Caden Manson is co-founder of bigartgroup.com and founder of the online artist's network contemporaryperformance.org. He has co-created, directed, video and set designed 13 Big Art Group productions. Manson has taught in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Montreal, NYC, and Bern; his ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival. His work has toured to over 80 venues and festivals in Europe and North American. He is a 2001 Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellow, is a 2002 Pew Fellow and a 2011 MacDowell Fellow. His writing has been published in PAJ, Theater Magazine, and Theater der Zeit. His online network, contemporaryperformance.org, has over 4400 artists, curators, and festivals from 85 countries.