<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Reid Farrington is a new media artist, director, and designer based in New York City. Currently, he is a resident artist at the Abrons Art Center/Henry Street Settlement where he is running an educational program developing the video elements for his next project <i>Dickens: The Unparalleled Necromancer,</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: Cambria;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> a variation on Charles Dickens’ <i>A Christmas Carol.</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria; mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> His directorial debut was <i>The Passion Project,</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> which premiered at the PS/K2 festival in Copenhagen, Denmark in November 2007. <i>Gin & “It,”</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria; mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> his second theater piece, premiered at the Wexner Center for the Arts in March 2010. He has been an associate member of The Wooster Group since 2001, and was in residence from 2001 to 2008. He designed video and created hardware and software systems for the integration of video and sound for six of the internationally renowned company’s productions: <i>To You, the Birdie!, Brace Up!, Poor Theater, House/Lights, Who’s Your Dada?!,</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> and <i>Hamlet.</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> He has toured internationally with his work and five of The Wooster Group’s productions to Copenhagen, Moscow, Paris, Berlin, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Melbourne, Brussels, Athens, Vancouver, and Columbus, OH. He has held creative residencies at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, the 3LD Art & Technology Center, and Abrons Art Center/Henry Street Settlement. The New York State Council on the Arts, The Greenwall Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Experimental Television Center, the Jerome Foundation and The Franklin Furnace Fund have funded his work.</span><!--EndFragment--> <br>