Cory is the Artistic Director of Adhesive Theater Project. With Adhesive,
he has directed and designed NOIR by Kalle Macrides, the collaboratively
written I, Object! and Kirby, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots):
A Futurist Folk Opera – Adhesive's original adaptation of Karol Čapek's
Rossum's Universal Robots, Jake Hooker's Hysteria, HYSTERIA! and
Les Mauvais Garçons, Chantecler by Edmond Rostand,
Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, and The Battles of Coxinga by
Chikamatsu. Prior to Adhesive Theater Project, Cory founded SITE
(Site Installation Theater Ensemble) in Philadelphia. As the Artistic Director
of SITE, he directed Daniel Therriault's Battery in an electric art installation
and Chantecler at the Philadelphia Zoo. He co-directed David Rabe's
In The Boom Boom Room in a Go-Go Bar, and Phillip Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney
in an abandoned loft where a body was found under the floorboards. Cory is a
member of Actors' Equity Association, and SAG-AFTRA and has been performing professionally
since the age of seven when he played the young king in King of the Gypsies
(Paramount Pictures) and later hosted Kids just Kids on NBC. He holds a BFA
in Theatre Arts from the University of the Arts and an MFA in Performance and Interactive
Media Arts from Brooklyn College. Currently, Cory is an Adjunct Assistant Professor
at CUNY College of Technology where he teaches in the Entertainment Technology Department.
He has freelanced for many NYC theater companies as a set designer, video designer, and
choreographer. His article on live video tracking for the stage, Within A Frame,
was published in Live Design Magazine (Dec. 2009). His adaptation of Chikamatsu
Monzaemon's The Battles of Coxinga will be published in Performing Resistance in
Dutch Formosa, by Harrassowitz Publishing House later this year.
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