Rob Roth
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Rob Roth is a New York City-born director, performer and visual artist who received his BFA from Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...

 and whose work draws from photography, video, painting, dramaturgy and theater. Roth has created a variety of work for such artists as Deborah Harry/Blondie
Blondie (band)
Blondie is an American rock band, founded by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave and punk scenes of the mid-1970s...

, Theo Kogan
Theo Kogan
Theo Kogan is an American singer, songwriter, model, and actress. She is most well known for being the vocalist of the all girl punk band, Lunachicks. Currently, she sings in the dance/electronic band, Theo & the Skyscrapers. She also has her own cosmetic line, Armour Beauty...

 (Lunachicks) Justin Bond
Justin Bond
Justin Vivian Bond , formerly simply Justin Bond, is an American singer-songwriter, performance artist, occasional actor and Radical Faerie. Described as a "fixture of the New York avant-garde", Bond arose to notability playing the role of Kiki DuRayne in the drag cabaret act Kiki and Herb from the...

 (Kiki and Herb), Big Art Group
Big Art Group
Big Art Group is a New York City-based experimental performance ensemble that uses language and media to push formal boundaries of theatre, film and visual arts to create culturally transgressive works...

, performance artists Julie Tolentino and Narcissister. Roth is also one of the founding members of the New York City nightlife spectacle ‘Click + Drag’ .

Installation, Theater and Spectacle

2011 - Life on Mars Revisited - David Bowie
David Bowie
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

/Mick Rock
Mick Rock
Mick Rock is a British photographer best known for his iconic shots of rock and roll legends such as Queen, David Bowie, Syd Barrett, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Joan Jett, Talking Heads, Roxy Music, Crossfade, Thin Lizzy, Motley Crue, and Blondie...

/Barney Clay
- Art Director/Animator, Creators Project (Paris, Sao Paulo, Beijing, New York)

2011 - $piderman: Turn on the Lights! Performer - House of Yes
House of Yes
House of Yes may refer to:*The House of Yes, is a play written by Wendy MacLeod*The House of Yes, is a 1997 film starring Parker Posey, based on the play*House of Yes: Live from House of Blues, live album by prog-rock band Yes....

, Brooklyn NY

2011 – Narcissister: This Masquerade - Director - Abrons Art Center, NYC

2011 – Nightvision - Co-creator/performer - Wolfboy performance with Chad Hammer, Marti Domination (Beaut) - Wild Project, NYC

2010 – Screen Test Film Premiere - Director, Producer, Editor – Museum of Arts and Design , NYC

2010 – Click + Drag 3.2: Age Of Aquarius – Co-Creator / Visual Director (Performers: Narcissister, Rumi Cockette, Lady Rizo
Lady Rizo
Lady Rizo is a comedienne and chanteuse who began performing in New York in 2004. In 2005 she co-created the cult caburlesque show "Lady Rizo and the Assettes" with her close friend and dancer, Amber Star. Coining the word 'caburlesque', the show drew inspiration from theater, vaudeville,...

 and Amber Martin) – Santos Party House
Santos Party House
Santos Party House is a New York City nightclub, located at 96 Lafayette Street, in downtown Manhattan. Originally named the 'Lafayette Street Jungle Gym,' Santos Party House has been recognized as "Best New Nightclub" at Paper Magazine's Annual Nightlife Awards, and has also won awards for its...

 , NYC

2010 – Narcissister This Masquerade - Co-Director – The Kitchen
The Kitchen
The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space located at at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City...

 , New York

2010 – Wolfboy Performance with Julia Kent
Julia Kent
Julia Kent is a New York City-based, Canadian-born cellist who is best known as an original member of the all-cello group Rasputina, and later on as a member of Antony and the Johnsons....

 – Book Club Burlesque, New York, NY

2010 – Synaptic Efficacy Refreshment – Director / Performers: Sequinette
Sequinette
Sequinette is an American female-to-female drag performer in Brooklyn, New York. She also works as a make-up artist and stylist for herself and other performers. She is the founder of the Coney Island Sweetheart Pet Pageant, an alternative beauty pageant for pets that raises funds for various...

, 5 hour durational performance/installation - Banzi Group Show - Red Lotus Room, Brooklyn, NY

2009 – Click + Drag 3.1: The Second Coming – Creator / Visual Director (Performers: Our Lady J, Sequinette, The Pixie Harlots), Santos Party House
Santos Party House
Santos Party House is a New York City nightclub, located at 96 Lafayette Street, in downtown Manhattan. Originally named the 'Lafayette Street Jungle Gym,' Santos Party House has been recognized as "Best New Nightclub" at Paper Magazine's Annual Nightlife Awards, and has also won awards for its...

 , NYC

2009 – Ascension No 1 – Director / Performer - 3 hour durational performance installation, Manifesto Group Show, Arena Studios, NYC

2009 – The Jingle Jangle Sisters – (Amber Martin and Amelia Zirin-Brown) Director, Ars Nova
Ars nova
Ars nova refers to a musical style which flourished in France and the Burgundian Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages: more particularly, in the period between the preparation of the Roman de Fauvel and the death of the composer Guillaume de Machaut in 1377...

, New York, NY

2008 – Click + Drag 3.0: The Hallucinogenic Toreador – Creator / Visual Director (Performers: Venus De Mars, Basil Twist
Basil Twist
Basil Twist is a New York City-based puppeteer who is best known for his underwater puppet show, "Symphonie Fantastique".-Life and work:Originally from San Francisco, Basil Twist is a third generation puppeteer. He graduated from the École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in...

, The Pixie Harlots), Santos Party House
Santos Party House
Santos Party House is a New York City nightclub, located at 96 Lafayette Street, in downtown Manhattan. Originally named the 'Lafayette Street Jungle Gym,' Santos Party House has been recognized as "Best New Nightclub" at Paper Magazine's Annual Nightlife Awards, and has also won awards for its...

 , NYC



Performances of The Mystery of the Claywoman: Screening and Lecture, - Director/Editor/Performer


(Written and performed by Michael Cavadias also has featured Rob Roth, Chris Miller and Nicholas Gorham, Costumes by Todd Thomas and Kitty Boots, Makeup by Courtney Tichman and Ruthie Weems. Mockumentary features Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming, OBE is a Scottish stage, television and film actor, singer, writer, director, producer and author. His roles have included the Emcee in Cabaret, Boris Grishenko in GoldenEye, Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United, Mr. Elton in Emma, and Fegan Floop in the Spy Kids trilogy...

, Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler
Amy Meredith Poehler is an American comedian, actress and voice actress. She was a cast member on the NBC television entertainment show Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2008. In 2004, she starred in the film Mean Girls with Tina Fey, with whom she worked again in Baby Mama in 2008. She is...

, Debbie Harry
Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she performed and recorded as part of The Jazz Passengers...

, Ruth Maleczech
Ruth Maleczech
Ruth Maleczech is an American avant-garde stage actress, whose most notable role may have been as King Lear, portrayed as an imperious Southern matriarch...

, Edgar Oliver
Edgar Oliver
Edgar Oliver is an American stage and film actor, poet, performance artist and playwright. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he has lived and worked in New York City since 1977. He is considered a "legend" of the downtown New York theatre scene.-Career:...

  and Rachelle Garniez among others)
  • 2008 Deitch Projects
    Deitch Projects
    Deitch Projects was a contemporary art gallery in New York City founded by Jeffrey Deitch.-History:Since opening with a performance by Vanessa Beecroft in February 1996, the gallery has presented nearly one hundred and eighteen solo exhibitions and projects, ten thematic exhibitions, and a few...

    , New York , NY
  • 2008 New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York , NY
  • 2008 The Wild Project, New York , NY
  • 2009 Town Hall, Open for Antony and the Johnsons
    Antony and the Johnsons
    Antony and the Johnsons is a music group presenting the work of Antony Hegarty and his collaborators.-Career:British experimental musician David Tibet of Current 93 heard a demo and offered to release Antony's music through his Durtro label. The debut album, Antony and the Johnsons, was released...

    , New York , NY
  • 2009 Le Petite Versailles, New York, NY
  • 2009 Howl! Festival, Bleecker St Theater New York, NY
  • 2011 - Afterglow Festival - Provincetown, MA




Performances of Screen Test , Director/Creator

(Performed by Theo Kogan
Theo Kogan
Theo Kogan is an American singer, songwriter, model, and actress. She is most well known for being the vocalist of the all girl punk band, Lunachicks. Currently, she sings in the dance/electronic band, Theo & the Skyscrapers. She also has her own cosmetic line, Armour Beauty...

 , Music by Theo and the Skyscrapers, Choreography by Vangeline Theater, Costumes by Todd Thomas)
  • 2005 - PS 122, New York , NY
  • 2008 - PS 122 Coil Festival, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
  • 2008 - Abrons Art Center, New York, NY



2006 – Fire Waltz, Video Projection, part of MoveOpolis, Richard Move, Lille, France

2006 – Whitney Biennale, Fabulous Entourage Performance Video Projection, Whitney Museum, New York , NY

2006–2007 Dead Set #2Big Art Group
Big Art Group
Big Art Group is a New York City-based experimental performance ensemble that uses language and media to push formal boundaries of theatre, film and visual arts to create culturally transgressive works...

, Video/Animation (New York, Berlin, Rome, Paris)

2005 – For You, Julie Tolentino ,Video Projection, Participant , Inc. New York , NY

2005 – Ambient Body Projection #2 (Theo Kogan
Theo Kogan
Theo Kogan is an American singer, songwriter, model, and actress. She is most well known for being the vocalist of the all girl punk band, Lunachicks. Currently, she sings in the dance/electronic band, Theo & the Skyscrapers. She also has her own cosmetic line, Armour Beauty...

, Pino Fortunato) Mix Festival, Opening Night, New York, NY

2005 – Dirty Car – performance installation with Meg Stuart , Salzberg , Austria

2005 – Ambient Body Projection #1 (Theo Kogan
Theo Kogan
Theo Kogan is an American singer, songwriter, model, and actress. She is most well known for being the vocalist of the all girl punk band, Lunachicks. Currently, she sings in the dance/electronic band, Theo & the Skyscrapers. She also has her own cosmetic line, Armour Beauty...

), Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

2004 – Julia Portrait, Big Art Group
Big Art Group
Big Art Group is a New York City-based experimental performance ensemble that uses language and media to push formal boundaries of theatre, film and visual arts to create culturally transgressive works...

, video projection
  • Maison des Arts de Creteil , Paris , France
  • Dance Theater Workshop , New York, NY

2004–2006 House of No More, Big Art Group
Big Art Group
Big Art Group is a New York City-based experimental performance ensemble that uses language and media to push formal boundaries of theatre, film and visual arts to create culturally transgressive works...

 – Video Design and Animation. (New York, Berlin, Paris)

2000 - 2001 – Click + Drag 2.0 Co-Creator (artists included Justin Bond
Justin Bond
Justin Vivian Bond , formerly simply Justin Bond, is an American singer-songwriter, performance artist, occasional actor and Radical Faerie. Described as a "fixture of the New York avant-garde", Bond arose to notability playing the role of Kiki DuRayne in the drag cabaret act Kiki and Herb from the...

, Debbie Harry
Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she performed and recorded as part of The Jazz Passengers...

, Avenue D) Fun, NYC

1999 – Blondie
Blondie (band)
Blondie is an American rock band, founded by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave and punk scenes of the mid-1970s...

 No Exit World Tour – Stage Set and Video Projections

1996 – Bathroom Cam, surveillance installation with Planet Theory, Click + Drag, Mother, New York, NY

1996–2000, Click + Drag - co-creator / art director , (featured artists included, Julia Scher
Julia Scher
Julia Scher is an American artist who works primarily with themes of surveillance. She uses a variety of mediums and is most known for her installation art and performance art works. Her work addresses issues of control and seduction....

, Kembra Pfahler
Kembra Pfahler
Kembra Pfahler is an American performance artist, rock musician and actress. As a performance artist she has been recognized on every "Top 10 List" published during the past quarter century. Her graphic depictions of the horror, repetition, degradation, and have been recognized as insightfully...

,
Genesis P. Orridge, Vaginal Crème Davis, Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Paglia , is an American author, teacher, and social critic. Paglia, a self-described dissident feminist, has been a Professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since 1984...

,) Mother , NYC

1994 - Interjackie - concept and video installation , Jackie Videophone, Create Your Own Mistress Master, Collaboration with Jackie 60
Jackie 60
Jackie 60 was a famous weekly party held every Tuesday in New York's Meatpacking District. Founded by DJ Johnny Dynell, writer Chi Chi Valenti, fashion designer Kitty Boots and dancer/choreographer Richard Move, who were later , joined by Brian Butterick AKA Hattie Hathaway. It served gay,...

, New York, NY

Exhibitions

2011 – (Spring) Prague Quadrennial
Prague Quadrennial
Held in Prague once every fourth years since 1967, the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space or Prague Quadrennial is the world's largest event in the field of scenography, consisting of a competitive presentation of contemporary work in a variety of performance design disciplines and...

 - Screen Test Exhibition in American Theater Wing

2010 – Back to the Future – Solo Photo Exhibition, Wild Project Gallery, NYC

2010 – Degrees Of Freedom (mixed media installation) - London Biennale NYC Satellite Event

2010 – Synaptic Efficacy Refreshment Live Durational Installation, Banzai Group Show,Brooklyn , NY

1995 – Synaesthesia (group show that included Ronnie Cutrone, H.R. Giger, Jaron Lanier and Survival Research Laboratories) Interjackie Videophone , Mistress Master Tool, Mary Anthony Gallery Soho, NY

1994 – Oz #2 Confessional, Video Installation, Chamber 2 (group show that included Melissa Dadourian, Steve Brower, Enoc Perez.)

Cinema/Visual Effects/Music Video

2010 Claywoman Tribute to Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the...

- The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

 UK, Director, Editor

2008 Adventureland
Adventureland (film)
Adventureland is a 2009 Retro comedy-drama film written and directed by Greg Mottola. The film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Margarita Levieva, Ryan Reynolds, Martin Starr, Bill Hader, and Kristen Wiig.-Plot:...

, Title Design

2007 Deborah Harry, Two Times Blue, Director/Visual Effects

2007 The Brave One
The Brave One (2007 film)
The Brave One is a 2007 crime-drama/psychological thriller film directed by Neil Jordan, produced by Joel Silver, and starring Jodie Foster. It was released in the United States on September 14, 2007...

, Warner Bros. - Main Title Sequence Design

2007 El Cantante
El Cantante
El Cantante is a 2006 American film released in the United States on August 3, 2007. The biopic stars singer Marc Anthony and actress-singer Jennifer Lopez . The film is based on the life story of salsa legend Héctor Lavoe...

, Picturehouse- Visual Effects Director

2007 Crazy Love
Crazy Love (2007 film)
Crazy Love is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens. The screenplay by Klores explores the troubled relationship between New York City attorney Burt Pugach and his considerably younger mistress Linda Riss, who was blinded and permanently scarred when thugs hired...

, Visual Effects Director

2006 Theo and the Skyscrapers, Broken Girl, Director/Editor

2005 Waging a Living
Waging a Living
Waging a Living is a 2005 documentary film that addresses the issue of the American dream and whether or not hard work will invariably improve your condition...

, Rodger Weisburg, Title Design

2004 Theo and the Skyscrapers, Run Rabbit Run, Director/Animator

2003 Theo and the Skyscrapers, Time, Director/Editor

2003 Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood is a book written by Peter Biskind and published by Simon and Schuster in 1998...

: How the Sex Drugs and Rock N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, Art Director

2000 The Boys of Manchester, On the Set of Queer as Folk, Graphic Designer

1999 Bauhaus: Gotham, Graphic Designer

1993 Fly By Night, Assistant Set Director
1992 Yuppicide "Ourselves", Co-Director

Design

2007 Deborah Harry, Necessary Evil – Art Director

2006 Theo and the Skyscrapers – CD and DVD, Art Director/Photographer

Blondie
Blondie (band)
Blondie is an American rock band, founded by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave and punk scenes of the mid-1970s...

 –
  • 1999 No Exit Art Director, Photographer, CD and Tour book
  • 2000 Blondie Live - Art Director, Photographer, CD
  • 2003 The Curse of Blondie - Art Director, Photographer, CD


1997 Bytes of Bryant Park, Webbed Feats , Stephan Koplowitz, Website Design

1995 Netwits , Microsoft – Online multi user game , Art Director

1997 Kiki and Herb
Kiki and Herb
Kiki and Herb are an American drag cabaret duo. Bond portrays Kiki DuRane, an aging, alcoholic, female lounge singer...

 “Do You Hear What We Hear”? Christmas CD, Art Director/ Photographer

1995 The Friggs, Rock Candy, Art Director/Photographer

Publications

Live Design Magazine, “How I Did That, Screen Test” Cover and Article , March 2008

Next Magazine “Deconstructing Harry” Cover and Interview

Tokion
Tokion
Tokion is a New York-based magazine covering art, fashion, music and film. It publishes separate US, UK, and Japanese editions. Tokion also produces the annual Creativity Now Conference, a weekend-long seminar of panel discussions with speakers from across the creative spectrum.- History :Tokion...

 Magazine, “Rise Above”, Interview with Debbie Harry, July/Aug 2003

Awards

Live Design Excellence Award for Theater, Screen Test 2009

Independent Spirit Award, Best Documentary, "Crazy Love", 2008

Communication Arts Award of Excellence, Interactive Design Annual- Netwits 1997

ID Magazine Design Review, Netwits, 1997

External links

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