2016/17 season details coming soon!
2016/17 season details coming soon!
August 2015 Artist in Residence
Writer
New York City, NY
Mehdi Tavana Okasi’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Best New American Voices 2009, among others. He was the recipient of the short story career award from the National Society of Arts and Letters, the Joyce Horton Johnson Fellowship from the Key West Literary Seminars, and is a 2014 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fiction Fellow. He was the 2011-12 Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at SUNY-Purchase College.
With one of the tallest buildings – and most spectacular views – in town, the Hugh’s View rooftop terrace serves as The Studios’ creative space in the sky. The terrace sits four stories above street level and offers panoramic views of the island. The Kitwald Stage glows in the golden twilight of our sunset performances.
With original seating from its days as a Masonic temple, the Helmerich Theater has been updated to also include floor seating. As a black box theater, the set up is intimate but professional, and sets the stage for concerts and performances that leave guests feeling like they really got to know the performer.