The Community Arts Committee of the Zellerbach Family Foundation invites you to participate in the
Performing Arts Assistance Program This special program makes seasoned artistic and administrative professionals available as consultants to small and midsize community arts groups. The program is funded by the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and overseen by the Zellerbach Community Arts Committee. It is administered by Theatre Bay Area. The Performing Arts Assistance Program has helped hundreds of theatre, dance and music groups work with advisers on a variety of artistic or organizational/administrative projects. The consultants provide instruction, critiques and other input that aids local performing companies with their ongoing development as a functioning organization and as an artistic entity.
Ways to Use the Performing Arts Assistance Program The Performing Arts Assistance Program can be an empowering tool for local arts groups, which can utilize the program in many ways. Here are a few suggestions. You may ask a consultant to: · Conduct a class or workshop in a particular skill, such as mime, vocal technique, fight choreography or sound editing · Critique a performance at the beginning, middle and/or end of the production process · Advise on fundraising, public relations or marketing plans, either for a specific event or long term · Advise on purchasing or designing in such areas as costuming, sets, props, or lighting and sound systems · Train budding professionals in such areas as directing, running lights and sound, constructing costumes, or choreography · Help plan a season of performances by projecting what costumes, sets, scripts, and sound effects might be needed · Advise on creating a strategic plan for a company · Coach performers in movement skills, acting, dialects and singing · Review the company’s history and help the group target and develop longrange artistic goals and plans · Assess a company’s technical or administrative needs · Help define personnel needs and locate qualified people · Advise on video documentation of performances
Guidelines for the Performing Arts Assistance Program Please read these instructions carefully before applying for a consultant. 1. Only performing arts organizations that have received grants from the Community Arts Committee of the Zellerbach Family Foundation and have an annual budget of $900,000 or less are eligible for the program. 2. Organizations may choose one or more consultants from the roster (outside consultants are not eligible) for a consultancy of up to a total of 20 hours on a particular project. The hours may be arranged in any way the group and consultant elect to use them. 3. Consultants will provide advising, teaching, critiquing and skill-sharing. They may not be engaged to take on the responsibility for designing, directing, choreographing, or otherwise producing a project. 4. Performing arts organizations should apply for a consultancy at least six weeks in advance of the time they want to meet with the consultant by filling out an Arts Assistance application form and mailing it to Theatre Bay Area, which will review the requests. 5. If a request is approved, the arts organization will be put in touch directly with the consultant to arrange times, dates and the design of the consultancy. 6. After a consultancy is completed, the arts organization and the consultant must fill out separate questionnaires reviewing the consulting process. These questionnaires must be returned to Theatre Bay Area within two weeks after the consultancy has ended. 7. All financial arrangements, including payments to the consultants, will be handled by Theatre Bay Area.
Consultants for the Performing Arts Assistance Program ACTING ROBERT WEINAPPLE is a native New Yorker who has been acting, directing and teaching in the Bay Area since 1988. Robert is on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and co-runs Seydways Acting Studios (SF and LA), where he has developed many innovative classes for professional actors, singers and dancers, integrating all three disciplines. He also regularly works with orchestras around the country hosting children’s concerts entitled Where In The World of Music is Carmen SanDiego? His training includes work at RADA in Stratford-Upon-Avon with such luminaries as Peter Hall and Cicely Berry; in New York with Catherine Fitzmaurice and Saul Kotzubei; Viewpoints and Suzuki training with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company; mask and commedia work at Dell Arte School with Carlo Mazzone-Clementi; and private work with Leonard Pitt (mask and movement), Jane Randolph (voice) and Richard Seyd (acting). Recent directing credits include Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight with Theatre Q at the Dean Lesher Center, Falsettoland at the Phoenix Theatre in SF, an original adaptation of Chekhov’s The Duel at Central Works, Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest at San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Twelfth Night at Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Quick-Change Room with TheatreFirst, UPS and The Debating Society with the Playwright’s Lab, and 2x4Play at The Marsh in San Francisco. He served as Associate Director for Noises Off at the Marines Memorial Theatre in SF, and was Assistant Director to Richard Seyd for Beauty Queen of Leenane at Berkeley Rep, as well as David Parr for the 2003 and 2004 Revels. Robert has also worked as an actor at most major theatres in the Bay Area, including San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre Company, A Traveling Jewish Theatre, 42nd Street Moon, (Drama-Logue Award for Principal Performance), Shotgun Players, Aurora Theatre Company, and numerous school tours and shows for youth. Film/TV credits include Tragos, Never Night, Klee-Vies Peterbelt, Heart of the Possible, and a guest appearance on Nash Bridges. Available for consultancies in acting.
COSTUME DESIGN ROBERTA ANN YUEN is a costume designer and consultant who has worked with nonprofit performing arts groups (California Shakespeare Festival, Eureka Theatre, ACT, Magic Theatre) and on commercial productions. She has
overseen costume production for the San Francisco Opera, the San Francisco Ballet, Sandra Woodall Productions and La Jolla Playhouse. Ms. Yuen has been with the Performing Arts Assistance Program since its inception and has consulted with Shizen Dance, Eth-Noh-Tec, Community Music Center, Motivity and Thick Description. Available for consultancies in costume design, production, purchasing and season planning.
DANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHY BETSY ERICKSON Betsy Erickson was born in Oakland, California and began her formal dance training at San Francisco Ballet School on a Ford Foundation Scholarship, where she studied with Lew and Harold Christensen and Anatole Vilzak. In addition, she studied for many years with Valentina Pereyslavic and Hector Zaraspe in New York. Erickson was appointed ballet master in January 1992. She is responsible for rehearsal of various ballets from San Francisco Ballet’s repertory, including works by Lew Christensen, Helgi Tomasson, Val Caniparoli, Jerome Robbins, and Mark Morris. From 1964 to 1967, Erickson was a soloist with San Francisco Ballet. For the subsequent five years, she was a soloist with American Ballet Theatre, where she danced both soloist and principal roles in Swan Lake and Giselle, and in ballets by choreographers including Antony Tudor, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins, and Leonide Massine. In 1972 she returned to SF Ballet, where she performed principal roles with the Company until 1984. During her sixteen-year career with San Francisco Ballet, Erickson’s repertory included principal roles in works by George Balanchine, Lew Christensen, Jerome Robbins, and Michael Smuin. Erickson danced principal and soloist roles in such ballets as Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, Agon, and Symphony in C; and Lew Christensen’s Variations de Ballet and Vivaldi Concerto Grosso, a work in which the central pas de deux was created expressly for her. Following her retirement in 1984, Erickson became ballet mistress for Oakland Ballet for seven and a half years. During her tenure there, she choreographed many works including Songs (1990), Sfumato (1986), and Waterways (1982). In 1990 she traveled to Hong Kong to set Sfumato and Val Caniparoli’s Connotations on the Hong Kong Ballet. The ballets were subsequently performed in Hong Kong, mainland China, and in South Africa by NAPAC Dance Company.
Erickson has continued her choreography while at San Francisco Ballet and her works include Wild Echoes Flying (1995) and Beneath the Wake (1998), both for Oakland Ballet. In addition, she served as artistic director of the National Ballet of Colombia in Bogota in 1986. Erickson has received many awards and fellowships, including a 1990 California Arts Council Fellowship, the first of such funding given to an individual choreographer. She has also been awarded six National Endowment for the Arts choreographer fellowships (for the period between 1984 and 1987, again in 1990, and in 1995). From 1996 to 1998, Erickson was awarded a national Dance Residency Program Grant, funded by Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts. In addition, she currently acts as a consultant for the Performing Arts Assistance Program of the Zellerbach Family Fund. Erickson is also a former board trustee for Performing Arts and Dance for the Djerassi Foundation Artist in Residence Program in Woodside, and has twins, Julia and Stephen Nemy, born in 1995. Erickson is married to Jeff Nemy, CFO for KQED Public Broadcasting. Available for consultancies in classical and modern dance and choreography, and assist in all aspects of production in relationship to dance.
FINANCIAL CONSULTANTS
Ana MacRae Bogdanov provides full charge bookkeeping and web design services to local San Francisco small businesses through her bookkeeping/office management consulting business, Ana MacRae Consulting. Current clients include Theatre Bay Area, Metro PCS and Angels of Ireland. She started this business in 2005 as Aeon Designs, under which name she provided web and graphic design for companies including African American Art & Culture Complex, Pasta Pomodoro’s Restaurant, and Atlas Bay Area Painting. Prior to starting her own business, Ana was a successful accountant, office manager and web designer for a variety of Bay Area businesses: As the Office Manager for Cinepro Theatre Products, Ana designed and implemented a FileMaker Pro database system for tracking shipment schedules, inventory and repairs, as well as creating/developing the strategic business and marketing plan used by the owners in the sale of Cinepro. She also directed formation of E-based capabilities, including designing a new website and setting up an online credit card payment system. For Perception TV, Ana developed a major cost control program, which cut overhead by 15%. At Projection Presentation Technology, she was honored for being the most successful Office Manager of the San Francisco branch JODI LOMASK founded Capacitor in 1997, and began in 10 years. During her work there she implemented Excel exploring non-traditional combinations of arts and sciences financial spreadsheets geared to meet the specific needs of through movement. Her work has been covered by Wired. 10 hotel business centers including the Moscone Center and com, SHIFT Magazine, NBC 11’s Tech NOW!, CNET Radio, the South San Francisco Conference Center. While working at TECH TV, Dance Magazine and The New York Times. She One Stop Graphics, the first woman owned graphic design firm designed a novel conceptual space - “the Capacitor Lab” - in the financial district, Ana designed a purchase order and where artists and scientists exchange ideas and information accounts payable program utilizing FileMaker, and learned about a concept that underlies a performance piece. In 2007, website and graphic design. Ana’s website can be found at she addressed the Ecology Society of America on this process www.bayareabookkeeper.net. Available for consultancies and the ways in which artists and scientists can work together. in bookkeeping, office management, and web design. A 1996 cum laude graduate of the dance conservatory at SUNY Purchase, Lomask has trained at the Royal Ballet JOHN SIMPSON provides financial/accounting consulting Academy, Merce Cunningham Studio, London Contemporary services to a variety of Arts organizations. He offers a full Dance School, the Rotterdam Dansacademie, L’ Espace range of services from bookkeeping and bank reconciliation Catastrophe, and Jacob’s Pillow. She earned a CHIME to budgeting, internal controls, Chart of Accounts and financial mentorship with Joanna and two residencies at Yaddo Artist policies & procedures. He is experienced with Accounting Colony in upstate New York. In 2008, she will participate in the software, including QuickBooks and with preparing a nonDjerassi Resident Artist Program. Lomask’s choreography profit tax return, Form 990. unites unique characters, innovative performance devices, Mr. Simpson provides a strong combination of skills with his with distinctive movement textures for Capacitor’s signature education, a M.B.A. in finance from the University of California, synthesis of visual magic and raw athleticism. Defined by a Berkeley, and practical experience; he was the Managing sculptural approach to the body, costuming, and props, her Director of a mid-sized Theatre in San Francisco for four inventive choreographic solutions emerge from problems born years. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in Accounting of conceptual, physical, and spatial parameters. Available at Golden Gate University and a registered tax preparer in for consultancies in movement, dance, aerial work, and California. He has a passion for providing accurate financial object interaction. results and for the Performing Arts, having acted on the stage and screen. Available for consultancies in accounting, QuickBooks and financial planning specializing in nonprofit organizations.
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Before Talk and Lost Their Footing for Diablo Ballet, Picture: Powderhorn/Redhook for Zaccho Dance Theatre, Beauty Robert Weiner is an independent consultant specializing Queen of Leenane for Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Thirsting in helping fundraisers make informed, strategic decisions for Oakland Ballet with a live musical performance by Zap about information technology. He has consulted with a wide Mama, Gender Heroes, Transparent Body and Grace for Joe variety of organizations, ranging from volunteer and grass- Goode Performance Group, and MLADA for San Francisco roots organizations to UC Berkeley, Earthjustice, The Nature Symphony. Mr. Carpenter has received four Bay Area Critics Conservancy, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and Komen for Circle Awards, and four Isadora Duncan awards for lighting the Cure. He is the co-host of TechSoup’s Technology for design. Available for consultancies in lighting design, Fundraising forum and a frequent speaker on donor manage- production management, facility renovation, equipment ment systems and best practices in Development Operations. specification and technical direction. Typical projects include assessing Advancement Services departments, selecting software such as donor databases, CRM systems, Association Management systems, email MAKE-UP marketing software, and online giving tools, and developing strategic plans for technology. His web site is www.rlweiner. CYNTHIA WILSON has been “performing” makeup for 30 com. Available for consultancies in assessment of de- years. Let’s face it, the appearance of a performer speaks velopment, membership, and ticketing software, selec- volumes. As a consultant in theatrical makeup, she focuses tion of and implementation of new software systems, on the skills it takes to access the power of makeup to reflect and creating strategic plans for fundraising technology character. Her credits include the San Francisco Opera, KRON-TV, Word for Word, The Fringe Festival and many and operations. others. Ms. Wilson can teach one difficult makeup to an MICHAEL RICE is a podcaster with a background in the individual actor, or she can teach a cast of 10 how to do their performing arts (M.F.A. from the University of Missouri @ specific makeups. Available for consultancies in makeup Kansas City) who runs the Cool As Hell Theatre website. techniques, creating likenesses, season planning and Michael has been involved with podcasting almost since purchasing, old and middle age, corrective makeup, the inception of this technology. The Cool As Hell Theatre fantasy, ventilating facial hair, special effects, create a podcast (created in 2005) was the first performing arts “look” for a company or an individual, as well as group related podcast in the San Francisco Bay Area. Michael classes. has experience in equipment analysis, equipment setup, equipment purchasing, podcast hosting services, necessary software applications (for hosting podcasts, editing podcasts, MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT tagging podcasts), search engine submissions specifically for podcasts, interview technique, podcast promotion and cross DAVID GLUCK is a San Francisco-based nonprofit arts promotion, codec principles, website resources, marketing consultant specializing in finance and strategic planning. for podcasts, podsafe music, enclosures, etc. Available Current clients include Intersection for the Arts, The Jewish for consultancies in emerging technology for theatre Theatre San Francisco, AXIS Dance Company, Playwrights (specifically podcasting). Foundation, Climate Theater, and GroundSpark. Past clients include Theatreworks, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Stern Grove Festival Association, San Francisco Girls Chorus, LIGHTING DESIGN San Francisco Center for the Book, Headlands Center for the Arts, The Book Club of California, New Century Chamber JACK CARPENTER has designed lighting and scenery Orchestra, Golden Gate University, Theatre of Yugen, Boxcar for such varied companies as San Francisco Ballet, San Theater, Crowded Fire, The Marsh, Afro Solo, Zaccho Dance Francisco Symphony, Chanticleer, Women’s Philharmonic, Theatre, Luna Kids Dance, and Berkeley Playhouse, among Kronos Quartet, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Oakland Ballet, others. David has served as both Managing Director and Joe Goode Performance Group, ODC/SF, Zaccho Dance Finance Director of the Magic Theatre, and as Development Theatre, Eureka Theatre, as well as seven years as resident Director of California Shakespeare Theater. He is also an designer for Diablo Ballet. His work has been seen in the experienced commercial theater producer and general Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Davies Symphony Hall, manager, having served for two years as senior management Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Detroit Opera House and executive in London on the long-running Tony and Olivier in most major metropolitan areas of this country. Notable Award-winning production of the musical “Chicago,” as well productions for Mr. Carpenter include the world premiere of as producing “Man of Rock” at the 2011 New York Musical Angels in America, for the Eureka Theatre Company, Walk Theatre Festival and serving as general manager on the
2006 San Francisco commercial transfer of Marin Theatre Company’s “Killer Joe.” David was appointed to the San Francisco Arts Task Force in 2005, and currently serves as a board member and treasurer of both Theatre Bay Area and the San Francisco Arts Democratic Club. He received an MBA in Arts Management from UCLA Anderson and a BA from Princeton University. Available for consultancies in finance and budget, fundraising, contracts, personnel management, and organizational development. AMY KWESKIN is an internationally recognized non-profit management consultant specializing in building sustainable arts and culture organizations. In her consulting practice, Leading-Together, she utilizes capacity building tools that support the development of artists, boards, staff, and volunteers to reach their goals. As a strategic planner she addresses organizational and board development, audience development, donor cultivation and corporate partnerships. Amy has presented training programs for Theatre Bay Area, The Foundation Center, San Diego Performing Arts League, the Center for Cultural Innovation, and was a professor of Arts Administration at University of Houston Downtown. She earned an MA in Arts Administration from Golden Gate University and is enrolled in the Doctor of Business Administration program. She recently returned to San Francisco from London where she worked in the non-profit sector and studied as a leadership coach. Amy continues to consultant on leadership training for Chief Executives and Board Chairs of charities across the UK. Available for consultancies in organizational development, board development, strategic planning, marketing/audience development, corporate partnerships, individual donor cultivation, and arts management at large. Also trained as a leadership coach. ANNE W. SMITH is an advocate, arts professional and educator who has served a variety of interests nationally and internationally. As a consultant she can help theatre groups with strategic planning, creative thinking for new solutions, hiring new staff or interim positions, organizational development projects, arts education, assessment and program planning. She is former chair of Golden Gate University’s Arts Administration epartment and presently teaches Contemporary Arts and Culture online for GGU. She has also been a Professor of Arts Management at American University, Washington DC, College of Charleston, South Carolina, Haute Etude Commercial, Montreal and Showa University of Music, Japan.Anne has published extensive articles on arts advocacy and governance, merger management, networking and arts education. She has also been Grants Program Manager for California Arts Council, Arts Festival Director for San Francisco Arts Commission, Managing Director of Dance Spectrum Ballet, ODC Performance Gallery, among other positions. An active Trustee of the Book Club of California, San Francisco Cen-
ter for the Book, The Medical Clown Project,and Theatre Bay Area, Anne has Bachelors Degree in English and Theatre from State University at Albany, a Master of Arts in Curriculum and Teaching from Columbia University and a Doctorate in Public Administration from Golden Gate University. Available for consultancies in strategic planning, board development/ relations, contributed income development.
MIME, MASKS AND PHYSICAL THEATRE WENDY PARKMAN was a performer with the Pickle Family Circus and cofounder of the San Francisco School of Circus Arts. She is on the faculty of the Urban School, and teaches drama and circus, and directs productions at Urban School and other schools in the Bay Area. Available for consultancies in circus skills, movement and integrating the physical aspects of circus into theatre. LEONARD PITT studied mime in Paris with Etienne Decroux, and mask theatre and carving in Bali, Indonesia. He was a founding member of George Coates Performance Works, ran the Leonard Pitt School of Mime for fourteen years, and has created and performed his own one-man shows, including Spleenix and Not for Real, throughout the United States, Europe, New Zealand and Australia. He was movement consultant for Stephen Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. Leonard is currently co-director of Flying Actor Studio in San Francisco, a one-year conservatory in the art of physical theatre. Available for consultancies in movement, mime and masks.
Fight Choreography Durand Garcia - SAG, a San Francisco native and teaching artist, is an actor, director, and Fight Choreographer, who has worked on over a hundred productions. He has trained in Stage Combat since 1992. His studies include training with Fight Masters: J. R. Beardsley, Dale Girard, Richard Ryan, and J. Allen Suddeth, as well as with master teacher Gregory Hoffman. As a Fight Choreographer he has worked with the Sacramento Opera, Anima Mundi Dance Co., Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Co., Hillbarn Theatre Co., Diamond City Playhouse, Shotgun Players, Last Planet Theatre Co., Notre Dame de Namur University, Contra Costa College, San Francisco State University, San Francisco Cabaret Opera Co., Shady Shakespeare, Teatro Didactico Popular, Dragon Productions Theatre Co., Palo Alto High School, Performing Arts High School, Pinole Valley High School, Washington High School, and the African-American Arts and Cultural Complex among others. Since 1998 Mr. Garcia has been the resident Fight Director for African-American Shakespeare Co. Durand is an apprentice teacher with Dueling Arts International and
is twice certified as an actor/combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. His dance and movement training include workshops with Yoshi Oida, dance with Kei Takei, Suzuki Technique with Jeffery Bihr, and various forms of Yoga. He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, Society of American Fight Directors, National Association of Latino Independent Producers, and he is an affiliated artist with BorderZone Arts, Inc. Related martial arts training include Kali, Escrima, and Iaido as well as Firearms training with Brian Normandy and Scott Jackson. Through his company - Fight Action Associates; he provides fight coordination/ choreography, theatrical fight training, and weapons/firearms safety training services for the theatre and motion picture industries and has provided fight coordination for 23 indie films. Durand offers a unique set of training techniques that help actor/combatants retain what they are taught and thus learn quicker. He is a faculty member at the Academy of Art University where he teaches Stage Combat. He is currently completing his Master of Arts in Drama at SFSU. Available for consultancies in fight choreography.
SOUND BARNEY JONES has been creating and producing theatrical music and sound in the Bay Area since 1984. His music and sound designs have been heard onstage at Magic Theatre, ACT, Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, Eureka Theatre and many other venues. He has also produced sound and music for feature films, documentaries, radio drama, the internet, museum installations and tours. For the last 4 years he have been working fulltime as a music and sound editor at Pixar Animation Studios. Available for consultancies in room acoustics, sound reinforcement, synchronizing sound to picture, microphone technique, audio production and equipment purchasing.
THEATRE DIRECTION (PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT/MARKETING) TREVOR ALLEN is a nonprofit performing arts consultant, freelance event coordinator and program manager. He served the Bay Area theatre community for eight years as Theatre Bay Area’s Director of Company Services. In addition to functioning as the Membership Director to over 400 Theatre, Dance and Opera companies, he as also acted as an event producer, granting officer, program manager, volunteer coordinator, publicity distribution network supervisor, general liability event insurance administrator, workshop wrangler and the emcee of the annual General Auditions. During his tenure, he worked on the following programs: the Theatre Services Committee, Performing Arts Assistance Program, Community Box Office Network, Theatre Materials Exchange, Theatrefest,
The Bay Area Costume Co-op, Nomads Committee, Bay Area Professional Small Theatres, National Arts Marketing Project workshops, Mentorship Program, Free Night of Theater, Playwrights Showcase, the New Works Fund grants and the Annual Conference. Prior to that, he produced the Bay Area Shakespeare Marathon, worked in Corporate Development with San Francisco Opera and Membership with the San Francisco Zoological Society. He is the Artistic Director of Black Box Theatre.com, an award-winning playwright and holds a BA in Theatre from UCLA and MFA in Creative Writing from SFSU. Available for consultancies on artistic projects (including theatrical productions and one-person shows, etc.), community outreach, strategic planning, event coordination, fundraising, personnel management, organizational support, publicity, marketing and development. Ellen Sebastian Chang is a director, writer and a creative consultant. Ms. Sebastian Chang was a cofounder and artistic director of Life on the Water a national and internationally known presenting and producing organization at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. She has been fortunate to work with some of the most interesting artists and projects in the Bay Area and Beyond from hip-hop to folk opera; Balinese dance dramas and radio dramas; original works and pulitzer prize winning playwrites. Ms. Sebastian Chang began her career as a lighting designer and technician. She served as the technical director and lighting designer for The Blake Street Hawkeyes. Her directorial work is highly influenced by this love of and affinity with the movement, color and temperature of light and shadow. Her directorial and writing debut called “Your Place Is No Longer With Us” was created in a Victorian mansion and told the story of the coming of age of a ten year old biracial girl; a meal of black-eyed peas, mustard greens and corn bread cooked throughout the performance and was served to the audience at the end of the play. She has collaborated with solo performers Awele Makeba (“Rage-Is not a one day thing”), Anne Galjour (“Okra”), Whoopi Goldberg (“Moms”), Holly Hughes (“No Trace of The Blonde”), Leonard Pitt (“Ned”), and Bill Talen(“The Shape”). She has directed large scale operas and dance dramas with Oakland Opera Theater, Kitka and Gamelan Sekar Jeya. She is also currently the creative director for the REX Foundation’s “The World As It Could Be: Human Rights and the Arts Education Project . Available for consultancies in directing, production management, technical direction and organizational development. 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 Founder and 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. In July 2010 Ms. Jones directed a full-length theater production with female inmates inside the Johannesburg Correctional Services Prison and at the State Theater of South Africa hosted by the Urban Voices Festival. In September 2009 Ms. Jones traveled to Moscow, Russia as a part of the U.S. Department of State Speaker’s Program where she conducted residency activities, lectures, and performances at Praktika Theater in downtown Moscow and a variety of other locations. Ms. Jones has just completed a San Francisco Art Commission supported collaboration with the Women’s HIV Program at University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Over the past three years Ms. Jones conducted workshops and residency activities that lead to a world premier performance in 2010. In December of 2007 Rhodessa received a United States Artist (USA) Fellowship to support her work. Ms. Jones was honored with an Honorary Doctorate from California College of the Arts in 2004. Available for consultancies in directing, working with underserved and at risk populations (art as social activism), and international collaborations. LISE SWENSON has been producing and directing documentary, fiction and commercial video since 1992 and has received many grants and awards for her work, including a prestigious Creative Work Fund grant, a Phyllis Wattis Yerba Buena Gardens Residency and a Bay Guardian “Goldies’ 99” Award. She is also a video installation and new media artist, producing multimonitor site specific installations and video sculpture. Lise has screened, broadcast and exhibited her work nationally and internationally and has just finished producing and directing her first feature length narrative film, Mission Movie, which is currently on the festival circuit garnering critical acclaim and winning awards. Available for consultancies in concept development, video production, post-production design, multi-monitor and site specific installation. Rebecca Novick is a director, dramaturg, and arts consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was the founder of Crowded Fire Theater Company and served as its artistic director for ten years. Her directing has been recognized with many awards including the Goldie Award for Outstanding Local Artists. Rebecca has also held a number of arts management positions including most recently serving for five years as Theatre Bay Area’s Director of Development and Strategic Initiatives. She is currently working as a freelance director and as a consultant to a number of foundations and non-profits. Rebecca’s directing career has focused on new, experimental work. While at Crowded Fire she she produced twenty-three plays and directed fifteen including such highly successful world premieres as ‘Maid by Erik Ehn, One Big Lie by Liz Duffy Adams, and Juan Gelion Dances for the Sun by Dominic Orlando. In the Bay Area she has also worked with the Magic
Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Aurora Theatre, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, the Exit Theatre, Shotgun Players, Berkeley Opera, Playground, and Woman’s Will. Available for consultancies in project development, directing, dramaturgy (working with playwrights or productions), and “dance-a-turgy” (dramaturging dance).
VOCAL PRODUCTION/SPEECH/SINGING/ DIALECTS DAWN-ELIN FRASER Primarily a voice, speech and dialect coach, Dawn-Elin Fraser has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1987. She has taught, performed and coached at theaters and institutions small and large, including California Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theater, The Magic Theater, San Francisco State University, Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley. Currently, she is the only faculty member to teach in all three of American Conservatory Theater’s training programs (Young Conservatory, Studio, MFA). Ms. Fraser holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree from American Conservatory Theater. Available for consultancies in voice, speech and dialect coaching. KATE ROWLAND is an actress, singer and voice specialist who has taught voice, speech and singing in acting programs including ACT, Stanford University, PCPA, the Drama Studio London at Berkeley and Playworks. She has taught privately for 27 years. Kate has performed with PCPA; California Repertory Theatre; the One Act; Hawaii, Marin, Oakland and Pocket Opera Companies, the San Francisco Opera Center; the San Francisco Symphony and others. Trained in Speech Pathology at S.F. State University, she holds a B.A. in music from Stanford University and is a graduate of ACT’s Advanced Training Program. Previous consultancies include Anne Galjour, Aya de Leon, Eth-Noh-Tec, Terry Baum, The African American Shakespeare Company and Teatro Della Rosa. Available for consultancies in voice, singing, speech and scansion.
ADDITIONAL CONSULTING SERVICES Jennifer Abrams is a communications consultant who works with organizations on effective supervision and evaluation practices, new employee support and team development. She is the author of Having Hard Conversations and the soon to be published Being Generationally Savvy: Working Effectively Across the Generations. Her education includes an M.A. in Education from Stanford and a B.A. from Tufts. She is delighted to be a Board Member at Large of the National New
Play Network. Available for consultancies in personnel management and team development. Claudia stillwell, MBA, has extensive professional experience as managing director, program director, and more recently as CFO and controller. As managing director of a local dance company Robert Moses’ Kin 2002-4, she has first-hand experience and has “worn many hats.” Prior to that, she directed Business Arts Council’s training programs including the National Arts Marketing Project. She earned an MBA to help focus her work on supporting nonprofits in their business operations. She can advise on a range of projects from business planning to audit preparation. Available for consultancies in financial, marketing and operations planning; accounting set up and overhaul for nonprofit compliance; budgeting and cash flow forecasting; and board financial roles. Belinda Taylor became an independent arts consultant in 2002, following nine years as arts administrator, magazine editor and communications director at Theatre Bay Area in San Francisco. While at Theatre Bay Area, she coled groundbreaking research on the uses of value-based marketing to promote the arts. Later, as director of the California Arts Council’s Arts Marketing Institute, she traveled throughout California to lead workshops for small to mid-size nonprofit arts organizations. More recently she has worked with individual organizations and clients, helping them develop strategic approaches to effectively connect with their audiences, donors and the larger community. An awardwinning journalist, she is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and later earned a certificate in Marketing from UC Berkeley Extension. Her other professional experience includes the Oakland Tribune, where she was part of the editorial team that led the Tribune in its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. She served three terms as board president of the Playwrights Foundation and authored the award-winning play “Becoming Julia Morgan.” belindat@mac.com. Available for consultancies in marketing, strategic planning, group facilitation. Mary Vradelis excels at helping arts groups and nonprofits, by providing critical consulting services to support organizations’ long-term stability and growth. She draws on 20 years experience as a nonprofit administrator and consultant, including as an Executive Director and Board Member for several Bay Area organizations. Since 2006, she has served as Interim Executive Director for five organizations, including two arts organizations, the Marin Theatre Company and Each One Reach One. As a consultant she provides critical services such as strategic planning, retreat facilitation, board development and executive transition. She works in partnership with nonprofit Staff and Board members to identify the tools they need to continue working energetically
and effectively to reach their goals. Her education includes a B.F.A. in Theatre, a M.A. in Expressive Arts Therapy, and an Executive MBA. She is a member of Consultants and Coaches for the Arts (C2Arts), the Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership of Marin, and Compasspoint’s Interim E.D. pool. “Mary is very thorough, clear and creative in her presentations, and though flexible around group needs, she keeps the group focused and on task. Mary prepares well, leads well and opens the space for the leadership of the group to evolve. I recommend Mary without reservation to work with any organization, as I have had the benefit of experiencing her successful leadership qualities first hand. You will not be disappointed if you hire Mary to work with your group.” –Francel D’Andrea, Executive Director, Legal Assistance for Seniors. Available for consultancies in meeting and retreat facilitation, leadership transition, board development, strategic planning and program development. Morrie Warshawski has worked in the nonprofit arts and culture sector for over thirty years, bringing a commitment to the core values of tolerance, thoughtfulness, transparency, and creativity. He served as the Executive Director of three nonprofit arts organizations (the last one being Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco). Since 1986 he has been a consultant specializing in Strategic Planning with nonprofit organizations throughout the US (large and small and in every arts discipline), state arts agencies, local arts council, and community cultural planning with cities and counties. He served for six years as a consultant and regional coordinator for the National Endowment for the Arts’ Advancement Program, which provided fifteen months of planning support for arts organizations. As a writer, he created A STATE ARTS AGENCY PLANNING TOOLKIT for the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies; and a website on planning for the NEA called “Lessons Learned” (http://www.nea.gov/resources/ Lessons/index.html). He is the author of many articles, and of two books on fundraising: THE FUNDRAISING HOUSEPARTY: HOW TO PARTY WITH A PURPOSE AND RAISE MONEY FOR YOUR CAUSE – 2nd Edition; and SHAKING THE MONEY TREE: THE ART OF GETTING GRANTS AND DONATIONS FOR FILM AND VIDEO – 3rd Edition. Morrie is the moderator for, and originator of, the “Strategic Planning for Nonprofits” Group on LinkedIn (with 1,175 members worldwide). Available for consultancies in strategic planning, fundraising planning, grantsmanship and board development.