PHOTO OF ALICIA AYO OHS BY MARIA BARANOVA
Andrew Schneider AFTER
Oct 25–27, 2018
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Andrew Schneider: AFTER October 25-27, 2018 On the Boards, Seattle Running time: 1 hr 20 min
Created by Andrew Schneider In collaboration with Alessandra Calabi, Bobby McElver, Alicia ayo Ohs and with Kedian Keohan and Peter Musante Performed by Alicia ayo Ohs and Andrew Schneider with Kedian Keohan and Peter Musante and a local ensemble. Local ensemble Principals: Syniva Whitney, Minna Lee, Marisol Rosa-Shapiro, Ben Goosman, Kaden Kai, Natalie Miller, Liz Herlevi, Allan Aquino, Sara Jinks, Ezra Way Choir: Yasmine O'Shaughnessy, Jess Klien, Clara Burton, Alissa Pegram, Zack Chaykin, Bridget “Spark” Wilson, Jake Lindsay
Text and Direction: Andrew Schneider Script Development and Assistant Direction: Alicia ayo Ohs Sound Design: Bobby McElver and Andrew Schneider Lighting, Projection, Scenic Design: Andrew Schneider Production Manager/Lighting Supervisor: Sonia Baidya Stage Manager: Marisa Blankier Ensemble Co-Director/Scenic Coordinator: Peter Musante Originally produced by Sandra Garner for Lingua Franca Arts with Miranda Wright for Los Angeles Performance Practice
AFTER uses haze, strobe, sound spatialization technology, and a prolonged period of total darkness.
Filming and photography during the performance is not permitted.
andrewjs.com AFTER is a co-commission of EMPAC/Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Performance Space New York with support from the Jerome Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund. AFTER was developed in residence at EMPAC Rensselaer as well as during a residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY and as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Process Space program. LMCC.net AFTER is supported in part/made possible by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to engaging everyone with the process of science.
AFTER is managed by Los Angeles Performance Practice / PerformancePractice.org
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Hello Art Lover,
in the world knew how much they meant to me. I needed to communicate to them that I was OK with wherever I landed, because I’d had an incredible time.
Welcome back. Or welcome here for the first time. I’m so glad you’re here. We’re celebrating our 39th birthday this weekend and I can’t imagine how we could celebrate without you.
This past Monday, I visited the artist Kevin Schmidt’s terrific installation We Are the Robots at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The central work, DIY HIFI, invites visitors to bring in their own vinyl and listen to it in a fantastic listening room with ten-foot-tall DIY “Kleinhorn” speakers. I put a Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway LP on the turntable and the first notes of I (Who Have Nothing) shook me and the floodgates opened. I was thinking about Yoko – her friends, my friends, and this community. I sat in one of Kevin’s chairs next to my son, and I wept through the album side. The cheer of Baby I Love You helped me compose myself – but I lost it again for Be Real Black for Me and You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling. I cried hard. My kid played games on his phone between hugs.
Our community faced a profound and unexpected loss last week with the death of Yoko Ott. Yoko was a creative instigator, catalyst, friend, and champion for art and artists at One Reel, the Frye Art Museum, the Hedreen Gallery, Open Satellite, The New Foundation Seattle, the Honolulu Biennial Foundation, the Ho’oulu ’Āina Project, and Yale Union, Portland, where she served as Board Member, Deputy Director, and most recently as Executive Director. When I set out to write this program note last week, I planned to write about a serious asthma attack I suffered seven years ago on Vashon Island. The grass had just been cut, and maybe there was some basement mold at a house we visited – a super allergic combo for me. My husband and son and I were getting ready for bed when I started wheezing. I used my emergency inhaler but it didn’t work. I tried again, and it failed me. It became clear that I needed real help, so Eric called 911 while Henry, who was 12 at the time, tried to help me. We were way down a drive off of Burma Road, and it was hard to explain to the operator exactly how to get there. I was in serious trouble. In the car on our way to meet the ambulance on the main road, I was gasping like a goldfish out of water, and Henry and Eric kept telling me to stop talking because I was using up air.
It’s really good to be with you here now. I’m heartbroken that we aren’t all here together, and that someone loved by so many is missing. I’m deeply sad about this loss. Scott and Yoshi, all of Yoko’s dear friends, the artists she worked with, and our friends at Yale Union are in our hearts. On the Boards sends love. I’m grateful that you’re here today. I’m glad I’m here, too. Let’s just be here for each other and do this together. It’s not an easy time we live in. We can’t do it alone. It’s dark in here, but there are lots of us. We’re bound together by shared experiences. Let’s keep having them. So much love to the best audience in the world,
But I told them I loved them. I told them I loved them, again and again. I told them that they were amazing, and I was very lucky to be in a family with them. I told them that I had had a blast and to please make sure that my mom and dad, and my sister, and my friend Rachel all knew that I loved them so much, and that my life was really great, and I was very proud to have lived it. I told them I felt lucky to be with them.*
Betsey Brock Executive Director
To be here. Now. Now seems like a perfect time for us to be here together. That day, seven years ago, when I was (maybe) on the edge of death, I wasn’t thinking about what was after, or what was After. I was hyper-focused on here. I was making sure that my favorite people 4
* SHOUT OUT to Vashon Island Fire and Rescue! They pumped me full of adrenaline and bronchilators, and I was OK in a flash. The ambulance commandeered a Southworth ferry and sent it to Seattle. By the time I arrived at Virginia Mason, I could recognize how sweet and handsome the firefighters were, and I could laugh at their jokes about which of the drugs in my system were the most fun. 5
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THE 18/19 SEASON: IMAGE, OBJECT, & GESTURE
In recent years a growing number of multidisciplinary artists have employed performative strategies in their work to interrogate a variety of relevant social and political topics. Contemporary performance has become a working method, a critical framework, and a strategy, rather than simply a medium or discipline. Additionally, many choreographers, performance art, and theater-makers working today consider their practice in a similar vein to visual conceptual artists—performative, collaborative, and multidisciplinary. This shift away from performance as medium or discipline comes at the very moment when many artists and curators are embracing and being fully embraced by technology and visual advertising branding structures. Digital tools are a way to create physical, experiential stories. The creative class is no longer a small elite group of individuals and a handful of alternative art spaces. From largescale advertising firms, to fashion houses and DIY design wearable ventures, to music videos and VR animations or video games, technological devices have blurred and disrupted the boundaries between pop culture, advertising, and art. The distinction between categories in art are not straightforward anymore. The 2018-19 season begins by asking a series of questions: How is meaning made? What actions or gestures create meaning? How are artistic movements made? How do artistic gestures inspire meaning in this world? A season is a shift in climate, or a change in the amount of daylight, or the marking of a point in time which the earth is in relationship to the sun. A season as a collection of artists and ideas presented over the course of a year in a particular setting. The idea of Image, Object, & Gesture is taken up this season as a way to think about the blurring and hybrid distinctions being made in contemporary performance today.
Rachel Cook Artistic Director
The first photograph ever taken, a heliograph by Joseph NicĂŠphore NiĂŠpce (1826), is on permanent display at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in a state of the art preservation case. Because of its complicated structure and unique viewing properties, this case has been specially designed in an oxygen-free environment to maximize the viewing of the image, the conservation, and security of the object. The first photograph is a view from a window looking out onto other rooftops in Paris. Exposed on the surface of a pewter plate that is a unique positive image of which no duplicates can be made.
concerning the way meaning gets attributed not only within art, but also in news, politics, or pop culture. An image is a reflection, a device, and a thing. A photograph is an image, but can a performance be an image? There are physically still moments within a performance, does that constitute an image? Images have the ability to make you slow down, to meditate on them, and sometimes see things differently. Images are hybrid creatures, they have the ability to be multiple things simultaneously. They are hard to pinpoint, as well as hard to pin down. Performance is ephemeral by nature, and yet something about it continues to resonate as an image inside your head.
In our current image-saturated culture and speculative society, images are endowed with multiple layers of meaning. The image acts as a starting point for thinking about broader questions
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How we consume images today primarily happens through screens, digital animations, or cropped images.
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These images create and construct narratives, which have the ability to shift our preconceived notions about people, society, or cultural events. The connection between the image, text, and objects are ideas that are central in many artist’s work. How these ideas create a sense of the performance and how the physical body represents an image of the character are all crucial to how various contemporary artistic practices operate.
with ideas about the hybridization of the image, not as a fixed entity, but as a theoretical notion exploring how information is distributed and experienced, how viewpoints are framed, and how intimate moments get shared. It is within these various contemporary artistic practices, that the status of the image is being contested in unique and provocative ways.
Andrew Schneider: YOUARENOWHERE & AFTER
R.C. Through exploring what constitutes these categories—image, object, and gesture—the cycle of how digital images are created, distributed, and consumed is revealed. There is a generation of artists that not only inherited the legacy of Conceptual art and postmodern understanding of society, but they also experienced the explosion and transformation of culture through digital technology. Their work engages
Andrew Schneider’s performances push theater to the edge of its logical limits, into new realms that defy categorized experience. These live works combine hallucinatory techniques and push the language of theater into new dimensions. Schneider is an inventor with a graduate degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. His thesis project was a series of five wearable devices that control the on-stage media. Of his current work, Schneider says, “I want [the audience] to see themselves see. To perceive their own perceptions. I want them to realize that they perhaps don’t know what’s going on. I want their sense of reality to be legitimately cracked.”
Exploring our contemporary life and the relationship we have to technology and other humans, Schneider’s two works, YOUARENOWHERE and AFTER sit back to back as chapters one and two. Schneider talks about these two works as both seemingly simple and inevitably complex because "trying to boil it down what the basic human experience is, ends up being the most complex, mind-bending thing in the world. There is not a universal. I explored my own identity in YOUARENOWHERE. AFTER then expands this exploration to shared consciousness. The next one will expand that notion even further.” YOUARENOWHERE is a rapidfire existential meditation. Using a lecture-style format to dissect subjects ranging from quantum mechanics and parallel universes to missed connections and AA recovery steps,
Schneider, along with his creative collaborators, has created two parts of an existential trilogy about what it means to be alive in the world today. 8
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Schneider transforms the physical performance space and warps linear time to short-circuit preconceived notions of individual perspective and what it means to be here now. Schneider posits, "what happens in the minds of all truly happens" By creating time distortion, YOUARENOWHERE causes the audience to acknowledge the movement of time, something Schneider continues to develop in his artistic practice. "I try to use time dilation as a blueprint for staging and metabolism. But I always want to be five steps ahead of the audience” he said.
pulsating sensory extremes—there emerges a poignant, shared consciousness about perceiving where we are, how we got here, and what comes AFTER. By evoking emotions through highly crafted moments rather than a direct narrative, Schneider questions how the rapid change in technology has affected how we as the audience digest information and process sensations both in a designated performance space and throughout our daily lives. What is memorable? What guides us? What reminds us of ourselves in a world of excess and constant transformation?
AFTER is a mind-bending performance examination of what constitutes a single life and the endless possible outcomes at the precise moment of death. Collaborators Alicia ayo Ohs, Peter Musante, and Bobby McElver join Schneider to continue their trademark exploration of hyper-precise live theatrical experiences. AFTER combines intense light and sound effects with a physical performance that seamlessly integrates a rapid-fire flow of text blending pathos and humor with intelligence and vulnerability. The images created evoke questioning of what will occur in our own experiences with the unknown and our end. Schneider asks “how can we have you experience rather than watch, how can we plug this experience into your brain? ” Through the use of various theatrical devices—digital effects and
— Rachel Cook, Artistic Director, & Ellen McGivern, Curatorial Intern and MFA '19 Candidate in Arts Leadership, Seattle University
About the artists Sonia Baidya (lighting supervisor, production manager) has explored the power of light in many industries inside and outside of live theatre. She is fascinated with the essence of light when combined with architecture, audio elements, color and other unconventional methods. As a project manager at The Wexner Center for the Arts, she has worked alongside many notable directors, performers, artists and designers. Most recently, her work with the collaborative team of Ann Hamilton and the SITI Company on the GCAC 2015 Artist Excellence Award-winning project the theatre is a blank page, was a source of professional inspiration. Sonia also works with numerous local production companies on installs of lighting projects of various scopes, both indoors and out.
Sobelle, Guardconceived by Ashley Tata, and a workshop of Bad News by JoAnne Akalaitis. Kedian performed as a puppeteer and dancer in John Heginbotham and Amy Trompetter’s Fantasque for Bard SummerScape. Kedian was the choreographic assistant and performer on the northeast tour of Erin Markey’s A Ride On The Irish Cream. Kedian is a core collaborator, performer, and ensemble co-director for Andrew Schneider’s AFTER. Kedian aspires to one day be sponsored by Gatorade. Bobby McElver (core collaborator and sound designer) is a sound designer and composer for theater, dance, and film. He also designs interactive audio-visual technology for bands and live events. Company member of The Wooster Group 2011-2016. The Wooster Group: THE ROOM, EARLY SHAKER SPIRITUALS, CRY, TROJANS! (TROILUS & CRESSIDA), EARLY PLAYS, VIEUX CARRÉ, and HAMLET. Theater and Dance: Faye Driscoll, Andrew Schneider, NYC Players, Half Straddle, Young Jean Lee, Palissimo, Michou Szabo, Erin Markey. Film: Every Secret Thing (Tribeca Film Festival 2014). Nominated for 2015 Bessie for Outstanding Music Composition/Sound Design. bobbymcelver.com
Kedian Keohan (collaborator, performer, ensemble co-director) is a theater maker and director. They are a co-founder of the theater company Church of the Millennials, whose series AMERIKA! was presented at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Ars Nova’s ANT FEST, IRT Theater. They are currently in-residence at Ars Nova as part of Makers Lab 2018. They served as the assistant director for Jordan Fein on Rags Parkland Sings Songs of the Future (Ars Nova) and Singlet (Bushwick Starr). Their show DAD DANCE! created with Keenan Hurley has been presented at JACK, Feast Performance Series, and by The Playwriting Collective. Select performance credits include: Stephanie Saywell’s Underbelly, Eric Marlin’s Pastoral Play, Amanda Palmer’s Bed Show, The Kitchen directed by Geoff 10
Peter Musante (collaborator, performer, ensemble co-director, scenic coordinator) creates interdisciplinary performances with a diverse group of artists. As collaborator/performer with Andrew Schneider: FIELD, YOUARENOWHERE, AFTER, 11
and the upcoming NERVOUS/ SYSTEM. As Director: the.humanest and Archipelago. Performer: Martha Clarke’s Angel Reapers, a canary torsi’s The People To Come and Blue Man Group. Frequent collaborator of bluemouth inc., Trusty Sidekick Theater Co., Spring Street Social Society and a founding member of Fixed Agency. His work has also been presented by The Brick, The Kraine, Galapagos and The Chocolate Factory's THROW series. MFA: Brooklyn College’s Performance and Interactive Media Arts program. petermusante.com
Silvers, Sondra Loring and others. She is honored to make her theatrical debut with AFTER. ayo is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Experimental Theatre Wing and lives in Brooklyn with her pit-bull mix. aliciaohs.com Andrew Schneider (lead artist) creates and performs solo performance works and large-scale dance works, builds interactive electronic art works and installations, and was a Wooster Group company member (video/performer) from 2007-2014. Andrew’s original performance work in NYC includes YOUARENOWHERE (2015 OBIE award, 2016 Drama Desk nom.) FIELD (2014), TIDAL (2013) and WOW+FLUTTER (2010) at The Chocolate Factory Theater among others. His interactive work has been featured in such publications as Art Forum and Wired, among others, and at the Center Pompidou in Paris. andrewjs.com
Alicia ayo Ohs (core collaborator and performer) is a performer, educator and community builder. She is a founding member of Movement Research’s Artists of Color Council and teaches leadership development and yoga in schools, non-profits, and privately. As a dancer, ayo has performed internationally and throughout the United States as an original cast member in Faye Driscoll’s Thank You for Coming: Attendance and Play and with Sally
COMING SOON OtB’s 39th Birthday Party Sun, Oct 28 at 6 pm Celebrate the NEXT 39 years of art and artists at OtB! Featuring dinner by Sea Creatures (Bateau, Bar Melusine, The Whale Wins, Walrus & Carpenter); organizational forecasting by Gail Fairfield, OtB’s astrologer of 39 years; and party favors and origin stories from the past 4 decades. Tickets are $150 and $300 Includes cocktails, dinner and wine, entertainment, and more This is a 21+ event ontheboards.org/special-events/ otb-39th-birthday
Jeffry Mitchell. Untitled Happy Birthday (Oh Tea Bee) [detail], 2018. 36”x14” Watercolor and colored pencil on paper. (View the full drawing at the event! It could be yours!)
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Inua Ellams: Barber Shop Chronicle Nov 1–3 A play presented by the London-based Fuel with the National Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse, Barber Shop Chronicles traverses African barbershops in Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra, and London, where besides haircuts, customers and barbers take in and share confessions, wisdom, advice, and stories.
Coffee & Conversation with Andrew D. Smith, Geoffrey Boynton, and Bobbin Ramsey Sat, Oct 27, 4:30 pm FREE with any ticket to Andrew Schneider: AFTER AND FREE COFFEE! Join us immediately after the 3 pm performance of AFTER for a chat with creator/ performer Andrew Schneider and guests Andrew D. Smith, Geoffrey Boynton, and host Bobbin Ramsey, associate artistic director of Washington Ensemble Theatre. (Coffee is on the house!)
Told by writer Inua Ellams, who emigrated from Nigeria to London as a teenager, this work captures the way community and culture come to life in everyday gathering spaces.
Presented by Seattle Theatre Group at The Moore Theatre, in association with On the Boards. Seattle Theatre Group is pleased to offer OtB subscribers discounted tickets for this performance! Get in touch with the Box Office to learn more: boxoffice@ontheboards.org 206-217-9886 ext. 1019 (Tue–Fri, 12–4 pm)
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Coffee & Conversation is an ongoing collaboration between On the Boards and Washington Ensemble Theatre to explore the ideas and definitions of contemporary theatre. Our last gathering discussed our 18/19 Season opener, Rachel Mars' Our Carnal Hearts.
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Okwui Okpokwasili: Poor People’s TV Room Dec 6-9
Apply for the Dec 15 Performance Lab! Deadline: Nov 9
Igbo-Nigerian American artist, performer, choreographer, writer, and 2018 MacArthur Award recipient Okwui Okpokwasili presents a riveting narrative where brown women contend with the meaning of their bodies in relation to each other. Exploring the Women’s War of 1929 (a resistance movement against British colonial powers) and the 2014 Boko Haram kidnappings of over 300 girls and the subsequent Bring Back Our Girls movement, Poor People's TV Room is a potent reflection on the effects the erasure of women’s histories has on contemporary societies today.
Performance Lab is a quarterly series showcasing new and experimental works-in-progress that includes facilitated feedback for artists along with discussions between artists and audience. The Dec 15 Performance Lab is co-curated by Charles Smith, Director of Program Management, and artist Syniva Whitney. Artists are invited to apply to the open call at http://bit.ly/Dec15PerformanceLab Syniva Whitney is an artist creating performative experiences that combine theater, dance and visual art. Their current project MELTED RIOT, a queer meditation inspired by the Stonewall Riots of 1969, is supported by the Velocity Dance Center Artist in Residence program.
Syniva Whitney
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Betelhem Makonnen & Anna Gallagher-Ross Sat, Dec 8, 3 pm Join us for a lecture by Betelhem Makonnen and Anna Gallagher-Ross, curators at Fusebox — an annual art and contemporary performance festival based in Austin, Texas. Created over 14 years ago, the festival has become a city-wide celebration featuring artists from around the world. Makonnen has a background in visual arts curation and programming with independent artist-run spaces and community arts events. Gallagher-Ross' writings and interviews have appeared in C Magazine, the Walker Art Center Reader, Theater Magazine, Written & Spoken, and other places.
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& Carol Chapman, Catherine Cabeen, Tonya Lockyer & BC Campbell, Cristiano Carugati, Liz Cortez Bates, Erin Culbertson, Rebecca Cummins, Garnett Hundley, Sara Ann Davidson, W. Scott Davis, Nathan Dors, Tonya Peck & Alex Dunne, Priya Frank, Alexandra Harding, The Hatlos, Nina Bozicnik & Jessica Henske, Alex Hyman, Wendy Jackson, Anonymous, Alison & Doug Jennings, Andy & Nancy Jensen, Thomas Johnston, Helene Kaplan, Steven Kasparek, Kathryn Lew, Joyce Liao, Kyle Loven, Rachael Ludwick, Jordan Rahne MacIntosh-Hougham, Glenna Martin, Julia Maslach, Rose McLendon, Pamala Mijatov, Jesse Milden, David P. Miller, Ariel Glassman & Kareem Missoumi, Kate Murphy, Wesley Nicholson, Jackie Roberts, Elissa Favero, Helene Ruri Yampolsky, DL Salo, Karla Schickele, ilvs strauss, Laura Valiente, Belinda Vicars, Shasti Walsh, Kairu Yao, Petra Zanki, Ellen Ziegler $10+ Connie Ballmer, Theresa Barreras, Camille BaldwinBonney & Matt Beaulieu, Meghan Moe Beitiks, Colleen Borst, Colby Bradley, Lee Bradley, Linda Brown, Val Brunetto, Carol Buchter, Karen Bystrom, Todd Campbell, Jane Carter, Carol Chapman, Elena Chernock, Mona Ching, Susan Chun, Casey Cochran Pflieger, Alexandra Colley, Edie Cutler, Marlow Harris, Michael Davis, Judi DeCicco, Antoine Defoort, Sue Dodson, Alexander Dones, Peter Donnelly, Darcy Drysdale, Elizabeth Duffell, Ana Deboo & Douglas Ende, Blaze Ferrer, Deborah Frausto, Lise Friedman & Maia Wechsler, Grace Funk, Victoria Garcia, Jenny Gerber, Viraj R Gandhi, Nancy Gibson, Maria Glanz, Kristina Goetz, Lyra Goldberg, Hope Goldman, Anjali Grant, James Groh, Can Gulan, Sarah Jane Gunter, Corey Gutch, Amanda Hamp, Lyla Hanna, Ashraf Hasham, Mary Holscher, Kuba Holuj, Josh Hornbaker, Melissa Huther, Vana Ingram, Don Jackson, Jan Jacobs, Lars America Jan, Liana Kegley, Alexandra Kendall, Jake Knapp, Alex Knight, Lou Koehler, Hannah Kris, Howard
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Kuo, Yvonne Lam, Erin Langner, Lena Lauer, Evan LawrenceHurt, Shane Leaman, Wendy LeBlanc, Ann Lindsey, Margaret Livingston, Kim Lusk, Michael & Linda Madigan, Deborah Magallanes, Mory Maia, Allison Manch, Sandra & Tim Marsden, Ben McCarthy, Kaitlin McCarthy, A McColl, Fidelma McGinn, Filiz Efe McKinney, Juliet McMains, Molly Michal, Natalie Miller, Caroline Myers, Ximena Narvaja, Kyle Nunes, Alexis Odell, Eric Olson, Lea Anne Ottinger, Seth Pacleb, Alex Pasternack, Lois Patterson, Amberlynn Pauley, Warren Pease, Jessica Perino, Rachel Perlot, Jocelyn Phillips, Amy Poisson & Patrick Sheehy, Juliet Waller-Pruzan & Alan Pruzan, Beth Raas-Bergquist, Erica Reich, Lynn Resnick, Laura Reynolds, Deborah Roberts, David Robinson, Travis Roderick, Brian Rogers, Luis Rosado, Pol Rosenthal, Jean RowlandsTarbox, Peter Ruhm, Manja Sachet, Jose Sanchez, Doreen Sayegh, Elizabeth Schiffler, Carly Searles, Thomas & Stephanie Shafer, Bruce Shoup, Jess Smith, Amy Sorensen, StrackGrose, Theodore Strack-Grose, Barbara Swain, Carlyn Orians & Richard Swann, Jennifer Taylor, Susan Tesch, Carl Thomson, Casey Thurston, Michelle Tobin, Deborah Tofil, Julie Tomita, Jennifer Towner, Krina Turner, Elizabeth Uselton, Laura Utterback, Rosa Vissers, Henry Walker, Lauri Watkins, Rebecca Wear, Carolyn Law, Olivier Wevers, Krissy Whiski, Robert Wigton, Kay Wilson, Kevin & Jana Witt, Antoinette Wizenberg, Greg Kucera & Larry Yocom, James Zulzuf This list shows donors to On the Boards from Sep 1, 2017 through Oct 22, 2018 and includes pledged gifts. If we’ve made an error to your listing or if you would like to make a gift to support OtB, please contact Beth Raas-Bergquist, Director of Development, at 206-217-9886 or beth@ontheboards.org.
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We’re grateful for the generous support of the following organizations
KREIELSHEIMER REMAINDER FOUNDATION
Founded by artists in 1978, On the Boards invests in leading contemporary performing artists near and far, and connects them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas. We believe if we are successful in our work that we can grow our field, enrich peoples’ lives, and contribute to civic and global dialogues. We value: artistic risks while being fiscally responsible; leadership in our field and the multiple communities we serve to strategically advance the role contemporary artists play in society; racial and social equity, and accountability, to ensure our organization includes multiple viewpoints; provocative art as a vehicle to connect people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives; our local creative community as we engage with international artists and peers; and professional and transparent management.
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Betsey Brock, Executive Director Rachel Cook, Artistic Director
TOMLINSON LINEN SERVICE
WYMAN YOUTH TRUST
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BOARD Ruth Lockwood, Board President Tyler Engle, Past President Davora Lindner, Vice President John Robinson, Treasurer Michaela Hutfles, Secretary Tom Israel, Member at Large Norie Sato, Member at Large
Rich Bresnahan, Technical Director Sara Ann Davidson, Operations Manager and Office Witch Jenny Gerber, Finance Manager Zachary Gray, Development Intern Clare Hatlo, Associate Producer Alexandra Harding, Assistant Technical Manager Ellen McGivern, Curatorial Intern Pamala Mijatov, Director of Audience Services Kiera O'Brien, Communications Associate Eze-Basil Oluo, House Manager Beth Raas-Bergquist, Director of Development Erica Bower Reich, Patron Relations Specialist Charles Smith, Director of Program Management
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