Gelsey Bell (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary performance creator, composer, and vocalist. Her recent works include the experimental opera mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning], the soundwalk Cairns, the musical one-act Archaeopteris, and her in-development experimental opera Sickbed. Her work often features non-human protagonists and storytelling over geologic and cosmic time scales. She is the Co-Artistic Director of thingNY and Varispeed. She has released multiple albums, including the mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning], Skylighght, and Heads Together, and her librettos have been published through 53^rd State press and TDR/The Drama Review. She has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Opera America, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Japan Foundation, NYSCA, and others. Performance highlights also include Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway, Off-Broadway, etc.) and Ghost Quartet, Robert Ashley’s Celestial Excursions and Improvement, Darius Jones’s Samesoul Maker, and works by Jay Afrisando, Kate Soper, Tomomi Adachi, Brent Michael Davids, Raven Chacon, and others. She has a PhD in performance studies from NYU and is part-time faculty for the Master of Music Performer-Composer program at the New School. http://www.gelseybell.com