National Performance Network's 2012 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia

3225 8th Street NE, Washington, DC 20017
phone (202) 269-1600 fax (202) 269-4103
cperlo@danceplace.org
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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
Artistic Director
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