Sierra Ortega

Noah Ortega (they/them) is an interdisciplinary performance artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Utilizing their background in performance, speculative philosophy, and queer politics, they have come to develop an artist/scholar practice that is deeply personal, constantly chaotic, and furiously DIY. Their practice is a gasping, flailing process of Mad worlding; phenomenology oriented and somatically realized. Manifesting through the constantly shifting mediums of performance, sound, imaging-making, and text, their work functions as an experimental machine intended to manifest post-capitalist futurity through embodied investigations of queerness, neurodivergence, alienation, and alterity. Most recently they have presented work as part of Ice Factory at The New Ohio Theatre, NYU PS PRAXIS, Performancy Forum, and The Brick Theatre, in addition to dozens of independent public projects. They currently work as an adjunct lecturer in Drama/Theatre Studies at NYU Tisch and in Visual and Critical Studies at The School of Visual Art.

Education:

Goddard College, Interdisciplinary Arts (performance creation), Masters of Fine Arts, Jan. 2021

New York University, Performance Studies, Masters of Art, May 2016

Hofstra University, Rhetorical Studies, Masters of Art, May 2015

Brigham Young University, Political Science, Bachelors of Art, Dec. 2011

Theatre Studies/Areas of Expertise: Avant-garde performance, contemporary Latin American performance, performance studies, queer theory, mad studies, political philosophy, and artistic research