ABOUT
fat pigeon is a collaboration between NYC actor/director Joel Garland (Orange Is The New Black), performer Carlton Ward (Third Rail Projects' Then She Fell), and dancer/choreographer Becky Radway (Becky Radway Dance Projects).
Their first short film, 219 Gates, combines the heart-pounding horror genre and the exploratory world of modern dance set over the course of one thrilling night.
Their first short film, 219 Gates, combines the heart-pounding horror genre and the exploratory world of modern dance set over the course of one thrilling night.
Joel Garland: television, film, and stage actor, lead singer/lyricist for The Atomic Grind Show, film maker, and graduate of Bennington College. Past acting credits include: film Limitless, The Bounty Hunter, I Sell the Dead, Rocket Science, Lady in the Water, Interstate 84, The Believer tv Bored to Death (recurring), Justified, Kings (recurring), Louie, Blue Bloods, Life on Mars, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order, The West Wing, Witchblade, The Big C, Third Watch, Kidnapped stage Essential Self Defense, Checkers, The Golden Door, Woyzeck. Joel also appears in the Netflix original series Orange Is The New Black.
Carlton Cyrus Ward is a dancer, circus performer, and actor from the woods of northern Vermont. He moved to New York City 15 years ago to study theater at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is currently performing with Third Rail Project in Then She Fell. Carlton was recently in The Artigiani Troupe’s That Beautiful Laugh and Phantom Limb’s 69 S. at BAM. He also works with Becky Radway Dance Projects and Circus Amok. In the past, he has worked with El Gato Teatro, Christopher Williams, Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects, Ateh Theater Company, Proto-type Theater Inc., Freefall, Alex Bag, Maureen Fleming, and Gary Indiana. In his free time, he has also been known to direct and choreograph.
Becky Radway has been creating original dance works with her company, Becky Radway Dance Projects, since 2002. Her work has been featured at Triskelion Arts Presents, Food For Thought at Danspace Project, Fridays at Noon at the 92nd Street Y, the DUMBO and Cool New York Festivals, the Uptown Arts Stroll, as well as in numerous venues across the U.S. Radway has set work on DragonFly Dance Experiment (Annapolis, MD), Lock Haven University (Lock Haven, PA), the Teen Dance Ensemble at Evolve Dance (Tarrytown, NY), Arundel High School (Anne Arundel, MD), and Oldfields School (Gambrillis, MD), and has been supported over the years by the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. Radway has had the pleasure of performing professionally since 2002 with the Kevin Wynn Collection, Heidi Latsky Dance, Ezra Caldwell, Incidents Physical Theater, and Leanne Schmidt and Company, among others. She received her BA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD. Radway was a finalist for the Arts Management Fellowship program at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and has worked primarily in arts administration since 2002.