Tony Bordonaro

Tony Bordonaro is a choreographer, director, performer, and teaching artist based in New York City. Known for his work in immersive theatre and physical storytelling, Tony performed in the hit Off-Broadway production of Sleep No More from 2011–2016 and was part of the original casts of The Unbrunch, The Lost Supper, and Sleep No More Shanghai. Most recently, he was a contributing choreographer and original cast member of Emursive’s Life & Trust, currently running in downtown Manhattan. His screen credits include commercials, television (One Life to Live, American Horror Story: Season 12, and Eric), and films (Mo and Manhattan Romance).

Tony’s choreographic work spans video, music videos, and commercials, including the short film RAT (directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson), the Oscar®-winning student film Opera of Cruelty, and branded campaigns for OPPO (Bring Creativity to Reality) and WOM. He has received choreographic residencies and fellowships through Mare Nostrum Elements’ Emerging Choreographers Series, NEWSTEPS’ Emerging Choreographers Series, and the New Directions Choreography Lab at The Ailey School.

Tony’s company work includes performances with HT Chen & Dancers, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, and Douglas Dunn & Dancers, and he was a founding member of the all-male repertory company 10HL.

A dedicated teaching artist, Tony has led master classes at numerous studios and universities, served as a Part-Time Lecturer at Rutgers University, and was Adjunct Faculty at LIU-Brooklyn. He holds a BFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts and is represented by MSA Agency. A lifelong student and teacher of yoga, Tony continues to bring his passion for movement and connection to all areas of his work.

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Ingrid Kapteyn

is an international performer and collaborator with a BFA in Dance and The Martha Hill Prize from The Juilliard School. She was the Resident Director of Punchdrunk's hit immersive show “Sleep No More” NYC in 2024, a member of the cast of Punchdrunk’s “The Burnt City” in London, and in the original cast of “Sleep No More” Shanghai.

As a performer, Ingrid has also worked with The Metropolitan Opera, Brian Brooks Moving Company, Danielle Russo, and Wally Cardona, and she was an actor in MacArthur Fellow Martha Clarke’s “God’s Fool” at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club and “Angel Reapers” at Signature Theatre. She has appeared in live immersive events for the fashion house Valentino, Anheuser-Busch, AMC, and Disney.

As a choreographer and director, Ingrid has co-created, produced, and performed evening-length productions in New York, London, and China, including “Humans Within Structure”, “Once we're lit”, and “This Is Nothing Without You” with her collaborative collective HEWMAN; “POP” with fellow Shanghai castmates; and “CAMPFIRE”, “The Pigeon & The Mouse”, and “Subject” with Tony.

As a teacher, Ingrid has offered master classes, workshops, and seminars internationally, including for Juilliard Global Ventures/Nord Anglia Education (in Shanghai, Dubai, Switzerland, Qatar, and NYC), New York University’s School of Medicine, FRESH Dance Intensive, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Playwrights Horizons, The Alvin Ailey School, Gibney Dance, Peridance, and Princeton, Bucknell, and Rutgers Universities. In 2016, she served as Assistant to the Artistic Director of Springboard Danse Montréal.

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Tony & Ingrid

first met while performing in Sleep No More NYC in 2013. They later spent a year together in China as part of the original cast of Sleep No More Shanghai. They have since collaborated to conceive, create, direct, and perform five evening-length productions of three original danceplays in Shanghai, New York City, and London.

Tony and Ingrid’s first creation, “CAMPFIRE”, tested the limits of human empathy through a story about the last two people on Earth. They premiered it with a run of sold-out shows in an office space in downtown Shanghai that was still under construction, where the audience moved with them through an entire gutted floor of the building that was strewn with rubble and debris.

Tony and Ingrid next presented “CAMPFIRE” in The Tank's intimate 56-seat blackbox in midtown Manhattan, with a two-part immersive scent sculpture that diffused bitter metallic notes into the trace of campfire embers.

A year later, Tony and Ingrid premiered a kind of alternate-universe prequel to “CAMPFIRE” called “The Pigeon & The Mouse” in a raw, vacant retail space near Grand Central Station. It is a love story about leaving home. They went on to adapt the piece for fifteen live, safely-distanced audiences over the course of quarantine in NYC, before turning it into a film that is a Top 5 Finalist in the Broadway On Demand Short Film Festival. 

In 2021, their original danceplay “Subject at Memredux Laboratories” had a three-week off-Broadway run in a 9.2K sq. ft. space in the heart of Manhattan's theater district. Recommended by TimeOut NY as one of the best immersive theater experiences in NYC, the live production was part art installation, part dance performance, and one-hundred percent immersive storytelling.

You can hear Tony and Ingrid speak about Subject and their other work on the 5.6.7.Eight Podcast for People on the Move.