Jesse Factor trained at the Martha Graham School and danced with Graham II, and the Martha Graham Dance Company. Born in Sharon PA, Jesse grew up in Quito Ecuador and Bangkok, Thailand before earning a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Factor’s work has been presented at the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, OUTsider Festival (Austin), Milton Art Bank, RADfest (Kalamazoo), St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery (NYC), Fresh Fruit Festival (NYC), Queer Spectra (Salt Lake City) and House of Yes, (NYC). Factor holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and completed additional studies at the American Dance Festival and 92 St Y’s Dance Education Lab (DEL). Jesse currently serves in the Modern Dance unit at Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts.

Andy Hasenpflug (Composer/Music Editor) started his career with the drum set, obtaining a master’s degree in classical percussion. Mr. Hasenpflug currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he freelances and works as the music director for the dance department of Slippery Rock University. In the summers Andy is the musical director for the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC.

Tony Allgeier (Costume Designer) uses his 14+ years of design expertise creating projects ranging from full service interior design, luxurious upholstery, and high caliber costuming. Allgeier is artist-in-residence at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and competed on HGTV’s Design Star : Next Gen – reinforcing their brand of ‘Streamlined Androgyny’ and the notion that design has no gender.

Robert Ramirez (Director) works across the country as a director, actor, recorded voice artist, and vocal coach. His professional credits include the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Alley Theater in Houston, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Public Theater in New York City. Recently, he performed here in Pittsburgh with Quantum Theater in Scenes from an Execution. Robert is a member of the National Theater Conference, Actors Equity Association, and currently serves as the Head of the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University.

Scott Andrew (Media Designer) (he/him/they/them) b. 1982, Waynesburg, PA, is a multimedia queer-oriented video, installation, performance artist, media designer, educator, and curator. Media Design projects include ’Suite Life’ at KST, ‘Underland x Alice’ at the New Hazlett Theater, and ‘Show Queen’, a 2023 NDP finalist and ongoing collaboration with Dance Artist Jesse Factor that grew out of a Freshworks presentation of ‘I Am A Haunted House’ at KST Alloy Studios.

Jesse Factor, Concept and Performance

Robert Ramirez, Director

Andy Hasenpflug, Sound Editing and Remixes

Scott Andrew, Projections, Lobby Installation

Julianna Waechter, Jesse Factor, Tony Allgeier, Costumes

Travis Klingler, Aurora Borealis, Wig Designs