I like art. I like performance. I like magic tricks.




I like presence.

I like the mystery, 

the suspended animation.




I like impulse and image, 

where they meet and diverge. 





I like the relationship, 

how it's arranged. 




I like that it feels like a special event. 




Not just your boring everyday.





I like when it’s boring.





I like when it’s falling apart. 




Chaos and organization. Inquiry. 



I like collaboration. 

Being with others.

Making something together. 






Materiality in time. 

I am curious about this 

and also averse to 

identifying my position on it. 






I cannot avoid decoration. 

I pursue a naivety and maintain a theatricality.





I am collaborating. 

With others. With myself,

the records of past 

thoughts and actions 

made material. 

Revision. Responsiveness. 

This idea of being 

in service of the “play”, 

of the “piece”, or “painting”,

putting your own needs aside. 






eliminationª/illumination. 

The comedy. The hopefulness. 





We’ve got to work with what we’ve got. 






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Dyer Rhoads is an artist, director, writer, teacher, and performer from Portland, Maine.

Dyer is a collaborator. Dyer is a founding member of Nile Harris’ Social Security, a New York project based performance company. Their recent work together has been at the Under The Radar Festival, The PUBLIC theater, Ping Chong and Company, 411 Kent, Judson Church, the Watermill Center and Abrons Arts Center. Dyer worked with Cricket Brown on Hooters Play (as Tech Guy). Dyer is a guest artist with Spindleworks. Dyer has also collaborated with and learned from Lincoln Center Education, the Children’s Theatre of Maine, The Celebration Barn Theater, Figures of Speech Theatre Company, Shakespeare & Co, and the North Carolina Symphony.

Since 2016, Dyer has facilitated a residency/project space currently known as the Walpole Ontological Lab and Farm (W.O.L.F)

Dyer has participated in group shows at Buoy Gallery, 82 Parris, New Systems Exhibitions, and 44 Stewart Av (@post_internet_art)

Recent performances include Sun Universe presented by Spindleworks at The Theater Project, bodynearmine at W.O.L.F, and The Beholder The Boulder with Spindleworks Offsite and The Harlow Gallery.

Dyer is also Psychic Wolf. Psychic Wolf works with an ever expanding community of collaborators to produce one-off performance events. Psychic Wolf taps into mysterious forces to make miracles of mundanity, spirit out of skepticism, and divinity out of disaster. Her past events include: Birth, Death, Birth again; I RELEASE YOU!; Animals, Animism (embodied spirits and natural instincts); Valentines Day Special; and Decompression, a 14 hour hour event held in a transformed moving van. She, like others, was forced to move her gig onto zoom for a bit. There she has hosted Fake Distance, A Zoom Spectacular, and hibernation breaks (the sleepover). She returned to in person performance with SHE’S BACK! in 2022, commissioned by The Celebration Barn Theater and presented at W.O.L.F.

In 2019 Dyer’s play, Lesson For The Future, premiered at Lincoln Center Education. Other directing includes Super Trooper, also at Lincoln Center, and We Are Proud To Present a Presentation… by Jackie Sibblies Drury at UNCSA. His play, Humans Ar Peple To, was featured at the Barter Theatre College Playwrights Festival in 2019. Other plays include Space/Toes/Bed, The Bees, and Untitled Foley Studio Play.

Dyer graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2019. He was a 2019 William R Kenan Jr Fellow at Lincoln Center Education and a 2020 Finalist for the Greenhouse Residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm.

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ª the removal of a variable from an equation, typically by substituting another which is shown by another equation to be equivalent.