Colin Faber

Founder & Executive Director

In his professional career as an architect, Colin Faber has practiced in New York City since 1999. A dean’s list graduate of Pratt Institute, he worked with Freyer Collaborative Architects until 2003, when he co-founded his own SHED Studio with his partner and wife Leni Niemegeers-Faber. His portfolio covers a diverse range of projects, including residential work, restaurants, fashion showrooms, retail stores and art performance venues. In 2003, SHED helped spark the development of a derelict industrial zone in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, transforming a former truck repair garage of the Domino Sugar factory into Brooklyn Sugar—a multi-level performance venue and facility for the artist community.

Faber immediately understood the need for a professional organization that could empower artists and at the same time rehabilitate communities, and in 2005 he laid the groundwork for what would become LiveWired Inc. After producing numerous live performances, fashion shows, film projects and corporate events, in the spring of 2008 LiveWired was officially incorporated in New York City and acquired non-profit 501(c)(3) status.

Leni Niemegeers-Faber

Founder & Executive Board Member

Leni Niemegeers-Faber studied at the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture (RIEA) with renowned American architect Lebbeus Woods, and received her master’s degree in architecture from the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. As the co-founder of SHED Studio, she has overseen the activities of a multi-disciplinary design studio that successfully incorporates elements of dance, film, fashion and music into architecture. Relying on her own background in modern dance, Niemegeers-Faber has sought to reorient preconceived notions about objects, space and experience to further the development of new ideas in design—an aesthetic she continues to pursue through her work with SHED and LiveWired.

Tyler Gamble

Board Member

After graduating on an athletic scholarship from Georgetown University in 1999, Tyler Gamble worked at two prominent investment banks in New York City before he decided to quit and travel the world. Upon his return, he worked on film sets in Los Angeles and New York in various capacities until 2007, when at the suggestion of a friend he visited a family-run pig farm in New York’s Catskills Mountains. After nearly a year of documenting, he released the film essay Hilly Acres under his newly formed company RangeLife Productions. In 2009, he wrote and directed the film Only Good Things, which premiered at the 2010 International Film Festival Rotterdam. He is currently developing a feature film and shooting an ongoing photography project in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, and continues to lend his camera expertise to documenting various LiveWired events.