• Ryan Mitchell
  • Ryan Mitchell
    Artistic Director
    
    ...is founding member and artistic director of iv and co-chairs the Villianaires Academy with Sam Mickens.

• Lily Nguyen
  • Lily Nguyen
    Ensemble Member
    
    Lily Nguyen has a BFA in technical theatre from the Cornish College of the Arts. She is a current member of Implied Violence. Her background is, foremost, collaborative workings of sound design, audio engineering and field recording for unconventional theatres and individual artists. Lily worked as Assistant Sound Technician at On The Boards where she was exposed to work from local artists as well as touring dance and theatre companies from New York and Chicago. This experience was the catalyst for her aesthetic – movement, performance art, and theatrics fused with sound design. Her most recent work was as Sound Designer for Implied Violence on a show performed at the (con)temporary Gallery, in Reno, Nevada. She participated in the Womens’ Prison Project for the Pat Graney Company as Visual Artist and Sound Designer. She has also been worked with established companies like On The Boards and the Pat Graney Company as well as with the local emerging companies Theater Unlocked, A.A.Theatre Society and Dead Bird Movement.

• Mandie O'Connell
  • Mandie O'Connell
    Founding Member
    
    

• Jessie Smith
  • Jessie Smith
    Ensemble Member
    
    Jessie Smith is a founding member of Implied Violence and currently the ensemble’s Treasurer. She is also Artistic Director of the Seattle-based modern dance company Dead Bird Movement. In addition, Jessie dances for Amy O’Neal and Zeke Keeble’s company Locust.

ENSEMBLE
MEMBERS

GUEST
ARTSISTS

Lars Berquist
Tom Chapel
Emily Chisholm
Michael Draper
Chevis Gadda
Kyle Glanville
Ruthie Haskell
Noah Mickens
Sam Mickens
dk pan
Dash Pepin
Ian Rileyv
Kate Ryan
Cassy Sanders
Jack StockLynn
Allan Sutherland