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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES AMINA SANCHEZ Skirball Cultural Center Associate Director of Programs 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049- 6833 310-440-4644 fax 310-440-4695 amina@skirball.org GERARDO SANCHEZ Oak Cliff Cultural Center Program Coordinator 223 W Jefferson Avenue, Dallas, TX 75208 214.670.3777 gerardo.sanchez@dallascityhall.com CHARLES SANTOS TITAS - Extraordinary Dance and Music Executive Director/Artistic Director 2100 Ross Avenue Suite 650, Dallas, TX 75201 214.978.2852 csantos@titas.org OVA SAOPENG TeAda Productions Associate Producer 522 Wilshire Blvd Suite H, Santa Monica, CA 90401 3104351810 ovationx@gmail.com STEVEN SAPP UNIVERSES Theater Company, Inc. President/Artistic Director 2038 Cicero Avenue #1, Bronx, NY 10473 917-549-6106 ucitytheater@aol.com ROELL SCHMIDT Links Hall Director 3435 North Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657 (773) 281-0824 fax (773) 281-1915 rschmidt@linkshall.org MATHEW SCHWARZMAN Crossroads Institute Project Director 2514 Dauphine St., New Orleans, LA 70117 504 858-1855 fax 5046177117 schwarzman@xroadsinstitute.org JAMES SCRUGGS Performing Artist 145 6th Avenue, Front 1, New York, NY 10013-1548 (212) 647-0202 x. 320 digitalgriot@hotmail.com Ova Saopeng is an actor and writer from Los Angeles, he was born in Savannakhet, Laos and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a TeAda Productions Assciate Producer, Teaching Artist and co-creator of "Refugee Nation" a play about the Lao-American experience, based on the stories Lao communities across the U.S. (www.refugeenation.com). He received his B.A. in Theater from the University of Southern California and since then has performed nationally with theater companies including the Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis, Mark Taper Forum/P.L.A.Y., East West Players, and hereandnow. He is a member of We Tell Stories and Water's Edge Theater children's theater companies. STEVEN SAPP Founding member of UNIVERSES Poetic Musical Theater Ensemble; Playwright/Acting credits include:AMERIVILLE, THE DENVER PROJECT, ONE SHOT IN LOTUS POSITION (part of The War Anthology), BLUE SUITE, RHYTHMICITY, and SLANGUAGE. Direction credits include:THE RIDE, THE ARCHITECTURE OF LOSS (Assistant Director to Chay Yew); Will Powers‟ THE SEVEN; Alfred Jarry‟s UBU: ENCHAINED (Teatre Polski, Poland). Awards/Affiliations: 2008 Jazz@Lincoln Center Rhythm Road Tour, TCG Peter Zeisler Award (2008), TCG National Directors Award (2002), TCG National Theater Artist Residency Program Award (2002- 2004 and 1999-2001), BRIO Awards (1998 and 2002), and the Van Lier Fellow w/ New Dramatists. He is a co- Founder of THE POINT Publications: UNIVERSES/THE BIG BANG (Fall 2010) TCG Books, among others. Roell Schmidt is the Director of Links Hall, Chicago‟s home for independent dance and performance arts. She has sixteen years experience in arts administration at SCT Productions, The Chicago Chamber Musicians and Lookingglass Theatre Company where she served as the Director of Marketing, Development and Artistic Administration (happily never all three simultaneously). She worked in the art department on six features including Zeinabu Irene Davis‟ Independent Spirit Award-nominated Compensation. Concurrently she has maintained her writing practice and in 2009 directed and self-produced her cineplay The Rotogravure. She was a 2008 Ragdale Resident Artist. Mat Schwarzman is director of Crossroads Institute for Art, Learning and Community; and a practitioner, student, instructor and writer in the field of community-based arts since 1985. He is a veteran presenter, facilitator and workshop leader in meetings, universities and communities across the country. Schwarzman holds a doctorate in Learning & Change in Human Systems from the California Institute for Integral Studies, and has helped established instructional programs in community organizations, high schools and universities across the country. He is co-author with cartoonist Keith Knight of the popular graphic textbook "Beginner‟s Guide to Community- Based Arts" (New Village Press, 2005). Attendees • Page 34 of 42
NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES CALVIN SEXTON Inner City All-Stars Artistic Director, Musical Director, Performer 4041 W. Wheatland Rd., Ste. 156-143, Dallas, TX 75237 972-360-8225 calvin@innercityallstars.com REBECCA SHEAHAN 651 ARTS Marketing Director 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 718-230-2528 fax 718-636-4166 rsheahan@651arts.org LINDA SHEARER Project Row Houses Executive Director P. O. Box 1011, Houston, TX 77251-1011 713 526 7662 fax 713 526 1623 lshearer@projectrowhouses.org KATE SHEERIN CentralTrak, The University of Texas at Dallas Artists Residency Director 800 Exposition Avenue, Dallas, TX 75226 214-824-9302 kate_sheerin@hotmail.com S.T. SHIMI Jump-Start Performance Co. Artistic Director ( Company Programming) 108 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204 (210) 227-5867 fax 210-222-2231 shimi@jump-start.org BETH SHIPPERT-MYERS Contemporary Arts Center Performing Arts Manager 900 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 (504) 528-3805 fax 504.528.3828 bshippertmyers@cacno.org PHYLLIS SLATTERY Dance Umbrella Executive Director P.O. Box 1323, Austin, TX 78767 (512) 450-0456 fax n/a phyllis@danceumbrella.com NICK SLIE Mondo Bizarro Co-Artistic Director 6100 Canal Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70130 225-571-2929 info@mondobizarro.org Calvin Sexton is the founding member and band leader of the Dallas based brass/jazz ensemble, Inner City All Stars, which His talents includes arranging and composing music, booking and managing the band, and being a high energy front man for the band. Mr. Sexton is also an alumni of the University of North Texas where he earned his bachelors degree in Music Performance in 2003.His ensemble performed on Showtime at the Apollo, Toured Japan and Guam, and won "Best Band" for the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities. They also won Juried showcases at 2010 Western Arts Alliance and Performing Arts Exchange. They are also roster artist of the Texas Commission of the Arts and Mid America Arts Alliances Roster. Calvin is a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Eagle Scout,& swimmer. S.T.Shimi is the Artistic Director of Jump-Start Performance Co., a San Antonio-based theatre company focused on cutting-edge, original work. She is also an arts educator who specialises in long-term, multi-disciplinary projects with a socially conscious edge.Shimi is also a performance artist. She creates solo & collaborative theatre, gets in the spin with her hoop, climbs silks and other vertical equipment, belly-dances, performs burlesque and in general gets down to a banging beat. Nick Slie lives, fights and works on the disappearing wetlands of coastal Louisiana. He is Co-Founder and Co- Artistic Director of the New Orleans based performance collective Mondo Bizarro. Nick‟s performance work ranges from physical theater to multi-disciplinary solo work, from digital storytelling to collaborative ensemble productions. He creates original works of performance that are rooted in a particular sense-of-place reflecting the needs, desires, memories and possibilities of the community from which it is born. Nick currently serves as board president for the Network of Ensemble Theaters. Attendees • Page 35 of 42
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