MICHAELA LIND
Filmmaker, Award-Winning Performer, Co-Founder of ARA Theater & Media - “She wears the elements of all the great female clowns” - Stagebiz
RECENT WORK
WHERE IS NOW
An Absurd spin on our impending doom
So far our short film had its New York City Premiere on October 11th at Cinema Village.
Der Bau is a new adaptation for the stage, written by Franz Kafka, adapted & performed by Drew Valins, and designed & directed by Michaela Lind
After a packed-house staged reading at the Czech Embassy in Washington DC, in June of 2024, we are in talks with the Embassy and our partner, The Alliance for New Music-Theater for development of a full run of the piece in Washington DC and beyond.
Presented by the Czech Embassy in collaboration with ARA Theater and Media and the Alliance for New Music Theatre.
“Audience members praised the production's excellent pacing, which effectively conveyed themes of alienation, anxiety, and paranoia.” Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington, DC
Der Bau (the Burrow)
ARA THEATER AND MEDIA
ARA is a multidisciplinary theater and production company founded by Michaela Lind and Drew Valins with a combined 40+ years of experience working as award-winning performers and creators. Their work has toured globally (Edinburgh Fringe, Israel, Prague, and Sweden,) and has been featured in unique venues (Public Theater/Under the Radar, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Ted Talks, The Swedish and Czech Embassies in DC, The Beijing Children’s Opera, to name a few). They have worked with true artistic luminaries such as Slava Polounin (of Slava’s Snowshow), Bill Irwin, Kendall Cornell, and David Shiner, and they have had the esteemed audiences of the Dalai Lama and Madeline Albright.
LAKEPLAY
Drew Valin’s full length play had its World Premiere at the Wild Project, NYC in October 2024. A co-production with the Drilling Company and Ara Theater.
Piff Paff Poof - THE MAGIC OF NOTHING
We discovered Daniil Kharms in 2020 via two artists whom we admire, Slava Polunin and Robert Wilson. From our initial inspiration we began exploratory work on the material and presented some of the texts at a couple of variety nights. The work began to take hold of us. The absurdity of the texts and the entire "Kharmsian" world gave us a stimulus for creation and a vehicle to stretch ourselves as clowns and theater performers. Our first showing took place at Theaterlab, NYC fall of 2023.
