Fish & Bicycle is a group of young theater artists experimenting with unconventional approaches to creating performance, inspired by circus arts, the many dimensions of time and space, and the training methods of Olympic athletes. The group believes that the most powerful and intimate experience is to witness the journey beyond the limitations of the physical body and the realm of the imagination, into the dreamlike place where anything in the external and internal world becomes possible.

No stage as of yet is big enough to fit Fish & Bicycle’s large-scale spectacles. Instead, the group creates original, site-specific works in backyards, playgrounds, campuses, parking garages, or wherever else feels right. Fish and Bicycle exists to serve the community in which it performs. Therefore, the creation and production of the work is a collaborative and community effort, open to the public, on a pay what you can basis, and always for the people by the people. Come support us. Come join us. To the struggle!

OUR PEOPLE

Nathan Green

Nathan R. Green is a co-founder and co-artistic director of Fish & Bicycle Theatre Company. Nate directed the first two site-specific F&B shows, The Death and Life of Pan (co-directed), and The Adventures of Jesitha and Andronikis in addition to F&B’s latest show, Prometheus: An Oxidized Tale of Creation! He recently completed a directing internship at the Actors Theatre of Louisville where he directed Edge Play, by Brendan Pelsue, as well as devised apprentice company solo & ensemble collaborations including his original Thanksgiving pageant version of Macbeth. There he also assisted on 4 mainstage shows including the Neo-futurist play 43 Plays for 43 Presidents. At the Humana Festival of New American plays he was an assistant to Anne Bogart for the SITI Company production of Charles Mee’s Under Construction. Nate has worked extensively with Atlanta’s Out of Hand Theatre, appearing in their hit show Meds in 2007. He graduated with highest honors from Emory University.

Jessica Unker

Jessica “Junkie” Unker welcomes you to the magick of Fish & Bicycle Theatre Company! Serving as Producing Artistic Director since the company’s birth, Jessica can be found throughout the year exploring, collaborating, and learning from the country’s best. After a southeastern tour with Atlanta’s Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Jessica began working extensively with companies such as the SITI Company, Double Edge Theatre, Out of Hand Theater, and Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, all with a focus on Suzuki/Viewpoints, Grotowski, and Theatre of Acrobatic Movement. Raised in the South and an alumni of University of the Arts, Jessica has now moved on to melding circus arts with a theatrical spectrum in hopes of allowing an audience to have a truly beautiful artistic experience. After writing F & B’s first two productions “The Death and Life of Pan” as well as “The Adventures of Jesitha and Andronikis: The Search for Love!”, Jessica will be co-directing F & B’s newest piece “Prometheus!: An Oxidized Tale of Creation” this summer in Cape Cod, MA.

Andrew McGill

Andrew Hastings McGill, an Atlantan native, has been an Actor his whole life, and according to a well renowned psychic was an Actor for at least three separate past lives. Andrew has for the past five years been assembling a team that is not only smart but sexy. Trained in Suzuki, Viewpoints and various magikal methods Andrew produces Theater that radically interprets the action of the world around him, and inside him. With a very “Do It Yourself” mentality he disregards the Western education system and all of its pomp and rigor. He simply asks young artists to consider their every breathing moment part of a never-ending education, and to read books, please? He wants you to know that its all going to be OK.

Shannon McKenna

Shannon McKenna has been a member of Fish & Bicycle from the beginning, appearing as the Witch Doctor in The Death and Life of Pan, and as Lady Arcane in Jesitha and Andronikis in the Search for Love. After a two-year stint with traditional acting at NYU’s Meisner Extension, Shannon began focusing on developing original work through writing and choreography. To this end, she has worked with companies such as Double Edge Theatre, Out of Hand Theater, and The Glass Company, as well as with theater geniuses like Mary Overlie. In 2008, she studied closely with playwright Roy Kendall in London to learn traditional methods of dramatic structure and playwriting. When she’s not traveling or doing various F&B related tasks, you can find Shannon standing on her head at a yoga studio, performing her sick slam poetry, or creating invisible theater pieces in the East Village. She believes in a balls-to-the-wall, super-sweet, spectacular, hit-you-where-it-hurts-but-you-know-you-like-it, so-wrong-it’s-right-kind theater and is happy to provide it to you all in the form of F&B. B.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts

J. Trevor Jones

J. Trevor Jones is studying Arts Administration with an emphasis in Theatre and Non-profit at Georgia State University. He has been actively involved in Fish & Bicycle since nearly beginning. Trevor has worked under the direction of Actor Express’ Artistic Director Freddie Ashley for inspiration toward F&B. He has been in both of F&B’s past productions of Jesitha and Andronikis: in the Search for Love as well as The Death and Life of Pan. His involvement in the company has included: set design/construction, physical enhancement exercises, procuring of props, ensemble building leadership, performing magical feats of acrobatics, and all other fantastical tasks asked of him. He is currently building his experience on the silk and dance trapeze as well as heading the creation of the new Fish & Bicycle spectacle… Prometheus! An Oxidized Tale of Creation.