, "The Humbling" starring Al Pacino, "People Places Things" starring Jemaine Clement, and the TV Show "Friends of the People"!

Elizabeth Coker (Bird) trained at the Washington School of Ballet and the Ballet Nacional de Cuba before joining The Washington Ballet for several seasons. She is co-artistic director and dancer with Seán Curran Company and an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. She has assistant choreographed for and/or appeared with the Limon Dance Company, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Opera Theatre of St Louis, Opera de Montreal, San Diego Opera and Yale Repertory Theater. Elizabeth graduated summa cum laude/Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University with a degree in psychology and dance and earned an MA (2010) and EdD (2016) in motor learning from Teachers College of Columbia University, where she researched sensory control of balance in dancers.

Marjorie Folkman (Duck) danced with the Mark Morris Dance Group (1996-2007), Martha Clarke's Garden of Earthly Delights, Sara Rudner, and Merce Cunningham's Repertory Understudy Group, among others. Recent choreographic projects have included Oresteia for Bard Summerscape Opera in co-production with Mariinsky Theatre and Paul's Case for the PROTOTYPE Festival/New York. A graduate of Barnard College, where she is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Professional Practice with the Department of Dance, Folkman holds an M.A. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and is a Ph.D. candidate at the Bard Graduate Center/New York researching Eastern European interwar visual culture and its intersections with performance.

Lindsey Jones (Cat) is originally from St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated with a BFA from SUNY Purchase and attended London Contemporary. Lindsey has performed with Dance Heginbotham, Pam Tanowitz Dance, Caleb Teicher & Co., Bill Young, Jordana Toback, GREYZONE, Ian Spencer Bell, June Finch, Rosario/Adriane Lee, Sam Swanton, and Lauren Camp. Lindsey originated the role of The Cat in Isaac Mizrahi's Peter and the Wolf in 2013, and in 2014 performed in his production of The Magic Flute with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

Daniel Pettrow (Wolf)is an actor, director, and teacher based in New York. He is an associate actor with The Wooster Group (since 2006). He has performed in Hamlet, Vieux Carré, and Who's Your Dada?!. He is also a teaching artist at The Wooster Group's Summer Institute (since 2006). Daniel is also a frequent collaborator with multi disciplinary theater company Bluemouth Inc. performing in Dance Marathon, How Soon is Now? and Death by Water. He works closely with French Director Arthur Nauzyciel, having performed the lead roles in Jean Genet's Splendid's, Bernard Marie Koltes' Black Battles with Dogs, and Roberto Zucco, and Mark Antony in Julius Caesar. Daniel has performed in over 6O plays at International and Regional theaters. He directs NY sketch group SBJM. Daniel is the communications coordinator and drama teacher for Heifetz International Music Institute. He also is a guest teacher at NYU and with other leading dance and theater companies. Daniel has collaborated with John Heginbotham as the drama director for YoungArts Miami (2015) and YoungArts LA (2016). TV: "Red Band Society", "Good Eats", "Don't Know Jack". FILM: "In Stereo", "Sweet Parents", "The Cult of Sincerity", "The Last Adam", "FightF*ckPray", "Psychopathia Sexualis", "Kathy T", "My Uncle Sidney."

Guillermo Resto (Grandfather) has danced and worked with Mark Morris more than half his life. He received a Bessie Dance Performance Award in 1986 for his work with the companies of Morris, Susan Marshall, Charlie Moulton, Kathryn Posin, Pauline Kohner, Danny Lewis, Mathew Diamond and choreographers Anna Sokolow, Luis Falco and Ralph Lemon. While touring Japan with Mark Morris Dance Group and cellist Yo Yo Ma in 2002, he began making colorful prints of manhole covers and utility meter covers. "Guillermo Resto makes prints from manhole covers that have almost religious significance" (Isaac Mizrahi). His latest collages are created from late 80's, early 90's advertisement notecards found papering the red phone booths in London.

Macy Sullivan (Peter) (Camas, WA) is a New York City-based dancer, collaborator, and teaching artist. She currently dances for Dance Heginbotham, The Chase Brock Experience, and Caleb Teicher & Company. Sullivan performed as Marie in Chase Brock's The Nutcracker and a featured tap dancer in Tyne Rafaeli's The Poor of New York (Off-Off-Broadway). Her own work has been performed at Judson Memorial Church, The 92nd Street Y, The Tank, Jennifer Muller/The Works' HATCH, and The Juilliard School. As a teaching artist, she has worked with the NYC Department of Education, Lincoln Center Education, Cayman Arts Festival, Juilliard Global Ventures, and Artists Striving to End Poverty. She holds a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School (Martha Hill Prize, John Erskine Prize, Choreographic Honors) and formerly trained with Oregon Ballet Theatre and Karen Cannon. www.macysullivan.com