National Performance Network's 2012 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia

JOAN KIMIKO OSATO
Youth Speaks, Inc./ The Living Word Project
Producing Director
1663 Mission Street, Suite 604, San Francisco, CA 94103
phone 415-710-7427 fax 4152559065
josato@youthspeaks.org
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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
Leveraging Investments in Creativity
Program Assistant
237 West 35th Street Suite 1202, New York, NY 10001
phone 6467313275 fax 6467313289
shin@lincnet.net
DARL ANDREW PACKARD
The Living Word Project
Technical Director/Lighting Designer