TWO FACED
Thursday , february 19th 2026
nora stanley
Nora Stanley is an improviser, composer, and songwriter based in Brooklyn. She variably uses saxophone, flute, clarinet, guitar, synthesizer, and voice in her work which spans jazz, rock and experimental music. She is deeply interested in the relationship between acoustic and synthesized sounds and plays with this throughout her work. As both a solo artist and a collaborator her music emphasizes openness, connection, and deep listening.
In 2023 Stanley released Distance of the Moon (Colorfield Records) with collaborator Benny Bock to acclaim from Fader, Downbeat, and The New York Times who called it “music with a sense of focus and intimacy, yet a kind of unknowability too.” She will release an album of songs entitled Glass in 2026. Stanley also frequently contributes woodwinds and more to others’ recording projects and has appeared on albums by Cassandra Jenkins, The New Pornographers, and Landlady.
Stanley leads a group that performs her songs, moving fluidly between rock band, experimental electronic, and improvised jazz. She is one third of the band Sprat and frequently collaborates in a duo with contemporary dancer Corinne Lohner. Other recent musical collaborations have included Fred Frith, Wendy Eisenberg, Cassandra Jenkins, Peter Apfelbaum’s Hieroglyphics, and Simon Hanes’ Tsons of Tsunami. She has toured with Chris Morrissey, Caroline Rose, The New Pornographers, and Beth Orton. Stanley has performed across North America and Europe at venues including Big Ears Festival, Winter Jazz Festival, and The Jazz Gallery.
Stanley is a 2023 McDowell fellow and in 2025 was awarded a fellowship through New Music USA’s Next Jazz Legacy program. She holds a B.M. in Jazz Studies and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Oberlin College and Conservatory.
CAMILLA MARCHESE GONZÁLEZ
Camilla Marchese González is a Guatemalan-Italian writer and filmmaker drawn to global storytelling. Her work focuses on character-driven stories told from unique and authentic perspectives, specifically focused on family dynamics, sociopolitical influences, and on memory. Her short stories are forthcoming at Columbia Journal. Her film reviews have appeared in FilmPost, TropicalFRONT, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at The New School and is the Managing Editor of The Inquisitive Eater. In her free time, she enjoys people-watching and going to the cinema to watch sad movies
ALEX WOLFE
Alex Wolfe is a writer and artist from Iowa whose work explores the relationships between walking, memory, and the built environment. His work has appeared in The New York Times and BOMB. He is currently at work on his debut novel, Repeater, about a 180-mile walk from Brooklyn to Philadelphia.
KATE TOOLEY
Kate Tooley is a queer, Brooklyn-based writer originally from Georgia. They hold an MFA from the New School, are an alum of the Kenyon Writer’s Workshop, and a Lambda Literary fellow. Their writing can be found or is forthcoming in journals including The Kenyon Review, Passages North, and Wigleaf. Currently they’re at work on a queer, gothic novel about small-town southern cults, murder, and bodily possession.
MARY KARMELEK
Mary Karmelek is a writer from Buffalo, NY whose work touches upon art, architecture, cultural heritage, cities, and the body. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Public Seminar, Hyperallergic, Newsweek, and elsewhere, and is currently completing her first novel. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and is currently a National Book Critics Circle Emerging Fellow. Mary lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
About Green Lung Studio
Green Lung Studio was built by two artists who wanted a place to try things—loudly, quietly, imperfectly. Not a venue. Not a theater. A playground. A lab. A home. We know what it’s like to scrape by in a city that forgets its artists. So we made the kind of space we always needed—a place to test ideas, build weird things, and share the mess with people who get it.
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