A video artist, filmmaker and choreographer, Austin Forbord won the Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Visual Design in 2006 and has been nominated in both the performance and design categories for his numerous video designs. He founded Rapt Productions in 1997. In addition to Stage Left, Forbord has directed the feature-length documentary Artists in Exile: A Story of Modern Dance in San Francisco and is working on a documentary about the history of experimental film in the Bay Area.