RoseLee Goldberg is Founding Director and Chief Curator of Performa. Launched in 2004, Performa, has changed the perception of performance art with its city-wide Biennial, ground-breaking commissions, publications, and arts-broadcasting platform. Goldberg’s publications include, Performance Art: from Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979 and now in its fourth edition; and Performance Now: Live Art for the 21 st Century. Former director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and curator at The Kitchen in New York, Goldberg has organized performance series at the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim and other institutions. Goldberg has taught at NYU Steinhardt since 1987.

Lynne Tillman’s novels include Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; No Lease on Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; American Genius, A Comedy, and Men and Apparitions. Other books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967, photographs by Stephen Shore: What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Someday This Will Be Funny. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and the Katherine Anne Porter award. Her most recent work, MOTHERCARE, is an autobiographical book-length essay on caring for a sick parent for 11 years.