an_outskirt, aka Joy Tamayo, is a vocalist, composer, and multimedia artist. Performance highlights include Freya Powell’s I cannot not grieve: CRY SCREAM SHOUT SING, produced by More Art; Sanctum by Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet; The Op5mist in Pete Wyer’s online opera Spring Street; soloist for the U.S. premiere of Manita en el suelo, a puppet opera by Caturla and Carpen5er with Americas Society; Chaitanya Sangco’s Subway Atmos for soprano/electronics/chorus/cello/piano; The Calf in Kento Iwasaki’s portable opera Beloved Prey; and Barbarina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. As a choral musician, Joy Tamayo has performed with the New York Philharmonic Chorus, The Unsung Collec5ve, Ekmeles, The Oratorio Society of New York, The Philharmonic Chamber Choir of Singapore, San Miguel Master Chorale, The Philippine Madrigal Singers, Ateneo de Manila College Glee Club, and Auit Vocal Chamber Ensemble. Through her duo an_outskirt, Joy Tamayo is composer/perfomer/filmmaker for Saklob at JACK, Brooklyn for Exponen5al Fes5val ’23. She is composer/vocalist for Sanctuary by Tanika I. Williams, featured at BAM CinemaFest Shorts Program. Joy Tamayo is EMMY-nominated as composer for Jonathan McCrory’s sonic opera The Roll Call: The Roots to Strange Fruit with the Na5onal Black Theatre. As a sound designer and composer, Chaitanya Tamayo’s work has been featured in Jonathan McCrory’s Emmy-nominated film The Roll Call : The Roots To Strange Fruit, Spiderwoman Theater’s Misdemeanor Dream at La MaMa,the full-feature film Romeo Candido’s Ang Pamana: The Inheritance, his own stage works Mga Station and saklob. As a recordist, his work straddles culture in the margins and the mainstream. He’s recorded the waning tradition of tud- om (enchantment song) of the Agusan Manobo in Mindanao, documented the existence of traditional Chinese court music in Old Manila, and made albums of songs in the housing projects of Quezon City. He’s also recorded mixed albums by Tony-awardee Lea Salonga and Bamboo.
