A reading of TS Eliot’s classic poem by actors Nicholas Haylett and Elizabeth Henry with original music by Thomas Bo, and choreography by Nadia Khayrallah, conceived and produced by George Spencer.

Thomas Carlo Bo has worked both as Music Director, programmer and board member of Opera at Florham, and has over 40 years experience as a composer, conductor, administrator and teacher. He was Music Director of Opera Music Theater International, a young artists program for opera singers under the direction of legendary Met bass Jerome Hines, Music Director of the Long Island Opera at SUNY in Old Westbury, and Interim Music Director of the Massapequa Philharmonic. 

Dancer and Choreographer Nadia Khayrallah currently performs with Jonah Bokaer Choreography (with recent tours to Russia and Turkey) and Gotham Dance Theater (where they are also on the creative team). Past projects include Trainor Dance, Tina Croll and Company, the Merce Cunningham Trust, Joe Monteleone, Artists by Any Other Name, eSKay Arts Collective, Avoir Motion, EBDance, and the musical artist Roxiny. Nadia has also performed in visual art installations by Doris Bittar, Qinza Najm, and Reza Farkondeh and at nightlife events LayLit, Yalla! Party, and Nefertitties. Nadia holds a B.A. in Dance and Psychology from Columbia University, and trained previously at the Cary Ballet Conservatory in North Carolina and the Conservatory for Contemporary Dance Arts in California.

As a choreographer, Nadia has set company repertory on Artists by Any Other Name, Avoir Motion, and Gotham Dance Theater and co-directed music videos by Zahed Sultan and Alethea. Their independent works for stage and screen have been presented through Dixon Place, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Little Island NYC, Dancers Unlimited, Queens College Arts Festival, YallaPunk, ScreenDance Miami, New York Arab Festival, and the ModArts Move to Change Festival, among others. Nadia was selected as a 2021 Artist in Residence at Chez Bushwick, and a member of Leimay Foundation’s 2022 Artist Incubator Program.

Nadia’s work is rooted equally in history and fantasy, form and groove, esoterica and common sense. Often collaborative or multi-disciplinary, it highlights the body as a place of intersection between intimacy and power; pleasure and resistance; personal and political - sometimes with a dose of humor. They are not above entertaining audiences nor opposed to making them uncomfortable.

Actor Nicholas Haylett is known for Children Are Too Young to Die (1990) and Margaret Sanger (1999), and actor Elizabeth Henry is known for The Sisterhood of Night (2014), Linoleum (2022) and 4th Man Out (2015).