Planet Justice
Are you here for it?*
About the Festival
The 2023 edition of Live Ideas, Planet Justice: Are you here for it*?, explores the idea that climate justice is rooted in social justice, anticolonialism, global collaboration, human rights, and the rights of nature to thrive. An antidote to the doom and gloom of the climate crisis, the festival offers five days of art and action with performances, interactive installations, workshops, an outdoor festival, symposium, and more. It is co-curated with Slow Factory, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of climate justice and human rights for collective liberation by changing narratives, systems, and culture.
*Social and environmental justice for collective liberation. Racial justice and human rights for all living beings on Mother Earth.
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Schedule
Beyond the drumroll, a wake up call
Installation & Opening Party
May 17, 6PM // Lobby // Free
On view daily May 17 - 31
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Altamira 2042 // US PREMIERE
May 17, 18 & 20, 730PM // Theater // Tickets start at $25
Daina Ashbee
Hello, Buffalo // WORLD PREMIERE
May 18 & 19, 8PM // Studio // Tickets start at $25
Post-Show Reception
hosted by Quebec Government Office
May 18, 9PM // Lobby // Free
Study Hall
May 19, 230-630PM // Theater // Tickets start at $25
Outdoor Party Performances & Activities
May 20, 1-6pm // 19th street between 7th and 8th ave // Free
Dynasty Handbag
Titanic Depression // OFF-SITE // WORLD PREMIERE
May 20 & 21, 830PM // Co-presented off-site at Pioneer Works // Tickets start at $30
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Altamira 2042
May 17, 18 & 20, 730PM
Conception and Creation: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Director: Gabriela Carneiro Da Cunha and Xingu River
Direction Advisor: Cibele Forjaz
Assistant Director: João Marcelo Iglesias
Second Assistant Director: Clara Mor and Jimmy Wong
Research Orientation And Artistic Interaction: Dinah De Oliveira and Sonia Sobral
Writing Credits: Raimunda Gomes Da Silva, João Pereira Da Silva, Povos Indígenas Araweté E Juruna, Bel Juruna, Eliane
Brum, Antonia Mello, Mc Rodrigo – Poeta Marginal, Mc Fernando, Thais Santi, Thais Mantovanelli, Marcelo Salazar And Lariza
Video Editing: João Marcelo Iglesias, Rafael Frazão and Gabriela Carneiro Da Cunha
Text Editing: Gabriela Carneiro aa Cunha and João Marcelo Iglesias
Sound Design: Felipe Storino and Bruno Carneiro
Costumes: Carla Ferraz
Lighting: Cibele Forjaz
Installation Design: Carla Ferraz and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Installation Production: Carla Ferraz, Cabeção And Ciro Schou
Technology/ Programming/ Automation: Bruno Carneiro and
Computadores Fazem Arte.
Multimedia Creation: Rafael Frazão and Bruno Carneiro
Visual Design: Rodrigo Barja
Body Work: Paulo Mantuano and Mafalda Pequenino
Images: Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Marcelo
Iglesias, Clara
Mor and Cibele Forjaz
Photography: Nereu Jr., Clara Mor and Rafael Frazão
Teaser: Renato Vallone and Rafael Frazão
Research: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Marcelo Iglesias, Cibele Forjaz, Clara Mor,
Dinah De Oliveira, Eliane Brum, Sonia Sobral, Mafalda
Pequenino and Eryk Rocha
Production Director: Gabriela Gonçalves
Technical director and lighting operator: Jimmy Wong
Sound operator and video technician: Michelle Bezerra
Production: Ariane Cuminale (Corpo Rastreado)
Co-production: Corpo Rastreado and Mitsp – Mostra
Internacional De Teatro De São Paulo
Production: Corpo Rastreado and Aruac Filmes
Run Time: 90 minutes
More info on the Xingu River, Belo Monte dam:
Manifesto - Amazon, Centre of The World
Amazon’s Belo Monte dam cuts Xingu River flow 85%
A River’s Pulse
Altamira 2042 photo by Nereu Jr
BIOGRAPHIES
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha is a Brazilian artist who works in the fields of performance, direction, research and environmental artistic activism. She is a partner of Aruac Filmes and the creator of the Projeto Margens - On Rivers, Buiúnas and Fireflies, a multilingual project dedicated to artistic creation based on listening to the testimony of Brazilian rivers experiencing catastrophe. The scope of this project has already included plays (Guerrilla or For Land There Are No Missing Persons (2015) and Altamira 2042 (2019)), feature and short documentary films, publications, debates, workshops, the Buiunas network - a network between women, rivers and art - and, more recently, the acquisition of land on the banks of the Xingu River to create a space for artistic residence.
Altamira 2042 has integrated the programming of important festivals and theatrical spaces, such as the Wiener Festwochen, Festival D’automne à Paris, International Summer - Festival Kampnagel Hamburg, Baltic Circle, Holland Festival, Théâtre
Vidy-Lausanne, Centre Georges Pompidou and others.
Currently, Gabriela prepares her next work on the Tapajós River that will premiere in 2024 while directing, in partnership with Eryk Rocha, the film The Falling Sky based on the homonymous work of Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa and anthropologist Bruce Albert.
In her theater career, she has worked with directors such as Ariane Mnouchkine, Georgette Fadel, Felipe Vidal, Ivan Sugahara, Celina Sodré, Isaac Bernart and Pedro Brício. In the cinema, she acted in the films Anna by Heitor Dhalia, Breve Miragem de Sol and Jards by Eryk Rocha and O Duelo directed by Marcos Jorga. She worked as a producer, screenwriter and assistant director on the feature film Edna, a film produced by Aruac that had its world premiere at the prestigious Visions du Réel festival in Switzerland, in the international competition Burning Lights, in April 2021. She received the award for best actress at the Rio Festival for her work in the feature film Anna.
Hello, Buffalo photo by courtesy of the artist
Daina Ashbee
Hello, Buffalo
May 18 & 19, 8PM
Artistic Direction, Concept and Choreography by Daina Ashbee
Interpreted and performed by Imara Bosco
Rehearsal Director and Contributor: Gabriel Nieto
Lighting Designer and Technical Director: Beaudau Banks
Scenography: Daina Ashbee
Artist’s Assistant and Stage Manager: June Sedola Wiley
Project Manager: Sparrow Gabriel
Run Time: 90 minutes
FUNDING
The creation of Hello, Buffalo was supported in part by New York Live Arts’ Live Ideas, Planet Justice: Are you here for it?* co-curated with Slow Factory, and is presented with support from the Québec Government Office in New York.
BIOGRAPHIES
Daina Ashbee: Artist, director and choreographer based in Canada, born in Nanaimo, British Columbia known for her radical works at the edge of dance and performance. At the age of 26, she had already won two awards for her choreographies. She was a double prizewinner at the Prix de la danse de Montréal, winning both the Prix du CALQ for Best Choreography of 2015-2016 for her choreographic installation When the Ice Melts, Will We Drink the Water?, and the Prix Découverte de la danse, for Unrelated (her first choreography). Daina was named by the prestigious German TANZ magazine as one of 30 promising artists for the year 2017 and named one of 25 to watch by the American publication, DANCE in 2018. In 2019, she won a New York Dance and Performance Award, Bessie, for Outstanding Choreographer. In 2021, at the age of 31, she had two separate Retrospectives of her performance artworks; one in Montpellier, France and the second in Montreal, Canada. In 2022 she became the recipient of The Clifford E. Lee Choreographer Award from The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada.
Recognized as one of the most prolific choreographers of her generation, since 2015 her work has been presented over onehundred times in 16 countries and over 40 different cities. Her work being presented in some of the most prestigious festivals (The Venice Biennale, Oktoberdans, the Munich Dance Biennale, Montpellier Danse) and on the stages of the world (Canada, France, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Finland, Greenland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Mexico).
After residing for 8 years in the city of Montréal, in 2020 she relocated to Gabriola Island, British Columbia (unceded territory of Snuneymuxw Nation) where she re-sources her creative and energetic practices close to the rain forest on the west coast of Canada while she is not touring or creating abroad. She continues to tour regularly in Europe, Canada and the United States. In 2020 two new pieces were released: a solo, Laborious Song and a group piece, J’ai pleuré avec les chiens (later renamed J’ai pleuré avec les chiens TIME, CREATION, DESTRUCTION in 2021).
In 2021 Daina presented 5 of her original works at Montpellier Dance Festival: Unrelated (2014), Pour (2016), When the ice melts, will we drink the water? (2016), Serpentine (2017) and Laborious Song (2020). Daina presented 4 of her original works at Usine-C titled <<Daina Ashbee Retrospective>> which featured Unrelated, Pour, When the ice melts, will we drink the water? and Laborious Song in October 2021.
Daina’s new creations include another group piece My Tale on a Fish’s Body which will premiere in <<AUGUST 2023 AT THE BANFF CENTRE FOR THE ARTS>> and << A SOLO>> titled We learned a lot at our own funeral which is choreographed on Bboy Giga, international breaker based in Costa Rica. She is also a teacher of movement, choreography and therapeutic practices. She has taught at the Venice Biennale College in Venice, Italy, as a guest at The University of Stavanger, Norway and at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia U.S.A. Daina presented her workshops at Nulty Bod/ZeroPoint Festival in Prague, in Guadalajara, Mexico, across
Canada and especially in Montreal, Quebec., for the past 14 years. In 2022 she will teach in Costa Rica, across Canada and in Norway.
Imara Bosco is a dancer and performer based in Rome.
Born in Caltagirone (Sicily, Italy) in 1993, she studied Cunningham and Limon techniques at the National Academy of Dance in Rome, where she graduated in 2015.She continued her dance training in Israel with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. In 2021 she obtained her master’s degree in Theater, Music and Dance at Roma Tre University with a thesis about the relation between contemporary dance and performance art.
In 2018 Bosco was selected by Marie Chouinard to take part in a dance project at the Venice Biennale. Here she performed Chouinard’s repertory and a commissioned work by choreographer Daina Ashbee. She has performed Ashbee’s pieces at the KVS - Brussels City Theater, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Cardiff Dance Festival in Wales, the CCOVCentre de Création O Vertigo in Montréal, and at the Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF).
Bosco spent a period of research at the Venice Biennale writing pieces of dance criticism and in 2021 she wrote an essay on the nudity of bodies on stage, edited by dance critic Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino and published by the Venice Biennale.
Bosco is a dance teacher and she held a workshop as a guest teacher for the Accademia di Belle Arti, the National Dance Academy and the Music Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Beaudau (Bo-day) Karel Banks: Choreographer, Dancer and Production Technician born and raised in Belize, Central America; Beaudau is a black, queer, gender non-conforming immigrant artist, lighting designer and Theatre Technician based in New York City. Beaudau started formal dance training at thirteen, studying ballet and modern dance. They were accepted and graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts from the University of South Florida BFA program in Tampa, Florida. They are now living in New York City, freelancing with various dance artists while still following their love of theatre production.
Gabriel Nieto is a Venezuelan artist. He is an experimental movement investigator, writer, teacher, composer,performer, and
Artistic Director of the Platform: Nomads of the South (NOTS / Movement Identity) Europe and latin America.
Gabriel Currently continues his research on Latin American About the indigenous and afrodescendant cultures and defense as well the Latin American feminist community, understanding and studying the historical processes that have marked the cultures In the America continent through an external vision, understanding freedom in other ways relating to the arts through dance, circus and physical theater.
Gabriel gives workshops sharing his tools around the world, gives conferences related to these topics, and continues to be active working as a dancer, choreographic assistant and independent choreographic consultant.
Gabriel has been working with Daina since 2021 as rehearsal director of the latest new daina pieces and dancer of his latest group creation called J’ai pleuré avec les chiens (Time, Creation, Destruction) .
Dynasty Handbag
Titanic Depression
May 20 & 21, 830PM
Co-presented off-site at Pioneer Works
Co-created by Jibz Cameron and Sue Slagle (SUE-C)
Writen and Performed by Jibz Cameron
Visual Director: Mariah Garnett
Technical Director / Sound Design: Chloe Alexandra Thompson
Dramaturg: Sacha Yanow
Co-Writen and Produced by Amanda Verwey
Animator: amy von harrington
Run Time: 60 minutes
FUNDING
Dynasty Handbag: Titanic Depression was commissioned by Pioneer Works and curated by David Everitt Howe. It is co-presented by New York Live Arts as part of Live Ideas 2023: Planet Justice. The performance is made possible with support from Creative Capital, The Guggenheim Foundation, Ballroom Marfa, Center for Performance Research, Chorus Foundation, and MacDowell.
Titanic Depression is grateful for the generous support of individual donors - Kathleen Hanna, Ash Jones, Anonymous, Jake Hartman, Alma and Jennings Garnett, Nicole Esienman, Andrea Penycad, Roddy Bottom.
BIOGRAPHIES
Jibz Cameron (Co-creator, Writer, Performer): The peerlessly subversive, wacky, dark, and dystopian Dynasty Handbag— alter ego of performer, visual artist, actor, and writer Jibz Cameron— quite literally bites the hand that feeds her; she often parodies queer liberals and the institutions they support, as well as herself. Playing multiple characters who usually end up breaking down, slipping into alcoholism, or otherwise doing the wrong things, she “combats the terror of being alive,” as she’s previously written, by failing spectacularly. Cameron’s work as Dynasty Handbag has spanned over 20 years and has been presented at arts venues such as The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Broad Museum, The Hammer Museum, REDCAT, BAM, and the Centre Pompidou, among others. She has been heralded by the New York Times as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years” and “outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative” by The New Yorker. Cameron is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, a 2021 United States Artist Award recipient and a 2020 Creative Capital Grant awardee.
She produces and hosts Weirdo Night, a monthly comedy and performance event in Los Angeles and New York. Her film Weirdo Night is an official 2020 Sundance Film Festival selection.
Mariah Garnett’s (Visual Director) films and installations deconstructs the conventional hierarchy between filmmaker and subject, a mode that has historically been the purview of directors who possess economic, racial and gender privilege. Garnett is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video and holds an MFA from Calarts and a BA from Brown University. Recent solo exhibitions include Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Commonwealth + Council, a 10 year survey of her work at the LA Municipal Art Gallery, and Sundance Film Festival, 2021. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Bomb among others and has screened and exhibited internationally at The New Museum, Brooklyn Academy Of Music (BAM), REDCAT, Made in LA (Hammer Museum Biennial), The Metropolitan Arts Centre (Tate Belfast), CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, NY
Film Festival, and BFI London. She is an Assistant Professor of Media at UC San Diego, and lives and works in Los Angeles.
Chloe Alexandra Thompson (Technical Director / Sound Design) is a Cree, Canadian, interdisciplinary artist and sound designer. Thompson approaches sound as a mode of connection— embracing the kinesthetic agency of sound to compose abstract feats of spatialized audio recording and synthesis. Her work engages tactics of material minimalism to create sitespecific installations that sculpt droning, maximalist experiences out of space and sound. Using audio programming software, computational processing, and acoustic instruments, Thompson’s work seeks to create connection by guiding audience participants through these augmented experiences. In January 2021, Cycling ‘74, announced Thompson as one of the first Max Certified Trainers. Her sound design has been featured in the works of artists across the fields of music, performance, TV and film. She is presently part of the Working Consortium in developing First Nations Performing Arts.
Sacha Yanow (Dramaturg) is a NYC/Lenapehoking based performance artist and actor. Their solo practice is rooted in theater, queer performance and radical jewish tradition, using humor and physicality to explore themes of gender, aging, loss and diaspora. Sacha’s work has been presented by venues including MoMA PS1, Danspace Project, Joe’s Pub, and the New Museum in NYC; PICA’s TBA Festival/Cooley Gallery at Reed College in Portland, OR; and Festival Theaterformen in Hanover, Germany. They have received residency support from Baryshnikov Arts Center, Denniston Hill, LIFT Festival UK, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mass MoCA and Yaddo, among others. They served as Director of Art Matters Foundation for 12 years, and previously worked at The Kitchen as Director of Operations.
Amanda Verwey (Co-Writer/ Producer) is a queer WGA writer living in Los Angeles, California. In 2016, Amanda co- wrote with performance artist Jibz Cameron the full-length one-women show Good Morning Evening Feelings, which premiered at The Kitchen, NYC and was later turned into a
web series by JASH Productions
(awarded Audience Choice Best Experimental Short Film, Outfest 2017). In 2017, Amanda co-wrote the short film Tooth and Nail with director Sara Shaw, which premiered at SXSW (awarded Audience Choice for Best Short Film, Fusion Film Festival 2018 and Best Narrative Short, Outfest 2018.) In 2019, her feature script ‘Tooth & Nail’, based on the short, won the Richard Vague Production Fund Grant from Tisch. In 2020, she sold a series to FX. Amanda is currently in development on a grindhouse feature with Endeavor Content and Flame Ventures. She is also developing a limited series based on the book The Secret Life of a Satanist, the only authorized biography of Anton LaVey.
amy von harrington (Animator) is a visual artist: collage, video, performance, thought experimentor, friend, polarity practitioner, constellation facilitator, works in accounting. Lives with dogs, in LA and the existential briar patch. Loves life. Has lots of questions.
Sue Slagle (SUE-C) is an awardwinning artist, engineer and educator whose work in “real
time cinema” presents a new, imaginative perspective on live performance. Her evolution as a new media artist began in late90s San Francisco where she was an influential member of the electronic music scene, owning the experimental record label Orthlorng Musork, organizing audio-visual cultural events and teaching the first creative coding classes in Max Software. After finishing her masters degree in engineering at UC Berkeley she moved to Oakland where she became co-owner of the Ego Park gallery and helped launch the First Friday art walks. Sue is a Creative Capital awardee and MacDowell Fellow and has been covered in The Wire magazine, BoingBoing and the MIT Press book Programming Media. She has performed at the Library of Congress, REDCAT, Ars Electronica, MUTEK, SONAR, Ann Arbor Film Festival, NPR’s Tiny Desk and Transmediale, collaborating with musicians such as Morton Subotnick, Luc Ferrari, Laetitia Sonami, AGF, Paul DeMarinis, Wobbly, Ava Mendoza and Negativland.
LIVE ARTS CONTRIBUTORS
New York Live Arts is deeply grateful to all the individuals listed below for their vital gifts to New York Live Arts over the last year:
$1MM and higher
Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker
$500,000-$999,999
Anonymous
$100,000-$499,999
Anonymous
Eleanor Friedman
Ruth & Stephen Hendel
Alex Katz Foundation
Ellen M. Poss
Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel | Semel Charitable Foundation
$50,000 - $99,999
Jody & John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation
Lorraine Gallard & Richard Levy
Helen & Peter Haje
Suzanne Karpas
Barbara & Alan D. Marks
Matthew Putman
$25,000 - $49,999
Ylva Cavalli-Björkman & Willard Ahdritz
David Dechman & Michel Mercure
Zoe Eskin
Adam Flatto
Agnes Gund
Michael P.N.A. Hormel in memory of Linda Grass Shapiro
Charla Jones
Colleen Keegan
Darnell L. Moore
Amy Newman & Bud Shulman
Alanna Rutherford
Jennifer & Jonathan Soros
Starry Night Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation
Diana Wege | Wege Foundation
$10,000 - $24,999
Caroline & Paul Cronson
Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy
Alexes Hazen
Julie Orlando
Andrea Rosen
Nina & Gabriel Stricker
Pat Stryker
$5,000 - $9,999
Patricia Blanchet | Ed Bradley Family Foundation
Paula Cooper & Jack Macrae
Joan Davidson
Anne Delaney
Laura & Richard Hunt
Glenn Ligon
Jeffrey B. & Wendy Liszt
Robert Longo
Margaret Morton
Jeffrey Schneider
Melissa Schiff Soros
Cindy Sherman
Catharine R. Stimpson
Kristalina & Jack Taylor
Billie Tsien & Tod Williams
Steve Wilson
$1,000 - $4,999
Derrick Adams
Rosio Alvarez & Jennifer Brody
Anonymous
Alberta Arthurs
The Brant Foundation, Inc.
Jill Brienza
Catherine & Paul Buttenwieser
Reggie Browne
Carmine Boccuzzi
Rose C. Cali in Memory of John J. Cali
Jeannie Colbert
Joan Davidson
Lil & Jim DeMarse
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Dobkin Family Foundation
Margaret Doyle
Terence Dougherty & Pierre Duleyrie
Gina Duncan
Nancy & Stephen Gabriel
Mimi Garrard
Michael & Deborah Goldberg
Thomas & Barbara Gottschalk
Deborah Hellman & Derek Brown
Tom Hennes
Jenny Holzer
Scott Hudziak
Joanie Johnson
Judy Johnson
The Joyce Theater Foundation
Emil Kang
Amir Karby
Hedy Klineman
Oscar Mack
Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss
Susan Micari
Linda Murray
Wangechi Mutu
Samira Nasr
Richard Plepler
Randy Polumbo | Plant Construction
Margaret Selby
Jeffrey Seller
Céline Semaan & Colin Vernon
Caroline Shapiro & Peter Frey
Shinique Smith
Temple St. Clair & Paul Engler
The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation
Mickalene Thomas
Robyn Trani
JP Versace
James J. Williams, III
Jacqueline Woodson
Timothy Wu & Eric Murphy
$500 - $999
Stewart Adelson
Mary Ann Ashley
Arthur Aviles
Carol Bryce-Buchanan
John Fitzgibbon
William Floyd
Jeremy Henderson
Karen B. Hopkins
Brinton T. & Francis C. Parson, Jr
Robert Ross
John Sansone
Ellynne Skove
Deborah Swiderski
Wade Turnbull
Gilbert Williams
Gifts and commitments between 7/1/2021-6/30/2022
Support for New York Live Arts is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ed Bradley Family Foundation, The Brant Foundation, Inc., Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Dance/ NYC, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Alex Katz Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, Samuel M. Levy Family Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund in the New York Community Trust, One World Fund, The Poss Family Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, San Francisco Foundation The Semel Charitable Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Tides Foundation
Corporate support for New York Live Arts includes Con Edison, Google, Tito’s Handmade Vodka.
Public support for New York Live Arts is from Humanities New York, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Correction, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts.
STAFF & BOARD
Artistic Leadership
Bill T. Jones
Artistic Director
Janet Wong
Associate Artistic Director
Programming, Producing & Engagement
Kyle Maude
Producing Director
Hannah Emerson Jernigan
Producer
Jessica Prince
Producing Associate
Production
Chanel Pinnock
Production Manager
Megan Dechaine
Production Stage Manager
Leo Janks
Lighting Manager
James Bennett
A/V Manager
Tricia Navigato
Interim Assistant Production Manager
Creative Director
Bjorn G. Amelan
Community Engagement & Education
Bianca Bailey
Community Engagement & Education Manager
Communications
Tyler Ashley Director of Communications
Augustus Cook
Digital Marketing Manager
Hannah Seiden
Communications Manager
Taylor Adams
Front of House Assistant
Liliana Dirks-Goodman
Graphic Designer
Pentagram
Pro-Bono Branding
Randjelović/Stryker Resident
Commissioned Artist
Miguel Gutierrez
Executive Leadership
Kim Cullen Executive Director & CEO
Ali Burke Chief of Staff
Development
Dave Archuletta Chief Development Officer
John Jahnke Institutional Giving Manager
Zykeya McLeod Development Assistant
Finance
Nupur Dey Director of Finance
Manathus Dey Finance Associate
Operations
Gregory English Operations Manager
Marcus Retegues Facilities Coordinator
Adalid Nunez-Mendoza Custodial Assistant
Human Resources
ADP TotalSource
Legal Services
Lowenstein Sandler, PC Pro-Bono Counsel
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
Barrington Hinds, Jada Jenai, Shane Larson, s. Lumbert, Danielle Marshall, Nayaa Opong, Marie Paspe, Jacoby Pruitt, Huiwang Zhang
Front of House Staff
Julia Antinozzi, Paulina Meneses, Johnny Mathews, Hannah Nii, Cristina Moya-Palacios, Salma Kiuhan, Alondra Balbuena, Rafaela Oliviera, Makenna Finch, Anna Ticknor, Jingjing Han, Jessy Crist, Marlon Santana, Mieke Matteson, Demetris Charalambous
Board of Directors
Stephen Hendel Co-Chair
Richard H. Levy Co-Chair
Helen Haje Vice Chair
Slobodan RandjeloviĆ Vice Chair
Alan Marks Treasurer
Bill T. Jones
Artistic Director Ex-Officio
Kim Cullen
Chief Executive Officer Ex-Officio
Bjorn Amelan
Willard Ahdritz
Sarah Arison
Aimee Meredith Cox
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Charla Jones
Colleen Keegan
Darnell L. Moore
Amy Newman
Randy Polumbo
Ellen M. Poss
Matthew Putman
Jane Bovingdon Semel
Ruby Shang
Catharine R. Stimpson
Board Emeritus
Derek Brown
Terence Dougherty
Eleanor Friedman Advisory Council
Margaret Doyle, Chair
Alberta Arthurs
Beverly D’Anne
Lisa Frigand
Jenette Kahn
Susan Micari
Alton Murray
Lorraine Gallard
Lois Greenfield
Martha Sherman
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