National Performance Network's 2012 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia

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National Performance Network's 

2012 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia 

Attendees 

Last updated: Thursday, December 13, 2012 

MANUEL ACEVEDO 

Visual Artist 

4333 46th Street, Apt. F9, Sunnyside, NY 11104 

phone 973 207.0954 

m.acevedo@rcn.com 

Manuel Acevedo is a Bronx, NY-based multidisciplinary artist whose work highlights the 

transformation of urban spaces. He was a 2012 resident artist in LMCC's Arts Center at Governors 

Island and Round 36 at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX. His solo exhibitions include 2011 Made 

and Unmade at Cuchifritos in NYC, 2010's critically acclaimed Keys of Light presented at the Bronx 

River Art Center (BRAC) in NY and the Latino Cultural Center (LCC) in Dallas, TX. Acevedo's 

awards include the 2012 Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO), Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and 

Mid-Atlantic Foundation's Artist as Catalysts Award. Mr. Acevedo works with urban youth as an artist 

educator in collaboration with BRAC, Rutgers University, and Museum of Arts and Design. 

CHRIS AIKEN 

Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser 

Ursinus College P.O. Box 1000, Collegeville, PA 19426 

phone (610) 425-7672 fax 6104257672 

caiken@smith.edu 

Chris Aiken is a leading international teacher and performer of dance improvisation and contact 

improvisation. His work has evolved through years of making dance performances which bridge 

real-time composition, perceptual tuning and aesthetic design. His perceptually based approach blends 

the ecological study of human beings and their environments with an effort to study the poetic 

imagination from a diverse range of aesthetic and cultural viewpoints. He calls this an eco-poetic 

approach to dance. He has won numerous awards for his work including a Guggenheim Fellowship and 

is an assistant professor of dance at Smith College and the Five College Dance Department in 

Northampton, MA. He will premiere "Utopia Parkway" an evening-length work with Angie Hauser in 

2012.

ANA MARIA ALVAREZ 

Contra Tiempo 

Artistic Director 

246 West 38th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10018 

phone 212-278-8111 x 313 fax 8668475956 

anamariaalvarezct@gmail.com 


Ana Maria Alvarez is a Cuban-American choreographer raised in the Southern United States. Alvarez 

studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts and has trained with the Urban Bush Women, 

Cutumba, Narcisco Medina, Dr. Elenor Gwynn, Katherine Dunham, Vic Marks and David Rousseve 

among others. After receiving a BA in Dance and Politics from Oberlin College, Alvarez moved to 

Brooklyn, NY. Several years alter Alvarez received her MFA in Choreography from UCLA's 

Department of World Arts and Cultures, and she founded CONTRA-TIEMPO Urban Latin Dance 

Theater in 2005. The company's Urban Latin Dance Theater brings to life voices that are not 

traditionally heard on the concert stage. The company builds community, facilitates dialogue and 

moves youth to imagine what is possible in the world. 

JUAN AMADOR 

The Living Word Project 

Performer 

c/o 1663 Mission Street, Suite 604, San Francisco, CA 94103 

phone 925-325-5197 

wonwayposibul@gmail.com 

JUAN AMADOR A modern day renaissance man, all around b-boy and performer, Juan's artistic 

resume includes emcee freestyle champion, DJ, educator, radio host of Thinkbeat Radio on KPFA and 

All Day Play FM, and actor. He began his theatrical career joining Pittsburg, California's Teatro 

L.O.C.O.S while still in high school. Other projects include work with La Peña's Hybrid Theater 

Ensemble, SF State's Playwriting program, Cutting Ball's Vanguardia showcase of experimental Latino 

playwrights, and "Who's Rhyme is it Anyway?" an improv theater troupe he created using freestyle rap 

as its focus. After years of various in house readings Juan finally hit the stage with Intersection for the 

Arts and Campo Santo with Block by Block and with Campo Santo/Living Word Project on Tree City 

Legends. 

MYRNA ANDERSON-FULLER 

Hammonds House Museum 

Executive Director 

503 Peeples St. SW, Atlanta, GA 30331

phone (404) 612-0481 fax (404) 752-8733 

fuller2@bellsouth.net 


Myrna Fuller holds a B.A. in psychology, with a minor in fine arts, from Talladega College, graduate 

credits from New York Institute of Technology and a degree in applied arts from the Art Institute of 

Atlanta. During her career with Eastern Airlines, Ms. Fuller managed a base of 2,000 flight attendants, 

was responsible for the 16 EAL Atlanta city ticket offices and conducted management training and 

development to middle and upper management. She served as interim managing director of the 

National Black Arts Festival, graphic designer and art director for Acuity, Inc., chief of staff to 

Commissioner Hightower, and owner of iView Graphics. She was a founding board member of 

Hammonds House Museum in 1988 and transitioned off of the board in May of 2004 to serve as the 

executive director. 

MEL ANDRINGA 

Legion Arts 

Producing Director 

1103 Third Street SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 

phone (319) 364-1580 fax 319.362.9156 

mel@legionarts.org 

ANNE H ARRASMITH 

Space One Eleven 

Founding Director 

2409 2nd Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203 

phone (205) 328-0553 fax (205) 254-6176 

annearrasmith@spaceoneeleven.org 

ANDREA ASSAF 

Art2Action, Inc. 

Founder & Artistic DirectorTampa, 

FL 

phone (413) 531-5042 

art2action@earthlink.net 

Andrea Assaf is a writer, performer, director & cultural organizer. She's the founding artistic director 

of Art2Action Inc., and a consultant with the Arts & Democracy Project. Formerly artistic director of 

New WORLD Theater (2004-09), and Program Associate for Animating Democracy (2001-04), she 

has a masters degree in performance studies from NYU. Recent awards include: FY11 NPN Creation 

Fund commission, 2010 Princess Grace Award for directing, 2007 Hedgebrook residency. She serves 

on the board of the Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists (CAATA), the executive


committee of Alternate ROOTS, and the management committee of Women Playwrights International 

(WPI), and is a member of RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers). 

STEPHANIE M. ATKINS 

National Performance Network / Visual Artists Network 

Resource Development Specialist 

PO Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156-6698 

phone 504.595.8008 ext 202 fax 504.595.8006 

stephanie@npnweb.org 

Stephanie Atkins has been involved with the arts for more than 24 years. Prior to working with NPN as 

Resource Development Specialist, she taught art education in the New Orleans public school system 

and held adjunct teaching positions at Xavier University of Louisiana and Southern University at New 

Orleans. She holds a B.A. in Visual Arts from Spelman College and a M.F.A. in Painting from 

University of Cincinnati. Her artwork focuses on investigating the histories and present stories that 

define the female existence. She works in the installation format and has exhibited in Dallas, New 

Orleans, Baton Rouge, Atlanta, Cincinnati and Lexington, KY. 

ESTEVAN AZCONA 

MECA/Multi-Cultural Education and Counseling through the Arts 

Music Director/Performance Series Director 

1900 Kane Street, Houston, TX 77007 

phone (713) 802-9370 fax 713-802-9403 

estevan@meca-houston.org 

Estevan Azcona is Performance Series Director and Music Director at Multicultural Education and 

Counseling through the Arts (MECA), working in MECA's Performance/Residency program and 

AfterSchool Arts program since 2010. Azcona currently also serves on NPN's Performing Americas 

curators team. He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from University of Texas and teaches and writes 

on Chicano/Latino music culture. 

MELVIGN BADIOLA 


Stage Manager 


phone 415-691-5045 

melvignbadiola@yahoo.com


MELVIGN BADIOLA got his start in theater with Bindlestiff Studio working in the tech booth for 

Stories High 9. Then followed Fob Show:TNT, Stories High X, PMSTA's Love At The Time of Breast 

Cancer, and KulArts' Lawigan. He first popped his acting cherry during The Bakla Show. He's acted in 

numerous productions with Bindlestiff including, The Love Edition 2: Turned On, Bakla Show 1 & 2, 

Good Friday, & Stories High XI & XII, also for Guerilla Rep's The Oddman Family Christwanzuhkah 

Spectacular at Exit Stage Left. He's also part of Bindlestiff's sketch comedy troupe, Taste Better With, 

which performed in this year's SF SketchFest. His last project was a short film, Viewer Discretion 

Advised Tape 96 with Scary Cow Productions, premiered at the Castro Theater in 2011 winning 

numerous awards. 

STEVE BAILEY 


Chief Operating Officer 


phone (210) 227-5867 fax (504) 595-8006 

steve@npnweb.org 

Steve Bailey is the Chief Operating Officer at NPN. His immediate past position was Producing 

Director of Jump-Start Performance Co. in San Antonio, Texas. He was the founder and director of 

24th Street Experiment Theater Company, research coordinator for Theater Communications Group, 

and artist-in-residence with Teatro del Sol in Lima, Peru. Over the past thirty years, Steve Bailey has 

created and/or directed over fifty original productions that have been presented across the U.S. and 

Latin America. He is an arts educator and has worked with numerous youth and adult groups in a 

variety of community settings. 

LETICIA ROSARIO BAJUYO 

Associate Professor of Art at Hanover College 

310 Broadway Street, Madison, IN 47250 

phone (812) 701-8832 

bajuyo@me.com 

NINA ELIZABETH BALL 

Lyrispect/Spoken Soul 215 The Harvest 

Self (performing artist)/Executive Producer 

1706 W. Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19130 

phone 2673207695 

lyrispectbookings@gmail.com


Nina 'Lyrispect' Ball is an award-winning writer, spoken-word artist, actress, emcee, who has shared 

stages with such talent as Mos Def, Raheem DeVaughn, Julius Garvey The Last Poets, Jaguar Wright, 

Saul Williams &more. She has been recognized by organizations such as the NAACP, U.S. Coast 

Guard and Temple University. She is the recipient of the 2005 Sonia Sanchez Women's Studies award 

and is a 2011 grantee of the Mural Arts Program Porch Light Initiative with Yale University and 

Project H.OME. Lyrispect's work has been featured on two murals (both North &South Philly) as well 

as at The Trumpet Awards, the Shero Awards, The PMA, Academy of Fine Art and more!. She is also 

a program facilitator BLACK GIRLS ROCK! INC and has been an invited guest of the The White 

House's 2011. 

TEEKA BALLAS 

Out North 

Operations Manager 

3800 Debarr Road, Anchorage, AK 99508 

phone 907-279-8099 fax 907-279-8100 

operations@outnorth.org 

Teeka Ballas started working as operations manager for Out North in February, 2012. An 

award-winning print, web and radio journalist, Teeka has traveled extensively and covered everything 

from hostile environments to outdoor recreation. She and a colleague started F Magazine, an 

Anchorage-based monthly arts and culture magazine, in 2009, and Teeka became the sole owner and 

publisher in 2010. The magazine hosts numerous statewide arts competitions like an annual art and 

writing competition for youth, and a music video competition. Ballas grew up surrounded by jazz 

musicians, painters, actors, dancers and writers, and earned her first degree in music composition and 

voice before studying journalism. 

MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH 

Youth Speaks, Inc./ The Living Word Project 

Artistic Director Emeritus 

290 Division St. #302, San Francisco, CA 94103 

phone (415) 255-9035 x17 

bamuthi@gmail.com 

ERIC BASS 

Sandglass Theater 

Artistic Director

PO Box 970, Putney, VT 05346 

phone (802) 387-4051 

eric@sandglasstheater.org 

NICK BAZO 

The Theater Offensive/OUT in Your Neighborhood 

Assistant Director of Programs 

565 Boylston Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02116 

phone 617-661-1600 

nick@thetheateroffensive.org 


Nick Bazo is the Assistant Director of Programs and Director of True Colors: OUT Youth Theater! at 

The Theater Offensive. His primary responsibility is to assist in the development and implementation 

of all artistic, community, and education programming. This includes identifying and working with 

national and local artists and teaching artists on performances, residencies, and workshops. He 

previously was Manager of School Programs at the Citi Performing Arts Center in Boston and he holds 

an MFA in Theater for Young Audiences from the University of Central Florida. 

ELISABETH BEAIRD 

Circuit Network 

Co-Director 

499 Alabama Street, #203, San Francisco, CA 94110 

phone (415) 863-2441 fax (415) 863-2160 

elisabethbeaird@hotmail.com 

Elisabeth Beaird has been co-director of Circuit Network, a San Francisco based non-profit artists' 

management and producing organization, since 2006. Circuit Network's current roster includes Culture 

Clash, Cyclecide Heavy Pedal Bicycle Rodeo, Felonious hip hop theater collective, John Leanos' 

Imperial Silence multi-media mariachi opera, James Luna, Ruben Martinez, Miya Masaoka, Navarrete 

x Kajiyama Dance Theater (NAKA), Kristina Wong, and Pamela Z. Circuit also serves as the fiscal 

sponsor and producer of the annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. Prior to her position with 

Circuit, Elisabeth was executive and administrative director of The Lab, an alternative arts space in San 

Francisco's Mission District, from 1996 to 2005. She holds a BBA from Loyola University, New 

Orleans. 

CAROL FRANCES BEBELLE 

Ashé Cultural Center/Efforts of Grace, Inc. 

Co-Founder/Executive Director 

1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70113

phone (504) 569-9070 fax 504-569-9075 

carol.bebelle@gmail.com 


Carol Bebelle (a.k.a. Akua Wambui), a life-long New Orleanian, spent 20 years in the public sector as 

an administrator/planner of education, social and health programs, then became an innovative private 

consultant to non-profits stressing the pivotal influence of culture and creativity in community 

development. A writer, poet and producer of many art and performance projects, she co-founded (with 

artist Douglas Redd) Efforts of Grace, Inc., a non-profit community cultural art organization, which 

runs the Ashé Cultural Arts Center on historic Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, dedicated to the saving 

and re-development of New Orleans' rich cultural, creative and community legacy. 

TAD BECK 

380 Broadway #2M, New York, NY 10013 

phone (323) 363-8601 

tad@tadbeck.com 

MADELINE BELL 

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts 

Programming Manager 

153 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 

phone (802) 652-4540 fax 802-863-8788 

mbell@flynncenter.org 

GRETCHEN JOAN BERG 

Portland Ovations 

Director of Ovations Offstage 

50 Monument Square 2nd floor, Portland, ME 04101 

phone 207.773.3150 

gberg@portlandovations.org 

TAYLOR BERGEN 

Legion Arts 

Program Associate 

1103 Third St SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 

phone 319.364.1580 fax 319.362.9156 

taylor@legionarts.org


Taylor G. Bergen is a Wisconsin native who graduated from Luther College, in Decorah, Iowa, in 2011 

with BA in Music. Currently, Taylor lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he has been a program 

associate with Legion Arts since January of 2012. 

SHANA BERGER 

The Coleman Center for the Arts 

Co-Director 

630 Avenue A, York, AL 36925 

phone 205-392-2005 

sberger@colemanarts.org 

ADAM BERNSTEIN 

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation 

Deputy Director, Programs 

201 N. Charles Street, Suite 401, Baltimore, MD 21201 

phone 410-539-6656 x114 fax 410-837-5517 

adam@midatlanticarts.org 

RON BERRY 

Fusebox Festival 


400 B. W. Alpine Rd, Austin, TX 78704 

phone (512) 569-6129 fax 9738679749 

ron@fuseboxfestival.com 

TYRONE BEVERLY 

RedLine 

Community Coordinator 

2350 Arapahoe Street, Denver, CO 80205 

phone 303 296-4448 

tyronebev@yahoo.com 

PHILIP CHARLES BITHER 

Walker Art Center 

Senior Curator 

1750 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403

phone (612) 375-7624 fax (612) 375-7575 

philip.bither@walkerart.org 

EMILY WARD BIVENS 

The Bridge Club 

Artist 

3205 Avondale Ave., Knoxville, TN 37917 

phone 865-776-8685 

ebivens@utk.edu 


I use performance, installation, sculpture, video, sound and web-based art to address issues of 

vulnerability, temporality, interactivity and the subversion of authorship. Aspects of my work are made 

to decompose during an exhibition, to entrap unwitting viewers in video surveillance and to question 

the truth in biographical fiction. In addition to my solo work, I work collaboratively with The Bridge 

Club, a contemporary visual and performance art collaborative consisting of artists Annie Strader, 

Christine Owen, Emily Bivens and Julie Wills. The Bridge Club's interdisciplinary installation, video, 

live performance and digital media works are site- and context- specific. Each work investigates 

specific local histories, populations, contexts, stereotypes, expectations and conflicts. 

DEBORAH BLIN 

San Francisco International Arts Festival 

The Flood Building 870 Market Street, Suite 1256, San Francisco, CA 94102 

phone 415-399-9554 fax 415-259-5703 

deborah@sfiaf.org 

In addition to her current role with the Festival, Deborah Blin has worked as the Box Office Manager 

and Marketing Assistant at Lorraine Hansberry Theater and also as a Development Assistant at 

CounterPULSE both in San Francisco. Prior to settling in the United States she worked as Arts 

Administrator and Touring Assistant for "la Charge du Rhinoceros," an established Belgian non-profit 

theater production institution in Brussels. in 2010 Deborah earned a Masters Degree in Comparative 

Literature/Theatre Arts with a minor in languages at the Sorbonne University (Paris III). 

JOHN BOESCHE 

Lucky Plush Productions 

Projection Designer 

301 Olmsted Road, Chicago, IL 60546 

phone 773-704-0242 

johnboesche@mac.com

MEREDITH BOGGIA 

New York Live Arts 

Producer 

219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 

phone (212) 691-6500 fax 2126331974 

mboggia@newyorklivearts.org 

CHRISTY BOLINGBROKE 

ODC Theater 

Associate Director 

351 Shotwell Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 

phone 415-863-6066, x301 

christy@odctheater.org 


Christy Bolingbroke is the Director of ODC Theater and is charged with its executive and artistic 

leadership. Prior to joining ODC, Christy was the Director of Marketing for the Mark Morris Dance 

Group. She is a former dancer, educator, Board President of the Dance Resource Center of Greater Los 

Angeles and a founding member of Emerging Leaders for New York Arts. Christy earned a BA in 

Dance from UCLA, is a graduate of the DeVos Institute for Arts Management Fellowship program, 

and is currently completing the certificate program at the Institute of Curatorial Practice in 

Performance at Wesleyan University. 

EDWARD BOURGEOIS 

Alaska Native Heritage Center 

Director of Public Programs 

8800 Heritage Center Drive, Anchorage, AK 99504 

phone 907-330-8000 

ebourgeois@alaskanative.net 

WILL THOMAS BOWLING 


Progam Assistant, National Programs 


phone (504) 595-8008 fax (504) 595-8006 

will@npnweb.org 

Will is a writer, performer and musician based in New Orleans, and is the co-artistic director of 

NOLA's Goat In The Road Productions (GRP). In addition to working with NPN, Will works as a


teaching artist in three New Orleans schools, and has taught theater and music arts integration for 

KIDsmART, and worked as the special projects manager for the New Orleans Contemporary Arts 

Center, an NPN Partner. 

MOIRA BRENNAN 

MAP Fund 

Program Director 

73 Spring Street Ste. 401, New York, NY 10012 

phone 212.226.1677 fax 212.226.7665 

moira@mapfund.org 

STANLYN BREVÉ 


Program Director, NPN National Programs 


phone (504) 595-8008 fax (504) 595-8006 

stanlyn@npnweb.org 

SHARON BRIDGFORTH 

2275 19th Ave Apt. 11, San Francisco, CA 94116 

phone (512) 689-2739 

sharon.bridgforth@gmail.com 

A resident playwright at New Dramatists, Sharon Bridgforth is recipient of The Theater Offensive 

2012 Out On The Edge Award. Pillsbury House Theatre received 2012 MAP Funding in support of her 

current project River See. River See is a 2012 National Performance Network Creation Fund Project 

co-commissioned by Links Hall, Living Arts of Tulsa, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Pillsbury House 

Theatre, The Theatre Offensive and NPN. Author of love conjure/blues and the Lambda Literary 

Award-winning the bull-jean stories, RedBone Press. Bridgforth is co-editor of Experiments in a Jazz 

Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project, University of Texas Press. 

HENRIËTTE JOHANNA BROUWERS 

Los Angeles Poverty Department 


P.O. Box 26190, Los Angeles, CA 90026 

phone 213 413 1077 fax (917) 656-1860 

henribro@dds.nl


Henriëtte Brouwers is a performer, teacher and director. She studied dance and theater in the 

Netherlands, corporeal mime and 'theater of the oppressed' in Paris. Henriette is the associate director 

of Los Angeles Poverty Department since 2000 and collaborator/ producer of RFKinEKY, a 

community-based re-enactment of Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 trip to investigate poverty in Appalachia. 

Brouwers developed the 'Weeping Women" performance series based on Mexican legends. She 

directed Pomona College students in 'Weeping Women and War,' 'La Llorona, Weeping Women on 

Skid Row' with LAPD, performed on Skid Row and at a national conference on women and poverty at 

Scripps College, and 'La Llorona, Weeping Women of Echo Park' with a group of Latino Women in 

Echo Park. 

DENISE M BROWN 

Leeway Foundation 


1315 Walnut Street suite 832, Philadelphia, PA 19107 

phone 215-545-4078 fax 215-545-4021 

denise@leeway.org 

Denise Brown is executive director of the Leeway Foundation, a Philadelphia-based arts funding 

organization whose mission states: "Leeway Foundation supports women and trans artists and cultural 

producers working in communities at the intersection of art, culture, and social change. Through our 

grantmaking and other programs we promote artistic expression that amplifies the voices of those on 

the margins, promotes sustainable and healthy communities, and works in the service of movements 

for economic and social justice." 

JAMIE J BRUNSON 

First Person Arts 


1 South Broad Street, 17th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107 

phone 267-402-2058 

jamiej@firstpersonarts.org 

ANN BRUSKY 

John Michael Kohler Arts Center 

Performing Arts Coordinator 

608 New York Ave., Sheboygan, WI 53081 

phone (920) 458-6144 fax (920) 458-4473 

abrusky@jmkac.org

REGIE CABICO 

916 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20001 

phone (917) 282-1923 

missbamboo@aol.com 


Regie Cabico is a poet and spoken word pioneer, having won the Nuyorican Poets Café Grand Slam in 

1993 and taking top prizes in the 1993, 1994 & 1997 National Poetry Slams. Television appearances 

include two seasons on HBO's Def Poetry Jam. His work appears in over 30 anthologies including 

"Spoken Word Revolution," "The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry" and he co-edited "Poetry Nation: 

A North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry." The Kenyon Review recently named Regie Cabico 

the "Lady Gaga of Poetry" and he has been listed in BUST magazine's 100 Men We Love. 

SUZANNE CALLAHAN 

Callahan Consulting for the Arts 

Founder 

1625 15th Street, NW, # 6, Washington, DC 20009 

phone (202) 955-8325 fax (202) 955-8324 

callahan@forthearts.org 

Suzanne Callahan founded Callahan Consulting for the Arts in 1996, which serves arts organizations 

and funders nationally through planning, fundraising, and evaluation. She worked with the NPN on its 

newly completed 2012 strategic plan. Her book "Singing Our Praises: Case Studies in the Art of 

Evaluation" featured NPN Partners and won a national award. She developed content for Impact Arts, 

AFTA's website offering evaluation tools for arts-social impact projects. Prior to that, she was Senior 

Specialist at the NEA, for choreographers, service organizations and presenters. The firm has 

conducted national studies on dance and/or technology for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The 

Joyce Theater, The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Chicago Community Trust. 

BEN CAMERON 

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation 

Program Director for the Arts 

Office of Grants Administration 650 Fifth Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10019 

phone (212) 974-7109 

bcameron@ddcf.org 

In 2006, Ben Cameron assumed his current position as program director for the arts at the Doris Duke 

Charitable Foundation in New York, NY. In that capacity, he supervises a $13 million grants program 

focusing on organizations and artists in the theatre, contemporary dance, jazz and presenting fields. 

Previously, he served for more than 8 years as the executive director of Theatre Communications


Group (TCG), the national service organization for the American nonprofit professional theater, 

significantly expanding its programs, membership base and grantmaking activities. Prior roles include 

his work as senior program officer at the Dayton Hudson Foundation, manager of community relations 

for Target Stores (supervising its grantmaking program) and four years at the National Endowment for 

the Arts. 

BENJAMIN CAMP 

Team Sunshine Performance Corporation 


1913 S 8th St, Philadelphia, PA 19148 

phone 6102208550 

benjaminmcamp@gmail.com 

Benjamin Camp is an actor/creator/teacher working in Philadelphia, and a co-founder of the 

Philadelphia based physical theater company Team Sunshine Performance Corporation. Benjamin has 

also had the pleasure of working with Pig Iron Theater Company, Shakespeare in Clark Park, and 

Theater Horizon, among others. Ben attended the London International School of Performing Arts 

(LISPA), a Lecoq style graduate program in ensemble created physical theater. He is a graduate of 

Swarthmore College, and additionally creates and executes programming for adults and children. 

NICHOLE CANUSO 

Nichole Canuso Dance Company 


913 Federal Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147 

phone (215) 413-9083 

ncanuso@comcast.net 

Nichole Canuso founded Nichole Canuso Dance Company (NCDC) in 2004. She was a company 

member of Headlong Dance Theater from 1997 - 2011, and also performed with Pig Iron Theater 

Company and Bill Irwin. Support for her work has come from the National Endowment for the Arts, 

the Independence Foundation, Dance Advance, and others. Presentation of her choreography includes 

Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), The International Festival for Art and Ideas, HERE arts Center and 

Movement Research Exchange. Choreographic residency support includes at Maggie Alessee National 

Center Choreography, Millay Colony for the Arts. Nichole is a 2011/2012 recipient of a Knight Arts 

Challenge grant for the creation of The Garden, an immersive performance event inspired by Italo 

Calvino's Invisible Cities. 

BRAD CARLIN 

Fusebox Festival

Managing Director 

400 B. W. Alpine Rd, Austin, TX 78704 

phone (512) 800-3066 

brad@fuseboxfestival.com 


Brad is the managing director of the Fusebox Festival, a contemporary art and performance festival in 

Austin, TX. He received a masters degree in arts management from Carnegie Mellon University and a 

B.A. in theatre from St. Edward's University. Brad has worked in management and fundraising for SITI 

Company (NYC), Salvage Vanguard Theatre (Austin), and the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (San 

Antonio). He is an alum of the Theatre Communications Group New Generations Fellowship, 

University of Texas LBJ School Strategic Management Program, and APAP Leadership Development 

Institute. 

CECE CARPIO 

La Peña Cultural Center 

Program Manager 

3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 

phone 510-849-2568 x11 fax 510-849-9397 

cece@lapena.org 

Cece Carpio is La Peña Cultural Center's program manager. Cece is also a visual artist that has 

produced and exhibited work in the Philippines, Fiji Islands, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, 

Italy, Norway and throughout the United States. She has previously been awarded the New York 

Foundation of the Art Immigrant Artist Fellowship, a teaching residency at Cafe R.E.D & La Botica 

Espacio Cultural at Xela, Guatemala, and is awarded an artist residency at KulArts in San Francisco. 

She guest lectured at New School in New York, California College of the Arts in Oakland, and has 

been commissioned to do work for UC Berkeley and Oakland Museum of California. 

MARIE CASIMIR 

Links Hall 

Communications Director 

3435 North Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657 

phone (773) 281-0824 fax 773.281.1915 

marie@linkshall.org 

ARMANDO RAMON CASTELLANO 

Quinteto Latino 

Founder/Director/French horn 

185 Seminary Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025

phone (650) 704-2949 fax 650-847-1085 

acastellano@quintetolatino.org 


Armando Castellano is a musician and bilingual arts advocate residing the San Francisco Bay Area. As 

a teaching artist, he has taught throughout the Bay area in both English and Spanish, from pre-school 

through college. As a French horn player he performs regularly in regional orchestras and spends much 

of his time performing chamber music with his ensemble, Quinteto Latino, a wind quintet that 

advocates for classical music by Latin American and Latino composers through performance and 

education Through his family's foundation, the Castellano Family Foundation, he has worked with 

Latino organizations throughout the Bay Area dealing with issues around education, family and the 

arts. 

TEO CASTELLANOS 

Teo Castellanos D-Projects 


P.O. Box 557845, Miami, FL 33255 

phone (786) 271-2076 

teocastellanos@me.com 

YOLANDA CESTA CURSACH 

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 

Associate Director, Performance Programs 

1640 E 50th Street, Apt 19A, Chicago, IL 60615 

phone (312) 397-3843 fax (312) 397-3893 

ycursach@mcachicago.org 

Yolanda programs dance, music, and theater for MCA, with a focus on creative residencies and 

partnerships for presentations and tours, and directs MCA's Artists Up Close series of artist-centered 

talks, workshops, and residencies. She serves NPN as past regional desk, International Program 

curator, and is honored to be a partner-elected board member. She is a Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary 

International's award for humanitarian work, and Judge of Election for Cook County. She is program 

ponsultant for Creative Capital and panelist for USArtists International, Wallace A. Gerbode 

Foundation, and US/Japan Creative Artists Program among others. She is founder of the League of 

Chicago Theaters Access Committee and chairs the Council for Bodies of Work, a festival of disability 

arts & culture. 

LEILANI C CHAN 

TeAda Productions 

Artistic Director

1653 18th St., Suite 2, Santa Monica, CA 90404 

phone (310) 210-5907 

urgr8la@gmail.com 


Leilani Chan recently received a partial commission from the Center for Cultural Innovation to create 

"Global Taxi Driver," a transnational community-based ensemble performance exploring immigration 

and mobility in the 21st century. She and her partner Ova Saopeng, are co-creators of "Refugee 

Nation," a nationally touring play about Laotian refugees in the U.S. which was commissioned through 

a MAP Fund and an NPN Creation Fund. Leilani is the Founding Artistic Director of TeAda 

Productions (www.teada.org). As member of the Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists, 

TeAda co-hosted the 3rd National Asian American Theater Conference & Festival in L.A. 

H.T. CHEN 

Chen Dance Center 


70 Mulberry Street, 2nd fl, New York, NY 10013 

phone (212) 349-0126 fax (212) 349-0494 

htchen@chendancecenter.org 

H.T. Chen is a leading choreographer acclaimed for his dynamic fusion of the spirited energy of 

American modern dance and the poise of traditional and contemporary Asian aesthetics. He has created 

and performed over 40 works in over 100 cities and festivals in the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, 

China, and Germany. As artistic director/founder of H.T. Chen & Dancers, he has created a body of 

work that gives poetic voice to Asians in America. H.T. is also founder/director of Chen Dance Center 

School and Theater in NYC. The Theater supports dance artists through commissions, showcase 

opportunities and space grants. 

NANCY CHEN 

Asian Arts Initiative 

Program Assistant 

1219 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107-1111 

phone (215) 557-0455 ext. 221 fax (215) 557-9531 

nancy.chen@asianartsinitiative.org 

Nancy Chen joined Asian Arts Initiative in March 2011 as Public Programs Assistant. She was born in 

Beijing, China, moved to the U.S. at age 6, and grew up in Lower Merion in the suburbs of 

Philadelphia. She received a B.A. with honors in English Language and Literature from the University 

of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. She also spent a rather formative year abroad in London, some of 

which involved studying literature and art history at University College London and a lot of which


involved exploring that great city ('all that mighty heart'!) and traveling throughout Europe. Outside of 

work, Nancy is particularly interested in bookmaking, drawing, and printmaking in various mediums 

(with particular fondness for intaglio/etching). 

SHERWOOD CHEN 

inkBoat 

351 Shotwell, San Francisco, CA 94110 

phone 4152441615 

sherwoodchen@gmail.com 

Sherwood Chen has worked as a performer with artists including Anna Halprin, Min Tanaka, Ko 

Murobushi, Marina Abramovic, Grisha Coleman/echo::systems, Oguri, Sara Shelton Mann and Do Hee 

Lee. He has been a contributing performer to Shinichi Iova-Koga's inkBoat since 2005. In 2009, he 

formed the dance collaborative Headmistress with choreographer Amara Tabor-Smith. Together they 

are artists-in-residence at ODC Theatre (2012-2015). Sherwood has worked with Body Weather 

Laboratory training, initiated by Tanaka, since 1993, and was a resident member of Tanaka's 

international performance collective Mai Juku in rural Japan in the 1990s. He creates solo and 

collaborative work in the US and abroad, and facilitates Body Weather Laboratory internationally, 

including in the US, Brazil and France. 

ELLEN CHENOWETH 

Dance Exchange 


7117 Maple Ave., Takoma Park, MD 20912 

phone (301) 270-6700 

ellen@danceexchange.org 

Ellen Chenoweth has been with the Dance Exchange since 2009 and is currently managing director. 

She has previously worked at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the American Dance 

Festival. She holds degrees from Rice and Texas Woman's University. Ellen is a member of the 

Takoma Park Arts and Humanities Commission and a member of the steering committee of the 

Emerging Arts Leaders DC. She enjoys yoga, traveling, and supporting artists of all stripes. 

JENNIFER CHILDS 

1812 Productions 


421 N. 7th Street Suite 218, Philadelphia, PA 19123 

phone (215) 592-9560 

jen@1812productions.org


Jennifer Childs is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of 1812 Productions, Philadelphia's 

All-Comedy Theater Company. For 1812 she has created over a dozen original pieces including her 

solo, WHY I'M SCARED OF DANCE BY JEN CHILDS, a full-length musical about the vaudeville 

act The Cherry Sisters with composer James Sugg entitled CHERRY BOMB, an annual political 

humor show called THIS IS THE WEEK THAT IS and a series of pieces that explore an era or area of 

comedic history. This spring she will premiere her latest work, IT'S MY PARTY: The Women and 

Comedy Project, which combines clowning, storytelling and music to explore how women use humor 

differently at different stages of their lives. You can follow the project at 

www.womenandcomedyproject.blogspot.com 

EUN JUNG CHOI 

Da·Da·Dance Project 

Artistic Co-Director 

1740 Pierce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19145 

phone (917) 880-0669 

ejgnyc@gmail.com 

Eun Jung Choi, featured as one of Dance Magazine's 25 to Watch in 2012, is a movement artist who 

has been working professionally for the past 15 years in the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Korea. 

She was an artist-in-residence at the Live Arts Brewery 2011-2012. Since 2008, she has been artistic 

co-director of Da·Da·Dance Project, a duet repertory dance theater and teaches at Temple University 

and the University of the Arts. 

LISA CHOINACKY 

Women & Their Work 


1710 Lavaca St., Austin, TX 78701 

phone (512) 477-1064 fax 512-477-1090 

choinacky@womenandtheirwork.org 

THOMAS CHOINACKY 

Applied Mechanics 


4624 Larchwood Ave Apt 2, Philadelphia, PA 19143 

phone 267.207.4488 

thomas@appliedmechanics.us


Thomas Choinacky: Executive Director of Applied Mechanics. He joined the company in 2009 with 

their piece "It's Hard Times at the Camera Blanca," performed in a Fishtown bar. He is most proud of 

playing Beethoven in their epic 26 person cast "Vainglorious" which will perform again at PIFA this 

April. Choinacky creates and devises avant-garde performance art including: "daDAda," a Dadaist 

play, "Never Been Stoked: A Traveling Bromance" performed in a moving vehicle, and "Substance," 

staged throughout his South Philly apartment. He was the 2012 grantee of 1812 Productions' Jilline 

Ringle Solo Performance Program for his one man show "Thomas is Titanic." Choinacky is also the 

producer and Co-curator of SoLow Festival. 

SUN MEE CHOMET 

1219 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107 

phone 215-557-0455 

s.chomet@gmail.com 

Sun Mee Chomet is a St. Paul-based actor, dancer, and playwright. She has acted with the Guthrie 

Theater, Hartford Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Syracuse Stage, 

California Shakespeare Company, Lincoln Center, Penumbra Theatre, Mu Performing Arts, and many 

other theaters nationally. As a playwright, Chomet's award-winning play, "Asiamnesia," was recently 

published by Temple University Press in the anthology, "Asian American Plays for a New 

Generation." Chomet's newest play, "How to Be a Korean Woman," is a one-woman show about 

finding her birth family. Using text, movement, and music, Chomet explores how this affected her 

sense of what it means to be a woman. She is looking to share her show on stages nationally.Please 

visit www.sunmeechomet.com for more info. 

ASIMINA CHREMOS 

The PEW Center for Arts & Heritage 

Program Specialist, Pew Fellowships 

1608 Walnut Street - 18th floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103 

phone 267-350-4922 fax 267-350-4997 

achremos@pcah.us 

STEPHEN T. CLAPP 

Dance Place 

Grants Manager 

3225 8th Street NE, Washington, DC 20017 

phone (202) 269-1600 fax (202) 269-4103 

stephenc@danceplace.org


Stephen Clapp has been affiliated with Dance Place since 2003 serving as Grants Manager until 

September 2011. He now manages Dance Place's New Releases program and is a facilitator/teacher 

through Dance Place's Outreach program. 

GRETJEN CLAUSING 

Philadelphia Community Access Media (Philly CAM) 


699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 

phone 267-640-7848 

gretjen@phillycam.org 

LAURA COLBY 


Booking Agent 


phone 718-797-4577 fax 718 797 4576 

laurac@elsieman.org 

JEVON LAMAR COLLINS 

King Arts Complex 

Acting Performing Arts Director 

867 Mount Vernon Avenue, Columbus, OH 43203-1411 

phone (614) 645-0643 fax (614) 645-0672 

jcollins@kingartscomplex.com 

A Columbus, Ohio native, Jevon Collins is in his seventh performance season at The King Arts 

Complex. In July 2011, Jevon was selected to become program director. He has served as program 

associate, performing arts assistant, box office manager and volunteer coordinator in his tenure. Jevon 

created The Altruist Volunteer Newsletter and has helped to establish the Young Professionals Society. 

He earned a bachelor of science from The Ohio State University. During his time at Ohio State, he was 

president of his college organization and a student assistant at The Wexner Center for the Arts. He will 

serve as a panelist for the Ohio Arts Council's Sustainability program in April 2013. Jevon is focused 

and committed to make a difference in the Arts in Columbus, Ohio and beyond! 

KIM COOK 

Nonprofit Finance Fund 

Manager 

1608 Walnut Street, Suite 703, Philadelphia, PA 19103

phone 213-623-7001 x6 

kim.cook@nffusa.org 


Kim Cook joined the Los Angeles/California team of the Nonprofit Finance Fund in 2012 after four 

years of managing NFF’s arts and culture initiatives for the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern US. Her 

work at NFF has included conducting sector research projects, leading trainings and workshops, 

re-granting, writing for the NFF national blog, and delivering custom engagements to help clients craft 

strategy grounded in financial analysis. She came to NFF after six years of consulting and special 

projects that included launching a creative economies project in collaboration with the City of San Jose 

and the Silicon Valley Arts Council, culminating in a new festival of art and technology “ZeroOne.” 

Kim served as director and dramaturg for a theater project with Shailja Patel leading to tours in Vienna 

and Kenya and the 2010 publication of the book, “Migritude." Kim is an avid learner with expertise 

areas in strategic management, marketing communications, social enterprise, and the use of electronic 

media/virtual space. Ms. Cook's work in the cultural sector encompasses the roles of community 

convener, artistic director, strategist, and producer. She has a BA in the performing arts from Cal State 

and an MA in Arts and Consciousness from JFK University. She is a 2004-05 Kennedy Center for the 

Performing Arts/DeVos Institute Fellow. 

MONIQUE COURCY 

On the Boards 

OntheBoards.tv & Media Manager 

PO Box 19515, Seattle, WA 98109 

phone 206-217-9886 fax 206-217-9887 

monique@ontheboards.org 

NIKI COUSINEAU 

Subcircle 

Co-Director 

946 N. Randolph Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123 

phone 267-269-1449 

niki@subcircle.org 

CHRIS COWDEN 

Women & Their Work 


1710 Lavaca St., Austin, TX 78701 

phone (512) 477-1064 fax (512) 447-1090 

cowden@womenandtheirwork.org


Chris Cowden has served as executive director of W&TW since 1986 and has overseen the work of 

over 1,550 visual and performing artists. She directs all programming and is responsible for fiscal 

management, planning, implementation, and evaluation. During her tenure, W&TW has tripled in size 

and the organization maintains a national presence. W&TW was a founding member of NPN and 

VAN. Cowden has served numerous times as a panelist for the NEA and the Texas Commission on the 

Arts and as an arts consultant. Cowden has a B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) and M.A. in English Literature and 

completed all course work for a PhD. She taught English at the University of Texas. Before joining 

W&TW, Cowden served as a corporate loan officer at what is now JPMorgan Chase Bank in New 

York. 

ROBERT CROUCH 

LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) 

Assistant Director 

6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028 

phone (323) 957-1777 fax (323) 957-9025 

robert@welcometolace.org 

Robert Crouch is the Associate Director/Curator at LACE, where he has curated exhibitions with artists 

Karen Lofgren, Gina Osterloh, Steve Roden, Sean Sullivan, and Margo Victor. He also organizes 

LACE's performance program and has worked with a wide range of local, national, and international 

artists including Andras Blazsek, Ezekiel Honig, Lawrence English, 

PJ JOHN D'AMICO 



2350 Arapahoe Street, Denver, CO 80205 

phone (303) 296-4448 fax 303 296-4449 

pdamico@redlineart.org 

PJ D'Amico brings over 20 years of experience to the creative sector where he has served as an 

executive director, foundation director and advocate for creative social change at the local and national 

level. He received his B.S. in Political Science and M.S. in Theological Studies from Emory University 

and holds a Masters of Nonprofit Management from Regis University. PJ began his career working as a 

grassroots community organizer in Atlanta where he worked with the Atlanta Project and Hands On 

Atlanta. He went on to become the National Director of AmeriCorps Alums whose mission it was to 

build a national platform for civic engagement among 450,000 National Service Alumni. PJ is the 

Executive Director of RedLine a creative urban labratory where arts, education and community 

converge.

D'LO 

D'LocoKid Productions 

Artist 

1021 5th Street #204, Santa Monica, CA 90403 

phone (310) 403-2676 

dlocokidla@yahoo.com 


D'Lo is a queer Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American, political theatre artist/writer, director, comedian and 

music producer. Aside from touring the university/college circuit with D'FaQTo Life (pr. defacto), 

D'Lo tours his 2 other solo shows : Ramble-ations: A One D'Lo Show and D'FunQT: Stand up or Die. 

He has toured as a collaborator with Adelina Anthony on Talking Taboo which received a NPN 

Creation Fund award. D'Lo's latest full-length stand-up storytelling show D'FunQT (dir. Steven Sapp) 

premiered in NYC and toured internationally (SF, Manchester, India, Sri Lanka) with support from the 

Ford Foundation. Currently, D'Lo is working on his play Boys that Pray with support from the Astraea 

Foundation. 

SHAILY DADIALA 

Usiloquy Dance Designs 


1317 Crease Street, Philadelphia, PA 19125 

phone 2673245917 

shaily@usiloquydance.org 

Shaily Dadiala is the Artistic Director of Usiloquy Dance Designs, a Philadelphia based Bharatanatyam 

company. Established in 2008,Usiloquy creates original dance productions exploring contemporary 

themes and cross cultural music while staying rooted in the ancient techniques of Indian Classical 

Dance. 

JERRY DANNEMILLER 

Wexner Center for the Arts 

1871 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43210 

phone 614-975-0946 

jdannemiller@wexarts.org 

Jerry Dannemiller works at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. He's a recent graduate 

of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University ('12) and served as 

curator of "Bebe Miller: Tracing History" an exhibition focused on the life and work of


dancer/choreographer, Bebe Miller. He has programmed and presented music events over the last 

decade and was a music critic for NPR, the Village Voice, Salon.com, and many alternative weeklies. 

He also serves as a contributing editor for contemporaryperformance.com 

ADRIAN DANZIG 


Lucky PLush Dance Team Captain 


phone 312-371-9751 

adrian@500clown.com 

ADRIAN DANZIG (Producing Artistic Director, Clown) Recent credits include The Feast: An 

intimate Tempest at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Seagull at Lake Lucille, and Orlando at The 

Court Theater, he is currently performing in The Better Half. He regularly performs the shows in the 

500 Clown touring repertoire: 500 Clown Macbeth, 500 Clown Frankenstein, 500 Clown Christmas, 

and 500 Clown Trapped. Adrian has lead workshops in physical theater, ensemble development and 

teamwork all around the country, and internationally for the past decade. working with disparate 

groups including business people, Pediatricians, tsunami relief, the deaf community, Athletes and 

performers. He has studied clown with Ctibor Turba, Philippe Gaulier, Ronlin Foreman, Dominique 

Jando, Els Comediants and others. 

LESLIE BUXBAUM DANZIG 


Co-Director 


phone 312-498-3665 

lbdanzig@uchicago.edu 

Leslie Buxbaum Danzig is co-director with Lucky Plush Productions and co-founder of the 

Chicago-based physical theater company 500 Clown, which tours regularly throughout the US. Credits 

include directing Redmoon's "Hunchback" at New Victory Theater (NYC) and touring as an actor with 

NYC's Elevator Repair Service. Leslie received her PhD in performance studies at Northwestern 

University and trained in physical theater with Jacques Lecoq. She is program curator for the Gray 

Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago and will be co-directing Redmoon's "The 

Elephant and the Whale" with Chicago Children's Theater this spring as well as collaborating on a new 

work with Lucky Plush. 

SHANNON DAUT 

Alaska State Council on the Arts


161 Klevin Street, Suite 102, Anchorage, AK 99508-106 

phone (907) 269-6607 fax (907) 269-6601 

shannon.daut@gmail.com 


Shannon Daut is the Executive Director of the Alaska State Council on the Arts, where she leads the 

state's efforts to serve the citizens and communities of Alaska through the arts. Daut most recently was 

deputy director of the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF). At WESTAF Daut oversaw the 

organization's work in the areas of cultural policy and technology. In addition, she worked closely with 

the state arts agency directors in the WESTAF region to help advance their work in cultural policy. She 

was also co-chair of the Create Denver Advisory Committee, a creative economy initiative of the city 

of Denver. Daut received her bachelor's degree in Communication Arts/Film from the University of 

Wisconsin-Madison and her graduate degree in Communication from the University of 

Colorado-Denver. 

MARIA LOPEZ DE LEON 

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture 


1208 Buena Vista, San Antonio, TX 78207 

phone 210-432-3982 fax 210-432-3934 

maria@nalac.org 

Maria Lopez De León is the executive director and board member of the National Association of 

Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC). In May 2012, President Obama nominated Ms. De León to serve 

on the National Council on the Arts and most recently, Ms. De Leóon was named among the nation's 

2012 Fifty Most Powerful and Influential People in the Nonprofit Arts. Ms. De León has been with 

NALAC for fourteen years and has served as executive director for ten years. Ms. De León has been 

involved in all aspects of development and implementation of the NALAC programs and strategic 

initiatives. 

ALEC DE LEÓN 


Program Specialist- Visual Artists Network 


phone 504.595.8008 x209 fax 504-595-8006 

alec@npnweb.org 

Alec De León, Program Specialist - Visual Artists Network (VAN) and National Performance Network 

(NPN), works with all aspects of VAN and NPN including programming and development. His work


with VAN and NPN involves travel throughout the U.S., visiting partner sites and attending national 

and regional meetings and conferences. He holds an MFA in painting from the Maryland Institute 

College of Art, Baltimore, MD; and a BFA in painting and drawing from Louisiana State University, 

Baton Rouge, LA. His artwork has been exhibited in New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore 

and Florida. He is also the co-founder of the influential, yet largely unknown, psychedelic rock band, 

the Heatbunnies. 

KENT DE SPAIN 

512 Xenia Avenue, Austin, TX 45387 

phone 512-529-5208 

despaink@earthlink.net 

KENT DE SPAIN is a choreographer/director/multimedia artist who has taught and toured throughout 

the United States, and in Latin America, Europe, and Asia, including performances at Jacob's Pillow 

and Judson Church. He has been the recipient of several major awards, including the Pew Fellowship 

in the Arts for Choreography and an Established Choreographers Fellowship from the Pennsylvania 

Council on the Arts. De Spain is widely known for his performances, documentation, and teaching of 

movement and theatre improvisation, and has also written and performed extensively exploring the 

interface between movement and technology. 

EMMANUELLE DELPECH 

2117 N Howard St, New Orleans, LA 70117 

phone 2673043471 

manoche13@gmail.com 

RYAN N DENNIS 

Project Row Houses 

Public Art Director 

5251 Holman Street, Houston, TX 77004 

phone 7135267662 fax 7135261623 

rdennis@projectrowhouses.org 

KATHIE ELIZABETH DENOBRIGA 


Writer/Editor 


phone 404-299-9498 fax 404-299-9498 

kdenobriga@mindspring.com


A founding and current member of Alternate ROOTS, Kathie deNobriga served as ROOTS' executive 

director and planning/development director for ten years. Early careers included theatre director, 

ensemble member, producer and presenter. She is now a consultant specializing in strategic planning, 

building organizational capacity, staff/board retreats and creative conflict engagement. Current clients 

include the GA Center for NonProfits, Appalshop and Omaha Theatre for Youth. She is also project 

manager for the Arts & Democracy Project. DeNobriga is Mayor of Pine Lake GA and is a certified 

mediator 

LISA DENT 

Creative Capital 

Director of Grants and Services 

65 Bleecker Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10012 

phone 415-577-3818 

lisakdent@gmail.com 

LORI DILLARD DILLARD RECH 

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists 

CEO 

237 South 18th Street, Suite 3A, Philadelphia, PA 19103 

phone 215-546-7775 

lori@cfeva.org 

Lori Dillard Rech is the CEO for the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, a service organization which 

helps artists develop viable and sustainable careers, helps emerging artists reach new audiences, and 

promotes interest and understanding of visual art in the community. Lori has worked in the Museum 

and arts related field for 22 years, including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Wilmington Art 

Museum, and the National Museum of American Jewish History. In addition, she was the Executive 

Director of the Betsy Ross House and served as the President of the Independence Seaport Museum. 

She holds a BA degree in Art History with a minor in Studio Arts from the University of Florida and a 

MA in Museum Studies from Syracuse University. Lori also is a Board member for two local 

non-profits. 

PETER JAMES DIMURO 

PDM: Public Displays of Motion 

Creative Director 

826 Pine Street #3C, Philadelphia, PA 19107 

phone (202) 905-4662 

peterdimuro@gmail.com


Peter DiMuro is a choreographer/arts engager whose latest adventure is PDM: Public Displays of 

Motion. PDM brings artists, audiences and communities together in workshop and performance, 

deepening value for movement in everyday and extraordinary ways. Formerly director of service org 

Dance/MetroDC and artistic director of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Peter is now on faculty at Drexel 

University. A touring artist on the NPN (ever grateful: thank you!) and NPN board member in previous 

years, Peter is currently directing multiple choreographers (Hip Hop to Hula, Modern to Flamenco) in 

"Future Preludes," with music by Rachmaninoff, premiering at Dance Place/DC and touring other sites 

in 2013, and working on a multimedia play "Nijinsky's Last Dance" about the artist at the end of his 

life. 

BILL DOOLIN 

Florida Dance Association 


PO Box 415818, Miami Beach, FL 33141 

phone (305) 310-8080 fax 786-472-4178 

billd@floridadanceassociation.org 

Current artistic director of Florida Dance Association with over 30 years of experience as a self-made 

administrative manager, instituting organizational strategies and measures for improvements and well 

organized business operations of the Florida Dance Association and its outreach programming, Florida 

Dance Festival and FDA Young Dancer Workshops. He has been involved in arts administration since 

the early 1980s when he joined the staff of Harvard Summer Dance Center, Iris Fanger, director, in 

1982. A choreographer for over 22 years Bill's work has been presented in Colorado, Illinois, 

Massachusetts, New York and in Florida at the Florida Dance Festival, Excello Dance Studio in Miami 

and currently has 4 works in Moving Current Dance Collective's repertory. 

SEAN DORSEY 

Sean Dorsey Dance 


375 27th Street #A, San Francisco, CA 94131 

phone (415) 355-0071 

sean@seandorseydance.com 

SEAN DORSEY is an award-winning choreographer and dancer. He has been named San Francisco's 

Best Dance Company (SF Weekly) and named in the nation's "Top 25 to Watch" (Dance Magazine). 

Dorsey's work is a fusion of modern dance, storytelling and theater. Praised as "exquisite" 

(BalletTanz), "trailblazing" (SF Chronicle) and "epic, powerful, moving" (Miami Herald), Dorsey is 

celebrated as the US's first out transgender choreographer. Dorsey has been awarded commissions 

from NPN, NEFA, National Dance Project, Creative Work Fund, Gerbode Foundation, Hewlett


Foundation, SFAC, the Queer Cultural Center, The Theater Offensive, Links Hall, and Highways 

Performance Space. His NPN-commissioned full-evening work "The Secret History Of Love" is 

available for touring; contact him at www.seandorseydance.com 

ELIZABETH DOUD 


Performing Americas Coordinator 

PO Box 545865, Miami Beach, FL 33154 

phone (305) 519-6877 fax (305) 237-7559 

edoud@npnweb.org 

Elizabeth Doud is an independent performing artist, writer and arts organizer. She has written, 

produced and toured dozens of original performance works, ranging from one-woman literary 

collage-baking extravaganzas to full blown capoeira pop-operas, and is creating a new performance 

installation entitled The Mermaid Tear Factory. She has over 15 years experience as an arts organizer 

and educator, with an emphasis on international cultural exchange. She is a tenacious champion of 

creating and protecting the space to experiment and experience contemporary performance. Currently, 

she is the program coordinator for NPN's Performing Americas Program and a programming and 

residency consultant for FUNDarte, Inc. 

ERIN BOBERG DOUGHTON 

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art 

Performing Arts Program Director 

415 SW 10th AVENUE, SUITE 300, Portland, OR 97205 

phone (503) 242-1419 fax (503) 243-1167 

erin@pica.org 

Erin Boberg Doughton, performing arts program director at the Portland Institute for Contemporary 

Art (PICA) has worked on PICA's performance and residency programs since its inception in 1995. 

She is part of the curatorial team for PICA's annual TBA (Time-Based Art) Festival which features 

artists working in performance, media, visual arts and hybrid forms. She is a past NPN board member 

and has served as an NPN Performing Americas Curator. She is a current National Dance Project Hub 

Site Adviser. 

DAVID DOWER 

ArtsEmerson, Emerson College 

Director of Artistic Programs

120 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116 

phone 415.425.4960 

david_dower@emerson.edu 


David is the director of artistic programs at ArtsEmerson in Boston, programming multiple venues in 

Boston with theater and film from around the world. He cofounded the Center for the Theater 

Commons, which is housed at Emerson, and it's predecessor, the American Voices New Play Institute. 

Prior to joining ArtsEmerson in 2012, David was the Associate Artistic Director at Arena Stage after 

spending 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area where he founded and led The Z Space and it's 

precursor, The Z Collective. 

ANNA DROZDOWSKI 

Neighborhood House @ Christ Church 

20 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107 

phone 2159221695 

adrozdowski@christchurchphila.org 

Anna has worked in performance production and arts management for fifteen years, and continues to 

be curious about the ways in which our fragile ecosystem relies on symbiosis. While the midwest and 

dance have shaped her understanding of the world, more and more she is interested in process, 

community and carving opportunities for artists to create work in a well-resourced way. She can most 

often be found at the Neighborhood House or working with Artists U and Thirdbird, and has been glad 

to learn NPN first hand while working on the showcase in Philly. Anna enjoys cross-stitching 

obscenities, dancing tango and grocery shopping slowly. www.annadrozdowski.com 

JAMES DUMLAO 


Musician/Performer 


phone 805-705-9415 

jamesdumlao@gmail.com 

James Dumlao is a first-generation Filipino-American multi-Instrumentalist, educator, and performer. 

From the classroom to the stage, his influences stem from critical ethnic-studies pedagogy to 

formal/informal music training. He has performed all over the nation in venues such as Carnegie Hall, 

Great American Music Hall, and the RCA Dome. As member of various ensembles throughout his 

career, he considers himself the "utility man" when it comes to performing. James is currently the


assistant director of music at acclaimed Riordan High School, volunteers as PEP's (Pin@y Educational 

Partnerships) after-school music enrichment teacher at Longfellow Elementary School, AND is 

drummer/trumpet/vocalist of the band Dirty Boots. 

JESS EDKINS 

Performance Space 122 

Creative Producer 

150 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 

phone (212) 477-5829 ext. 303 

jess@ps122.org 

Prior to joining Performance Space 122 in June 2011 as creative producer, Jess Edkins was the 

producing assistant at Whitney Live, the live performance department at the Whitney Museum of 

American Art, where she headed projects as varied as Christian Marclay: Festival, Elizabeth Streb's 

"ASCENSION" and the re-staging of Trisha Brown's "Walking on the Walls" and "Man Walking 

Down the Side of Building." As a freelance producer she has worked on projects at the Greene Space, 

Joyce Soho, and Alvin Ailey Studios. She is currently a master's candidate in performing arts 

administration at New York University and holds a bachelors degree in dance and art history from 

Mount Holyoke College. 

LISA JO EPSTEIN 

Gas & Electric Arts 


6703 Cresheim Road, Philadelphia, PA 19119 

phone 2152909784 

lisajo@gasandelectricarts.org 

Lisa Jo Is the Artistic Director of Gas & Electric Arts in Philadelphia. She is a theatre director & 

educator whose work has been influenced by her training at Jeune Lune, the Theatre du Soleil & 

Augusto Boal's Center for the Theatre of the Oppressed. Gas & Electric Arts explores a hybrid of 

techniques on stage & in communities as our means of being active citizens responding to an 

ever-changing world. Lisa Jo's work bridges the gap between ensemble physical theatre & text-based 

approaches, with the goal of creating compelling theatrical experiences which ignite the imagination 

and intellect. She's been training teachers, social-service professionals & under-served urban teens in 

Theatre of the Oppressed for 20 years, & also leads the TO-based program called Power gRRRls. 

KAT EVASCO 


Production Associate

1663 Mission Street, Suite 604, San Francisco, CA 94103 

phone 4156941338 

kevasco@youthspeaks.org 


Kat Evasco is a performing artist and arts administrator currently working at Youth Speaks Inc. as the 

Production Associate. Evasco recently served as Board Chair for Bindlestiff Studio (2009-2012), the 

only theater space in the nation dedicated to Filipino arts, and is the Managing Director of Guerrilla 

Rep, a theater company that explores class in American society through new plays. Drawing on her 

experiences as a stand up comic and comedic actress, Evasco is currently developing her 

autobiographical one-woman show, "Mama Queerest" that chronicles her unconventional coming out 

tale, including the earth-shattering discovery that her mother is lesbian too. 

TERESA EYRING 

Theatre Communications Group 


520 8th Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NY 10018-4156 

phone 212-609-5900 x237 fax 212-609-5901 

teyring@tcg.org 

ROBERTA ELLEN FALLON 

the artblog 

Founder and editor 

103 Bentley Ave., Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 

phone 484 620 9013 

robertafallon@gmail.com 

Roberta Fallon makes art, writes about art and thinks about art probably too much. She's proud to claim 

part ownership of THEartblog with her dear friend and long-time collaborator, Libby. As a child in 

Milwaukee, Roberta put on puppet shows in the garage and sold popcorn for a penny and realized she 

loved an audience but had no head for business. Married to Steve and with three children, Oona, Max 

and Stella, Roberta has written about art for Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly, Artnet, 

Art Review, Art on Paper, Philadelphia Inquirer and Art and Auction, and has taught and been a 

visiting critic at Tyler School of Art, St. Joseph's University and Cranbrook Academy of Art. 

LAURA DAY FAURE 

Bates Dance Festival 

Director

Pettigrew Hall 305 College St., Lewiston, ME 04240 

phone 207-871-0509 fax (207) 871-0136 

lfaure@bates.edu 


Laura Faure is the director of the Bates Dance Festival and lecturer in the arts at Bates College in 

Lewiston, Maine. Since taking this position in 1988 she had developed the Festival into an 

internationally acclaimed contemporary dance program known for its artistic excellence, curatorial 

vision, and commitment to building community through dance. Ms. Faure is currently serving a 

three-year term as a hubsite for the National Dance Project. She is a founding member of The Africa 

Contemporary Arts Consortium and has been developing a cross-cultural exchange program with 

artists from Japan, Indonesia, Africa, Cuba, Portugal and Mexico since 1994. 

BETH FELDMAN BRANDT 

Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation 


230 South Broad St, Suite 1003, Philadelphia, PA 19102 

phone 215-545-4037 fax 215-545-4039 

bfbrandt@bartol.org 

Beth Feldman Brandt is the executive director of the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation that supports 

arts and cultural programs in Philadelphia with an emphasis on arts education and community-based 

arts programs. The Foundation also presents free professional development workshops for teaching 

artists. Beth was the project director for Cultural Builds Communities for the William Penn Foundation 

and the arts education development project for The Pew Charitable Trusts, and was the director of an 

after-school visual arts programs. She is also a poet whose book with artist Claire Owen, "Sage," was 

the focus of a 2012 exhibition at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. They are currently at work on a new 

collaboration for an upcoming exhibition at the Center for Art in Wood in Philadelphia. 

MIKHAIL ALEXANDER FIKSEL 


Sound Designer 


phone 773-456-3055 

mikhail.fiksel@gmail.com 

MIKHAIL FIKSEL (Sound Designer/Composer) is a Chicago-based designer, composer and DJ who 

regularly works with The Goodman, Redmoon, Timeline, Writers Theatre, Victory Gardens, About 

Face, The Hypocrites, The Seldoms and Albany Park Theatre Project. Off-Broadway and regional 

projects include 2nd Stage Theatre, The Geffen Playhouse, Dallas Theatre Center, The Repertory


Theatre of St. Louis and Milwaukee Chamber Theatre as well as international work with Tukkers 

Connexion (Holland) and Festival FILO (Brazil). He has received multiple Joseph Jefferson awards, a 

Lucille Lortel Award and the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award. Mr. Fiksel is an artistic 

associate with Teatro Vista, Collaboraction and Redmoon Theatre and faculty at Loyola University 

Chicago. www.mikhailfiksel.com 

MEG FOLEY 

Moving Parts 

Director 

1723 S Chadwick Street, Philadelphia, PA 19145 

phone 3108507946 

meg.foley@gmail.com 

Meg is a dance artist and the director of Moving Parts, a name ascribed to various dance- and 

performance-based acts that explore the materiality of dance and its relationship to form. Grounded in 

the body, she is exploring her body in relationship to herself, to others, and to the environment, asking 

existential questions about the basic experience of being. She is a 2012 PEW Fellow in the Arts and a 

2012 Independence Foundation Fellow. Her work has been presented by the Philadelphia Live Arts 

Festival, Thirdbird, Bowerbird, Mascher Space Cooperative, Little Berlin Gallery, Vox Populi Gallery, 

the Community Education Center, Cirque De Verre, and in Movement Research at the Judson Church. 

She holds a BA from Scripps College and a Professional Diploma from Laban Centre London. 

CHARLOTTE LONGBRAKE FORD 

1524 Morris St., Philadelphia, PA 19945 

phone 267.886.4480 

charlotteford24@gmail.com 

CHARLOTTE FORD is a Philadelphia-based theatre artist who creates avant-garde slapstick 

performance art that celebrates sublime stupidity with joyful abandon. She has toured her original work 

to Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, the London Barbican and Paris's Maison de Metallos. Original work 

includes CHICKEN, Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl (Fringe First, Edinburgh, 2010, short-listed for 

Total Theatre Award) and BANG. She has worked with Pig Iron (Welcome to Yuba City), 1812 

(Cherry Bomb, the upcoming Women in Comedy), Theatre Exile (Red Light Winter, That Pretty 

Pretty, Gruesome Playground Injuries), the Arden Theatre and the Lantern Theatre among others. "Best 

of Philly" Theatre Performer 2012. F. Otto Haas finalist 2011, 2012. BA, Bryn Mawr College, MFA, 

LISPA. 

EVELYN FRANCIS 

The Theater Offensive/OUT in Your Neighborhood

Director of Programs 

565 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116 

phone (617) 661-1600 fax (617) 661-1610 

evelyn@thetheateroffensive.org 


Evelyn Francis, director of programs at The Theater Offensive, an LGBTQ theater company based in 

Boston. As the former director of True Colors: Out Youth Theater, a program of TTO for LGBTQ 

youth ages 14-22, Evelyn leads long-term visioning and planning for all programs and productions of 

the organization. This includes developing relationships with national and local artists in order to 

produce and present work throughout the neighborhoods of Boston. In addition to her work with TTO, 

she has served as an arts manager and teaching artist at organizations in Greater Boston. Evelyn holds a 

maste's degree in theatre education from Emerson College. 

MELISSA FRANKLIN 


Director of PEW Fellowships in the Arts 

1608 Walnut St. 18th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103 

phone (267) 350-4920 

mfranklin@pcah.us 

MAYA FREELON ASANTE 

Kariamu & Company: Traditions 

8630 Trumbauer Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19122 

phone 919-491-4209 

maya@freelonasante.com 

Maya Freelon Asante's unique tissue paper artwork has been described by the International Review of 

African American Art as a "vibrant, beating assemblage of color." Her massive tissue paper sculpture 

"Ubuntu" is part of the permanent art collection of the US Embassy in Madagascar. She has also 

exhibited at US Embassies in Italy, Jamaica, Swaziland and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in D.C. Her 

work is part of the critically acclaimed exhibition, "Material Girls' which premiered at the Reginald F. 

Lewis Museum in Baltimore, MD and is currently traveling around the nation. Maya Freelon Asante 

has attended numerous residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the 

Korobitey Institute in Ghana and Branywine Workshop. 

NNENNA FREELON 

Kariamu & Company: Traditions


phone 9199439229 

nnenna@mac.com 

LESLIE FRIEDMAN 

NAPOLEON 

founder, artist 

319 N. 11th Street 2L, Philadelphia, PA 19125 

phone 401-524-3299 

lesliepvd@gmail.com 


Leslie Friedman was born 1981 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She learned the process of 

silk-screen in the summer of 2002 at Providence's AS220 and started making posters. Friedman moved 

to Argentina for 2 and a half years to focus on art. Upon returning to the United States in 2007 and she 

moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to pursue her masters. There, along with a fellow Tyler alumna, 

founded an artist-run project space called Napoleon. In 2012, Leslie was named a Center For Emerging 

Visual Artists fellow in their Career Development Program. Leslie teaches printmaking and criticism 

seminars at Temple University, The University of the Arts, and Muhlenberg College. 

JOHN K FRISBEE 

Pig Iron Theatre Company 


1417 N. 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122 

phone 215-425-1100 

johnf@pigiron.org 

John Frisbee is the Managing Director of Pig Iron Theatre Company, where he formerly served as 

Director of Development. During his seven years at Pig Iron, the company has doubled in size, 

received international acclaim, and opened a new two-year training program for performers. In addition 

to his work with Pig Iron, John has also served on the Board of the Theatre Alliance of Greater 

Philadelphia and Shakespeare in Clark Park, and three panels for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. John 

is a graduate of Haverford College. 

COLETTE FU 

1020 Hamilton Street, Apt. 12, Philadelphia, PA 191233735 

phone 9176225047 

fusansan@gmail.com


Colette Fu is a Philadelphia based photographer and paper engineer with an MFA in photography from 

the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has created most of her work at artist residencies such as 

the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Instituto Sacatar, Bemis Center, Visual Studies Workshop, 

Frans Masereel Centrum, and the Alden B. Dow Center for Creativity. Colette has received awards 

from Fulbright, the Independence Foundation, Sovereign Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the 

Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Commission for the Arts, En Foco, Photographer's 

Forum, Nikon and the Puffin Foundation. She has worked as a paper engineering consultant for stop 

animation commercials, freelances and teaches community workshops and pop-up courses 

internationally. 

COLLEEN C. FURUKAWA 

Maui Arts & Cultural Center 

Vice President - Programming 

One Cameron Way, Kahului, HI 96732 

phone (808) 243-4263 fax (808) 242-4665 

colleen@mauiarts.org 

JANE GABRIELS 

Pepatian 

Director 

1001 Grand Concourse 10F, Bronx, NY 10452 

phone (917) 903-7651 fax n/a 

gabriels_j@yahoo.com 

Hello! I'm a writer, performer, curator, PhD student, and producer of performance events. In the South 

Bronx, I direct Pepatian and am project director for the Young Roots Performance Series at Hostos 

Center for the Arts and Culture (funded by Rockefeller Foundation NYC Cultural Innovation Fund). 

With other South Bronx venues (BAAD!, Hostos, Pregones Theater), we are organizing our third 

annual APAP@HOME adventure with guided tour, food and multiple artist showcases on Friday 

January 11, 2013 - you are very invited!!! Other news: The Montreal Association of Arts Curators 

(MAAC) is setting up an interesting symposium in September 2013, "Envisioning the Practice: 

Montréal International Symposium on Curating the Performing Arts." I'll be able to tell you more in 

December...looking forward! 

ARLENE GALINDO 

MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana 


510 S. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113

phone 408-998-2783 Ext.22 fax 408-998-2817 

arlene@maclaarte.org 

ADRIANA GALLEGO 

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture 

Deputy Direcotr 

1208 Buena Vista, San Antonio, TX 78207 

phone 210.432.3982 fax 210-432-3934 

agallego@nalac.org 

VALLEJO EBENEZER GANTNER 

Performance Space 122 


150 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 

phone (212) 477-5829 fax (212) 535-1315 

vallejo@ps122.org 

MARIO GARCIA GARCIA DURHAM 

Association of Performing Arts Presenters 

President and CEO 

1211 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036 

phone (202) 207-3847 fax 202-833-1543 

mdurham@artspresenters.org 

LEO GARCIA 

Highways Performance Space and Gallery 

Executive Director / Artistic Director 

1651 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404 

phone 310-729-0883 fax (310) 453-4347 

leogarcia@highwaysperformance.org 


Leo Garcia has served as Highways' Artistic Director since 2003 where he has developed and 

presented over 600 performance works. Garcia is aligned with Highways' mission to develop and 

present innovative socially engaged performance and visual art that challenges contemporary American 

society's dominant sexual, psychological and political paradigms. His personal mission is to support 

the artists in a non-elitst, non-judgmental, non-dogmatic way. 2012 marks Leo's 10th NPN annual 

meeting.

JENNIFER GARDNER 

DiverseWorks Artspace 

Director of External Affairs 

4102 Fannin St, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77004 

phone 7132238346 

jennifer@diverseworks.org 


Jennifer Gardner joined DiverseWorks as director of external affairs in April 2012. Previously she was 

with Arthouse at the Jones Center in Austin, where she was special projects manager and gained ten 

years of experience in art education, public programming, development, strategic planning, and 

non-profit governance. Gardner holds a BA in art history from Connecticut College and completed 

graduate-level coursework in museum education at The University of Texas. As DiverseWorks' 

director of external affairs, she is responsible for all marketing, public relations, and community 

engagement efforts related to programming and the organization as a whole. 

VALERIE GARLICK 

Real Art Ways 

Visual Arts Manager 

56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 06106 

phone 8602321006 fax 8602336691 

vgarlick@realartways.org 

Valerie Garlick, Real Art Ways' Visual Arts Manager, is a visual artist, curator, and writer who works 

in photography, video, and performance. Her art and curatorial projects focus primarily on gender, 

sexuality, and the intersection of the body with technology. Her work has been the subject of national 

and international exhibitions, screenings, publications, and lectures. Recent projects have been 

exhibited at HERE Arts Center, Participant Inc., the Elizabeth Foundation, and Soho20, as well as the 

Vox Feminae Video Festival in Zagreb, Hotch Potch in Oslo, the Kurye International Video Festival, 

Istanbul, and Shau Fenster, Berlin. She holds both an MA in Art History, and an MFA in Fine Arts 

from the University of Connecticut. 

THEASTER GATES 

6918 South Dorchester Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 

phone 773-213-6603 

theaster@uchicago.edu 

MEGAN GECKLER 

Megan Geckler Studio

Owner / Artist 

530 Molino Street #206, Los Angeles, CA 90013-2276 

phone (323) 253-4173 fax 3232534173 

megangeckler@gmail.com 


At first, Megan Geckler's work seems to be digital in nature, the colors are vibrant and unreal, but her 

installations are created with flagging tape, a mass-produced colorful plastic ribbon utilized on 

construction sites. These massive installations are assembled by hand alongside crews of assistants and 

community volunteers. Each space is transformed into an immersive environment in which the viewer 

is given multiple pathways to experience the installation on their own terms. Geckler, a Philadelphia 

native, has been exhibiting in galleries, museums and alternative spaces since 1998, with many shows 

in the United States and soon, around the world. She received her MFA from Claremont Graduate 

University (2001) and her BFA from Temple University's Tyler School of Art (1998). 

MICHELLE NICOLE GIBSON 

South Dallas Cultural Center 

Dance Instructor 

3400 South Fitzhugh, Dallas, TX 75206 

phone 214-939-2787 fax 214-670-8118 

mgibson4life@yahoo.com 

Michelle Gibson received her BFA in dance from Tulane University and her MFA in dance and 

performance studies from Hollins University/American Dance Festival at Duke University. She has 

performed works choreographed by Baba Chuck Davis, Baba Richard Gonzales, Donald McKayle, 

Sean Curran, Ronald K. Brown, Danys "La Mora" Perez Prades, Marlies Yearby, Tommy F. DeFrantz, 

Thaddeus and Tanya Davis, Vernel Bagneris and Scott Grossman. She toured and performed in Europe 

and Asia with motion picture credits that include a featured dancer in "Interview With a Vampire," the 

Academy Award winning film, "Ray," and "Just My Luck" with Lindsay Lohan acquiring Screen 

Actors Guild status. Along with teaching at SDCC and Dallas area colleges, Michelle is also a faculty 

member with the American Dance Festival. 

RUDI GOBLEN 


P.O. Box 557845, Miami, FL 33255 

phone 7862712076 

i@rudigoblen.com 

A founding member of Teo Castellanos' D-Projects since 2003, Rudi; dancer, writer, and actor - is also 

a member of Octavio Campos' Campostion Hybrid Theater Works, Rosie Herrera's Rosie Herrera


Dance Theatre, and has trained/worked with DV8 Physical Theater & Cirque De Soleil. Rudi is also a 

recipient of the Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant (FAAR), and the Miami-Dade County & Cultural 

Affairs Choreographer's Fellowship 2012. 

ROSIE GORDON-WALLACE 

Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator 

Founding Excutive Director 

686 NE 56 Street, Miami, FL 33137 

phone (305) 573-4046 fax (305) 573-7576 

rogwall3@yahoo.com 

Rosie Gordon-Wallace is founder, curator, and director of Diaspora Vibe Gallery and Diaspora Vibe 

Cultural Arts Incubator. In 1996, she initiated and produced transnational creative programs that 

redefined concepts of diaspora including the International Cultural Exchange program, Caribbean 

Crossroads Series, Off The Wall Experimental Series, Artist-In-Residence and numerous 

community-based outreach projects. DVG and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator specialize in 

Caribbean and Latin American and artists of color with an emphasis on emerging artists. We support 

the development of new works by resident artists by offering exhibition space, artist development and 

artists-in-residence programs. DVG transformed to social media for a comprehensive customized 

digital approach in 2011. 

PAT M GRANEY 

Pat Graney Company 


925 E. Thomas St. suite B, Seattle, WA 98102 

phone (206) 329-3705 fax (206) 320-6646 

patgraney@earthlink.net 

Pat Graney is a Seattle-based artist, currently producing installation/performance works and working 

with incarcerated women and female ex-offenders. The Pat Graney Company was one of the first 

contemporary dance groups to tour through NPN in 1986. PGCo has toured to most major American 

cities as well as abroad. The Company's most recent work, House of Mind, was featured in an 8-month 

exhibit at the Kohler Art Center with over 50,000 viewers. Ms. Graney is the recipient of a US Artist 

Award, an Alpert Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the recently established 'Arts Innovator' 

Award through Artist Trust and the Dale Chihuly Foundation. The Pat Graney Company was proud to 

be an NPN Partner for over ten years. 

TOM GURALNICK 

Outpost Productions, Inc.


PO Box 4543, Albuquerque, NM 87196 

phone (505) 268-0044 fax (505) 268-4481 

tguralnick@comcast.net 


Tom Guralnick is the Founder and Executive Director of Outpost Productions in Albuquerque New 

Mexico since 1988. He has been a presenter of jazz, experimental, international music and more since 

1977. He was an improvising saxophonist and composer who toured nationally & internationally for 25 

years until 2001. 

REIKO HAGIHARA 

Kyoto Art Center 


546-2 Yamafushiyama-cho, Muromachi-Dori, Takoyakushi-sagaru, 

Nakagyou-ku,, Kyoto, Japan 604-8156 

phone +81-75-213-1000 fax :+81-75-213-1004 

hagihara@kac.or.jp 

Kyoto Art Center, opened in 1996, is funded by the city government. Built on the site of the Meirin 

elementary school founded by the people of Kyoto in the Meiji era, the Center houses a studio, gallery, 

auditorium, Japanese-style hall, library, Japanese-style tea room, cafe and shops. The center rents its 

studio on a three-month basis to support creation of new work. They produce projects in the visual an 

performing that incorporate the traditional arts into multi-disciplinary contemporary works. In addition 

to their Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program for emerging artists and arts researchers, since 2010 they 

produce the Kyoto Experiment, an international festival of contemporary arts. 

THEODORE AUGUSTUS HARRIS 

6346 Musgrave Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144 

phone 267-981-0637 

artasaweapon@aol.com 

JANICE HAYES-CHA 

MamaCita 

Artist 

545 Elkins Ave, Elkins Park, PA 19027 

phone 215-758-2723 

jhayescha@gmail.com


Janice Hayes-Cha is a mixed media artist. She is here to represent MamaCita, a Philadelphia-based 

mother's cooperative in the arts. In partnership with 4 other artists- Julie Mann, Karen McLaughlin, 

Brenda Howell and Kimberly Mehler, she is working on an installation called One Year. One Year will 

explore urban violence and community responses to it by memorializing each murder victim in 

Philadelphia over 2012. This work is inspired by Mothers in Charge, a violence prevention 

organization created by mothers in Philadelphia. 

TIM HECK 


Performer 


phone 847 345-2465 

timothycheck@mac.com 

Tim Heck is a multi-genre performer based in Chicago. He has worked with Blue Man Group, Molly 

Shanahan/Mad Shak, Mucca Pazza, 500 Clown, Thodos Dance Chicago, Redmoon Theater, and 

Eisenhower Dance Ensemble. He is at NPN with the amazing, intuitive, and multi-faceted Lucky Plush 

Productions. 

CAMERON HEINZE 


Manager of Performance Programs 

220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 

phone (312) 397-4065 fax (312) 397-4095 

cheinze@mcachicago.org 

CHARLES RICHARD HELM 


Director, Performing Arts 

The Ohio State University 1871 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43210-1393 

phone (614) 292-5785 fax 614-292-7824 

chelm@wexarts.org 

Charles Helm joined the staff of the Wexner Center in 1991. Helm regularly serves as a panelist for 

regional and national arts agencies and foundations. The Wexner Center's performing arts program was 

the first university-based program funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's prestigious 

Leadership Presenting Institutions program in recognition of its creative laboratory work. Helm is 

currently working on creative residency or commissioning projects with artists such as Young Jean


Lee, Bebe Miller, Palissimo, and Faye Driscoll who will also conduct educational forums with students 

and community members at the Wexner Center. 

MURPH HENDERSON 


Program Specialist, Philadelphia Theatre Initiative 


phone (267) 350-4940 fax (267) 350-4997 

mhenderson@pcah.us 

JEONG-AH HEO 

Korea Arts Management Service 

Market Development 

B1F Daehangno Arts Theater, 1-67 Dongsung-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea 110-809 

phone +82 2 708 2287 fax +82 2 708 2243 

1107na@gokams.or.kr 

Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS), established in January 2006, is a branch organization of the 

Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of South Korea. KAMS offers multifaceted assistance in 

international exchanges, human resources training, research, and consultancy for arts groups and arts 

organizations in order to promote more effective arts management in Korea. 

F. JOHN HERBERT 

Legion Arts 


1103 Third Street SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 

phone (319) 364-1580 fax 319/362-9156 

john@legionarts.org 

F. John Herbert is co-founder and executive director of Legion Arts, an Iowa nonprofit dedicated to 

contemporary artists, community development, and cultural diversity, and a long-time NPN Partner. 

Based at CSPS, a renovated Czech social hall in downtown Cedar Rapids, Legion Arts maintains 

vigorous presenting programs in the visual and performing arts. 

KATIE HERRON HERRON ROBB 

Pangea World Theater 

Office Manager/Ensemble Member 

711 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408

phone (612) 822-0015 fax (612) 821-1070 

katie@pangeaworldtheater.org 


Katie is office manager of Pangea World Theater and has been with the company since 2000. As a 

performing ensemble member of Pangea World Theater, she has acted in numerous productions, most 

recently creating a solo show "Solo Flight" for the Alternate Visions Series. Her solo performance 

"Mirror, Mirror" was commissioned in 2006 by the Naked Stages program at Intermedia Arts, funded 

by the Jerome Foundation. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in theatre arts 

and minor in mathematics, and also trained with the Flinders Drama Centre in Adelaide, Australia and 

DAH Teatar in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. Katie is on the executive committee of the 

Minnesota Association for Experiential Learning (MAFEL) as membership coordinator. 

CHAD HERZOG 

Juniata College 

Director of the Performing Arts 

1700 Moore Street, Huntingdon, PA 16652 

phone 814-641-3608 

herzogc@juniata.edu 

RODNEY HILL 

Rennie Harris RHAW 

Company Manager 

P.O.Box 1254, Sharon Hill, PA 19079 

phone 267-236-4097 

igetrhaw@gmail.com 

Conceived in 2007, founder Rennie Harris originally founded Rennie Harris Awe-inspiring Works as a 

youth organization driven by community outreach, education i.e. lectures and classes, as well as 

mentorship. Harris' inspiration for this youth driven company was inspired by the overwhelming 

interest from teens and young adults to join his internationally renowned company Rennie Harris 

Puremovement. Ultimately RHAW is a perfessional company that will teach its pre-professional 

dancers: professionalism, production, Street Dance History, technique in the various styles of street 

dance, such as but not limited to, Campbell Locking, Popping & Boogaloo, B-boy/girl, House and Hip 

hop dance. RHAW will usher in Rennie Harris' newest and brightest street dancers. 

KENYATTA A.C. HINKLE 

4717 Elmwood Ave #105, Valencia, CA 91355 

phone (443) 248-5364 

kenyattahinkle@alum.calarts.edu


Interdisciplinary visual artist, performer and writer, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, was born in the West End of 

Louisville, KY and is a descendant of Kentifrica. She received her B.F.A from the Maryland Institute 

College of Art in Painting. She is also an alumna of the New York Studio AICAD Program. Hinkle has 

exhibited work at American University in Washington D.C., Project Row Houses in Houston, TX, The 

Hammer Museum, and The Barnsdall Theater and was the youngest artist to participate in the Made in 

LA 2012 Biennial. Hinkle is the recipient of many awards and honors including the Jacob K. Javits 

Full Fellowship for Graduate Study (2009), The National Scholastics Excellence in Art Silver Portfolio 

Award (2005), and the Emerging Leader Award (2007) from the Maryland Institute College of Art. 

MAKOTO HIRANO 


Co-Founder 

1170 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146 

phone (773) 988-3508 

mgunr@msn.com 

Makoto Hirano is an award-winning Philadelphia-based choreographer and performer. His solo and 

ensemble dance-theatre works have been presented by numerous national venues and festivals 

including Yale University, National Asian American Theater Festival, and Philadelphia Live Arts 

Festival. Performer highlights include work with Bill Irwin, Pig Iron Theatre Company, and Subcircle. 

In 2008, Hirano co-founded the versatile Team Sunshine Performance Corporation, dedicated to 

creating unique, hybrid events grounded in physical theatre. In addition to performing, Hirano is a 

Facilitator with Artists U, a 9-month professional development program for performance artists. A 

former-U.S. Marine, Hirano earned his BFA in Dance at Temple University. 

MAORI KARMAEL HOLMES 

Leeway Foundation 


1315 Walnut Street, Suite 832, Philadelphia, PA 19107 

phone 215-545-4078 fax 215-545-4021 

maori@leeway.org 

Maori Karmael Holmes is a filmmaker, writer, curator and producer. She has taught at Scribe Video 

Center, Temple University and Villanova University. She is a recipient of grants and awards from 

Independence Media, Leeway Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Women's Way. 

Maori is the founding artistic director of the BlackStar Film Festival and was named a Creative 

Ambassador by the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation. She currently works as the 

associate director at the Leeway Foundation.

ADAM HOROWITZ 

The Future Project 

302 Butler St, Brooklyn, NY 11217 

phone 4136588379 fax 4136588379 

adam.s.horowitz@gmail.com 

ANDREW MICHAEL HORWITZ 

Culturebot 

Founder and Director 

414 E. 58th St. #C4, New York, NY 10022 

phone 9172083703 

amhnyc@gmail.com 


Andrew Horwitz is the founder of Culturebot.org, the leading website devoted to contemporary 

performing arts, culture and ideas. Culturebot provides a platform for conversation, fostering new 

voices in critical writing and supporting thoughtful investigation of art and artists working across 

disciplines. Launched in December 2003 from Performance Space 122, it has continued independently 

since 2007. Andrew is currently the curator of The River To River Festival in NYC. He worked at 

PS122 from 200-2007 and from 2007-2009 curated the PRELUDE Festival at the Martin E. Segal 

Theater Center at the Graduate Center at CUNY. Andrew frequently serves as a panelist for arts 

organizations and funders. He also works with artists and organizations on strategic planning and 

project development. 

HEIDI S. HOWARD 

7 Stages 

Ed Director / Prod Manager 

1105 Euclid Avenue, NE, Atlanta, GA 30307 

phone (404) 522-8602 fax (404) 522-0913 

heidi@7stages.org 

Heidi S Howard is 7 Stages' ed director and prod manager, soon to be artistic director. Her favorites 

include Dracula, The Rock Opera, Klassvack's Dreamatorium, If the Art Fits YC 07, Maria Kizito, and 

HAIR. She has toured the USA, Serbia and China. She studied directing with the Lincoln Center 

Director's Lab and DAH Training in Serbia. She received the TCG Observership and Future 

Collaborations grants to travel to The Netherlands, and the International Travel Grant to continue work 

with DAH. Serving as the NPN rep and working alongside AD Del Hamilton, she develops residencies 

with world-renowned, nationally acclaimed, and local artists. "Theatre is a collaborative sport, by 

reaching across the table to create, we remind ourselves the peace is possible regardless of our 

differences."

JENNY A. HOWELL 


Program Assistant - Convenings 


phone (504) 595-8008 fax 504-595-8006 

jenny@npnweb.org 

JESSICA RENEE HUANG 


Development Associate 

711 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408 

phone (612) 822-0015 fax 612-821-1070 

jessica@pangeaworldtheater.org 


Jessica Huang has worked at Pangea World Theater as the development associate for the past year, and 

as an artist since 2009. She was a recipient of the Playwrights' Center's Many Voices Fellowship in FY 

2011-2012, and was an artist in residence for the Red Eye Collaborative's Works in Progress series in 

2010. Huang is a co-founder and core writer of The Unit Collective, a diverse community of 

under-represented theater professionals who nurture, develop, advocate and produce new work, and 

who produce Madness, a monthly evening of short plays. Huang's ten-minute play, "Mermaids" was a 

finalist for the KCACTF National Short Play Contest in 2009. She graduated with a degree in 

journalism from the University of Missouri in 2009. 

GERMAINE INGRAM 

1706 W. Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19130 

phone (215) 701-6136 

germing_5165@yahoo.com 

Germaine Ingram is a percussive dancer, choreographer, and vocal improviser. Her current projects 

involve multidisciplinary performance pieces that uncover hidden narratives related to local history and 

collective memory. She recently launched a professional learning communty of percussive dancers and 

dance improvisers who use history, collective memory, and social justice as content for their work. Her 

research, development, and performance work has been supported by the Pew Center for Arts & 

Heritage, the NEA, the Independence Foundation, the Haas Foundation, the Leeway Foundation, the 

Pa Council Humanities Council, and the Pa Council on the Arts. She was a 2010 Pew Fellow in the 

Arts.

DANA ANNE IOVA-KOGA 


Dancer 

351 Shotwell St, San Francisco, CA 94110 

phone 510-295-9805 

daisy@inkboat.com 

SHINICHI MOMO IOVA-KOGA 



351 Shotwell Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110 

phone 415-992-7705 

momoio@inkboat.com 


Japanese and European avant-garde developments from the 1960's form the core of Shinichi's aesthetic 

and physical training. His intensive collaborations from 1997 to 2005 in Berlin and Tokyo have been 

greatly influential and continue to provide a counterpoint to a San Francisco perspective. Today, 

Japanese traditional and martial arts inform the rigor that Shinichi applies to his teaching and creative 

process as he maintains the operation and artistic life of the San Francisco based performance company 

inkBoat, founded in 1998. Shinichi currently teaches dance at Mills College in Oakland, CA. He and 

his wife Dana run inkGround, a venue and studio for exploring dance in natural environments on the 

Lost Coast of California. 

GAYLE ISA 



1219 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107-1111 

phone (215) 557-0455 fax 215-557-9531 

gayle@asianartsinitiative.org 

CANDACE JACKSON 

Leveraging Investments in Creativity 


237 West 35th Street Suite 1202, New York, NY 10001 

phone 6467313275 

shin@lincnet.net

JEFFERSON JAMES 

Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc. 

Artistic & Executive Director 

744 Betula Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229 

phone (513) 591-2557 fax (513) 281-6450 

jfrsonj@aol.com 


Jefferson James founded Contemporary Dance Theater in 1972. She moved to Cincinnati from NYC 

and is a past member and chair of Cincinnati Arts Allocation Committee and the Regional Cultural 

Planning Committee of OH, KY & IN. Ms. James has received the Ohio Governor's Award in Arts 

Administration, the OhioDance Award and the Scripps-Corbett Lifetime Achievement Award. She 

served on the board of OhioDance for six years and is celebrating the 40th Anniversary of CDT this 

year. During those 40 years, Ms. James has presented over 225 dance presentations and overseen 

numerous productions of new work. She has received choreography fellowships from the NEA and the 

Ohio Arts Council. She is currently chair of the Greater Cincinnati Dance Alliance, a networking and 

service org. for dance. 

FREDRICA JARCHO 

215 West 101st Street, New York, NY 10025-5051 

phone 9176967089 

fjarcho@gmail.com 

EMILY AUGUST JOHNSON 

Catalyst 

Director/ Choreographer 

P.O. Box 18262, Minneapolis, MN 55418 

phone (612) 597-7400 fax n/a 

emily@catalystdance.com 

KELLE SHAMENA JOLLY 

Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. 

Cast Member 

135 E.Scott Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917 

phone 865-622-7174 fax 865-544-0447 

myjollyboy@gmail.com 

Kelle Jolly is a graduate of South Carolina State University, where she earned a B.S. in music 

education with concentrations in voice. She currently resides in Knoxville, TN where she works in the


community as a singer, actress, organizer and fashion designer. Kelle Jolly is an ensemble member of 

The Carpetbag Theatre. She is currently exploring puppetry arts. Ms. Jolly's infectious stage presence 

and unique style demonstrates a hybrid of sensitive song styling with conservative bursts of courageous 

musical creativity. She can surprise with anything from passionate ethno-rhythmic scat singing to 

whistle tones to comedy. www.kellejolly.com 

LELA AISHA JONES 

FlyGround 

Founder - Artistic Director 

806 69th Avenue 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19126 

phone 8504599021 

flyground@gmail.com 

Lela Aisha Jones is a native of Tallahassee, Florida and is at home when creating. While in movement 

she found her entry point as an artist, she cannot be defined by one discipline or practice; her 

experiences have lead to a more nomadic existence. She is the founder of FlyGround - her creative 

home, co-founder of The Requisite Movers, and the development coordinator for, as a well as a 

member of, Mascher Space Co-op. Lela walks with her transitioned, as well as living, family; she is 

humbled and so thankful for all those who have nurtured her, especially her grandfather, mom, dad, 

and sister. 

RHODESSA JONES 

Cultural Odyssey 

Co-Artistic Director 

P.O. Box 156680, San Francisco, CA 94115 

phone (415) 292-1850 fax (415) 346-9163 

rhodessa@culturalodyssey.org 

RHODESSA JONES is co-artistic director of the San Francisco acclaimed performance company 

Cultural Odyssey. She is an actress, teacher, singer, and writer. Ms. Jones is also the director of the 

award winning Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, which is a performance workshop that 

is designed to achieve personal and social transformation with incarcerated women. Rhodessa was 

most recently selected as an "Arts Envoy" by the U.S. Department of State to conduct an international 

six-week residency/workshop process inside the Naturena Women's Prison in Johannesburg, South 

Africa. In December of 2007 Ms. Jones received a United States Artist Fellowship to support her work. 

Rhodessa is currently directing a "re-mix" of Sekou Sundiata's "Blessing the Boats." 

GRETCHEN JUDE 

inkBoat


inkBoat, San Francisco, CA 94606 

phone 510-779-7101 

gretchenjude@gmail.com 

ALBERTO JUSTINIANO 

Teatro del Pueblo 


209 Page Street W. Suite 208, Saint Paul, MN 55107 

phone (651) 224-8806 

al@teatrodelpueblo.org 


Al Justiniano is a filmmaker, playwright and theater artist affiliated with Teatro del Pueblo a Latino 

professional theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. As a playwright, he has written series of 12 children plays, 

musical plays and full-length stage play of which eight have been produced at Stepping Stone theater, 

The Wellstone Center and Teatro del Pueblo. He is a working artist in addition to serving as producer 

and artistic director at Teatro del Pueblo. He has studied and investigated the dynamics and art of 

collaboration for the past 21 years. He has been the recipient of The Many Voices Fellowship at the 

playwright Center in Minneapolis and Leadership in the Art award. 

KENNEDY KABASARES 



phone 2136183223 

kennedy@imjustaguy.com 

CHRIS ELI KAMINSTEIN 

Goat in the Road Productions 

Co-Artistic Director 

3400 Dauphine St., New Orleans, LA 70117-6244 

phone (610) 220-6739 

ckaminstein@gmail.com 

Chris Kaminstein is an actor, writer, director and co-artistic director of the New Orleans-based 

performance ensemble Goat in the Road. Over the past few years Goat in the Road has made a series of 

pieces that take a humorous/fantastical/all-too-real approach to our American political myths, including 

the critically acclaimed "Our Man." In addition to his work with Goat in the Road, Kaminstein is an


improviser with The New Movement Theater, and an arts-integration teacher in the New Orleans 

school system. Goat in the Road has received funding through NPN’s Performing Americas Program 

for its ongoing collaboration with Guatemalan theater group Artzenico. 

PEILING KAO 


Performer 


phone 510-579-7079 

kpl6226@gmail.com 

JAMES KASS 




phone 415.255.9035 ext 11 fax 415.255.9065 

jkass@youthspeaks.org 

TRACI AKEMI KATO-KIRIYAMA 

Artists Exchange 

Co-Director 

16011 Halldale Avenue, Gardena, CA 90247 

phone (323) 868-6532 

traciakemi@gmail.com 

...multidisciplinary performing artist; actor; author & columnist; educator; community organizer. 

Touring since 1996 throughout the States and in Toronto to countless venues from theatres & festivals 

to universities, libraries & nightclubs - in projects with a heavy emphasis on collaborative & ensemble 

work. Whether commenting on L.A. & love, peace or polyamory, commission hearings or croissants, 

traci's work strives to dig underneath the surface to draw out desire, struggle & connection present in 

any situation. Current incl: "PULL: Tales of Obsession" (theatre, CCI-award); work on second book of 

poetry for 2013 (Writ Large Press); "Wellness & the AA Community" (teaching artist, Claremont 

Colleges); Tuesday Night Project director (art+community space); Madeleine (Flying Platforms band). 

JESSE M KELLER 

The Yard 

Resident Director of Island Programs & Education, Co-Producer 

PO Box 405, Chilmark, MA 02535

phone 508-645-9662 

jessekeller@dancetheyard.org 

ARNOLD JOSEPH KEMP 

537 Metropolitan Avenue #502, Brooklyn, NY 11211 

phone (415) 218-9541 

ajkemp2@earthlink.net 


ARNOLD J. KEMP was recently named Chair of the Master in Fine Arts in Visual Studies Program at 

Pacific Northwest College of Art. He has received awards from Printed Matter, Art Matters, the Joan 

Mitchell Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Artadia Fund for Art, and the John Simon 

Guggenheim Foundation. His works are in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, The 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Tacoma Art Museum, The Fine Arts Collection, UC Davis and the 

Studio Museum in Harlem. 

KERRY KENNEDY 

Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator 

Grants Writer 

686 N 56 street, Miami, FL 33137 

phone 954-235-8041 

kerrkenn@yahoo.com 

Kerry Kennedy lives in Syracuse and Ft. Lauderdale. She holds a BA in psychology and a MA in art 

history. Kerry is a writer/playwright and has worked with both artists/the public to create projects that 

affect the community. Ms. Kennedy's primary goal is to provide audiences with access to the arts/arts 

education, through public art, performance and workshops. Kerry Kennedy has a great deal of 

experience with cultural institutions. She has worked with museums, botanical gardens, historic homes, 

public art programs, performing arts organizations and provides community development facilitation. 

KRISTAN ELIZABETH KENNEDY 

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art 

Visual Art Program Director 

415 SW 10th AVENUE, SUITE 300, Portland, OR 97205 

phone (503) 242-1419 fax 5032421419 

kristan@pica.org 

Kristan Kennedy is an artist and a curator and educator based in Portland, Oregon. Kennedy has been 

working for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art since 2003 where she works with artists to 

develop projects through residencies , commissions, exhibitions and publications. Kennedy is


represented by Fourteen30 Contemporary, teaches Contemporary Art History at Portland State 

University and curates the PSU MFA Studio Practice Visiting Artist and Lecture Series. She is a 

Curatorial Advisor for the Artist Pension Trust and exhibits and lectures about her work 

internationally. 

SARAH KIM 




phone (323) 839 0796 

skimmusic@gmail.com 

SKIM is a Queens-raised, L.A.-based emcee/songwriter and activist and is a trailblazer in every way. 

SKIM weaves together stories of life, movement and love with her fiery rap lyrics mixed with her 

sultry singing. She has emerged as one of the most refreshing new artists from the Los Angeles 

soundscape as she flows through elements of hip hop, spoken word and Korean folk music. Her reach 

is continually expanding as her soulful sounds echo across the nation - whether at the Michigan 

Women's Music or San Francisco's Pride Festivals, at college campuses or juvenile halls, on HBO's 

Def Poetry or on Pacifica Radio, harmonizing with the Chicago Children's Choir or opening for 

KRS-One. Her album For Every Tear debuted in 2006, and features iconic underground anthems 

"Unfamiliar" and "Long Story." 

SOOMI KIM 


volunteer 


phone 646-326-1233 

soomdawg@gmail.com 

Soomi Kim is an actor/performing artist based in NYC. She performs her own work as well as working 

with other artists, mostly in the collaborative setting. Her pieces include: Lee/gendary, Dictee: bells fall 

a peal to sky and Chang(e) (currently in development through HERE Arts Residence Program). Her 

works have been featured in the National Asian American Theater Festival (NYC and LA), Culture 

Projectâ€s Women Center Stage Festival, HERE Arts Center and the Asian Arts Initiative. 

Lee/gendary won the 2009 New York Innovative Award for Outstanding Production of a Play. 

JAAMIL OLAWALE KOSOKO 

The Philadiction Movement & anonymous bodies || art collective 

Co-Director

1000 South Street, Apt. C, Philadelphia, PA 19147 

phone 267 270 5671 

jaamil@anonymousbodies.org 


Jaamil Olawale Kosoko is a performance curator, poet, and performance artist. He is a 2012 Live Arts 

Brewery Fellow as a part of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, a 2011 Fellow as a part of the DeVos 

Institute of Art Management at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and a certificate 

candidate at the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University, is a 

poet, choreographer, and performance artist. He is the Co-Director of anonymous bodies, a site based 

performance company based in Philadelphia. His work in theater and dance has received support from 

The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through Dance Advance, The Philadelphia Cultural 

Management Initiative, The Joyce Theater Foundation, and The Philadelphia Cultural Fund. 

JOHN KRAMEL 

Tigertail Productions, Inc. 

Director of Operations 

842 NW 9th Court, Miami, FL 33136 

phone 305 324 4337 fax 305 324 4337 

jkramel@tigertail.org 

JOHN KRAMEL is the Director of Operations for Tigertail. A native of Cleveland, Ohio John Kramel 

came to Tigertail from a long career in computer application development. He graduated from Florida 

International University with degrees in Computer Science and English. His passion for the arts has 

involved him in theater, music and visual arts for most of his life. John volunteered for Tigertail for 

many years in IT, web design and event production before joining the staff. 

SARAH NAOMI KRAMER 

Dance Place 

Production Manager & Development Associate 


phone (202) 269-1600 fax 202-269-4103 

sarahk@danceplace.org 

FRAN KUMIN 


Director, Philadelphia Theatre Initiative 


phone (267) 350-4940 fax (267) 350-4997 

fkumin@pcah.us


Fran Kumin is the director of the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative at The Pew Center for Arts & 

Heritage. Since 1995, the initiative has funded 209 projects, investing almost $11.5 million in the 

artistic development of the region's professional theater. Fran previously served as a vice president of 

Theatre Communications Group, the national organization of the American theater, where she 

supervised a broad range of artistic and management programs and coordinated that organization's 

research and advocacy efforts. Earlier, Fran cast close to 40 Broadway plays and 100 regional theater 

productions, including premieres by August Wilson, Athol Fugard, and Tom Stoppard. She is a 

graduate of Wellesley College and the Yale School of Drama where she later served on the faculty. 

DAN KIT KWONG 

Great Leap, Inc. 

Performance Artist/Video Artist 

1629 18th Street #10, Santa Monica, CA 90404 

phone (310) 453-4544 

dkbb12@aol.com 

Dan Kwong has been performing his solo multimedia work nationally and internationally since 1989. 

His ground-breaking performances and workshops have played a key role in the development of the 

next generation of Asian American solo performers. In February he assumed the position of associate 

artistic director of Great Leap, the multicultural performing arts organization in Los Angeles founded 

by Nobuko Miyamoto. His play "Be Like Water" was produced by East West Players in 2008 and in 

the last 3 years he has been directing and editing environmentally-themed music videos for Great Leap. 

He is currently developing a new work on the topic of Asian American single motherhood, entitled 

"CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE." 

STEVE M LAMBERT 

Artist 

544 Main St. #9, Beacon, NY 12508 

phone (415) 533-3961 

steve@visitsteve.com 

Steve Lambert aims to make art for non-art audiences: work that is accessible, relevant, challenging, 

and often fun. Lambert's work has been shown everywhere from museums to protest marches 

nationally and internationally, featured in over fourteen books, four documentary films, and is in the 

collections of The Sheldon Museum, the Progressive Insurance Company, and the Library of Congress. 

Lambert has discussed his projects on NPR, the BBC, and CNN, and been featured in the New York 

Times, Harper's, Newsweek and others. He lives in Beacon, NY and dropped out of high school in 

1993.

ROSIE LANGABEER 

1105 Gerritt St, Philadelphia, PA 19147 

phone 2675885916 

rosielangabeer@gmail.com 

RACHEL LASTIMOSA 




phone 415-531-7897 

rmlastimosa@gmail.com 


RACHEL LASTIMOSA (Musician, Dirty Boots) musician, song writer, producer, instruments: voice, 

keys & bass. As a member of the R&B/rock band Dirty Boots, and former member of indie rock band 

Creeper Lagoon, San Diego native Rachel Lastimosa has contributed to the Bay Area music scene for 

the past 10 years. She plays frequently at clubs and venues around the Bay Area and has toured the 

U.S. She's co-produced and arranged full length albums: Long Dry Cold (2006), Creeper Lagoon; No 

One Really Knows (2009), Conchita Campos and Where We Go (2011), Dirty Boots. Currently, she is 

working on a collaborative album with Clockwise label mate, Professor Brian Oblivion. 

BETTY LEACRAFT 

Artist / Art Education Specialist 

P.O. Box 42643, Philadelphia, PA 19101-2643 

phone 215-763-4971 

bettyleacraft@yahoo.com 

I am a shape shifter of textile forms creating works which blend multiple fiber processes and surface 

design techniques. My work is informed by artistic and cultural traditions of Africa, the African 

Diaspora, and global textiles, is inspired by cultural contributions of African Americans, addressing 

themes of identity, heritage, nature, ritual, and cultural symbolism. In 2011 I was the recipient of a 

Leeway Foundation Transformation Award. 

REBEKAH LANAE LENGEL 

Miami Light Project 

Managing Producer 

PO Box 1048, Miami, FL 33137 

phone (305) 576-4350 fax (305) 576-6480 

rlengel@miamilightproject.com


Rebekah Lanae Lengel is Miami Light Project's managing producer and has been with the organization 

since 2002. In 2006, Ms. Lengel was selected by the Arts & Business Council of Miami as the 

co-recipient of the inaugural Miami Emerging Leaders Award; in 2005 she was recognized as a 

Leading Woman in South Florida's Urban Community by Urban America Newspaper and was, in the 

same year, selected by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters as one of 18 individuals across 

the country to participate in the 2005 Emerging Leaders Institute. She is currently a participant in the 

Arts Presenters Leadership Development Institute. Ms. Lengel is also an accomplished journalist and 

playwright, whose work has been published in three languages. 

TOBY LEVIN 

Robert Rauschenberg Foundation 

Grants Administrator 

381 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003 

phone (212) 228-5283 

info@rauschenbergfoundation.org 

SHEILA LEWANDOWSKI 

The Chocolate Factory Theater 


5-49 49th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101 

phone (718) 482-7069 fax 718 4827069 

sheila@chocolatefactorytheater.org 

MELISSA LI 

631 Sterling Place, 3L, Brooklyn, NY 11238 

phone (617) 818-0418 

melsaboo@gmail.com 

Melissa Li is a writer, composer, and performer based in Brooklyn. She was a recipient of the 2007 

Jonathan Larson Award and her first musical, Surviving the Nian, co-written by Abe Rybeck, was 

produced by The Theater Offensive that same year. She toured nationally in the band Good Asian 

Drivers from 2008-2010 and currently fronts the band Melissa Li and The Barely Theirs. In addition, 

she's co-writing 99% Stone, a musical based on the events leading up to and resulting from the 

Stonewall Riots, with playwright Letta Neely. She is also currently a Queer Art Mentorship fellow and 

will be working with performer/writer Moe Angelos through September 2014. 

STEVE D LIGGETT 

Living Arts of Tulsa, Inc.


307 East Brady Street, Tulsa, OK 74120 

phone (918) 585-1234 fax (918) 585-1234 

steve@livingarts.org 


Living Arts of Tulsa hosts twelve programs: Video/New Media Program, the Myers Gallery, Spoken 

Word Series, Contemporary Dance Program, the Performance Network, PechaKucha Tulsa, New 

Music, Education Program, Dance, Dia de Los Muertos Arts Festival, African Drumming Program, 

The Tulsa ArtCar Weekend as well as The New Genre Festival. Living Arts became the recipient of 

the first award in the state of Oklahoma from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the 

National Performance Network. Recently the Living Arts board has increased the staff to 2 full time 

and contracted workers to 4 and has just started a retirement plan for the artistic director position. We 

have a wonderful 14,000 sq ft space for presentation and 6,000 sq ft for research/development & 

residency program. 

RENAY LOPER 

Center for Global Partnerships, Grassroots Exchange and Education 

Associate Program Officer 

152 W. 57th Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10019 

phone (212) 489-1255 fax (212) 489-1344 

renay_loper@cgp.org 

ABEL LOPEZ 

GALA Hispanic Theatre 

Associate Producing Director 

P.O. Box 43209, Washington, DC 20010 

phone (202) 234-7174 fax (202) 332-1247 

abel@galatheatre.org 

MARY LUFT 

Tigertail Productions, Inc. 


842 NW 9th Court, Miami, FL 33136 

phone (305) 324-4337 fax (305) 545-8546 

mluft@tigertail.org 

MARY LUFT is the founder and executive director of Tigertail Productions, a 33 year old, 

Miami-based not-for-profit organization that is committed to the creation and presentation of new work 

in music, dance, poetry and the visual arts. Ms. Luft has received numerous grants and honors


including a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil and four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. She 

has served as a Hub Site for the National Dance Project and is currently a National Council Member of 

the Atlantic Center for the Performing Arts. 

GEORGE LUGG 

REDCAT/Roy and Edna Disney, CalArts Theater 


631 W. 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 

phone 213-237-2814 fax 213-237-2811 

george.lugg@calarts.edu 

George Lugg, associate director of the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), has been 

working in the field of contemporary performance since 1991. At REDCAT he oversees the 

implementation of a diverse array of multidisciplinary programming, serves on the curatorial team for 

dance and theater, coordinates an ongoing series for new works and works-in-progress, and produces 

the annual New Original Works Festival. In addition to his work at REDCAT, he is currently lead 

program consultant in the performing arts for the Creative Capital Foundation (2011-2012), and a Hub 

Site Representative for the National Dance Project (2012-14). He has served as a member of the U.S. 

curatorial team for the National Performance Network's Performing Americas Program and numerous 

juries and panels. 

SUSIE LUNDY 


Manager of Grants & Foundations 


phone (415) 255-9035 x21 

slundy@youthspeaks.org 

Susie Lundy is the director: grants & foundations at Youth Speaks. Susie is experienced in institutional 

development bringing a creative vision and a depth of experience with community-based culture. She 

has worked in community arts programs and taught in school and university classrooms in the Bay 

Area for the past fourteen years. Susie has worked with the Museum of Children's Art, Eastside Arts 

Alliance, Oakland Leaf, La Peña Cultural Center, and Youth Speaks, Inc. Her experience includes: 

grant writing and administration; program development and coordination; budget oversight; teaching 

and curriculum development; faculty professional development; and long term strategic planning. She 

has taught at the University of San Francisco and The New College in their arts education programs. 

ADRIENNE MACKEY 

Swim Pony Performing Arts

Founder 

1835 S 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19148 

phone 847-309-1266 

amackey1@gmail.com 


Adrienne Mackey is the founder of Swim Pony Performing Arts. She conceived and directed 

SURVIVE! - a 22,000 sq foot choose-your-own adventure installation of the multi-verse as well as 

LADY M (2011 Phila. Live Arts): an all female spectacle based on Shakespeare's Macbeth. She 

directed THE GIANT SQUID a Crypto-zoology-horror-comedy that will swim to the Academy of 

Natural Sciences as part of a $50,000 grant from the Knight Foundation. Adrienne has been a LAB 

Fellow and won the CEC's New Edge Residency and an Independence Foundation Fellowship (2008). 

Her study of alternative voice has taken her to France's Pantheatre and Roy Hart Voice Centre. She 

teaches at Drexel University and can be heard singing 70's funk as "The Truth" on Johnny Showcase's 

album "Love is the Message." 

STEVE MACQUEEN 

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts 


153 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 

phone (802) 652-4500 fax (802) 863-8788 

smacqueen@flynncenter.org 

ARNIE MALINA 

Consultant 

111 Foster Street, Burlington, VT 05401 

phone (802) 658-9568 

arniemalina@gmail.com 

Recently retired from the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and founder of Helena Presents/Myrna 

Loy Center in Montana, Malina has been involved with the NPN as current board member and former 

partner since the 80's. He lives in Burlington Vermont and recently accepted an artistic consultant 

position with the Mahaiwe Performng Arts Center in Great Barrington, MA. 

JOHN DAVID MALPEDE 

Los Angeles Poverty Department 

P.O. Box 26190, Los Angeles, CA 90026 

phone 213-413-1077 

jmalfoot@aol.com


John Malpede, directs and performs. In 1985, Malpede founded and continues to direct the Los 

Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD). Recent work includes LA Poverty Department's "Walk the 

Talk" and "State of Incarceration," co-directed by Malpede and Henriette Brouwers and performed at 

The Box Gallery, Highways Performance Space, and the Radar LA Festival; as a collaborating 

performer in Wunderbaum's "Looking for Paul," at the REDCAT Theater and Stadsschouwburg's in 

Rotterdam and Amsterdam; and "Bright Futures" directed by Malpede and performed by Nell Breyer, 

Malpede, and Tanya Selvaratnam at MIT and NYC's Performa Festival. 

ALISON L MANNING 

The Yard 

Associate Director & General Manager 

PO Box 405, Chilmark, MA 02535 

phone (508) 645-9662 

alisonmanning@dancetheyard.org 

Alison L Manning, The Yard's managing director & co-producer, has been working with the Martha's 

Vineyard based arts organization for 5 years to bring performing arts to the local community, and 

provide meaningful residency opportunities for artists each season. In her spare time she co-directs 

(with partner Jesse Keller) and performs with YARDWorks, The Yard's year-round company of 

educators and artists, and freelances with The Peggy Spina Tap Company, Xodus Dance Collective, 

and Naomi Goldberg Haas' Dances for a Variable Population among others. Alison teaches Horton 

Technique at STEPS on Broadway, Peridance Capezio Center, The Yard, and The Performing Arts 

Center of Connecticut. 

PAULA MARINCOLA 




phone (267) 350-4930 

pmarincola@pcah.us 

LOUISE PILAR MARTORANO 


Deputy Director 

2350 Arapahoe St, Denver, CO 80205 

phone 303-296-4448 fax 303-296-4449 

louise.martorano@redlineart.org


Louise Martorano holds a M.H. from The University of Colorado at Denver with a focus in 

Contemporary Art History & Music and has ten years management experience in both for-profit and 

non-profit arts organizations. In addition, Martorano has four years experience in the film industry 

producing and fundraising for independent films that have received international festival recognition in 

Dallas, Austin, Poland, and Denver. Presently, Martorano is the Deputy Director of RedLine Denver, a 

non-profit arts organization committed to the convergence of art, community and education. 

VIJAY MATHEW 

Center for the Theater Commons 


120 Boylston Street, c/o Office of the Arts, Emerson College, Boston, MA 02116 

phone (202) 600-4072 fax (202) 488-4056 

vijay@howlround.com 

Vijay Mathew - associate director of the Center for the Theater Commons at Emerson College - is 

privileged to assist a talented team by leading the Center's development of online knowledge sharing 

platforms and its notions of cultural innovation. Prior to his current position, he was the coordinator for 

the NEA New Play Development Program for two years, as well as a Theater Communication Group 

New Generations Future Leader grant recipient under David Dower's mentorship in new work at Arena 

Stage in Washington, DC. Vijay has a MFA from New School University and a BA from University of 

Chicago. Twitter: @vijay_mathew, Email: vijay (at) howlround (dot) com, Mobile: +1 917 686 3185 

KERYL MCCORD 

Alternate ROOTS 

Director Resource Development 

1083 Austin Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307 

phone 404-577-1079 fax 404-577-7991 

keryl@alternateroots.org 

Keryl handles development and marketing for Alternate ROOTS, a regional network of progressive 

activist artists based in Atlanta, serving the fourteen states of the South. ROOTS is a regional 

organization with national impact and influence. She has been with ROOTS almost four years, and is 

delighted to work with an amazing group of artists and cultural workers from the South and across the 

US. 

KIYOKO MCCRAE 

Junebug Productions, Inc. 

Managing Director

phone 504-577-0732 

kmccrae@junebugproductions.org 

STEPHANIE V. MCKEE 

Junebug Productions, Inc. 

Artistic Producing Director 

P.O. Box 2331, New Orleans, LA 70176 

phone (917) 476-2459 fax (586) 283-2729 

smckee@junebugproductions.org 

CASSIE MEADOR 

Dance Exchange 


7117 Maple Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912 

phone 301-270-6700 

ellen@danceexchange.org 


Cassie Meador is a choreographer, performer, educator and Artistic Director of the Dance Exchange. 

Cassie has taught and created dances in communities throughout the U.S. and internationally in Japan, 

Canada, London, Ireland, and Guyana. Born in Charleston, SC, and raised in Augusta, GA, Cassie 

received her B.F.A. in dance from The Ohio State University. She joined the performing company of 

the Dance Exchange in 2002 and assumed the role of Artistic Director in 2011. Her current 

choreographic project, How To Lose a Mountain, will incorporate a 500-mile walk from Washington, 

D.C. to West Virginia to trace the sources of the energy that fuel her home. The work will premiere in 

the spring of 2013. 

VICKI MEEK 


Manager 


phone (214) 670-0315 fax (214) 670-8118 

msart55@yahoo.com 

Vicki Meek is a nationally recognized visual artist who has exhibited widely. She earned her bachelor 

of fine arts from Tyler School of Fine Arts and her master of fine arts from the University of 

Wisconsin, Madison. Ms. Meek did post-graduate work in Art History at Queens College in New York. 

In addition to producing art, Vicki Meek has a long history as a curator and is an adjunct curator for the 

African American Museum in Dallas. Meek has over 35 years experience in arts administration and has 

held various teaching positions at Brookhaven College, Kentucky State University and Philadelphia


College of Art. She currently manages the South Dallas Cultural Center in Dallas, Texas and is on the 

adjunct faculty of Southern Methodist University's Masters of Liberal Studies Program. 

LAURA MERAGE 


Founder, Board President 

2350 Arapahoe St, Denver, CO 80205 

phone 303-296-4448 fax 303-296-4449 

imaginelaura@aol.com 

JAMIE MERWIN 

olive Dance Theatre 

Producing Artistic Director 

43 North Wiota, Philadelphia, PA 19104 

phone (215) 386-1411 fax (215) 386-0176 

olivedancetheatre@gmail.com 

Jamie is a Philadelphia based artist, maverick, organizer and educator. She works in community using 

hip-hop, theatre, dance and original text as a medium for creativity, growth and understanding. She 

collaborates often with New Orleans based Mondo Bizarro, Philadelphia's own Spiral Q and with 

several liked minded organizations nationally and internationally. She leads the artist driven and 

focused consulting group, Seed Management, which uses lateral strategies to guide and inform 

artist-administrators, artist-executives, artist-managers and all other hybrid creative and cultural 

workers with peer to peer advice. Our goal is to advance each others' visions and navigate our missions 

on the open waters of capitalism in hopes to grow a global community of empowered holistic artists! 

KEN METZNER 

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers 

Exec Director 

1316 S. Ninth St., Philadelphia, PA 19147 

phone (267) 294-8956 

kyldphilly@gmail.com 

A recovering corporate lawyer, Ken is Executive Director of Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers & its CHI 

Movement Arts Center in South Philadelphia. Formerly General Counsel for Saks Fifth Avenue in 

New York City, where he practiced law for 17 years, Ken is an ordained Interfaith Minister and a 

life-long student of Spirit. Ken received a B.S. in International Relations from Georgetown; General 

Course Diploma from the London School of Economics and his law degree from UVA. Ken served as 

a Trustee for the Alabama Ballet from 1999 to 2005 and in Philadelphia has served on the Advisory


Board of DanceUP and as a grant panelist for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. In 2012 Ken traveled to 

Germany and China as a delegate for American Dance Abroad at the Tanzmesse & Guangdong 

International Dance Festivals. 

WILLIAM BRYANT MILES 


Operations Coordinator 


phone 6467313275 fax 6467313289 

shin@lincnet.net 

AMANDA MILLER 

Miller Rothlein (MIRO) 


Girard College #160 2001 S. College Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19121 

phone (267) 888-6476 

amanda@millerrothlein.org 

Miller Rothlein (MIRO) creates and performs original work that explores the collaborative 

intersections of contemporary dance, video, and visual art. In 2004 dancer/choreographer Amanda 

Miller and video/visual artist Tobin Rothlein founded Miller Rothlein in order to realize their unique 

creative vision, and explore the intersections of contemporary dance, video, and visual art. Miller, with 

ten years experience as a dancer at the Pennsylvania Ballet and choreographic studies in Europe under 

Siobhan Davies, is at the helm of MIRO's choreographic exploration. Rothlein, whose work as video 

artist and visual designer for Rennie Harris Puremovement and others has garnered international 

accolades, oversees the company's work in combining dance, multi-media and visual arts. 

SAMUEL MILLER 

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 

President 

125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10038 

phone 617-699-9402 fax 212.219.2058 

smiller@lmcc.net 

MAGGIE MILLS 

723 Lower State Road, North Wales, PA 19454 

phone 2158724700 

awesomezone4000@gmail.com


In 2011, Maggie Mills was awarded a career development program fellowship at The Center for 

Emerging Visual Artists. For twelve years, she has worked to bring a voice to artists in under-served 

populations through education, exhibition, and building partnerships with innovative artists and 

institutions. Mill's work is grounded in the depiction of contemporary ruin: the decomposition of nature 

and industry and the fragmentation of time and space due to technology. She creates scenarios in which 

future generations navigate these inherited spaces with little guidance. She is currently working on a 

series of paintings documenting children's interactions with surrounding fragile ecosystems as part of a 

residency at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. 

YVONNE MONTOYA 

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center 


1300 Guadalupe Street, San Antonio, TX 78207 

phone (210) 271-3151 fax 210-2713480 

yvonnem@guadalupeculturalarts.org 

YVONNE MARIE MONTOYA 

Safos Dance Theatre 


7812 e. elida st, Tucson, AZ 85715 

phone (520) 481-1656 

ymontoyamartinez@gmail.com 

Yvonne Montoya is a dancer/choreographer and director of Safos Dance Theatre in Tucson, AZ. She 

danced for Tucson modern dance companies FUNHOUSE movement theater, New ARTiculations 

Dance Theatre and Zeffirelli 8. She also worked as a commissioned artist for "Undocumented Historias 

in the Desert of Dreams" co-produced by the Royal Society of the Arts, UK and the Fundación 

México. She is currently working with Denise Uyehara on her project "Bus Stop Dreaming." Yvonne 

continues to study modern dance technique with Norman Walker. 

TANYA MARINA MOTE 

El Centro Su Teatro 


721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204-4428 

phone (303) 296-0219 fax (303) 296-4614 

tanya@suteatro.org


Tanya Mote is the Associate Director at Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center. She is excited 

about cultural equity issues, community based arts organizations and the importance of the arts in a 

democracy. 

LISA MOUNT 

Artistic Logistics 

Director 

P.O. Box 602, Sautee Nacoochee, GA 30571 

phone (706) 839-7147 fax (866) 311-5526 

lqmount@earthlink.net 

Lisa Mount is an independent arts management consultant who works with a variety of arts 

organizations on strategic thinking, organizational advancement, and creative community cultural 

expansion. Her company, Artistic Logistics, is a consultants' cooperative that offers a working 

relationship that's personal, participatory, egalitarian, artist-centered, and fun. She is based in 

Sautee-Nacoochee, Georgia, one of the "100 Best Small Art Towns" in the U.S., where she produces 

and directs the annual community story performance "Headwaters." She served as the board chair of 

Alternate ROOTS from 2002-2004 and in 2008, she was named one of the 100 most influential 

Georgians by Georgia Trend Magazine. Lisa is a banjo player. 

LENELLE MOÏSE 

P.O. Box 1386, Northampton, MA 1061 

phone (413) 320-6253 fax (413) 584-9305 

lenelle@lenellemoise.com 

Lenelle Moïse is an award-winning writer and internationally-touring performance artist. She creates 

jazz-infused, politicized texts about Haitian-American identity and the intersection of race, class, 

gender, sexuality and magic. In addition to featured solo performances in venues as diverse as the 

Louisiana Superdome and the United Nations, Lenelle regularly performs her acclaimed 

autobiographical one-woman show "Womb-Words, Thirsting" at theatres and colleges across the USA. 

She was the fifth Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA, the Spring 2012 Visiting Performing Artist 

Fellow in African & African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin, and the Spring 2011 Mellon 

Artist-in-Residence in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. www.lenellemoise.com 

LB MUNOZ 

Real Art Ways 

Chief Vibe Officer 

56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 06106

phone (860) 232-1006 fax 860-233-6691 

lbmunoz@realartways.org 

KIRK MURPHY 

Sandglass Theater 

Administrator 

Po Box 970, Putney, VT 05346 

phone 802-387-4051 

kirk@sandglasstheater.org 


Kirk Murphy works with Sandglass Theater as office administrator, as well as performer. Kirk traveled 

with Sandglass to Cambodia in 2005 for the collaborative Story of the Dog project with Savanna Phum 

of Phnom Penh. He is currently a co-creator and performer in D-Generation: an Exaltation of Larks, 

Sandglass' newest production. 

TAIYO NA 


Performer 


phone 646-279-5714 

taiyo.na@gmail.com 

TAIYO NA Honored in 2010 by Governor David A. Paterson and the State of New York for his 

"legacy of leadership to the Asian American community and the Empire State," Taiyo Na is a singer, 

songwriter, MC, producer and actor. His critically acclaimed debut album Love is Growth (Issilah 

Productions, 2008) features the song "Lovely To Me (Immigrant Mother)," whose music video was 

heralded by MTV Iggy as "the realest thing seen in a while." In 2010 & 2011, he released the albums 

Home:Word & Home:Word [Deluxe Edition] with hip-hop duo Magnetic North. The title track off 

those albums was released as a single in Japan in March 2011 and hit #2 on their iTunes Hip- Hop 

charts. The albums also included the music videos "Summertime, "I Got My," "Fukushima," and 

"Home: Word," which was directed by Wong Fu Productions. 

SARA CRAWFORD NASH 

New England Foundation for the Arts 

Program Manager, National Dance Project 

145 Tremont St., 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02111 

phone 617-951-0010 x512 fax 617-951-0016 

snash@nefa.org

MEENA NATARAJAN 


Executive/Literary Director 

711 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408 

phone (612) 822-0015 fax (612) 821-1070 

meena@pangeaworldtheater.org 


Meena Natarajan is a playwright and director and the executive and literary director of Pangea World 

Theater, a progressive, international ensemble space for arts and dialogue. She has led the theater's 

growth since its founding in 1995. She serves on the boards of NPN and the Consortium of Asian 

American Theater and Artists. She was on the advisory council of the Community Arts Network and is 

past president of Women Playwrights International. She has written several full-length works for 

Pangea, ranging from adaptations of poetry and mythology to original works dealing with war, 

spirituality, personal and collective memory. 

LETTA SIMONE NEELY 

20 Annabel, Apt 1, Dorchester, MA 02125 

phone (617) 367-8611 

lettaneely30@gmail.com 

LISA NELSON HAYNES 

Painted Bride Art Center 



phone (215) 925-9914 x21 fax (215) 925-7402 

lhaynes@paintedbride.org 

RICHARD CHANDLER NEWMAN 

The Hinterlands 

Co-Director 

12645 Moran Street, Detroit, MI 48212 

phone 313.454.1756 

richard@thehinterlandsensemble.org 

RICHARD NEWMAN is the founding co-director of The Hinterlands (Detroit, MI). His art researches 

American performance traditions, subcultures, and archetypes through the creation of visceral and 

physical theatrical works. Often participatory and always explosive, his work re-imagines the theatrical 

space as a ground for ecstatic interaction between performer and audience. Prior to founding The


Hinterlands he was an ensemble member of Double Edge Theatre (Ashfield, MA), a collaborating 

artist with The Dell'Arte Company (Blue Lake, CA) and Bond Street Theatre (New York, NY), and 

co-founder of The Breaking Bread Performance Project, an ongoing collaboration between U.S. and 

Kosovar artists. 

ED NOONAN 

Myrna Loy Center/Helena Presents 


316 8th Avenue, Helena, MT 59601 

phone (406) 443-0287 fax 406 443 6620 

noonaned@aol.com 

SHAVON NORRIS 

idiosynCrazy productions 

co-Director 

615 South 48th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19143 

phone 9144393673 

shavon@idiosyncrazy.org 

Shavon Norris is an artist, educator and performer. Originally from New York City, she received a BA 

from Manhattanville College where she majored in Biology and a Master of Fine Arts in dance from 

Temple University. As a dance maker, Shavon's work has been presented at Manhattanville College, 

The Philadelphia Live Arts and Fringe Festival, Temple University, The National Constitutional 

Center, Art's Sanctuary, Chester Eastside Ministries, the CEC, and at Joyce Soho. Shavon's artistic and 

educational philosophies are rooted in the desire to give herself, students, performers and audiences 

opportunities to deepen the understanding of self and the collective. 

MOLLY O'CONNOR 

Living Arts of Tulsa, Inc. 

307 East Brady Street, Tulsa, OK 74120 

phone (405) 521-2931 

molly.oconnor@arts.ok.gov 

Molly O'Connor is a multi-disciplanry artist from Oklahoma City. Her work includes: solo 

performance, creative writing and sculpture. She is also Director of Cultural Development for the 

Oklahoma Arts Council. www.mollyoconnor.com

CYNTHIA OLIVER 

COCo Dance Theatre 


205 West Illinois Street, Urbana, IL 61801 

phone (217) 384-8231 fax (217) 333-3000 

info@cynthiaoliver.com 


Cynthia is a former dancer with numerous companies including the David Gordon Pick Up Co., Ronald 

Kevin Brown/Evidence, and Bebe Miller Co. A woman of Caribbean descent, Cynthia's work is a 

melange of dance, theatre and the spoken word, and incorporates textures of Caribbean performance 

with African and American sensibilities. Ms. Oliver is an award-winning choreographer who has 

earned a New York Dance and Performance Award (a Bessie), a CalArts Alpert Award nomination by 

her peers in the dance field, and a University Scholar award in 2011 from the University of Illinois 

where she is Professor of Dance. 

MICHAEL J ORLOVE 

National Endowment for the Arts 

Artist Communities & Presenting Director 

Public Affairs 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Room 614, Washington, DC 20506 

phone (202) 682-5028 fax (202) 682-5638 

orlovem@arts.gov 

MICHELLE ANGELA ORTIZ 

Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation 

Program Manager 

230 South Broad Street, Suite 1003, Philadelphia, PA 19102 

phone 215-545-4037 

info@bartol.org 

Michelle Angela Ortiz is a visual artist/ skilled muralist/ community arts educator who uses her art as a 

vehicle to represent people and communities whose histories are often lost or co-opted. Through 

painting, printmaking, and community arts practices, she creates a safe space for dialogue around some 

of the most profound issues communities and individuals may face. Her work tells stories using richly 

crafted and emotive imagery to claim and transform "blighted" spaces into a visual affirmation that 

reveals the strength and spirit of the community. In 2007, she joined the Stockton Rush Bartol 

Foundation as the program manager where she has developed programs and workshops to support the 

professional development of teaching artists.

JOAN KIMIKO OSATO 




phone 415-710-7427 fax 4152559065 

josato@youthspeaks.org 


Joan is producing director of Youth Speaks, Inc. She is in charge of the public performances, events 

and festivals of the company including Brave New Voices International Poetry Festival, The Living 

Word Festival and Life is Living. She produces and tours the repertory works of The Living Word 

Project including recent works: red, black and GREEN: a blues, Tree City Legends, and Word 

Becomes Flesh. 

LILLIAN OSEI-BOATENG 

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation 

Program Associate for the Arts 

Office of Grants Administration 650 Fifth Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10019 

phone 212-974-7109 

losei-boateng@ddcf.org 

Lillian Osei-Boateng serves as the program associate for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable 

Foundation in New York, NY. In that capacity, she assists with the supervision of a $13 million grants 

program focused on organizations and artists in the theatre, contemporary dance, jazz and presenting 

fields. She joined the foundation in December of 2005. Prior to working at DDCF she was the program 

assistant at Fractured Atlas, an arts organization that provides services, resources, and support to 

independent artists and arts organizations to help them better focus on their creative responsibilities. 

She has also worked in advertising, writing and editing for dance and theatre magazines. She holds a 

B.F.A. from New York University. She is currently working on her M.P.A at Baruch College. 

SHIN OTAKE 


Program Assistant 


phone 6467313275 fax 6467313289 

shin@lincnet.net 

DARL ANDREW PACKARD 


Technical Director/Lighting Designer


phone 443-801-2024 

darl.a.packard@gmail.com 


DARL ANDREW PACKARD (Technical Director/Lighting Designer) is a theater artist originally 

from Baltimore, MD where he attended Goucher College. After a short stint behind the scenes in 

television he moved to San Francisco to pursue theater work with Josh Kornbluth, Word for Word 

Performing Arts and the Z Space Studio. He has extensive design experience, apprenticing video 

designer David Szlasa and lighting designer Allen Wilner, while also accumulating his own design 

credits for work with Golden Thread Productions, Crowded Fire Theater, Amara Tabor-Smith/Deep 

Waters Dance, and Adia Tamar-Whitaker/Ase Dance among many others. Packard is a 2-time recipient 

of the Lighting Artist in Dance Award. He has served as the Production Manager and Technical 

Director for CounterPULSE. 

MYRNA PACKER 

Bridgman|Packer Dance 

Co-director 

281 Old Mill Rd., Valley Cottage, NY 10989 

phone 845 268-9008 fax 845 268-9008 

dancebp@gmail.com 

Myrna Packer is co-artistic director of Bridgman|Packer Dance with her partner Art Bridgman. Their 

work focuses on the integration of live performance and video technology. Recipients of a 2008 

Guggenheim Fellowship Award, they have also received 3 NPN Creation Fund Awards, NEA Grants 

for the past 6 consecutive years, 2 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, 2 New England 

Foundation for the Arts Expeditions Touring Grants,and commissions from DTW (now NYLA), 

Danspace Project, 92nd St Y New Works in Dance Fund, DNA, and Portland Ovations.They have 

toured throughout USA, Europe and Asia, and with NPN's Performing Americas Program throughout 

Central America. Their newest work, VOYEUR,is designed to be performed in gallery spaces as well 

as theaters and includes a video installation component. 

CASSANDRA JACKSON PARKER NOWICKI 

Carver Community Cultural Center 

Cultural Center Supervisor 

226 North Hackberry Street, San Antonio, TX 78202 

phone (210) 207-2718 fax (210) 207-4412 

cassandraparker.nowicki@sanantonio.gov


Cassandra Parker-Nowicki is the cultural center supervisor for the Carver Community Cultural Center 

in San Antonio, Texas, where she assists with programming, development and the administration of the 

multi-cultural, multidisciplinary performing and visuals arts center. Cassandra holds a bachelor of fine 

arts in theatre arts from Southwestern University (Georgetown, TX). 

LINDA SUSAN PARRIS-BAILEY 

Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. 

Executive/Artistic Director 

100 South Gay Street Suites 106 and 114, Knoxville, TN 37902 

phone (865) 544-0447 fax (865) 544-0447 

lindapb1@aol.com 

Linda Parris-Bailey has written numerous touring works for The Carpetbag Theatre and has produced 

commissioned works for national theater companies and communities across the country. Her 

published works can be found in several anthologies including "Breathing the Same Air," "Ensemble 

Works!" and "Alternate ROOTS, Plays From The Southern Theater." Her latest work "Speed Killed 

My Cousin," recently premiered at the Knoxville TN/Harlan KY Micro-Fest, a project of the Network 

of Ensemble Theaters (NET). She is an adviser to the International Women Playwrights Conference 

and a board member of NET. She is currently participating in the Directing and Ensemble Creation 

Institute at Pangea World Theater in Minneapolis, sponsored by Pangea World Theater and Art 2 

Action and national networks. 

JEN MAY F PASTORES 

Jen May Photography 

Artist 

2910 W Ashland Ave, Visalia, CA 93277 

phone 818-534-7409 

jenmay@jenmayphotography.com 

I grew up in a world of constant change, moving from city to city, and I carry that into my 

documentary work. Besides working with youth, I'm a wedding and portrait photographer based in 

Visalia and Los Angeles, California. I'm also the Events Coordinator for Help Portrait, a global 

movement of photographers using their time and talents to give back to those in need. My work can be 

seen at www.jenmayphotography.com. 

CARLA IDELLE PERLO 

Dance Place 

Founder/Director


phone (202) 269-1600 fax (202) 269-4103 

cperlo@danceplace.org 


Carla Perlo is the Founding Director of Dance Place and currently co-directs the organization with 

Deborah Riley. She has enjoyed a successful career as teacher, choreographer, performer and director. 

In addition to her passion for the arts, Carla is an advocate of property ownership, community 

development and creative education. Dance Place was one of the ten original partners of the NPN. 

CARLA PETERSON 

New York Live Arts 


219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 

phone (212) 691-6500 

cpeterson@newyorklivearts.org 

Carla Peterson was appointed Artistic Director of New York Live Arts in February 2011, after 

providing overall direction for the artistic mission of Dance Theater Workshop (DTW), in the same 

position 2006-11. 2002-06, she held the position of Executive Director of Movement Research. 

1993-96, she served at DTW as both Managing Director of the National Performance Network and 

Director of The Suitcase Fund, an international artist exchange program. 1988-93, she was Assistant 

Performing Arts Director at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH. She has held numerous 

positions in freelance arts consulting, fundraising and management working with artists Tere 

O'Connor, Jennifer Monson, Chamecki/Lerner, Ann Carlson and others, and for Doris Duke Charitable 

Foundation and Surdna Foundation. 

CRAIG PETERSON 

Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe 

Director of Fringe and LAB 

919 North 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123 

phone 215-413-9006 fax 2154139007 

craig@livearts-fringe.org 

Craig T. Peterson, director of the Philly Fringe Festival and Live Arts Brewery (LAB) program, joined 

the staff of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival in 2010. Initiated in 2009, the LAB program seeks to 

support artists in the creative process through integrated, long-term residencies, elective programming 

and the facilitation of collaborative artistic exchange between audiences and artists of all disciplines. 

He is also director the annual Philly Fringe Festival, a three week city-wide festival featuring the work 

of more than 200 performing artists and companies. For ten years he served in numerous positions at


Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), based in NYC, including that of artistic director 

and producer for four years. 

RENATA PETRONI 


Director of International Program 

235 East 26th Street, #4A, New York, NY 10010 

phone (212) 689-0181 

renata@npnweb.org 

Renata Petroni has developed cultural exchange programs and international partnerships since 1980, 

first as director of the National Performance Network and the Suitcase Fund, two programs of Dance 

Theater Workshop in New York City and later as director of projects and partnerships at Arts 

International. Following her engagement at the Universal EXPO 92 in Seville, Spain, she founded Two 

Moon, an international production company which produced and toured new works by contemporary 

U.S. and European artists. Ms. Petroni is currently director of the international program at the National 

Performance Network, designed to increase artistic exchange and knowledge building between the 

United States, Latin America and Asia. 

LIONEL POPKIN 

501 (see three) ARTS 

Choreographer 

3117 17th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405 

phone (917) 921-3383 

lionelpopkin@gmail.com 

CASSANDRA R PORTER 

Dallas Contemporary 

Development Manager 

161 Glass Street, Dallas, TX 75207 

phone (214) 821-2522 fax (214) 821-9103 

cassandra.porter@dallascontemporary.org 

MICHAEL PREMO 

Housing is a Human Right 

Creator / Co-Producer

208 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216 

phone 718-497-4282 fax 9175471292 

michael@housingisahumanright.org 

OLIVE PRINCE 

Olive Prince Dance 


737 South 8th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147 

phone 215 8884570 

oliveprincedance@gmail.com 


Olive Prince is the artistic director of Olive Prince Dance where she focuses on provocative, enigmatic 

images and douses them with gesture and abstract movement vocabulary to create dances that are 

psychologically compelling, physically stimulating and thematically suggestive. Her choreography has 

been featured at the 2011 Philadelphia International Festival of Arts, 2010 Live Arts Festival, the 

International Contemporary Dance Conference, New Dance Alliance's Performance Mix Joyce Soho, 

the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the nEW Festival and as part of the Susan Hess Choreographer's 

Project. Her most recent project, Twine, involves creating choreography that will be performed in 

dissimilar locations. Twine will tour to upstate NY to be performed in a chapel. 

PETER PRINZ 

Space One Eleven 

Co-Founder and CEO 

2409 2nd Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203 

phone (205) 328-0553 fax (205) 254-6176 

peterprinz@spaceoneeleven.org 

NATHAN PURATH 

The Coleman Center for the Arts 

Co-Director 

630 Avenue A, York, AL 36925 

phone 205-392-2005 

npurath@colemanarts.org 

LAUREL RACZKA 

Painted Bride Art Center 


230 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

phone (215) 925-9914 fax (215) 925-7402 

laurel@paintedbride.org 

OTTO RAMSTAD 

BodyCartography Project 

Co-director 

3528 10th ave south, Minneapolis, MN 55407 

phone 6128223397 

otto@bodycartography.org 


Otto Ramstad is a co-director of the BodyCartography Project with Olive Bieringa. They create 

intimate solos for the street or stage, to large community dance works in train stations, short 

experimental films in national parks, to complex works for site or stage amidst installations of video 

and sound. Their works have been presented across the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, 

Russia and South America by venues such as the Walker Art Center, Intermedia Arts and Bryant Lake 

Bowl, Minneapolis; PS 122, DTW, and Movement Research in NYC; American Dance Festival, NC; 

Dance Camera West, LA; Philadelphia Dance Projects; Kyoto Art Center; Anti Festival, Finland; 

Stromereien, Zurich; Lyon Opera Ballet; British Dance Edition; Cinedans, Amsterdam; and Polish 

Public TV, amongst others. 

KATHY ANN RANDELS 

ArtSpot Productions 


609 Saint Ferdinand Street, New Orleans, LA 70117-7365 

phone (504) 826-7783 fax (504) 826-7784 

kathy@artspotproductions.org 

THOMAS F REESE 

Stone Center for Latin America Studies, Tulane University 


Tulane University 100 Joseph Mary Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118 

phone 504.865.5164 fax (504) 865-6719 

treese@tulane.edu 

JULIA RHOADS 



301 Olmsted Road, Chicago, IL 60546

phone (773) 862-9484 

julia@luckyplush.com 


Julia Rhoads is artistic director of Chicago-based Lucky Plush Productions, a dance theater company 

known for its unique blend of evocative choreography, cultural criticism, and humor. She has 

choreographed for River North Chicago, Lookingglass Theater, and Redmoon Theater, among others, 

and in 2010 was named one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch." Julia has received two Illinois Arts 

Council Fellowships, a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, a Maggie Allesee National Center for 

Choreography Fellowship, a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Award, a National Dance Project award, 

and a National Performance Network Creation Fund award. She earned a BA in history from 

Northwestern University and an MFA from School of the Art Institute Chicago, and teaches at 

Columbia College Chicago and University of Chicago. 

DEBORAH RILEY 

Dance Place 

Director 


phone (202) 269-1601 fax 202-269-4103 

deborahr@danceplace.org 

CLARE LAURIE ROCHE 


Stage Manager 


phone 773-508-3831 

croche915@gmail.com 

Clare Roche (Stage Manager) has been with Lucky Plush's production of The Better Half since summer 

2011. Outside of Lucky Plush Ms. Roche is on the faculty at Loyola University Chicago, Master 

Electrician at Lifeline Theatre and Manager with The House Theatre of Chicago presents The Magic 

Parlour. Ms. Roche also tours as Production Stage Manager with 500 Clown and Lakeside Shakespeare 

Theatre. Ms. Roche works as Lighting designer, Stage Manager and Master Electrician around the city 

of Chicago with theatre companies such as Victory Gardens, Strawdog Theatre, Theatre Seven, 

Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Griffin Theatre, Adventure Stage Chicago and International 

Contemporary Ensemble. 

LINDSAY ROSS 

Contemporary Arts Center 

Director of Communications

900 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 

phone 504-258-2475 

lross@cacno.org 


Lindsay Ross has been director of communications for the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans 

since 2009. From 2006 - 2009, Lindsay served as managing director of the Children's Healing Art 

Project in Portland, Oregon. Past posts include CAC marketing director (1994-1999), and executive 

director of the New Orleans Film Festival (2000-2005). Lindsay's event production experience includes 

3 NFL Superbowls and the Hamptons Film Festival. She was a founding board member of the 3 Ring 

Circus Arts Education Center, a founder of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's Kohlmeyer Circle to 

support the Museum's education initiatives, and currently serves on the Shine A Light board, bringing 

arts programs into New Orleans youth detention centers. 

MILDRED RUIZ-SAPP 

UNIVERSES Theater Company, Inc. 

Co-Founder, Co-Director 

2038 Cicero Avenue #1, Bronx, NY 10473 

phone 646.406.7540 

mredruiz@gmail.com 

Founding member UNIVERSES. Playwright/Actor/Singer PARTY PEOPLE (Director Liesl Tommy); 

AMERIVILLE (Director Chay Yew); The Denver Project (Director Dee Covington); One Shot in 

Lotus Position- War Anthology (Director: Bonnie Metzger); BLUE SUITE (Director Chay Yew ); 

RHYTHMICITY (Humana Festival); SLANGUAGE (Director Jo Bonney); THE RIDE. Actor in 

Alfred Jarry's UBU:Enchained (Director Steven Sapp). Awards/Affiliations: 2008 Jazz@Lincoln 

Center Rhythm Road Tour; 2008 TCG Peter Zeisler Award; 2006 Career Advancement Fellowship 

from the Pregones Theater; 2002-2004 and 1999-2001 TCG National Theater Artist Residency 

Program Award; BRIO Awards (Bronx Recognizes its own); Co-Founder of The Point CDC; Bard 

College -BA '92; former board member: NET; Current board member: NPN. 

ABE RYBECK 

The Theater Offensive/OUT in Your Neighborhood 

Executive Artistic Director 

565 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116 

phone 617-661-1600 fax 617-661-1610 

abe@thetheateroffensive.org 

Abe co-founded The Theater Offensive: OUT in Your Neighborhood in 1989. He collaborates with 

artists, neighbors, community groups and local businesses to create OUT performances in the South


End, Roxbury, Dorchester and Jamaica Plain areas of Boston. Programs Abe started include True 

Colors OUT Youth Theater Troupe; the safe-sex-activist group A Street Theater Named Desire; OUT 

on the Edge Queer Theater Festival; and the band Adult Children of Heterosexuals. He won the 

Jonathan Larson Award for the book to Melissa Li's "Surviving the Nian." He was declared one of the 

"Heeb 100" progressive Jewish world cultural leaders. Abe was named 2011 Honorary Drum Majorette 

by South End Dynamite girls drill team. 

CHIZU SAITO 

ConCarino 


The Tower Place 1F, Hachiken 1-West1, Nishi-ku,, Sapporo, Japan 063-0841 

phone + 81-(0)11-6154859 fax +81-(0)11)-615-4866 

chizu_s@concarino.or.jp 

ConCarino, a non-profit theatre group created in 1995, was housed in an old refurbished stone 

warehouse which was torn down in 2002 due to a redevelopment program. With the support of the arts 

and local business communities, Concarino was able to open a new space in 2006. With the belief that 

the performing arts are powerful in developing life values and community cohesion, ConCarino, a 

280-seat Theatre, provides space and opportunity for local people and artists to get together, 

encouraging links between different groups and generations. 

SEAN SAN JOSE 


Performer 


phone 415-626-2787 

sean@theintersection.org 

SEAN SAN JOSE (Denizen, Campo Santo, Intersection) has been a proud staff member of Intersection 

for more than a dozen years under Deborah Cullinan's leadership. He is also the co-founder of Campo 

Santo (founded 1996) - multicultural theatre company that brings socially relevant plays to life in direct 

and accessible ways. All of the projects are world premieres, created in long-term processes. San Jose 

has overseen the development, creation and production of more 40 premiere productions since 1996 

including the first plays by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, 

Denis Johnson, Greg Sarris, Vendela Vida, and others, and premieres of multiple works by Philip Kan 

Gotanda, Jessica Hagedorn, Naomi Iizuka, Octavio Solis, and Erin Cressida Wilson. 

AMINA SANCHEZ 

Skirball Cultural Center

Associate Director of Programs 

2701 North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049-6833 

phone 310-440-4644 fax 310-440-4695 

amina@skirball.org 

SUZANNE SBARGE 

516 Arts 


516 Central Ave SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102 

phone (505) 242-1445 fax 505-244-4101 

suzanne@516arts.org 


Suzanne Sbarge is an arts organizer, gallery director, curator, graphic designer, fundraiser and 

marketing specialist. She is the Founder and Executive Director of 516 ARTS (www.516arts.org), an 

independent, nonprofit arts and education organization operating a museum-style gallery in downtown 

Albuquerque. She has directed numerous collaborative arts projects including the current ISEA2012 

Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness (www.isea2012.org). She presents contemporary art and 

interdisciplinary projects in an educational context, with an emphasis on collaboration among artists 

and organizations. She holds a B.A. in Art History and Studio Arts from Barnard College and an M.A. 

in Art Education from the University of New Mexico. 

DEWEY SCHOTT 

Dewey Schott Coaching and Consulting 

2548 8th Avenue, Oakland, CA 94606 

phone 510-287-6690 

dewey@dewey-schott.com 

Dewey Schott, CPCC, PCC is passionate about helping leaders soar to new heights. He considers 

himself part punk, part mystic, and part organizational development nerd. He has over eighteen years 

of experience working in the social and cultural sectors specializing in capacity building and leadership 

development. Through both his coaching practice and his role as senior manager of leadership services 

for NAMAC, a national arts service organization, he helps people hone their leadership capabilities, 

achieve their creative goals, develop healthy life/work practices, and create more effective 

organizations. He is particularly interested in supporting LGBTQ leaders. Dewey lives in Oakland, CA 

with his partner Alan and his 10-year-old daughter. 

KATHRYN MARIE SCLAVI 


Site Coordinator


phone 6094330485 

kathrynsclavi@gmail.com 


Kathryn Sclavi is a socially-engaged artist who collaborates with communities in creating unique 

gathering spaces designed to enhance learning, encourage communication, and inspire change. Her 

projects are created in conjunction with art collectives, schools, museums, non-profit organizations, 

and alternative spaces. These gathering spaces take the form of participatory projects such as colorful 

tents, collaborative creations, art parades, zines, and more using media including fiber, found objects, 

and costume-making. Sclavi has worked in collaboration with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, 

Fleisher Arts Memorial, the Painted Bride, and currently, is an artist-in-residence in Asian Arts 

Initiative's Social Practice Lab in a year-long project about creative community engagement. 

JANELLA SELLARS 

St. Joseph's Historic Foundation, Inc. 

Development Director 

804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC 27701 

phone 919-683-1709 ext 28 fax 919-682-5869 

jsellars@hayti.org 

Janella Sellars currently serves as the Interim Executive Director for the St. Joseph's Historic 

Foundation, Inc. - Hayti Heritage Center located in Durham, NC. She holds a Master of Business 

Administration and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from NC Central University (Durham, NC). She 

has worked with the Foundation for over a decade. 

TONI SHAPIRO-PHIM, PH.D. 

Philadelphia Folklore Project 

Program Specialist 

735 S. 50th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19143 

phone 215-726-1106 

toni@folkloreproject.org 

Toni Shapiro-Phim is a dance ethnologist and cultural anthropologist with specializations in the 

relationship between the arts, human rights and social justice issues, and in the performing arts of 

Southeast Asia. 

ALEX SHAW 

Musician / Teaching Artist 

806 69th Ave., 2nd Fl., Philadelphia, PA 19126

phone (267) 258-7030 

alexbshaw@gmail.com 


Alex Shaw is a percussionist, vocalist, composer, and arts educator specializing in Brazilian music 

traditions. He holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College (2000) and is a member of Spoken Hand 

Percussion Orchestra and musical director for the renowned Brazilian ensemble, Alo Brasil. A 

freelance arts educator since 2001, Alex regularly teaches and performs throughout the mid-Atlantic 

region and also works as a dance accompanist. In 2010, he joined the music faculty at the University of 

the Arts. Alex has been awarded several competitive artist grants including Arts International's Artist 

Exploration Fund (2004) and the Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts (2007). He is 

currently a board member for LiveConnections.org and is a lead facilitator for their music education 

programming. 

JOANNA MENDL SHAW 

The Equus Projects 


121 West 17th Street, 4B, New York, NY 10011 

phone 212-924-1336 

jmsnyc@aol.com 

Choreographer JoAnna Mendl Shaw has been making works for stage, for rural and urban landscapes 

since 1998. As artistic director of The Equus Projects, her choreography with and without equines 

includes commissioned works for The Flynn, Myrna Loy, the Saratoga Arts Festival, New York City's 

River-to-River Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Dancing in the Streets, The Neubeger Museum, and 

Dance NOW, among others. Known for the innovative choreographic structures that have emerged 

from their work with horses The Equus Projects recently launched OnSite NYC, movement 

installations created for one NYC venue every month featuring performers engaged in real time 

decision-making. Shaw has taught at Juilliard, Princeton and Tisch/NYU and currently teaches in the 

Ailey/Fordham BFA program. 

LINDA B. SHEARER 

Project Row Houses 


P. O. Box 1011, Houston, TX 77251-1011 

phone 713 526 7662 fax 713 526 1623 

lshearer@projectrowhouses.org 

ANULA SHETTY 

412 Belgrade Street, Philadelphia, PA 19125

phone (267) 253-8565 

anula@termite.org 


Anula Shetty is a Philadelphia based independent filmmaker. She received her MFA in Film & Media 

Arts from Temple University. She is a co-director of Termite TV Collective, a group of video artists 

who produce experimental and activist media. Her work has been broadcast on PBS and screened at 

festivals and museums worldwide, including MOMA and the Flaherty Film Seminar. Anula is a 

Co-Founder of the performance group, ASIANS MISBEHAVIN'. She has performed at the 

Philadelphia and New York Fringe festivals, the Adrienne and Walnut Street theater, PSNBC 

performance showcase, New Edge Artist Residency at the Community Education Center & Vancouver 

Asian-Canadian Theatre's Asian Comedy SKETCH OFF. She is a regular participant in Asian Arts 

Initiative's Artist Exchange Performance Showcase. 

BO YEON SHIN 

Korea Arts Management Service 

Manager 

B1F Daehangno Arts Theater, 1-67 Dongsung-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea 110-809 

phone +82-2-708-2284 fax +82-2-708-2243 

byshin@gokams.or.kr 

Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS), established in January 2006, is a branch organization of the 

Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of South Korea. KAMS offers multifaceted assistance in 

international exchanges, human resources training, research, and consultancy for arts groups and arts 

organizations in order to promote more effective arts management in Korea. 

TERRI SHOCKLEY 

Community Education Center 

executive director 

3500 Lancastr Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19104 

phone 215-387-1911 fax 215 387-3701 

cec@cecarts.org 

Theresa (Terri) Shockley has been involved in dance performance and production, education and arts 

management for more than 25 years. She is currently the executive director of the Community 

Education Center/CEC, an artists incubator and community art center in West Philadelphia. She is a 

founding member and 10-year veteran of the multi-disciplinary performance group, Urban Bush 

Women. In addition to her executive responsibilities, Terri is the driving force behind the CEC's 

successful New Edge Resident Artists Program. She holds a BFA in Dance from Ohio State University.

ANDREW SIMONET 

Artist U 

Founder and Director 

1170 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146 

phone (646)731-3275 

admin@lincnet.net 

PAULA SMITH ARRIGONI 



1663 Mission Street, Ste 604, San Francisco, CA 94103 

phone 4152559035 fax 4152559035 

parrigoni@youthspeaks.org 


Paula Smith Arrigoni is Youth Speaks' Managing Director. She first began working with Youth Speaks 

while a loan officer at Nonprofit Finance Fund. She went on to serve in the roles of lead consultant and 

Associate Director for NFF's Northern California Program, directing large initiatives funded by The 

California Wellness Foundation, Bank of America and Blue Shield of California Foundation, which 

provided strategic financial management services to a host of nonprofits and foundations. In addition to 

her positions with NFF, Paula has served as an independent consultant and trainer, and board member 

to small and mid-size nonprofits. 

DAWNELL L SMITH 

Out North 

executive director 

3800 Debarr Road, Anchorage, AK 99508 

phone (907) 279-8099 fax (907) 279-8100 

development@outnorth.org 

Before joining Out North, Dawnell covered arts and culture as a reporter and freelance writer for the 

Anchorage Daily News and the Anchorage Press. She has a master's degree in literary arts, and has 

collaborated on several Alaska visual and performance art pieces at the International Gallery of 

Contemporary Art, the MTS Gallery and the U-Haul Festival. She also helps coordinate local art events 

like the Anchorage International Film Festival and the International Gallery's Object Runway art 

fashion show. She likes pillow fights with her boys, the open road with her friends, mountain climbs 

with her dogs, and taking and giving hits with her derby sisters. She skates as WickedSpeedia for Rage 

City Rollergirls.

AUGUSTO CESAR SOLEDADE 

Brazz Dance Theater 


P.O.Box 655130, Miami, FL 33265 

phone 786-338-5488 

augusto@brazzdance.com 


Augusto Soledade, a native of Bahia, Brazil, is a performer, choreographer and founding artistic 

director and resident choreographer for Brazz Dance Theater in Miami. In August 2011, Mr. Soledade 

was nominated for the Zelda Fichandler Fellowship, and received a Creation Fund award from 

National Performance Network (NPN). In 2010, Mr. Soledade was awarded for the third time the 

Dance Miami Choreographer's Fellowship; he received this important fellowship the second time in 

September of 2008. Also in 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography. 

Augusto Soledade currently serves as a full time assistant professor in dance at Nova Southeastern 

University in Davie, FL. 

JANERA SOLOMON 

Kelly Strayhorn Theater 


5530 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 

phone 4123633000 fax 4123634320 

janera@kelly-strayhorn.org 

Janera Solomon, is an experienced producer & curator with an extensive portfolio including: exhibition 

development and programming for Museum of the African Diaspora; project management, August 

Wilson Center for African American History & Culture; and audience development/branding, 

Brooklyn Museum of Art. Her performing arts background includes stints with the Philadelphia Live 

Arts Festival, and several independent artist projects. An advocate for arts education, she has 

developed many community based arts programs and worked as a teaching artist. She has an 

interesting mix of artistic, educational and cultural planning expertise, and currently serves as the 

Executive Director of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, a multi-arts presenter in Pittsburgh. 

CAROLYN SOMERS 

Joan Mitchell Foundation 


545 West 25th St, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10001 

phone (212) 524-0100 fax (212) 524-0101 

csomers@joanmitchellfoundation.org

ALFREDO A SOTELO 


Fat Boy 

P.O. Box 557845, Miami, FL 33255 

phone 3057424946 

lego@flipsidekings.com 

SHELLEY SPECTOR 

SPECTOR Projects 

Director 

PO Box 63544, Philadelphia, PA 19147 

phone 215-238-0840 

spectorprojects@mac.com 


Shelley Spector is a artist, curator and teacher. She creates multidisciplinary works that explore 

identity, memory, perception, and language. Her work is part of many collections including The 

Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Human Rights 

Campaign in Washington, DC. Spector has received grants from the Independence Foundation 

Fellowship in the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Leeway Foundation. She founded 

SPECTOR Gallery/Projects, working outside the traditional gallery system to champion new talent and 

concepts. An offshoot of this is Artjaw,com, an online anthology of first person stories from the 

Philadelphia art community. She teaches at University of the Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine 

Arts and Tyler School of Art. 

KAYLA MERRISSA SPELLS 


TD/PSM 

P.O. Box 557845, Miami, FL 33255 

phone 8565357355 

kylspells@yahoo.com 

JOHN SPOKES 

United States Artists 

Director of Development 

5757 Wilshire Blvd. St. 580, Los Angeles, CA 90036 

phone 3238575857 ext. 723 

jspokes@usaprojects.org


John Spokes, an experienced fundraiser/management consultant with an extensive background in the 

performing arts, joined the USA team in 2011 after serving as the director of development at UCLA 

Live for 5 years. In Minneapolis, Spokes operated his own nonprofit management consulting business 

and served as D.O.D. at Chrysalis, A Center for Women, successfully implementing a 

multimillion-dollar capital campaign. From 94-98, he was a key part of the development team at 

Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater, working as director of annual/individual giving, interim development 

director, and director of community giving. He was also annual fund manager at Children's Theatre 

Company, director of development at Illusion Theatre, co-founder/managing director of the Eye of 

Storm Theatre. 

THADDEUS ANDREW SQUIRE 

CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia 

Founder & Managing Director 

The Philadelphia Building 1315 Walnut Street Suite 302, Philadelphia, PA 19107 

phone 267-597-3808 

tsquire@cultureworksphila.org 

THADDEUS SQUIRE has been hailed as a visionary voice in the contemporary arts by David Patrick 

Stearns of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and was named one of Philadelphia's top 76 Creative Connectors 

by Leadership Philadelphia in 2011. He has also received Philadelphia City Paper's "Big Vision Issue 

Choice Awards" for his work as founder of Hidden City Philadelphia. As a curator, consultant, writer, 

and producer, Thaddeus has worked across a wide variety of disciplines, from history and heritage to 

the fine and performing arts. In 2005, Thaddeus founded Peregrine Arts, which was relaunched in 2010 

as Philadelphia's first Management Services Organization, CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia, 

supporting the arts and heritage fields. 

MICHELE A STEINWALD 

Walker Art Center 

Program Manager, Performing Arts 

1750 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403 

phone (612) 375-7581 fax (612) 375-7575 

michele.steinwald@walkerart.org 

Since retiring as a dancer/choreographer, Michele Steinwald has managed performing arts projects and 

professional development programs for On the Boards (Seattle), New England Foundation for the 

Arts/National Dance Project (Boston), DanceUSA (DC), and the Deborah Hay Dance Company 

(Austin). She joined the Walker Art Center in October 2006 to manage a third of their performing arts 

season and co-curate Momentum: New Dance Works with the Southern Theater. She is an active 

supporter of the local contemporary dance scene.

GARY P. STEUER 

City of Philadelphia 

Chief Cultural Officer 

City Hall - Room 116, Philadelphia, PA 19147 

phone 215-686-3989 

gary.steuer@phila.gov 


Gary Steuer is the Chief Cultural Officer for the City of Philadelphia and directs the Office of Arts, 

Culture and the Creative Economy. 

HAROLD JAMES STEWARD 


Performing Arts Coordinator 


phone 214/671-5800 fax 214/670-8118 

harold.steward@dallascityhall.com 

Harold Steward is an arts administrator and theater practitioner with over twelve years of experience in 

the field of arts and education. Mr. Steward currently serves as a performing arts coordinator for the 

City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs' South Dallas Cultural Center. Mr. Steward is the artistic 

director of The Centers' Soul Children's Theatre, a theatre program that pledges to provide high-quality 

family theatre and innovative educational programs aiming to create a soulful understanding of, 

appreciation for and re-connection to the African Diaspora. Harold is also the founder and artistic 

director of Fahari Arts Institute, a multidisciplinary arts and letters institute in Dallas, TX that was 

created to showcase the works of queer artists from the African Diaspora. 

LYENA STRELKOFF 

Artist 

5429 Troost Avenue #1, North Hollywood, CA 91601 

phone (310) 880-8551 fax (818) 766-4663 

lyena@lyenastrelkoff.org 

Lyena Strelkoff loves kale chips, funky female power-pop, and the way her 2-year-old puts his hands 

above his head, tilts his face into the breeze and says, "Wiin-dy!" This year, Lyena was a featured 

storyteller on KCRW's Strangers, as well as at the performance salons, Spark Off Rose, Tasty Words, 

and The Trunk Show. She was also a contributing essayist to the anthology, Dancing at the Shame 

Prom (Seal Press, 2012). A selected performer for the VSA Arts International Festival, an affiliate of


the John F. Kennedy Center, and a Vermont Studio Center writing fellow, Lyena's one-woman play, 

Caterpillar Soup, has toured across the country. She has led transformational storytelling workshops for 

high school students, the incarcerated, health care providers, church groups, and theater artists. 

NICK STUCCIO 

Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe 



phone (215) 413-9006 x 12 

nick@livearts-fringe.org 

LISA SUAREZ 

Jump-Start Performance Co. 

Artistic Director - Guest Artists 

108 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204 

phone (210) 227-5867 fax (210) 222-2231 

lisa@jump-start.org 

Lisa Suarez is a company member and the Producing Director at Jump-Start Performance Co. She is 

also the playwright and performer of "I'll Remember for You" an Alzheimer's story based on her 

experience caring for her mother. Suarez is also a Zumba and group fitness instructor. 

ANDREW SUGGS 

Vox Populi 


319 North 11th Street Third Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107 

phone 215-238-1236 fax 215-238-1253 

director@voxpopuligallery.org 

Andrew Suggs is the Executive Director of Vox Populi, and a curator and writer. Recent projects 

include Painting Bitten by a Man, and Kick in the Eye, both at Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA) and an 

upcoming convening of artist-run spaces in collaboration with Cleopatra's (Brooklyn). He participated 

in a 2010 curatorial Intensive with Independent Curators International and has contributed texts to 

numerous exhibition catalogs and Phonebook: Directory of Independent Art Projects & Spaces. He 

received an AB cum laude from Harvard University. 

QUITA SULLIVAN 

New England Foundation for the Arts

Program Manager, Theater 

145 Tremont St., 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02111 

phone 617.951.0010 ext 531 fax 617.951.0016 

qsullivan@nefa.org 


Quita is the Program Manager for New England Foundation for the Arts' (NEFA) National Theater 

Project. She holds a BA and MA in Theatre from Knox College and SUNY Stony Brook, respectively, 

as well as a law degree from Wayne State University Law School. Before law school, she worked as a 

Stage Manager in Chicago and later as an Administrator for a not-for-profit artist management office, 

creating contracts and managing booking and performing fees for musicians in the Great Lakes area. 

After law school, she practiced Environmental Justice law for 10 years in Detroit and Boston. Prior to 

joining NEFA as a staff member, Quita was an Advisor for NEFA's Native Arts Program. Quita is Of 

Counsel to and a member of the Montaukett tribe. 

SHIMA SUZUKI 

Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural Promotion 

Program Coordinator 

6th floor Fukuoka Shobo Kaikan, 3-10 Nakasu-Nakashimamachi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan 8100802 

phone +81-92-263-6266 fax +81-92-263-6259 

pro-c@ffac.or.jp 

Shima Suzuki majored in art Science at Tama Art University and graduated in 2005. She worked at 

Sagamihara Culture Foundation, where she was in charge of curating, managing, and producing arts 

programs for public theaters between 2005 and 2012. She moved to Fukuoka in 2012 and is currently 

working for the Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural Promotion as Project Coordinator. 

THERESA SWEETLAND 

Intermedia Arts 


2822 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55408 

phone (612) 874-2808 fax 612-871-6927 

theresa@intermediaarts.org 

Theresa Sweetland, executive/artistic director of Intermedia Arts, holds a BA in cultural anthropology 

from the University of Minnesota and a master's degree in urban and regional planning at the 

University of Minnesota Hubert H Humphrey School of Public Affairs with a concentration on 

community and economic development. Theresa is a co-founding artistic director of B-Girl Be, the


world's first international women in hip hop summit presented annually by Intermedia Arts. She has 

been a guest lecturer on "Art and Democracy," "Community Partnerships" and "Arts and Social 

Change" for various university classes and community groups. 

SARAH SWINFORD 


Performing Arts Program Coordinator 

The Ohio State University 1871 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43210-1393 

phone (614) 292-5785 fax 614-292-7824 

sswinford@wexarts.org 

IVAN R. SYGODA 

Pentacle 

Director 

246 West 38th Street, 4th floor, Austin, TX 10018 

phone 212.278.8111 ext.. 300 fax 212.278.8555 

ivans@pentacle.org 

Sygoda joined Pentacle in 1976 after a first career teaching French literature. In the 35 years since, he 

has served on myriad adjudication panels, written for arts publications, taught arts adminisitration 

courses and seminars, and mentored numerous artists and managers. He devised and directed Pentacle's 

"Marketing From The Inside Out" seminars, which evolved into Pentacle's Help Desk projects in New 

York and then Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. He co-founded (with David White) the New 

York State DanceForce, in which he remains a participant. He is a longtime member of the Bessie (NY 

Dance & Performance Awards) Committee, and currently co-chairs its "small capacity" subcommittee. 

He has received various honors, including Dance/USA's "Ernie" and Arts Presenters' Fan Taylor 

award. 

KAY TAKEDA 

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 

Director of Grants & Services 

125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10038 

phone 212-219-9401 

ktakeda@lmcc.net 

Kay Takeda has worked for over 15 years to provide artists and arts organizations with presenting, 

financial and capacity-building support. She is currently the director of grants & services at Lower 

Manhattan Cultural Council where she develops and oversees its grantmaking and career development 

programs. Prior to joining LMCC, she managed Arts International's national grantmaking programs to


support visual and performing artists working internationally. She has served as assistant director of the 

Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor; and on the boards of the artist-run Goliath 

Visual Space and Tickle the Sleeping Giant, Inc./Trajal Harrell. She lectures widely on professional 

issues affecting artists. 

PETER TAUB 


Director of Peformance Programs 

220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 

phone (312) 280-2660 

ptaub@mcachicago.org 

Peter Taub curates artist-centered projects. At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, he directs 

the performing arts program, which features artists working in cross-disciplinary modes in dance, 

theater and music; and which engages audiences with artists around the creative process. 

TAMMY C. TERRELL 

Ashé Cultural Center/Efforts of Grace, Inc. 


1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70113 

phone 713-526-7662 fax 713.526.7662 

tcterrell@gmail.com 

PAUL ANTHONY TERUEL 

Columbia College Chicago, Center for Community Arts Partnerships 

Director of Community Partnerships 

600 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605 

phone (312) 369-8871 fax 312.369-8015 

pteruel@colum.edu 

Paul Teruel is the Director of Community Partnerships at the Center for Community Arts Partnerships 

(CCAP) at Columbia College Chicago, and is one of the founders and former Directors of Street-Level 

Youth Media, which is locally and nationally known as a model in the community/media arts field. 

Paul studied Film at Columbia College and has worked in the community arts/ performing arts field for 

25 years. 

MORGAN THORSON 

Artist/Choreographer

3112 10th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55407 

phone (612) 221-3416 fax 612 221-3416 

emorgant@earthlink.net 


Morgan Thorson is a dancemaker based in Minneapolis and is currently a USA Artist Fellow. She is 

touring her work Spaceholder Festival and is in the process of developing a new work, Journeyman. 

JACQUES-JEAN TIZIOU 

JJ Tiziou Photography 

PO Box 42127, Philadelphia, PA 19101 

phone 267-702-5464 

jj@jjtiziou.net 

Jacques-Jean "JJ" Tiziou is a photographer specializing in portraiture and movement documentation; he 

has never encountered an un-photogenic person in his life. His images are used both in corporate and 

editorial contexts as well as arts and activism. Based in West Philadelphia, JJ uses his work to celebrate 

the beautiful people around him who are working to make the world a better place. You can find 

85,000 sq ft of his work in the How Philly Moves mural at PHL International Airport, or check it out 

online at www.jjtiziou.net, www.HowPhillyMoves.org and www.EveryoneIsPhotogenic.com 

ALISHA TONSIC 

Network of Ensemble Theaters 


1709 N Ave 56, Los Angeles, CA 90042 

phone (323) 255-2124 

atonsic@ensembletheaters.net 

ALEX TORRA 


Resident Director 

1913 S 8th St,, Philadelphia, PA 19148 

phone 9177709492 

alextorra@gmail.com 

Alex Torra is an Associate Artist with Philadelphia-based, devised works companies Team Sunshine 

Performance Corporation and Pig Iron Theatre Company. Recent directing credits include: 

Punchkapow and Wonderwave (Team Sunshine); Tandem Biking and Other Dangerous Pastimes for 

Two (Green Chair Dance); Come to My Awesome Fiesta, it's Going to be Awesome, Okay? (Pig Iron); 

Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in Clark Park). Awards: Independence Foundation Fellowship


in the Arts, Philadelphia Live Arts Brewery Fellowship, Princess Grace Award (Grace Le Vine 

Award). 

JOSE TORRES-TAMA 

ArteFuturo Productions 

Performance Artist 

3119A Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70117 

phone (504) 232-2968 

jose@torrestama.com 

José Torres-Tama is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist exploring the underbelly of the 

American Dream mythology and the immigrant experience. "ALIENS, IMMIGRANTS & OTHER 

EVILDOERS" is his NPN Creation Fund commissioned performance that is touring nationally to 

critical acclaim for humanizing Latino immigrants, who are under extreme persecution in the so-called 

"land of the free." "ALIENS" is a sci-fi Latino noir, genre-bending, bilingual performance solo that has 

sold out a two hundred-seat theater at Vanderbilt University and a three night run at the Latino Political 

Theater Festival hosted by Pangea World Theatre and Teatro del Pueblo in Minneapolis. Since 2006, 

he is a contributor to NPR's "Latino USA" with commentaries on the immigrants who have rebuilt 

New Orleans. 

RORY OWEN TRAINOR 

Alverno Presents 


P.O. Box 343922, Milwaukee, WI 53234-3922 

phone 414-382-6151 fax 414-382-6354 

rory.trainor@alverno.edu 

ANNA TRIER 

Links Hall 

Residency Coordinator 

Links Hall 3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60657 

phone 773.281.0824 fax 773.281.1915 

anna@linkshall.org 

Anna Trier founded the Happy Collaborationists curatorial project in 2008 to support performance, 

installation and media arts. She holds a BFA from Columbia College Chicago in Studio Art and Art 

History and has been working at Links Hall for the past three years where she runs the LinkUp 

Residency program, dabbles with graphic designs and occasionally cooks everyone dinner. 

www.linkshall.org www.happycollaborationists.com

KELLY ZEN-YIE TSAI 

579 Greene Ave. #2, Brooklyn, NY 11216 

phone 773-991-0280 

kz@yellowgurl.com 


KELLY ZEN-YIE TSAI is an award-winning spoken word poet, actress, playwright, and filmmaker 

based in Brooklyn. She has been a featured performer at over 500 venues worldwide including the 

White House, Apollo Theater in Harlem, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and three seasons of 

"Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry." Her awards / residencies include New York Live Arts, 

New York Foundation for the Arts, Asian Women's Giving Circle, & Lower Manhattan Cultural 

Council. Her solo show, "Formosa," and ensemble spoken word play, "Say You Heard My Echo" have 

been presented at HERE Arts Center, New York Live Arts, Asian Arts Initiative, Museum of Chinese 

in America, Hip Hop Theater Festival, Rising Circle's PlayRISE on Theater Row and more 

(yellowgurl.com, @yellowgurlpoet, youtube.com/kztsai) 

CARLTON TURNER 

Alternate ROOTS 


1083 Austin Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307 

phone (404) 577-1079 fax (404) 577-7991 

carlton@alternateroots.org 

Carlton Turner is the Executive Director of Alternate ROOTS, a regional non-profit arts organization 

based in the south. Carlton Turner is also co-founder and co-artistic director, along with his brother 

Maurice Turner, of the group M.U.G.A.B.E.E. (Men Under Guidance Acting Before Early Extinction). 

M.U.G.A.B.E.E. is a performing arts group that blends of jazz, hip-hop, spoken word poetry and soul 

music together with multimedia storytelling. 

MAURICE SAMUEL TURNER 

Turner World Around Productions 


23710 Hwy 18, Raymond, MS 39154 

phone 662-312-5830 

mturner@turnerworldaround.org 

GUSTAVO ARIEL UANO 

USINA 4 - AGENCIA CREATIVA


Mna I Casa 7 BAMSA La Colonia Junin Mendoza. Argentina C.P. 5572, Mendoza, Argentina 5500 

phone 0261 4253028 fax 0261 4232371 

gustavouano@gmail.com 

Gustavo is a manager and producer of plays, theatrical events and performing arts in Mendoza, 

Argentina. He has a dramatic arts degree from the National University of Argentina. He is a founding 

member of USINA 4, a creative creative agency and production company. He is also a network 

member of La RED - Red de Promotores Culturales de Latinoamérica y el Caribe. He is Mendoza's 

representative to the National Theater Institute, an organization that supports and promotes 

independent theater. He is also a curator and member of the national theater touring network. 

FERNANDO RAUL UMANA 

La RED (Red de Promotores Culturales de Latinoamerica y el Caribe) 

Master of Arts 

Calle Principal,casa 135, colonia Nicaragua, San Salvador, El Salvador 

phone 503-22371605 

fernandoumana53@hotmail.com 

FERNANDO UMANA: Salvadorean. He studied High School in Centro Nacional de Artes€, 

graduating in Arts, with a speciality in Theatre. In 1973, along with other Salvadorian playwriters, he 

founded Sol del Rio Theatre. In 1978 he joined the Top Institute of Art and Theatre "Lunacharsky" 

(Gitis) Moscow, Russia, where later he obtained his Masters in Arts and an specialization in Directing 

Dramatic Art. In the years 1986 and 1987, he worked in Porto (Portugal) with the Seiva Troupe 

Company, he directed the play "Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekhov and worked as a teacher at the 

company's school. Now he is a member of "The Latin American Net." 

DENISE YURIKO UYEHARA 

Performance Artist/Writer/Playwright 

2315 E. Edison Street, Tucson, AZ 85719 

phone 310-991-3698 

denise@deniseuyehara.com 

Denise Uyehara is a performance artist and writer based in Tucson, AZ. Her work has been presented 

in London, Helsinki, Toyko and Vancouver and across the U.S. Recently she has collaborated with 

Adam Cooper-Teran on Archipelago (NPN Creation Fund) about Yaqui and Okinawan creation stories, 

and with Jason Aragon/Pan Left Productions (MAP Fund) for Bus Stop Dreaming, a multi-media, 

roving performance responding to thousands of deportations in South Tucson. Currently she is a 

lecturer at Arizona State University and will serve as Activist/Artist in Residence at the Claremont 

Colleges. She is originally from the Los Angeles area where she attended UC Irvine and UCLA. She


has two children, a partner and not enough time, except for what really matters. 

www.deniseuyehara.com 

KINAN VALDEZ 

El Teatro Campesino 

Producing Artistic Director 

705 Fourth Street, San Juan Bautista, CA 95045 

phone (831) 623-2444 fax (831)623-4127 

valdezteatro@gmail.com 

LAKIN MIGUEL VALDEZ 

El Teatro Campesino 

resident artist 

1414 34th Avenue, Oakland, CA 94601 

phone (831) 524-6098 fax 831 524 6098 

lakinmvaldez@gmail.com 

Lakin Valdez is an actor, director and playwright. Born and raised in the extended family of El Teatro 

Campesino, he is currently a resident artist/ensemble member with the company. In 2009, Lakin 

received a NPN Creation Fund Award for his play Victor in Shadow, which was commissioned by La 

Pena Cultural Center and El Teatro Campesino. 

SAMUEL VALDEZ 

Centro Cultural de La Raza 

Director, Playwright, and Actor 

2004 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101 

phone 619-892-3179 

saamul2003@yahoo.com 

Samuel Valdez graduated from San Diego State University in 1991 with a B.A. degree in theater arts, 

emphasis in directing. Between the years of 1992 to 2002 he directed a large number of Latino plays 

such as "Roosters" by Milcha Sanchez Scott, "The Conduct of Life" by Maria Irene Fornes, and "The 

Guitarron." With 7 plays under his shoulder Mr. Valdez characterizes himself as a playwright. He has 

directed and produced several of his individual works such as "Soy Yo/It's Me," "P13-Vive," 

"Ambos/Both," and most recently "Outside The Circle," a collaboration with Andrea Assaf and Dora 

Arreola. He is in the process of beginning his future work focusing on the creation of man and how he 

fits into this concept as a man with a disability.

CLYDE VALENTIN 

Hip-Hop Theater Festival 


208 Quincy St, Apt 4, Brooklyn, NY 11216 

phone (718) 497-4282 

clyde@hiphoptheaterfest.org 

KATIE KA VANG 

64 Dexter Street Apt 2L, Providence, RI 02909 

phone 6513872887 

katieka.vang@gmail.com 


Katie Ka Vang is a performance artist and playwright and prose writer. She has been described as a 

"dynamic performer and relentless writer of truth." She has performed for Pangea World Theater (as 

ensemble member), Theatre Mu, Pillsbury House Theatre, Ordway Center for Performing Arts, Center 

for Hmong Arts and Talent, The Walker Art Center. She self released a collection of poetry and prose 

called Never Said. Her work has been published in Saint Paul Almanac, Asian American Press, 

BlueFifth Magazine and Voices from the Asian American Experience. Her commissioned works 

include wtf, Hmong Bollywood, 5:1 Meaning of Freedom; 6:2 Use of Sharpening (as a Naked Stages 

Fellow), Youth In Session (CHAT's Creative Drama Youth class), and Myth of Xee. She's received 

funding from Jerome and MSAB. 

ALIE VIDICH 

Movement Brigade 


1122 Crease Street, Philadelphia, PA 19125 

phone 267-467-0657 

info@movementbrigade.org 

Alie Vidich is a choreographer, director, and performer creating immersive, site specific performance 

journeys and viscerally engaging stage works. In 2009, she formed Movement Brigade, a dance theater 

group that acts as a vehicle for her choreographic voice. She is interested in the dynamic intersection 

between dance and theater and blurring the lines between these two worlds. Recent choreographic 

works include: "CONSTANTS," an interactive performance journey about the hidden histories of 

Philadelphia's Schuylkill River in which audience members were guided by performers on land and in 

canoes, and "For those who I love," a driving kinetic exploration into the personal landscape of a 

turbulent mother-daughter relationship. For more info: movementbrigade.org.

BENJAMIN VOLTA 

2117 N Howard St, Philadelphia, PA 19122 

phone 267-252-9521 

benjaminvolta@gmail.com 


Benjamin Volta, works with public school teachers and community leaders creating methods that link 

art to specific areas of learning. Students and participants learn how to recognize the importance of 

their own ideas as well as how to appreciate each others' differences while merging them into a 

collective focus. Studio Initiatives combine academic learning and life skill development with an 

audacious aspiration to create great art within an unexpected context. His studio is in the Fairmount 

section of Philadelphia. www.benvolta.com 

SHAY WAFER 

651 ARTS 


651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 

phone (718) 230-2526 fax (718) 636-4166 

swafer@651arts.org 

Shay Wafer, Executive Director 651 ARTS has demonstrated a stalwart dedication to the arts and 

community development through many years of service to the field. Her passionate vision is balanced 

with pragmatic experience, as she has held senior level positions at a number of non-profit arts 

organizations with a focus on African Diasporic programming, community engagement and arts 

education. In 2007, Shay became the founding Vice President of Programs for the August Wilson 

Center for African American Culture, a new multi-disciplinary performing arts center and museum in 

downtown Pittsburgh. Prior to the August Wilson Center, she served as the managing director of 

Cornerstone Theater Company and LA Theatreworks in Los Angeles, California- her hometown. She 

also served as the Managing Direct 

SIXTO A. WAGAN 

DiverseWorks Artspace 

Co-Executive Director 

4102 Fannin St, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77004 

phone (713) 223-8346 fax (713) 223-4608 

sixto@diverseworks.org 

MIRANNE WALKER 

First Peoples Fund

Program Officer 

P.O. Box 2977, Rapid City, SD 57709 

phone (605) 348-0324 fax (605) 348-6594 

miranne@firstpeoplesfund.org 

FRANK WALN 

First Peoples Fund 

Artist 

6960 N. Wolcott Ave. Unit 2, Chicago, IL 60626 

phone 605-828-3181 

f_waln_35@hotmail.com 

JACK WALSH 

National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture 


145 9th Street, Suite 102, San Francisco, CA 94103 

phone 415-431-1391 x304 fax 415-431-1392 

jack@namac.org 

EMILY WATTS 

Fractured Atlas 

Community Engagement Manager 

248 W 35th St, Floor 10, New York, NY 10001 

phone 212/277-8020 

emily.watts@fracturedatlas.org 

SUSAN LANKIN WATTS 

Fabulous Shpielkes 

123 Argyle Road, Ardmore, PA 19003 

phone (610) 645-5242 

susan@susanwattsonline.com 


Elaine and Susan are 3rd and 4th generation Klezmer musicians carrying on the tradition with new life 

and those fabulous shpielkes. 

MK WEGMANN 

National Performance Network / Visual Artists Network

President/CEO 


phone (504) 595-8008 ext 205 fax (504) 595-8006 

mkw@npnweb.org 

THÉRÈSE WEGMANN 


Senior Operations & Data Specialist 


phone (504) 595-8008 x208 fax (504) 595-8006 

therese@npnweb.org 


Thérèse Wegmann, senior operations and data specialist, has been with the National Performance 

Network since its move to New Orleans in 2001. She has also worked as an arts administrator with 

Young Aspirations/Young Artists (YA/YA), Junebug Productions, Dog & Pony Theatre Company, and 

the Arts Council of New Orleans; and she has years of theatre management/production experience in 

New Orleans, Washington, DC, and Allentown, PA. She studied drama and history at the University of 

Virginia, English at Georgetown University in the master’s program, then earned a second bachelor’s 

degree from Tulane University in computer information systems. During playwright Vaclav Havel’s 

first two years as president of Czechoslovakia, she was an English lecturer at Charles University, 

Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové. She is a proud native of New Orleans and is concerned for 

Louisiana, a state which is vital to the U.S. energy pipeline and supplier of most of the country’s best 

seafood, yet whose wetlands are disappearing at the rate of a football field an hour. 

LOIS A WELK 

Dance/USA Philadelphia 

Director 

1427 Spruce St. #1F, Philadelphia, PA 19102 

phone 215-922-5970 

loiswelk@danceusaphiladelphia.org 

KARIAMU WELSH 

Kariamu & Company: Traditions 



phone (215) 233-0692 

kariamu@me.com


Kariamu Welsh is the artistic director of Kariamu & Co.: Traditions. Kariamu is the recipient of 

numerous fellowships, grants and awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Choreography 

Fellowship, the Creative Public Service Award of NY, a Pew Choreography Fellowship, a Simon 

Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant, a Fulbright Specialist award and a 

Senior Fulbright Scholar Award. She is the founding artistic director of the National Dance Company 

of Zimbabwe in southern Africa. Kariamu is the creator of the Umfundalai dance technique, a 

contemporary technique that has been in existence for forty years. Kariamu has received many honors 

and awards including the Pioneer Award from The International Association of Blacks in Dance in 

January of 2010. 

DAVID R. WHITE 

The Yard 

Executive and Artistic Director 

PO Box 405, Chilmark, MA 02535 

phone (508) 645-9662 

drw@dancetheyard.org 

David R White is the executive and artistic director of The Yard in Chilmark, MA (Martha's Vineyard), 

an artist/company residency and presentation center dedicated to contemporary dance and related art 

forms. Until 2011, he was the Director of ARTVENTURES New England, a statewide program 

focusing on rural community cultural development and arts accessibility. He chairs the National 

[Artist] Council of Florida's Atlantic Center for the Arts. From 1975-2003, White served as the 

executive director and producer of Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts) in NYC, 

where he nurtured countless contemporary artists and founded, funded and directed such longstanding 

community-wide programs as the National Performance Network, the Suitcase Fund, and the NY State 

Dance Force. 

KIM WHITENER 

HERE Art Center 


145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013 

phone (212) 647-0202 fax 212-647-0257 

kim@here.org 

Kim Whitener is the Producing Director at HERE, working in partnership with Artistic Director Kristin 

Marting to curate and produce HERE's performance programs and activities. HERE supports the work 

of mid-career artists working in hybrid forms through commissions, workshops, and full productions as 

part of the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP). Ms. Whitener has also been an independent


producer working with a diverse range of artists in the contemporary theater, dance-theater, and 

multimedia worlds, including The Builders Association, Big Dance Theater, Martha Clarke, among 

others. Previously, Ms. Whitener was Managing Director of The Wooster Group. 

SARAH K WILKE 

On the Boards 


100 West Roy Street, Seattle, WA 98119 

phone (206) 217-9886 fax (206) 217-9887 

swilke@ontheboards.org 

HELANIUS JAMES WILKINS 

EDGEWORKS Dance Theater 

Founder/Artistic Director/Choreographer 

P.O. Box 73396, Washington, DC 20056-3396 

phone (202) 483-0606 fax (202) 483-0555 

helanius@hjwedgeworks.org 

Helanius J. Wilkins, a native of Lafayette, LA, is an award winning choreographer, performance artist, 

and instructor based in Washington, D.C. He is the founder and artistic director of EDGEWORKS 

Dance Theater - a Washington, DC-based all male contemporary dance company of predominately 

African-American men (www.hjwEdgeworks.org). 

WILL K. WILKINS 

Real Art Ways 


56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 06106 

phone (860) 232-1006 fax (860) 233-6691 

mmcbrien@realartways.org 

Will K. Wilkins is executive director of Real Art Ways, one of the country's leading contemporary 

multidisciplinary organizations. Mr. Wilkins has overseen the $1.8 million development of the Real 

Art Ways arts center, a place for art, ideas and social interaction. Among the highlights of Mr. Wilkins' 

tenure has been a series of commissioned artists' projects, many in public settings and involving 

community participation. Under Mr. Wilkins' direction, Real Art Ways has been a strong supporter of 

artists' rights and freedom of expression. It has received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for 

the Visual Arts, the Ford Foundation, the Wallace Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 

National Endowment for the Arts.

MEGHANN ROSE WILKINSON 


Performer 


phone 773-320-7290 

meghannrose@gmail.com 


MEGHANN WILKINSON is a graduate of Northwestern University and has been a collaborating 

ensemble member with Lucky Plush Productions since 2004. She is a former company member of 

Mordine and Company Dance Theater and has appeared in Chicago with Smith/Wymore Disappearing 

Acts, Cie Felix Ruckert, and Peter Carpenter Performance Project. Wilkinson has been a guest teacher 

and choreographer for the Cecchetti Council of America, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, and the 

Evanston Dance Ensemble and was Assistant Choreographer for Lookingglass Theater's The Great Fire 

and Walkabout Theater's Crow. She is on faculty at Columbia College Chicago, has taught at 

Northwestern University, Dance Center Evanston, and Visceral Dance Chicago, and has organized for 

the Society of Dance History Scholars. 

BERNARD F WILLIAMS 

Artist 

629 W. Cermak Road, Unit 412, Chicago, IL 60616 

phone (773) 910-8695 

bernardartist@aol.com 

Bernard Williams, lives: Chicago, Illinois. He is a painter, sculptor, and muralist working around 

interests in history, culture, and the sciences. Education:BFA University of Ill. at Champaign-Urbana, 

MFA (1990) Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Also studied at the Skowhegan School of 

Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Williams taught art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 

1991-2003 and 2010. Currently teaching at Chicago State University and developing a temporary 

outdoor project (2013) concerning the Mississippi River with Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis.The 

artist has worked with youth and communities for 20 years, and maintains an interest in education, 

expansive practices, pure artistic adventure,travel,theatre,Europe,books,cars,video,photography,and 

architecture. 

SHARON N. WILLIAMS 

Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas 


P.O. Box 22824, Seattle, WA 98122-0824 

phone (206) 323-4032 

sharonw@cdforum.org


Sharon N. Williams, founded the collaborative theatre and film organization The Mahogany Project. 

Sharon held the position of Production Manager at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center for four 

years. Over the past several years she has served in the capacity as stage manager, research assistant, 

teaching artist, production assistant, and producer for several performing arts organizations in the 

Seattle Area. She is a co-producer for the short film, What About Us? (Hollywood Black Film Festival 

and Bronze Lens Film Festival). Sharon, received a Masters of Business Administration Degree from 

Delaware State University, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Arts Leadership at Seattle University. Sharon 

is excited to be the new Managing Director for the Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas. 

ALLEN WILLNER 


Technical Director/Lighting Designer 


phone 415.515.1274 

vilna2@yahoo.com 

Allen Willner is an award winning lighting, set and visual Designer. Previous designs include inkBoat's 

"Line Between," "Onion," "Heaven's Radio," "C(H)ord" and "Crazy Cloud." Erika Chong Shuch 

Performance Project's "After All," "51802" and "Sunday Will Come," The Shotgun Players' "The 

Three-Penny Opera," "Mrs. Warren's Profession" and "God's Ear," Isadora Duncan Dance Award for 

Lighting and Stage Design for inkBoat's "Heaven's Radio," Isadora Duncan Dance Visual Design 

nominations for Erika Chong Shuch's "51802" and inkBoat's "Cockroach," 2008 Lighting Artists in 

Dance Award inkBoat "The Line Between," 2010 Critics Circle Lighting Design Nomination for 

"God's Ear" The Shotgun Players. 2011 LAD Award recipient for "Sitting in a Circle." 

RISE WILSON 




phone (646) 731-3275 

rise@lincnet.net 

GEIN WONG 


1219 Vine Street, philadelphia, PA 19107 

phone 323-274-9260 

openeddictionary@gmail.com


Gein Wong is an interdisciplinary director, playwright, poet, composer and video artist. She is a 2012 

Canadian Stage RBC BASH DIrector in Residence, a 2013 Harbourfront Centre HATCH Resident 

Artist, and a two-time Philadelphia Asian Arts Initiative Resident Artist. She has been short listed for 

the Ontario KM Hunter Award in Theatre (2010) and Literature (2013). She has created the large scale 

interdisciplinary piece "Hiding Words (for you)" which delves into nushu, a secret language Chinese 

women created when they were not allowed to read or write, her two-hander "Ocean Carving", her one 

woman show "Fold My Soul" and her audience interactive community building performance "Intent 

City". She is Artistic Director of the interdisciplinary performance company Eventual Ashes. 

KRISTINA WONG 

Kristina Wong 


1478 Westerly Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90026 

phone (310) 435-4817 

k@kristinasherylwong.com 

Kristina Wong is an internationally presented solo performer, writer, actor, educator, culture jammer, 

and filmmaker. She has written and performed five full-length solo theater works and one ensemble 

play. Kristina's been a commentator for American Public Media's Marketplace radio show, PBS, 

KCET, xoJane.com, Jezebel and Playgirl Magazine. Her work has been awarded with the Creative 

Capital award, the Map Fund, three Center for Cultural Innovation awards, four Durfee 

Foundation/CCI ARC grants, two National Performance Network Creation Funds, the PEN USA 

Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship and four Artist-in-Residence Awards from the City of Los 

Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. More at www.kristinawong.com 

ANDREW WOOD 

San Francisco International Arts Festival 


870 Market Street, Suite 1256, San Francisco, CA 94102 

phone (415) 399-9554 fax (415) 297-5703 

andrew@sfiaf.org 

Andrew is the founder of SFIAF, which coordinates multiple Bay Area arts organizations to produce 

the annual Festival. SFIAF commissions and produces new work by local artists engaged in 

international projects and presents the existing repertoire of multiple ensembles from around the world 

(most of whom do not have US representation). Each Festival takes three years to plan and implement. 

SFIAF will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2013. Prior to creating SFIAF, Andrew was the Director of


ODC Theater. In three years he transformed the venue from being primarily a rental facility with an 

annual income of $150,000 into a multi-disciplinary presenting organization with a budget of nearly 

half a million dollars. Andrew's first job working in the arts was at a theatre called Life on the Water. 

SAYA WOOLFALK 

Artist 

323 W 39th Street Studio 406, New York, NY 10018 

phone 6466735004 

sayawoolfalk@mac.com 

RAPHAEL XAVIER 

Works of Raphael Xavier W.O.R.X. 

Choreographer/Artistic Director 

6310 Guyer Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19142 

phone (267) 253-3923 

viazeen@gmail.com 

Raphael Xavier, is an award winning artist from Wilmington, Delaware and alumnus of Rennie Harris 

Puremovement. He is a Pennsylvania Fellow of the Arts in Folk and Traditional forms and has been 

funded by the Independence Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Dance Advance 

and NEFA. A self taught Breaking practitioner since 1983, Raphael continues to learn and recreate new 

ways to expand the vocabulary of the dance and is forging an exceptional approach to improvisation. 

Brenda Dixon Gottschild deemed Xavier, "A fine movement technician." His extensive research in Hip 

Hop forms and culture, specifically Breaking, has lead to the creation of Ground-Core, a Somatic 

dance technique that give the practitioner a better understanding of the body within all dance forms. 

NORIKO YAMAMOTO 

Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnerships 

Program Director, Grassroots Exchange and Education Programs 

152 West 57th Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10019 

phone (212) 489-1255 fax (212) 489-1344 

noriko_yamamoto@jfny.org 

Noriko Yamamoto is a Program Director for Japanese Studies, Grassroots Exchange and Education at 

Japan Foundation / Center for Global Partnership in New York. Born in Mie, Japan, she studied 

International Relations at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, and Sociology at the Graduate School of 

Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. Her interest is in multicultural society and education, integration 

policy of immigrants, etc. She joined the Japan Foundation in 2005, where she worked for several 

divisions including CGP Tokyo, Human Resource Division and Accounting Division, and was


transferred to the NY office in September, 2011. In her spare time, she practices karate; she has a 

second level black belt (Shotokan). 

KYOKO YOKOYAMA 

Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural Promotion 

Program & Planning Coordinator 

6th floor Fukuoka Shobo Kaikan, 3-10 Nakasu-Nakashimamachi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan 8100802 

phone +81-92-263-6265 fax +81-92-263-6259 

art-co@ffac.or.jp 

The Fukoka City Foundation for the Arts, established in 1999, is funded by the city government. Its 

mission is "to bridge people and the arts." The Foundation does not own its own space and supports 

traditional and contemporary arts that take place throughout the city. In addition to community 

workshops, Artist in Schools program, they host the Asia Film Festival and the Fukoka Arts Festival. 

The Foundation is a strong presence in the city and serves the diverse needs of the community through 

organic cooperation with other city institutions. 

KYOKO YOSHIDA 

U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network, Inc. 


1471 Guerrero Street, Suite 3, San Francisco, CA 94110 

phone 415-867-7080 

kyoko@usjapanctn.net 

Kyoko Yoshida is the founder and executive director of U.S/Japan Cultural Trade Network, Inc. 

(CTN), an international initiative of Arts Midwest to provide leadership, vision, information and 

technical support to enhance cultural trade between the two countries. Since its inception, Yoshida has 

successfully lead CTN in bringing together public and private resources in both countries to create a 

dynamic system of support for the exchange of artists, artistic services, and exhibitions. After a 

productive five-year operation in the Midwest, CTN relocated to San Francisco in 2006 and became an 

independent nonprofit organization. Currently based in San Francisco, Yoshida also serves as senior 

program advisor for San Francisco International Arts Festival 

MIMI ZARSKY 


Senior Program Specialist - Convenings 


phone (504) 595-8008 fax (504) 595-8006 

mzarsky@npnweb.org


AM Philly Yo! marks the 12th Annual Meeting that Mimi has been involved with. A part of the NPN 

crew since 2001, she's been designing, editing and producing materials and events for nonprofit arts 

organizations since 1987. Clients have included the National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture, The 

San Francisco Foundation, Crossroads Project for Art, Learning & Community, and the Maggie 

Allesee National Center for Choreography. She holds a B.A. in Folklore from University of 

Pennsylvania and is a professional potter. 

RACHEL ZIMMERMAN 

InLiquid 


1400 N American Street, studio 314, Philadelphia, PA 19122 

phone 215.235.3405 

rachel@inliquid.com

National Performance Network's 2012 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia

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