About Us

Writer and filmmaker E.C. GRAHAM has lived and worked in Barcelona, Philadelphia, Amman, Damascus, Mexico City, and Kyoto. His independent film, La Rosa Negra, won the second-place prize in the prestigious New York Latin American Film Festival, and was the first-prize winner in the Nits de Curtmetratges film festival in Barcelona, where it was chosen to represent Barcelona in the Biennale in Athens, Greece, in 2000.

A native of Southern Arizona, Graham studied writing at the SOGEM in Mexico City, received an undergraduate degree in Japanese Studies from Earlham College (leading him to spend a year teaching English in Kyoto), and completed a masters degree at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is currently completing work on a sociolinguistic guide to learning and understanding the issues around minority languages, with a focus on the Catalan language, as well as conducting a series of language-immersion seminars in New York City called Guerilla Language as a part of his research. Recent highlights include delivering a talk on his research at an international linguistics symposium in Warsaw in September 2010. He is the co-author, with Kevin Hanek, of Wink: Warren Muller.

KEVIN HANEK has been unusually fortunate to find success working in several diverse fields, most notably as an operatic tenor pursuing a career on the international stage, and as an award-winning New York art director, book designer, and packager.

He most recently appeared as tenor soloist in performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Reno Philharmonic, a part he sang previously from the stage of the Santa Fe Opera House. Hanek has sung Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera and Radames in Aida with Bulgaria's Burgas Philharmonic Orchestra, performed the role of the Majordomo in the New York premiere of Hans Werner Henze's The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt) with Encompass New Opera Theatre, and has appeared as soloist in Handel's Israel in Egypt with the Westchester Choral Society under the baton of Lyndon Woodside, in a Salzburg debut in concert with pianist Jorg Demus, and in recital with pianist Norman Shetler.

As a book designer, he has collaborated on book projects with publishers including Rizzoli, Simon & Schuster, Lebhar-Friedman Books, The Free Press, Rutgers University Press, HarperCollins, Schirmer Books, Kodansha,Sterling, and Smithmark, and in conjunction with such prestigious organizations as The New York Times, the American Academy of Chefs, London's Tate Gallery, PBS, The History Channel, and the Culinary Institute of America. His work has been recognized with awards from the New York Book Show, the American Association of University Presses, and the Independent Publishers Book Awards. With E.C. Graham, he is the co-author of Wink: Warren Muller, a retrospective of that Philadelphia artist's career.

A native of Miami, Florida, Hanek received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Miami, and a master's degree from the University of South Florida, where he was awarded the Graduate Assistantship in Opera. He pursued post-graduate studies at Vienna's Hochschule fur Musik and the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg, as well as additional training with Gerard Souzay, Eleanor Steber, Erik Werba, and Dalton Baldwin. He is the recipient of grants from the International Festival Society and the Hillsborough County Arts Council, and performed with the Sarasota Opera as an Apprentice Artist.