Performance of Self

Jodie Landau is a vocalist, composer, keyboardist, and percussionist. He is a member of the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, Icelandic record label Bedroom Community, and Los Angeles-based modern music collective Wild Up. His music combines elements of contemporary chamber music, rock, jazz, and electronics for live performance, dance, theater, opera, and film. On stage, Landau can be found singing amidst a sea of dancers, conducting audience members as he teaches them to sing a song on the spot, portraying a disembodied heart donor in Valgeir Sigurðsson’s opera We Are In Time, playing handmade microtonal glass bells by Meara O’Reilly, or singing original music and covers while playing vibraphone, marimba, keyboards, and harpejji on his own or surrounded by various ensembles of singers and instrumentalists.

Landau’s debut album with Wild Up, you of all things, featured the Icelandic female choir Graduale Nobili. Landau has performed with Los Angeles Master Chorale, LA Phil, NY Phil, The Scottish Ensemble, ICKAmsterdam / Ballet National de Marseille, Ate9 dANCE cOMPANY (for whom he composed the score to their “mouth to mouth”) The Industry, and Iceland Symphony Orchestra, as well as artists like Robin Pecknold, serpentwithfeet, Jherek Bischoff, Miya Folick, Ellen Reid, Jacob Cooper, Nadia Sirota, Nico Muhly, Daniel Bjarnason, Dirty Projectors, and more. He’s recorded with Caroline Shaw, Amanda Palmer, Rebekka Karijord, Vampire Weekend, and The Weeknd. His singing can be heard on Simon Franglen’s scores for Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar: Fire and Ash. Landau worked as lead copyist, orchestrator, conductor, and performer on David Longstreth’s score for The Legend of Ochi.

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Diana Wyenn is an acclaimed director, choreographer, dramaturg, and creative producer. Working across theater, opera, contemporary music, dance, and film, her interdisciplinary practice explores themes of trauma and healing, equity and disability justice, environmental responsibility, and civic engagement through collaborative forms. Her directing and choreographic work has been presented by leading organizations in the U.S. and Europe, including Center Theatre Group, LA Phil, LA Opera, Roundabout Theatre Company, Beth Morrison Projects, Detroit Opera, MOCA, LACMA, Malmö Opera, REDCAT, New West Symphony, BroadStage, UCLA, CalTech, ASU Gammage, and Yale’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas. Known for developing new work and transforming personal experience into incisive, socially conscious art, Wyenn’s professional highlights include: the World Health Organization presenting her award-winning autobiographical solo performance Blood/Sugar; devising and touring Kristina Wong for Public Office with performance artist Kristina Wong; and creative directing Imagine US featuring the students of Interlochen Arts Academy performing with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. She received her BFA with honors from New York University and lives in her hometown of Los Angeles, where she co-founded Plain Wood Productions with her spouse Laban and serves as Co-Artistic Director of Ammunition Theatre Company.  

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Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) is the foremost creator and producer of new opera-theatre and music theatre in the United States, with a fierce commitment to leading the industry into the future, cultivating a new generation of talent, and telling the stories of our time. Founded by “contemporary opera mastermind” (LA Times) Beth Morrison, who was honored as Musical America’s Artist of the Year/Agent of Change, BMP has grown into “a driving force behind America’s thriving opera scene” (Financial Times), with Opera News declaring that the company, “more than any other… has helped propel the art form into the twenty-first century.” Operating across the US and internationally, with offices in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, BMP’s unique model offers living composers the support, guidance, and freedom to experiment, allowing them to create singularly innovative and impactful projects. Since forming in 2006, the company has commissioned, developed, produced and toured over 65 works in 14 countries around the world, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning chamber operas Angel’s Bone (Du Yun/ Vavrek) and p r i s m (Reid/ Perkins). In 2013, BMP co-founded the PROTOTYPE Festival with HERE, which has been called “utterly essential” (The New York Times), “indispensable” (The New Yorker), and “one of the world’s top festivals of contemporary opera and theater” (Associated Press). As of 2026, BMP is the sole curator and producer of the PROTOTYPE Festival.

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