Obie award winning director and writer Annie Dorsen works in a variety of fields, including theatre, film, dance and, as of 2010, digital performance. She is the co-creator of the 2008 Broadway musical “Passing Strange”, which she also directed. Spike Lee has since made a film of her production of the piece, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (2009) and was released theatrically by IFC in 2010 before being broadcast on PBS 'b9 Great Performances. Most recently, she presented “Pièce Sans Paroles“, a collaboration with choreographers Anne Juren and DD Dorvillier (Premiére at brut Vienna in May 2010). She directed “Ask Your Mama”, a setting of Langston Hughes poem (composition Laura Karpman and sung by Jessye Norman and The Roots, Carnegie Hall). She collaborated with the string quartet ETHEL on “Truckstop”, seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival (2009). Her pop-political performance project “Democracy in America” was presented at Performance Space 122 (PS 122) in spring 2008. Her short film, “I Miss”, originally the centrepiece of “Democracy in America”, has screened at SXSW Film Festival, The New York Film Festival (“Views From the Avant-Garde” series) and the Nantucket Film Festival. Upcoming: “Magical”, another collaboration with Anne Juren which premieres at Impulstanz (Vienna) in July 2010. Annie Dorsen has taught at New York University, Fordham University, and Playwright Horizons and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.