Goat Island (performance group)

Goat Island was a collaborative performance group based in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., and founded in 1987. In 2006, Goat Island announced that their ninth performance, "The Lastmaker" (2007), would be the last work that they would create as a company. Goat Island ended with final performances of "The Lastmaker" at Swain Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in February 2009. As their final project, they created a film based on "The Lastmaker", published under the title "A Last, A Quartet a collection of films", which also contained previous films made by Goat Island. Goat Island members have included, Karen Christopher (1990-2009), Joan Dickinson (1988-90), Matthew Goulish (1987-2009), Lin Hixson (director, 1997-2009), Mark Jeffery (1996-2009), Greg McCain (1987-95), Timothy McCain (1987-95), Antonio Poppe (1995-1996), Bryan Saner (1995-2009), Charissa Tolentino (2008) and Litó Walkey (2002-9).