Waterfront Access? - a film by Floanne Ankah

simple production is a New York based art organization intended to feed the imagination of any curious audience. Uniting the performing and multimedia arts, the original efforts and choreographies is a collaboration of talent from diverse cultures: www.simple-production.com.

	Floanne Ankah is an award-wnning filmmaker, actor and choreographer. Born in France, Ankah has resided in New York City since 2000 where she works as an actor and voice artist on stage, film and television. She graduated from the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio in 2004 and has choreographed and/or collaborated for venues such as Movement Research, Joyce SoHo, Dance New Amsterdam, Merce Cunningham Studio and the HERE Arts Center . She began fusing the mediums of dance and film in “Brooklyn Bridge” (2006), “Imprints” (2007), followed by "ONE WAY" (2008, best experimental film, Big Apple Film Festival) and "Kirk Light" (2009) [ more acting info ] - [ choreography works ]
	Joe Zolkowski is a collaborative artist who likes to enroll people into creative projects, including sculpture, film, painting and installations. He was the founder of Catch 22, an art salon in the east village (1995-1998). He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Oregon. Accomplishments include a documentary called "Brave Destiny" for the Williamsburg Historical Arts Center, on the biggest surrealist art show of the century.
	Tony Arnaud: Born in Washington DC, raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Tony Arnaud resides in New York City. He got his education in Broadcast Communications at Xavier University, New Orleans. Tony is a self-taught digeridoo player and built his own instrument. After a few years, he started working on films and has been on sets ever since, both in New York City and abroad. He has been key grip on several commercials.
	Russ Spiegel: Alongside performing everything from solo guitar to running a 17-piece jazz orchestra featuring his own compositions and arrangements, Russ Spiegel has released several CDs, written music for film, TV and musicals, toured Europe and Asia, taught college-level courses, run workshops and seminars, worked as a music copyist for Broadway shows and major-label recordings as well as having appeared in a number of feature films as both a musician and actor.
	Zoe Schieber attended Tulane University where she received her BS degree in Anthropology, and after years of ballet training, began studying Modern dance. Later in Galway, Ireland she began choreographing which led her to North Carolina and finally to NYC. Currently she is participating in the Feldenkrais Practitioner Training Program and is happy teaching little ones with Young Dancers in Repertory. In New York she has performed with Noemie LaFrance Abbey Bender and Third Rail Productions and now with Eva Dean Dance.
	Tajna Tanovic is a performing artist with over 20 years of experience worldwide. She has appeared in stage, film, television and radio productions in Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Slovenia, Germany and New York. Recent New York projects have included “Yard Sale: New Footfalls...”, a Theater TAS production directed by Kaca Celan and presented by chashama, “Canal Street Station”, a radio theater piece by 31 Down and numerous projects with Dalzell Productions.
	Melissa Gordon Herring a native New Yorker born and raised in Queens, is all about expression and creativity. Her high school years were spent at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts where she studied vocal and musical theater; and Dance with Strut Your Stuff Dance studio. She believes that the freedom to express oneself is crucial to growth and a better understanding of the true self. She is currently getting her BA in Special Education, hoping to incorporate the arts with teaching in order to make the learning experience more effective and exciting.
	Johnny DeArden has been a principal dancer with The Dance Visions Company for the past two years. He is a graduate of the José Limón Dance Institute, and has performed for: HaitiDansCo, Inner Landscapes Dance Theater and Sens Production. Johnny appeared in the film “Requiem for the Sea” choreographed by Hyonok Kim for Lincoln Center's "Dance on Film", and was featured in the documentary “Dance in NY” by Yana Schnitzer. He worked on several multimedia projects at the Eyebeam and the Issue Project Room with composer Tristan Perich.
	Melanie Gretchen is a theater, film, and TV actress in New York. After growing up in the Philippines and Malta, she received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Denver. Following graduation, she was accepted into the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, then the Atlantic Theater Company's Acting School. Currently, Melanie is studying with Margaret Emory at Scott Powers Studios, Inc., following "Kiss Me, Kate" with the Village Light Opera Group.
	Juniper Foster, actress, dancer painter and filmmaker. Originally from Hadlyme, Connecticut, Juniper spent her youth very involved in the arts. She studied at The Neighborhood Playhouse, Shakespeare and Co. and A.R.T. She has been creating art and performing in New York since 1998. Juniper's goal is to be a Renaissance woman, fully engaged in all artforms.
	Angela Freiberger was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1976. In 1986, she studied computer graphics at the University of California in Los Angeles. In the early 1990 she traveled to Italy and Portugal and made sculptures in marble. In 2007 she received the Master of Fine Arts at State University of New York at Stony Brook.