Early Stage Creative Residencies

Fall 2025 – Spring 2026

$0 – $275

Residencies will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.

For the second year, The Chocolate Factory Theater’s Programming Committee (led by artist Board Member Neil Greenberg), working closely with Co-Founder / Artistic Director Brian Rogers, invited current Season Artists to nominate fellow artists to receive early stage creative residencies.

Throughout the 2005 / 2006 Season, Crackhead Barney, Jesse Bonnell, lily gold, Amanda Horowitz, Kashia Kancey, Joanna Kotze, Maya Lee-Parritz, Kimiko Tanabe, Zerina Tye, and Lu Yim will each receive access to space and financial support for early stage research into their new projects.

image from lily gold's new work in progress. A hand drawn pink background. lily's mother lays on the unseen floor, knees raised. lily, wearing an orange cap and black sweats, leans against them.
image from lily gold's new work in progress. A hand drawn pink background. lily's mother lays on the unseen floor, knees raised. lily, wearing an orange cap and black sweats, leans against them.

lily gold – Sheshi

Work in progress showing – Saturday September 20 at 3pm. RSVP here.

Sheshi is a playful approach to transmuting intergenerational trauma through dance. Rekindling reverence for elders, this duet between choreographer and interdisciplinary artist lily gold and her mother features sound support from artist dani derks and surprise guest performers. Tuning to ancestral resilience and reviving parts lost to assimilation, their scores are transparent with tensions and explore family stories they’ve been told, as well as ones their bodies have begun to tell. Embracing back-handed humor and coaxing aggression out of exile, they offer up their intimacy for resonance.