MadeHERE

MADE HERE is a documentary series and website focusing on performing artists based in New York City. A collage of intimate interviews, performances and behind-the-scenes footage, MADE HERE mirrors the rich diversity of the artists and communities they serve. The project far exceeded initial projections by producing double the number of seasons (4 instead of 2) and by reaching more than triple our expected viewership (35,000 unique viewers instead of 10,000).

The first season was launched in May 2010, and by the end of September, had released 15 short episodes featuring 40 artists and covering five major issues: Creative Real Estate, Day & Night Jobs, Family Balance, Activism and Technology. Season Two rolled out from March through July 2011 with 28 additional artists and three episodes each month on Identity, Creative Practice, Money, Lifework, and Home. Season Three (May through July 2013) and Four (September through November 2013) added 25 additional artists and three episodes each month on Art & Commerce, Criticism, Health, Gender & Sexuality, Influences, and Staying or Going. The website provides a platform for audiences to offer feedback on the episodes, artists to share and discover resources, and communities to engage on the issues. In addition, each issue was accompanied by a monthly live screening and panel event.

In December 2013, MADE HERE completed its highly successful run. We exceeded our initial projections by producing double the amount of seasons (4 instead of 2) and by reaching more than four times our expected viewership (40,000+ unique viewers instead of 10,000).

During our release beginning in 2010, we visited every borough at least twice for a screening and public discussion moderated by a special guest. Thank you to the following venues and partner organizations for hosting: Bronx Academy of Dance (BAAD), Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), CAVE, Chocolate Factory, La Guardia Performing Arts Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Show Gallery, and Snug Harbor and Botanical Garden.

Now, the site lives on to serve as a resource for generations of performing artists to come. Please see our season finale write-up by Lizzie Simon in the Wall Street Journal and keep spreading the word.

Funding: MADE HERE is supported by a 2009 Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Fund award with renewed funding for Seasons Three and Four. Additional support was provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the New Generations Program administered by Theatre Communications Group.

Partner Organizations 

A.R.T./New York
Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Bronx Council on the Arts
Brooklyn Arts Council
Brooklyn Arts Exchange
The Chocolate Factory
Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island
The Field
Harlem Arts Alliance
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
New York Theater Workshop
Joe’s Pub
Queens Council on the Arts
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden

Academic Advisory Council

Anne Bogart
Thomas Bradshaw
Una Chaudhuri
Boo Froebel
Elinor Fuchs
Roselee Goldberg
Frank Hentschker
Jay Scheib
Mac Wellman

Chiara Clemente is a film director who explores identity, cultural contrast, and the creative process. In 2000 she directed her first art documentary for RAI in Italy. Chiara continued to film and collaborate with artists, and in 2005, she started making her first feature documentary, Our City Dreams, following five women artists (Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer and Swoon) who live and work in New York City. Critically-acclaimed, Our City Dreams premiered at New York City’s Film Forum in February 2009, screened in more than 30 cities worldwide, and was broadcast on the Sundance Channel. Since making her feature Chiara has directed for Saatchi and Saatchi, T Magazine of The New York Times, Levi’s, Apple, Wieden + Kennedy and Persol.  Most recently she has created and directed two seasons of Beginnings, an original short film series for the Sundance Channel, which won a Webby Award in 2012. www.chiaraclemente.com

Russell Greene is a New York film editor of seven feature films as well as numerous commercials, short films and promotional videos. His most recent films include Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (Venice Film Festival and SXSW) and Ordinary Miracles: New York’s Photo League. In addition to editing, he also wrote and directed the short film Easy Street, winner of six awards for Best Short Film on the 2012 festival circuit. He served as First Assistant Editor on several additional films including the Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning The Betrayal and the Sundance Award-winning Patti Smith: Dream of Life. He is currently editing a feature doc on the legendary Coney Island restaurant Nathan’s Famous. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

Heather Greene is a New York-based producer that works in Feature and Documentary Film, Television, and Live Events.  She has been a part of numerous and varied projects such as the live shows and film projects of Fischerspooner and Vanessa Beecroft, Vice’s “Guide To Travel”, the television series “How’s Your News?”, the Sundance web series “Beginnings”, and documentary features “Of All The Things” and “What’s On Your Plate?” to name just a few.  Heather lives with her husband and two sons in Brooklyn, NY.

Karina Mangu-Ward is a New York-based producer and filmmaker, whose projects include an original web series, an interactive online documentary series, promos, how-to videos, and event videography. She has produced, shot, and edited videos for Howcast.com, Downtown Community Television, 13 Playwrights Inc., EmcArts, art.party.theater.company, and is the Associate Producer of “Flag Football,” a feature documentary about the journey of four teams in the National Gay Flag Football League to Gay Bowl X. Currently, Karina is the Online Cultural Producer at EmcArts, Inc.  Prior to joining EmcArts, she was a producer for Season One of the documentary series “MADE HERE: Performing Artists on Work and Life” for HERE, where she also served as General Manager/Associate Producer from 2008 to 2011. Prior to HERE, Karina served as General Manager for 13 Playwrights, Inc., Management Associate for Liz McCann/Tony Awards Productions, and Producing Assistant for Carole Shorenstein Hays Productions. Karina has an MFA in Theater Management and Producing from Columbia University, where she wrote her thesis on the strategic use of online tools and technologies for arts organizations. She holds a BA from Harvard College.

Tanya Selvaratnam is an artist, a writer, and an Emmy-nominated and Webby-winning producer, who has collaborated with Planned Parenthood, Aubin Pictures, the Vision & Justice Project, and Glamour Women of the Year. Her films have played on HBO, VICE, IFC, PBS, Starz, and the Sundance Channel and premiered at the Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca, and SXSW festivals. With Laurie Anderson and Laura Michalchyshyn, she is the cofounder of The Federation; she has also been an advisor/producer for For Freedoms. Tanya has performed in shows by Sibyl Kempson, Mike Iveson Jr., Brooke O’Harra, Andrew Ondrejcak, The Builders Association, and The Wooster Group. She is the author of The Big Lie and Assume Nothing; and her essays have been published in the New York Times, Vogue, CNN, Glamour, and McSweeney’s. Twitter/IG: @TanyaAuthor, tanyaturnsup.com

Featured Artists:

SEASON FOUR: Joey Arias, Arthur Aviles, Eisa Davis, Mohammed Fairouz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill T Jones, Cherry Jones, Mia Katigbak, Lisa Kron, Ethan Lipton, Carolina Penafiel, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Sxip Shirey, Elizabeth Streb, Clyde Vanletin, Reggie Watts

SEASON THREE: Joey Arias, Arthur Aviles, Eisa Davis, Mohammed Fairouz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill T Jones, Cherry Jones, Mia Katigbak, Lisa Kron, Ethan Lipton, Carolina Penafiel, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Sxip Shirey, Elizabeth Streb, Clyde Vanletin, Reggie Watts

SEASON TWO: Jen Abrams, Kahlil Almustafa, Thomas Bradshaw, John Collins, Brendan Coyle, Amanda Curtis, Dana Edell, Oskar Eustis, Miguel Gutierrez, Joan Jonas, Aaron Landsman, Elizabeth LeCompte, Young Jean Lee, Kate D. Levin, Sheila Lewandowski, Abby Marcus, Qui Nguyen, Brian Rogers, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, Steven Sapp, Betty Shamieh, Black-Eyed Susan, Chandra Thomas, Basil Twist, Kate Valk, Reggie Watts, Natasha Williams, Caroline Woolard

SEASON ONE: Moe Angelos, Arthur Aviles, Jess Barbagallo, Anne Bogart, Wally Cardona, Hai-Ting Chinn, Ping Chong,  Gabri Christa, Chinese Theatre Works, Toni Dove, Yehuda Duenyas, James Tigger! Ferguson, Kuang-Yu Fong,  Ximena Garnica, Roselee Goldberg, Ain Gordon, David Gordon, Miranda Hardy, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Melanie Joseph, Ben Kerrick, Mari Kimura, Peter Ksander, Taylor Mac, Kristin Marting, Jennifer Miller, Paul D. Miller, Shige Moriya, Julie Atlas Muz, Erin Orr, Vernon Reid, Laine Rettmer, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Rokafella,  Elizabeth Streb, Valda Setterfield, Xiaojun Song, Charlie Todd, Kate Valk, Marianne Weems, Jennifer Wright Cook, Ying Zhang

Crew

SEASONS THREE AND FOUR ONLY
Camera: Omar Mullick
Assistant Camera: Jorge Arzac
Sound Mixer: Richard Levengood, Joshua Tucker, Coleman Wenner
Assistant Editor: Erin Taylor Kennedy
Trailer and Graphics: Alex Meillier and Tanya Ager Meillier
Website Manager: Trevor Martin
Research & Outreach Associate: Kelsey Ryan
Theme Song: Sxip Shirey

SEASON TWO ONLY
Assistant Producer: Erin Taylor Kennedy
Camera: Frank Stanley
Sound Mixer: David Pruger, Jarett Livingston
Assistant Editor: Erin Taylor Kennedy
Website Manager: Matthew de Leon
Research & Outreach Associate: Cassie Wagler
Theme Song: Reggie Watts
Additional Music: Moby

SEASON ONE ONLY
Camera: Miklos Buk, Theo Stanley
Sound Mixer: David Pruger, Michael Reilly, Christopher Reifeiss
Assistant Editor: Cat Tyc, Kelly Bray
Production Interns: Debby Brand, Brian Bauman
Theme Song: Reggie Watts
Additional Music: Moby

Out
July 22, 2013: “Cherry Jones, Elizabeth Streb, Lisa Kron, Bill T. Jones, and Others Discuss What’s Next”

The New Yorker
May 13, 2013: Critics Notebook: Making It

MADE HERE Season Three
March 19, 2013: New seasons of documentary series MADE HERE to feature Joey Arias, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill T. Jones, Cherry Jones, Lisa Kron, Elizabeth Streb, Reggie Watts, and others.

New York Times
March 13, 2013: “New York Performing Artists Share Inspiration on ‘Made Here’” by Felicia R. Lee

THIRTEEN
July 20, 2011: “You Know It’s Hard Out Here for an Artist…” by Sam Lewis

Papermag
March 10, 2011: “Tanya Sevaratnam and Chiara Clemente Continue Exploring the Creative Process With ‘Made Here'” by David Hershkovits

New York Times
November 24, 2010: “How to Succeed in the Arts Business: ‘Made Here’ Series Is Returning” by Melena Ryzik

The L Magazine
August 4, 2010: “In Their Natural Habitat” by Alexis Clements

New York Times
June 21, 2010: “The Made Here Project: Looking at Artists’ Lives” by Melena Ryzik

WNYC Culture
June 23, 2010: “Made Here Ask Artists How They Survive” by Julia Furlan

American Theatre Magazine
June 2010: “Life Video” by Randy Gener

Time Out New York
May 28, 2010: “Memorial Day Weekend: Splashy New Vids for Your Sun-Dazed Brain” by Helen Shaw