Rima Fand

Rima Fand, musician/composer, has created and performed original music for numerous theater works in and around NYC. In addition to Cyclone (and the Pig-Faced Lady), these include: How I Fixed My Engine With Rose Water, performed as part of the Voice4Vision Puppet Festival at Theater for the New City; Ondine, with Deep Water Productions at Soho Rep; The Seagull with White Heron Theater Company at Second Stage; Savage Nursery with Dream Music Puppetry at HERE; Mean Solar Day with the Nimbus Theatre Ensemble; and The Story of Rats with Wax Factory. She is currently composing for a puppet opera entitled Don Cristobal, Billy-Club Man, based upon writings of Garcia Lorca. An excerpt of that show was performed at St. Ann's Warehouse, as part of the Labapalooza Puppetry Festival, in May 2007.

Rima also composes and arranges music for her gypsy-punk-klezmer-tango string band, the Luminescent Orchestrii, which tours internationally. She earned a M.M. in Composition from the Manhattan School of Music in 1996.