Mission Statement
The 46 Minutes Collective is a non-hierarchical performance collective founded in 2022 by artists committed to nurturing and producing boldly original, interdisciplinary time-based work. We aim to bolster emerging artists in their pursuit to push the limits of form, challenge the purity of medium, and foster collaborative processes. Our works exist in the in-between and the surreal; they tap on the fourth wall in a quest to make art that is accessible and creatively adventurous.
Meet the Team
Hannah Littman (They/Them/Theirs)
Hannah Littman (they/them) is a dance artist, scholar, educator, and producer originally from Los Angeles, currently working in Western Massachusetts and New York City. Hannah creates works that bring small historical moments and archival materials into the present through the dancing body. They have performed choreography by Merce Cunningham, Bill T. Jones, Angie Hauser, Andrew Schneider, Adam Weinert, Gabby Carmichael, and Michael Figueroa. Hannah’s choreographic work has been featured at Movement Research, Green Space, and BAAD!. Additionally, they have presented their scholarly research on labor aesthetics in contemporary dance and alternative approaches to historical dance restagings at conferences held by the Dance Studies Association and the American College Dance Association. Hannah holds a BA in Film and English from Vassar College and an MFA in Choreography & Performance from Smith College.
Photo by Stephanie Crousillat
Avi Klipfel (They/Them/Theirs)
Avi Klipfel (they/them) is a dramaturg specializing in new work development, dance-theater, and adaptation. Their work explores consensual audience participation, verbatim text, abstraction, and creative uses of structure and form. They are the Interim Director of Community Engagement at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, The New England Regional Vice President of the LMDA, a Writers Group Facilitator for The Workshop Theater, and an Artistic Advisor for Play Incubation Collective. They have worked with The Public Theater, New Dramatists, One Year Lease Theater Company, The Hangar Theater, The Gamm Theater, and more. Originally from Rhode Island, Avi now splits time in Northampton, MA and New York City.
Photo by Jamie Kraus Photography
Elliot Hoke (He/Him/His)
Elliot Hoke (he/him) is an actor, director, dancer, writer, video editor, audio editor, and probably some other things he’s forgetting right now. Based in NYC by way of Bethlehem, PA, Elliot earned his BA in Drama and Media Studies with honors from Vassar College. He has been a member of the Hangar Theatre Lab Company and One Year Lease’s Apprentice Company, performed at the IndyFringe Theater Festival and Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and directed for the Secret Theatre's Queen's Short Play Festival. He is a co-founder of and the graphic/web designer for the 46 Minutes Collective. He has most recently performed as Le Bret in Cyrano de Bergerac (Foul Fiend Theatre Troupe), Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Accidental Evils), King Henry IV in Henry IV (Accidental Evils), and Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest (Indigo Inferno Productions).
Photo by Adam Benamram
Sloane Burling (He/They)
An actor, dancer, and choreographer, as well as a hobby-level practitioner of a multitude of different media. Now based in New York City, Sloane’s dance training began at Monroe Dance Academy in small-town Connecticut, and from there, they went on to earn their BA in Drama and Psychology from Vassar College, where they were a member of Vassar Repertory Dance Theater. During their time in school, they presented their thesis in Drama, acting in Mary Zimmerman’s “Metamorphoses,” and also performed in Hannah Littman’s “we found each other in the rubble” and “A DECAGON.” Though famously a person of rotating hobbies, Sloane finds consistent joy in exploring the many little worlds inside his head, expanding his ever-growing collection of board games, and maintaining his streak on the New York Times Crossword (to varying levels of success).
Photo by Adam Benamram
Gabby Kimbrough (She/Her/Hers)
A playwright, actor, and dramaturg from Los Angeles and is now based in Brooklyn. She started practicing theater as a child with Amazing Grace Conservatory, eventually earning her BA in Drama with a minor in Race and Ethnicity in Literature from Vassar College. At Vassar, Gabby was a member of Woodshed Theater ensemble and the president of Future Waitstaff of America. Her senior year, Gabby won the Marylin Swartz Seven prize for her play True Crime and presented her senior thesis in playwriting, The God Damn Rapture. Recently, Gabby was a dramaturgy fellow at the New Harmony Project’s 2022 Writer’s Conference and is currently the Associate Head of Playwriting for CreateHER, an educational program through SheNYC Arts. Gabby loves to crochet, rewatch sitcoms, and create very long specific playlists. She would also like to note that since these pictures, she has made a drastic hair change.
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Cha Mangan (He/They)
Cha (he/they) is a leuk-kreung amehlika neuroscientist and playwright hailing from suburban Philly. Their plays aim to unearth the rage and yearning that Asian Americans crush and bury through surrealist circumstances and ridiculous action.
Cha is an American Blues Theater Blue Ink and Chisa Hutchinson Signpost Fellowship semi-finalist, two-time Fulbright Grant awardee, Molly Thacher Kazan Prize awardee, and the founding co-facilitator of the 46 Minute Theater Collective’s Writer’s Group. Collaborators include The Maker’s Ensemble, The Workshop Theater, Tin Can Contingency, Cult Collective, Devise and Conquer, 46 Min Collective, the Fulbright Association, and South East Asian Lit Circle. He also loves Thai espresso and very cold showers. BA in Neuroscience & Drama from Vassar College.