IMPACT THEATRE Fay Simpson (Director)
 
Fay Simpson has been exploring the boundary between dance and theatre in her choreography since 1986. Founding Impact Theatre in 1990 (originally known as Fay Simpson Dance Theatre), Simpson has produced and directed numerous dance theatre productions including "D-Train," "Take Me Home," and "Research and Development" with Manhattan Class Company. Other dance-theater presentations include "Raging Women and One Bad Man" (produced by SoHo Think Tank's Ice Factory '96), "A Soldier's Tale" (commissioned and produced by the Mid-Atlantic Chamber Orchestra), and "Kurt's Wife" (produced by the KO Festival of Performance at Amherst in collaboration with Michael Oakes, Jennifer Wells, and Earl Wentz). In 1997, Impact Theatre produced "The Marital Bliss of Francis and Maxine," created in collaboration with Liam Torres and Earl Wentz and presented at the Ohio Theater under the direction of Deborah Kampmeier. Her autobiographical performance piece, "Trapped In Seven," (produced by HERE in 1999) written and performed by Simpson, was also developed and directed by Ms. Kampmeier. "Trapped" has been performed at theatres and community centers across the country and inLondon.
 
Fay Simpson teaches THE Lucid Body, a technique she has developed to enable actors to listen to their instinctual bodies through an in depth exploration of the seven chakra areas. She teaches at Michael Howard Studios, ,MarymountManhattanCollege, as well as solo performance courses atSewaneeUniversityandColoradoCollege. Simpson works in collaboration with Joseph Siravo presenting Shakespeare works in development at the Cherry Lane Alternative. She is the recipient of both The Tennessee Williams fellowship from The University of the South to develop and direct "I'm Not the Blonde You Think I am," by Karen Loftus, and the Fox Foundation Fellowship. She served as a Directing fellow at the New GlobeTheater in London under the guidance of Mark Rylance during the 1999 season.
 
 
Fay has worked with Homeless youth for eight years, developing and directing them in a Talent Show at Roseland and Webster Hall with Tom Pearl and Liam Torres at a drop-in center called SafeHome.  She has also worked with HIV youth at a center called SafeHome. She is presently doing healing workshops in the after math of Sept. 11th with an outreach company , Urban Stages.