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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
MANUEL ACEVEDO<br />
Visual Artist<br />
4333 46th Street, Apt. F9, Sunnyside, NY 11104<br />
973 207.0954<br />
m.acevedo@rcn.com<br />
JEREMY ALLIGER<br />
Alliger Arts (Formally Dance Umbrella, Boston)<br />
Executive Producer<br />
18 Conry Crescent, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130<br />
617-669-4422<br />
alligerarts@gmail.com<br />
TAMARA ALVARADO<br />
1st Act Silicon Valley<br />
Director of Multicultural Leadership<br />
38 W. Santa Clara Street, San Jose, CA 95113<br />
(408) 200-2020 fax (408) 200-2025<br />
talvarado@1stact.org<br />
CHARLES ANDERSON<br />
Dance Theatre X<br />
Artistic Director/Choreographer<br />
1904 Spruce St., Apt. 1F, Philadelphia, PA 19103<br />
215) 983-6383 fax 484-664-3031<br />
dtxcharles@gmail.com<br />
MYRNA ANDERSON-FULLER<br />
Hammonds House Museum<br />
Executive Director<br />
503 Peeples St. SW, Atlanta, GA 30331<br />
(404) 612-0481 fax (404) 752-8733<br />
fuller2@bellsouth.net<br />
MEL ANDRINGA<br />
Legion Arts<br />
Producing Director<br />
1103 Third Street SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401<br />
(319) 364-1580 fax 319.362.9156<br />
mel@legionarts.org<br />
ELIA ARCE<br />
ELIA ARCE<br />
Artistic Director<br />
708 Wendel St., Houston, TX 77009<br />
323-791-5080<br />
eliaarce@yahoo.com<br />
MAURICIO ASCENCIO<br />
Performing Americas - Antonio Salinas<br />
Independent Artist<br />
866 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130<br />
305-519-6877<br />
maascencio@hotmail.com<br />
Manuel Acevedo, born 1964 in Newark. Acevedo‟s solo exhibition Keys of Light was presented Bronx River Art<br />
Center (BRAC) 2010. He is a recipient of the 2009 Visual Art <strong>Network</strong> Residence for the Camera Communis:<br />
Knoxville, TN; 2007 Center for Book Arts, AIR Workspace Program, Visiting Artist at NYU and VAN Award for the<br />
SPACES‟ World Artists Program. His awards include the 2005 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant; Longwood Arts<br />
Project: Digital Matrix Commission; 1999 & 2001 Mid-Atlantic Foundation‟s Artist as Catalysts Award & 1998-99<br />
the Studio Museum in Harlem, AIR. Group exhibitions include Museo de la Ciudad, Spain and Arte de Puerto<br />
Rico, Real Art Ways, Exit Art, Queens Museum of Art, PS 1, El Museo del Barrio, the Drawing Center,<br />
Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Germany with solo exhibitions.<br />
JEREMY ALLIGER,Executive Producer of ALLIGER ARTS, and founder and for 20 years Director of Dance<br />
Umbrella. Producer/Creator of "Cool Heat Urban Beat",an international Jazz Tap/Hip Hop touring show. He has<br />
produced over 15 unique festival gatherings and tours, including first-ever Aerial,Jazz Tap and Hip Hop and<br />
Wheelchair festivals and tours. He has received the prestigious "Commonwealth", "Eagle" and "Alumni<br />
Achievement" Awards, for his artistic leadership and commitment to challenge perceptions, push boundaries, and<br />
promote cultural understanding. He was a featured speaker at the Kennedy Center/<strong>National</strong> Forum on Careers in<br />
the Arts for people with Disabilities,served as a Panel Chair at the NEA. Inside Arts Magazine published his<br />
essay, essay, "A Lasting Impact beyond the Stage"<br />
Tamara is the Director of Multicultural Leadership for 1stAct Silicon Valley. From 2003 to 2008 she served as<br />
Executive Director of MACLA/ Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose, California. Starting in<br />
1999 she served as Program Director for the newly opened Washington United Youth Center, a partnership<br />
between Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County and the City of San Jose. She is a member of the Board of<br />
Directors of NPN and ACE Charter School in San Jose. Tamara sits on various regional and national funding<br />
panels such as: the Arts Council Silicon Valley and Creative Capital. She is also co-founder of San Jose based<br />
Movimiento Cosmico: Aztec Dance. Tamara holds a Bachelor‟s Degree in Spanish Literature from Stanford<br />
University.<br />
Charles O. Anderson is artistic director of the Philadelphia-based company, dance theatre X (dtX). He has<br />
performed in the companies of Ronald K. Brown, Sean Curran, and Mark Dendy among others. He is currently<br />
touring his latest dance theatre work, "World Headquarters" which was generously funded by by NPN (Creation<br />
Fund and Forth Fund). His work has also earned recognition by numerous grants and organizations such as the<br />
Pew Fellowship in the Arts and one of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. Anderson is also and an associate<br />
professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. For more info about Anderson or dance theatre X visit<br />
www.dancetheatrex.org or friend us on facebook: www.facebook/dancetheatrex.<br />
I'm an artist and performer, and founder of a performance company, The Drawing Legion. With my partner, F.<br />
John Herbert I am co-director of Legion Arts, a non-profit artist organization in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Our<br />
association with NPN dates back to a residency at LACE in 1987. In the last decade, we've hosted more than a<br />
dozen NPN residencies at CSPS for Legion Arts, including works by Will Power, Marty Pottinger, Dan Hurlin,<br />
Jennifer Munson, Angela Kariotis, Jim Neu, Robert Karimi, Guy Mendilow, Salaam, and Paul Bonin Rodrigues.<br />
Legion Arts is also a member of the Warhol Initiative, and we've had VAN residencies with Bernard Williams and<br />
Brian Guidry. I'm currently working on a project called The Mosaic Deluge, about floods and mosaics.<br />
Elia Arce is a performance and installation artist working in a wide variety of media including writing, photo, video<br />
and sculptural performance. Since 1986 she has created interdisciplinary experimental theater, autobiographical<br />
solo performance and group pieces; usually based on an ethnographic study of a specific community. Her<br />
academic background includes a BA in film from UCLA and a MFA in studio art from the University of Houston.<br />
Her awards include NEA, New Voices/Ford Foundation, City of Los Angeles, Rockefeller Foundation, Durfee<br />
Foundation and NPN amongst others. Her latest Fulbright Specialists Program Award allowed her to teach a<br />
performance art class at the <strong>National</strong> University of Costa Rica. She is proud to have taught the first Central<br />
American performance class in the US.<br />
Mauricio Ascencio is a graduate in scenography arts from the <strong>National</strong> School of Theater of Mexico. He has done<br />
set, lighting and costume design for theater and opera under the direction of Bruno Bert, Roberto Fiesco and<br />
Julián Hernández, Ricardo Díaz, Mauricio Jiménez, Antonio Castro, Mónica Raya y Claudio Valdés Kuri, among<br />
others; he has also created design elements for choreographers and interdisciplinary projects with Fictorrealidad,<br />
Angulo Alterno, Ardentía danza clásica, Quiatora Monorriel, Aldo Silies Danza Contemporánea, La Funeraria and<br />
choreographers such Antonio Salinas, Benito González, Evoé Sotelo, Alicia Sanchez and Oscar Ruvalcaba. His<br />
work has been shown at the “Prague Quadrienal of Architecture and Stage Design “, and he won first prize for<br />
Moda Alternativa MODALES 2004.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
ANDREA ASSAF<br />
Art2Action, Inc.<br />
Founder & Artistic Director<br />
141 East 13th St., # 2C, New York, NY 10003<br />
413-531-5042<br />
art2action@earthlink.net<br />
STEPHANIE ATKINS<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
Resource Development Specialist<br />
P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156<br />
504.595.8008 ext 202 fax 504.595.8006<br />
stephanie@npnweb.org<br />
CARON ATLAS<br />
Arts & Democracy Project<br />
Director<br />
88 Prospect Park West #3D, Brooklyn, NY 11215<br />
718-965-1509<br />
caronatlas@gmail.com<br />
ESTEVAN AZCONA<br />
MECA/Multi-Cultural Education and Counseling<br />
through the Arts<br />
Music Director<br />
1900 Kane Street, Houston, TX 77007<br />
713-802-9370 fax 713-802-9403<br />
estevan@meca-houston.org<br />
STEVE BAILEY<br />
Jump-Start <strong>Performance</strong> Co.<br />
Producing Director<br />
108 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204<br />
(210) 227-5867 fax (210) 227-5867<br />
steve@jump-start.org<br />
MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH<br />
Youth Speaks, Inc./ The Living World Project<br />
Artistic Director<br />
1663 Mission Street, Suite 604, San Francisco, CA<br />
94103<br />
(415) 255-9035 x17<br />
mjoseph@youthspeaks.org<br />
DIANE BARBER<br />
DiverseWorks Artspace<br />
Co-Executive Director<br />
1117 East Freeway, Houston, TX 77002<br />
713-223-8346 fax 713-223-4608<br />
diane@diverseworks.org<br />
ROBERT BARSAMIAN<br />
Local Artist<br />
6041 North Jim Miller Rd, Dallas, TX 75228 -5959<br />
469-766-6401 fax 214-321-7173<br />
barsamian@thearrangement.com<br />
Andrea Assaf is a performer, writer, director & cultural organizer. Founder & Artistic Director of Art2Action, her<br />
work ranges from original, interdisciplinary theater, to spoken word, and has toured in the U.S., Mexico, Poland,<br />
Nicaragua and Canada. She's formerly Artistic Director of New WORLD Theater (2004-09), & Program Associate<br />
for Animating Democracy (2001-04). She has a Masters degree in <strong>Performance</strong> Studies, & a BFA in Acting, both<br />
from NYU. Awards: 2010 Princess Grace Theater Fellowship & Gant Gaither Award, 2010 NPN Creation Fund<br />
Commission, 2007 Hedgebrook residency, 2004 Cultural Contact grant. Memberships: CAATA <strong>National</strong> Steering<br />
Committee, Alternate ROOTS, and RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers).<br />
Caron Atlas works to support and stimulate arts and culture as an integral part of social justice. She directs the<br />
Arts & Democracy Project, Arts & Community Change Initiative, and Place + Displaced, a project of Fractured<br />
Atlas. Caron was associate producer at DTW when the NPN began, and later worked at NPN partner, Appalshop.<br />
She was founding director of the American Festival Project, a national coalition of activist artists, and has worked<br />
with <strong>National</strong> Voice, Animating Democracy, NPN, NET, and several foundations. Caron is co-editor of Critical<br />
Perspectives: Writings on Art and Civic Dialogue, teaches at NYU and Pratt Institute and is active in the<br />
Freelancers Union. She was a Rockefeller Foundation Warren Weaver Fellow and has an MA from the University<br />
of Chicago.<br />
Steve Bailey is the producing director and a founder of Jump-Start <strong>Performance</strong> Co. in San Antonio, Texas. He<br />
was the founder and director of 24th Street Experiment Theater Company, research coordinator for Theater<br />
Communications Group, past president of NPN, and artist-in-residence with Teatro del Sol in Lima, Peru. Over the<br />
past thirty years, Steve Bailey has created and/or directed over fifty original productions that have been presented<br />
across the U.S. and Latin America. He is an arts educator and has worked with numerous youth and adult groups<br />
in a variety of community settings.<br />
Marc Bamuthi Joseph is the artistic director of the HBO documentary “Brave New Voices” and an inaugural<br />
recipient of the United States Artists‟ Fellowship. Premiering at Yerba Buena Center next Fall, and visiting The<br />
Walker Arts Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music among other sites, his performance piece 'red black and<br />
GREEN: a blues' engages the eco-equity movement in Black neighborhoods across America. In 2011, he<br />
premieres a commissioned libretto for the Atlanta Ballet, and is co-writing a narrative score for the Chicago Jazz<br />
Ensemble with Amiri Baraka in 2012. The re-mounting of his seminal work, 'Word Becomes Flesh' is made<br />
possible through the NPN American Masterpiece Initiative, and will premiere in Dallas in December 2010.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
ERIC BEACH<br />
So Percussion<br />
Performer / Director of Development<br />
233 Norman Ave. #309, Brooklyn, NY 11222<br />
410.375.0007<br />
eric@sopercussion.com<br />
ELISABETH BEAIRD<br />
Circuit <strong>Network</strong><br />
Co-Director<br />
499 Alabama Street, #203, San Francisco, CA 94110<br />
(415) 863-2441 fax (415) 863-2160<br />
info@circuitnetwork.com<br />
LORIS ANTHONY BECKLES<br />
Beckles Dancing Conpany<br />
Artistic Director<br />
Sammons Center for the Arts<br />
3630 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75219<br />
214-886-2321<br />
arganovadance_21c@yahoo.com<br />
ROBERTO BEDOYA<br />
Tucson Pima Arts Council<br />
Executive Director<br />
100 N Stone Avenue, Suite 303, Tucson, AZ 85701-<br />
1514<br />
520.624.0595 X25<br />
rebedoya@earthlink.net<br />
SARAH BEIDERMAN<br />
SPACES<br />
Manager, SPACES World Artists Program<br />
2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, OH 44113<br />
(216) 621-2314 fax (216) 621-2314<br />
sbeiderman@spacesgallery.org<br />
CHRISTINE BERGDOLL-EL OUAAER<br />
Pat Graney Company<br />
office management and administrative support<br />
925 e. thomas st., seattle, WA 98102<br />
206.329.3705<br />
christine@patgraney.org<br />
RON BERRY<br />
Fusebox Festival<br />
Artistic Director<br />
400 B. W. Alpine Rd, Austin, TX 78704<br />
512-569-6129<br />
ron@fuseboxfestival.com<br />
PHILIP BITHER<br />
Walker Art Center<br />
Senior Curator<br />
1750 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403<br />
(612) 375-7624 fax (612) 375-7575<br />
philip.bither@walkerart.org<br />
Called an "experimental powerhouse" (Village Voice) and "brilliant" (The New York Times), So Percussion<br />
presents an extremely wide range of programs. From percussion classics (John Cage, Iannis Xenakis) to new<br />
commissions (Steve Reich, David Lang, Steve Mackey, Paul Lansky, Fred Frith, Glenn Kotche, Dan Trueman) to<br />
artistic collaborations (Matmos, Kneebody, Dan Deacon, Eliot Feld) and their own music (Imaginary City, Amid the<br />
Noise), they have performed at Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and around the world. They also<br />
have extensive experience with educational and community programs, including directing the percussion<br />
department at the Bard College Conservatory of Music and an annual Summer Institute at Princeton University.<br />
www.sopercussion.com<br />
As co-director of Circuit <strong>Network</strong> since January 2006, Elisabeth works closely with Circuit's roster artists in project<br />
development and management by helping to secure funds and collaborative partners for the creation of new work,<br />
seeking opportunities to tour existing work, and occasionally producing, co-producing or presenting the work of<br />
Circuit's roster artists in San Francisco. Current roster artists include Culture Clash, James Luna, Miya Masaoka,<br />
Butoh choreographer Ledoh, Seattle's Degenerate Art Ensemble, Kristina Wong, and John Leanos' multimedia<br />
mariachi opera project, "Imperial Silence". Previously Elisabeth served as director of The Lab, an alternative art<br />
space in San Francisco's Mission District, and as development director of the Berkeley Symphony and the Wilma<br />
Theater.<br />
Loris Anthony Beckles was born in Guyana, South America. He emigrated after his family in the late 1960s. Loris<br />
spent 28 years in New York, during which time de danced with Ailey II, Eleo Pomare and Joan Miller, among<br />
others. In Dallas since 1996, he is the Artistic Director of the Beckles Dancing Company, the founder of ARGA<br />
NOVA DANCE, and coordinator of the South Dallas Dance Festival. The tenth annual festival will be in November<br />
2010.<br />
I am the hybrid employee for the outrageously creative pat graney<br />
As the founder and Artistic Director of Refraction Arts & The Fusebox Festival, Ron has guided the organizations<br />
through thirteen years of critically acclaimed programming for the stage, gallery and screen. Their work has been<br />
nominated for and won over 150 awards.<br />
Philip Bither, McGuire Senior Curator, Performing Arts--Philip Bither has been Walker Art Center‟s Senior Curator<br />
of Performing Arts since April 1997, overseeing one of the country's leading contemporary performing arts<br />
programs. Prior to this, he served as Director of Programming/Artistic Director for the Flynn Center, later<br />
becoming Associate Director/Music Curator at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). He received the Fan Taylor<br />
Distinguished Service Award in 2009. He sits on numerous federal, state, local, and national foundation arts<br />
panels and he speaks and writes about the contemporary performing arts nationally.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
EMILY BIVENS<br />
The Bridge Club<br />
3205 Avondale Ave., Knoxville, TN 37917<br />
865-776-8685<br />
emilywbivens@gmail.com<br />
ERIN BOBERG DOUGHTON<br />
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art<br />
Performing Arts Program Director<br />
224 W 13th Avenue #305, Portland, OR 97209<br />
(503) 242-1419 fax (503) 243-1167<br />
erin@pica.org<br />
PAUL BONIN-RODRIGUEZ<br />
Writer-Performer<br />
108 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204<br />
(210) 561-2182 fax 210.558.9565 (home)<br />
pbonrod@aol.com<br />
ANNE BOTHWELL<br />
Art&Seek<br />
Director<br />
3000 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75201<br />
214.740.9216 fax (214) 740-9318<br />
abothwell@kera.org<br />
JOSE BOWEN<br />
Meadows School of the Arts, SMU<br />
Dean<br />
PO Box 750356, Dallas, TX 75275<br />
214 768 2880<br />
jabowen@smu.edu<br />
WILL BOWLING<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
Progam Assistant, <strong>National</strong> Programs<br />
P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156<br />
(504) 595-8008 fax (504) 595-8006<br />
will@npnweb.org<br />
MARGO BOYD<br />
MRP Inc.<br />
Deckhand/Production Asst.<br />
P.O. Box 5163, Capitol Heights, MD 20791<br />
3013500092 fax 3013500092<br />
m.rproductions@mason-rhynes.org<br />
DAHLAK BRATHWAITE<br />
The Living Word Project<br />
Performer/Creator<br />
824 Classon Ave. #1L, Brooklyn, NY 11238<br />
916.549.5081<br />
dahlak@thisisdahlak.com<br />
Erin Boberg Doughton, Performing Arts Program Director at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)<br />
has worked on PICA‟s performance and residency programs since its inception in 1995. PICA‟s annual TBA<br />
(Time-Based Art) Festival features artists working in performance, media, visual arts and hybrid forms. She<br />
currently serves on the NPN Board and is part of NPN's Performing Americas Curators group.<br />
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez is a playwright and performer who has created and toured multi-disciplinary performances<br />
since 1992. He holds a PhD from the <strong>Performance</strong> as Public Practice program at the University of Texas at<br />
Austin, where he works as an Asst. Professor. His research addresses changing artist markets in the U.S. and<br />
abroad. He is a member of the Artist Council of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), as well as the<br />
evaluator for the Forth Fund.<br />
Anne Bothwell is director of Art&Seek at KERA Public Broadcasting, North Texas' public radio/TV affiliate. Check<br />
us out at artandseek.org. Art&Seek connects North Texans to the arts. We develop compelling television, radio<br />
(KERA and KXT FM) and Web content about the regional creative community. The Art&Seek team produces<br />
radio stories, special reports, TV interviews, videos and blog posts. We have a free weekly e-newsletter and a<br />
complement of social networking tools (flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter). Visitors to artandseek.org can find all<br />
our stations' arts-related content and search an arts calendar almost entirely generated by more than 2,700<br />
regional arts organizations.<br />
William Bowling is pleased to be a new member of the NPN team. Originally from Chicago-land, Will is an theatre<br />
artist, musician and scholar, living in New Orleans. When he's not working the administrative end of arts in the<br />
Crescent City, Will serves as the Artistic Director of the New Orleans based theatre company, Goat In The Road<br />
Productions. He hold a bachelors in <strong>Performance</strong> Studies from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a<br />
M.A. in <strong>Performance</strong> Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.<br />
Dahlak Brathwaite (Performer) is a multi-faceted hip-hop artist that draws upon his abilities as a musician, actor,<br />
and poet to create a dynamic, spellbinding performance. Since launching into the national spoken word scene by<br />
winning the Brave New Voices international Poetry Slam (as now seen on HBO), he has performed on the Tavis<br />
Smiley Radio show and the past two seasons of Russell Simmons‟ presents Def Poetry Jam. This is the second<br />
time Dahlak has worked with Marc Bamuthi Joseph, writing and performing in Scourge – a play that the Boston<br />
Globe hailed as “explosive”. As a member of the group iLL-Literacy, Dahlak has showcased his seamless, blend<br />
of hip-hop, theatre, and spoken word throughout the U.S. and overseas. Dahlak is originally from Sacramento, is<br />
now based in Brooklyn.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
STANLYN BREVE<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
Program Director, NPN <strong>National</strong> Programs<br />
P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156<br />
504.595.8008 x204 fax 504.595.8006<br />
stanlyn@npnweb.org<br />
HENRIËTTE BROUWERS<br />
Los Angeles Poverty Department<br />
Associate Director<br />
P.O. Box 26190, Los Angeles, CA 90026<br />
213 413 1077 fax (917) 656-1860<br />
henribro@dds.nl<br />
ANN BRUSKY<br />
John Michael Kohler Arts Center<br />
Performing Arts Coordinator<br />
608 New York Ave., Sheboygan, WI 53081<br />
(920) 458-6144 fax (920) 458-4473<br />
abrusky@jmkac.org<br />
NANCY BURTENSHAW<br />
Pat Graney Company<br />
Performer<br />
925 E. Thomas St. Suite B<br />
Seattle WA 98102, Seattle, WA 98102<br />
office 206-329-3705<br />
pat@patgraney.org<br />
JOE BUTLER<br />
Artspace Projects, Inc.<br />
Project Manager<br />
250 Third Ave North<br />
Suite 500, MInneapolis, MN 55401<br />
612 333 9012<br />
joseph.butlernola@gmail.com<br />
SHEREEN CAESAR<br />
Women of Calypso<br />
Performing Americas Program Artists<br />
Performing Americas Avenue, Port of Spain, N/A 0<br />
504-717-5786<br />
shereen.caessar@gmail.com<br />
JACKIE CALDERONE<br />
TRANSIT ARTS<br />
Director<br />
c/o Central Community House<br />
1150 E. Main Street, Columbus, OH 43205<br />
614-252-3157 ext. 128<br />
jcalderone@transitarts.com<br />
SUZANNE CALLAHAN<br />
Callahan Consulting for the Arts<br />
Founder<br />
1712 I Street, NW Suite 808, Washington, DC 20006<br />
(202) 955-8325 fax (202) 955-8324<br />
callahan@forthearts.org<br />
Henriëtte Brouwers is a performer, teacher and director. She studied dance and theater in the Netherlands,<br />
corporeal mime and theater of the oppressed in Paris. Henriëtte is the Associate Director of Los Angeles Poverty<br />
Department since 2000 and collaborator/producer of RFKinEKY, a community-based re-enactment of Robert F.<br />
Kennedy‟s 1968 trip to investigate poverty in Appalachia. Brouwers continues to develop her 'Weeping Women‟<br />
performance series based on Mexican legends. She directed Pomona College students in 'Weeping Women and<br />
War', 'La Llorona, Weeping Women on Skid Row' with LAPD, performed on Skid Row and at a national<br />
conference on women and poverty at Scripps College, and 'La Llorona, Weeping Women of Echo Park' with a<br />
group of Latino Women in Echo Park.<br />
Ann Brusky has been with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center for eight years and has worked with the<br />
Performing Arts and the Connecting Communities programs. She currently serves as the Performing Arts<br />
Coordinator and is responsible for programming seven series in the Performing Arts department. She holds a<br />
degree in Communications, emphasis Theatre from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and will complete her<br />
Master of Arts in Arts Administration through Goucher College, Towson, Maryland in December, 2010.<br />
Nancy graduated with a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Wa (1985) and MIT from<br />
Seattle University (2005). Nancy had the pleasure of working with The Pat Graney Company from 1987-1992<br />
touring nationally and internationally. She is honored to be performing back in Pat's work after 20 years! Currently<br />
Nancy lives in a small town in Idaho with her 11-year old son and husband.<br />
Suzanne runs Callahan Consulting for the Arts, which serves funders and nonprofits nationally through planning,<br />
fundraising, and evaluation. The firm runs Dance/USA's Engaging Dance Audiences funding program. She cofacilitated<br />
the NPN‟s planning process in 2001, and wrote an accompanying publication for the NPN. Her book<br />
Singing Our Praises featured NPN Partners and won a national award in the evaluation field. Her firm has<br />
conducted studies on the arts field and technology for the Mellon Foundation (2010), and on dance communities<br />
for The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Chicago Community Trust. She was Senior Specialist for the NEA Dance<br />
Program, where she administered grants to choreographers, service organizations and presenters and chaired<br />
the AIDS Working Group.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
BEN CAMERON<br />
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation<br />
Program Director for the Arts<br />
Office of Grants Administration<br />
650 Fifth Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10019<br />
(212) 974-7109<br />
bcameron@ddcf.org<br />
OCTAVIO CAMPOS<br />
Camposition--Hybrid/Theater/Works<br />
Artistic Director<br />
247 SW 3rd Avenue Suite 201, Miami, FL 33010<br />
786-399-7375<br />
octavio@camposition.org<br />
CORA CARDONA<br />
Teatro Dallas<br />
Founder, Artistic Director<br />
1331 Record Crossing, Dallas, TX 75235<br />
214-689-6492<br />
teatro@airmail.net<br />
AMY CARON<br />
Independent Artist<br />
555 South 200 East #518, Salt Lake City, UT 84111<br />
(801) 815-9339<br />
amy@amycaron.com<br />
RACHEL CARRICO<br />
NPN & Goat in the Road Productions<br />
Doctoral Candidate, University of California, Riverside<br />
3246 Mulberry St., Riverside, CA 92501<br />
618-420-0979<br />
rcarrico@hotmail.com<br />
TEO CASTELLANOS<br />
Teo Castellanos D-Projects<br />
Artistic Director<br />
PO BOX 557845, Miami, FL 33255<br />
786 271 2076<br />
teodprojects@mac.com<br />
JANE CASTILLO<br />
321 South Doheny Drive #5, Beverly Hills, CA 90211<br />
(310) 859-3417<br />
jane4c@aol.com<br />
YOLANDA CESTA CURSACH<br />
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago<br />
Associate Director, <strong>Performance</strong> Programs<br />
220 east Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611<br />
312.397.3843 fax 312.397.3893<br />
ycursach@mcachicago.org<br />
Octavio Campos is a trans disciplinary artist from Miami. He studied dance and composition at SUNY Purchase<br />
and the Folkwang Tanzstudio of Pina Bausch. He has collaborated with countless dance, theater and music<br />
luminaries: Robert Wilson, Birgitta Trommler, Philip Glass, William Buroughs, Tom Waits, Jorge Guerra, and<br />
Vivienne Newport. He is the recipient of the Dance Miami Choreographers Fellowship in 2005 & 2009 and the<br />
Florida Arts Interdisciplinary Fellowship for 2009. Upon his return to Miami from an extensive performance career<br />
in Europe, Russia and South America, Campos founded the interdisciplinary performance organization,<br />
Camposition, and a professor of movement studies at the New World School of the Arts.<br />
Cora Cardona graduated from Mexico‟s <strong>National</strong> Institute of Fine Arts. She studied and worked with Alejandro<br />
Jodorowsky. In Texas, she worked and studied children‟s theatre with Alice Wilson. She founded Teatro Dallas in<br />
1985 and has since directed most of Teatro's productions. She developed the skills of many Latino actors,<br />
creating a greater pool of Latin talent, which in the past was inexistent. With the support of the Meadows<br />
Foundation, Ms. Cardona introduced the "Days of the Dead” to Dallas in 1986. She produced and appeared in the<br />
documentary film "Frida Kahlo: A Ribbon Around a Bomb.” She has commissioned new plays and translations to<br />
local and Latin American playwrights. Ms Cardona‟s work represents the US at international theatre festivals.<br />
Amy Caron is a performing and visual artist based in Salt Lake City. Her work spans a wide-range of mediums<br />
including dance, video, sound, and large-scale installations. Her NPN Creation Fund Project, WAVES OF MU -<br />
an installation/performance work connected to neuroscience, continues to tour nationally with a recent Visiting<br />
Artist Residency at Duke University in October 2010. She is currently working on an enormous 4,000 sq/ft<br />
architectural installation about algae - a commission by the Leonardo Museum set to premiere in spring 2011. A<br />
fan of art in all directions at once, Amy is also in the midst of an open-ended durational work exploring<br />
commitment that involves her wearing a wedding gown everyday, everywhere she goes. She's quite easy to spot<br />
these days - stop and say hello.<br />
Rachel Carrico is doctoral student in the Critical Dance Studies department at the University of California,<br />
Riverside. Before relocating to California, Rachel was the Program Manager for HOME, New Orleans?, an<br />
initiative of <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong>, and the founding co-artistic director of Goat in the Road Productions in<br />
New Orleans. In August, she and Will Bowling of GRP traveled to Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, to conduct a<br />
Creative Exchange residency with Grupo de Teatro Artzenico, made possible by a grant through NPN's<br />
Performing Americas Program.<br />
Teo Castellanos is an award winning actor/writer/director, and is artistic director of Teo Castellanos D-Projects a<br />
dance/theater company influenced by ritual and hip-hop. He has toured his work throughout the U.S., Europe,<br />
South America, the Caribbean and China. His solo show NE 2nd Avenue won the Edinburgh Fringe First Award<br />
(Scotland) in 2003. He is currently working on a new company piece titled Fat Boy. Teo is a member of Screen<br />
Actors Guild and associate member of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and is represented in<br />
Europe by Universal Arts. www.teodprojects.com<br />
Castillo was born in Los Angeles, California to a Colombian immigrant family. Exposed to two cultures<br />
simultaneously, her interest in family and cultural history was sparked. Her lineage also includes that of Pilipino,<br />
African, Spanish, and Indigenous Colombian which has had a profound influence on her work as an active artist in<br />
her community. She attended California State University at Fullerton, graduating in 1993 with a bachelor‟s degree<br />
in Art Education. She later earned a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University in sculpture. She<br />
manipulates materials, maximizing their beauty by presenting them minimally altered yet in no way denying or<br />
changing their identity. As an installation artist, she charges space with a poetic elegance. Potently raw, silently<br />
strong.<br />
Yolanda contributes dance, music, and theater programming with a special interest in new work development<br />
residencies by Chicago artists, international cultural exchange residencies, and partnerships for copresentations<br />
and tours. She publishes the MCA Stage Program and directs the Artists Up Close series of talks and workshops.<br />
She serves on the Board of Links Hall; Executive Council of Bodies of Work, which supports artists with<br />
disabilities and the presentation of work about disabilities; Mayor's Office Celtic Fest Advisory Committee; League<br />
of Chicago Theaters Access Committee; and volunteers for World Chicago-US State Department International<br />
Visitor Leadership Program. She is a panelist for Creative Capital, USArtists International, and Illinois Arts Council<br />
and a Judge of Election.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
MARIO CHACON<br />
El Centro Cultural de La Raza, San Diego, California<br />
Member, Community Advisory Council<br />
2004 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101<br />
619-733-0980 fax 619-462-1340<br />
chaconarte@cox.net<br />
EVER CHAVEZ<br />
FUNDarte<br />
Executive Director<br />
7601 Byron Avenue, Suite 4c, Miami Beach, FL 33141<br />
3053166165 fax 305 8651214<br />
ever@fundarte.us<br />
HSUEH-TUNG CHEN<br />
Chen Dance Center<br />
Artistic Director<br />
70 Mulberry Street, 2nd fl, New York, NY 10013<br />
212-349-0126 fax 212-349-0494<br />
htchen@chendancecenter.org<br />
SEONG-UK CHOI<br />
Seoul Art Space Mullae - Korea<br />
Planning & Administration<br />
30 Mullae-dong 1-Ga, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, N/A<br />
00000<br />
305-519-6877<br />
prefree99@sfac.or.kr<br />
ANNIE CHOUDHURY<br />
MRP Inc.<br />
Stage Manager<br />
P.O. Box 5163, Capitol Heights, MD 20791<br />
301-602-3070<br />
annie2012@gmail.com<br />
HEATHER CHRISTIAN<br />
Jane Comfort and Company<br />
Artist<br />
55 N. Moore St., New York, NY 10013<br />
917.687.8092<br />
heather@heatherchristian.com<br />
STEPHEN CLAPP<br />
Dance Place<br />
Grants Manager<br />
3225 8th Street NE, Washington, DC 20017<br />
(202) 269-1600 fax 2022694103<br />
stephenc@danceplace.org<br />
PAMELA CLAPP<br />
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts<br />
Program Director<br />
65 Bleecker Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10012<br />
(212) 387-7555<br />
pclapp@warholfoundation.org<br />
Mario A. Chacon was born and raised in East Los Angeles, and over the last 30 years has made San Diego<br />
California his home. Since the 1980‟s Chacon has served San Diego‟s Centro Cultural de La Raza as a<br />
contributing artist, member of the Board of Directors, Chair of Arts Advisory Committee, and currently serves on<br />
the Community Advisory Council. He is an artist of deep spiritual and cultural orientation and strives to weave a<br />
balance of street wisdom, active decolonization, and a healthy sense of humor into his artistic endeavors.<br />
Chacon's educational background includes a bachelor's degree in History and a Master of Science Degree in<br />
Education. Chacon has served as Dean of Students at UCSD and San Diego City College and is currently a full<br />
time independent artist and educator.<br />
H.T. Chen is Artistic Director/Founder of H.T. Chen & Dancers and Chen Dance Center – School and Theater in<br />
NYC. As a choreographer, he has created a body of work that gives poetic voice to Asians in America. Chen has<br />
been the recipient of numerous awards, including the New York State Governor‟s Awards, the Organization of<br />
Chinese Americans - Lifetime Achievement Award, a BESSIES Special Citation, and, the NYC Mayor‟s Award for<br />
Arts & Culture. Born in Shanghai, China and raised in Taiwan, H.T. Chen is a graduate of the University of<br />
Chinese Culture, The Juilliard School, and New York University's Dept of Dance Professions, where he received<br />
his M.A. in Dance Education.<br />
Seoul Art Space Project transforms idle and used facilities into art facilities to revitalize the city with arts. Seoul Art<br />
Space supports artists with their creative activities and provides the citizens with opportunities for cultural<br />
communication and the city with creative vibrancy. Seoul Art Space_Mullae, a creative support center which<br />
includes the 'Mullae Arts Village', an artist village that had been formed by artists in the area, was established on<br />
January 28, 2010. It is a space for creative activities, which includes the Mullae Arts Village, supports domestic<br />
and international artists, and contributes to the revitalization of the city. It aims to become an incubating house for<br />
promising artists and global creation space for artistic creation and exchanges.<br />
Heather Christian (Laura) is the daughter of a blues musician and a go-go dancer. . She has been seen most<br />
recently in Big Dance Theater's The Other Here, in Mac Wellman's 1965UU, and in Taylor Mac's The Lily's<br />
Revenge (TimeOut Magazine's best of 2009). She is a core member of Witness Relocation Company and has codevised,<br />
performed, and toured many shows internationally with them for six years. She also works with the<br />
T.E.A.M, and has been seen with them in "Architecting", and is currently an in-house composer for the T.E.A.M.'s<br />
new work Mission Drift. She is primarily a songstress with her ensemble Heather Christian & the Arbornauts, and<br />
premiered her multi-media pop symphony "North" at LaMama ETC in 2006. They will release their debut album<br />
"Cabinet" in December. heatherchristian.com<br />
Stephen is a Grants Manager with Dance Place and has been with the organization for 7 years. He is also a<br />
dancer and Co-Artistic Director of Dance Box Theater and performs and tours off network. He currently serves as<br />
NPN's Northeast Regional Desk.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
ASHLEY CLEMMER HOFFMAN<br />
Project Row Houses<br />
Public Arts Manager<br />
P. O. Box 1011, Houston, TX 77251-1011<br />
(713) 526-7662 fax (713) 526-1623<br />
ashley@projectrowhouses.org<br />
SARA COFFEY<br />
Vermont <strong>Performance</strong> Lab<br />
Director<br />
561 Fitch Rd., Guilford, VT 05301<br />
802-579-3766<br />
sara@vermontperformancelab.com<br />
LAURA COLBY<br />
Elsie Management<br />
Director<br />
55 Washington St, suite 327, Brooklyn, NY 11201<br />
718-797-4577 fax 718 797 4576<br />
laurac@elsieman.org<br />
ALVAN COLON-LESPIER<br />
Pregones Theater<br />
Associate Artistic Director<br />
571-575 Walton Avenue, Bronx, NY 10451<br />
(718) 585-1202 fax (718) 585-1608<br />
acolonlespier@pregones.org<br />
JANE COMFORT<br />
Jane Comfort and Company<br />
Director<br />
55 N. Moore St., New York, NY 10013<br />
(212) 226-5109 fax 212 226.5109<br />
jjcomfort@earthlink.net<br />
ERNESTO CONTENTI<br />
Coro Latinoamericano-Pittsburgh<br />
Director and Member, Coro Latinoamericano-Pittsburgh<br />
440 East Burgess Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15214<br />
412-377-5850<br />
econtenti@aol.com<br />
CHRIS COWDEN<br />
Women & Their Work<br />
Executive Director<br />
1710 Lavaca St., Austin, TX 78701<br />
(512) 477-1064 fax (512) 447-1090<br />
cowden@womenandtheirwork.org<br />
TISHA CREAR<br />
Office of Cultural Affairs<br />
Cultural Programs Coordinator<br />
1925 Elm Street 4th Floor, Dallas, TX 75201<br />
214/670-4081 fax 214/670-4114<br />
tisha.crear@dallascityhall.com<br />
Ashley Clemmer Hoffman has worked at Project Row Houses since December 2006. As the Public Art Manager,<br />
she is responsible for curating and organizing all of the artists projects, residencies and public programs. She<br />
also oversees marketing/communication and tours. Ashley earned her M.A in Community Art from the Maryland<br />
Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2006 and her B.A. in Visual Arts from Roanoke College (Salem, Va) in 2003.<br />
Sara has been working in the performing arts field as a manager, programmer, producer and fundraiser for nearly<br />
20 years. After working in New York City for more than 13 years, she relocated to Southern Vermont in 2004 with<br />
her family. In the summer of 2006 she launched Vermont <strong>Performance</strong> Lab, an enterprise that focuses on<br />
providing creative residencies to artists working in contemporary music, dance and performance. VPL's Lab<br />
Program provides artists with space, time and support to develop new work and engage with the local community<br />
as part of the research and development process. Ms. Coffey holds a Master of Arts in <strong>Performance</strong> Studies<br />
from New York University and a BA in Anthropology and International Studies from Marlboro College and the<br />
School for International Training.<br />
Laura Colby established Elsie Management in 1995: an artist management company representing a global roster<br />
of dance, theater, world music, and outdoor spectacle. She is the Immediate Past President of NAPAMA, served<br />
on the board of Dance/USA, and was the founding Chair of Dance/USA‟s Agents Council. Since forming Elsie,<br />
Colby has represented over twenty-five performing arts touring companies from five continents, coordinating tours<br />
to over two hundred global venues. A frequently invited speaker for panels, workshops, and educational<br />
sessions, began her arts administration career as a manager for several independent contemporary<br />
choreographers. She graduated The Juilliard School with a BFA in Dance.<br />
Alvan Colon Lespier is Associate Artistic Director of Pregones Theater. As such he is in charge of operations of<br />
the comapny's 130 seat theater and is curator of the company's annual music series. Together with Pregones<br />
Artistic Director, Rosalba Rolon and Associate Artistic Director, Jorge B. Merced he is part of the Artistic Team<br />
that leads the ensemble's artistic engagement.<br />
Jane Comfort is a choreographer, writer, and director whose multi-disciplinary works have been presented<br />
throughout the United States, in Europe, and Latin America. Her work explores the intersection of movement and<br />
text, and has long mixed high and low arts to make social and political commentary. She is a 2010 Guggenheim<br />
Fellow, and received a BESSIE Award for Underground River. She choreographed Stephen Sondheim's<br />
Broadway musical Passion, and Michel Legrand's Amour as well as Shakespeare in the Park's Much Ado About<br />
Nothing and Lyric Opera of Chicago's Salome. Recent commissions include NPN, Ballet Memphis, Stanford<br />
University, Rhode Island College, Headwaters Dance, Columbia College, and Jeanne Ruddy.<br />
Ernesto Contenti is a director and past president of Coro Latinoamericano-Pittsburgh. Born in Buenos Aires,<br />
Argentina, he has resided in USA for many years and serves professionally as vice president of Document<br />
Translations and Graphic Design for DT Interpreting based in Pittsburgh. He has a diverse background in<br />
marketing, graphic design, language interpretation and music and has performed as a singer and accordionist<br />
with various Latin American music groups. He earned distinction as a celebrated musician and recording artist<br />
during early years in Argentina.<br />
Chris Cowden has served as the Executive Director of Women & Their Work since 1986 and has overseen the<br />
work of more than 1,475 visual and performing artists. She directs all programming and is responsible for<br />
planning, implementation, and evaluation as well as fiscal management. Cowden has a B.A and M.A. in English<br />
Literature and completed all course work for a PhD. During her tenure, W&TW has tripled in size and the<br />
organization maintains a national presence. W&TW became a member of NPN in 1985 and in 2008 became a<br />
founding member of the Visual Artists <strong>Network</strong><br />
Tisha Crear is a Dallas based artist who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater from the NYU Tisch School<br />
of the Arts with an African Studies minor. She is on the artist team at the South Dallas Cultural Center. Tisha<br />
Crear is former co-founder and owner of Reciprocity in Oak Cliff, Texas, a spoken word venue. She is currently<br />
CEO of Reciprocity Records and Executive Producer of the poetry/music compilation project, NOMMO. Tisha is<br />
co-founder of the new non-profit organization Seed Money Foundation, Inc. that offers arts and health initiatives to<br />
the African American community. She worked as Education & Outreach Coordinator for South Dallas Cultural<br />
Center. Currently, Ms. Crear is the Cultural Programs Coordinator for the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
SAGE CRUMP<br />
South Arts<br />
Performing Arts Exchange Director<br />
1800 Peachtree Street, NW Suite 808, Atlanta, GA<br />
30309<br />
(404) 874-7244 fax (404) 873-2148<br />
scrump@southarts.org<br />
BRAULIO CRUZ-ORTIZ<br />
525 W. Westchester PKWY.<br />
Apt. # 1031, Grand Prairie, TX 75052<br />
972 207 7381<br />
braulio.cruzortiz@mavs.uta.edu<br />
SHOSHONA CURRIER<br />
Every house has a door<br />
1144 North Hoyne, Chicago, IL 60622<br />
917-292-5738<br />
shoni.currier@gmail.com<br />
MATTHEW CUSICK<br />
1202 Newport Ave, Dallas, TX 75224<br />
718-344-5957<br />
matt@mattcusick.com<br />
LANE CZAPLINSKI<br />
On the Boards<br />
Artistic Director<br />
100 West Roy Street, Seattle, WA 98119<br />
(206) 217-9886 fax 206-217-9887<br />
lane@ontheboards.org<br />
RONALD DAVISON<br />
Journeyman Ink, LLC<br />
Percussionist / Artist / Poet<br />
2557 Talco Dr., Dallas, TX 75241<br />
214.372.4796<br />
ronald1862@yahoo.com<br />
MARIA DE LEON<br />
<strong>National</strong> Association of Latino Arts and Culture<br />
Executive Director<br />
1208 Buena Vista, San Antonio, TX 78207<br />
210-432-3982 fax 210-432-3934<br />
maria@nalac.org<br />
ALEC DE LEON<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
Program Specialist- Visual Artists <strong>Network</strong><br />
P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156<br />
504.595.8008 x209 fax 504-595-8006<br />
alec@npnweb.org<br />
Shoshona Currier is a New York based theater artist, currently serving as the Director of International Programs<br />
for Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas. She also produces the Chicago-based performance company Every house<br />
has a door as well as the Berlin-based Lewis Forever. She is the Artistic Director for NYC-based performance<br />
company The Shalimar whose work has been seen at <strong>Performance</strong> Space 122, 59e59 Theater, The Edinburgh<br />
Fringe (Stage Award for Best Ensemble), and many other venues in New York and abroad. She is a staff director<br />
at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Member: Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Soho Rep Writer/Directors<br />
Lab.<br />
Lane Czaplinski is the Artistic Director of On the Boards – one of the leading centers for contemporary<br />
performance in the Western United States. Prior to moving to Seattle in 2002, Czaplinski worked as the Program<br />
Manager at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In January 2010, Czaplinski helped launch OntheBoards.tv, an<br />
online, pay-per-view platform for contemporary performance videos. He has worked with many organizations as a<br />
panelist/advisor including the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, <strong>National</strong> Endowment for the Arts,<br />
<strong>National</strong> Dance Project, Japan Foundation, <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong>, Creative Capital, Herb Alpert<br />
Foundation, Australia Council for the Arts, Pew Charitable Trusts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, USArtists, Doris<br />
Duke Charitable Foundation, American College Dance Festival and the Bessie Committee.<br />
Journeyman Ink transcends cultures, creeds and races by awakening the creative soul and developing emotional<br />
literacy through the power of shared life experiences on stage and in the classroom. We pursue speaking and<br />
performance opportunities unique for their use of original spoken word and melody memory methods (stimulating<br />
oral/aural responses through the recitation of songs and mantras). We offer diversity education, character<br />
development, and professional consultation that touches on human emotions and empowers each participant to<br />
discover his/her own voice. We tailor commission work, multi-disciplinary workshops and presentations for any<br />
need while inspiring others to talk to the page, write to be heard, and courageously find inner strength and<br />
common ground.<br />
Maria Lopez De Leon is the Executive Director and board member of the <strong>National</strong> Association of Latino Arts and<br />
Culture (NALAC). Ms. De Leon has been with NALAC for twelve years and has served as Executive Director for<br />
eight years. Under Ms. De Leon‟s leadership, NALAC launched the NALAC Fund for the Arts, a grant program for<br />
Latino artists and organizations, completed production of a documentary series on Latino art and culture for PBS,<br />
has developed and directed the Transnational Cultural Remittances program, a grant program for artists and<br />
organizations in the U.S., Mexico and Central America; has directed the convening of four national arts and<br />
cultural conferences and has lead the continued development of ten editions of the renowned annual Leadership<br />
Institute.<br />
Alec De León is the Program Specialist for the Visual Artists <strong>Network</strong> and <strong>National</strong> Programs. He is also an artist<br />
and musician. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a<br />
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Drawing from Louisiana State University. Previous experience<br />
includes serving as Director of Alex Beard Gallery in New Orleans and as an Adjunct Professor at Towson<br />
University in Towson, MD. His paintings have been exhibited in New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore<br />
and Florida. As a member of the psychedelic rock band the Heatbunnies, De León and his musical collaborator,<br />
Chris Cassidy, have released their first album, “Plasmic Organic,” on iTunes and are currently working on their<br />
second album.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
MAYDA DEL VALLE<br />
Poet/ Performer<br />
529 1/2 S. Normandie Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90020<br />
323-301-5331 fax 213-570-0559<br />
mayda@maydadelvalle.com<br />
MARK DENDY<br />
Jane Comfort and Company<br />
Guest Artist<br />
55 N. Moore St., New York, NY 10013<br />
646.221.1760<br />
mark_dendy@hotmail.com<br />
KATHIE DENOBRIGA<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
writer, editor<br />
PO Box 1087, Pine Lake, GA 30072<br />
404-299-9498 fax 404-299-9498<br />
kdenobriga@mindspring.com<br />
THANDIWE DESHAZOR<br />
Pomo Afro Homos<br />
Pomo Afro Homos: Fierce Love<br />
76 Santa Marina Street, San Francisco, CA 94110<br />
313-850-0860<br />
thandiwethomas@yahoo.com<br />
CAROLELINDA DICKEY<br />
Internationale Tanzmesse NRW<br />
Co-Director<br />
6636 Wilkins Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15217<br />
412-422-1864 fax 412-422-7414<br />
carolelinda@tanzmesse-nrw.com<br />
DAVEED DIGGS<br />
The Living Word Project<br />
Performer/Creator<br />
2019 Filbert Street, Oakland, CA 94607<br />
347.782.1701<br />
mrdiggs@gmail.com<br />
SEAN DONOVAN<br />
Jane Comfort and Company<br />
Performer<br />
55 N. Moore St., New York, NY 10013<br />
347-451-8399<br />
seanodono@gmail.com<br />
BILL DOOLIN<br />
Florida Dance Association<br />
Interim Director<br />
111 SW 5th Avenue, Room 202, Miami, FL 33130<br />
(305) 547-1117 fax (305) 547-1118<br />
billd@floridadanceassociation.org<br />
Mayda Del Valle has been described by the Chicago Sun Times as having “a way with words. Sometimes they<br />
seem to flutter and roll off her lips. Other times they burst forth like a comet streaking across a nighttime sky.”<br />
She has appeared on 6 episodes of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO, and was a contributing writer<br />
and original cast member of the Tony Award winning production of Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. She was<br />
chosen by Smithsonian Magazine as one of “America‟s Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences” and Oprah‟s<br />
O Magazine named her as one of 20 women on the first ever “O Power List.” In May of 2009 she was invited to<br />
perform at The White House for President Obama and the First Lady.<br />
Mark Dendy is a Bessie and Obie Award winner, having created dance and theater for the last twenty years. His<br />
work has been seen throughout the world and in New York at The Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, PS 122, and<br />
DTW. He is delighted to be attending his first NPN Annual Meeting.<br />
A founding member of Alternate ROOTS, Kathie deNobriga served as ROOTS' executive director and<br />
planning/development director for ten years. Earlier careers were as theatre director, performer, producer and<br />
presenter in NC and TN. She is now a consultant specializing in strategic planning, organizational capacity,<br />
staff/board retreats and creative conflict engagement; she is a certified mediator. DeNobriga is also Mayor<br />
ProTem of Pine Lake, GA (now in her third term) where she works to encourage a wide range of citizen arts<br />
participation. She is on the boards of Art in the Public Interest and Alternate ROOTS. Currently she is raising<br />
capital funds for the Little Five Points Community Center, working on a program assessment for TCG, and writing<br />
and editing for NPN. She turned 60 last week.<br />
Nursha Project artist Thandiwe Thomas DeShazor is an actor, writer and comedian. His one man show, "Children<br />
of the Last Days" satirizes the black church and the gay community and has been featured in the San Francisco<br />
Queer Arts Festival and the Afro Solo Festival. In addition to touring his solo show in 2011, he will be starring<br />
opposite Stanley Bennett Clay in his play, "Armstrong's Kid".<br />
Carolelinda has an extensive background in arts management, including 7 years as founding executive director of<br />
the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. From 1987-99, she was executive director of the Pittsburgh Dance<br />
Council. Currently she is co-director of the Internationale TanzmesseNRW. In 1999, she founded Performing Arts<br />
Strategies and consults on program development/public policy for numerous national foundations and arts<br />
organizations. A frequent speaker on international cultural engagement, her report, Improving Access [nonimmigrant<br />
visas for artists] for the Rockefeller Foundation has been widely lauded. Her most recent report, Dance<br />
America: A Strategy to Export American Dance, co-authored with Andrea Snyder, can be found at<br />
http://www.danceusa.org/internationalstrategy.<br />
Daveed Diggs is an actor, educator, composer, rap and spoken word artist who graduated with a degree in<br />
Theater Arts from Brown University in 2004. He has many California and regional credits including most recently<br />
Pacific Rep Theater's Troilus and Cressida (Troilus) and A Comedy of Errors (Duke), The SF Playhouse Six<br />
Degrees of Separation (Paul) and Jesus Hopped the A Train (Angel). Diggs also teaches Rap and Spoken word<br />
classes at James Lick Middle School and at the Marsh Youth Theater and gives workshops throughout the Bay<br />
Area, New York City, and New Jersey. He has been a teacher in residence with the Arts Literacy Program in<br />
Providence, Rhode Island and a teaching artist for the national youth spoken word organization Youth Speaks.<br />
Sean Donovan is an actor, dancer, and writer. He is a member of both Witness Relocation Theater and Jane<br />
Comfort and Company. His original works include Sublimate at Galapagos Art Space, NY, Se Vende at the FAE<br />
Festival in Panama, and The Climate Chronicles at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. In New York he has performed at<br />
such places as The Kitchen, PS122, The Duke, The Ontological Hysteric Theatre, The Ohio Theatre, DTW, La<br />
MaMa ETC, and Dixon Place. He received his BFA in Theatre from New York University's Experimental Theatre<br />
Wing. He has trained and performed internationally in France, Holland, Romania, Poland, Russia, Panama,<br />
Canada, Thailand and Japan, as well as many venues throughout the US.<br />
Bill Doolin, Director, leads a multifaceted life. As a choreographer, his work has been seen in Cambridge, MA,<br />
New York,Colorado and Illinois & at Florida Dance Festival in Miami and Tampa and Excello Dance Studio in<br />
Miami. He also has 3 works in the repertory of Moving Current Dance Collective in Tampa. Bill performed with<br />
Concert Dance Company of Boston, Mass Dance Ensemble, Malashock/Dance in San Diego, CA, Demetrius<br />
Klein Dance Company in Lake Worth, FL and Gerri Houlihan in Boston and Miami. As an administrator, he<br />
worked at Harvard Summer Dance Center, Pentacle, Inc. and New World School of the Arts in Miami.Bill was<br />
recently honored with the 2009 Miami Dance Festival award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field and in<br />
2006 was awarded a Miami Dade County Choreography Fellow.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
ELIZABETH DOUD<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
Performing Americas Coordinator<br />
P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156<br />
305-519-6877 fax 305-237-7559<br />
edoud@npnweb.org<br />
MARIO GARCIA DURHAM<br />
<strong>National</strong> Endowment for the Arts<br />
Director, Presenting & Artists Communities<br />
Multidisciplinary Arts Division<br />
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Room 720, Washington,<br />
DC 20506<br />
(202) 682-5469 fax 202.682.5612 or 5002<br />
durhamm@arts.endow.gov<br />
SARA ELLIS CARDONA<br />
1331 Record Crossing Road, Dallas, TX 75235<br />
972-437-1002<br />
scardo@dcccd.edu<br />
TERESA EYRING<br />
Theatre Communications Group<br />
Executive Director<br />
520 Eighth Avenue, 24th floor, New York, NY 10018<br />
212-609-5900 x237 fax 212-609-5901<br />
teyring@tcg.org<br />
LAURA FAURE<br />
Bates Dance Festival<br />
Director<br />
163 Wood Street, Lewiston, ME 04240-6016<br />
207-871-0509 fax (207) 871-0136<br />
lfaure@bates.edu<br />
DAVID FERRI<br />
Jane Comfort and Company<br />
55 N. Moore St., New York, NY 10013<br />
PAUL FLORES<br />
REPRESENTA!/Chicano Messengers<br />
Writer/Performer<br />
1182 Naples St., San Francisco, CA 94112<br />
415 350-9775<br />
santos8205@mac.com<br />
ANEL FLORES<br />
Empanadita Production Company<br />
Educator, Producer, Writer and Visual Artist<br />
150 El Monte, San Antonio, TX 78212<br />
210-316-7029<br />
anelflores@gmail.com<br />
Mario Garcia Durham is the Director of Artist Communities and Presenting at the <strong>National</strong> Endowment for the<br />
Arts. Mr. Durham was the founder and Executive Director of Yerba Buena Arts & Events (YBAE) in San<br />
Francisco. Mr. Durham was also a founding staff member of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. At the NEA<br />
Mr. Durham has been responsible for a renewed NEA focus on the role of Presenters, Artist Communities,<br />
Service Organizations, and Outdoor Festivals, including a 2010 NEA report on the impact of outdoor festivals in<br />
the US.<br />
Executive Director of Theatre Communications Group since 2007, the national organization for non-profit<br />
professional theatre which will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary beginning June 2011. Ms. Eyring spent more<br />
than twenty years as an executive in theatres around the U.S. Positions included: managing director of the<br />
Children‟s Theatre Company (CTC) in Minneapolis from 1999-2007; managing director of the Wilma Theater in<br />
Philadelphia from 1994-1999; and assistant executive director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis from 1989-<br />
1993. She holds a BA in International Relations from Stanford University and an MFA in Theatre Administration<br />
from Yale School of Drama and currently chairs the follow-up process for the 2008 <strong>National</strong> Performing Arts<br />
Convention.<br />
Laura Faure is the director of the Bates Dance Festival held at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Since taking this<br />
position in 1988 she had developed the Festival into an internationally acclaimed contemporary dance program<br />
known for its artistic excellence, curatorial vision, and commitment to building community through dance. A former<br />
dancer, choreographer and teacher with thirty + years of experience in the field of dance, Ms. Faure also works as<br />
a freelance arts manager and consultant specializing in the dance.<br />
Paul S. Flores is one of the most influential Latino performance artists in the country. A published poet, playwright<br />
and co-founder of Youth Speaks, his work explores the intersection of urban culture, Hip-Hop, Spanglish and<br />
transnational identity. Rasied in Chula Vista, CA, Paul spent his youth between Tijuana and San Diego as a<br />
border resident. Flores' performance projects have taken him from HBO's Def Poetry to Havana, Cuba, Mexico<br />
City, and El Salvador. He is author of the novel Along the Border Lies, and his most recent play REPRESENTA!<br />
was directed by Danny Hoch and presented by the Hip-Hop Theater Festival 2007. He was recently awarded the<br />
NALAC Fund for the Arts 2010 grant for his newest play PLACAS, directed by Michael John Garcés, premiering in<br />
2011-2012 in San Francisco.<br />
With her her BA in English and MFA in Creative Writing, Anel I. Flores, Tejana border-born lesbiana, writer,<br />
educator and multidisciplinary visual artista believes access to arte and expression create a channel towards<br />
healing, understanding and empowerment for all people, and thus a vehicle for social justice. She is author of<br />
novel, My Girl Empanada, a Lesbiana story en Probaditas, play, Empanada, produced nationally in various<br />
venues, and artist of multiple series' of artworks in oil and fine silver. Currently she is writing a new novel titled,<br />
Tiempo Olvidado, a graphic novel for young adults and an illustrated children's book titled The Icing on the Cake.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
KAMILAH FORBES<br />
Hip-Hop Theater Festival<br />
Artistic Director<br />
442-D LORIMER STREET #195, Brooklyn, NY 11206<br />
718-497-4282 fax 718.360.1930<br />
kamilah@hhtf.org<br />
JANE FORDE<br />
New England Foundation for the Arts<br />
Manager, <strong>National</strong> Dance Project<br />
145 Tremont Street, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02111<br />
617 951 0010 x 512 fax 617 951 0016<br />
jforde@nefa.org<br />
SHAWNA FORNEY<br />
DiverseWorks Artspace<br />
Public Relations & Marketing Manager<br />
1117 East Freeway, Houston, TX 77002<br />
713.223.8346 fax 713.223.4608<br />
shawna@diverseworks.org<br />
VELETTA FORSYTHE LILL<br />
Dallas Arts District<br />
Executive Director<br />
2200 Ross Avenue, Suite 4600E, Dallas, TX 75201<br />
(214) 744-6643 fax 214-744-1987<br />
lill@downtowndallas.org<br />
SYLVIE FORTIN<br />
ART PAPERS<br />
Editor-in-Chief<br />
PO Box 5748, Atlanta, GA 31107<br />
4045881837 x 20 fax 4045881836<br />
editor@artpapers.org<br />
JOSÉ FRANCOS<br />
ELIA ARCE<br />
Technical Director<br />
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts<br />
701 Mission Street, San Francico, CA 94103<br />
415-321-1326 fax 415-978-2787<br />
jfrancos@ybca.org<br />
DAMON FRAZIER<br />
South Dallas Cultural Center<br />
Resident artist<br />
3400 S. Fitzhugh Avenue, Dallas, TX 75210<br />
405-513-4152 fax 214/670-8118<br />
rithm5@yahoo.com<br />
BRIAN FREEMAN<br />
Pomo Afro Homos<br />
Director<br />
76 Santa Marina Street, San Francisco, CA 94110<br />
213-712-1045<br />
brian.freeman@mac.com<br />
Jamaican naturalized citizen and graduate of the British-American Drama Academy at Oxford University in<br />
England; Kamilah Forbes is a director, producer, playwright, actor, activist, and the artistic director of Hip-Hop<br />
Theater Festival. Since 2000, she has curated the Hip-Hop Theater Festival presented annually in New York City,<br />
Chicago, Washington, DC and the San Francisco Bay Area. With an eclectic and worldly mix of works, Forbes<br />
provides a stage and artistic home to artists often marginalized in theater world. She has received a Tony Award<br />
as well as the The Mayor‟s Arts Award for an Emerging Theatre Artist, was featured as one of the Top 100<br />
Juiciest People by Vibe magazine, and was nominated for the prestigious Helen Hayes Award for Best Lead<br />
Actress.<br />
Shawna Forney is the Public Relations & Marketing Manager of DiverseWorks ArtSpace.<br />
In January 2009 Veletta Forsythe Lill accepted a newly created position - Executive Director of the Dallas Arts<br />
District– an organization “dedicated to stimulating the economic and cultural life of the region through the<br />
development and promotion of the district.” The organization acts as chief advocate and steward of the 68-acre<br />
arts-centric neighborhood. Ms. Lill, a long time advocate for the arts, served on the Dallas City Council from<br />
1997-2005. Her work as Chair of the Arts, Education and Libraries Committee of the Council led to the passage<br />
of almost $100 million in bonds for arts and library facilities, the creation of a nationally recognized arts-ineducation<br />
program, and completion of a Cultural Facilities Master Plan for the city.<br />
Sylvie Fortin is Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning non-profit contemporary art magazine ART PAPERS,<br />
published in Atlanta and distributed in over 80 countries.<br />
José María Francos, originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been a lighting designer, producer and arts<br />
administrator for over 28 years. He has collaborated with the Oakland Opera and Ballet, Wall Flower Order, June<br />
Watanabe In Dance, Ellen Bromberg Ensemble, Joanna Haigood‟s Zaccho Dance Theater, Robert Moses KIN<br />
and Navarre +Kajiyama Dance Theater and Elia Arce. He is currently the Technical Director at Yerba Buena<br />
Center for the Arts.<br />
Damon Frazier is an African percussionist raised in Dallas, Texas. His talent led him to work with the famous<br />
Chuck Davis African Ensemble based in Durham NC for several years before relocating back to the Southwest.<br />
Damon Frazier has traveled the United States, Africa and Europe sharing the knowledge he received with children<br />
and adults. He is currently a percussion instructor at University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK and a resident artist<br />
at the South Dallas Cultural Center where he teaches African Diaspora Percussion.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
DAN FROOT<br />
Artist<br />
11405 Biona Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90066<br />
310.766.4942 fax 310.636.2757<br />
danfroot@me.com<br />
JANE GABRIELS<br />
Pepatian<br />
Director<br />
1001 Grand Concourse 10F, Bronx, NY 10452<br />
917 903 7651 fax n/a<br />
gabriels_j@yahoo.com<br />
VALLEJO GANTNER<br />
<strong>Performance</strong> Space 122<br />
Artistic Director<br />
150 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009<br />
(212) 477-5829 fax (212) 535-1315<br />
vallejo@ps122.org<br />
KUMANI GANTT<br />
Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas<br />
Executive Director<br />
PO Box 22824, Seattle, WA 98122<br />
206-323-4032 fax 206-323-4036<br />
kumanig@cdforum.org<br />
OLGA GARAY<br />
City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs<br />
Executive Director<br />
201 North Figueroa Street, Suite 1400, Los angeles, CA<br />
90012<br />
213-202-5522 fax 213-202-5513<br />
olga.garay@lacity.org<br />
LEO GARCIA<br />
Highways <strong>Performance</strong> Space and Gallery<br />
Executive Director / Artistic Director<br />
1651 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404<br />
(310) 453-1755 fax (310) 453-4347<br />
leogarcia@highwaysperformance.org<br />
ALEJANDRO GARCÍA-LEMOS<br />
1830 Henderson St., Columbia, SC 29201<br />
803 397 7686 fax 803 400 1179<br />
alegar78@gmail.com<br />
MARIA TERESA GARCIA-PEDROCHE<br />
Dallas Museum of Art<br />
Head of Family & Community Programs<br />
1717 North Harwood, Dallas, TX 75201<br />
214-922-1253<br />
mpedroche@dallasmuseumofart.org<br />
Dan Froot is a Los Angeles-based writer, producer, composer and performer. Along with NY-based puppet artist<br />
Dan Hurlin and Seattle-based composer Amy Denio, he is creating "Who's Hungry," an ongoing series of short toy<br />
theater plays based on the lives of homeless and hungry folks in Los Angeles. His dance, music and theater work<br />
has toured nationally and internationally since 1983, including "Live Sax Acts," a series of collaborative duets with<br />
choreographer David Dorfman. Dan is recipient of a 1991 Bessie Award for creation, as well as numerous grants<br />
and fellowships. He teaches at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures, and at colleges and universities<br />
around the country.<br />
Jane Gabriels is Director of Pepatian, a South Bronx-based arts organization (www.pepatian.org). She is also<br />
Project Coordinator for The Young Roots <strong>Performance</strong> Series at Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture, funded<br />
by Rockefeller Foundation NYC Cultural Innovation Fund 2011-12, and co-author of the proposal. She was<br />
Project Manager for a collaborative art and community project between The Bronx Museum of the Arts and The<br />
Point CDC (2004-06) and was a teaching artist through the Community Word Project for one year at M.S. 279 in<br />
the Bronx. She is a performer, poet, events producer and artist manager (www.janegabriels.com). Jane is<br />
working towards her doctorate on the performing arts scene of the South Bronx at Concordia University, Montreal<br />
Canada.<br />
Vallejo Gantner has been Artistic Director of <strong>Performance</strong> Space 122 since 2005. P.S. 122 is New York‟s leading<br />
multi-disciplinary presenter of innovative performing arts. Prior he was Director of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2002<br />
– 2004, and Artistic Associate of the Melbourne Festival 2000/01. Originally from Melbourne, Gantner worked in a<br />
range of capacities throughout the arts in the US, Asia and Australia - director, writer, performer, agent, producer<br />
and programmer. He was also the co-producer of Spiegelworld from 2006-2008, a commercial producer of<br />
contemporary circus, cabaret, music and entertainment across the US. He is a partner in a brewery - Mountain<br />
Goat Beer and in Melbourne bars Double Happiness, New Gold Mountain, Bosisto‟s Liquor Bar and Lily Blacks.<br />
Kumani Gantt joined the Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas in July 2009 as Executive Director. Before<br />
working at the CD Forum, she was the Executive and Artistic Director at The Village of Arts and Humanities (the<br />
Village). Kumani has conducted writing workshops at the State Correctional Institute at Graterford, the Baltimore<br />
Women‟s Detention Center, Power Inside, and the Baltimore City School System. Her plays and performance<br />
pieces include meditations/from the ash; Three Stories to the Ground, Communion, and Testament. Her poetry<br />
collection, conjuring the dead, was awarded the Maryland Emerging Writers Award in 2003. She received a MFA<br />
in Theatre from Towson University and has attended Hedgebrook, Norcroft and Caldera writing retreats.<br />
Leo Garcia is an award-winning playwright, actor, filmmaker, producer, teacher, and activist and has served as<br />
Highways' Artistic Director since 2003 where he has developed and presented over 500 performance works. His<br />
works have been presented by numerous nationally-established companies and presenters, including Theater for<br />
the New City, The Public, The Jewish Repertory Theater, International Arts Relations Theater (INTAR), L.A.<br />
Theater Center, South Coast Rep, Tiffany Theaters, and Santa Fe Stages, among others. Garcia has been<br />
awarded by The <strong>National</strong> Endowment for the Arts, TCG, NY Foundation for the Arts, Mark Taper Forum, South<br />
Coast Rep, The <strong>National</strong> Hispanic Media Coalition, the HARC Foundation, OUT, and MCA/Universal. He is the<br />
recipient of an MFA from the Asolo Conservatory.<br />
Alejandro García is a Colombian-American visual and installation artist living between Columbia, South Carolina<br />
and Atlanta, Georgia. He holds a MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Florida International<br />
University in Miami and a BA in Graphic Design from the School of Arts at the <strong>National</strong> University in Bogotá,<br />
Colombia. His work focuses on complex social issues, mostly on aspects of immigration, biculturalism, religion<br />
and social justice. His work has been shown extensively in the South East and featured in El Aviso and ALAA´s<br />
newsletter. Also his installation ¨Migration Letters in Spanglish" was selected for the ongoing cover of an<br />
International publication based in London, England. Alejandro is an alumni of the NALAC Leadership Institute and<br />
the founder of Palmetto & LUNA.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
NICOLE GARNEAU<br />
Columbia College Chicago<br />
Faculty, Cultural Studies<br />
1548 W. Pratt, Chicago, IL 60626<br />
773-879-1492<br />
nicolegarneau13@sbcglobal.net<br />
LIZA GARZA<br />
MRP Inc.<br />
Artistic Representative<br />
P.O. Box 5163, Capitol Heights, MD 20791<br />
3013500092 fax 3013500092<br />
m.rproductions@mason-rhynes.org<br />
ELIZABETH GEIGER<br />
CORE <strong>Performance</strong> Company<br />
Tour Development<br />
P.O. Box 2045, Decatur, GA 30031-2045<br />
404 373 4154 fax 866 202 9156<br />
geiger.elizabeth@gmail.com<br />
DANIELLE GEORGIOU<br />
University of Texas at Arlington/UTA Dance<br />
Ensemble/Multitudes Dance Theatre<br />
Artistic Director/Choreographer<br />
5200 Keller Springs Road #1334, Dallas, TX 75248<br />
214 3169627 fax 214 3169627<br />
danielle.georgiou@gmail.com<br />
ALEKZANDER GERARD<br />
University of Texas at Arlington/UTA Dance<br />
Ensemble/Multitudes Dance Theatre<br />
Roam<br />
5200 Keller Springs Road #1334, Dallas, TX 75248<br />
214-918-0204<br />
alekzgerard@yahoo.com<br />
MICHELLE GIBSON<br />
Exhibit Dance Collective/ South Dallas Cultural<br />
Center<br />
Choreographer, Instructor,Performing Artist<br />
4917 Valley Ridge Dr, #2037, Iriving, TX 75062<br />
504-610-5631<br />
mgibson4life@yahoo.com<br />
SANDRA GIBSON<br />
Association of Performing Arts Presenters<br />
President & CEO<br />
1211 Connecticut Ave NW<br />
Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036<br />
2028332787 fax 2028331543<br />
sgibson@artspresenters.org<br />
I am a Chicago-based interdisciplinary performing artist. Since 1995, I have worked closely with Insight Arts, an<br />
arts organization that is dedicated to increasing access to cultural work that promotes social justice and defends<br />
human rights. I currently serve on the Board of Directors of the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong> and on the<br />
Executive Committee of Alternate ROOTS. I am also an Advisor to the publication AREA: Chicago Art, Research,<br />
Education, and Activism. I am a research assistant for The MacArthur Foundation, teach cultural theory and race<br />
theory at Columbia College Chicago, and teach feminist performance studies at DePaul University.<br />
www.nicolegarneau.com<br />
Elizabeth has been working as a performing arts manager since 1985. In addition to spending two years at Dance<br />
Theater Workshop as the Project Coordinator, Inter/<strong>National</strong> Projects for the NPN and Suitcase Fund, she is<br />
proud to have been a part of Manhattan Theatre Club, P.S. 122, The Joyce Theater, Feld Ballets/NY, Lincoln<br />
Center Festival and Lisa Booth Management in New York; she recently moved to Atlanta and is grateful to have<br />
found her place in the South at CORE <strong>Performance</strong> Company. She is happy to be reconnecting to the NPN.<br />
Danielle Georgiou is a Ph.D. candidate in Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her video work<br />
explores the relationship between dance and the camera, while playing with abstractions of traditional narratives.<br />
She is interested in the effect capturing movement has on memory and emotion, and how dance can translate a<br />
musical score. Danielle is the Assistant Director of the UTA Dance Ensemble, a guest choreographer for the UT<br />
Dallas Dance Ensemble, and dances professionally with Muscle Memory Dance Theatre. She is an Arts<br />
Commentator for KERA‟s Art&Seek, Art+Culture DFW Magazine, and the Dallas Morning News.<br />
Choreographer, Instructor, Performing Artist. New Orleans native. Graduate of New Orleans Center for Creative<br />
Arts. Received BFA in Dance from Tulane University. MFA Candidate in Dance / <strong>Performance</strong> Studies from<br />
Hollins University/ American Dance Festival. Faculty member with the American Dance Festival Summer<br />
Intensive.Fine Arts Dance teacher with Dallas Independent School District.<br />
Sandra L. Gibson has served as the President & CEO of Arts Presenters since July 2000. In that time Gibson has<br />
been instrumental in positioning the association to take a leadership role in advancing the field of performing arts<br />
presenting. Gibson‟s nearly 30 years of experience in the arts management, cultural programming and presenting<br />
include the Department of the Arts at UCLA Extension, the American Film Institute (AFI), Director, Independent<br />
Filmmaker and Distribution Program, an NEA re-granting program, and Executive Director of the Public<br />
Corporation for the Arts, the Long Beach Regional Arts Council and an appointment to UNESCO. Immediately<br />
prior to joining Arts Presenters, Gibson served as Executive Vice President and COO at Americans for the Arts.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
TAMMY GOMEZ<br />
Sound Culture<br />
1323 Seventh Avenue - rear apt., Fort Worth, TX 76104<br />
817.924.9188<br />
tammygomexican@yahoo.com<br />
AIN GORDON<br />
Pick Up <strong>Performance</strong> Co(S.)<br />
Co-Director<br />
Algonquin 175 Prospect Park SW Apt 2A, Brooklyn, NY<br />
11219<br />
212 244 7622 fax n/a<br />
agwords@earthlink.net<br />
ROSIE GORDON-WALLACE<br />
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubation<br />
Founding Exc. Director<br />
3938 N. Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33127<br />
305-573-4046 fax (305) 573-7576<br />
rogwall3@yahoo.com<br />
PAT GRANEY<br />
Pat Graney Company<br />
Executive Director<br />
925 E. Thomas, Suite B, Seattle, WA 98102<br />
(206) 329-3705 fax (206) 320-6646<br />
staff@patgraney.org<br />
EMILY GRAY<br />
Fractured Atlas<br />
Program Director, Liability Insurance<br />
248 W 35th St, Floor 10, New York, NY 10001<br />
212/277-8020<br />
emily.gray@fracturedatlas.org<br />
DAZIÉ GREGO<br />
Pomo Afro Homos<br />
76 Santa Marina Street, San Francisco, CA 94110<br />
4159028047<br />
dazier.g@gmail.com<br />
SARAH GUERRA<br />
La Peña Cultural Center<br />
Programmer<br />
3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705<br />
(510) 849-2568 fax (510) 849-9397<br />
sarah@lapena.org<br />
TOM GURALNICK<br />
Outpost Productions, Inc.<br />
Executive Director<br />
PO Box 4543, Albuquerque, NM 87196<br />
(505) 268-0044 fax (505) 268-4481<br />
tguralnick@comcast.net<br />
Tammy Gomez is profiled in LAS TEJANAS: 300 YEARS OF HISTORY (UT Press), and is featured in “Voices<br />
from Texas,” a PBS documentary about Tejano/a poets. She has received grants from Humanities Texas,<br />
NALAC, the Ford Foundation, Moonifest, and Puffin Foundation. Tammy was a Bridge resident artist at<br />
Headlands Center for the Arts, and is a Creative Capital award finalist. She received an Austin Chronicle Critic‟s<br />
Choice Award, dubbing her “Best In-Your-Face Poet (in Two Languages, No Less)” in 1994. She is an inaugural<br />
artist on the United States Artists' USA Projects website, launched in December 2010. Her play "She:<br />
Bike/Spoke/Love" premiered on World Car Free Day 2007, and her one-woman show, “Saliendo Abierta”--about<br />
being trapped in a closet for 3 days--had a 4-night run in 2010.<br />
Ain Gordon is a three-time Obie winning writer/director/actor, a two-time NYFA recipient and a Guggenheim<br />
Fellow in Playwriting. Commissioned/produced/presented by Soho Rep, NYTW, DTW, 651 ARTS, PS 122, the<br />
Public, HERE, and Kitchen Theatre (all NY); The Mark Taper (CA), George Street Playhouse (NJ), Krannert<br />
Center (IL), DiverseWorks (TX), Jacob‟s Pillow (MA), LexArts (KY), Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), Dance Place<br />
(DC), North 4th Arts Center (NM) plus collaborations with Bebe Miller at Wexner (OH), Helena Presents (MT), and<br />
Bates (ME). Gordon is a Core Writer at Playwrights‟ Center (MN), CCR Artist-in-Residence, and Co-Director of<br />
Pick Up <strong>Performance</strong> Co(s).<br />
Rosie Gordon-Wallace is Founder, Curator and Exc Director of Diaspora Vibe Gallery and Diaspora Vibe Cultural<br />
Arts Incubator. Since 1996, Gordon-Wallace has initiated and produced transnational creative programs that<br />
redefine concepts of “diaspora” including the International Cultural Exchange program, the Caribbean Crossroads<br />
Series, the Artist-In-Residence program, an ongoing contemporary exhibitions program, and numerous<br />
community-based outreach projects. One might never have guessed that this licensed Medical Microbiologist and<br />
former Senior Consultant for Searle Pharmaceuticals from 1981 -1999 is now the founder and senior curator of<br />
Diaspora Vibe Gallery, one of the most talked about art galleries in the Miami-Dade and the Caribbean.<br />
Pat Graney is a Seattle-based Artist working in a variety of mediums; visual, performance & writing. The Pat<br />
Graney Company creates, performs and tour new performance works and conducts arts-based educational<br />
programming for incarcerated women and female ex-offenders in Washington State.<br />
Sarah Guerra is a native Tejana living in California since 2001. She has been involved in the arts since 1992 and<br />
has worked with various theatre companies in San Antonio, Tejas, most notably the Guadalupe Cultural Arts<br />
Center, Jump-Start <strong>Performance</strong> Co., and The Epseranza Peace and Justice Center. From 2001-2004 Sarah<br />
dedicated her time and energy to El Teatro Campesino as their resident stage manager and production manager.<br />
Currently she is the program director for La Peña Cultural Center. Sarah has dedicated her life to the arts as<br />
education and as a tool for political and social justice.<br />
Tom Guralnick founded Outpost Productions in 1988 and has served as the organization‟s Executive Director ever<br />
since. He has served on numerous other non-profit Boards since moving to New Mexico from Boston in 1976. He<br />
is a founding member of the Western Jazz Presenters <strong>Network</strong> currently serving as that organization‟s Board<br />
President and is also active in the New Mexico Presenters Alliance. Until 2000, for 25 years, he recorded and<br />
toured internationally playing his own music for saxophones and invented woodwinds as well as with his trio, the<br />
TG3.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
JUANA GUZMAN<br />
<strong>National</strong> Museum of Mexican Art<br />
Vice-President<br />
4000 N. Clarendon Avenue, Chicago, IL 60608<br />
312-433-3906 fax 312-738-9740<br />
guzman@nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org<br />
DAYNA HANSON<br />
Dayna Hanson<br />
Director<br />
915 31st Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122<br />
206 850 3613<br />
dh@daynahanson.com<br />
MATTHEW HARDY<br />
Jane Comfort and Company<br />
Artist<br />
55 N. Moore St., New York, NY 10013<br />
9179025581<br />
matt@matthewhardy.org<br />
THEODORE HARRIS<br />
Institute for Advanced Study in Black Aesthetics<br />
Founding director<br />
64 West Penn Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144<br />
215-519-2373<br />
artasaweapon@aol.com<br />
ANGIE HAUSER<br />
Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser<br />
Co-Director<br />
Ursinus College PO Box 1000, Collegeville, PA 19426<br />
610-425-7674<br />
angiehauser3@earthlink.net<br />
ANGELLE HEBERT<br />
tEEth<br />
Choreographer<br />
64 NE Farragut St., Portland, OR 97211<br />
503-774-0997<br />
angellekraft@comcast.net<br />
DENISE HELBING<br />
Dallas Museum of Art<br />
Manager of Partner Programs<br />
1717 N. Harwood St., Dallas, TX 75201<br />
214-922-1352<br />
dhelbing@dallasmuseumofart.org<br />
CHARLES HELM<br />
Wexner Center for the Arts<br />
Director, Performing Arts<br />
The Ohio State University<br />
1871 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43210-1393<br />
(614) 292-5785 fax 614-292-7824<br />
chelm@wexarts.org<br />
Juana Guzman is a native Chicagoan and has been an arts administrator and activist for over 30 years. She is<br />
currently the Vice-President of the <strong>National</strong> Museum of the Mexican Art (NMMA) since 1999. The NMMA is the<br />
largest Latino arts institution in the nation. Prior to her position with the NMMA, Ms Guzman was a Director for the<br />
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs (CDCA where she served for twenty years. Her work at the CDCA<br />
including managing grants programs for artists and non profit arts organizations, creation of the Chicago<br />
Neighborhood Tours, and securing $8.1 million dollars from the Chicago Empowerment Zone funds for the<br />
support of cultural facilities in Chicago's neighborhoods. She is also the CEO of her own company "Economic<br />
Connections/IJuanaKnow."<br />
Dayna Hanson is a Seattle-based choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist who has been creating dance,<br />
performance and film for more than twenty years. Dayna was co-artistic director of internationally touring dance<br />
theater company 33 Fainting Spells from 1994-2006. Her current project is a dance-driven rock musical entitled<br />
Gloria‟s Cause created with collaborators Dave Proscia and Peggy Piacenza.<br />
Matthew Hardy hails from Houston, TX. Matthew is a graduate of the William Esper Acting Studio and a member<br />
of The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. Since moving to New York in 2002, Matthew has toured<br />
nationally with the Broadway production of Fosse, created and performed his own cabaret act entitled Songs for<br />
the Dysfunctional, and originated many roles in the New York independent theater scene. Matthew was included<br />
among 21 other New York actors in Backstage West's "2007 <strong>Performance</strong>s to Remember" for his performance as<br />
Froyim in Fritz & Froyim off-broadway. Matthew has written the book and lyrics for the musical short The<br />
Rubberers, the new musical comedy Flambé Dreams, and is currently working on The Eight Million, a musical<br />
based on the works of O. Henry. www.matthewhardy.org<br />
Angie Hauser is a dancemaker, performer and teacher. Since 2000, Angie has been a member of the Bebe Miller<br />
Company, receiving a BESSIE Award for Creation and Choreography in 2006 for her work with the company.<br />
She, and collaborator Chris Aiken, have presented their dance works in the U.S. and Europe. In 2006 the duo<br />
received an NPN Commissioning Fund Grant for the creation of their evening length work “Dwell.” She has also<br />
made dances in collaboration with Kirstie Simpson, K.J. Holmes, Darrell Jones, Andrew Harwood and Kathleen<br />
Hermesdorf. She has danced with the companies of Elizabeth Streb, Liz Lerman and Poppo Shiriashi.<br />
Angelle Hebert is a Portland based choreographer and Co-Artistic Director of Contemporary Dance/<strong>Performance</strong><br />
Art Company tEEth founded in 2006. Along with Co-Director, composer Phillip Kraft, tEEth has created over 13<br />
original works and toured nationally to Seattle, New York City, Austin, and New Orleans. Their work is generated<br />
through a deeply collaborative process exploring the body‟s limitless expression through motion and sound.<br />
Approaching the body with a singular eye for life‟s beauty and, often, grotesque absurdity, tEEth serves a<br />
poignant and uncompromising glimpse of humanity through sensory-rich movement, performance art and original<br />
music.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
ERIC HENDRICKSON<br />
MRP Inc.<br />
Lead Deckhand/Flyman/Production Asst.<br />
P.O. Box 5163, Capitol Heights, MD 20791<br />
3013500092 fax 3013500092<br />
m.rproductions@mason-rhynes.org<br />
CLAYTON HENRY<br />
Dallas Cultural Affairs Commission<br />
9322 Moss Trail, Dallas, TX 75231<br />
214-914-9332<br />
claytonhenry@mac.com<br />
F. JOHN HERBERT<br />
Legion Arts<br />
Executive Director<br />
1103 Third Street SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401<br />
(319) 364-1580 fax 319/362-9156<br />
john@legionarts.org<br />
DAVID HERMAN<br />
Preservation LINK<br />
Creative Director<br />
1402 Corinth St. Suite 124, Dallas, TX 75215<br />
214.293.5352<br />
daveherman@sbcglobal.net<br />
KATIE HERRON ROBB<br />
Pangea World Theater<br />
Office Manager/Ensemble Member<br />
711 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408<br />
(612) 822-0015 fax (612) 821-1070<br />
katie@pangeaworldtheater.org<br />
CLARA HINOJOSA<br />
The Mexico Institute<br />
Founding Director<br />
University of Texas at Dallas<br />
800 W. Campbell Rd. J031, Richardson, TX 75080<br />
972 238-0106 fax 972 238-1241<br />
clarahinojosa@themexicoinstitute.org<br />
HEIDI HOWARD<br />
7 Stages<br />
Ed Director / Prod Manager<br />
1105 Euclid Avenue, NE, Atlanta, GA 30307<br />
(404) 522-8602 fax (404) 522-0913<br />
heidi@7stages.org<br />
JENNY HOWELL<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
Program Assistant - Convenings<br />
P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156<br />
(504) 595-8008<br />
jenny@npnweb.org<br />
F. John Herbert is co-founder and executive director of Legion Arts, an Iowa nonprofit dedicated to contemporary<br />
artists, community development, and cultural diversity. Based at CSPS, a renovated Czech social hall in<br />
downtown Cedar Rapids, Legion Arts maintains vigorous presenting programs in the visual and performing arts.<br />
Katie has worked artistically and administratively with Pangea World Theater for over ten years. She is a<br />
performing ensemble member at Pangea and is currently creating a solo performance, Solo Flight, with Meena<br />
Natarajan, inspired by the pioneering female aviators of the early 1900s.<br />
Heidi S Howard is 7 Stages' Education Director and Production Manager. Now in her 11th season, her favorites<br />
include If the Art Fits YC 07, A Piece of Ground YC10, A Bird of Prey, Maria Kizito. And HAIR She has toured<br />
throughout the USA as well as to Belgrade, Serbia and to Shanghai, China. She directs 7 Stages' Youth Creates,<br />
which just completed its eighth year of production. She is an Artistic Associate to Synchronicity. She has studied<br />
directing with the Lincoln Center Director‟s Lab and at the DAH Laboratory International Training Program. She<br />
received the 2007 TCG Observership and the TCG Future Collaborations grant to return to The Netherlands in<br />
2008. She just returned from Serbia on the TCG International Travel Grant to continue development on a new<br />
project with DAH Teatar.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
EUN-A IM<br />
Korean Arts Management Service<br />
Staff<br />
B1 Daehangno Arts Theater, 1-67 Dongsung-dong,<br />
Jongno-gu, Seoul, N/A 110-809<br />
305-519-6877<br />
midway@gokams.or.kr<br />
SHALONDA INGRAM<br />
Dance Theater Workshop<br />
Producer<br />
219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011<br />
(212) 691-6500 x222 fax 2126331974<br />
shalonda@dtw.org<br />
SHINICHI IOVA-KOGA<br />
inkBoat<br />
Artistic Director<br />
351 Shotwell Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110<br />
415-992-7705<br />
momoio@inkboat.com<br />
GAYLE ISA<br />
Asian Arts Initiative<br />
Executive Director<br />
4819 Beaumont Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143-3407<br />
215-557-0455 fax 215-557-9531<br />
gayle@asianartsinitiative.org<br />
MARIA-ROSARIO JACKSON<br />
Urban Institute<br />
Director for Arts, Culture & Community<br />
2100 M Street NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20012<br />
202.5689<br />
mjackson@ui.urban.org<br />
GREGORY JACKSON<br />
Lasso the Moon, Inc.<br />
Production Manager<br />
2048 NE 180th Street, North Miami Beach, FL 33162<br />
305.333.1303<br />
gregoryjackson064@gmail.com<br />
JEFFERSON JAMES<br />
Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc.<br />
Artistic & Executive Director<br />
1805 Larch Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45224-2928<br />
(513) 591-2557 fax (513) 281-6450<br />
jfrsonj@aol.com<br />
KAREN JANTSCH<br />
The Long Center for the Performing Arts<br />
Programming Manager<br />
P.O. Box 301449, Austin, TX 78703<br />
(515) 457-5120 fax 512.457.5110<br />
kjantsch@thelongcenter.org<br />
Korea Arts Management Service(KAMS) was established in January 2006 as a non-profit, public foundation for<br />
the development of Korean performing arts. With support from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, KAMS<br />
offers multi-faceted assistance that aims to bolster the sustainability of arts groups and organizations, while<br />
strengthening their competitive advantages by developing diverse and effective support systems for more efficient<br />
arts management. KAMS enables performing arts companies in Korea to broaden their horizons and presence by<br />
evaluating their management strategy, offering consulting services, and expanding their market capability through<br />
innovative distribution networks in domestic and overseas markets.<br />
Shalonda Ingram is a strategist, producer, and social entrepreneur committed to transforming the planet via proactivism<br />
and sociopolitical change through community empowerment, youth, and arts engagement. Ingram is the<br />
Producer at Dance Theater Workshop, and sits on various arts funding councils including the City of Oakland‟s<br />
Funding Advisory Board and the Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Regrant Program. Her Nursha Project<br />
launched Born Brown: All Rights Reserved®, and Queer Art Impact. She co-developed the Microloan and Worker<br />
Cooperative: A Strategy for Youth Enterprise Development in 2005. Recently, she was nominated for the Eli Segal<br />
Award and the New York Innovative Theater Award for the production, Where My Girls At?.<br />
Shinichi examines, dissects and intentionally blurs the line between various media to uproot and communicate<br />
stories contained within the body. He founded inkBoat in 1998. Shinichi has engaged in long term and extensive<br />
work with Yuko Kaseki, Cassie Terman, Yumiko Yoshioka, Do Theatre and others (most recently working with Ko<br />
Murobushi). Shinichi and KT Nelson are co-choreographers of a new work for ODC Dance Company premiering<br />
in March 2011. In November 2011, he and Dohee Lee are featured in a new inkBoat production. Many thanks to<br />
his teachers Hiroko Tamano, Yukihiro Goto, Ruth Zaporah, Yumiko Yoshioka and Anna Halprin. Shinichi is<br />
currently an Artist in Residence at ODC Theater, SF and is the father to Zoë and husband to Dana.<br />
37 plus years in the field and with Contemporary Dance Theater, doing what I love (well most of the time). I'm<br />
delighted to be at NPN's 25th anniversary meeting. It's been fun and hard work. I don't think my passion or<br />
NPN's has faded in those years. Organizations have changed, the people, some of them have changed and<br />
some haven't, but it's been a progression for all of us and one that's uphill but very rewarding. Here's to 25 more!<br />
At least !<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
JOHN JASPERSE<br />
John Jasperse Company<br />
Artistic Director<br />
140 Second Ave, #501, New york, NY 10003<br />
212-375-8283 fax 212-375-8283<br />
info@johnjasperse.org<br />
YOUNG-CHEOL JI<br />
Incheon Art Platform - Incheon, Korea<br />
Producer<br />
10-1 Haean-dong 1ga, Jung-gu, Incheon, N/A 00000<br />
305-519-6877<br />
jyc0623@ifac.or.kr<br />
SEONG JOO JOH<br />
LIG Art Hall - Seoul, Korea<br />
Artistic Director<br />
649-11 LIG Tower, Yeoksam-dong Gangnam-gu, Seoul,<br />
N/A 135-550<br />
305-519-6877<br />
fish07@lig.co.kr<br />
MILLICENT JOHNNIE<br />
Millicent Johnnie & Company and Universes Poetry<br />
Theatre, Inc.<br />
Choreographer- "Ameriville" (Universes Poetry Theater,<br />
Inc.)<br />
2400 S. Ervay Street #409, Dallas, TX 75215<br />
404-435-5051<br />
dancemilitant@yahoo.com<br />
EMILY JOHNSON<br />
Emily Johnson/Catalyst<br />
Director<br />
PO BOX 18262, Minneapolis, MN 55418<br />
612<br />
emily@catalystdance.com<br />
TERRANCE JOHNSON<br />
Exhibit Dance Collective<br />
3400 S Fitzhugh Ave, Dallas, TX 75210<br />
225-636-7298<br />
tmjdance@gmail.com<br />
ROSEMARY JOHNSON<br />
Alabama Dance Council<br />
Executive Director<br />
P.O. Box 2126, Birmingham, AL 35201<br />
(205) 602-3599 fax 205-322-4444<br />
rmw@mindspring.com<br />
RHODESSA JONES<br />
Cultural Odyssey<br />
Co-Artistic Director<br />
P.O. Box 156680, San Francisco, CA 94115<br />
(415) 292-1850 fax (415) 346-9163<br />
rhodessa@culturalodyssey.org<br />
John Jasperse, Artistic Director of the NYC-based John Jasperse Company, has created thirteen evening-length<br />
works and several short works for the company. Jasperse's work has been presented in throughout the U.S. and<br />
Europe and in Brazil, Chile, Israel, Japan. Jasperse has created commissioned works for Baryshnikov's White<br />
Oak Dance Project, Batsheva Dance Company, and Lyon Opera Ballet, among others. He has received a<br />
"Bessie" Award and fellowships from Foundation for Contemporary <strong>Performance</strong> Arts, Tides Foundation's<br />
Lambent Fellowship in the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, <strong>National</strong> Endowment for the Arts<br />
and New York Foundation for the Arts.<br />
Incheon Art Platform(IAP) is a multiplex cultural arts center created by Incheon Metropolitan City, which<br />
purchased historic buildings from the Open Port Era in the Haean-dong area as part of its old downtown<br />
revitalization project. Run by the Incheon Foundation for Arts and Culture, the IAP aims to serve as an incubator<br />
for new arts creation through supporting artists and researchers of various genres with its residency program at its<br />
core. Incheon Art Platform presents exhibitions, performances and education programs in association with its<br />
artist-in-residency program.<br />
LIG Art Hall run by LIG Arts Foundation was established in 2006 in the centre of business district in Seoul, Korea,<br />
with commitments to support young and promising artists. Equipped with a 170 seat black box stage and a multipurpose<br />
rehearsal room, LIG Art Hall keeps introducing creative programs delivering various cultural forms and<br />
values through contemporary performing arts as well as serving as a cultural and inter-regional bridge. Main<br />
activities of this venue are 'supporting performance productions and international exchanges' by commissioning<br />
and presenting the works of emerging artists and also assisting local & oversea artists' mutual exchange through<br />
as collaborative studies and performances.<br />
Millicent has served as a choreographer for the New York City Opera/ Parable of the Sower workshop, U.S.<br />
Cultural Ambassadors of Music- Universes Poetry Theatre/ Amerville, The Krannert <strong>Performance</strong> Arts Center/The<br />
Hip Hop Project, Grammy Award Winner Bill Summers/ Los Hombres Caliente and notable directors Peter Sellars,<br />
Rhodessa Jones and Chey Yew to name a few. Native of Lafayette, Louisiana received both her BFA and MFA in<br />
Dance at the Florida State University. Ms. Johnnie currently teaches on the dance faculty at Southern Methodist<br />
University in Dallas, TX. She served on the dance faculty at Tulane University and Dillard University located in<br />
New Orleans, Louisiana after touring as resident choreographer and rehearsal director of the Urban Bush Women<br />
in New York City.<br />
Emily Johnson is a director/choreographer/curator, originally from Alaska and currently based in Minneapolis.<br />
Since 1998 she has created work about the experience of sensing AND seeing performance. Her dances often<br />
function as installations, engaging audiences within and through a space and environment – sights, sounds,<br />
smells – as well as a place's architecture, history, and role in community. Her work, The Thank-you Bar, is touring<br />
through 2011 to the TBA Festival at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Dance Center at Columbia<br />
College, Northrop Auditorium, DiverseWorks, ODC Theater, Vermont <strong>Performance</strong> Lab, and Dance Theater<br />
Workshop. Her next work, Niicugni, is in development.<br />
Terrance M. Johnson brings much life, energy, and passion to the art of dance from Alexandria, LA. Terrance is a<br />
graduate of Southern University A&M College at Baton Rouge, LA where he received a Bachelor‟s of Science in<br />
Marketing. He received his dance training from the Dallas Black Dance Academy, the official school of the Dallas<br />
Black Dance Theatre. Terrance recently studied in the professional training program at Deeply Rooted Dance<br />
Theater in Chicago, IL. He is a former member and rehearsal director of Exhibit Dance Collective under the<br />
artistic direction of Michelle Gibson. Terrance is currently a member of Dallas Black Dance Theatre II under the<br />
direction of Nycole Ray.<br />
Dr. Rosemary Johnson is Executive Director of the Alabama Dance Council, a statewide dance service<br />
organization working in partnership with the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Dr. Johnson has an 18-year<br />
history as a presenter – 10 years as a multidisciplinary presenter and 8 years as a dance presenter and producer<br />
of the Alabama Dance Festival. She is currently serving as the lead consultant/facilitator for the Southern Arts<br />
Federation's (now South Arts) Dance Touring Initiative, a three-year program offering professional development<br />
and block-booking opportunities to dance presenters in the Southeast.<br />
Rhodessa Jones is Co-Artistic Director of the San Francisco acclaimed performance company Cultural Odyssey.<br />
She is an actress, teacher, singer, and writer. Ms. Jones is also the Founder and Director of the award winning<br />
Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, which is a performance workshop that is designed to achieve<br />
personal and social transformation with incarcerated women. In July 2010 Ms. Jones directed a full-length theater<br />
production with female inmates inside the Johannesburg Correctional Services Prison and at the State Theater of<br />
South Africa hosted by the Urban Voices Festival. In September 2009 Ms. Jones traveled to Moscow, Russia as<br />
a part of the U.S. Department of State Speaker‟s Program.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
JUDY JOSEPH<br />
David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts<br />
Vice President of Programming<br />
P.O. Box 518, Tampa, FL 33601<br />
(813) 222-1000 fax 813-222-1057<br />
judy.joseph@strazcenter.org<br />
ALBERTO JUSTINIANO<br />
Teatro del Pueblo<br />
Artistic Director<br />
209 Page Street W. Suite 208, Saint Paul, MN 55107<br />
(651) 224-8806<br />
al@teatrodelpueblo.org<br />
YOUNG KYUE KANG<br />
Festival Theater MIME, Korea<br />
General Manager<br />
531 Hyoja-dong, Chuncheon-si Gangwon-do, N/A 00000<br />
305-519-6877<br />
ft@mimefestival.com<br />
MIN KYUNG KANG<br />
Namsan Arts Center - Seoul, Korea<br />
Theater Manager<br />
8-19 Yejang-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, N/A 00000<br />
305-519-6877<br />
mkkang@sfac.or.kr<br />
ROBERT KARIMI<br />
Kaotic Good Productions<br />
Artistic Director<br />
PO Box 6151, Minneapolis, MN 55406<br />
(510) 593-6708<br />
karimi@kaoticgood.com<br />
FRANK KELLEY,JR.<br />
Frank Kelley, Jr.<br />
Owner/Artist<br />
109 Sunrise Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291<br />
318-387-0043 fax 318-396-0043<br />
artist1@bayou.com<br />
PATRICK KENNELLY<br />
Highways <strong>Performance</strong> Space and Gallery<br />
Associate Director<br />
1651 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404<br />
(310) 453-1755<br />
pjk@highwaysperformance.org<br />
KEVIN KEY<br />
Los Angeles Poverty Department<br />
Performer - Community Coordinator<br />
P.O. Box 26190, Los Angeles, CA 90026<br />
(213) 948-6159 fax 213 413 1077<br />
kmichaelkey1@yahoo.com<br />
Mr. Justiniano is a filmmaker, playwright and theater artist affiliated with Teatro del Pueblo a local Latino<br />
professional theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. As a playwright, he has written three children plays, which have been<br />
produced at Stepping Stone and five full-length stage plays for adults of which two have been produced. He is<br />
currently working on his sixth , Welcome to Welcomeville. He is a working artist in addition to serving as producer<br />
and artistic director at Teatro del Pueblo. We has been the recipient of The Many Voices Fellowship at the<br />
playwright Center and Leadership in the Art award.<br />
Chuncheon International Mime Festival Corp. runs two major businesses: it organizes the Chunechon<br />
International Mime Festival(CIMF) and manages Festival Theatre MIME(FTM). CIMF is an annual festival, held for<br />
eight days during the last week of May, while FTM was newly establishedin 2010. Established in May, 2010,<br />
Festival Theater MIME(FTM) is a small-sized venue with 150 seats. FTM has three major missions: first, it aims to<br />
provide carnival- type of performances, in which citizens can also participate. Second, it will serve as a home to<br />
the development and production of multidisciplinary art forms that focus on body, movement, and image. Third, it<br />
will serve as an education theater which offers citizen- participatory programs and art education programs to<br />
diverse peoples.<br />
Namsan Arts Center is a multi-purpose cultural space, consisting of the Drama Center-a specialized theatre for<br />
the creation of high-quality performing arts productions- and the Arts and Culture Education Center which<br />
provides participatory arts education for the citizens of Seoul. The Drama Center is a future-oriented space where<br />
new forms and styles based on artistry and popularity are conceived. The Arts and Culture Education Center is<br />
specialized in arts and culture education providing the local community with opportunities to experience and learn<br />
arts, as well as promoting the creativity of the citizens. Namsan Arts Center is a producing theatre for introducing<br />
outstanding contemporary drama from Korea and abroad.<br />
Robert Farid Karimi is the critically acclaimed interdisciplinary playwright/poet/dude from the San Francisco Bay<br />
Area. A <strong>National</strong> Poetry Slam Champion, and a Def Poetry Jam poet, his performances have fed audiences<br />
across the Americas in theatres, grocery stores, backyards, huge bookfairs in Guadalajara & even off Broadway.<br />
Winner of numerous awards, Karimi recently received a Creative Capital & MAP & Creation Fund to create The<br />
Cooking Show con Karimi y Comrades: Diabetes of Democracy, an interactive cooking show that will focus on<br />
Type 2 Diabetes in communities of color. He shares his knowledge in schools from K-18. And is currently touring<br />
the show he premiered at NPN, Farid Mercury, and finding ways cinematically & theatrically to make people<br />
laugh. More? Go to kaoticgood.com<br />
I am a full time professsional painter,A Graduate of Grambling State University and minor in business.Studied<br />
under two well known African American Artist.Work in the auto industry as a automobile salesman for about 20 yrs<br />
developing my talent for 15 yrs.Magazines,Corporations,Universities,Hospitals,private collections,galleries and<br />
museums across the country.I am represented by two master art galleries:G.R.N'Namdi Gallery in New<br />
York,Chicago and Detroit,MI.Also representive:Thelma Harris Art Gallery in Oakland,California.Established Youth<br />
Arts Initiative Program for Children and Adults in 2001.I felt the need to give back to make a difference.Over 450<br />
or more children lives have been touch through Art.I am am now have a one man show at the Charles Wright<br />
History Museum.<br />
Patrick Kennelly‟s direction, writing, design, performance, and curation in the realms of theater, film, installation,<br />
and performance and visual art has been presented in Los Angeles at a variety of venues, including MOCA, the<br />
Hammer Museum, Track 16, the New Wight Gallery at the Broad Arts Center, CrazySpace, the Freud Playhouse,<br />
and Highways, and has been described as “stunning and disturbing” (LA Weekly), “relentless” (Variety), and<br />
“awe-inspiring” (Backstage West). Kennelly's theatrical work, for which he won the 2008 Princess Grace Award,<br />
has included original plays and solo performance, large-scale performance installation, and image-based physical<br />
theater. Kennelly received his BFA in Film/Video at CalArts and an MFA in Theater Direction at UCLA.<br />
Kevin Michael Key is a law school graduate and has practiced as a defense attorney. He is active in the recovery<br />
community in downtown Los Angeles and in community advocacy groups. He works part-time for United Coalition<br />
East Prevention Project to mobilize the neighborhood on quality of life issues. He does community diabetes<br />
education with the JWHC clinic. Kevin Michael has worked with LAPD since 2003 and has traveled with LAPD for<br />
community residencies in New York, Charlotte, NC, Utrecht, The Netherlands the Paris, France suburb of<br />
Gennevilliers and Bolivia. As a member of Los Angeles Poverty Department Kevin Michael is responsible for<br />
linking communities, organizing workshops and public convening‟s and speaking with the press.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
D'LOCO KID<br />
D'LocoKid Productions<br />
Theater Artist<br />
1021 5th St. #204, Santa Monica, CA 90403<br />
310 403 2676<br />
dlocokidla@yahoo.com<br />
YO AHEN KIM<br />
Doosan Art Center - Seoul, Korea<br />
Theater Producer<br />
270 Yeonji-dong Jongno-gu, Seoul, N/A 00000<br />
305-519-6877<br />
ragtime1@doosan.com<br />
DEBORAH KING<br />
Pat Graney Company<br />
338 Englewood, Royal Oak, MI 48073<br />
248-589-3844<br />
deborahleeking@att.net<br />
STACY KLEIN<br />
Double Edge Theatre Production<br />
Founder/ Artistic Director<br />
948 Conway Rd, Ashfield, MA 01330<br />
413-628-0277 fax 866-649-0635<br />
sklein@doubleedgetheatre.org<br />
KATHERINE KRAMER<br />
Katherine Kramer Projects, Inc.<br />
Artistic Director<br />
700 Bangtail Trace Road, Bozeman, MT 59715<br />
406-686-4307<br />
kk@katherinekramer.com<br />
FAY KU<br />
93 Underhill Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238<br />
917-701-3782<br />
fayku@hotmail.com<br />
KRIS KURAMITSU<br />
United States Artists<br />
Artist Relations<br />
5757 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 580, Los Angeles, CA 90036<br />
323-857-5857<br />
krisk@unitedstatesartists.org<br />
JESSICA LABARBERA<br />
Nonprofit Finance Fund<br />
Director of Consulting Services, Western Region<br />
70 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018<br />
(212) 457-4756 fax (212) 947-9872<br />
jessica.labarbera@nffusa.org<br />
D‟Lo is a queer Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American, political theatre artist/writer, director, comedian and music producer.<br />
D‟Lo tours “Ramble-Ations: A One D‟Lo Show” (dir. Adelina Anthony). Recently, D‟Lo participated in APPEX, a<br />
3‐week intensive residency in Bali with a particular focus on American & Asian artists (UCLA‟s Center for<br />
Intercultural <strong>Performance</strong>), and acted in Cherrie Moraga's new play Digging Up the Dirt. Currently, D‟Lo is touring<br />
excerpts from his latest solo theater show Minor D‟Tales, and his latest stand-up show “D‟FunQT (Pronounced<br />
defunct)”. D‟s 2nd play Boys That Pray is in development at Brava Theater, SF for 2011. www.dlocokid.com<br />
Doosan Art Center (DAC) fulfills its social responsibilities by promoting arts activities. Equipped with a mediumsized<br />
theater, Yonkang Hall, a small-sized theater, Space 111, Doosan Gallery Seoul and Doosan Gallery New<br />
York, the DAC serves as an arts incubator, exploring and supporting promising young artists and their works in<br />
various forms of arts, including musical, play, music, dance and visual arts. It presents diverse performance<br />
genres, inspiring young artists to take on new challenges. It serves as the arts incubator of Doosan Art Center, to<br />
promote the production of works and to explore and support talented artists. The Doosan Gallery is a non-profit<br />
gallery dedicated to cultivating a new arts culture.<br />
Stacy Klein, Founder/ Artistic Director of Double Edge Theatre, has led the company for almost 30 years into one<br />
of the foremost laboratory theatres in the U.S. The three original performance cycles she directed have earned<br />
her international recognition for daring and innovation. Klein‟s methodology has been profiled in American<br />
Theater, Theater Heute, TheatreForum, and TDR, among others, and she has written for Theater Topics and The<br />
Open Page. She received the 2006 OTTO award, the MCC Artist Award (1999), an InRoads grant (1998), and<br />
was a Mentor in the New Generations Mentorship Program. PhD, Tufts University (Theatre History and Criticism);<br />
MA (Political Theatre Education), Goddard College; BFA (Directing), Boston University.<br />
As Maurice Sendak said, "Let the Wild Rumpus Begin!" Life is change. I'm living in Montana. I'm surrounded by<br />
mountains, sky, my two dogs. I'm directing CrazyView Studio and Artists' Retreat. I am downsizing, retreating. I'm<br />
still tap dancing. I'm playing the melodica and piano and singing. This year I received an Artists Innovation Award<br />
from the Montana Arts Council. I'm thinking about innovation. I'm trying to be still and I'm listening. I'm looking<br />
forward to NPN this year, more than ever. I have 236 characters left for this bio. That gives me hope.<br />
Fay Ku is a visual artist based in New York City but for whom travel and artist residencies figure significantly in her<br />
artistic practice. In addition to creating works on paper, she recently began experimenting in site-specific<br />
installation--including one hotel room installation created for last year's NPN conference--and collaborative theater<br />
projects. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, HI and New<br />
Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut. Upcoming projects include a performative<br />
collaboration with musician/composer Mick Rossi at Central Utah Arts Center in Ephraim, Utah. She is excited to<br />
return to NPN Conference for her fourth year and congratulates NPN on turning 25!<br />
Jessica LaBarbera rejoined NFF in May 2008 as Associate Director and in that role supports program growth and<br />
product delivery. She is responsible for identifying market needs and opportunities and meeting business<br />
development goals, as well as helping to lead new regional initiatives and roll out new products or services in the<br />
region. Prior to assuming this position, Ms. LaBarbera was a Vice President at Citi Community Capital, a division<br />
of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., where she provided structured financing and relationship management to<br />
national nonprofit and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) clients. Ms. LaBarbera holds an MPA<br />
in Nonprofit Management from Columbia University‟s School of International & Public Affairs and a BA in<br />
Sociology from the Univ of Virginia.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
ANNETTE LAWRENCE<br />
University of North Texas<br />
Professor of Art<br />
PO Box 3093, Denton, TX 76202<br />
940 484.9021<br />
lawrence@unt.edu<br />
SEON JUNG LEE<br />
Korean Arts Management Service<br />
Staff<br />
B1 Daehangno Arts Theater, 1-67 Dongsung-dong,<br />
Jongno-gu, Seoul, N/A 110-809<br />
305-519-6877<br />
sunnyjle@gokams.or.kr<br />
MAY LEE-YANG<br />
Artist<br />
2124 Magnolia Avenue E, Saint Paul, MN 55119<br />
651-587-1208<br />
may_lee_yang@hotmail.com<br />
BEN LEVINE<br />
Dance Place<br />
Theater Manager/Technical Director<br />
3225 8th St NE, Washington, DC 20017<br />
202-269-1600x20 fax 202-269-4103<br />
benl@danceplace.org<br />
STEVE LIGGETT<br />
Living Arts of Tulsa, Inc.<br />
Artistic Director<br />
307 East Brady Street, Tulsa, OK 74120<br />
(918) 585-1234 fax (918) 585-1234<br />
steve@livingarts.org<br />
ABEL LOPEZ<br />
GALA Hispanic Theatre<br />
Associate Producing Director<br />
P.O. Box 43209, Washington, DC 20010<br />
(202) 234-7174 fax (202) 332-1247<br />
abel@galatheatre.org<br />
REEVE LOVE<br />
<strong>National</strong> Hispanic Cultural Center<br />
Performing Arts Director<br />
1701 Fourth Street SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102<br />
505-246-2261, x136 fax 505-246-2613<br />
reeve.love@state.nm.us<br />
ARIEL LUCKEY<br />
The Free Land Project<br />
Artistic Director<br />
1045 65th St., Oakland, CA 94608<br />
510-287-6406<br />
skylight@arielluckey.com<br />
Annette Lawrence is a visual artist who has been based in Texas since 1990. Her work is generally related to text<br />
and information, often in response to physical space and time. The work is grounded in autobiography, counting,<br />
and the measurement of everyday life. Her subjects of inquiry range from body cycles, to ancestor portraits, music<br />
lessons, and unsolicited mail. Lawrence‟s string installations are a response to architecture as monumental text.<br />
The string presents a visual lightness, balanced by the substantial physicality and scale of the work. References<br />
to lattice, woven vessels, suspension bridges, and musical instruments often emerge. Lawrence currently lives<br />
and works in Denton, Texas and is a Professor of Studio Art at the University of North Texas, College of Arts and<br />
Design<br />
Korea Arts Management Service(KAMS) was established in January 2006 as a non-profit, public foundation for<br />
the development of Korean performing arts. With support from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, KAMS<br />
offers multi-faceted assistance that aims to bolster the sustainability of arts groups and organizations, while<br />
strengthening their competitive advantages by developing diverse and effective support systems for more efficient<br />
arts management. KAMS enables performing arts companies in Korea to broaden their horizons and presence by<br />
evaluating their management strategy, offering consulting services, and expanding their market capability through<br />
innovative distribution networks in domestic and overseas markets.<br />
May Lee-Yang is a playwright, poet, prose writer, and performance artist aspiring to get paid for it. Her theaterbased<br />
works include Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman, Sia(b) Ten Reasons Why I‟d Be a Bad Porn Star,<br />
Stir-Fried Pop Culture, and The Child‟s House. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong>, the Midwestern Voices and Visions Residency Award, the Playwright Center, and<br />
the Loft Literary Center. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.<br />
www.lazyhmongwoman.com.<br />
Artistic Director of Living Arts of Tulsa for 18 years, Steve is also an installation artists ans many times used video<br />
projection and performance as elements in his own work. He also is the proud owner of a new Vespa and enjoys<br />
the way the wind feels as it blows through his long hair.<br />
Reeve Love has been Performing Arts Director for the <strong>National</strong> Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM,<br />
since 1999, designing and administering the performing arts component of the largest, most comprehensive<br />
Hispanic cultural facility in the US. Since the inaugural opening of the NHCC in October 2000, its performing arts<br />
program has presented over 300 performances and events. Love has a background in non-profit arts<br />
administration, presenting, production, and performance, as well as arts education. She holds a B.A. in English,<br />
an M.A. in Radio/Television/Film, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction in Multicultural Teacher Education, with<br />
a minor in Latin American studies. The research and field work for her dissertation were done in Indian<br />
communities in rural Oaxaca, Mexico.<br />
Ariel Luckey is a poet, actor, and playwright whose performance and community work dances in the crossroads of<br />
education, art, and activism. Named a “Visionary” by the Utne Reader, Ariel seamlessly weaves storytelling,<br />
spoken word poetry, dance, acting, and hip hop music in compelling narratives of personal and political<br />
transformation. Ariel‟s hip hop theater show, Free Land, and his first book of poetry and lyrics, Searching for White<br />
Folk Soul, have inspired and informed audiences at theaters, conferences, community centers, and classrooms<br />
across the country. Ariel sees his community work in the world as an extension of his most precious and important<br />
work as father to his two sons.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
MARY LUFT<br />
Tigertail Productions, Inc.<br />
Executive Director<br />
842 NW 9th Court, Miami, FL 33136<br />
(305) 324-4337 fax 305 545 8546<br />
mluft@tigertail.org<br />
GEORGE LUGG<br />
REDCAT/Roy and Edna Disney, CalArts Theater<br />
Associate Director<br />
631 W. 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012<br />
213-237-2814 fax 213-237-2811<br />
george.lugg@calarts.edu<br />
ARNIE MALINA<br />
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts<br />
Chief Programming Officer/Artistic Director<br />
111 Foster Street, Burlington, VT 05401<br />
802-652-4503 fax 802-863-8788<br />
amalina@flynncenter.org<br />
JOHN MALPEDE<br />
Los Angeles Poverty Department<br />
Founder , director<br />
P.O. Box 26190, Los Angeles, CA 90026<br />
310 259 1038 fax 213 413 1077<br />
jmalfoot@aol.com<br />
JEANNE MAM-LUFT<br />
Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc.<br />
Assistant Director<br />
1805 Larch Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45224-2928<br />
(513) 591-2557 fax 513 281-6450<br />
jeanne@cdt-dance.org<br />
JEMA MARCHI<br />
Dance Umbrella<br />
Board Member<br />
P.O. Box 1323, Austin, TX 78767<br />
(512) 450-0456<br />
jemamarchi@yahoo.com<br />
SOLANGE MARIEL<br />
10171 robin hill lane, dallas, TX 75238<br />
214 505 2886<br />
solmariel@hotmail.com<br />
MARION MARSHALL<br />
AbsolutelyBlooming!<br />
Creative Director<br />
1409 South Lamar Street, No. 002``, Dallas, TX 75215<br />
214 4266360 fax 214 4266368<br />
marion_absolutelyblooming@yahoo.com<br />
George Lugg, Associate Director of the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), has been working in<br />
the field of contemporary performance since 1991. At REDCAT he oversees the implimentation of a diverse array<br />
of multidisciplinary programming, serves on the curatorial team for dance and theater, coordinates an ongoing<br />
series for new works and works-in-progress, and produces the annual New Original Works Festival. He has<br />
served as a member of the U.S. curatorial team for the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong>‟s Performing Americas<br />
Project, and on artistic juries and panels for Creative Capital Foundation, United States Artists, Mid Atlantic Arts<br />
Foundation, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Santa Monica Arts Commission, among<br />
others.<br />
John Malpede, directs, performs and engineers multi-event arts projects that have theatrical, installation, public art<br />
and education components. In 1985, Malpede founded and continues to direct the Los Angeles Poverty<br />
Department (LAPD). Malpede has produced projects working with communities throughout the US and in the UK,<br />
France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Bolivia. Malpede has received a Bessie Creation Award, Adeline Kent<br />
Award, Durfee Sabbatical Grant, Individual artist fellowships from NYSCA, NEA, CAC, LAs' COLA, California<br />
Community Foundation's Visual Artist Fellowship, 2008-9 fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and<br />
numerous project grants.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
GESEL MASON<br />
Mason/Rhynes Productions, Inc.<br />
Artistic Director, GMPP<br />
P.O. Box 5163, Capitol Heights, MD 20791<br />
3018871078 fax 3018871079<br />
m.rproductions@mason-rhynes.org<br />
HEATHER MAYHEW<br />
Pat Graney Company<br />
Production Stage Manager<br />
The Pat Graney Company<br />
925 East Thomas<br />
Suite B, Seattle, WA 98102<br />
206.841.1792<br />
throughfadeaway@gmail.com<br />
KERYL MCCORD<br />
Alternate ROOTS<br />
Director Resource Development<br />
1083 Austin Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307<br />
404-577-1079 fax 404-577-7991<br />
keryl@alternateroots.org<br />
JONATHAN MCCRORY<br />
The Movement Theatre Company<br />
Marketing Director/ Founder<br />
2355 Frederick Douglass Blvd #1A, New York, NY<br />
10027<br />
2023210807<br />
jonathan.mccrory@gmail.com<br />
STEPHANIE MCKEE<br />
Junebug Productions, Inc.<br />
Associate Artistic Director/ Homecoming Project<br />
P.O Box 2331, New Orleans, LA 70176<br />
504-577-0732<br />
smckee10@hotmail.com<br />
KESHA MCKEY<br />
Ashé Cultural Center/Efforts of Grace, Inc.<br />
Youth and Creative Programs Coordinator<br />
1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70113<br />
504-569-9070<br />
dansingact1@cox.net<br />
VICKI MEEK<br />
South Dallas Cultural Center<br />
Manager<br />
3400 South Fitzhugh, Dallas, TX 75210-2572<br />
(214) 670-0315 fax (214) 670-8118<br />
msart55@yahoo.com<br />
Keryl McCord is a veteran arts management professional with more than thirty years experience as a theater<br />
manager and producer in the Bay Area for ten years, and a stint as Director of Theater Programs for the <strong>National</strong><br />
Endowment for the Arts and Executive Director of the League of Chicago Theaters. Ms. McCord spent nine years<br />
in NJ where she managed the operations for the African Grove Institute for the Arts, founded by the late<br />
playwright, August Wilson, and then was Director of Institutional Development for New Jersey Symphony<br />
Orchestra. A move to Atlanta, Ga has brought about the happy connection with one of her favorite arts service<br />
organizations, Alternate ROOTS, where she now serves as Director Resource Development.<br />
Jonathan McCrory is a founding member & Marketing Director of The Movement Theatre Company. He originally<br />
hails from Washington D.C. As a performer his credits include:Unspoken Narratives in Civil Rights, A Movie Star<br />
has to Star in Black and White, For Colored Girls..., Polaroid Stories, and Cold Keener. As a director he has<br />
worked on Hope Speaks, With Out Trace, Last Laugh, Asking for More, and has assistant directed on Banana<br />
Beer Bath with Talvin Wilks as part of River Crosses Rivers Festival 2009. Playwright credits include THE GATE<br />
which premiered at Tisch‟s ETW program. He received his training at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and NYU<br />
Tisch School of the Arts (BFA, Drama).<br />
A performer, choreographer, educator and facilitator Ms. McKee has<br />
traveled, performed and taught in various cities in the U.S. and abroad.<br />
She is a member of Alternate Roots, Co-Director and staff member of The Urban Bush Women Summer<br />
Leadership Institute and is the founder of Moving Stories <strong>Performance</strong> Projects, an organization committed to<br />
dance education and creating opportunities for dancers and choreographers to showcase their talents. She is a<br />
2007 New Voices Fellow an award for emerging leaders.<br />
As the former Director of the 7th Ward Neighborhood Center, she helped identify and promote community-based<br />
leadership and improve economic and social conditions in the 7th Ward.<br />
Ms. McKee currently works with Junebug Productions as the Associate Artistic Director of the Homecoming<br />
Kesha McKey, a NOCCA alum and graduate of Xavier University, is an energetic and versatile<br />
performer/choreographer/instructor. She has performed in various dance, theatre, commercial and film<br />
productions as a featured dancer, singer and actress and is a co-founder and choreographer for the Crescent City<br />
Choreographers Dance Ensemble. She is currently a dance instructor at NOCCA and the Program Coordinator<br />
for the Kuumba Institute, Ashé Cultural Arts Center Youth Program. Her most recent acting roles have been<br />
Motormouth Maybelle in “Hairspray” at Le Petite Theatre, Calpurnia in “To Kill a Mocking Bird and Almeda/Lula<br />
Buffington in “Vi She continues to nourish her artistic talents and grow as an accomplished performer as she<br />
teaches, choreographs and performs throughout the United States.<br />
Vicki Meek, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a nationally recognized artist who has exhibited widely. Ms.<br />
Meek is in the permanent collections of the African American Museum in Dallas, Texas, The Museum of Fine Arts<br />
in Houston, Texas and Norwalk Community College in Connecticut. She is an independent curator, writes cultural<br />
criticism for Literafeelya, an online art publication and ARTLIES: A Texas Art Journal,. She is the mother of two<br />
creative adults. With over 30 years of arts administrative experience working for the Connecticut Commission on<br />
the Arts, The Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration, City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs and D-Art Visual Art<br />
Center, Vicki Meek is an active participant in the Texas cultural scene. She is the Vice Chair of the NPN Board.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
JAMIE MERWIN<br />
olive Dance Theatre<br />
Producing Artistic Director<br />
43 North Wiota, Philidelphia, PA 19104<br />
2153861411 fax 2153860176<br />
jamiemerwin@hotmail.com<br />
SAM MILLER<br />
Institute for Curatorial Practice in <strong>Performance</strong><br />
Director, Co-Founder<br />
128 Davis Ave, Unit C, Brookline, MA 02445<br />
617-699-9402<br />
sam.miller128@gmail.com<br />
MARGO MILLER<br />
2726 Linden Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37914<br />
202-746-5090<br />
poetmargo@hotmail.com<br />
WESLEY MONTGOMERY<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
Chief Operating Officer<br />
P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156<br />
413.545.1972 fax 413.545.4414<br />
wvm@npnweb.org<br />
YVONNE MONTOYA<br />
7812 E. Elida St, Tucson, AZ 85715<br />
ymontoyamartinez@gmail.com<br />
LYDIA MOORE<br />
Living Arts of Tulsa, Inc.<br />
New Genre Chair<br />
1417 E 20th St., Tulsa, OK 74120<br />
918-520-6951 fax 918-585-1234<br />
lydiastansill@gmail.com<br />
HALDUN MORGAN<br />
The Living Word Project<br />
Technical Director<br />
1272 Hampshire, San Francisco, CA 94110<br />
210-387-0603<br />
haldunmorgan@gmail.com<br />
Founding + Producing Artistic Director of Philadelphia's olive Dance Theatre. She is equally committed to the<br />
tradition of Breakin' and the creation of contemporary American theatre. Jamie has worked with multiple<br />
Philadelphia organizations in many capacities from arts to administration. Her current projects include: “Swift<br />
Solos” a project of the NEA American Masterpieces in Dance Award, and two new evening length works -<br />
“Brotherly Love”, and “Conversations.” Jamie serves on the Resources for Social Change workgroup for Alternate<br />
ROOTS, The <strong>Network</strong> of Ensemble Theaters‟ (NET) Micro-Festival Committee. She has received fellowships from<br />
the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, HHTF/Ford Foundation‟s Future Aesthetics Artists Re-Grant program and<br />
support from the Leeway Foundation.<br />
Sam Miller currently serves as President of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and Director of the Institute<br />
for Curatorial Practice in <strong>Performance</strong> (ICPP) at Wesleyan University. A devoted advocate for the arts, Miller<br />
recently spent five years as President of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), developing efforts centered<br />
on increasing direct support for artists. Prior to his work at LINC, Miller was Executive Director of the New England<br />
Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) for ten years. Prior to NEFA, Miller was at the Jacob‟s Pillow Dance Festival<br />
where he served as President and Executive Director. He serves on the Advisory Board of ODC/San Francisco,<br />
the Board of Amrita Performing Arts in Phnom Penh and as President of the Board of LINC.<br />
Margo Miller is Development Director of the Appalachian Community Fund and Volunteer COO for the Carpetbag<br />
Theatre (CBT). She worked as Executive Assistant to the President at Washington Performing Arts Society; at<br />
YMCA of Metropolitan Washington, in development and then Business/Program Director for a DC branch; and as<br />
the Director of Communications for Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. She‟s a founding director of Mason/Rhynes<br />
Productions based in DC. Miller worked as a professional actor for CBT, including Dark Cowgirls and Prairie<br />
Queens 1997 Broadway debut. She serves on the board of the Funding Exchange and the Executive Committee<br />
of Alternate Roots.<br />
Wesley V. Montgomery is currently Chief Operating Officer with the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong>. His<br />
professional experience encompasses arts education, performing arts management and social justice<br />
programming. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley‟s School of Social Welfare, Mr. Montgomery<br />
has worked as a teaching artist and workshop facilitator in the public and private sectors across the country. He<br />
has facilitated conflict resolution and cultural sensitivity workshops with several organizations including Freedom<br />
Repertory Theater, Unicef/United World Games, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre/Ailey Camp Too!, and the<br />
New York City Board of Education, NYU‟s Educational Theater program and the Department of Theater at the<br />
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has adjudicated the Academic Cultural Technology and Science<br />
Olympics (ACT-SO) youth competition of the NAACP, and served as a panelist for the Ford Foundation, The<br />
<strong>National</strong> Endowment for the Arts, Theater and Musical Theater Division, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Center<br />
for Arts Education (NYC), Theatre Communications Group (New Generations Initiative), the Connecticut<br />
Commission on Culture and Tourism, and the Maggie Allessee <strong>National</strong> Center for Choreography. Mr.<br />
Montgomery serves on the Board of Directors for ArtSpot Productions (New Orleans), and is the Co-Chair of the<br />
Arts Education Task Force for the <strong>National</strong> Performing Arts Convention. Since 2001 Mr. Montgomery has served<br />
as a United States delegate with Performing Americas Program, a partnership between NPN and La Red, in<br />
Brazil, Guatemala, Columbia and Ecuador, and was selected as a British Council-United States delegate to the<br />
2005 Edinburgh Festival.<br />
Haldun Morgan is a filmmaker, politico, artist, educator and a high tech Toltec from San Antonio, Tejas. He joined<br />
Youth Radio as a Media Producer in June 2009. Haldun uses popular education methodology, teaching<br />
strategies, and tactics that encourage young people to find a voice through art and performance. The ability to<br />
bring an idea to life through artistic creation is his passion. Haldun attended UT Austin and majored in Ethnic<br />
Studies and minored in English.<br />
In the past few years he has worked with The Living Word Project on such works as The One Drop Rule,<br />
Representa! (Paul Flores, Directed by Danny Hoch), Monday Golden Sun (Jeannie Barroga), Unbuckled,<br />
Uncensored (Regie Cabico, Directed by Brian Freeman), Bury Marcos, and SF premiere of Mapa/Corpo3 by<br />
Guillermo Gómez-Peña.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
KEVIN MORIARTY<br />
Dallas Theater Center<br />
Artistic Director<br />
2400 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201<br />
2142523913<br />
kevin.moriarty@dallastheatercenter.org<br />
TANYA MOTE<br />
El Centro Su Teatro<br />
Development Director<br />
4725 High Street, Denver, CO 90216<br />
(303) 296-0219 fax (303) 296-4614<br />
tanya@suteatro.org<br />
LISA MOUNT<br />
Artistic Logistics<br />
Director<br />
P.O. Box 602, Sautee Nacoochee, GA 30571<br />
(706) 839-7147 fax (866) 311-5526<br />
lqmount@earthlink.net<br />
KIRK MURPHY<br />
Sandglass Theater<br />
Administrator<br />
Po Box 970, Putney, VT 05346<br />
802-387-4051<br />
kirk@sandglasstheater.org<br />
REBECCA MWASE<br />
ArtSpot Productions<br />
6100 Canal Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70126<br />
5048267783<br />
mwasereb@gmail.com<br />
SHERI NANCE<br />
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER<br />
11936 OBERLIN DRIVE, DALLAS, TX 75243<br />
972 235 5866<br />
slnbeda1@aol.com<br />
MEENA NATARAJAN<br />
Pangea World Theater<br />
Executive/Literary Director<br />
711 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408<br />
(612) 822-0015 fax (612) 821-1070<br />
meena@pangeaworldtheater.org<br />
JOSÉ NAVARRETE<br />
NAKA Dance Theater<br />
Artistic Director<br />
900 East 11th Street, Oakland, CA 94606<br />
josena67@gmail.com<br />
Kevin Moriarty is currently the artistic director of Dallas Theater Center. Prior to that he was the artistic director of<br />
the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY, an associate artist at Trinity Rep Company in Providence, RI, and the head of<br />
the MFA directing program at Brown University. He has also directed plays and musicals in New York and at<br />
many regional theaters. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.<br />
Tanya Mote is the development director at Su Teatro, treasurer of the NPN board of directors and ardent NPN<br />
fan. She also serves as secretary of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training board of directors and<br />
believes that healthy civil society requires resistance, criticism, community building and vital, dynamic public<br />
spaces.<br />
Lisa Mount is an independent consultant who works with a variety of arts organizations on strategic thinking,<br />
organizational advancement, and creative community cultural expansion. Her company, Artistic Logistics, is a<br />
consultants' cooperative that offers a working relationship that‟s personal, participatory, egalitarian, artistcentered,<br />
and fun. She is based in Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia, one of the “100 Best Small Art Towns” in the<br />
U.S., where she produces and directs the annual community story performance “Headwaters.” She also lives in<br />
New Orleans. She served as the Board Chair of Alternate ROOTS from 2002-2004 and in 2008, she was named<br />
one of the 100 most influential Georgians by Georgia Trend Magazine. Lisa is a banjo player.<br />
Rebecca Mwase trained as a vocalist, actor and movement performer at Grinnell College and graduated with a<br />
BA in Chinese & Theatre in 2007. As a first generation Zimbabwean-American woman, Rebecca is committed to<br />
crafting spaces and frameworks for women of color to gain a sense of place and identity through the creation of<br />
art. Most recently Rebecca work is with ArtSpot Productions in New Orleans, Louisiana. Rebecca is co-creator<br />
and performer of ArtSpot's most recent production Go Ye Therefore… In addition to her performance work,<br />
Rebecca is also a passionate teaching artist co-ordinating ArtSpot‟s theatre-centered character development<br />
program Individuals Relating & Overcoming Conflict (iROC).<br />
Meena Natarajan is the Executive and Literary Director of Pangea World Theater, a progressive, international<br />
ensemble space for arts and dialogue. She has led the theater‟s growth since it‟s founding in 1995. She is on the<br />
Advisory Board of the Community Arts <strong>Network</strong>, serves on the board of NPN and in the Steering Committee of the<br />
Consortium of Asian American Theater and Artists. She is a playwright and director and has written several fulllength<br />
works for Pangea, ranging from adaptations of poetry and mythology to original works dealing with war,<br />
spirituality, personal and collective memory.<br />
José Navarrete is a native of México City. He studied theater and dance at the <strong>National</strong> Institute of Fine Arts in<br />
México. He also has a B.A. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and M.F.A in Dance from Mills College. Since 2001<br />
he has co-directed NAKA Dance Theater with Debby Kajiyama, presenting work both nationally and<br />
internationally. NAKA has been presented by Theater Artaud, ODC Theater, Dance Mission Theater, Yerba<br />
Buena Center for the Arts, Movement Research (NYC), Southern Theater (Minneapolis),Philadelphia Dance<br />
Projects,Velocity (Seattle) and the Hemispheric Institute of NYU in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2004, he was the<br />
recipient of a Bessie Schönberg Choreographer‟s residency at The Yard in Martha's Vineyard, MA. and the<br />
Djerassi Resident Artist Program fellowship in Woodside CA.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
LISA NELSON HAYNES<br />
Painted Bride Art Center<br />
Associate Director<br />
230 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106<br />
(215) 925-9914 x21 fax (215) 925-7402<br />
lhaynes@paintedbride.org<br />
KT NIEHOFF<br />
Lingo Dance<br />
Artistic Director<br />
1121 15th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122<br />
(206) 349-8772<br />
kt@lingodance.com<br />
ED NOONAN<br />
Myrna Loy Center/Helena Presents<br />
Executive Director<br />
15 N. Ewing, Helena, MT 59601<br />
(406) 443-0287 fax 406 443 6620<br />
noonaned@aol.com<br />
JONATHAN NORTON<br />
South Dallas Cultural Center<br />
3400 South Fitzhugh, Dallas, TX 75206<br />
214-768-8254<br />
nortonj@smu.edu<br />
WURA-NATASHA OGUNJI<br />
Artist<br />
2317 S.Pleasant Valley Rd Apt # 1022, Austin, TX<br />
78741<br />
(718) 354-9252<br />
wuraola@gmail.com<br />
PENNIE OJEDA<br />
<strong>National</strong> Endowment for the Arts<br />
Director, International Activities<br />
1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Room 516, Washington,<br />
DC 20506<br />
202-682-5562 fax 202-682-5024<br />
ojedap@arts.gov<br />
MICHELE ORDUNA-FRANCISCO<br />
Safos Dance Theater<br />
Board President<br />
7812 e. elida st, Tucson, AZ 85715<br />
5202351231<br />
miorduna@gmail.com<br />
CHRISTINE ORTEGA<br />
Southwest Airlines<br />
Community Affairs & Grassroots<br />
Corporate Community Affairs<br />
4007 McCullough, #200, San Antonio, TX 78212<br />
(866) 387-6646 fax (214) 932-0085<br />
christine.ortega@wnco.com<br />
KT lives in Seattle and makes events, dances, music, films, classes and messes. In 1998 she created Lingo - a<br />
roving band of artists, brave hearts and lunatics, which has since been the platform for her work. Lingo has been<br />
presented in places like ACT Theatre (Seattle), The Joyce SoHo (NY), Alverno Presents (Milwaukee), SUSHI<br />
(San Diego), among others, and received money from funders like The <strong>National</strong> Endowment for the Arts, The<br />
<strong>National</strong> Dance Project and the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong>. Thank you. She has taught a lot in the last 20<br />
years throughout the U.S. and abroad and was the co-founder and director of Velocity Dance Center in Seattle<br />
from 1996-2006. She danced with the Pat Graney Company from 1992-95 and is here dancing with her again,<br />
after a 20 year hiatus. It's really fun.<br />
Ed Noonan has been Executive Director of the Myrna Loy Center for 10 years. He has also been an employee for<br />
25 years at Carroll College in Helena, MT: 15 years as staff and adjunct faculty and 10 years as adjunct faculty.<br />
He is a playwright, poet, theater artist, and novelist.<br />
Jonathan is the proud recipient of the 2010 Diaspora Performing Arts Commission for his play My Tidy List of<br />
Terrors, which takes place in Atlanta during the Atlanta Child Murders tragedy. The play will receive it's world<br />
premiere this summer at the South Dallas Cultural Center. Jonathan is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan<br />
College. He is currently enrolled in the Masters of Liberal Studies program at SMU and will graduate in May 2011.<br />
Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer. Her work investigates the connections between physical<br />
actions of the body, memory, history and power. Ogunji‟s most recent public performance „one hundred black<br />
women, one hundred actions‟ premiered at Fusebox Festival and was nominated for the 2010 Austin Critics Table<br />
Award. Ogunji was awarded The Dallas Museum of Art‟s 2010 Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant and is a<br />
selected Artist in Residence as part of the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong>‟s Visual Artist <strong>Network</strong>. She has<br />
participated in residencies at Can Serrat in Spain and Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic. She lives in<br />
Austin, TX.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
JOAN OSATO<br />
Youth Speaks, Inc./ The Living World Project<br />
Producing Director<br />
1663 Mission Street, Suite 604, San Francisco, CA<br />
94103<br />
4157107427 fax 4152559065<br />
josato@youthspeaks.org<br />
SARA PARISH<br />
Pat Graney Company<br />
performer<br />
2215 Bigelow Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109<br />
602.391.9167<br />
sara.parish@hotmail.com<br />
CASSANDRA PARKER NOWICKI<br />
Carver Community Cultural Center<br />
Cultural Center Supervisor<br />
226 North Hackberry Street, San Antonio, TX 78202<br />
(210) 207-2718 fax (210) 207-4412<br />
cassandraparker.nowicki@sanantonio.gov<br />
LINDA PARRIS-BAILEY<br />
Carpetbag Theatre, Inc.<br />
Executive/Artistic Director<br />
100 South Gay Street<br />
Suites 106 and 114, Knoxville, TN 37902<br />
(865) 544-0447 fax (865) 544-0447<br />
lindapb1@aol.com<br />
JEN MAY PASTORES<br />
2910 W Ashland Ave, Visalia, CA 93277<br />
818-534-7409<br />
jennifer.pastores@gmail.com<br />
VICTOR PAYAN<br />
<strong>National</strong> Association of Latino Arts and Culture<br />
Development Coordinator<br />
1208 Buena Vista, San Antonio, TX 78207<br />
210.432.3982 fax 210-432-3934<br />
victor@nalac.org<br />
JORDAN PEIMER<br />
Skirball Cultural Center<br />
Director, Public Programs<br />
2701 North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049-<br />
6833<br />
(310) 440-4646 fax 310 440 4695<br />
jpeimer@skirball.org<br />
SHANNON PENA<br />
Pat Graney Company<br />
Project Coordinator Keeping The Faith Prison Project<br />
925 E. Thomas ST suite B, seattle, WA 98102<br />
206-329-3705<br />
sebastian@patgraney.org<br />
Joan Osato has played a pivotal role in local and national theater for well over a decade and has been an<br />
indispensable part of Youth Speaks since 2001. Currently she is Producing Director for Youth Speaks, the Living<br />
Word Project, and Brave New Voices on Festivals and <strong>Performance</strong> Events, as well as LWP works for stage. She<br />
has brought her multiplicity of production and design talents to Living Word Project Repertory works such as The<br />
Break/s, Word Becomes Flesh, Scourge, War Peace: The One Drop Rule and Mirrors in Every Corner. Her work<br />
as a visual designer and collaborator include upcoming productions of Habibi by Sharif Abu-Hamdeh, Tree City<br />
Legends by Dennis Kim, Marc Bamuthi Joseph‟s red, black and GREEN; a blues, and The New River by Richard<br />
Montoya and Sean San Jose.<br />
Sara Parish is a dancer, choreographer, and performance art/multimedia creator. She pursued a MFA in Dance<br />
from Arizona State University and a BS from Western Illinois University. She has had the pleasure of collaborating<br />
with artists such as Cliff Keuter, Shouze Ma, Jennifer Tsukayama,John Mitchell,and Jenny Showalter. She has<br />
danced with Pat Graney Company, Visionary Dance Company, and Aaron McGloin Dance. Her work has been<br />
commissioned by Roxy Theatre, Hale Theatre, WIU, State Street Performing Company and on an individual<br />
project basis.<br />
Cassandra Parker - Nowicki is the Cultural Center Supervisor for the Carver Community Cultural Center in San<br />
Antonio, Texas. Cassandra graduated from Southwestern University (Georgetown, TX) in 1994 with a Bachelor of<br />
Fine Arts Degree in Theatre and upon graduating began her career as an arts administrator. Prior to joining the<br />
management team at the Carver, Cassandra spent eight years at the Majestic and Empire Theatres in San<br />
Antonio, TX and three years at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center in Baltimore, MD. Cassandra lives in<br />
San Antonio with her husband and daughter and continues to pursue her love of the stage and writing.<br />
Linda Parris-Bailey is the Executive/Artistic Director of The Carpetbag Theatre Inc. She is a published playwright,<br />
currently serving on the Management Committee of the International Women's Playwright Conference, which will<br />
host the next conference in Stockholm, Sweden in 2012. Her plays, "Dark Cowgirls and Prairie Queens", "Nothin'<br />
Nice", and "Between a Ballad and a Blues" have toured extensively and several have been supported by NPN<br />
partners. Her newest work, "Speed Killed My Cousin" is currently in development with NPN Creation Fund<br />
support. The Carpetbag Theatre Ensemble Company has been contracted to develop a new work with the "Higher<br />
Ground" project in Eastern Kentucky. Ms. Parris-Bailey is also the playwright assigned to the project.<br />
Jen May Pastores is a professional photographer based out of Visalia, California. At 27-years-old she's explored<br />
photojournalism as a way to compliment her storytelling, and currently runs a small wedding and lifestyle<br />
photography business. Apart from her work she believes in the importance of pursuing personal projects that give<br />
back to the community. Her work has been featured in Cambodia, Philadelphia, California, and Hawaii. Her work<br />
can be seen online at www.jenmayphotography.com<br />
Victor Payan is NALAC‟s Director of Programs. He is an award-winning writer, producer and artist who uses<br />
humor, history and media culture to promote tolerance and community empowerment. His experience includes<br />
work with the Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego Latino Film Festival, City Heights International Village<br />
Celebration and KPBS. Recently, he was Co-Director of the 30th and 31st CineFestival en San Antonio. His<br />
projects have been featured on France‟s Canal +, American Latino TV and in exhibitions, screenings and<br />
performances at such venues as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the High Museum of Art.<br />
Awards include the 2010 Idea Fund grant and the 2008 <strong>National</strong> Conflict Resolution Center's Peacemaker Award.<br />
His websites include keeponcrossin.com and aztecgoldtv.com.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
BRIANA PEREA<br />
MECA/Multi-Cultural Education and Counseling<br />
through the Arts<br />
Development Associate<br />
1900 Kane Street, Houston, TX 77007<br />
(713) 802-9370 ext. 14 fax (713) 802-9403<br />
brianaperea@meca-houston.org<br />
ALEJANDRO PEREZ, JR.<br />
Journeyman Ink, LLC<br />
Multi-Disciplinary Arts Educator and Performer<br />
P.O. Box 140954, Irving, TX 75014<br />
214.364.9037<br />
ap@journeymanink.com<br />
CARLA PERLO<br />
Dance Place<br />
Founder/Director<br />
3225 8th Street NE, Washington, DC 20017<br />
(202) 269-1600 fax (202) 269-4103<br />
cperlo@danceplace.org<br />
MARTIN PERNA<br />
The GO! Passport<br />
Founder, Executive Director<br />
5604 Manor Rd., Austin, TX 78723<br />
6463619163<br />
ocotesoul@gmail.com<br />
CARLA PETERSON<br />
Dance Theater Workshop<br />
Artistic Director<br />
219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011<br />
(212) 691-6500<br />
carla@dtw.org<br />
RENATA PETRONI<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
Performing Americas Director<br />
P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156<br />
212-689-0181<br />
renata@npnweb.org<br />
PEGGY PIACENZA<br />
Pat Graney Company<br />
performer<br />
2315 1/2 Yale Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102<br />
206-250-6573<br />
piapeg@earthlink.net<br />
STUART PIMSLER<br />
Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater<br />
Artistic Co-Director<br />
1937 Glenwood Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55422<br />
763 521-7738<br />
spdanth@gmail.com<br />
Briana Perea is the Development Associate for MECA, a non-profit based in Houston, TX committed to the<br />
healthy development of individuals and the community through the arts. A former MECA student, she studied<br />
music performance at Houston‟s HSPVA and the University of North Texas before graduating with a BA in<br />
anthropology from the University of Houston. She joined the MECA staff in 2010, and enjoys the opportunity to<br />
tell others about the programs that impacted her as a youth.<br />
Journeyman Ink transcends cultures, creeds and races by awakening the creative soul and developing emotional<br />
literacy through the power of shared life experiences on stage and in the classroom. We pursue speaking and<br />
performance opportunities unique for their use of original spoken word and melody memory methods (stimulating<br />
oral/aural responses through the recitation of songs and mantras). We offer diversity education, character<br />
development, and professional consultation that touches on human emotions and empowers each participant to<br />
discover his/her own voice. We tailor commission work, multi-disciplinary workshops and presentations for any<br />
need while inspiring others to talk to the page, write to be heard, and courageously find inner strength and<br />
common ground.<br />
Carla Perlo is the founding director of Dance Place. Her 30 years of experience as teacher, dancer,<br />
choreographer, presenter and director gives her a unique perspective as artist and arts administrator. Her<br />
passion for dance, creative education and children has contributed to her perseverance of building a nationally<br />
recognized center for the performing arts with model programs for youth and young adults. Her belief that<br />
property ownership is vital for the sustainable of arts organizations and individual artists has made a major impact<br />
on Dance Place other similar organizations and numerous colleagues who now own their own homes.<br />
Martín Perna is the founder of the musical groups Antibalas and Ocote Soul Sounds, and appears on numerous<br />
recordings by TV on the Radio, Sharon Jones, among others. He is a co-founder of Tristate Biodiesel, New York<br />
City‟s first biodiesel enterprise, and is currently launching the pilot program GO! Passport a community artstechnology-education<br />
partnership that transforms existing urban infrastructures into a second classroom for young<br />
people in grades 8-12. He lives and works in Austin, Texas.<br />
Carla Peterson is Artistic Director of Dance Theater Workshop since fall, 2006. She is responsible for leading the<br />
institution‟s overall artistic vision and designing programming that advances dance and live performance in New<br />
York City and worldwide. From 2002-„06, she served as the Executive Director of Movement Research, and<br />
continues to serve on their board. She has also worked as a writer, project manager, project development advisor,<br />
and fundraiser for independent artists and arts organizations. From 1993–„96, Ms. Peterson was Director of<br />
Inter/<strong>National</strong> Projects at Dance Theater Workshop. From 1988–„93, she was Assistant Director of Performing<br />
Arts at the Wexner Center for the Arts.<br />
Renata Petroni has developed cultural exchange programs and international partnerships since 1980, first as<br />
Director of the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong> and The Suitcase Fund, two programs of Dance Theater Workshop<br />
in New York City and later as Director of Projects and Partnerships at Arts International. Following her<br />
engagement at the Universal EXPO 92 in Seville, Spain, she founded Two Moon, an international production<br />
company which produced and toured new works by contemporary U.S. and European artists. Ms. Petroni is<br />
currently the Director of Performing Americas, a program of the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong>, designed to<br />
increase artistic exchange and knowledge building between Latin America and the United States.<br />
STUART PIMSLER is celebrating his 28th anniversary this year as Artistic Co-Director of the Minneapolis-based,<br />
STUART PIMSLER DANCE & THEATER (SPDT). With partner Suzanne Costello, SPDT has garnered a national<br />
reputation for their work which has been described as “movement theater for the heart and mind”. Mr. Pimsler's<br />
work has been presented throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Europe, Israel, Taiwan, Russia and<br />
Bermuda. SPDT's Community Connections Programs engage a diverse range of populations including healthcare<br />
providers through their acclaimed Caring for the Caregiver Program. Mr. Pimsler served on the NPN Steering<br />
Committee from 1992-1995.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
V. DIANNE PLEDGER<br />
St. Joseph's Historic Foundation, Inc.<br />
President/CEO<br />
804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC 27701<br />
(919) 683-1709 fax (919) 682-5869<br />
vdpledger@hayti.org<br />
CAROLINA PONCE DE LEON<br />
Galería de la Raza/Studio 24<br />
Executive Director<br />
2857 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110<br />
(415) 516-3263<br />
cpl.galeria@gmail.com<br />
MICHAEL PREMO<br />
Hip-Hop Theater Festival<br />
Marketing and Program Associate<br />
442-D LORIMER ST #195, Brooklyn, NY 11206<br />
718-497-4282 fax 718.360.1930<br />
michael@hhtf.org<br />
RASHAD PRIGDEN<br />
Pomo Afro Homos<br />
Choreographer/Performer<br />
76 Santa Marina Street, San Francisco, CA 94110<br />
213-712-1045<br />
soul.nubian@gmail.com<br />
BEN PRYOR<br />
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People<br />
Manager<br />
210 Rivington St. #18, New York, NY 10002<br />
646.265.8226<br />
miguelisatwork@yahoo.com<br />
NATHAN PURATH<br />
Space One Eleven<br />
Artist<br />
2409 2nd Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203<br />
205-499-4288<br />
npurath@gmail.com<br />
DEAN PURVIS<br />
Lyena Strelkoff<br />
writer/performer<br />
5429 Troost Avenue, #1, North Hollywood, CA 91601<br />
310 497-5270 fax 818 766-4663<br />
dean@deanpurvis.com<br />
LAUREL RACZKA<br />
Painted Bride Art Center<br />
Executive Director<br />
230 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106<br />
(215) 925-9914 fax (215) 925-7402<br />
laurel@paintedbride.org<br />
Michael Premo, is a multidisciplinary artist, creative producer and arts consultant, currently Marketing and<br />
Program Associate with Hip-Hop Theater Festival. Michael is also co-producer and co-founder of Housing is a<br />
Human Right a multiplatform investigation into the struggle for Home. He has produced theater, art and<br />
mutlimedia projects with companies in New York and Internationally including EarSay,Inc, StoryCorps,and as an<br />
Associate Artist with The Civilians. In 2006 Michael and Penny Arcade produced and curated of The Globesity<br />
Festival: Hunger Strike Theater. He is the recipient of numerous awards including NYSCA‟s Individual Artist<br />
Award, and The Laundromat Project‟s Create Change Public Artist Residency.<br />
Rashad Pridgen (aka Soul Nubian) is a dance artist, choreographer and urban arts facilitator. Rashad is the<br />
Founding Artistic Director of Motif <strong>Performance</strong> Group, a project-oriented performance arts collaboration with the<br />
purpose of reflecting the human experience through African Diasproic and underground dance. Rashad has been<br />
a part of underground dance culture for fifteen years while simultaneously apprenticing the art of choreography.<br />
This inquiry places him among the generation of artists developing a “future dance aesthetic” - alchemizing street<br />
dance vernacular for the traditional Western concert stage. He has performed with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance<br />
Company, Ronald K. Brown/Nick Cave "Soundsuites", at the Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival and with Jacinta<br />
Vlach/Liberation Dance.<br />
Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor is an arts manager, producer and curator operating under the moniker<br />
tbspMGMT. Current projects include working with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Trajal Harrell,<br />
luciana achugar, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Yvonne Meier and Wally Cardona. Ben also Produces and Curates<br />
AMERICAN REALNESS, a festival of contemporary performance in NYC. Previously Ben worked as Director of<br />
Operations for Center for <strong>Performance</strong> Research, an Artist Representative at Pentacle, and in the Planning and<br />
Development department at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Ben served as chair of the Agents Council and<br />
Trustee for Dance USA from 2008-2010. tbspMGMT.com<br />
Nathan Purath is Co-Director of the Coleman Center for the Arts in York, Alabama. He is a founding member of<br />
the non-profit organization Your Art Here, which uses billboards as public art spaces. Driven by the role that art<br />
can play in realizing positive change, his work facilitates opportunities for artist and communities while blending<br />
modes of art, organizing, and advertising.<br />
Dean is a writer, performer, director, and educator co-creating and touring nationally with NPN artist, Lyena<br />
Strelkoff. He holds a BFA from Southern Methodist Univ. and an MFA from Univ. of Washington. Currently, he and<br />
Ms. Strelkoff are developing "Tandem," a full-length performance piece using story, song, image and dance to<br />
investigate the impact of sudden disability on the life of a couple. Along with Strelkoff's acclaimed one-woman<br />
play, "Caterpillar Soup" (presenting nationally, including Out North, Sandglass Theater, Flynn Center, Dance<br />
Place), "Tandem" is an exercise in truth telling, revealing the intricacies of dis/ability, challenging notions of loss<br />
and caregiving, and suggesting alternate cultural responses to adversity. For more info, visit<br />
www.lyenastrelkoff.org.<br />
Laurel Raczka has been the Executive Director of the Painted Bride Art Center since 1999. Previously, serving as<br />
Program Director of the Bride, Ms. Raczka was responsible for all performance and gallery presentations,<br />
educational and community events, she also was the Director of the Bride‟s New Forms Regional Grant Program.<br />
She received her B.F.A. from the University of Arizona and her M.F.A. from Rutgers University. Laurel has served<br />
as a panelist for many funders including the Alpert Award, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Pennsylvania<br />
Council on the Arts. She has also served on panels on issues of Community Arts, Presenting Innovative<br />
Programs, Partnerships, and Leadership Transition.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
Q. RAGSDALE<br />
606 Lochness Ln., Garland, TX 75044<br />
214.460.2182<br />
q@orangemoonmedia.com<br />
LISA RAMIREZ<br />
MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino<br />
Americana<br />
Curator and Visual Arts Coordinator<br />
510 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113<br />
(408) 938-3403 fax 408-998-2817<br />
lisa@maclaarte.org<br />
PILAR RAMOS<br />
La RED de Promotores Culturales de Latinoamérica<br />
y El Caribe<br />
President/ Director<br />
Ayacucho 282 Miraflores, Lima, N/A 18<br />
511-4463623 fax 511-4454421<br />
diva@amauta.rcp.net.pe<br />
KATHY RANDELS<br />
ArtSpot Productions<br />
Artistic Director<br />
6100 Canal Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70124<br />
(504) 826-7783 fax (504) 826-7784<br />
kathy@artspotproductions.org<br />
RACHELLE RANDOLPH<br />
King Arts Complex<br />
Program Director<br />
867 Mount Vernon Avenue, Columbus, OH 43203-1411<br />
(614) 645-5464 fax 614-645-0672<br />
rrandolph@kingartscomplex.com<br />
ROBERT RANSICK<br />
37-22 80th Street, 52, Jackson Heights, NY 11372<br />
(917) 476-4437<br />
robertransick@gmail.com<br />
THOMAS REESE<br />
Stone Center for Latin America Studies, Tulane<br />
University<br />
Executive Director<br />
Tulane University<br />
100 Joseph Mary Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118<br />
504.865.5164 fax (504) 865-6719<br />
treese@tulane.edu<br />
Q. Ragsdale has been performing, filming and creating images in and about the world around her for many years.<br />
Not content to pick one has left Q with a broad range of talents that have allowed her to work on projects ranging<br />
from plays to multimedia productions. Q is Media Coordinator of Fahari Arts Institute and sits on the boards of<br />
BUTCH Voices and the Brown Boi Project. Q is currently preoccupied with integrating performance art and<br />
video/new media to explore topics ranging from social justice to gender identity and expression. Q is the driving<br />
force behind Orange Moon Media, a multimedia production company and Q-Roc.tv an online tv show covering the<br />
Queer community.<br />
Pilar Ramos is a professional journalist apecialized in cultural issues. Social communicator and producer. She<br />
obtained her B.A. in Journalism at the Catholic University of Peru, where she also did Post Graduated Studies in<br />
management of cultural affairs. She is the CEO of Diva Producciones, a Peruvian organization that manages,<br />
promotes events and productions in scenic arts. A well-known entrepreneur and consultant, she has been<br />
involved in a wide range of cultural events. She has also been the curator of art shows for international cultural<br />
exchange projects. Member of the Organizing Conmitee of the Muestra Internacional de Teatro de Lima and the<br />
Festival de Danza Independiente 100% Cuerpo. She is currently President of La Red de Promotores Culturales<br />
de Latinoamerica y El Caribe.<br />
Kathy Randels, founding artistic director of New Orleans‟ ArtSpot Productions, has written, performed in, and<br />
directed numerous original solo and group works for professional, student and incarcerated ensembles in<br />
Louisiana and beyond. Awards include the 2007-9 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors, the<br />
2008 V-Day Leadership Award, a 2003 OBIE (Nita & Zita) and numerous New Orleans theatre awards. Recent<br />
collaborations include: "Go Ye Therefore…", Loup Garou, and Flight. She collaborated with Serbia‟s Dah Teatar<br />
from 1997-2003, and is currently creating a new solo performance with director Dijana Milosevic. She founded<br />
the Drama Club at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in 1996 and has worked with Students at the<br />
Center in New Orleans Public Schools since 1998.<br />
Rachelle S. Randolph is the Program Director for the King Arts Complex. Ms. Randolph has a diverse<br />
background and experience in Special Events, Program Facilitation, Education, Development, Community<br />
Relations and Public Relations. Rachelle has also been involved with many organizations such as United Way of<br />
Central Ohio, Project Diversity, American Red Cross, Ohio Commission on Minority Health, and HIV/AIDS<br />
Consortium for People of Color. In Rachelle's role as Program Director, she is responsible for planning and<br />
developing the Performing and Cultural Arts Programs based on the mission and long-term goals of the King Arts<br />
Complex. A few of her major objectives are to provide programming that vibes with the 18 -35 year old<br />
audiences and to incorporate faith-based programming options.<br />
Robert Ransick is an artist who works in a wide range of media and has exhibited in New York City at such<br />
venues as Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Exit Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture and White Box<br />
Gallery. In addition he has shown at LACE(Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), The Museum of<br />
Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Illinois and at the Palazzo delle Esposizione in Rome, Italy, among<br />
others. He has received funding from Franklin Furnace, the Mellon Foundation and the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong><br />
<strong>Network</strong>/Visual Artists <strong>Network</strong> and has been an artist in residence at Eyebeam Center for Art and technology and<br />
LACE(Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). He is a full-time faculty member in digital arts at Bennington<br />
College. Robert Ransick lives and works in New York.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
DION REINER-GUZMAN<br />
The Living Word Project<br />
Performer/Creator<br />
3020 Curran Avenue, Oakland, CA 94602<br />
415-730-3386<br />
diondecibels@gmail.com<br />
BARBARA RENAUD GONZALEZ<br />
Bihl Haus Arts<br />
Writer-in-Residence<br />
1117 Perez Street, San Antonio, TX 78207<br />
210.845.0911<br />
anabarbararenaud@gmail.com<br />
MARQUEZ RHYNE<br />
Highlander Research and Education Center<br />
Developmen & Communications Team Member<br />
1959 Highlander Way, New Market, TN 37820<br />
(865) 933-3443<br />
marquezrhyne@gmail.com<br />
CHELES RHYNES<br />
MRP Inc.<br />
Executive Director<br />
P.O. Box 5163, Capitol Heights, MD 20791<br />
301-350-0092 fax 301-350-0092<br />
crhynes@mason-rhynes.org<br />
WILLIAM RICHEY<br />
Journeyman Ink, LLC<br />
Founder, Creative Arts Director<br />
P.O. Box 140954, Irving, TX 75014<br />
214.476.6309<br />
will@journeymanink.com<br />
DEBORAH RILEY<br />
Dance Place<br />
Director<br />
3225 8th Street NE, Washington, DC 20017<br />
202-269-1600 fax 202-269-4103<br />
deborahr@danceplace.org<br />
BRIAN ROGERS<br />
The Chocolate Factory Theater<br />
Co-Founder and Artistic Director<br />
5-49 49th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101<br />
(718) 482-7069 fax 718 4827069<br />
brian@chocolatefactorytheater.org<br />
JORGE ROJAS<br />
1407 E. 3010 S., Salt Lake City, UT 84106<br />
(917) 757-7626<br />
keoqui@gmail.com<br />
Dion Decibels (Performer) is a Bay Area DJ/ turntablist, sound engineer, producer, teacher and music lover. Dion<br />
Decibels is the son of a drummer and a dancer, so it is only natural for him to make and play music for people to<br />
enjoy and move to. With 9+ years of DJing and 25 years of musical experience, music is his life‟s dedication and<br />
he is here to bring you the funk.<br />
I am a published writer who wants our stories to reach everyone. To this end, I wrote "Remember El Alma," a<br />
prose-poem that reclaimed the Alamo as a monument to peace, adapted by Virginia Grise (Yale Drama prize<br />
2010), and produced by Bihl Haus Arts in San Antonio, Texas. More than 3000 people saw this first on-site public<br />
performance at the Hemisfair in downtown San Antonio during Luminarias SA! on a Saturday night in March of<br />
2010. For our efforts, we received the Contemporary Arts Month "Drama" prize for 2009-2010.<br />
To see one of the photos from the event, please see my blog<br />
www.barbararenaud.blogspot.com<br />
Marquez Rhyne serves progressive leadership in the U.S. South working on Highlander's Development &<br />
Communications Team. He previously served as the Managing Director of NPN Partners Jump-Start <strong>Performance</strong><br />
Co. and The Carpetbag Theatre, and as Operations/Education Director for The Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, TN.<br />
Rhyne performed multiple roles including Board Chair for Alternate ROOTS, a regional organization of cultural<br />
workers in the South committed to social and economic justice and protection of the natural environment. A<br />
cultural worker, performing artist, and arts educator, Rhyne's passion is weaving tales of wrongs wrought right<br />
through theater, dance, spontaneous song and digital media, guiding others in their own journeys of collective<br />
liberation through art and culture.<br />
Cheles Rhynes is Co-founder and Executive Director for MRP Inc. Mr. Rhynes' multi-faceted experience in<br />
technical theater has brought him to Brazil, Lithuania, Croatia, Poland, Bosnia, Serbia, Ireland, Turkey,<br />
Amsterdam, Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan. While touring the USA, he has worked in or driven through every<br />
state in the country (except Alaska & Hawaii.) Mr. Rhynes worked for six years on staff for the annual Association<br />
of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP)conference, three as the Conference Production Manager. For the last four<br />
years he‟s been contracted as the Juried Showcase Producer for the South Arts/Performing Arts Exchange<br />
annual conference and three years as a Festival & Conference Consultant for Sister Cities International. Mr.<br />
Rhynes is the Annual Meeting showcase production manager for NPN.<br />
Journeyman Ink transcends cultures, creeds and races by awakening the creative soul and developing emotional<br />
literacy through the power of shared life experiences on stage and in the classroom. We pursue speaking and<br />
performance opportunities unique for their use of original spoken word and melody memory methods (stimulating<br />
oral/aural responses through the recitation of songs and mantras). We offer diversity education, character<br />
development, and professional consultation that touches on human emotions and empowers each participant to<br />
discover his/her own voice. We tailor commission work, multi-disciplinary workshops and presentations for any<br />
need while inspiring others to talk to the page, write to be heard, and courageously find inner strength and<br />
common ground.<br />
Deborah Riley is an artist-in-residence and Co-Director of Dance Place, furthering the organization‟s mission with<br />
her leadership for over 25 years. As a dancer, choreographer and educator, career highlights include international<br />
touring with Douglas Dunn & Dancers and collaborative choreography with Diane Frank. Her workshop, Moving<br />
Affirmations has helped to facilitate healing and recovery in diverse community organizations. In addition to guest<br />
artist appearances in various universities across the country, her work has been presented in the U.S, the U.K.<br />
and France. She has been honored as Distinguished Alumni in Fine Arts from Ohio University and received the<br />
Pola Nirenska Award for Distinguished Artistic Leadership. Ms. Riley is a certified Laban Movement Analyst.<br />
Brian Rogers is a director, video artist, co-founder and artistic director of The Chocolate Factory Theater, which<br />
supports the creation of theater, dance, music and multimedia performances at its 5,000 sq ft facility in LIC,<br />
Queens. In addition to his own work, Brian curates The Chocolate Factory's Visiting Artist Program (now in its 6th<br />
year) which supports the work of more than 100 theater, dance, music and multimedia artists each year. Brian has<br />
served on numerous grant panels including NYSCA, Queens Council on the Arts, ART/NY Nancy Quinn Fund,<br />
DTW Outer/Space, the A.W.A.R.D. Show, and others; and is a current member of the NY Dance and<br />
<strong>Performance</strong> (a.k.a. The Bessies) Award committee.<br />
Jorge Rojas is a multidisciplinary artist and curator whose work centers on the creation and processes involved in<br />
artistic production. Rojas uses both traditional and new media as well as performative elements to investigate<br />
communication systems and the effect of technology on artistic production, social structures and communities.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
SONDRA RONEY<br />
South Dallas Cultural Center<br />
Coordinator of Public Relations/Marketing<br />
3400 South Fitzhugh, Dallas, TX 75210-2572<br />
214-670-8117 fax 214-670-8118<br />
sondra.roney@dallascityhall.com<br />
KIM ROOT<br />
Pat Graney Company<br />
Performer<br />
925 E. Thomas St. Suite B, Seattle, WA 98102<br />
(206)329-3705<br />
kim@dingmanroot.com<br />
MILDRED RUIZ<br />
UNIVERSES Theater Company, Inc.<br />
CEO/Associate Artistic Director<br />
2038 Cicero Avenue #1, Bronx, NY 10473<br />
646-406-7540<br />
mredruiz@gmail.com<br />
PATRICIA RUIZ-BAYON<br />
P.O. Box 772, Brownsville, TX 78522<br />
956-592-0614<br />
pruizb9@hotmail.com<br />
KAREN RUNK<br />
Pomo Afro Homos<br />
Fierce Love<br />
76 Santa Maria, San Francisco, CA 94110<br />
415-387-7241<br />
krrunk@juno.com<br />
ABE RYBECK<br />
The Theater Offensive<br />
Artistic Director<br />
29 Elm St. # 2, Cambridge, MA 02139<br />
617-661-1600 fax 617-661-1610<br />
abe@thetheateroffensive.org<br />
FRED SALAS<br />
MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino<br />
Americana<br />
Program Coordinator <strong>Performance</strong> & Literary Arts<br />
510 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113<br />
408.286.8695 fax 408 998 2817<br />
fred@maclaarte.org<br />
ANTONIO SALINAS<br />
International Programs, <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong><br />
<strong>Network</strong><br />
Independent Artist<br />
866 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130<br />
305-519-6877<br />
salinasantonio@yahoo.com.mx<br />
Kim Root is honored to be back with The Pat Graney Company for this tremendous reunion. Kim worked<br />
extensively with Pat and co. from 1992-2002, performing in Faith, Sleep, Tattoo, Sax House, Vivaldi and other<br />
works. She was involved in the creation process of Sleep, Vivaldi, and The Vivian Girls. Kim has an MFA in Dance<br />
from The Ohio State University (2000). She was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Wesleyan University<br />
from 2003-2009 where she taught modern technique, composition, dance and technology and repertory. Currently<br />
living in Louisville, KY with her family, Kim continues to work as an independent dance artist, choreographer,<br />
teacher and film maker while raising her 2 young sons.<br />
MILDRED RUIZ-SAPP (UNIVERSES/NPN Board Member) Founding member-UNIVERSES. Credits:<br />
AMERIVILLE, THE DENVER PROJECT, ONE SHOT IN LOTUS POSITION, BLUE SUITE, RHYTHMICITY,<br />
SLANGUAGE, THE RIDE, and Alfred Jarry‟s UBU:ENCHAINED (Teatre Polski, Poland). Awards/Affiliations: 2008<br />
Jazz@Lincoln Center Rhythm Road Tour;TCG Peter Zeisler Award (2008), Career Advancement Fellowship-<br />
Ford Foundation through Pregones Theater (2006), TCG <strong>National</strong> Theater Artist Residency Program Award<br />
(2002-2004 and 1999-2001), and the BRIO Award. She is a co-Founder of The Point CDC; former Board<br />
member-<strong>Network</strong> of Ensemble Theaters (NET); Publications: UNIVERSES-THE BIG BANG (Fall 2010 release,<br />
TCG Books).<br />
Patricia Ruiz-Bayon is an interdisciplinary artist; Lives and works in the US-Mexico border Brownsville-<br />
Matamoros. She works, installation, sculpture and incorporates technology in her work. In 1977-99 received an<br />
MFA at the University of Michigan; and in 1996 MS in Art from Texas A&M University. In 1980-81 she studied in<br />
Poznan, Poland at the State Art University with Magdalena Abakanowicz. In 1976 got her BFA at the Instituto<br />
Allende in Mexico.<br />
Executive Artistic Director Abe Rybeck co-founded The Theater Offensive in 1989 and helped build it into New<br />
England's leading creator of diverse OUT performance. Abe initiated the True Colors: Out Youth Theater<br />
program, the longest running LGBT youth theater program in the country; the OUT on the Edge queer theater<br />
festival; the AIDS activist guerrilla troupe A Street Theater Named Desire; and the hard-edged cabaret band Adult<br />
Children of Heterosexuals. His many plays and musicals include the Jonathon Larson Award winning Surviving<br />
the Nian written with Melissa Li and numerous activist sketches for political demonstrations and gay cruising<br />
areas. Abe‟s main work now is The Theater Offensive: OUT in Your Neighborhood, collaborating to create OUT<br />
culture in every corner of greater Boston<br />
Fred Salas is currently <strong>Performance</strong> and Literary Arts Coordinator for MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino<br />
Americana. In 1994, Fred founded Este Lugar: The Border Film Festival at the Mesilla Valley Film Society in his<br />
native New Mexico. Prior to his work at MACLA, he co-directed the San Diego Latino Film Festival for six years<br />
and served on the selection panel for the Sundance Institutes Screenwriter‟s Lab, where he championed many<br />
up-and-coming Latino filmmakers. He served as MACLA's performance and literary coordinator from 2005-06,<br />
community outreach liaison from 2006-07, and rejoined MACLA in 2009 after returning to the Bay Area. Fred is a<br />
graduate of the <strong>National</strong> Association of Latino Arts and Culture Leadership Institute.<br />
Dancer-actor, choreographer and teacher, graduated form the <strong>National</strong> School of Classic and Modern Dance of<br />
Mexico. He has been awarded the “Premio San Luis 2006 Award” for best play, “Best Dancer” of the XXVI Lila<br />
Lopez International Dance festival, “Best Actor in a Monologue 2005” from the Mexican Association of Theater<br />
Critics, “Premio Covarrubias 2005” from the University of Colima, “Best Choreographer” of the 2002 Young<br />
Choreographer competition from ISSSTE for “Lucas Lucan”, and “Best Dancer” of the XIX Premio Nacional de<br />
Danza INBA UAM competition. He has choreographed for the International Cervantes Festival, and for soloists<br />
with the <strong>National</strong> Dance Company of Mexico, among others.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
AMINA SANCHEZ<br />
Skirball Cultural Center<br />
Associate Director of Programs<br />
2701 North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049-<br />
6833<br />
310-440-4644 fax 310-440-4695<br />
amina@skirball.org<br />
GERARDO SANCHEZ<br />
Oak Cliff Cultural Center<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
223 W Jefferson Avenue, Dallas, TX 75208<br />
214.670.3777<br />
gerardo.sanchez@dallascityhall.com<br />
CHARLES SANTOS<br />
TITAS - Extraordinary Dance and Music<br />
Executive Director/Artistic Director<br />
2100 Ross Avenue<br />
Suite 650, Dallas, TX 75201<br />
214.978.2852<br />
csantos@titas.org<br />
OVA SAOPENG<br />
TeAda Productions<br />
Associate Producer<br />
522 Wilshire Blvd<br />
Suite H, Santa Monica, CA 90401<br />
3104351810<br />
ovationx@gmail.com<br />
STEVEN SAPP<br />
UNIVERSES Theater Company, Inc.<br />
President/Artistic Director<br />
2038 Cicero Avenue #1, Bronx, NY 10473<br />
917-549-6106<br />
ucitytheater@aol.com<br />
ROELL SCHMIDT<br />
Links Hall<br />
Director<br />
3435 North Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657<br />
(773) 281-0824 fax (773) 281-1915<br />
rschmidt@linkshall.org<br />
MATHEW SCHWARZMAN<br />
Crossroads Institute<br />
Project Director<br />
2514 Dauphine St., New Orleans, LA 70117<br />
504 858-1855 fax 5046177117<br />
schwarzman@xroadsinstitute.org<br />
JAMES SCRUGGS<br />
Performing Artist<br />
145 6th Avenue, Front 1, New York, NY 10013-1548<br />
(212) 647-0202 x. 320<br />
digitalgriot@hotmail.com<br />
Ova Saopeng is an actor and writer from Los Angeles, he was born in Savannakhet, Laos and raised in Honolulu,<br />
Hawaii. He is a TeAda Productions Assciate Producer, Teaching Artist and co-creator of "Refugee Nation" a play<br />
about the Lao-American experience, based on the stories Lao communities across the U.S.<br />
(www.refugeenation.com). He received his B.A. in Theater from the University of Southern California and since<br />
then has performed nationally with theater companies including the Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis,<br />
Mark Taper Forum/P.L.A.Y., East West Players, and hereandnow. He is a member of We Tell Stories and Water's<br />
Edge Theater children's theater companies.<br />
STEVEN SAPP Founding member of UNIVERSES Poetic Musical Theater Ensemble; Playwright/Acting credits<br />
include:AMERIVILLE, THE DENVER PROJECT, ONE SHOT IN LOTUS POSITION (part of The War Anthology),<br />
BLUE SUITE, RHYTHMICITY, and SLANGUAGE. Direction credits include:THE RIDE, THE ARCHITECTURE OF<br />
LOSS (Assistant Director to Chay Yew); Will Powers‟ THE SEVEN; Alfred Jarry‟s UBU: ENCHAINED (Teatre<br />
Polski, Poland). Awards/Affiliations: 2008 Jazz@Lincoln Center Rhythm Road Tour, TCG Peter Zeisler Award<br />
(2008), TCG <strong>National</strong> Directors Award (2002), TCG <strong>National</strong> Theater Artist Residency Program Award (2002-<br />
2004 and 1999-2001), BRIO Awards (1998 and 2002), and the Van Lier Fellow w/ New Dramatists. He is a co-<br />
Founder of THE POINT Publications: UNIVERSES/THE BIG BANG (Fall 2010) TCG Books, among others.<br />
Roell Schmidt is the Director of Links Hall, Chicago‟s home for independent dance and performance arts. She has<br />
sixteen years experience in arts administration at SCT Productions, The Chicago Chamber Musicians and<br />
Lookingglass Theatre Company where she served as the Director of Marketing, Development and Artistic<br />
Administration (happily never all three simultaneously). She worked in the art department on six features including<br />
Zeinabu Irene Davis‟ Independent Spirit Award-nominated Compensation. Concurrently she has maintained her<br />
writing practice and in 2009 directed and self-produced her cineplay The Rotogravure. She was a 2008 Ragdale<br />
Resident Artist.<br />
Mat Schwarzman is director of Crossroads Institute for Art, Learning and Community; and a practitioner, student,<br />
instructor and writer in the field of community-based arts since 1985. He is a veteran presenter, facilitator and<br />
workshop leader in meetings, universities and communities across the country. Schwarzman holds a doctorate in<br />
Learning & Change in Human Systems from the California Institute for Integral Studies, and has helped<br />
established instructional programs in community organizations, high schools and universities across the country.<br />
He is co-author with cartoonist Keith Knight of the popular graphic textbook "Beginner‟s Guide to Community-<br />
Based Arts" (New Village Press, 2005).<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
CALVIN SEXTON<br />
Inner City All-Stars<br />
Artistic Director, Musical Director, Performer<br />
4041 W. Wheatland Rd.,<br />
Ste. 156-143, Dallas, TX 75237<br />
972-360-8225<br />
calvin@innercityallstars.com<br />
REBECCA SHEAHAN<br />
651 ARTS<br />
Marketing Director<br />
651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217<br />
718-230-2528 fax 718-636-4166<br />
rsheahan@651arts.org<br />
LINDA SHEARER<br />
Project Row Houses<br />
Executive Director<br />
P. O. Box 1011, Houston, TX 77251-1011<br />
713 526 7662 fax 713 526 1623<br />
lshearer@projectrowhouses.org<br />
KATE SHEERIN<br />
CentralTrak, The University of Texas at Dallas Artists<br />
Residency<br />
Director<br />
800 Exposition Avenue, Dallas, TX 75226<br />
214-824-9302<br />
kate_sheerin@hotmail.com<br />
S.T. SHIMI<br />
Jump-Start <strong>Performance</strong> Co.<br />
Artistic Director ( Company Programming)<br />
108 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204<br />
(210) 227-5867 fax 210-222-2231<br />
shimi@jump-start.org<br />
BETH SHIPPERT-MYERS<br />
Contemporary Arts Center<br />
Performing Arts Manager<br />
900 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130<br />
(504) 528-3805 fax 504.528.3828<br />
bshippertmyers@cacno.org<br />
PHYLLIS SLATTERY<br />
Dance Umbrella<br />
Executive Director<br />
P.O. Box 1323, Austin, TX 78767<br />
(512) 450-0456 fax n/a<br />
phyllis@danceumbrella.com<br />
NICK SLIE<br />
Mondo Bizarro<br />
Co-Artistic Director<br />
6100 Canal Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70130<br />
225-571-2929<br />
info@mondobizarro.org<br />
Calvin Sexton is the founding member and band leader of the Dallas based brass/jazz ensemble, Inner City All<br />
Stars, which His talents includes arranging and composing music, booking and managing the band, and being a<br />
high energy front man for the band. Mr. Sexton is also an alumni of the University of North Texas where he<br />
earned his bachelors degree in Music <strong>Performance</strong> in 2003.His ensemble performed on Showtime at the Apollo,<br />
Toured Japan and Guam, and won "Best Band" for the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities. They<br />
also won Juried showcases at 2010 Western Arts Alliance and Performing Arts Exchange. They are also roster<br />
artist of the Texas Commission of the Arts and Mid America Arts Alliances Roster. Calvin is a member of Omega<br />
Psi Phi Fraternity, Eagle Scout,& swimmer.<br />
S.T.Shimi is the Artistic Director of Jump-Start <strong>Performance</strong> Co., a San Antonio-based theatre company focused<br />
on cutting-edge, original work. She is also an arts educator who specialises in long-term, multi-disciplinary<br />
projects with a socially conscious edge.Shimi is also a performance artist. She creates solo & collaborative<br />
theatre, gets in the spin with her hoop, climbs silks and other vertical equipment, belly-dances, performs<br />
burlesque and in general gets down to a banging beat.<br />
Nick Slie lives, fights and works on the disappearing wetlands of coastal Louisiana. He is Co-Founder and Co-<br />
Artistic Director of the New Orleans based performance collective Mondo Bizarro. Nick‟s performance work<br />
ranges from physical theater to multi-disciplinary solo work, from digital storytelling to collaborative ensemble<br />
productions. He creates original works of performance that are rooted in a particular sense-of-place reflecting the<br />
needs, desires, memories and possibilities of the community from which it is born. Nick currently serves as board<br />
president for the <strong>Network</strong> of Ensemble Theaters.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
KAREL SLOANE-BOEKBINDER<br />
Ashé Cultural Center/Efforts of Grace, Inc.<br />
Assistant Producer, Theatre<br />
1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70113<br />
(504) 569-9070 fax (504) 525-1605<br />
karel.sloane@gmail.com<br />
ASHLEY SPARKS<br />
<strong>Network</strong> of Ensemble Theaters<br />
1709 N. Avenue 56, Los Angeles, CA 90042<br />
540-558-8744<br />
ashleyasparkles@gmail.com<br />
CAROL STAKENAS<br />
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)<br />
Executive Director<br />
6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028<br />
323-957-1777 fax 323-957-9025<br />
carol@welcometolace.org<br />
JAMES STANLEY<br />
<strong>National</strong> Theater of the United States of America<br />
Co-Artistic Director<br />
c/o Elsie Management, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Building<br />
280, Suite 220, Unit 329, Brooklyn, NY 11205<br />
646-322-1542<br />
jpstanley@earthlink.net<br />
MICHELE STEINWALD<br />
Walker Art Center<br />
Program Manager, Performing Arts<br />
1750 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403<br />
(612) 375-7581 fax (612) 375-7575<br />
michele.steinwald@walkerart.org<br />
HAROLD STEWARD<br />
South Dallas Cultural Center<br />
Performing Arts Coordinator<br />
3400 South Fitzhugh, Dallas, TX 75210-2572<br />
214/671-5800 fax 214/670-8118<br />
harold.steward@dallascityhall.com<br />
JEREMY STRICK<br />
Nasher Sculpture Center<br />
Director<br />
2001 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201<br />
214-242-5103<br />
jstrick@nashersculpturecenter.org<br />
LISA SUAREZ<br />
Jump-Start <strong>Performance</strong> Co.<br />
Artistic Director - Guest Artists<br />
108 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204<br />
(210) 227-5867 fax (210) 222-2231<br />
lisa@jump-start.org<br />
Karel Sloane-Boekbinder, Assistant Producer for Ashe' Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans, LA is a playwright,<br />
author, actor, filmmaker and painter. Karel has been a theatre professional for over 23 years. At Ashe' CAC,<br />
Karel assists with stage management, all aspects of assistant producing, and, arts instruction. Some of Karel's<br />
performance work can be seen in the Spike Lee film "Miracle at St. Anna" (as "Herb's Wife".) Karel has performed<br />
in New Orleans' DramaRama, The Cassandra Project in Portland, Maine and with companies such as Captain<br />
New York (at the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway)and New England Academy of Theater.<br />
Ashley Sparks is a southern theatre maker and cultural organizer. Based in New Orleans she is a director and<br />
educator with ArtSpot Productions. As an organizer she currently serves as the Chair of the Board for Alternate<br />
ROOTS. Currently, Ashley works for the <strong>Network</strong> of Ensemble Theaters as the coordinator for their micro-<br />
festivals. As a director, she has worked across the country on community-based plays as well as touring her<br />
ensemble created work. She is an 2008 honoraria of the Princess Grace Award and holds an M.F.A. in Directing<br />
and Public Dialogue from Virginia Tech.<br />
Carol Stakenas is the Executive Director of LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). She is the lead<br />
curator for Los Angeles Goes Live: Exploring a Social History of <strong>Performance</strong> Art in Southern California 1970-<br />
1983, an exhibition, performance series and publication project slated for Sept 2011 - Jan 2012. The performance<br />
series will feature re-inventions of historical performances and actions staged throughout the city. She is a faculty<br />
member at the University of Southern California in Public Art Studies. Previously, Stakenas was the Deputy<br />
Director/Curator of Creative Time and produced artwork at sites such as the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Times<br />
Square and Grand Central Terminal.<br />
The NTUSA design and constructs complex theatrical environments, in traditional and non-traditional spaces, and<br />
creates performances to inhabit them. This focus on theatrical environment is matched by a devotion to the<br />
exploration of American history and the history of American entertainment. Our works are intensely visual, densely<br />
layered spectacles which we lace with the questions and arguments we bring to the exploration of each subject<br />
we attend. Through multiplicity of image and argument we invite a complicit audience to engage with each piece<br />
as an active participant.<br />
Michèle Steinwald, Assistant Curator for the Performing Arts at the Walker Art Center--Since retiring as a dancer<br />
and choreographer, Michèle Steinwald has managed performing arts projects and professional development<br />
programs for On the Boards (Seattle), New England Foundation for the Arts/<strong>National</strong> Dance Project (Boston),<br />
DanceUSA (DC), and the Deborah Hay Dance Company (Austin). Michèle joined the Walker Art Center in<br />
October of 2006 and there she manages a third of the performing arts season and co-curates Momentum: New<br />
Dance Works with the Southern Theater. She actively supports the local contemporary dance community and<br />
uses every occasion to advocate for the Twin Cities dance community nationally.<br />
Harold Steward is an actor, director, playwright, designer and instructor with over thirteen years of theater<br />
experience. Mr. Steward studied communication at Newman University in Wichita, KS and playwrighting at<br />
Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. He directed numerous productions including Ntozake Shange's<br />
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf as a part of Open Stage of<br />
Harrisburg's 7th Annual WomenSpeak Festival. He is an accomplished actor and while in Harrisburg, Mr. Steward<br />
was a visiting artist and guest lecturer at Pennsylvania State University's Harrisburg campus, Central<br />
Pennsylvania College and Harrisburg Area Community College. Mr. Steward is the Performing Arts/Technical<br />
Coordinator for the South Dallas Cultural Center.<br />
Lisa Suarez has been with Jump-Start <strong>Performance</strong> Co. for over 15 years as a staff member and a company<br />
performing artist. Suarez most recently added playwright to her credit with "I'll Remember For You," a semiautobiographical<br />
piece about being the primary caregiver to her mother who's been diagnosed with Alzheimer's.<br />
The play premiered this past September at The Sterling Houston at Jump-Start.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
QUITA SULLIVAN<br />
New England Foundation for the Arts<br />
Program Manager, Theater<br />
145 Tremont St., Seventh Floor, Boston, MA 02111<br />
617.951.0010 ext 531 fax 617.951.0016<br />
qsullivan@nefa.org<br />
THERESA SWEETLAND<br />
Intermedia Arts<br />
Executive Director<br />
2822 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55408<br />
(612) 874-2808 fax 612-871-6927<br />
theresa@intermediaarts.org<br />
ANYA TALBOT<br />
Tigertail Productions, Inc.<br />
Project Coordinator<br />
842 NW 9th Cour, Miami, FL 33136<br />
305 324 4337 fax 305 324 4337<br />
anya@tigertail.org<br />
VANESSA TAYLOR<br />
Limehouse Theatre<br />
Artistic Director<br />
1223A Kings Hwy, Dallas, TX 75208<br />
817-437-7407<br />
vanessamercadotaylor@gmail.com<br />
PAUL TERUEL<br />
Columbia College Chicago<br />
Director of Community Partnerships<br />
600 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605<br />
(312) 369-8871 fax 312.369-8015<br />
pteruel@colum.edu<br />
SAMUEL THOMPSON<br />
1190 West Northern Parkway, #804, Baltimore, MD<br />
21210<br />
210/385-7991<br />
samuelathompson@yahoo.com<br />
MORGAN THORSON<br />
Artist/Choreographer<br />
3112 10th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55407<br />
(612) 221-3416 fax 612 221-3416<br />
emorgant@earthlink.net<br />
PATRICIA TINAJERO<br />
Hola Hora Latina<br />
board member<br />
100 Gay Street suit 109, Knoxville, TN 37930<br />
865-363-0889<br />
tinajeromariapatricia@yahoo.com<br />
Quita is the new Program Manager for Theater at New England Foundation for the Arts and is managing a new<br />
initiative, the <strong>National</strong> Theater Pilot. She has had a many-layered career in nonprofits- arts-related and otherwise.<br />
She holds a BA and MA in Theatre from Knox College and SUNY Stony Brook, as well as a law degree from<br />
Wayne State University. Before law school, she worked as a stage manager in Chicago and later as an<br />
Administrative Assistant for a not-for-profit artist management office, creating contracts and managing booking<br />
and performing fees for musicians in the Great Lakes area. In 2006, she was accepted into Associated Grant<br />
Makers Diversity Fellowship where she became immersed in the intricacies of grant making, including presenting<br />
several arts-related grants to Trustees.<br />
Theresa Sweetland, Executive/Artistic Director of Intermedia Arts, is an experienced director, community<br />
organizer, youth worker and leader in the field of community cultural development. Her passion and know-how<br />
have brought together diverse sectors of the community, artists and developers, elders and teens, prisoners and<br />
poets, to build collaborations and partnerships that expand and enrich lives and build community. She holds a BA<br />
in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Minnesota and a Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning<br />
at The University of Minnesota Hubert H Humphrey School of Public Affairs with a concentration on community<br />
and economic development. Theresa is a Co-Founding Artistic Director of B-Girl Be, the world‟s first international<br />
women in hip hop summit<br />
Anya Talbot, currently the Project Coordinator for Tigertail, received her MA from the U of Miami in International<br />
Administration and her BA from New World School of the Arts/University of Florida in Miami (Magna Cum Laude).<br />
She has worked as the Public Policy Liaison for the Thomas Armour Youth Ballet, interned at the 92nd Street Y<br />
and Wingspan in NYC, studied ballet in Russia with the Bolshoi Ballet and currently teaches ballet in the Miami<br />
area. Anya is a member of the Steering Committee of the Arts Action Alliance; a member of the E-board,<br />
Educational Committee of the U of Miami Greater Miami Alumni Club and a member of the E-board of the Russian<br />
Round Table. She is fluent in Russian and French.<br />
Vanessa has an MFA in directing from Ohio University and is the Co-Artistic Director of Limehouse Theatre, which<br />
performed at the Prague Int'l Fringe Festival in 2008. For almost a decade she has created performances which<br />
create a dialogue about human rights and social justice, create spectacle with raw ingredients, and articulate a<br />
call for action To ensure that conversations are not separate from the practice, she has produced and directed<br />
performances that engage in a dialogue with local and international service organizations through support,<br />
awareness and advocacy. (Artivism). She is currently developing two projects in Dallas. Ni de Aqui ni de Alla<br />
focuses on the struggles of first generation immigrants. Neighbor/HOOD is an exploration of the North/South<br />
divide in Dallas.<br />
Since making his east coast debut at the 2006 New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Samuel<br />
Thompson continues to establish a multifaceted career as orchestral leader, recitalist, chamber musician, soloist<br />
and journalist. Hailed as a “musician‟s musician” by his colleagues and praised for the “skill and sensitivity”<br />
(Ambush Magazine) he brings to works of all musical periods, recent seasons have included performances<br />
received with great audience acclaim in Seattle, Toronto, New York, Chicago and throughout the southeastern<br />
United States. Samuel‟s ardent interest in other art forms has led to appearances with Carpetbag Theatre and<br />
Rajni Shah Theatre (London). His essays, interviews and program notes have been published both in Strings<br />
Magazine and at violinist.com.<br />
Morgan Thorson is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow in choreography. She regards dance-making as an occupation of<br />
necessity. Through her work, she recognizes a persistent intuitive drive to investigate dance as a purveyor of<br />
culturally, socially and perceptually relevant life experience. Her original works mix movement, light, sound and<br />
objects to create live performance for audiences; taking into consideration the site of the work, the representation<br />
of the body, the work of her collaborators and the history of the field. Morgan lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<br />
Patricia Tinajero is an assistant professor in the department of Art at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and<br />
the newest board member of Hola Hora Latina. Born in Quito-Ecuador Tinajero often uses her work to rise<br />
questions about cultural identity and social practices. Her focus and expertise involve performance, video, sound,<br />
and installation to examine ecological practices in art making that can be applied conceptually as well as<br />
practically. Tinajero has participated in many artist residencies, exhibitions and fellowships including the American<br />
Academy in Rome with an affiliated fellowship from the University of Tennessee. Her work has been exhibited at<br />
the Islip Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Center for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan; and<br />
others.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
VINCENT TORO<br />
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center<br />
Theater Arts Director<br />
1300 Guadalupe Street, San Antonio, TX 78207<br />
(210) 271-3151 fax 210-2713480<br />
vincentt@guadalupeculturalarts.org<br />
MARI TORRES<br />
Arts Council of Puerto Rico / La RED Member<br />
Director<br />
, ,<br />
(787) 721-3257<br />
marihutch@hotmail.com<br />
JOSE TORRES TAMA<br />
ArteFuturo Productions<br />
<strong>Performance</strong> Artist<br />
2426 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117<br />
(504) 232-2968<br />
jose@torrestama.com<br />
RORY TRAINOR<br />
Alverno Presents/Alverno College<br />
Logistics Manager<br />
P.O. Box 343922, Milwaukee, WI 53234-3922<br />
414-382-6151 fax 414-382-6354<br />
rory.trainor@alverno.edu<br />
ROSITA TRAN<br />
University of Texas at Arlington/UTA Dance<br />
Ensemble/Multitudes Dance Theatre<br />
300 w. 1st street, Arlington, TX Tarrant, TX 76016<br />
817-448-5519<br />
rosa.tran@mavs.uta.edu<br />
CRISTAL TRUSCOTT<br />
Progress Theatre<br />
Artistic Director/Playwright<br />
P.O. Box 444, Prairie View, TX 77446<br />
6462989059<br />
cristal@progresstheatre.com<br />
MAURICE TURNER<br />
Turner World Around Productions<br />
Artistic Director<br />
23710 Highway 18, Raymond, MS 39154<br />
(662) 312-5230<br />
mturner@turnerworldaround.org<br />
CARLTON TURNER<br />
Alternate ROOTS<br />
Executive Director<br />
1083 Austin Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307<br />
(404) 577-1079<br />
carlton@mugabee.com<br />
Vincent Toro is a poet, performer, playwright, and director from New York. His work has been staged at INTAR,<br />
The Point CDC, the Songs from Coconut Hill Festival of Latino Playwrights, the Urban Pop Theater Festival, the<br />
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and Repertorio Espanol, where he won 2nd prize in their 2009 Metlife Nuestras<br />
Voces Playwriting competition. Mr. Toro was also winner of the City of San Antonio‟s Best Director award for his<br />
staging of Topdog/Underdog by Suzan Lori-Parks, and was a finalist for the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize.<br />
Mari Torres is currently Executive Director of the Arts Council of Puerto Rico, a non profit organization founded in<br />
1993 with the purpose of promoting the arts and culture in Puerto Rico, through cultural, educational and<br />
international exchange activities. Since 1975, her professional development has been a combination of Business<br />
Administration and the Arts. She currently serves as a member of the <strong>Network</strong> of Cultural Promoters of Latin<br />
America and the Caribbean (LA RED), and the Permanent Fund for the Arts of the Puerto Rico Community<br />
Foundation. Ms. Torres was the consultant for the Programa de Las Américas of Arts International, a non profit<br />
organization based out of New York, exclusively dedicated to the artistic exchange in all disciplines and all regions<br />
of the world.<br />
José Torres-Tama is a writer, visual and performance artist who explores the underbelly of the North American<br />
Dream mythology. An NEA award recipient and Louisiana Theater Fellow, he received a 2010 Creation Fund from<br />
the NPN for ALIENS, IMMIGRANTS & OTHER EVILDOERS, a sci-fi Latino noir and multimedia solo exploring the<br />
criminalization of Latino immigrants in the U.S. American Theatre‟s March 2009 issue profiled his United Kingdom<br />
tour of his critically acclaimed post-Katrina solo titled The Cone of Uncertainty. In 2008, the Joan Mitchell<br />
Foundation in New York awarded him publication funds for his first art book, "New Orleans Free People of Color &<br />
Their Legacy," which documents his Ogden Museum of Southern Art exhibition of 19th century Creole pastel<br />
portraits. www.torrestama.com<br />
International Business Senior at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has danced with the UTA Dance<br />
Ensemble for four years.<br />
Cristal Chanelle Truscott (Artistic Director/Playwright) is founder of PROGRESS THEATRE. She has toured as an<br />
NPN Artist since 2001 when her premiere play, PEACHES, received an Creation Fund Grant. PEACHES is<br />
currently featured in the anthology "Plays from the Boom Box Galaxy: Theatre from the Hip Hop Generation"<br />
published by Theatre Communications Group. She is a graduate of the High School for the Performing & Visual<br />
Arts (Houston, TX) and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts programs in Drama and <strong>Performance</strong><br />
Studies, where she served as Assistnat Editor of TDR: The Drama Review. Cristal currently serves on the Board<br />
of Directors for the <strong>Network</strong> of Ensemble Theaters and is Assistant Professor and Director of the Theatre<br />
Department at Prairie View A&M UNiversity in Texas.<br />
Carlton Turner is the executive director of Alternate ROOTS, a 34 year-old southern based member service<br />
organization dedicated to supporting artists working in communities across the south. Carlton is also artistic<br />
director and co-founder, along with his brother Maurice Turner, of the performing group M.U.G.A.B.E.E. (Men<br />
Under Guidance Acting Before Early Extinction) a group composed of two brothers performing a theatrical blend<br />
of jazz, hip-hop, spoken word poetry and soul music. M.U.G.A.B.E.E. is currently working with Mondo Bizarro to<br />
create a multi-year performance project on issues of race and racism in the United States.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
BENJAMIN TURNER<br />
The Living Word Project<br />
Performer/Creator<br />
169 Pescara Blvd., Brentwood, CA 94513<br />
415 685 9897<br />
bturner1116@gmail.com<br />
MICHAEL TURNER<br />
The Living Word Project<br />
Performer/Creator<br />
420 Gateway Drive, Unit 1, Pacifica, CA 94044<br />
650 393 3487<br />
micboombiyay@gmail.com<br />
SCOTT TURNER SCHOFIELD<br />
VSA Arts of Alaska/Out North<br />
Artistic Director<br />
3800 DeBarr Road, Anchorage, AK 99508<br />
(907) 279-8099 fax (907) 279-8100<br />
scott@outnorth.org<br />
MARK VALDEZ<br />
<strong>Network</strong> of Ensemble Theaters<br />
<strong>National</strong> Coordinator<br />
1709 N. Avenue 56, Los Angeles, CA 90042<br />
323-255-2124<br />
markvaldez@yahoo.com<br />
KINAN VALDEZ<br />
El Teatro Campesino<br />
Producing Artistic Director<br />
705 Fourth Street, San Juan Bautista, CA 95045<br />
(831) 623-2444 fax (831)623-4127<br />
valdezteatro@gmail.com<br />
SAMUEL VALDEZ<br />
Theater Director/Playwrite<br />
1033 51st. St., San Diego, CA 92114<br />
619-892-3179<br />
saamul2003@yahoo.com<br />
ALICE E. VALDEZ<br />
MECA/Multi-Cultural Education and Counseling<br />
through the Arts<br />
Founder/Executive Director/Artistic Director<br />
1900 Kane St., Houston, TX 77007<br />
(713) 802-9370 fax (713) 802-9403<br />
alicevaldez@yahoo.com<br />
MORGAN VON PRELLE PECELLI<br />
<strong>Performance</strong> Space 122<br />
Development Director<br />
150 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009<br />
(212) 477-5829 x307<br />
morgan@ps122.org<br />
Hailing from the Bay Area, 'Halo' Benjamin Turner (Performer) is a well-known poet/spoken word artist, writer,<br />
lyricist, actor and dancer who placed as a finalist two consecutive years in the Youth Speaks Bay Area-wide<br />
poetry slam. In 2008, Benjamin competed with San Francisco team at the Brave New Voices International Poetry<br />
slam in Washington DC , helping win the team Honorable Mention at the festival. He later went on to compete the<br />
following year in Chicago, reaching final stage and becoming one of the top internationally ranked poets.<br />
Benjamin has performed in several venues throughout the nation including, but not limited to, The San Francisco<br />
Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Opera House, and the Chicago Theater.<br />
Michael Wayne Turner III, better known as MyKeyRoc, is a poet, musician, actor, model, and classically trained<br />
dancer. Originally from Houston, Texas, MyKeyRoc has lived in New York, Los Angeles, and now the Bay Area.<br />
He was a finalists in the 2009 Youth Speaks Bay Area Teen Poetry Slam and went on to represent the Bay Area<br />
at the Brave New Voices International Teen Poetry Slam Festival in Chicago, IL. His poetry has also been<br />
featured on/at tour through California and the entire southern region of the united states ...... His most recent<br />
works includes a music, and spoken word mixtape with phresh pham .He has also been featured at many<br />
universities such as USC, UCLA, Standford, TSU, WKU,UK, MTSU and Columbia College of Chicago.<br />
Scott Turner Schofield transitioned from NPN Artist to NPN Partner this year when he accepted a job as the<br />
Executive and Artistic Director of Out North Contemporary Art House in Anchorage AK (previously VSA Alaska at<br />
Out North). The process of installing a working artist in an administrative position was facilitated by Tim Miller.<br />
Schofield's passion for socially-engaged art and vision for community engagement for a stronger art market is<br />
now transmitted via performance, film, visual art, and music through Out North's mission: Art for Everyone, No<br />
Exceptions. See www.outnorth.org to see how. He continues to tour his solo performance work internationally:<br />
www.undergroundtransit.com<br />
Mark Valdez is the <strong>National</strong> Coordinator for the <strong>Network</strong> of Ensemble Theaters, a coalition of U.S. ensemblebased<br />
theater companies. He is a director and educator based in Los Angeles. Prior to joining NET, Mark<br />
served as the Associate Artistic Director for Cornerstone Theater Company. He has directed across the country,<br />
led various workshops and has participated in numerous panels.<br />
Alice Valdez is a graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso & certified to teach instrumental music all grade<br />
levels. She performs as a freelance instrumentalist on oboe, flute, and guitar. She is the founder of MECA & has<br />
been responsible for the administration of MECA, serves as the artistic director, liaisons with representatives of<br />
community-based organizations, and advocates for artists & arts organizations of color.Alice has directed 10<br />
major public mural projects in Houston, Texas and supervises 35 admin and arts staff for In School, After School,<br />
Summer Arts Programs for children to adults and senior participants. MECA also provides the Cullen Trust for the<br />
Performing Arts and Residency series which is an integral connection to our <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
partnership.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
HUONG VU<br />
Boeing Company<br />
Community Investor, Arts & Culture<br />
Global Corporate Citizenship, Pacific NW Region<br />
PO Box 3707, M/S 17-MP, Seattle, WA 98124-2207<br />
206-304-4313<br />
huong.vu@boeing.com<br />
GAYLE WADEN<br />
11881 GULF POINTE DRIVE #M36, HOUSTON, TX<br />
77089<br />
713.703.4187 fax 281.484.4450<br />
gwaden@yahoo.com<br />
SIXTO A. WAGAN<br />
DiverseWorks Artspace<br />
Co-Executive Director<br />
1117 East Freeway, Houston, TX 77002<br />
(713) 223-8346 fax 7132234608<br />
sixto@diverseworks.org<br />
ALLISON WARDEN<br />
Uyalunaq Productions<br />
CEO<br />
410 West 15th Ave. Apt. B, Anchorage, AK 99501<br />
(907) 242-4663<br />
allisonwarden@gmail.com<br />
THÉRÈSE WEGMANN<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
Operations & Data Specialist<br />
P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156<br />
(504) 595-8008 fax (504) 595-8006<br />
therese@npnweb.org<br />
MK WEGMANN<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
President/CEO<br />
P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156<br />
504.595.8008 ext 205 fax 504 595 8006<br />
mkw@npnweb.org<br />
DAVID WHITE<br />
ARTVENTURES NH (Crotched Mountain Fdn)<br />
Executive Director/Producer<br />
474 Crowell Road, Hopkinton, NH 03229<br />
603-224-5957<br />
drw.artventures@gmail.com<br />
ASHLEY WILKERSON<br />
Performing Artist: Actress, Writer<br />
7110 San Mateo Blvd #325, Dallas, TX 75223<br />
212-363-0236<br />
artloveashley@gmail.com<br />
Currently a consultant with over twenty-five years experience in the areas of non-profit administrative and program<br />
management of community-based social and arts organizations. NPN board member from 1998-2002.<br />
Allison Warden (AKU-MATU) is an Iñupiaq Eskimo interdisciplinary performance artist and rapper who lives in<br />
Anchorage, Alaska. She raps under the name AKU-MATU, and most recently performed a rap concert at the<br />
Department of Ethnomusicology at Columbia University in New York City on October 1st, 2010. Her one-woman<br />
show, "Ode to the Polar Bear" was showcased at the NPN 2008 conference in Seattle, and is in the process of<br />
being re-worked into a longer piece. It focuses on the fight of Indigenous People against multi-billion dollar<br />
corporations, global warming and the fate of Alaska's polar bear. In November of 2008, she performed a small<br />
role in Guillermo Gómez-Peña's and James Luna's piece, "La Nostalgia Re-Mix: Hits and Outtakes for an<br />
Imaginary Bar", at Out North Theatre.<br />
will submit later<br />
MK Wegmann, President & CEO, NPN, has 30 years experience in organizational development and artists'<br />
services. From 1978-1991 she was Associate Director for the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, and<br />
from 1993-1999 as Managing Director of Junebug Productions theatre company. Wegmann serves on Boards of<br />
Directors for NPN, Junebug Productions, Performing Arts Alliance (PAA) and the Cultural Alliance of New<br />
Orleans. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spring Hill College and a Master of Arts degree from Louisiana<br />
State University of New Orleans.<br />
David R. White is the Director of ARTVENTURES New Hampshire (AVNH), a statewide program of the Crotched<br />
Mountain Foundation (CMF), an educational, therapeutic and human services organization based in Greenfield,<br />
NH. From 1975 through 2003, he served as Executive Director and Producer of New York's Dance Theater<br />
Workshop (DTW), an internationally acclaimed incubator and producer of emerging dance and other performing<br />
artists. In 1984, he founded the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong>, and directed it for 15 years under DTW until its<br />
spinoff as an independent organization. He also designed the pioneering international Suitcase Fund and New<br />
York's Bessie Awards. He currently chairs the <strong>National</strong> (Artist) Council of Florida's Atlantic Center for the Arts, an<br />
artist retreat and teaching community.<br />
Performing Artist<br />
Actress, Writer, Lover of Life<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
HELANIUS WILKINS<br />
EDGEWORKS Dance Theater<br />
Founder/Artistic Director/Choreographer<br />
P.O. Box 73396, Washington, DC 20056-3396<br />
(202) 483-0606 fax (202) 483-0555<br />
helanius@hjwedgeworks.org<br />
WILL WILKINS<br />
Real Art Ways<br />
Executive Director<br />
56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 06106<br />
(860) 232-1006 fax (860) 233-6691<br />
wwilkins@realartways.org<br />
C. BRIAN WILLIAMS<br />
Step Afrika<br />
ED<br />
1333 H Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002<br />
202-399-7993 ext 102 fax 202-399-6761<br />
founder@stepafrika.org<br />
TAMARA WILLIAMS<br />
AbsolutelyBlooming!<br />
2240 lawndale dr, DALLAS, TX 75211<br />
940-300-0910<br />
tamarakady@yahoo.com<br />
KRISTINA WONG<br />
1478 Westerly Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90026<br />
(310) 435-4817<br />
k@kristinasherylwong.com<br />
E. SAN SAN WONG<br />
San Francisco Arts Commission<br />
Program Director, Cultural Equity Grants Program<br />
25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 240, San Francisco, CA<br />
94102<br />
415.252.2590<br />
sansan.wong@sfgov.org<br />
ANDREW WOOD<br />
San Francisco International Arts Festival<br />
Executive Director<br />
870 Market Street, Suite 1256, San Francisco, CA<br />
94102<br />
415-399-9554 fax 415-297-5703<br />
andrew@sfiaf.org<br />
SAYA WOOLFALK<br />
323 W 39th Street<br />
Studio 406, NY, NY 10018<br />
6466735004<br />
sayawoolfalk@mac.com<br />
Helanius J. Wilkins is a choreographer, peformance artist, and teacher based in Washington, DC. He is the<br />
Founder and Artistic Director of EDGEWORKS Dance Theater - DC based all male contemporary dance company<br />
of predominately African-American men. www.hjwEdgeworks.org<br />
Will K. Wilkins is Executive Director of Real Art Ways, in Hartford, Connecticut. Real Art Ways supports artists,<br />
encourages innovation and builds community, through visual arts exhibitions, public art projects, nightly cinema<br />
screenings, performing arts, education, and innovative social events. More info at www.realartways.org<br />
C. Brian Williams is the founder and executive director of Step Afrika!, the first professional company in the world<br />
dedicated t the tradition of stepping.<br />
Kristina‟s last show Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo‟s Nest has toured the country the last four years in over 50<br />
engagements and is now available as a broadcast quality concert film (more at www.flyingwong.com). Most<br />
recently Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo‟s Nest was the kick-off event at the REDCAT for the <strong>National</strong> Endowment<br />
for the Arts, Arts Journalism Institute. She is the recipient of awards from Creative Capital, MAPFUND, two<br />
Creation Funds from the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong>, three grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation,<br />
three Durfee ARC Grants, and four Artist-in-Residence Awards from the City of Los Angeles Department of<br />
Cultural Affairs. She‟s received residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the<br />
Hermitage in Englewood, FL. www.kristinawong.com<br />
For more than 20 years, San San has been dedicated to helping artists create work, and to strengthening support<br />
systems for independent artists, arts organizations and networks primarily in the United States and the Asia-<br />
Pacific region. Her current world-wide studies/fascinations include the impact of changing demographics and<br />
increased globalism on contemporary artmaking and culture, and developing effective, culturally competent<br />
capacity building strategies that strengthen organic artistic and community practices. Since 2007, San San has<br />
been the Director of Grants at the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has an international consulting practice,<br />
was the Executive Director of the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong>, and has held leadership positions at Theater<br />
Artaud, among others.<br />
Andrew Wood is the founder of the San Francisco International Arts Festival, which coordinates multiple Bay Area<br />
non-profit organizations and artists to produce an annual series of events that comprise the Festival. SFIAF both<br />
commissions and produces new work by local artists engaged in international projects and presents the existing<br />
repertoire of ensembles from around the world (with many of them making their U.S. debuts at SFIAF). Each<br />
Festival takes three years to plan and implement. Since conceiving the idea of SFIAF in January 2001, Andrew<br />
has had the good fortune to work with many world class international artists and their equally brilliant local<br />
counterparts to present their projects on the Festival‟s stages. A native of London, Andrew has lived in San<br />
Francisco for 20 years.<br />
Saya Woolfalk is a New York artist who re-imagines the world in multiple dimensions (sculpture, installation,<br />
painting, performance and video). She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA; Deitch Projects; Contemporary Art Museum,<br />
Houston; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Studio Museum<br />
in Harlem; Momenta Art; Performa09; and has been written about on Art21's blog. With funding from the NEA, her<br />
solo exhibition The Institute of Empathy, opened at Real Art Ways in the fall of 2010.<br />
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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
ALEXANDRIA YALJ<br />
Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, Inc.<br />
Manging Director<br />
343 Laveta Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90026<br />
213 250 7500 fax 213 250 7500<br />
tsarina.rgww@gmail.com<br />
NEJLA YATKIN<br />
NY2Dance<br />
Artistic Director/Choreographer<br />
158-18 Riverside Drive West<br />
Apt: 3F-50, New York, NY 10030<br />
202-210-8247<br />
nejlayatkin@mac.com<br />
SHAY YOUNGBLOOD<br />
Youngblood Arts<br />
624 W. University Drive, Suite 228, Denton, TX 76201<br />
940-382-0183<br />
youngbloodarts@gmail.com<br />
BROOK YUNG<br />
The Living Word Project<br />
Performer/Creator<br />
355 Franklin Ave, Apt 1L, Brooklyn, NY 11238<br />
646 492 9988<br />
brookyung@gmail.com<br />
PAUL ZALOOM<br />
Puppeteer<br />
733 Westmount Drive, West Hollywood, CA 90069<br />
(310) 652-1963<br />
zaloom@pacbell.net<br />
MIMI ZARSKY<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
Senior Program Specialist - Convenings<br />
P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156<br />
(504) 595-8008 fax (504) 595-8006<br />
mzarsky@npnweb.org<br />
Alexandria Yalj- Managing director of Rosanna Gamson/ World Wide. Holds an MFA in dance and choreography<br />
from the California Institute of the Arts. Residing in Los Angeles continues to perform and assist in activating the<br />
longevity of art making thru dance.<br />
Nejla Y. Yatkin was awarded a 2009 Special Project Grant by the Princess Grace Foundation in New York and is<br />
a 2008 Princess Grace Choreography fellow,. She was named by Dance Magazine as one of "Top 25 to Watch in<br />
2005" and "Outstanding Emerging Artist" by the D.C. Mayor's Arts Award Committee 2006. This award-winning<br />
and internationally acclaimed choreographer and dancer graduated with a professional concert dance degree<br />
from Die Etage - a Professional Performing Arts Department in Berlin, Germany. Ms. Yatkin is currently<br />
commuting between New York, Chicago and Washington, DC pursuing her solo career: dancing, choreographing<br />
and giving workshops at international and national festivals. For more information visit www.ny2dance.com<br />
Shay Youngblood is a novelist, playwright, essayist and visual artist. She is author of a collection of short stories,<br />
The Big Mama Stories, the plays Shaking the Mess Out of Misery, Amazing Grace and Talking Bones and the<br />
novels, Soul Kiss and Black Girl in Paris. Recently she was awarded a 2011 US/Japan Creative Artists Fellowship<br />
and is an artist board member of Yaddo artists colony. She has taught in the Graduate Creative Writing Program<br />
at New York University, and was Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi and Texas A&M. She<br />
teaches Creative Writing and Book Making Workshops for writers and visual artists.<br />
Though internationally known as the next face of the hip hop world, B. Yung has recently become a familiar face<br />
in the American Spoken word community. In the year 2006, he was offered a slot in "LA's Def Poetry Allstar show"<br />
by Stan Lathan, and after excepting, began a very successful career at his new found craft. In 2008, while still<br />
keeping a pulse on the local and international Hip Hop community, B. Yung starred in the Russell Simmons HBO<br />
documentary "Brave New Voices" ranking 2nd in the Nation with NYC's YouthSlam team at the Brave New Voices<br />
<strong>National</strong> Competition. He also ranked 1st place in Robert Redford Speak Green Competition that was held at the<br />
world renown Kennedy Center in Washington D.C which earned him a chance to perform at the 2009 Sundance<br />
Film Festival.<br />
PAUL ZALOOM: writer, designer and performer; 14 solo puppet spectacles (THE FRUIT OF ZALOOM,<br />
ZALOOMINATIOINS, THE MOTHER OF ALL ENEMIES, WHITE LIKE ME, etc.) Awards: OBIE, BESSIE,<br />
American Theater Wing design award, L.A. Weekly Theater Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, three UNIMA<br />
Awards for Excellence in Puppetry. And: Zaloom plays wacked-out, weirdo scientist Beakman on the science<br />
education cult TV classic, BEAKMAN'S WORLD. Current work: WHITE LIKE ME: 2 parts: a toy theater puppet<br />
show with video projection (“The Adventures of White-Man”); and a psychological battle with an evil ventriloquist<br />
dummy. BEAKMAN ON THE BRAIN: a live stage show about neuroscience for children and families.<br />
NPN's 25th Anniversary marks the 10th Annual Meeting that Mimi has been involved with. A part of the NPN<br />
crew since 2001, she's been designing, editing and producing materials and events for nonprofit arts<br />
organizations since 1987. Clients have included the <strong>National</strong> Alliance for Media Arts & Culture, The San<br />
Francisco Foundation, Crossroads Project for Art, Learning & Community, and the Maggie Allesee <strong>National</strong><br />
Center for Choreography. She holds a B.A. in Folklore from University of Pennsylvania and is a professional<br />
potter.<br />
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