The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome Raja Feather Kelly and his performance BUNNY BUNNY
Written, Directed and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly, BUNNY BUNNY is an ensemble Devised danced-theatre production and installation exploring desire and surveillance.
This is a fictional story based on the real-life events of six bunny rabbits who are stuck in a house. They work together, and have their lives taped and find out what happens when bunnies stop being polite and start getting real. Reality TV meets, McCarthyism, meets the human condition in imagined and anthropomorphic realities.
This 75min performance is inspired by McCarthyism and explores surveillance and human desire in its most primitive form: a dystopian docu-fiction melodrama.
BUNNY BUNNY has been in process since 2019 and received support from HERE Arts Center, the National Center for Choreography in Akron, Ohio, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Public Theater. In 2023 Raja Feather Kelly became the UC San Diego Quinn Martin directing Fellow and BUNNY, BUNNY held performances with students in the Potiker Theater in February 2023.
Creative Team:
Text, Direction and Choreography by Raja Feather Kelly
Performers:
THE FEATH3R THEORY
Alexandria Giroux
Amy Hoang
Chris Bell
Dylan Contreras
Nelson Mejia
Sara Gurevich
Set: Raphael Mishler
Light: Bryan Ealey
Sound Design: Salvador Zamora
Video: Laura Snow
Company Info: The Feath3r Theory (TF3T) is a New York City-based dance-theatre-media company that produces the work of Artistic Director and Choreographer Raja Feather Kelly. Our company's mission is to democratize the American theatre, broaden the space for unheard voices and repressed histories, bring into the theatre those sometimes left out, and use theatre to provoke much-needed public conversations. Our company is committed to addressing pressing social issues, often in site-specific spaces where we bring theatre directly to the communities it serves.
Our work draws us closer to comprehending the struggles of particular racial and sexual identities. It challenges our audience and creators to collectively interrogate, celebrate, and understand the media's role in shaping public sympathies.
Performers Bios
Raja Feather Kelly is a choreographer and director, and the Artistic Director of the feath3r theory (TF3T), a Brooklyn-based dance-theatre-media company he founded in 2009. Over the past decade, he has created 18 evening-length works with the feath3r theory to critical acclaim, most recently The Absolute Future (NYU Skirball). In 2025, TF3T will present the New York premiere of Bunny Bunny at The Invisible Dog, followed by DOOMER or The Untitled Brahms/Radiohead Project in 2026. Raja made his playwriting debut at SoHo Rep with the critically acclaimed play The Fires in 2024, which he also directed.
In 2025, his choreography can be seen in Teeth at New World Stages (premiere: Playwrights Horizon), written by Michael R. Jackson and Anna Jacobs and directed by Sarah Benson; Macbeth in Stride at BAM (premiere: Yale Repertory Theatre), written by Whitney White and directed by Tyler Dobrowsky and Taibi Magar,
White Girl in Danger at the Second Stage Kiser Theater (2023), written by Michael R. Jackson and directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. He choreographed the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical A Strange Loop (Lyceum Theatre, premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizon) and Fairview (Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, TFANA), both winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He was hailed by The New York Times as the choreographer who “can make your play move” for his extensive work Off-Broadway. Recent credits include Bunny Bunny (UC San Diego–the first production outside of TF3T for which he was the writer, director, and choreographer), White Girl in Danger (Second Stage Kiser Theater), We're Gonna Die (Second Stage Theater–his directorial debut), SUFFS (The Public Theater), and Lempicka (La Jolla Playhouse). Frequent collaborators include Lileana Blain-Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Sarah Benson, and Michael R. Jackson. Other theatre credits include choreography for Skittles Commercial: The Musical (Town Hall), The Chronicles of Cardigan and Khente (Soho Rep), If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons), The Good Swimmer (BAM), and The Listeners (Oslo Opera). He recently choreographed Scenes for an Ending in collaboration with musician Emily Wells for the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.
He has received dozens of awards, fellowships and honors including a Princeton Arts Fellowship (2023-2025), a Mellon Foundation grant (2021, 2024), an Obie Award and Outer Critics Circle Award honor for choreography for A Strange Loop (2020), an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019-2021), a Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts (2019–2020), a National Dance Project Production Grant (2019–2021), a New York Dance Performance Bessie Award (2009), a Creative Capital Award (2019), three Princess Grace Awards (2017-2019), a National Dance Project Production Grant (2019), a Breakout Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (2018), Dance Magazine's inaugural Harkness Promise Award (2018), a Creator-in-Residence at Kickstarter (2018), and a Choreography Fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU (2017), a Bessie Schonberg Fellowship at The Yard (2017), the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography (2016), an ImPulsTanz Festival DanceWEB Scholarship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellowship (2016). He was featured on the cover of the February 2020 issue of Dance Magazine.
Kelly has performed with Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, David Dorfman Dance, Kyle Abraham|Abraham.In.Motion, and zoe | juniper. He has also managed a number of dance companies: Race Dance, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, zoe | juniper, and Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group.
Kelly has held teaching positions at universities nationwide, including Yale, Princeton, The Juilliard School, and New York University, among others. He is a Quinn Martin directing fellow at the University of California San Diego.
He was born in Fort Hood, Texas and holds a B.A. in Dance and English from Connecticut College. He is currently earning a Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute certificate as an Ecker Fellow in Psychoanalysis and the Creative Arts.
Alexandria Giroux is from Arizona, and attended New School for the Arts and Academics. She has been a member of the feath3r theory since 2018. She has assisted Raja on other projects including most recently, New Dances (Juilliard), and White Girl in Danger (Second Stage Theater). Alexandria is also a Doula.
Amy Hoàng (she/her) received her BFA in Dance from the University of North Texas. Amy joined the feath3r theory in 2019 and has since been a part of other TF3T projects such as Bunny Bunny (live and animated), The KILL ONE Race, and Wednesday. Amy loves house dance.
Chris Bell, MFA (Case Western Reserve), BS (Lamar), and currently makes work with Raja Feather Kelly & the feath3r theory. Recent Projects: Teeth (Assoc. Choreo/PH), Eighty-Sixed (Assoc. Direct. & Chorego./2ndstage), Jelly’s Last Jam (Choreographer/LWT). He teaches for The National Theater Institute, Roundabout Theatre Co., Marquis Studios and TADA! Youth Theaters. chrisbelldances has presented work nationally recently at CU Boulder and Men in Dance (Seattle), and locally including evening length works at Dixon Place, Gibney and Triskelion.
Dylan is a Brooklyn based dancer, and interdisciplinary creator. Since earning their BFA in contemporary dance from The Boston Conservatory, Dylan has gone to work with music artists including Jon Batiste, serpentwithfeet, Tiesto, as well as dance and theatre artists including Raja Feather Kelly, Wu Tsang, David Dorfman, and Cherice Barton. They currently immerse themselves in NY based project based dance and dramaturgical work.
Nelson Mejia, originally from Northern Virginia, is a freelance performer based in Brooklyn, NY. He has performed works by Kyle Abraham, Rena Butler, Norbert De La Cruz III, Omar Román De Jesus, Andrea Miller, Akira Uchida, among others. Company credits include Joyce Theater Productions’ “Heart of Brick”, Liz Gerring Dance Company, Pony Box Dance Theatre, and Brian Brooks Moving Company.
Sara Gurevich was born and raised in New York City. She has been working with the feath3r theory since 2015. She is also a psychotherapist.
Designers Bios
Laura Snow is Media Director for New York City Ballet since 2021, starting as producer with the company in 2018, and has worked with the dance-theatre-media company the feath3r theory (TF3T) since 2012 as their resident video collaborator. In 2021, she co-produced and edited the TF3T virtual production THE KILL ONE RACE, a reality TV-style game-play for Playwrights Horizons. In the documentary field, Laura's short film Leave-taking premiered in the 2016 DocNYC U Showcase and won the Online Audience Award at the 2017 Mindscape Film Festival. Laura has directed short films & trailers for New York City Ballet, and associate-produced documentary series for PBS, Discovery, Vice, A&E and CNN and was an associate producer on the film Newtown(Sundance Festival). Laura holds a B.A. in Dance and American Studies from Connecticut College and a postgraduate certificate in Documentary Filmmaking from New York Film Academy. In 2011 she earned her M.A. in Arts and Cultural Management with a Specialization in the Moving Image from the University of Melbourne.
Raphael Mishler (he/him) creates visuals for live performance. Scenery includes Solo Voyages (Whitney, upcoming), Weasel Festival (BAM), The Fires (Soho Rep, Henry Hewes nom.) Is It Thursday Yet (La Jolla Playhouse, assoc.), and 24 Decade History of Popular Music (Pomegranate Arts, tour assoc.). Puppets include We Live in Cairo (NYTW), June Rites! (Waterwell), The Amateurs (Vineyard), Collective Rage…(MCC) and Tumacho (Clubbed Thumb, Drama Desk Award, Henry Hewes nom). He is a founding member of Brooklyn-based cultural organizing hub Building Stories, and is an affiliate artist with Clubbed Thumb.
Salvador Zamora (Sound Designer) is a sound designer and composer from Southern California with a BA in Music Production and an MFA in Sound Design from the University of California, San Diego. Designer credits: Primary Trust (Barrington Stage Co.), The Grown Ups (Baby Teeth LA), Tick, Tick…Boom! (Cygnet Theatre), The Fires (SoHo Rep), Bunny Bunny, Hells Canyon (UCSD), TaxilandiaSD (La Jolla Playhouse), Everybody (Antaeus Theatre Co.). Select associate credits: Here There are Blueberries (national tour), Sumo (The Public).@suavecito_sounddesign www.suavecito.design
Bryan Ealey (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is a New York-based Designer from Houston, TX, and holds an MFA in Lighting Design from the University of California, San Diego. He is a Board Member and Resident Lighting Designer for NobleMotion Dance Company (Houston). Bryan’s most recent accomplishments include Lighting Design for the Off-Broadway World Premiere of The Fires at SOHO Repertory Theatre, 2024 Henry Hewes Design Award Nominee for The Fires, and the 2023 San Diego Craig Noel Critic Choice Award Winner for Outstanding Lighting Design for the World Premiere production of Sharon at Cygnet Theatre. His passion for lighting design is rooted in the fundamental ability to support, give focus, and elevate the performance that draws an emotional response from the audience.
Admission: RSVP $20
Performances:
Thursday March 13, 7:30pm
Friday, March 14, 7:30pm
Saturday, March 15, 7:30pm
Duration: 75 Minutes
Location: 51 Bergen St