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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES MANUEL ACEVEDO Manuel Acevedo, born 1964 in Newark. Acevedo’s solo exhibition Keys of Light was presented Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) 2010. He is a recipient of the 2009 Visual Art Network Residence for the Camera Communis: Knoxville, TN; 2007 Center for Book Arts, AIR Workspace Program, Visiting Artist at NYU and VAN Award for the SPACES’ World Artists Program. His awards include the 2005 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant; Longwood Arts Project: Digital Matrix Commission; 1999 & 2001 Mid-Atlantic Foundation’s Artist as Catalysts Award & 1998-99 the Studio Museum in Harlem, AIR. Group exhibitions include Museo de la Ciudad, Spain and Arte de Puerto Rico, Real Art Ways, Exit Art, Queens Museum of Art, PS 1, El Museo del Barrio, the Drawing Center, Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Germany with solo exhibitions. JEREMY ALLIGER JEREMY ALLIGER,Executive Producer of ALLIGER ARTS, and founder and for 20 years Director of Dance Umbrella. Producer/Creator of "Cool Heat Urban Beat",an international Jazz Tap/Hip Hop touring show. He has produced over 15 unique festival gatherings and tours, including first-ever Aerial,Jazz Tap and Hip Hop and Wheelchair festivals and tours. He has received the prestigious "Commonwealth", "Eagle" and "Alumni Achievement" Awards, for his artistic leadership and commitment to challenge perceptions, push boundaries, and promote cultural understanding. He was a featured speaker at the Kennedy Center/National Forum on Careers in the Arts for people with Disabilities,served as a Panel Chair at the NEA. Inside Arts Magazine published his essay, essay, "A Lasting Impact beyond the Stage" TAMARA ALVARADO Tamara is the Director of Multicultural Leadership for 1stAct Silicon Valley. From 2003 to 2008 she served as Executive Director of MACLA/ Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose, California. Starting in 1999 she served as Program Director for the newly opened Washington United Youth Center, a partnership between Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County and the City of San Jose. She is a member of the Board of Directors of NPN and ACE Charter School in San Jose. Tamara sits on various regional and national funding panels such as: the Arts Council Silicon Valley and Creative Capital. She is also co-founder of San Jose based Movimiento Cosmico: Aztec Dance. Tamara holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish Literature from Stanford University. CHARLES ANDERSON Charles O. Anderson is artistic director of the Philadelphia-based company, dance theatre X (dtX). He has performed in the companies of Ronald K. Brown, Sean Curran, and Mark Dendy among others. He is currently touring his latest dance theatre work, "World Headquarters" which was generously funded by by NPN (Creation Fund and Forth Fund). His work has also earned recognition by numerous grants and organizations such as the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and one of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. Anderson is also and an associate professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. For more info about Anderson or dance theatre X visit www.dancetheatrex.org or friend us on facebook: www.facebook/dancetheatrex. Visual Artist 4333 46th Street, Apt. F9, Sunnyside, NY 11104 973 207.0954 m.acevedo@rcn.com Alliger Arts (Formally Dance Umbrella, Boston) Executive Producer 18 Conry Crescent, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 617-669-4422 alligerarts@gmail.com 1st Act Silicon Valley Director of Multicultural Leadership 38 W. Santa Clara Street, San Jose, CA 95113 (408) 200-2020 fax (408) 200-2025 talvarado@1stact.org Dance Theatre X Artistic Director/Choreographer 1904 Spruce St., Apt. 1F, Philadelphia, PA 19103 215) 983-6383 fax 484-664-3031 dtxcharles@gmail.com MYRNA ANDERSON-FULLER Hammonds House Museum Executive Director 503 Peeples St. SW, Atlanta, GA 30331 (404) 612-0481 fax (404) 752-8733 fuller2@bellsouth.net MEL ANDRINGA I'm an artist and performer, and founder of a performance company, The Drawing Legion. With my partner, F. John Herbert I am co-director of Legion Arts, a non-profit artist organization in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Our association with NPN dates back to a residency at LACE in 1987. In the last decade, we've hosted more than a dozen NPN residencies at CSPS for Legion Arts, including works by Will Power, Marty Pottinger, Dan Hurlin, Jennifer Munson, Angela Kariotis, Jim Neu, Robert Karimi, Guy Mendilow, Salaam, and Paul Bonin Rodrigues. Legion Arts is also a member of the Warhol Initiative, and we've had VAN residencies with Bernard Williams and Brian Guidry. I'm currently working on a project called The Mosaic Deluge, about floods and mosaics. ELIA ARCE Elia Arce is a performance and installation artist working in a wide variety of media including writing, photo, video and sculptural performance. Since 1986 she has created interdisciplinary experimental theater, autobiographical solo performance and group pieces; usually based on an ethnographic study of a specific community. Her academic background includes a BA in film from UCLA and a MFA in studio art from the University of Houston. Her awards include NEA, New Voices/Ford Foundation, City of Los Angeles, Rockefeller Foundation, Durfee Foundation and NPN amongst others. Her latest Fulbright Specialists Program Award allowed her to teach a performance art class at the National University of Costa Rica. She is proud to have taught the first Central American performance class in the US. MAURICIO ASCENCIO Mauricio Ascencio is a graduate in scenography arts from the National School of Theater of Mexico. He has done set, lighting and costume design for theater and opera under the direction of Bruno Bert, Roberto Fiesco and Julián Hernández, Ricardo Díaz, Mauricio Jiménez, Antonio Castro, Mónica Raya y Claudio Valdés Kuri, among others; he has also created design elements for choreographers and interdisciplinary projects with Fictorrealidad, Angulo Alterno, Ardentía danza clásica, Quiatora Monorriel, Aldo Silies Danza Contemporánea, La Funeraria and choreographers such Antonio Salinas, Benito González, Evoé Sotelo, Alicia Sanchez and Oscar Ruvalcaba. His work has been shown at the “Prague Quadrienal of Architecture and Stage Design “, and he won first prize for Moda Alternativa MODALES 2004. Legion Arts Producing Director 1103 Third Street SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 (319) 364-1580 fax 319.362.9156 mel@legionarts.org ELIA ARCE Artistic Director 708 Wendel St., Houston, TX 77009 323-791-5080 eliaarce@yahoo.com Performing Americas - Antonio Salinas Independent Artist 866 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 305-519-6877 maascencio@hotmail.com Attendees • Page 1 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES ANDREA ASSAF Art2Action, Inc. Founder & Artistic Director 141 East 13th St., # 2C, New York, NY 10003 413-531-5042 art2action@earthlink.net Andrea Assaf is a performer, writer, director & cultural organizer. Founder & Artistic Director of Art2Action, her work ranges from original, interdisciplinary theater, to spoken word, and has toured in the U.S., Mexico, Poland, Nicaragua and Canada. She's formerly Artistic Director of New WORLD Theater (2004-09), & Program Associate for Animating Democracy (2001-04). She has a Masters degree in Performance Studies, & a BFA in Acting, both from NYU. Awards: 2010 Princess Grace Theater Fellowship & Gant Gaither Award, 2010 NPN Creation Fund Commission, 2007 Hedgebrook residency, 2004 Cultural Contact grant. Memberships: CAATA National Steering Committee, Alternate ROOTS, and RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers). STEPHANIE ATKINS National Performance Network Resource Development Specialist P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156 504.595.8008 ext 202 fax 504.595.8006 stephanie@npnweb.org CARON ATLAS Arts & Democracy Project Director 88 Prospect Park West #3D, Brooklyn, NY 11215 718-965-1509 caronatlas@gmail.com Caron Atlas works to support and stimulate arts and culture as an integral part of social justice. She directs the Arts & Democracy Project, Arts & Community Change Initiative, and Place + Displaced, a project of Fractured Atlas. Caron was associate producer at DTW when the NPN began, and later worked at NPN partner, Appalshop. She was founding director of the American Festival Project, a national coalition of activist artists, and has worked with National Voice, Animating Democracy, NPN, NET, and several foundations. Caron is co-editor of Critical Perspectives: Writings on Art and Civic Dialogue, teaches at NYU and Pratt Institute and is active in the Freelancers Union. She was a Rockefeller Foundation Warren Weaver Fellow and has an MA from the University of Chicago. ESTEVAN AZCONA MECA/Multi-Cultural Education and Counseling through the Arts Music Director 1900 Kane Street, Houston, TX 77007 713-802-9370 fax 713-802-9403 estevan@meca-houston.org STEVE BAILEY Steve Bailey is the producing director and a founder of Jump-Start Performance Co. in San Antonio, Texas. He was the founder and director of 24th Street Experiment Theater Company, research coordinator for Theater Communications Group, past president of NPN, and artist-in-residence with Teatro del Sol in Lima, Peru. Over the past thirty years, Steve Bailey has created and/or directed over fifty original productions that have been presented across the U.S. and Latin America. He is an arts educator and has worked with numerous youth and adult groups in a variety of community settings. MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH Marc Bamuthi Joseph is the artistic director of the HBO documentary “Brave New Voices” and an inaugural recipient of the United States Artists’ Fellowship. Premiering at Yerba Buena Center next Fall, and visiting The Walker Arts Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music among other sites, his performance piece 'red black and GREEN: a blues' engages the eco-equity movement in Black neighborhoods across America. In 2011, he premieres a commissioned libretto for the Atlanta Ballet, and is co-writing a narrative score for the Chicago Jazz Ensemble with Amiri Baraka in 2012. The re-mounting of his seminal work, 'Word Becomes Flesh' is made possible through the NPN American Masterpiece Initiative, and will premiere in Dallas in December 2010. Jump-Start Performance Co. Producing Director 108 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204 (210) 227-5867 fax (210) 227-5867 steve@jump-start.org Youth Speaks, Inc./ The Living World Project Artistic Director 1663 Mission Street, Suite 604, San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 255-9035 x17 mjoseph@youthspeaks.org DIANE BARBER DiverseWorks Artspace Co-Executive Director 1117 East Freeway, Houston, TX 77002 713-223-8346 fax 713-223-4608 diane@diverseworks.org ROBERT BARSAMIAN Local Artist 6041 North Jim Miller Rd, Dallas, TX 75228 -5959 469-766-6401 fax 214-321-7173 barsamian@thearrangement.com Attendees • Page 2 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES ERIC BEACH Called an "experimental powerhouse" (Village Voice) and "brilliant" (The New York Times), So Percussion presents an extremely wide range of programs. From percussion classics (John Cage, Iannis Xenakis) to new commissions (Steve Reich, David Lang, Steve Mackey, Paul Lansky, Fred Frith, Glenn Kotche, Dan Trueman) to artistic collaborations (Matmos, Kneebody, Dan Deacon, Eliot Feld) and their own music (Imaginary City, Amid the Noise), they have performed at Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and around the world. They also have extensive experience with educational and community programs, including directing the percussion department at the Bard College Conservatory of Music and an annual Summer Institute at Princeton University. www.sopercussion.com ELISABETH BEAIRD As co-director of Circuit Network since January 2006, Elisabeth works closely with Circuit's roster artists in project development and management by helping to secure funds and collaborative partners for the creation of new work, seeking opportunities to tour existing work, and occasionally producing, co-producing or presenting the work of Circuit's roster artists in San Francisco. Current roster artists include Culture Clash, James Luna, Miya Masaoka, Butoh choreographer Ledoh, Seattle's Degenerate Art Ensemble, Kristina Wong, and John Leanos' multimedia mariachi opera project, "Imperial Silence". Previously Elisabeth served as director of The Lab, an alternative art space in San Francisco's Mission District, and as development director of the Berkeley Symphony and the Wilma Theater. LORIS ANTHONY BECKLES Loris Anthony Beckles was born in Guyana, South America. He emigrated after his family in the late 1960s. Loris spent 28 years in New York, during which time de danced with Ailey II, Eleo Pomare and Joan Miller, among others. In Dallas since 1996, he is the Artistic Director of the Beckles Dancing Company, the founder of ARGA NOVA DANCE, and coordinator of the South Dallas Dance Festival. The tenth annual festival will be in November 2010. So Percussion Performer / Director of Development 233 Norman Ave. #309, Brooklyn, NY 11222 410.375.0007 eric@sopercussion.com Circuit Network Co-Director 499 Alabama Street, #203, San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 863-2441 fax (415) 863-2160 info@circuitnetwork.com Beckles Dancing Conpany Artistic Director Sammons Center for the Arts 3630 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75219 214-886-2321 arganovadance_21c@yahoo.com ROBERTO BEDOYA Tucson Pima Arts Council Executive Director 100 N Stone Avenue, Suite 303, Tucson, AZ 857011514 520.624.0595 X25 rebedoya@earthlink.net SARAH BEIDERMAN SPACES Manager, SPACES World Artists Program 2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, OH 44113 (216) 621-2314 fax (216) 621-2314 sbeiderman@spacesgallery.org CHRISTINE BERGDOLL-EL OUAAER I am the hybrid employee for the outrageously creative pat graney RON BERRY As the founder and Artistic Director of Refraction Arts & The Fusebox Festival, Ron has guided the organizations through thirteen years of critically acclaimed programming for the stage, gallery and screen. Their work has been nominated for and won over 150 awards. PHILIP BITHER Philip Bither, McGuire Senior Curator, Performing Arts--Philip Bither has been Walker Art Center’s Senior Curator of Performing Arts since April 1997, overseeing one of the country's leading contemporary performing arts programs. Prior to this, he served as Director of Programming/Artistic Director for the Flynn Center, later becoming Associate Director/Music Curator at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). He received the Fan Taylor Distinguished Service Award in 2009. He sits on numerous federal, state, local, and national foundation arts panels and he speaks and writes about the contemporary performing arts nationally. Pat Graney Company office management and administrative support 925 e. thomas st., seattle, WA 98102 206.329.3705 christine@patgraney.org Fusebox Festival Artistic Director 400 B. W. Alpine Rd, Austin, TX 78704 512-569-6129 ron@fuseboxfestival.com Walker Art Center Senior Curator 1750 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403 (612) 375-7624 fax (612) 375-7575 philip.bither@walkerart.org Attendees • Page 3 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES EMILY BIVENS The Bridge Club 3205 Avondale Ave., Knoxville, TN 37917 865-776-8685 emilywbivens@gmail.com ERIN BOBERG DOUGHTON Erin Boberg Doughton, Performing Arts Program Director at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) has worked on PICA’s performance and residency programs since its inception in 1995. PICA’s annual TBA (Time-Based Art) Festival features artists working in performance, media, visual arts and hybrid forms. She currently serves on the NPN Board and is part of NPN's Performing Americas Curators group. PAUL BONIN-RODRIGUEZ Paul Bonin-Rodriguez is a playwright and performer who has created and toured multi-disciplinary performances since 1992. He holds a PhD from the Performance as Public Practice program at the University of Texas at Austin, where he works as an Asst. Professor. His research addresses changing artist markets in the U.S. and abroad. He is a member of the Artist Council of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), as well as the evaluator for the Forth Fund. ANNE BOTHWELL Anne Bothwell is director of Art&Seek at KERA Public Broadcasting, North Texas' public radio/TV affiliate. Check us out at artandseek.org. Art&Seek connects North Texans to the arts. We develop compelling television, radio (KERA and KXT FM) and Web content about the regional creative community. The Art&Seek team produces radio stories, special reports, TV interviews, videos and blog posts. We have a free weekly e-newsletter and a complement of social networking tools (flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter). Visitors to artandseek.org can find all our stations' arts-related content and search an arts calendar almost entirely generated by more than 2,700 regional arts organizations. Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Performing Arts Program Director 224 W 13th Avenue #305, Portland, OR 97209 (503) 242-1419 fax (503) 243-1167 erin@pica.org Writer-Performer 108 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204 (210) 561-2182 fax 210.558.9565 (home) pbonrod@aol.com Art&Seek Director 3000 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75201 214.740.9216 fax (214) 740-9318 abothwell@kera.org JOSE BOWEN Meadows School of the Arts, SMU Dean PO Box 750356, Dallas, TX 75275 214 768 2880 jabowen@smu.edu WILL BOWLING National Performance Network Progam Assistant, National Programs P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156 (504) 595-8008 fax (504) 595-8006 will@npnweb.org William Bowling is pleased to be a new member of the NPN team. Originally from Chicago-land, Will is an theatre artist, musician and scholar, living in New Orleans. When he's not working the administrative end of arts in the Crescent City, Will serves as the Artistic Director of the New Orleans based theatre company, Goat In The Road Productions. He hold a bachelors in Performance Studies from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. MARGO BOYD MRP Inc. Deckhand/Production Asst. P.O. Box 5163, Capitol Heights, MD 20791 3013500092 fax 3013500092 m.rproductions@mason-rhynes.org DAHLAK BRATHWAITE The Living Word Project Performer/Creator 824 Classon Ave. #1L, Brooklyn, NY 11238 916.549.5081 dahlak@thisisdahlak.com Dahlak Brathwaite (Performer) is a multi-faceted hip-hop artist that draws upon his abilities as a musician, actor, and poet to create a dynamic, spellbinding performance. Since launching into the national spoken word scene by winning the Brave New Voices international Poetry Slam (as now seen on HBO), he has performed on the Tavis Smiley Radio show and the past two seasons of Russell Simmons’ presents Def Poetry Jam. This is the second time Dahlak has worked with Marc Bamuthi Joseph, writing and performing in Scourge – a play that the Boston Globe hailed as “explosive”. As a member of the group iLL-Literacy, Dahlak has showcased his seamless, blend of hip-hop, theatre, and spoken word throughout the U.S. and overseas. Dahlak is originally from Sacramento, is now based in Brooklyn. Attendees • Page 4 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES STANLYN BREVE National Performance Network Program Director, NPN National Programs P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156 504.595.8008 x204 fax 504.595.8006 stanlyn@npnweb.org HENRIËTTE BROUWERS Henriëtte Brouwers is a performer, teacher and director. She studied dance and theater in the Netherlands, corporeal mime and theater of the oppressed in Paris. Henriëtte is the Associate Director of Los Angeles Poverty Department since 2000 and collaborator/producer of RFKinEKY, a community-based re-enactment of Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 trip to investigate poverty in Appalachia. Brouwers continues to develop her 'Weeping Women’ performance series based on Mexican legends. She directed Pomona College students in 'Weeping Women and War', 'La Llorona, Weeping Women on Skid Row' with LAPD, performed on Skid Row and at a national conference on women and poverty at Scripps College, and 'La Llorona, Weeping Women of Echo Park' with a group of Latino Women in Echo Park. ANN BRUSKY Ann Brusky has been with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center for eight years and has worked with the Performing Arts and the Connecting Communities programs. She currently serves as the Performing Arts Coordinator and is responsible for programming seven series in the Performing Arts department. She holds a degree in Communications, emphasis Theatre from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and will complete her Master of Arts in Arts Administration through Goucher College, Towson, Maryland in December, 2010. NANCY BURTENSHAW Nancy graduated with a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Wa (1985) and MIT from Seattle University (2005). Nancy had the pleasure of working with The Pat Graney Company from 1987-1992 touring nationally and internationally. She is honored to be performing back in Pat's work after 20 years! Currently Nancy lives in a small town in Idaho with her 11-year old son and husband. Los Angeles Poverty Department Associate Director P.O. Box 26190, Los Angeles, CA 90026 213 413 1077 fax (917) 656-1860 henribro@dds.nl John Michael Kohler Arts Center Performing Arts Coordinator 608 New York Ave., Sheboygan, WI 53081 (920) 458-6144 fax (920) 458-4473 abrusky@jmkac.org Pat Graney Company Performer 925 E. Thomas St. Suite B Seattle WA 98102, Seattle, WA 98102 office 206-329-3705 pat@patgraney.org JOE BUTLER Artspace Projects, Inc. Project Manager 250 Third Ave North Suite 500, MInneapolis, MN 55401 612 333 9012 joseph.butlernola@gmail.com SHEREEN CAESAR Women of Calypso Performing Americas Program Artists Performing Americas Avenue, Port of Spain, N/A 0 504-717-5786 shereen.caessar@gmail.com JACKIE CALDERONE TRANSIT ARTS Director c/o Central Community House 1150 E. Main Street, Columbus, OH 43205 614-252-3157 ext. 128 jcalderone@transitarts.com SUZANNE CALLAHAN Callahan Consulting for the Arts Founder 1712 I Street, NW Suite 808, Washington, DC 20006 (202) 955-8325 fax (202) 955-8324 callahan@forthearts.org Suzanne runs Callahan Consulting for the Arts, which serves funders and nonprofits nationally through planning, fundraising, and evaluation. The firm runs Dance/USA's Engaging Dance Audiences funding program. She cofacilitated the NPN’s planning process in 2001, and wrote an accompanying publication for the NPN. Her book Singing Our Praises featured NPN Partners and won a national award in the evaluation field. Her firm has conducted studies on the arts field and technology for the Mellon Foundation (2010), and on dance communities for The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Chicago Community Trust. She was Senior Specialist for the NEA Dance Program, where she administered grants to choreographers, service organizations and presenters and chaired the AIDS Working Group. Attendees • Page 5 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES BEN CAMERON Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Program Director for the Arts Office of Grants Administration 650 Fifth Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10019 (212) 974-7109 bcameron@ddcf.org OCTAVIO CAMPOS Octavio Campos is a trans disciplinary artist from Miami. He studied dance and composition at SUNY Purchase and the Folkwang Tanzstudio of Pina Bausch. He has collaborated with countless dance, theater and music luminaries: Robert Wilson, Birgitta Trommler, Philip Glass, William Buroughs, Tom Waits, Jorge Guerra, and Vivienne Newport. He is the recipient of the Dance Miami Choreographers Fellowship in 2005 & 2009 and the Florida Arts Interdisciplinary Fellowship for 2009. Upon his return to Miami from an extensive performance career in Europe, Russia and South America, Campos founded the interdisciplinary performance organization, Camposition, and a professor of movement studies at the New World School of the Arts. CORA CARDONA Cora Cardona graduated from Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts. She studied and worked with Alejandro Jodorowsky. In Texas, she worked and studied children’s theatre with Alice Wilson. She founded Teatro Dallas in 1985 and has since directed most of Teatro's productions. She developed the skills of many Latino actors, creating a greater pool of Latin talent, which in the past was inexistent. With the support of the Meadows Foundation, Ms. Cardona introduced the "Days of the Dead” to Dallas in 1986. She produced and appeared in the documentary film "Frida Kahlo: A Ribbon Around a Bomb.” She has commissioned new plays and translations to local and Latin American playwrights. Ms Cardona’s work represents the US at international theatre festivals. AMY CARON Amy Caron is a performing and visual artist based in Salt Lake City. Her work spans a wide-range of mediums including dance, video, sound, and large-scale installations. Her NPN Creation Fund Project, WAVES OF MU an installation/performance work connected to neuroscience, continues to tour nationally with a recent Visiting Artist Residency at Duke University in October 2010. She is currently working on an enormous 4,000 sq/ft architectural installation about algae - a commission by the Leonardo Museum set to premiere in spring 2011. A fan of art in all directions at once, Amy is also in the midst of an open-ended durational work exploring commitment that involves her wearing a wedding gown everyday, everywhere she goes. She's quite easy to spot these days - stop and say hello. RACHEL CARRICO Rachel Carrico is doctoral student in the Critical Dance Studies department at the University of California, Riverside. Before relocating to California, Rachel was the Program Manager for HOME, New Orleans?, an initiative of National Performance Network, and the founding co-artistic director of Goat in the Road Productions in New Orleans. In August, she and Will Bowling of GRP traveled to Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, to conduct a Creative Exchange residency with Grupo de Teatro Artzenico, made possible by a grant through NPN's Performing Americas Program. TEO CASTELLANOS Teo Castellanos is an award winning actor/writer/director, and is artistic director of Teo Castellanos D-Projects a dance/theater company influenced by ritual and hip-hop. He has toured his work throughout the U.S., Europe, South America, the Caribbean and China. His solo show NE 2nd Avenue won the Edinburgh Fringe First Award (Scotland) in 2003. He is currently working on a new company piece titled Fat Boy. Teo is a member of Screen Actors Guild and associate member of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and is represented in Europe by Universal Arts. www.teodprojects.com JANE CASTILLO Castillo was born in Los Angeles, California to a Colombian immigrant family. Exposed to two cultures simultaneously, her interest in family and cultural history was sparked. Her lineage also includes that of Pilipino, African, Spanish, and Indigenous Colombian which has had a profound influence on her work as an active artist in her community. She attended California State University at Fullerton, graduating in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in Art Education. She later earned a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University in sculpture. She manipulates materials, maximizing their beauty by presenting them minimally altered yet in no way denying or changing their identity. As an installation artist, she charges space with a poetic elegance. Potently raw, silently strong. YOLANDA CESTA CURSACH Yolanda contributes dance, music, and theater programming with a special interest in new work development residencies by Chicago artists, international cultural exchange residencies, and partnerships for copresentations and tours. She publishes the MCA Stage Program and directs the Artists Up Close series of talks and workshops. She serves on the Board of Links Hall; Executive Council of Bodies of Work, which supports artists with disabilities and the presentation of work about disabilities; Mayor's Office Celtic Fest Advisory Committee; League of Chicago Theaters Access Committee; and volunteers for World Chicago-US State Department International Visitor Leadership Program. She is a panelist for Creative Capital, USArtists International, and Illinois Arts Council and a Judge of Election. Camposition--Hybrid/Theater/Works Artistic Director 247 SW 3rd Avenue Suite 201, Miami, FL 33010 786-399-7375 octavio@camposition.org Teatro Dallas Founder, Artistic Director 1331 Record Crossing, Dallas, TX 75235 214-689-6492 teatro@airmail.net Independent Artist 555 South 200 East #518, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 (801) 815-9339 amy@amycaron.com NPN & Goat in the Road Productions Doctoral Candidate, University of California, Riverside 3246 Mulberry St., Riverside, CA 92501 618-420-0979 rcarrico@hotmail.com Teo Castellanos D-Projects Artistic Director PO BOX 557845, Miami, FL 33255 786 271 2076 teodprojects@mac.com 321 South Doheny Drive #5, Beverly Hills, CA 90211 (310) 859-3417 jane4c@aol.com Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Associate Director, Performance Programs 220 east Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 312.397.3843 fax 312.397.3893 ycursach@mcachicago.org Attendees • Page 6 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES MARIO CHACON El Centro Cultural de La Raza, San Diego, California Member, Community Advisory Council 2004 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101 619-733-0980 fax 619-462-1340 chaconarte@cox.net Mario A. Chacon was born and raised in East Los Angeles, and over the last 30 years has made San Diego California his home. Since the 1980’s Chacon has served San Diego’s Centro Cultural de La Raza as a contributing artist, member of the Board of Directors, Chair of Arts Advisory Committee, and currently serves on the Community Advisory Council. He is an artist of deep spiritual and cultural orientation and strives to weave a balance of street wisdom, active decolonization, and a healthy sense of humor into his artistic endeavors. Chacon's educational background includes a bachelor's degree in History and a Master of Science Degree in Education. Chacon has served as Dean of Students at UCSD and San Diego City College and is currently a full time independent artist and educator. EVER CHAVEZ FUNDarte Executive Director 7601 Byron Avenue, Suite 4c, Miami Beach, FL 33141 3053166165 fax 305 8651214 ever@fundarte.us HSUEH-TUNG CHEN H.T. Chen is Artistic Director/Founder of H.T. Chen & Dancers and Chen Dance Center – School and Theater in NYC. As a choreographer, he has created a body of work that gives poetic voice to Asians in America. Chen has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the New York State Governor’s Awards, the Organization of Chinese Americans - Lifetime Achievement Award, a BESSIES Special Citation, and, the NYC Mayor’s Award for Arts & Culture. Born in Shanghai, China and raised in Taiwan, H.T. Chen is a graduate of the University of Chinese Culture, The Juilliard School, and New York University's Dept of Dance Professions, where he received his M.A. in Dance Education. SEONG-UK CHOI Seoul Art Space Project transforms idle and used facilities into art facilities to revitalize the city with arts. Seoul Art Space supports artists with their creative activities and provides the citizens with opportunities for cultural communication and the city with creative vibrancy. Seoul Art Space_Mullae, a creative support center which includes the 'Mullae Arts Village', an artist village that had been formed by artists in the area, was established on January 28, 2010. It is a space for creative activities, which includes the Mullae Arts Village, supports domestic and international artists, and contributes to the revitalization of the city. It aims to become an incubating house for promising artists and global creation space for artistic creation and exchanges. Chen Dance Center Artistic Director 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd fl, New York, NY 10013 212-349-0126 fax 212-349-0494 htchen@chendancecenter.org Seoul Art Space Mullae - Korea Planning & Administration 30 Mullae-dong 1-Ga, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, N/A 00000 305-519-6877 prefree99@sfac.or.kr ANNIE CHOUDHURY MRP Inc. Stage Manager P.O. Box 5163, Capitol Heights, MD 20791 301-602-3070 annie2012@gmail.com HEATHER CHRISTIAN Heather Christian (Laura) is the daughter of a blues musician and a go-go dancer. . She has been seen most recently in Big Dance Theater's The Other Here, in Mac Wellman's 1965UU, and in Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge (TimeOut Magazine's best of 2009). She is a core member of Witness Relocation Company and has codevised, performed, and toured many shows internationally with them for six years. She also works with the T.E.A.M, and has been seen with them in "Architecting", and is currently an in-house composer for the T.E.A.M.'s new work Mission Drift. She is primarily a songstress with her ensemble Heather Christian & the Arbornauts, and premiered her multi-media pop symphony "North" at LaMama ETC in 2006. They will release their debut album "Cabinet" in December. heatherchristian.com STEPHEN CLAPP Stephen is a Grants Manager with Dance Place and has been with the organization for 7 years. He is also a dancer and Co-Artistic Director of Dance Box Theater and performs and tours off network. He currently serves as NPN's Northeast Regional Desk. Jane Comfort and Company Artist 55 N. Moore St., New York, NY 10013 917.687.8092 heather@heatherchristian.com Dance Place Grants Manager 3225 8th Street NE, Washington, DC 20017 (202) 269-1600 fax 2022694103 stephenc@danceplace.org PAMELA CLAPP The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Program Director 65 Bleecker Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10012 (212) 387-7555 pclapp@warholfoundation.org Attendees • Page 7 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES ASHLEY CLEMMER HOFFMAN Ashley Clemmer Hoffman has worked at Project Row Houses since December 2006. As the Public Art Manager, she is responsible for curating and organizing all of the artists projects, residencies and public programs. She also oversees marketing/communication and tours. Ashley earned her M.A in Community Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2006 and her B.A. in Visual Arts from Roanoke College (Salem, Va) in 2003. SARA COFFEY Sara has been working in the performing arts field as a manager, programmer, producer and fundraiser for nearly 20 years. After working in New York City for more than 13 years, she relocated to Southern Vermont in 2004 with her family. In the summer of 2006 she launched Vermont Performance Lab, an enterprise that focuses on providing creative residencies to artists working in contemporary music, dance and performance. VPL's Lab Program provides artists with space, time and support to develop new work and engage with the local community as part of the research and development process. Ms. Coffey holds a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from New York University and a BA in Anthropology and International Studies from Marlboro College and the School for International Training. LAURA COLBY Laura Colby established Elsie Management in 1995: an artist management company representing a global roster of dance, theater, world music, and outdoor spectacle. She is the Immediate Past President of NAPAMA, served on the board of Dance/USA, and was the founding Chair of Dance/USA’s Agents Council. Since forming Elsie, Colby has represented over twenty-five performing arts touring companies from five continents, coordinating tours to over two hundred global venues. A frequently invited speaker for panels, workshops, and educational sessions, began her arts administration career as a manager for several independent contemporary choreographers. She graduated The Juilliard School with a BFA in Dance. ALVAN COLON-LESPIER Alvan Colon Lespier is Associate Artistic Director of Pregones Theater. As such he is in charge of operations of the comapny's 130 seat theater and is curator of the company's annual music series. Together with Pregones Artistic Director, Rosalba Rolon and Associate Artistic Director, Jorge B. Merced he is part of the Artistic Team that leads the ensemble's artistic engagement. JANE COMFORT Jane Comfort is a choreographer, writer, and director whose multi-disciplinary works have been presented throughout the United States, in Europe, and Latin America. Her work explores the intersection of movement and text, and has long mixed high and low arts to make social and political commentary. She is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow, and received a BESSIE Award for Underground River. She choreographed Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical Passion, and Michel Legrand's Amour as well as Shakespeare in the Park's Much Ado About Nothing and Lyric Opera of Chicago's Salome. Recent commissions include NPN, Ballet Memphis, Stanford University, Rhode Island College, Headwaters Dance, Columbia College, and Jeanne Ruddy. ERNESTO CONTENTI Ernesto Contenti is a director and past president of Coro Latinoamericano-Pittsburgh. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he has resided in USA for many years and serves professionally as vice president of Document Translations and Graphic Design for DT Interpreting based in Pittsburgh. He has a diverse background in marketing, graphic design, language interpretation and music and has performed as a singer and accordionist with various Latin American music groups. He earned distinction as a celebrated musician and recording artist during early years in Argentina. CHRIS COWDEN Chris Cowden has served as the Executive Director of Women & Their Work since 1986 and has overseen the work of more than 1,475 visual and performing artists. She directs all programming and is responsible for planning, implementation, and evaluation as well as fiscal management. Cowden has a B.A and M.A. in English Literature and completed all course work for a PhD. During her tenure, W&TW has tripled in size and the organization maintains a national presence. W&TW became a member of NPN in 1985 and in 2008 became a founding member of the Visual Artists Network TISHA CREAR Tisha Crear is a Dallas based artist who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts with an African Studies minor. She is on the artist team at the South Dallas Cultural Center. Tisha Crear is former co-founder and owner of Reciprocity in Oak Cliff, Texas, a spoken word venue. She is currently CEO of Reciprocity Records and Executive Producer of the poetry/music compilation project, NOMMO. Tisha is co-founder of the new non-profit organization Seed Money Foundation, Inc. that offers arts and health initiatives to the African American community. She worked as Education & Outreach Coordinator for South Dallas Cultural Center. Currently, Ms. Crear is the Cultural Programs Coordinator for the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs. Project Row Houses Public Arts Manager P. O. Box 1011, Houston, TX 77251-1011 (713) 526-7662 fax (713) 526-1623 ashley@projectrowhouses.org Vermont Performance Lab Director 561 Fitch Rd., Guilford, VT 05301 802-579-3766 sara@vermontperformancelab.com Elsie Management Director 55 Washington St, suite 327, Brooklyn, NY 11201 718-797-4577 fax 718 797 4576 laurac@elsieman.org Pregones Theater Associate Artistic Director 571-575 Walton Avenue, Bronx, NY 10451 (718) 585-1202 fax (718) 585-1608 acolonlespier@pregones.org Jane Comfort and Company Director 55 N. Moore St., New York, NY 10013 (212) 226-5109 fax 212 226.5109 jjcomfort@earthlink.net Coro Latinoamericano-Pittsburgh Director and Member, Coro Latinoamericano-Pittsburgh 440 East Burgess Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15214 412-377-5850 econtenti@aol.com Women & Their Work Executive Director 1710 Lavaca St., Austin, TX 78701 (512) 477-1064 fax (512) 447-1090 cowden@womenandtheirwork.org Office of Cultural Affairs Cultural Programs Coordinator 1925 Elm Street 4th Floor, Dallas, TX 75201 214/670-4081 fax 214/670-4114 tisha.crear@dallascityhall.com Attendees • Page 8 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES SAGE CRUMP South Arts Performing Arts Exchange Director 1800 Peachtree Street, NW Suite 808, Atlanta, GA 30309 (404) 874-7244 fax (404) 873-2148 scrump@southarts.org BRAULIO CRUZ-ORTIZ 525 W. Westchester PKWY. Apt. # 1031, Grand Prairie, TX 75052 972 207 7381 braulio.cruzortiz@mavs.uta.edu SHOSHONA CURRIER Every house has a door 1144 North Hoyne, Chicago, IL 60622 917-292-5738 shoni.currier@gmail.com Shoshona Currier is a New York based theater artist, currently serving as the Director of International Programs for Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas. She also produces the Chicago-based performance company Every house has a door as well as the Berlin-based Lewis Forever. She is the Artistic Director for NYC-based performance company The Shalimar whose work has been seen at Performance Space 122, 59e59 Theater, The Edinburgh Fringe (Stage Award for Best Ensemble), and many other venues in New York and abroad. She is a staff director at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Member: Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Soho Rep Writer/Directors Lab. MATTHEW CUSICK 1202 Newport Ave, Dallas, TX 75224 718-344-5957 matt@mattcusick.com LANE CZAPLINSKI Lane Czaplinski is the Artistic Director of On the Boards – one of the leading centers for contemporary performance in the Western United States. Prior to moving to Seattle in 2002, Czaplinski worked as the Program Manager at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In January 2010, Czaplinski helped launch OntheBoards.tv, an online, pay-per-view platform for contemporary performance videos. He has worked with many organizations as a panelist/advisor including the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, National Endowment for the Arts, National Dance Project, Japan Foundation, National Performance Network, Creative Capital, Herb Alpert Foundation, Australia Council for the Arts, Pew Charitable Trusts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, USArtists, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, American College Dance Festival and the Bessie Committee. RONALD DAVISON Journeyman Ink transcends cultures, creeds and races by awakening the creative soul and developing emotional literacy through the power of shared life experiences on stage and in the classroom. We pursue speaking and performance opportunities unique for their use of original spoken word and melody memory methods (stimulating oral/aural responses through the recitation of songs and mantras). We offer diversity education, character development, and professional consultation that touches on human emotions and empowers each participant to discover his/her own voice. We tailor commission work, multi-disciplinary workshops and presentations for any need while inspiring others to talk to the page, write to be heard, and courageously find inner strength and common ground. MARIA DE LEON Maria Lopez De Leon is the Executive Director and board member of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC). Ms. De Leon has been with NALAC for twelve years and has served as Executive Director for eight years. Under Ms. De Leon’s leadership, NALAC launched the NALAC Fund for the Arts, a grant program for Latino artists and organizations, completed production of a documentary series on Latino art and culture for PBS, has developed and directed the Transnational Cultural Remittances program, a grant program for artists and organizations in the U.S., Mexico and Central America; has directed the convening of four national arts and cultural conferences and has lead the continued development of ten editions of the renowned annual Leadership Institute. ALEC DE LEON Alec De León is the Program Specialist for the Visual Artists Network and National Programs. He is also an artist and musician. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Drawing from Louisiana State University. Previous experience includes serving as Director of Alex Beard Gallery in New Orleans and as an Adjunct Professor at Towson University in Towson, MD. His paintings have been exhibited in New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore and Florida. As a member of the psychedelic rock band the Heatbunnies, De León and his musical collaborator, Chris Cassidy, have released their first album, “Plasmic Organic,” on iTunes and are currently working on their second album. On the Boards Artistic Director 100 West Roy Street, Seattle, WA 98119 (206) 217-9886 fax 206-217-9887 lane@ontheboards.org Journeyman Ink, LLC Percussionist / Artist / Poet 2557 Talco Dr., Dallas, TX 75241 214.372.4796 ronald1862@yahoo.com National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Executive Director 1208 Buena Vista, San Antonio, TX 78207 210-432-3982 fax 210-432-3934 maria@nalac.org National Performance Network Program Specialist- Visual Artists Network P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156 504.595.8008 x209 fax 504-595-8006 alec@npnweb.org Attendees • Page 9 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES MAYDA DEL VALLE Mayda Del Valle has been described by the Chicago Sun Times as having “a way with words. Sometimes they seem to flutter and roll off her lips. Other times they burst forth like a comet streaking across a nighttime sky.” She has appeared on 6 episodes of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO, and was a contributing writer and original cast member of the Tony Award winning production of Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. She was chosen by Smithsonian Magazine as one of “America’s Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences” and Oprah’s O Magazine named her as one of 20 women on the first ever “O Power List.” In May of 2009 she was invited to perform at The White House for President Obama and the First Lady. MARK DENDY Mark Dendy is a Bessie and Obie Award winner, having created dance and theater for the last twenty years. His work has been seen throughout the world and in New York at The Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, PS 122, and DTW. He is delighted to be attending his first NPN Annual Meeting. KATHIE DENOBRIGA A founding member of Alternate ROOTS, Kathie deNobriga served as ROOTS' executive director and planning/development director for ten years. Earlier careers were as theatre director, performer, producer and presenter in NC and TN. She is now a consultant specializing in strategic planning, organizational capacity, staff/board retreats and creative conflict engagement; she is a certified mediator. DeNobriga is also Mayor ProTem of Pine Lake, GA (now in her third term) where she works to encourage a wide range of citizen arts participation. She is on the boards of Art in the Public Interest and Alternate ROOTS. Currently she is raising capital funds for the Little Five Points Community Center, working on a program assessment for TCG, and writing and editing for NPN. She turned 60 last week. THANDIWE DESHAZOR Nursha Project artist Thandiwe Thomas DeShazor is an actor, writer and comedian. His one man show, "Children of the Last Days" satirizes the black church and the gay community and has been featured in the San Francisco Queer Arts Festival and the Afro Solo Festival. In addition to touring his solo show in 2011, he will be starring opposite Stanley Bennett Clay in his play, "Armstrong's Kid". CAROLELINDA DICKEY Carolelinda has an extensive background in arts management, including 7 years as founding executive director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. From 1987-99, she was executive director of the Pittsburgh Dance Council. Currently she is co-director of the Internationale TanzmesseNRW. In 1999, she founded Performing Arts Strategies and consults on program development/public policy for numerous national foundations and arts organizations. A frequent speaker on international cultural engagement, her report, Improving Access [nonimmigrant visas for artists] for the Rockefeller Foundation has been widely lauded. Her most recent report, Dance America: A Strategy to Export American Dance, co-authored with Andrea Snyder, can be found at http://www.danceusa.org/internationalstrategy. DAVEED DIGGS Daveed Diggs is an actor, educator, composer, rap and spoken word artist who graduated with a degree in Theater Arts from Brown University in 2004. He has many California and regional credits including most recently Pacific Rep Theater's Troilus and Cressida (Troilus) and A Comedy of Errors (Duke), The SF Playhouse Six Degrees of Separation (Paul) and Jesus Hopped the A Train (Angel). Diggs also teaches Rap and Spoken word classes at James Lick Middle School and at the Marsh Youth Theater and gives workshops throughout the Bay Area, New York City, and New Jersey. He has been a teacher in residence with the Arts Literacy Program in Providence, Rhode Island and a teaching artist for the national youth spoken word organization Youth Speaks. SEAN DONOVAN Sean Donovan is an actor, dancer, and writer. He is a member of both Witness Relocation Theater and Jane Comfort and Company. His original works include Sublimate at Galapagos Art Space, NY, Se Vende at the FAE Festival in Panama, and The Climate Chronicles at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. In New York he has performed at such places as The Kitchen, PS122, The Duke, The Ontological Hysteric Theatre, The Ohio Theatre, DTW, La MaMa ETC, and Dixon Place. He received his BFA in Theatre from New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing. He has trained and performed internationally in France, Holland, Romania, Poland, Russia, Panama, Canada, Thailand and Japan, as well as many venues throughout the US. BILL DOOLIN Bill Doolin, Director, leads a multifaceted life. As a choreographer, his work has been seen in Cambridge, MA, New York,Colorado and Illinois & at Florida Dance Festival in Miami and Tampa and Excello Dance Studio in Miami. He also has 3 works in the repertory of Moving Current Dance Collective in Tampa. Bill performed with Concert Dance Company of Boston, Mass Dance Ensemble, Malashock/Dance in San Diego, CA, Demetrius Klein Dance Company in Lake Worth, FL and Gerri Houlihan in Boston and Miami. As an administrator, he worked at Harvard Summer Dance Center, Pentacle, Inc. and New World School of the Arts in Miami.Bill was recently honored with the 2009 Miami Dance Festival award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field and in 2006 was awarded a Miami Dade County Choreography Fellow. Poet/ Performer 529 1/2 S. Normandie Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90020 323-301-5331 fax 213-570-0559 mayda@maydadelvalle.com Jane Comfort and Company Guest Artist 55 N. Moore St., New York, NY 10013 646.221.1760 mark_dendy@hotmail.com National Performance Network writer, editor PO Box 1087, Pine Lake, GA 30072 404-299-9498 fax 404-299-9498 kdenobriga@mindspring.com Pomo Afro Homos Pomo Afro Homos: Fierce Love 76 Santa Marina Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 313-850-0860 thandiwethomas@yahoo.com Internationale Tanzmesse NRW Co-Director 6636 Wilkins Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15217 412-422-1864 fax 412-422-7414 carolelinda@tanzmesse-nrw.com The Living Word Project Performer/Creator 2019 Filbert Street, Oakland, CA 94607 347.782.1701 mrdiggs@gmail.com Jane Comfort and Company Performer 55 N. Moore St., New York, NY 10013 347-451-8399 seanodono@gmail.com Florida Dance Association Interim Director 111 SW 5th Avenue, Room 202, Miami, FL 33130 (305) 547-1117 fax (305) 547-1118 billd@floridadanceassociation.org Attendees • Page 10 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES ELIZABETH DOUD National Performance Network Performing Americas Coordinator P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156 305-519-6877 fax 305-237-7559 edoud@npnweb.org MARIO GARCIA DURHAM National Endowment for the Arts Director, Presenting & Artists Communities Multidisciplinary Arts Division 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Room 720, Washington, DC 20506 (202) 682-5469 fax 202.682.5612 or 5002 durhamm@arts.endow.gov Mario Garcia Durham is the Director of Artist Communities and Presenting at the National Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Durham was the founder and Executive Director of Yerba Buena Arts & Events (YBAE) in San Francisco. Mr. Durham was also a founding staff member of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. At the NEA Mr. Durham has been responsible for a renewed NEA focus on the role of Presenters, Artist Communities, Service Organizations, and Outdoor Festivals, including a 2010 NEA report on the impact of outdoor festivals in the US. SARA ELLIS CARDONA 1331 Record Crossing Road, Dallas, TX 75235 972-437-1002 scardo@dcccd.edu TERESA EYRING Executive Director of Theatre Communications Group since 2007, the national organization for non-profit professional theatre which will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary beginning June 2011. Ms. Eyring spent more than twenty years as an executive in theatres around the U.S. Positions included: managing director of the Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) in Minneapolis from 1999-2007; managing director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia from 1994-1999; and assistant executive director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis from 19891993. She holds a BA in International Relations from Stanford University and an MFA in Theatre Administration from Yale School of Drama and currently chairs the follow-up process for the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention. LAURA FAURE Laura Faure is the director of the Bates Dance Festival held at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Since taking this position in 1988 she had developed the Festival into an internationally acclaimed contemporary dance program known for its artistic excellence, curatorial vision, and commitment to building community through dance. A former dancer, choreographer and teacher with thirty + years of experience in the field of dance, Ms. Faure also works as a freelance arts manager and consultant specializing in the dance. Theatre Communications Group Executive Director 520 Eighth Avenue, 24th floor, New York, NY 10018 212-609-5900 x237 fax 212-609-5901 teyring@tcg.org Bates Dance Festival Director 163 Wood Street, Lewiston, ME 04240-6016 207-871-0509 fax (207) 871-0136 lfaure@bates.edu DAVID FERRI Jane Comfort and Company 55 N. Moore St., New York, NY 10013 PAUL FLORES Paul S. Flores is one of the most influential Latino performance artists in the country. A published poet, playwright and co-founder of Youth Speaks, his work explores the intersection of urban culture, Hip-Hop, Spanglish and transnational identity. Rasied in Chula Vista, CA, Paul spent his youth between Tijuana and San Diego as a border resident. Flores' performance projects have taken him from HBO's Def Poetry to Havana, Cuba, Mexico City, and El Salvador. He is author of the novel Along the Border Lies, and his most recent play REPRESENTA! was directed by Danny Hoch and presented by the Hip-Hop Theater Festival 2007. He was recently awarded the NALAC Fund for the Arts 2010 grant for his newest play PLACAS, directed by Michael John Garcés, premiering in 2011-2012 in San Francisco. ANEL FLORES With her her BA in English and MFA in Creative Writing, Anel I. Flores, Tejana border-born lesbiana, writer, educator and multidisciplinary visual artista believes access to arte and expression create a channel towards healing, understanding and empowerment for all people, and thus a vehicle for social justice. She is author of novel, My Girl Empanada, a Lesbiana story en Probaditas, play, Empanada, produced nationally in various venues, and artist of multiple series' of artworks in oil and fine silver. Currently she is writing a new novel titled, Tiempo Olvidado, a graphic novel for young adults and an illustrated children's book titled The Icing on the Cake. REPRESENTA!/Chicano Messengers Writer/Performer 1182 Naples St., San Francisco, CA 94112 415 350-9775 santos8205@mac.com Empanadita Production Company Educator, Producer, Writer and Visual Artist 150 El Monte, San Antonio, TX 78212 210-316-7029 anelflores@gmail.com Attendees • Page 11 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES KAMILAH FORBES Hip-Hop Theater Festival Artistic Director 442-D LORIMER STREET #195, Brooklyn, NY 11206 718-497-4282 fax 718.360.1930 kamilah@hhtf.org Jamaican naturalized citizen and graduate of the British-American Drama Academy at Oxford University in England; Kamilah Forbes is a director, producer, playwright, actor, activist, and the artistic director of Hip-Hop Theater Festival. Since 2000, she has curated the Hip-Hop Theater Festival presented annually in New York City, Chicago, Washington, DC and the San Francisco Bay Area. With an eclectic and worldly mix of works, Forbes provides a stage and artistic home to artists often marginalized in theater world. She has received a Tony Award as well as the The Mayor’s Arts Award for an Emerging Theatre Artist, was featured as one of the Top 100 Juiciest People by Vibe magazine, and was nominated for the prestigious Helen Hayes Award for Best Lead Actress. JANE FORDE New England Foundation for the Arts Manager, National Dance Project 145 Tremont Street, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02111 617 951 0010 x 512 fax 617 951 0016 jforde@nefa.org SHAWNA FORNEY Shawna Forney is the Public Relations & Marketing Manager of DiverseWorks ArtSpace. VELETTA FORSYTHE LILL Dallas Arts District Executive Director 2200 Ross Avenue, Suite 4600E, Dallas, TX 75201 (214) 744-6643 fax 214-744-1987 lill@downtowndallas.org In January 2009 Veletta Forsythe Lill accepted a newly created position - Executive Director of the Dallas Arts District– an organization “dedicated to stimulating the economic and cultural life of the region through the development and promotion of the district.” The organization acts as chief advocate and steward of the 68-acre arts-centric neighborhood. Ms. Lill, a long time advocate for the arts, served on the Dallas City Council from 1997-2005. Her work as Chair of the Arts, Education and Libraries Committee of the Council led to the passage of almost $100 million in bonds for arts and library facilities, the creation of a nationally recognized arts-ineducation program, and completion of a Cultural Facilities Master Plan for the city. SYLVIE FORTIN Sylvie Fortin is Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning non-profit contemporary art magazine ART PAPERS, published in Atlanta and distributed in over 80 countries. JOSÉ FRANCOS José María Francos, originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been a lighting designer, producer and arts administrator for over 28 years. He has collaborated with the Oakland Opera and Ballet, Wall Flower Order, June Watanabe In Dance, Ellen Bromberg Ensemble, Joanna Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Theater, Robert Moses KIN and Navarre +Kajiyama Dance Theater and Elia Arce. He is currently the Technical Director at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. DAMON FRAZIER Damon Frazier is an African percussionist raised in Dallas, Texas. His talent led him to work with the famous Chuck Davis African Ensemble based in Durham NC for several years before relocating back to the Southwest. Damon Frazier has traveled the United States, Africa and Europe sharing the knowledge he received with children and adults. He is currently a percussion instructor at University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK and a resident artist at the South Dallas Cultural Center where he teaches African Diaspora Percussion. DiverseWorks Artspace Public Relations & Marketing Manager 1117 East Freeway, Houston, TX 77002 713.223.8346 fax 713.223.4608 shawna@diverseworks.org ART PAPERS Editor-in-Chief PO Box 5748, Atlanta, GA 31107 4045881837 x 20 fax 4045881836 editor@artpapers.org ELIA ARCE Technical Director Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission Street, San Francico, CA 94103 415-321-1326 fax 415-978-2787 jfrancos@ybca.org South Dallas Cultural Center Resident artist 3400 S. Fitzhugh Avenue, Dallas, TX 75210 405-513-4152 fax 214/670-8118 rithm5@yahoo.com BRIAN FREEMAN Pomo Afro Homos Director 76 Santa Marina Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 213-712-1045 brian.freeman@mac.com Attendees • Page 12 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES DAN FROOT Dan Froot is a Los Angeles-based writer, producer, composer and performer. Along with NY-based puppet artist Dan Hurlin and Seattle-based composer Amy Denio, he is creating "Who's Hungry," an ongoing series of short toy theater plays based on the lives of homeless and hungry folks in Los Angeles. His dance, music and theater work has toured nationally and internationally since 1983, including "Live Sax Acts," a series of collaborative duets with choreographer David Dorfman. Dan is recipient of a 1991 Bessie Award for creation, as well as numerous grants and fellowships. He teaches at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures, and at colleges and universities around the country. JANE GABRIELS Jane Gabriels is Director of Pepatian, a South Bronx-based arts organization (www.pepatian.org). She is also Project Coordinator for The Young Roots Performance Series at Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture, funded by Rockefeller Foundation NYC Cultural Innovation Fund 2011-12, and co-author of the proposal. She was Project Manager for a collaborative art and community project between The Bronx Museum of the Arts and The Point CDC (2004-06) and was a teaching artist through the Community Word Project for one year at M.S. 279 in the Bronx. She is a performer, poet, events producer and artist manager (www.janegabriels.com). Jane is working towards her doctorate on the performing arts scene of the South Bronx at Concordia University, Montreal Canada. VALLEJO GANTNER Vallejo Gantner has been Artistic Director of Performance Space 122 since 2005. P.S. 122 is New York’s leading multi-disciplinary presenter of innovative performing arts. Prior he was Director of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2002 – 2004, and Artistic Associate of the Melbourne Festival 2000/01. Originally from Melbourne, Gantner worked in a range of capacities throughout the arts in the US, Asia and Australia - director, writer, performer, agent, producer and programmer. He was also the co-producer of Spiegelworld from 2006-2008, a commercial producer of contemporary circus, cabaret, music and entertainment across the US. He is a partner in a brewery - Mountain Goat Beer and in Melbourne bars Double Happiness, New Gold Mountain, Bosisto’s Liquor Bar and Lily Blacks. KUMANI GANTT Kumani Gantt joined the Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas in July 2009 as Executive Director. Before working at the CD Forum, she was the Executive and Artistic Director at The Village of Arts and Humanities (the Village). Kumani has conducted writing workshops at the State Correctional Institute at Graterford, the Baltimore Women’s Detention Center, Power Inside, and the Baltimore City School System. Her plays and performance pieces include meditations/from the ash; Three Stories to the Ground, Communion, and Testament. Her poetry collection, conjuring the dead, was awarded the Maryland Emerging Writers Award in 2003. She received a MFA in Theatre from Towson University and has attended Hedgebrook, Norcroft and Caldera writing retreats. Artist 11405 Biona Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90066 310.766.4942 fax 310.636.2757 danfroot@me.com Pepatian Director 1001 Grand Concourse 10F, Bronx, NY 10452 917 903 7651 fax n/a gabriels_j@yahoo.com Performance Space 122 Artistic Director 150 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 (212) 477-5829 fax (212) 535-1315 vallejo@ps122.org Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas Executive Director PO Box 22824, Seattle, WA 98122 206-323-4032 fax 206-323-4036 kumanig@cdforum.org OLGA GARAY City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs Executive Director 201 North Figueroa Street, Suite 1400, Los angeles, CA 90012 213-202-5522 fax 213-202-5513 olga.garay@lacity.org LEO GARCIA Leo Garcia is an award-winning playwright, actor, filmmaker, producer, teacher, and activist and has served as Highways' Artistic Director since 2003 where he has developed and presented over 500 performance works. His works have been presented by numerous nationally-established companies and presenters, including Theater for the New City, The Public, The Jewish Repertory Theater, International Arts Relations Theater (INTAR), L.A. Theater Center, South Coast Rep, Tiffany Theaters, and Santa Fe Stages, among others. Garcia has been awarded by The National Endowment for the Arts, TCG, NY Foundation for the Arts, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, The National Hispanic Media Coalition, the HARC Foundation, OUT, and MCA/Universal. He is the recipient of an MFA from the Asolo Conservatory. ALEJANDRO GARCÍA-LEMOS Alejandro García is a Colombian-American visual and installation artist living between Columbia, South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. He holds a MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Florida International University in Miami and a BA in Graphic Design from the School of Arts at the National University in Bogotá, Colombia. His work focuses on complex social issues, mostly on aspects of immigration, biculturalism, religion and social justice. His work has been shown extensively in the South East and featured in El Aviso and ALAA´s newsletter. Also his installation ¨Migration Letters in Spanglish" was selected for the ongoing cover of an International publication based in London, England. Alejandro is an alumni of the NALAC Leadership Institute and the founder of Palmetto & LUNA. Highways Performance Space and Gallery Executive Director / Artistic Director 1651 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404 (310) 453-1755 fax (310) 453-4347 leogarcia@highwaysperformance.org 1830 Henderson St., Columbia, SC 29201 803 397 7686 fax 803 400 1179 alegar78@gmail.com MARIA TERESA GARCIA-PEDROCHE Dallas Museum of Art Head of Family & Community Programs 1717 North Harwood, Dallas, TX 75201 214-922-1253 mpedroche@dallasmuseumofart.org Attendees • Page 13 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES NICOLE GARNEAU Columbia College Chicago Faculty, Cultural Studies 1548 W. Pratt, Chicago, IL 60626 773-879-1492 nicolegarneau13@sbcglobal.net I am a Chicago-based interdisciplinary performing artist. Since 1995, I have worked closely with Insight Arts, an arts organization that is dedicated to increasing access to cultural work that promotes social justice and defends human rights. I currently serve on the Board of Directors of the National Performance Network and on the Executive Committee of Alternate ROOTS. I am also an Advisor to the publication AREA: Chicago Art, Research, Education, and Activism. I am a research assistant for The MacArthur Foundation, teach cultural theory and race theory at Columbia College Chicago, and teach feminist performance studies at DePaul University. www.nicolegarneau.com LIZA GARZA MRP Inc. Artistic Representative P.O. Box 5163, Capitol Heights, MD 20791 3013500092 fax 3013500092 m.rproductions@mason-rhynes.org ELIZABETH GEIGER Elizabeth has been working as a performing arts manager since 1985. In addition to spending two years at Dance Theater Workshop as the Project Coordinator, Inter/National Projects for the NPN and Suitcase Fund, she is proud to have been a part of Manhattan Theatre Club, P.S. 122, The Joyce Theater, Feld Ballets/NY, Lincoln Center Festival and Lisa Booth Management in New York; she recently moved to Atlanta and is grateful to have found her place in the South at CORE Performance Company. She is happy to be reconnecting to the NPN. DANIELLE GEORGIOU Danielle Georgiou is a Ph.D. candidate in Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her video work explores the relationship between dance and the camera, while playing with abstractions of traditional narratives. She is interested in the effect capturing movement has on memory and emotion, and how dance can translate a musical score. Danielle is the Assistant Director of the UTA Dance Ensemble, a guest choreographer for the UT Dallas Dance Ensemble, and dances professionally with Muscle Memory Dance Theatre. She is an Arts Commentator for KERA’s Art&Seek, Art+Culture DFW Magazine, and the Dallas Morning News. CORE Performance Company Tour Development P.O. Box 2045, Decatur, GA 30031-2045 404 373 4154 fax 866 202 9156 geiger.elizabeth@gmail.com University of Texas at Arlington/UTA Dance Ensemble/Multitudes Dance Theatre Artistic Director/Choreographer 5200 Keller Springs Road #1334, Dallas, TX 75248 214 3169627 fax 214 3169627 danielle.georgiou@gmail.com ALEKZANDER GERARD University of Texas at Arlington/UTA Dance Ensemble/Multitudes Dance Theatre Roam 5200 Keller Springs Road #1334, Dallas, TX 75248 214-918-0204 alekzgerard@yahoo.com MICHELLE GIBSON Choreographer, Instructor, Performing Artist. New Orleans native. Graduate of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Received BFA in Dance from Tulane University. MFA Candidate in Dance / Performance Studies from Hollins University/ American Dance Festival. Faculty member with the American Dance Festival Summer Intensive.Fine Arts Dance teacher with Dallas Independent School District. SANDRA GIBSON Sandra L. Gibson has served as the President & CEO of Arts Presenters since July 2000. In that time Gibson has been instrumental in positioning the association to take a leadership role in advancing the field of performing arts presenting. Gibson’s nearly 30 years of experience in the arts management, cultural programming and presenting include the Department of the Arts at UCLA Extension, the American Film Institute (AFI), Director, Independent Filmmaker and Distribution Program, an NEA re-granting program, and Executive Director of the Public Corporation for the Arts, the Long Beach Regional Arts Council and an appointment to UNESCO. Immediately prior to joining Arts Presenters, Gibson served as Executive Vice President and COO at Americans for the Arts. Exhibit Dance Collective/ South Dallas Cultural Center Choreographer, Instructor,Performing Artist 4917 Valley Ridge Dr, #2037, Iriving, TX 75062 504-610-5631 mgibson4life@yahoo.com Association of Performing Arts Presenters President & CEO 1211 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036 2028332787 fax 2028331543 sgibson@artspresenters.org Attendees • Page 14 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES TAMMY GOMEZ Tammy Gomez is profiled in LAS TEJANAS: 300 YEARS OF HISTORY (UT Press), and is featured in “Voices from Texas,” a PBS documentary about Tejano/a poets. She has received grants from Humanities Texas, NALAC, the Ford Foundation, Moonifest, and Puffin Foundation. Tammy was a Bridge resident artist at Headlands Center for the Arts, and is a Creative Capital award finalist. She received an Austin Chronicle Critic’s Choice Award, dubbing her “Best In-Your-Face Poet (in Two Languages, No Less)” in 1994. She is an inaugural artist on the United States Artists' USA Projects website, launched in December 2010. Her play "She: Bike/Spoke/Love" premiered on World Car Free Day 2007, and her one-woman show, “Saliendo Abierta”--about being trapped in a closet for 3 days--had a 4-night run in 2010. AIN GORDON Ain Gordon is a three-time Obie winning writer/director/actor, a two-time NYFA recipient and a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting. Commissioned/produced/presented by Soho Rep, NYTW, DTW, 651 ARTS, PS 122, the Public, HERE, and Kitchen Theatre (all NY); The Mark Taper (CA), George Street Playhouse (NJ), Krannert Center (IL), DiverseWorks (TX), Jacob’s Pillow (MA), LexArts (KY), Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), Dance Place (DC), North 4th Arts Center (NM) plus collaborations with Bebe Miller at Wexner (OH), Helena Presents (MT), and Bates (ME). Gordon is a Core Writer at Playwrights’ Center (MN), CCR Artist-in-Residence, and Co-Director of Pick Up Performance Co(s). ROSIE GORDON-WALLACE Rosie Gordon-Wallace is Founder, Curator and Exc Director of Diaspora Vibe Gallery and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator. Since 1996, Gordon-Wallace has initiated and produced transnational creative programs that redefine concepts of “diaspora” including the International Cultural Exchange program, the Caribbean Crossroads Series, the Artist-In-Residence program, an ongoing contemporary exhibitions program, and numerous community-based outreach projects. One might never have guessed that this licensed Medical Microbiologist and former Senior Consultant for Searle Pharmaceuticals from 1981 -1999 is now the founder and senior curator of Diaspora Vibe Gallery, one of the most talked about art galleries in the Miami-Dade and the Caribbean. PAT GRANEY Pat Graney is a Seattle-based Artist working in a variety of mediums; visual, performance & writing. The Pat Graney Company creates, performs and tour new performance works and conducts arts-based educational programming for incarcerated women and female ex-offenders in Washington State. Sound Culture 1323 Seventh Avenue - rear apt., Fort Worth, TX 76104 817.924.9188 tammygomexican@yahoo.com Pick Up Performance Co(S.) Co-Director Algonquin 175 Prospect Park SW Apt 2A, Brooklyn, NY 11219 212 244 7622 fax n/a agwords@earthlink.net Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubation Founding Exc. Director 3938 N. Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33127 305-573-4046 fax (305) 573-7576 rogwall3@yahoo.com Pat Graney Company Executive Director 925 E. Thomas, Suite B, Seattle, WA 98102 (206) 329-3705 fax (206) 320-6646 staff@patgraney.org EMILY GRAY Fractured Atlas Program Director, Liability Insurance 248 W 35th St, Floor 10, New York, NY 10001 212/277-8020 emily.gray@fracturedatlas.org DAZIÉ GREGO Pomo Afro Homos 76 Santa Marina Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 4159028047 dazier.g@gmail.com SARAH GUERRA Sarah Guerra is a native Tejana living in California since 2001. She has been involved in the arts since 1992 and has worked with various theatre companies in San Antonio, Tejas, most notably the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Jump-Start Performance Co., and The Epseranza Peace and Justice Center. From 2001-2004 Sarah dedicated her time and energy to El Teatro Campesino as their resident stage manager and production manager. Currently she is the program director for La Peña Cultural Center. Sarah has dedicated her life to the arts as education and as a tool for political and social justice. TOM GURALNICK Tom Guralnick founded Outpost Productions in 1988 and has served as the organization’s Executive Director ever since. He has served on numerous other non-profit Boards since moving to New Mexico from Boston in 1976. He is a founding member of the Western Jazz Presenters Network currently serving as that organization’s Board President and is also active in the New Mexico Presenters Alliance. Until 2000, for 25 years, he recorded and toured internationally playing his own music for saxophones and invented woodwinds as well as with his trio, the TG3. La Peña Cultural Center Programmer 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 (510) 849-2568 fax (510) 849-9397 sarah@lapena.org Outpost Productions, Inc. Executive Director PO Box 4543, Albuquerque, NM 87196 (505) 268-0044 fax (505) 268-4481 tguralnick@comcast.net Attendees • Page 15 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES JUANA GUZMAN Juana Guzman is a native Chicagoan and has been an arts administrator and activist for over 30 years. She is currently the Vice-President of the National Museum of the Mexican Art (NMMA) since 1999. The NMMA is the largest Latino arts institution in the nation. Prior to her position with the NMMA, Ms Guzman was a Director for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs (CDCA where she served for twenty years. Her work at the CDCA including managing grants programs for artists and non profit arts organizations, creation of the Chicago Neighborhood Tours, and securing $8.1 million dollars from the Chicago Empowerment Zone funds for the support of cultural facilities in Chicago's neighborhoods. She is also the CEO of her own company "Economic Connections/IJuanaKnow." DAYNA HANSON Dayna Hanson is a Seattle-based choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist who has been creating dance, performance and film for more than twenty years. Dayna was co-artistic director of internationally touring dance theater company 33 Fainting Spells from 1994-2006. Her current project is a dance-driven rock musical entitled Gloria’s Cause created with collaborators Dave Proscia and Peggy Piacenza. MATTHEW HARDY Matthew Hardy hails from Houston, TX. Matthew is a graduate of the William Esper Acting Studio and a member of The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. Since moving to New York in 2002, Matthew has toured nationally with the Broadway production of Fosse, created and performed his own cabaret act entitled Songs for the Dysfunctional, and originated many roles in the New York independent theater scene. Matthew was included among 21 other New York actors in Backstage West's "2007 Performances to Remember" for his performance as Froyim in Fritz & Froyim off-broadway. Matthew has written the book and lyrics for the musical short The Rubberers, the new musical comedy Flambé Dreams, and is currently working on The Eight Million, a musical based on the works of O. Henry. www.matthewhardy.org National Museum of Mexican Art Vice-President 4000 N. Clarendon Avenue, Chicago, IL 60608 312-433-3906 fax 312-738-9740 guzman@nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org Dayna Hanson Director 915 31st Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122 206 850 3613 dh@daynahanson.com Jane Comfort and Company Artist 55 N. Moore St., New York, NY 10013 9179025581 matt@matthewhardy.org THEODORE HARRIS Institute for Advanced Study in Black Aesthetics Founding director 64 West Penn Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144 215-519-2373 artasaweapon@aol.com ANGIE HAUSER Angie Hauser is a dancemaker, performer and teacher. Since 2000, Angie has been a member of the Bebe Miller Company, receiving a BESSIE Award for Creation and Choreography in 2006 for her work with the company. She, and collaborator Chris Aiken, have presented their dance works in the U.S. and Europe. In 2006 the duo received an NPN Commissioning Fund Grant for the creation of their evening length work “Dwell.” She has also made dances in collaboration with Kirstie Simpson, K.J. Holmes, Darrell Jones, Andrew Harwood and Kathleen Hermesdorf. She has danced with the companies of Elizabeth Streb, Liz Lerman and Poppo Shiriashi. ANGELLE HEBERT Angelle Hebert is a Portland based choreographer and Co-Artistic Director of Contemporary Dance/Performance Art Company tEEth founded in 2006. Along with Co-Director, composer Phillip Kraft, tEEth has created over 13 original works and toured nationally to Seattle, New York City, Austin, and New Orleans. Their work is generated through a deeply collaborative process exploring the body’s limitless expression through motion and sound. Approaching the body with a singular eye for life’s beauty and, often, grotesque absurdity, tEEth serves a poignant and uncompromising glimpse of humanity through sensory-rich movement, performance art and original music. Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser Co-Director Ursinus College PO Box 1000, Collegeville, PA 19426 610-425-7674 angiehauser3@earthlink.net tEEth Choreographer 64 NE Farragut St., Portland, OR 97211 503-774-0997 angellekraft@comcast.net DENISE HELBING Dallas Museum of Art Manager of Partner Programs 1717 N. Harwood St., Dallas, TX 75201 214-922-1352 dhelbing@dallasmuseumofart.org CHARLES HELM Wexner Center for the Arts Director, Performing Arts The Ohio State University 1871 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43210-1393 (614) 292-5785 fax 614-292-7824 chelm@wexarts.org Attendees • Page 16 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES ERIC HENDRICKSON MRP Inc. Lead Deckhand/Flyman/Production Asst. P.O. Box 5163, Capitol Heights, MD 20791 3013500092 fax 3013500092 m.rproductions@mason-rhynes.org CLAYTON HENRY Dallas Cultural Affairs Commission 9322 Moss Trail, Dallas, TX 75231 214-914-9332 claytonhenry@mac.com F. JOHN HERBERT Legion Arts Executive Director 1103 Third Street SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 (319) 364-1580 fax 319/362-9156 john@legionarts.org F. John Herbert is co-founder and executive director of Legion Arts, an Iowa nonprofit dedicated to contemporary artists, community development, and cultural diversity. Based at CSPS, a renovated Czech social hall in downtown Cedar Rapids, Legion Arts maintains vigorous presenting programs in the visual and performing arts. DAVID HERMAN Preservation LINK Creative Director 1402 Corinth St. Suite 124, Dallas, TX 75215 214.293.5352 daveherman@sbcglobal.net KATIE HERRON ROBB Pangea World Theater Office Manager/Ensemble Member 711 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408 (612) 822-0015 fax (612) 821-1070 katie@pangeaworldtheater.org Katie has worked artistically and administratively with Pangea World Theater for over ten years. She is a performing ensemble member at Pangea and is currently creating a solo performance, Solo Flight, with Meena Natarajan, inspired by the pioneering female aviators of the early 1900s. CLARA HINOJOSA The Mexico Institute Founding Director University of Texas at Dallas 800 W. Campbell Rd. J031, Richardson, TX 75080 972 238-0106 fax 972 238-1241 clarahinojosa@themexicoinstitute.org HEIDI HOWARD 7 Stages Ed Director / Prod Manager 1105 Euclid Avenue, NE, Atlanta, GA 30307 (404) 522-8602 fax (404) 522-0913 heidi@7stages.org Heidi S Howard is 7 Stages' Education Director and Production Manager. Now in her 11th season, her favorites include If the Art Fits YC 07, A Piece of Ground YC10, A Bird of Prey, Maria Kizito. And HAIR She has toured throughout the USA as well as to Belgrade, Serbia and to Shanghai, China. She directs 7 Stages' Youth Creates, which just completed its eighth year of production. She is an Artistic Associate to Synchronicity. She has studied directing with the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and at the DAH Laboratory International Training Program. She received the 2007 TCG Observership and the TCG Future Collaborations grant to return to The Netherlands in 2008. She just returned from Serbia on the TCG International Travel Grant to continue development on a new project with DAH Teatar. JENNY HOWELL National Performance Network Program Assistant - Convenings P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156 (504) 595-8008 jenny@npnweb.org Attendees • Page 17 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES EUN-A IM Korea Arts Management Service(KAMS) was established in January 2006 as a non-profit, public foundation for the development of Korean performing arts. With support from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, KAMS offers multi-faceted assistance that aims to bolster the sustainability of arts groups and organizations, while strengthening their competitive advantages by developing diverse and effective support systems for more efficient arts management. KAMS enables performing arts companies in Korea to broaden their horizons and presence by evaluating their management strategy, offering consulting services, and expanding their market capability through innovative distribution networks in domestic and overseas markets. SHALONDA INGRAM Shalonda Ingram is a strategist, producer, and social entrepreneur committed to transforming the planet via proactivism and sociopolitical change through community empowerment, youth, and arts engagement. Ingram is the Producer at Dance Theater Workshop, and sits on various arts funding councils including the City of Oakland’s Funding Advisory Board and the Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Regrant Program. Her Nursha Project™ launched Born Brown: All Rights Reserved®, and Queer Art Impact. She co-developed the Microloan and Worker Cooperative: A Strategy for Youth Enterprise Development in 2005. Recently, she was nominated for the Eli Segal Award and the New York Innovative Theater Award for the production, Where My Girls At?. SHINICHI IOVA-KOGA Shinichi examines, dissects and intentionally blurs the line between various media to uproot and communicate stories contained within the body. He founded inkBoat in 1998. Shinichi has engaged in long term and extensive work with Yuko Kaseki, Cassie Terman, Yumiko Yoshioka, Do Theatre and others (most recently working with Ko Murobushi). Shinichi and KT Nelson are co-choreographers of a new work for ODC Dance Company premiering in March 2011. In November 2011, he and Dohee Lee are featured in a new inkBoat production. Many thanks to his teachers Hiroko Tamano, Yukihiro Goto, Ruth Zaporah, Yumiko Yoshioka and Anna Halprin. Shinichi is currently an Artist in Residence at ODC Theater, SF and is the father to Zoë and husband to Dana. Korean Arts Management Service Staff B1 Daehangno Arts Theater, 1-67 Dongsung-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, N/A 110-809 305-519-6877 midway@gokams.or.kr Dance Theater Workshop Producer 219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 (212) 691-6500 x222 fax 2126331974 shalonda@dtw.org inkBoat Artistic Director 351 Shotwell Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110 415-992-7705 momoio@inkboat.com GAYLE ISA Asian Arts Initiative Executive Director 4819 Beaumont Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143-3407 215-557-0455 fax 215-557-9531 gayle@asianartsinitiative.org MARIA-ROSARIO JACKSON Urban Institute Director for Arts, Culture & Community 2100 M Street NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20012 202.5689 mjackson@ui.urban.org GREGORY JACKSON Lasso the Moon, Inc. Production Manager 2048 NE 180th Street, North Miami Beach, FL 33162 305.333.1303 gregoryjackson064@gmail.com JEFFERSON JAMES Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc. Artistic & Executive Director 1805 Larch Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45224-2928 (513) 591-2557 fax (513) 281-6450 jfrsonj@aol.com 37 plus years in the field and with Contemporary Dance Theater, doing what I love (well most of the time). I'm delighted to be at NPN's 25th anniversary meeting. It's been fun and hard work. I don't think my passion or NPN's has faded in those years. Organizations have changed, the people, some of them have changed and some haven't, but it's been a progression for all of us and one that's uphill but very rewarding. Here's to 25 more! At least ! KAREN JANTSCH The Long Center for the Performing Arts Programming Manager P.O. Box 301449, Austin, TX 78703 (515) 457-5120 fax 512.457.5110 kjantsch@thelongcenter.org Attendees • Page 18 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES JOHN JASPERSE John Jasperse, Artistic Director of the NYC-based John Jasperse Company, has created thirteen evening-length works and several short works for the company. Jasperse's work has been presented in throughout the U.S. and Europe and in Brazil, Chile, Israel, Japan. Jasperse has created commissioned works for Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, Batsheva Dance Company, and Lyon Opera Ballet, among others. He has received a "Bessie" Award and fellowships from Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Tides Foundation's Lambent Fellowship in the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. YOUNG-CHEOL JI Incheon Art Platform(IAP) is a multiplex cultural arts center created by Incheon Metropolitan City, which purchased historic buildings from the Open Port Era in the Haean-dong area as part of its old downtown revitalization project. Run by the Incheon Foundation for Arts and Culture, the IAP aims to serve as an incubator for new arts creation through supporting artists and researchers of various genres with its residency program at its core. Incheon Art Platform presents exhibitions, performances and education programs in association with its artist-in-residency program. SEONG JOO JOH LIG Art Hall run by LIG Arts Foundation was established in 2006 in the centre of business district in Seoul, Korea, with commitments to support young and promising artists. Equipped with a 170 seat black box stage and a multipurpose rehearsal room, LIG Art Hall keeps introducing creative programs delivering various cultural forms and values through contemporary performing arts as well as serving as a cultural and inter-regional bridge. Main activities of this venue are 'supporting performance productions and international exchanges' by commissioning and presenting the works of emerging artists and also assisting local & oversea artists' mutual exchange through as collaborative studies and performances. MILLICENT JOHNNIE Millicent has served as a choreographer for the New York City Opera/ Parable of the Sower workshop, U.S. Cultural Ambassadors of Music- Universes Poetry Theatre/ Amerville, The Krannert Performance Arts Center/The Hip Hop Project, Grammy Award Winner Bill Summers/ Los Hombres Caliente and notable directors Peter Sellars, Rhodessa Jones and Chey Yew to name a few. Native of Lafayette, Louisiana received both her BFA and MFA in Dance at the Florida State University. Ms. Johnnie currently teaches on the dance faculty at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. She served on the dance faculty at Tulane University and Dillard University located in New Orleans, Louisiana after touring as resident choreographer and rehearsal director of the Urban Bush Women in New York City. EMILY JOHNSON Emily Johnson is a director/choreographer/curator, originally from Alaska and currently based in Minneapolis. Since 1998 she has created work about the experience of sensing AND seeing performance. Her dances often function as installations, engaging audiences within and through a space and environment – sights, sounds, smells – as well as a place's architecture, history, and role in community. Her work, The Thank-you Bar, is touring through 2011 to the TBA Festival at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Dance Center at Columbia College, Northrop Auditorium, DiverseWorks, ODC Theater, Vermont Performance Lab, and Dance Theater Workshop. Her next work, Niicugni, is in development. TERRANCE JOHNSON Terrance M. Johnson brings much life, energy, and passion to the art of dance from Alexandria, LA. Terrance is a graduate of Southern University A&M College at Baton Rouge, LA where he received a Bachelor’s of Science in Marketing. He received his dance training from the Dallas Black Dance Academy, the official school of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre. Terrance recently studied in the professional training program at Deeply Rooted Dance Theater in Chicago, IL. He is a former member and rehearsal director of Exhibit Dance Collective under the artistic direction of Michelle Gibson. Terrance is currently a member of Dallas Black Dance Theatre II under the direction of Nycole Ray. ROSEMARY JOHNSON Dr. Rosemary Johnson is Executive Director of the Alabama Dance Council, a statewide dance service organization working in partnership with the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Dr. Johnson has an 18-year history as a presenter – 10 years as a multidisciplinary presenter and 8 years as a dance presenter and producer of the Alabama Dance Festival. She is currently serving as the lead consultant/facilitator for the Southern Arts Federation's (now South Arts) Dance Touring Initiative, a three-year program offering professional development and block-booking opportunities to dance presenters in the Southeast. RHODESSA JONES 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. John Jasperse Company Artistic Director 140 Second Ave, #501, New york, NY 10003 212-375-8283 fax 212-375-8283 info@johnjasperse.org Incheon Art Platform - Incheon, Korea Producer 10-1 Haean-dong 1ga, Jung-gu, Incheon, N/A 00000 305-519-6877 jyc0623@ifac.or.kr LIG Art Hall - Seoul, Korea Artistic Director 649-11 LIG Tower, Yeoksam-dong Gangnam-gu, Seoul, N/A 135-550 305-519-6877 fish07@lig.co.kr Millicent Johnnie & Company and Universes Poetry Theatre, Inc. Choreographer- "Ameriville" (Universes Poetry Theater, Inc.) 2400 S. Ervay Street #409, Dallas, TX 75215 404-435-5051 dancemilitant@yahoo.com Emily Johnson/Catalyst Director PO BOX 18262, Minneapolis, MN 55418 612 emily@catalystdance.com Exhibit Dance Collective 3400 S Fitzhugh Ave, Dallas, TX 75210 225-636-7298 tmjdance@gmail.com Alabama Dance Council Executive Director P.O. Box 2126, Birmingham, AL 35201 (205) 602-3599 fax 205-322-4444 rmw@mindspring.com Cultural Odyssey Co-Artistic Director P.O. Box 156680, San Francisco, CA 94115 (415) 292-1850 fax (415) 346-9163 rhodessa@culturalodyssey.org Attendees • Page 19 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES JUDY JOSEPH David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts Vice President of Programming P.O. Box 518, Tampa, FL 33601 (813) 222-1000 fax 813-222-1057 judy.joseph@strazcenter.org ALBERTO JUSTINIANO Mr. Justiniano is a filmmaker, playwright and theater artist affiliated with Teatro del Pueblo a local Latino professional theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. As a playwright, he has written three children plays, which have been produced at Stepping Stone and five full-length stage plays for adults of which two have been produced. He is currently working on his sixth , Welcome to Welcomeville. He is a working artist in addition to serving as producer and artistic director at Teatro del Pueblo. We has been the recipient of The Many Voices Fellowship at the playwright Center and Leadership in the Art award. YOUNG KYUE KANG Chuncheon International Mime Festival Corp. runs two major businesses: it organizes the Chunechon International Mime Festival(CIMF) and manages Festival Theatre MIME(FTM). CIMF is an annual festival, held for eight days during the last week of May, while FTM was newly establishedin 2010. Established in May, 2010, Festival Theater MIME(FTM) is a small-sized venue with 150 seats. FTM has three major missions: first, it aims to provide carnival- type of performances, in which citizens can also participate. Second, it will serve as a home to the development and production of multidisciplinary art forms that focus on body, movement, and image. Third, it will serve as an education theater which offers citizen- participatory programs and art education programs to diverse peoples. MIN KYUNG KANG Namsan Arts Center is a multi-purpose cultural space, consisting of the Drama Center-a specialized theatre for the creation of high-quality performing arts productions- and the Arts and Culture Education Center which provides participatory arts education for the citizens of Seoul. The Drama Center is a future-oriented space where new forms and styles based on artistry and popularity are conceived. The Arts and Culture Education Center is specialized in arts and culture education providing the local community with opportunities to experience and learn arts, as well as promoting the creativity of the citizens. Namsan Arts Center is a producing theatre for introducing outstanding contemporary drama from Korea and abroad. ROBERT KARIMI Robert Farid Karimi is the critically acclaimed interdisciplinary playwright/poet/dude from the San Francisco Bay Area. A National Poetry Slam Champion, and a Def Poetry Jam poet, his performances have fed audiences across the Americas in theatres, grocery stores, backyards, huge bookfairs in Guadalajara & even off Broadway. Winner of numerous awards, Karimi recently received a Creative Capital & MAP & Creation Fund to create The Cooking Show con Karimi y Comrades: Diabetes of Democracy, an interactive cooking show that will focus on Type 2 Diabetes in communities of color. He shares his knowledge in schools from K-18. And is currently touring the show he premiered at NPN, Farid Mercury, and finding ways cinematically & theatrically to make people laugh. More? Go to kaoticgood.com FRANK KELLEY,JR. I am a full time professsional painter,A Graduate of Grambling State University and minor in business.Studied under two well known African American Artist.Work in the auto industry as a automobile salesman for about 20 yrs developing my talent for 15 yrs.Magazines,Corporations,Universities,Hospitals,private collections,galleries and museums across the country.I am represented by two master art galleries:G.R.N'Namdi Gallery in New York,Chicago and Detroit,MI.Also representive:Thelma Harris Art Gallery in Oakland,California.Established Youth Arts Initiative Program for Children and Adults in 2001.I felt the need to give back to make a difference.Over 450 or more children lives have been touch through Art.I am am now have a one man show at the Charles Wright History Museum. PATRICK KENNELLY Patrick Kennelly’s direction, writing, design, performance, and curation in the realms of theater, film, installation, and performance and visual art has been presented in Los Angeles at a variety of venues, including MOCA, the Hammer Museum, Track 16, the New Wight Gallery at the Broad Arts Center, CrazySpace, the Freud Playhouse, and Highways, and has been described as “stunning and disturbing” (LA Weekly), “relentless” (Variety), and “awe-inspiring” (Backstage West). Kennelly's theatrical work, for which he won the 2008 Princess Grace Award, has included original plays and solo performance, large-scale performance installation, and image-based physical theater. Kennelly received his BFA in Film/Video at CalArts and an MFA in Theater Direction at UCLA. KEVIN KEY Kevin Michael Key is a law school graduate and has practiced as a defense attorney. He is active in the recovery community in downtown Los Angeles and in community advocacy groups. He works part-time for United Coalition East Prevention Project to mobilize the neighborhood on quality of life issues. He does community diabetes education with the JWHC clinic. Kevin Michael has worked with LAPD since 2003 and has traveled with LAPD for community residencies in New York, Charlotte, NC, Utrecht, The Netherlands the Paris, France suburb of Gennevilliers and Bolivia. As a member of Los Angeles Poverty Department Kevin Michael is responsible for linking communities, organizing workshops and public convening’s and speaking with the press. Teatro del Pueblo Artistic Director 209 Page Street W. Suite 208, Saint Paul, MN 55107 (651) 224-8806 al@teatrodelpueblo.org Festival Theater MIME, Korea General Manager 531 Hyoja-dong, Chuncheon-si Gangwon-do, N/A 00000 305-519-6877 ft@mimefestival.com Namsan Arts Center - Seoul, Korea Theater Manager 8-19 Yejang-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, N/A 00000 305-519-6877 mkkang@sfac.or.kr Kaotic Good Productions Artistic Director PO Box 6151, Minneapolis, MN 55406 (510) 593-6708 karimi@kaoticgood.com Frank Kelley, Jr. Owner/Artist 109 Sunrise Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291 318-387-0043 fax 318-396-0043 artist1@bayou.com Highways Performance Space and Gallery Associate Director 1651 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404 (310) 453-1755 pjk@highwaysperformance.org Los Angeles Poverty Department Performer - Community Coordinator P.O. Box 26190, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (213) 948-6159 fax 213 413 1077 kmichaelkey1@yahoo.com Attendees • Page 20 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES D'LOCO KID D’Lo is a queer Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American, political theatre artist/writer, director, comedian and music producer. D’Lo tours “Ramble-Ations: A One D’Lo Show” (dir. Adelina Anthony). Recently, D’Lo participated in APPEX, a 3‐week intensive residency in Bali with a particular focus on American & Asian artists (UCLA’s Center for Intercultural Performance), and acted in Cherrie Moraga's new play Digging Up the Dirt. Currently, D’Lo is touring excerpts from his latest solo theater show Minor D’Tales, and his latest stand-up show “D’FunQT (Pronounced defunct)”. D’s 2nd play Boys That Pray is in development at Brava Theater, SF for 2011. www.dlocokid.com YO AHEN KIM Doosan Art Center (DAC) fulfills its social responsibilities by promoting arts activities. Equipped with a mediumsized theater, Yonkang Hall, a small-sized theater, Space 111, Doosan Gallery Seoul and Doosan Gallery New York, the DAC serves as an arts incubator, exploring and supporting promising young artists and their works in various forms of arts, including musical, play, music, dance and visual arts. It presents diverse performance genres, inspiring young artists to take on new challenges. It serves as the arts incubator of Doosan Art Center, to promote the production of works and to explore and support talented artists. The Doosan Gallery is a non-profit gallery dedicated to cultivating a new arts culture. D'LocoKid Productions Theater Artist 1021 5th St. #204, Santa Monica, CA 90403 310 403 2676 dlocokidla@yahoo.com Doosan Art Center - Seoul, Korea Theater Producer 270 Yeonji-dong Jongno-gu, Seoul, N/A 00000 305-519-6877 ragtime1@doosan.com DEBORAH KING Pat Graney Company 338 Englewood, Royal Oak, MI 48073 248-589-3844 deborahleeking@att.net STACY KLEIN Stacy Klein, Founder/ Artistic Director of Double Edge Theatre, has led the company for almost 30 years into one of the foremost laboratory theatres in the U.S. The three original performance cycles she directed have earned her international recognition for daring and innovation. Klein’s methodology has been profiled in American Theater, Theater Heute, TheatreForum, and TDR, among others, and she has written for Theater Topics and The Open Page. She received the 2006 OTTO award, the MCC Artist Award (1999), an InRoads grant (1998), and was a Mentor in the New Generations Mentorship Program. PhD, Tufts University (Theatre History and Criticism); MA (Political Theatre Education), Goddard College; BFA (Directing), Boston University. KATHERINE KRAMER As Maurice Sendak said, "Let the Wild Rumpus Begin!" Life is change. I'm living in Montana. I'm surrounded by mountains, sky, my two dogs. I'm directing CrazyView Studio and Artists' Retreat. I am downsizing, retreating. I'm still tap dancing. I'm playing the melodica and piano and singing. This year I received an Artists Innovation Award from the Montana Arts Council. I'm thinking about innovation. I'm trying to be still and I'm listening. I'm looking forward to NPN this year, more than ever. I have 236 characters left for this bio. That gives me hope. FAY KU Fay Ku is a visual artist based in New York City but for whom travel and artist residencies figure significantly in her artistic practice. In addition to creating works on paper, she recently began experimenting in site-specific installation--including one hotel room installation created for last year's NPN conference--and collaborative theater projects. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, HI and New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut. Upcoming projects include a performative collaboration with musician/composer Mick Rossi at Central Utah Arts Center in Ephraim, Utah. She is excited to return to NPN Conference for her fourth year and congratulates NPN on turning 25! Double Edge Theatre Production Founder/ Artistic Director 948 Conway Rd, Ashfield, MA 01330 413-628-0277 fax 866-649-0635 sklein@doubleedgetheatre.org Katherine Kramer Projects, Inc. Artistic Director 700 Bangtail Trace Road, Bozeman, MT 59715 406-686-4307 kk@katherinekramer.com 93 Underhill Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238 917-701-3782 fayku@hotmail.com KRIS KURAMITSU United States Artists Artist Relations 5757 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 580, Los Angeles, CA 90036 323-857-5857 krisk@unitedstatesartists.org JESSICA LABARBERA Nonprofit Finance Fund Director of Consulting Services, Western Region 70 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018 (212) 457-4756 fax (212) 947-9872 jessica.labarbera@nffusa.org Jessica LaBarbera rejoined NFF in May 2008 as Associate Director and in that role supports program growth and product delivery. She is responsible for identifying market needs and opportunities and meeting business development goals, as well as helping to lead new regional initiatives and roll out new products or services in the region. Prior to assuming this position, Ms. LaBarbera was a Vice President at Citi Community Capital, a division of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., where she provided structured financing and relationship management to national nonprofit and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) clients. Ms. LaBarbera holds an MPA in Nonprofit Management from Columbia University’s School of International & Public Affairs and a BA in Sociology from the Univ of Virginia. Attendees • Page 21 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES ANNETTE LAWRENCE Annette Lawrence is a visual artist who has been based in Texas since 1990. Her work is generally related to text and information, often in response to physical space and time. The work is grounded in autobiography, counting, and the measurement of everyday life. Her subjects of inquiry range from body cycles, to ancestor portraits, music lessons, and unsolicited mail. Lawrence’s string installations are a response to architecture as monumental text. The string presents a visual lightness, balanced by the substantial physicality and scale of the work. References to lattice, woven vessels, suspension bridges, and musical instruments often emerge. Lawrence currently lives and works in Denton, Texas and is a Professor of Studio Art at the University of North Texas, College of Arts and Design SEON JUNG LEE Korea Arts Management Service(KAMS) was established in January 2006 as a non-profit, public foundation for the development of Korean performing arts. With support from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, KAMS offers multi-faceted assistance that aims to bolster the sustainability of arts groups and organizations, while strengthening their competitive advantages by developing diverse and effective support systems for more efficient arts management. KAMS enables performing arts companies in Korea to broaden their horizons and presence by evaluating their management strategy, offering consulting services, and expanding their market capability through innovative distribution networks in domestic and overseas markets. MAY LEE-YANG May Lee-Yang is a playwright, poet, prose writer, and performance artist aspiring to get paid for it. Her theaterbased works include Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman, Sia(b) Ten Reasons Why I’d Be a Bad Porn Star, Stir-Fried Pop Culture, and The Child’s House. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Performance Network, the Midwestern Voices and Visions Residency Award, the Playwright Center, and the Loft Literary Center. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. www.lazyhmongwoman.com. University of North Texas Professor of Art PO Box 3093, Denton, TX 76202 940 484.9021 lawrence@unt.edu Korean Arts Management Service Staff B1 Daehangno Arts Theater, 1-67 Dongsung-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, N/A 110-809 305-519-6877 sunnyjle@gokams.or.kr Artist 2124 Magnolia Avenue E, Saint Paul, MN 55119 651-587-1208 may_lee_yang@hotmail.com BEN LEVINE Dance Place Theater Manager/Technical Director 3225 8th St NE, Washington, DC 20017 202-269-1600x20 fax 202-269-4103 benl@danceplace.org STEVE LIGGETT Living Arts of Tulsa, Inc. Artistic Director 307 East Brady Street, Tulsa, OK 74120 (918) 585-1234 fax (918) 585-1234 steve@livingarts.org Artistic Director of Living Arts of Tulsa for 18 years, Steve is also an installation artists ans many times used video projection and performance as elements in his own work. He also is the proud owner of a new Vespa and enjoys the way the wind feels as it blows through his long hair. ABEL LOPEZ GALA Hispanic Theatre Associate Producing Director P.O. Box 43209, Washington, DC 20010 (202) 234-7174 fax (202) 332-1247 abel@galatheatre.org REEVE LOVE Reeve Love has been Performing Arts Director for the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM, since 1999, designing and administering the performing arts component of the largest, most comprehensive Hispanic cultural facility in the US. Since the inaugural opening of the NHCC in October 2000, its performing arts program has presented over 300 performances and events. Love has a background in non-profit arts administration, presenting, production, and performance, as well as arts education. She holds a B.A. in English, an M.A. in Radio/Television/Film, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction in Multicultural Teacher Education, with a minor in Latin American studies. The research and field work for her dissertation were done in Indian communities in rural Oaxaca, Mexico. ARIEL LUCKEY Ariel Luckey is a poet, actor, and playwright whose performance and community work dances in the crossroads of education, art, and activism. Named a “Visionary” by the Utne Reader, Ariel seamlessly weaves storytelling, spoken word poetry, dance, acting, and hip hop music in compelling narratives of personal and political transformation. Ariel’s hip hop theater show, Free Land, and his first book of poetry and lyrics, Searching for White Folk Soul, have inspired and informed audiences at theaters, conferences, community centers, and classrooms across the country. Ariel sees his community work in the world as an extension of his most precious and important work as father to his two sons. National Hispanic Cultural Center Performing Arts Director 1701 Fourth Street SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102 505-246-2261, x136 fax 505-246-2613 reeve.love@state.nm.us The Free Land Project Artistic Director 1045 65th St., Oakland, CA 94608 510-287-6406 skylight@arielluckey.com Attendees • Page 22 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES MARY LUFT Tigertail Productions, Inc. Executive Director 842 NW 9th Court, Miami, FL 33136 (305) 324-4337 fax 305 545 8546 mluft@tigertail.org GEORGE LUGG REDCAT/Roy and Edna Disney, CalArts Theater Associate Director 631 W. 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 213-237-2814 fax 213-237-2811 george.lugg@calarts.edu George Lugg, Associate Director of the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), has been working in the field of contemporary performance since 1991. At REDCAT he oversees the implimentation of a diverse array of multidisciplinary programming, serves on the curatorial team for dance and theater, coordinates an ongoing series for new works and works-in-progress, and produces the annual New Original Works Festival. He has served as a member of the U.S. curatorial team for the National Performance Network’s Performing Americas Project, and on artistic juries and panels for Creative Capital Foundation, United States Artists, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Santa Monica Arts Commission, among others. ARNIE MALINA Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Chief Programming Officer/Artistic Director 111 Foster Street, Burlington, VT 05401 802-652-4503 fax 802-863-8788 amalina@flynncenter.org JOHN MALPEDE Los Angeles Poverty Department Founder , director P.O. Box 26190, Los Angeles, CA 90026 310 259 1038 fax 213 413 1077 jmalfoot@aol.com John Malpede, directs, performs and engineers multi-event arts projects that have theatrical, installation, public art and education components. In 1985, Malpede founded and continues to direct the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD). Malpede has produced projects working with communities throughout the US and in the UK, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Bolivia. Malpede has received a Bessie Creation Award, Adeline Kent Award, Durfee Sabbatical Grant, Individual artist fellowships from NYSCA, NEA, CAC, LAs' COLA, California Community Foundation's Visual Artist Fellowship, 2008-9 fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and numerous project grants. JEANNE MAM-LUFT Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc. Assistant Director 1805 Larch Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45224-2928 (513) 591-2557 fax 513 281-6450 jeanne@cdt-dance.org JEMA MARCHI Dance Umbrella Board Member P.O. Box 1323, Austin, TX 78767 (512) 450-0456 jemamarchi@yahoo.com SOLANGE MARIEL 10171 robin hill lane, dallas, TX 75238 214 505 2886 solmariel@hotmail.com MARION MARSHALL AbsolutelyBlooming! Creative Director 1409 South Lamar Street, No. 002``, Dallas, TX 75215 214 4266360 fax 214 4266368 marion_absolutelyblooming@yahoo.com Attendees • Page 23 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES GESEL MASON Mason/Rhynes Productions, Inc. Artistic Director, GMPP P.O. Box 5163, Capitol Heights, MD 20791 3018871078 fax 3018871079 m.rproductions@mason-rhynes.org HEATHER MAYHEW Pat Graney Company Production Stage Manager The Pat Graney Company 925 East Thomas Suite B, Seattle, WA 98102 206.841.1792 throughfadeaway@gmail.com KERYL MCCORD Keryl McCord is a veteran arts management professional with more than thirty years experience as a theater manager and producer in the Bay Area for ten years, and a stint as Director of Theater Programs for the National Endowment for the Arts and Executive Director of the League of Chicago Theaters. Ms. McCord spent nine years in NJ where she managed the operations for the African Grove Institute for the Arts, founded by the late playwright, August Wilson, and then was Director of Institutional Development for New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. A move to Atlanta, Ga has brought about the happy connection with one of her favorite arts service organizations, Alternate ROOTS, where she now serves as Director Resource Development. JONATHAN MCCRORY Jonathan McCrory is a founding member & Marketing Director of The Movement Theatre Company. He originally hails from Washington D.C. As a performer his credits include:Unspoken Narratives in Civil Rights, A Movie Star has to Star in Black and White, For Colored Girls..., Polaroid Stories, and Cold Keener. As a director he has worked on Hope Speaks, With Out Trace, Last Laugh, Asking for More, and has assistant directed on Banana Beer Bath with Talvin Wilks as part of River Crosses Rivers Festival 2009. Playwright credits include THE GATE which premiered at Tisch’s ETW program. He received his training at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and NYU Tisch School of the Arts (BFA, Drama). STEPHANIE MCKEE A performer, choreographer, educator and facilitator Ms. McKee has traveled, performed and taught in various cities in the U.S. and abroad. Alternate ROOTS Director Resource Development 1083 Austin Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307 404-577-1079 fax 404-577-7991 keryl@alternateroots.org The Movement Theatre Company Marketing Director/ Founder 2355 Frederick Douglass Blvd #1A, New York, NY 10027 2023210807 jonathan.mccrory@gmail.com Junebug Productions, Inc. Associate Artistic Director/ Homecoming Project P.O Box 2331, New Orleans, LA 70176 504-577-0732 smckee10@hotmail.com She is a member of Alternate Roots, Co-Director and staff member of The Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute and is the founder of Moving Stories Performance Projects, an organization committed to dance education and creating opportunities for dancers and choreographers to showcase their talents. She is a 2007 New Voices Fellow an award for emerging leaders. As the former Director of the 7th Ward Neighborhood Center, she helped identify and promote community-based leadership and improve economic and social conditions in the 7th Ward. Ms. McKee currently works with Junebug Productions as the Associate Artistic Director of the Homecoming KESHA MCKEY Kesha McKey, a NOCCA alum and graduate of Xavier University, is an energetic and versatile performer/choreographer/instructor. She has performed in various dance, theatre, commercial and film productions as a featured dancer, singer and actress and is a co-founder and choreographer for the Crescent City Choreographers Dance Ensemble. She is currently a dance instructor at NOCCA and the Program Coordinator for the Kuumba Institute, Ashé Cultural Arts Center Youth Program. Her most recent acting roles have been Motormouth Maybelle in “Hairspray” at Le Petite Theatre, Calpurnia in “To Kill a Mocking Bird and Almeda/Lula Buffington in “Vi She continues to nourish her artistic talents and grow as an accomplished performer as she teaches, choreographs and performs throughout the United States. VICKI MEEK Vicki Meek, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a nationally recognized artist who has exhibited widely. Ms. Meek is in the permanent collections of the African American Museum in Dallas, Texas, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas and Norwalk Community College in Connecticut. She is an independent curator, writes cultural criticism for Literafeelya, an online art publication and ARTLIES: A Texas Art Journal,. She is the mother of two creative adults. With over 30 years of arts administrative experience working for the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, The Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration, City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs and D-Art Visual Art Center, Vicki Meek is an active participant in the Texas cultural scene. She is the Vice Chair of the NPN Board. Ashé Cultural Center/Efforts of Grace, Inc. Youth and Creative Programs Coordinator 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70113 504-569-9070 dansingact1@cox.net South Dallas Cultural Center Manager 3400 South Fitzhugh, Dallas, TX 75210-2572 (214) 670-0315 fax (214) 670-8118 msart55@yahoo.com Attendees • Page 24 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES JAMIE MERWIN Founding + Producing Artistic Director of Philadelphia's olive Dance Theatre. She is equally committed to the tradition of Breakin' and the creation of contemporary American theatre. Jamie has worked with multiple Philadelphia organizations in many capacities from arts to administration. Her current projects include: “Swift Solos” a project of the NEA American Masterpieces in Dance Award, and two new evening length works “Brotherly Love”, and “Conversations.” Jamie serves on the Resources for Social Change workgroup for Alternate ROOTS, The Network of Ensemble Theaters’ (NET) Micro-Festival Committee. She has received fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, HHTF/Ford Foundation’s Future Aesthetics Artists Re-Grant program and support from the Leeway Foundation. SAM MILLER Sam Miller currently serves as President of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and Director of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University. A devoted advocate for the arts, Miller recently spent five years as President of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), developing efforts centered on increasing direct support for artists. Prior to his work at LINC, Miller was Executive Director of the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) for ten years. Prior to NEFA, Miller was at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival where he served as President and Executive Director. He serves on the Advisory Board of ODC/San Francisco, the Board of Amrita Performing Arts in Phnom Penh and as President of the Board of LINC. MARGO MILLER Margo Miller is Development Director of the Appalachian Community Fund and Volunteer COO for the Carpetbag Theatre (CBT). She worked as Executive Assistant to the President at Washington Performing Arts Society; at YMCA of Metropolitan Washington, in development and then Business/Program Director for a DC branch; and as the Director of Communications for Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. She’s a founding director of Mason/Rhynes Productions based in DC. Miller worked as a professional actor for CBT, including Dark Cowgirls and Prairie Queens 1997 Broadway debut. She serves on the board of the Funding Exchange and the Executive Committee of Alternate Roots. WESLEY MONTGOMERY Wesley V. Montgomery is currently Chief Operating Officer with the National Performance Network. His professional experience encompasses arts education, performing arts management and social justice programming. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare, Mr. Montgomery has worked as a teaching artist and workshop facilitator in the public and private sectors across the country. He has facilitated conflict resolution and cultural sensitivity workshops with several organizations including Freedom Repertory Theater, Unicef/United World Games, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre/Ailey Camp Too!, and the New York City Board of Education, NYU’s Educational Theater program and the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has adjudicated the Academic Cultural Technology and Science Olympics (ACT-SO) youth competition of the NAACP, and served as a panelist for the Ford Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, Theater and Musical Theater Division, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Center for Arts Education (NYC), Theatre Communications Group (New Generations Initiative), the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, and the Maggie Allessee National Center for Choreography. Mr. Montgomery serves on the Board of Directors for ArtSpot Productions (New Orleans), and is the Co-Chair of the Arts Education Task Force for the National Performing Arts Convention. Since 2001 Mr. Montgomery has served as a United States delegate with Performing Americas Program, a partnership between NPN and La Red, in Brazil, Guatemala, Columbia and Ecuador, and was selected as a British Council-United States delegate to the 2005 Edinburgh Festival. olive Dance Theatre Producing Artistic Director 43 North Wiota, Philidelphia, PA 19104 2153861411 fax 2153860176 jamiemerwin@hotmail.com Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance Director, Co-Founder 128 Davis Ave, Unit C, Brookline, MA 02445 617-699-9402 sam.miller128@gmail.com 2726 Linden Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37914 202-746-5090 poetmargo@hotmail.com National Performance Network Chief Operating Officer P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156 413.545.1972 fax 413.545.4414 wvm@npnweb.org YVONNE MONTOYA 7812 E. Elida St, Tucson, AZ 85715 ymontoyamartinez@gmail.com LYDIA MOORE Living Arts of Tulsa, Inc. New Genre Chair 1417 E 20th St., Tulsa, OK 74120 918-520-6951 fax 918-585-1234 lydiastansill@gmail.com HALDUN MORGAN The Living Word Project Technical Director 1272 Hampshire, San Francisco, CA 94110 210-387-0603 haldunmorgan@gmail.com Haldun Morgan is a filmmaker, politico, artist, educator and a high tech Toltec from San Antonio, Tejas. He joined Youth Radio as a Media Producer in June 2009. Haldun uses popular education methodology, teaching strategies, and tactics that encourage young people to find a voice through art and performance. The ability to bring an idea to life through artistic creation is his passion. Haldun attended UT Austin and majored in Ethnic Studies and minored in English. In the past few years he has worked with The Living Word Project on such works as The One Drop Rule, Representa! (Paul Flores, Directed by Danny Hoch), Monday Golden Sun (Jeannie Barroga), Unbuckled, Uncensored (Regie Cabico, Directed by Brian Freeman), Bury Marcos, and SF premiere of Mapa/Corpo3 by Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Attendees • Page 25 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES KEVIN MORIARTY Kevin Moriarty is currently the artistic director of Dallas Theater Center. Prior to that he was the artistic director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY, an associate artist at Trinity Rep Company in Providence, RI, and the head of the MFA directing program at Brown University. He has also directed plays and musicals in New York and at many regional theaters. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. TANYA MOTE Tanya Mote is the development director at Su Teatro, treasurer of the NPN board of directors and ardent NPN fan. She also serves as secretary of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training board of directors and believes that healthy civil society requires resistance, criticism, community building and vital, dynamic public spaces. LISA MOUNT Lisa Mount is an independent consultant who works with a variety of arts organizations on strategic thinking, organizational advancement, and creative community cultural expansion. Her company, Artistic Logistics, is a consultants' cooperative that offers a working relationship that’s personal, participatory, egalitarian, artistcentered, and fun. She is based in Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia, one of the “100 Best Small Art Towns” in the U.S., where she produces and directs the annual community story performance “Headwaters.” She also lives in New Orleans. She served as the Board Chair of Alternate ROOTS from 2002-2004 and in 2008, she was named one of the 100 most influential Georgians by Georgia Trend Magazine. Lisa is a banjo player. Dallas Theater Center Artistic Director 2400 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201 2142523913 kevin.moriarty@dallastheatercenter.org El Centro Su Teatro Development Director 4725 High Street, Denver, CO 90216 (303) 296-0219 fax (303) 296-4614 tanya@suteatro.org Artistic Logistics Director P.O. Box 602, Sautee Nacoochee, GA 30571 (706) 839-7147 fax (866) 311-5526 lqmount@earthlink.net KIRK MURPHY Sandglass Theater Administrator Po Box 970, Putney, VT 05346 802-387-4051 kirk@sandglasstheater.org REBECCA MWASE ArtSpot Productions 6100 Canal Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70126 5048267783 mwasereb@gmail.com Rebecca Mwase trained as a vocalist, actor and movement performer at Grinnell College and graduated with a BA in Chinese & Theatre in 2007. As a first generation Zimbabwean-American woman, Rebecca is committed to crafting spaces and frameworks for women of color to gain a sense of place and identity through the creation of art. Most recently Rebecca work is with ArtSpot Productions in New Orleans, Louisiana. Rebecca is co-creator and performer of ArtSpot's most recent production Go Ye Therefore… In addition to her performance work, Rebecca is also a passionate teaching artist co-ordinating ArtSpot’s theatre-centered character development program Individuals Relating & Overcoming Conflict (iROC). SHERI NANCE PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER 11936 OBERLIN DRIVE, DALLAS, TX 75243 972 235 5866 slnbeda1@aol.com MEENA NATARAJAN Meena Natarajan is the Executive and Literary Director of Pangea World Theater, a progressive, international ensemble space for arts and dialogue. She has led the theater’s growth since it’s founding in 1995. She is on the Advisory Board of the Community Arts Network, serves on the board of NPN and in the Steering Committee of the Consortium of Asian American Theater and Artists. She is a playwright and director and has written several fulllength works for Pangea, ranging from adaptations of poetry and mythology to original works dealing with war, spirituality, personal and collective memory. JOSÉ NAVARRETE José Navarrete is a native of México City. He studied theater and dance at the National Institute of Fine Arts in México. He also has a B.A. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and M.F.A in Dance from Mills College. Since 2001 he has co-directed NAKA Dance Theater with Debby Kajiyama, presenting work both nationally and internationally. NAKA has been presented by Theater Artaud, ODC Theater, Dance Mission Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Movement Research (NYC), Southern Theater (Minneapolis),Philadelphia Dance Projects,Velocity (Seattle) and the Hemispheric Institute of NYU in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2004, he was the recipient of a Bessie Schönberg Choreographer’s residency at The Yard in Martha's Vineyard, MA. and the Djerassi Resident Artist Program fellowship in Woodside CA. Pangea World Theater Executive/Literary Director 711 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408 (612) 822-0015 fax (612) 821-1070 meena@pangeaworldtheater.org NAKA Dance Theater Artistic Director 900 East 11th Street, Oakland, CA 94606 josena67@gmail.com Attendees • Page 26 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES LISA NELSON HAYNES Painted Bride Art Center Associate Director 230 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 (215) 925-9914 x21 fax (215) 925-7402 lhaynes@paintedbride.org KT NIEHOFF KT lives in Seattle and makes events, dances, music, films, classes and messes. In 1998 she created Lingo - a roving band of artists, brave hearts and lunatics, which has since been the platform for her work. Lingo has been presented in places like ACT Theatre (Seattle), The Joyce SoHo (NY), Alverno Presents (Milwaukee), SUSHI (San Diego), among others, and received money from funders like The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Dance Project and the National Performance Network. Thank you. She has taught a lot in the last 20 years throughout the U.S. and abroad and was the co-founder and director of Velocity Dance Center in Seattle from 1996-2006. She danced with the Pat Graney Company from 1992-95 and is here dancing with her again, after a 20 year hiatus. It's really fun. ED NOONAN Ed Noonan has been Executive Director of the Myrna Loy Center for 10 years. He has also been an employee for 25 years at Carroll College in Helena, MT: 15 years as staff and adjunct faculty and 10 years as adjunct faculty. He is a playwright, poet, theater artist, and novelist. JONATHAN NORTON Jonathan is the proud recipient of the 2010 Diaspora Performing Arts Commission for his play My Tidy List of Terrors, which takes place in Atlanta during the Atlanta Child Murders tragedy. The play will receive it's world premiere this summer at the South Dallas Cultural Center. Jonathan is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College. He is currently enrolled in the Masters of Liberal Studies program at SMU and will graduate in May 2011. WURA-NATASHA OGUNJI Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer. Her work investigates the connections between physical actions of the body, memory, history and power. Ogunji’s most recent public performance ‘one hundred black women, one hundred actions’ premiered at Fusebox Festival and was nominated for the 2010 Austin Critics Table Award. Ogunji was awarded The Dallas Museum of Art’s 2010 Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant and is a selected Artist in Residence as part of the National Performance Network’s Visual Artist Network. She has participated in residencies at Can Serrat in Spain and Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic. She lives in Austin, TX. Lingo Dance Artistic Director 1121 15th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122 (206) 349-8772 kt@lingodance.com Myrna Loy Center/Helena Presents Executive Director 15 N. Ewing, Helena, MT 59601 (406) 443-0287 fax 406 443 6620 noonaned@aol.com South Dallas Cultural Center 3400 South Fitzhugh, Dallas, TX 75206 214-768-8254 nortonj@smu.edu Artist 2317 S.Pleasant Valley Rd Apt # 1022, Austin, TX 78741 (718) 354-9252 wuraola@gmail.com PENNIE OJEDA National Endowment for the Arts Director, International Activities 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Room 516, Washington, DC 20506 202-682-5562 fax 202-682-5024 ojedap@arts.gov MICHELE ORDUNA-FRANCISCO Safos Dance Theater Board President 7812 e. elida st, Tucson, AZ 85715 5202351231 miorduna@gmail.com CHRISTINE ORTEGA Southwest Airlines Community Affairs & Grassroots Corporate Community Affairs 4007 McCullough, #200, San Antonio, TX 78212 (866) 387-6646 fax (214) 932-0085 christine.ortega@wnco.com Attendees • Page 27 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES JOAN OSATO Joan Osato has played a pivotal role in local and national theater for well over a decade and has been an indispensable part of Youth Speaks since 2001. Currently she is Producing Director for Youth Speaks, the Living Word Project, and Brave New Voices on Festivals and Performance Events, as well as LWP works for stage. She has brought her multiplicity of production and design talents to Living Word Project Repertory works such as The Break/s, Word Becomes Flesh, Scourge, War Peace: The One Drop Rule and Mirrors in Every Corner. Her work as a visual designer and collaborator include upcoming productions of Habibi by Sharif Abu-Hamdeh, Tree City Legends by Dennis Kim, Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s red, black and GREEN; a blues, and The New River by Richard Montoya and Sean San Jose. SARA PARISH Sara Parish is a dancer, choreographer, and performance art/multimedia creator. She pursued a MFA in Dance from Arizona State University and a BS from Western Illinois University. She has had the pleasure of collaborating with artists such as Cliff Keuter, Shouze Ma, Jennifer Tsukayama,John Mitchell,and Jenny Showalter. She has danced with Pat Graney Company, Visionary Dance Company, and Aaron McGloin Dance. Her work has been commissioned by Roxy Theatre, Hale Theatre, WIU, State Street Performing Company and on an individual project basis. CASSANDRA PARKER NOWICKI Cassandra Parker - Nowicki is the Cultural Center Supervisor for the Carver Community Cultural Center in San Antonio, Texas. Cassandra graduated from Southwestern University (Georgetown, TX) in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Theatre and upon graduating began her career as an arts administrator. Prior to joining the management team at the Carver, Cassandra spent eight years at the Majestic and Empire Theatres in San Antonio, TX and three years at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center in Baltimore, MD. Cassandra lives in San Antonio with her husband and daughter and continues to pursue her love of the stage and writing. LINDA PARRIS-BAILEY Linda Parris-Bailey is the Executive/Artistic Director of The Carpetbag Theatre Inc. She is a published playwright, currently serving on the Management Committee of the International Women's Playwright Conference, which will host the next conference in Stockholm, Sweden in 2012. Her plays, "Dark Cowgirls and Prairie Queens", "Nothin' Nice", and "Between a Ballad and a Blues" have toured extensively and several have been supported by NPN partners. Her newest work, "Speed Killed My Cousin" is currently in development with NPN Creation Fund support. The Carpetbag Theatre Ensemble Company has been contracted to develop a new work with the "Higher Ground" project in Eastern Kentucky. Ms. Parris-Bailey is also the playwright assigned to the project. JEN MAY PASTORES Jen May Pastores is a professional photographer based out of Visalia, California. At 27-years-old she's explored photojournalism as a way to compliment her storytelling, and currently runs a small wedding and lifestyle photography business. Apart from her work she believes in the importance of pursuing personal projects that give back to the community. Her work has been featured in Cambodia, Philadelphia, California, and Hawaii. Her work can be seen online at www.jenmayphotography.com VICTOR PAYAN Victor Payan is NALAC’s Director of Programs. He is an award-winning writer, producer and artist who uses humor, history and media culture to promote tolerance and community empowerment. His experience includes work with the Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego Latino Film Festival, City Heights International Village Celebration and KPBS. Recently, he was Co-Director of the 30th and 31st CineFestival en San Antonio. His projects have been featured on France’s Canal +, American Latino TV and in exhibitions, screenings and performances at such venues as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the High Museum of Art. Awards include the 2010 Idea Fund grant and the 2008 National Conflict Resolution Center's Peacemaker Award. His websites include keeponcrossin.com and aztecgoldtv.com. Youth Speaks, Inc./ The Living World Project Producing Director 1663 Mission Street, Suite 604, San Francisco, CA 94103 4157107427 fax 4152559065 josato@youthspeaks.org Pat Graney Company performer 2215 Bigelow Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109 602.391.9167 sara.parish@hotmail.com Carver Community Cultural Center Cultural Center Supervisor 226 North Hackberry Street, San Antonio, TX 78202 (210) 207-2718 fax (210) 207-4412 cassandraparker.nowicki@sanantonio.gov Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. Executive/Artistic Director 100 South Gay Street Suites 106 and 114, Knoxville, TN 37902 (865) 544-0447 fax (865) 544-0447 lindapb1@aol.com 2910 W Ashland Ave, Visalia, CA 93277 818-534-7409 jennifer.pastores@gmail.com National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Development Coordinator 1208 Buena Vista, San Antonio, TX 78207 210.432.3982 fax 210-432-3934 victor@nalac.org JORDAN PEIMER Skirball Cultural Center Director, Public Programs 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 900496833 (310) 440-4646 fax 310 440 4695 jpeimer@skirball.org SHANNON PENA Pat Graney Company Project Coordinator Keeping The Faith Prison Project 925 E. Thomas ST suite B, seattle, WA 98102 206-329-3705 sebastian@patgraney.org Attendees • Page 28 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES BRIANA PEREA Briana Perea is the Development Associate for MECA, a non-profit based in Houston, TX committed to the healthy development of individuals and the community through the arts. A former MECA student, she studied music performance at Houston’s HSPVA and the University of North Texas before graduating with a BA in anthropology from the University of Houston. She joined the MECA staff in 2010, and enjoys the opportunity to tell others about the programs that impacted her as a youth. ALEJANDRO PEREZ, JR. Journeyman Ink transcends cultures, creeds and races by awakening the creative soul and developing emotional literacy through the power of shared life experiences on stage and in the classroom. We pursue speaking and performance opportunities unique for their use of original spoken word and melody memory methods (stimulating oral/aural responses through the recitation of songs and mantras). We offer diversity education, character development, and professional consultation that touches on human emotions and empowers each participant to discover his/her own voice. We tailor commission work, multi-disciplinary workshops and presentations for any need while inspiring others to talk to the page, write to be heard, and courageously find inner strength and common ground. CARLA PERLO Carla Perlo is the founding director of Dance Place. Her 30 years of experience as teacher, dancer, choreographer, presenter and director gives her a unique perspective as artist and arts administrator. Her passion for dance, creative education and children has contributed to her perseverance of building a nationally recognized center for the performing arts with model programs for youth and young adults. Her belief that property ownership is vital for the sustainable of arts organizations and individual artists has made a major impact on Dance Place other similar organizations and numerous colleagues who now own their own homes. MARTIN PERNA Martín Perna is the founder of the musical groups Antibalas and Ocote Soul Sounds, and appears on numerous recordings by TV on the Radio, Sharon Jones, among others. He is a co-founder of Tristate Biodiesel, New York City’s first biodiesel enterprise, and is currently launching the pilot program GO! Passport a community artstechnology-education partnership that transforms existing urban infrastructures into a second classroom for young people in grades 8-12. He lives and works in Austin, Texas. CARLA PETERSON Carla Peterson is Artistic Director of Dance Theater Workshop since fall, 2006. She is responsible for leading the institution’s overall artistic vision and designing programming that advances dance and live performance in New York City and worldwide. From 2002-‘06, she served as the Executive Director of Movement Research, and continues to serve on their board. She has also worked as a writer, project manager, project development advisor, and fundraiser for independent artists and arts organizations. From 1993–‘96, Ms. Peterson was Director of Inter/National Projects at Dance Theater Workshop. From 1988–‘93, she was Assistant Director of Performing Arts at the Wexner Center for the Arts. RENATA PETRONI Renata Petroni has developed cultural exchange programs and international partnerships since 1980, first as Director of the National Performance Network and The Suitcase Fund, two programs of Dance Theater Workshop in New York City and later as Director of Projects and Partnerships at Arts International. Following her engagement at the Universal EXPO 92 in Seville, Spain, she founded Two Moon, an international production company which produced and toured new works by contemporary U.S. and European artists. Ms. Petroni is currently the Director of Performing Americas, a program of the National Performance Network, designed to increase artistic exchange and knowledge building between Latin America and the United States. MECA/Multi-Cultural Education and Counseling through the Arts Development Associate 1900 Kane Street, Houston, TX 77007 (713) 802-9370 ext. 14 fax (713) 802-9403 brianaperea@meca-houston.org Journeyman Ink, LLC Multi-Disciplinary Arts Educator and Performer P.O. Box 140954, Irving, TX 75014 214.364.9037 ap@journeymanink.com Dance Place Founder/Director 3225 8th Street NE, Washington, DC 20017 (202) 269-1600 fax (202) 269-4103 cperlo@danceplace.org The GO! Passport Founder, Executive Director 5604 Manor Rd., Austin, TX 78723 6463619163 ocotesoul@gmail.com Dance Theater Workshop Artistic Director 219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 (212) 691-6500 carla@dtw.org National Performance Network Performing Americas Director P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156 212-689-0181 renata@npnweb.org PEGGY PIACENZA Pat Graney Company performer 2315 1/2 Yale Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102 206-250-6573 piapeg@earthlink.net STUART PIMSLER Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater Artistic Co-Director 1937 Glenwood Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55422 763 521-7738 spdanth@gmail.com STUART PIMSLER is celebrating his 28th anniversary this year as Artistic Co-Director of the Minneapolis-based, STUART PIMSLER DANCE & THEATER (SPDT). With partner Suzanne Costello, SPDT has garnered a national reputation for their work which has been described as “movement theater for the heart and mind”. Mr. Pimsler's work has been presented throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Europe, Israel, Taiwan, Russia and Bermuda. SPDT's Community Connections Programs engage a diverse range of populations including healthcare providers through their acclaimed Caring for the Caregiver Program. Mr. Pimsler served on the NPN Steering Committee from 1992-1995. Attendees • Page 29 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES V. DIANNE PLEDGER St. Joseph's Historic Foundation, Inc. President/CEO 804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC 27701 (919) 683-1709 fax (919) 682-5869 vdpledger@hayti.org CAROLINA PONCE DE LEON Galería de la Raza/Studio 24 Executive Director 2857 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 516-3263 cpl.galeria@gmail.com MICHAEL PREMO Michael Premo, is a multidisciplinary artist, creative producer and arts consultant, currently Marketing and Program Associate with Hip-Hop Theater Festival. Michael is also co-producer and co-founder of Housing is a Human Right a multiplatform investigation into the struggle for Home. He has produced theater, art and mutlimedia projects with companies in New York and Internationally including EarSay,Inc, StoryCorps,and as an Associate Artist with The Civilians. In 2006 Michael and Penny Arcade produced and curated of The Globesity Festival: Hunger Strike Theater. He is the recipient of numerous awards including NYSCA’s Individual Artist Award, and The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Public Artist Residency. RASHAD PRIGDEN Rashad Pridgen (aka Soul Nubian) is a dance artist, choreographer and urban arts facilitator. Rashad is the Founding Artistic Director of Motif Performance Group, a project-oriented performance arts collaboration with the purpose of reflecting the human experience through African Diasproic and underground dance. Rashad has been a part of underground dance culture for fifteen years while simultaneously apprenticing the art of choreography. This inquiry places him among the generation of artists developing a “future dance aesthetic” - alchemizing street dance vernacular for the traditional Western concert stage. He has performed with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Ronald K. Brown/Nick Cave "Soundsuites", at the Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival and with Jacinta Vlach/Liberation Dance. BEN PRYOR Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor is an arts manager, producer and curator operating under the moniker tbspMGMT. Current projects include working with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Trajal Harrell, luciana achugar, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Yvonne Meier and Wally Cardona. Ben also Produces and Curates AMERICAN REALNESS, a festival of contemporary performance in NYC. Previously Ben worked as Director of Operations for Center for Performance Research, an Artist Representative at Pentacle, and in the Planning and Development department at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Ben served as chair of the Agents Council and Trustee for Dance USA from 2008-2010. tbspMGMT.com NATHAN PURATH Nathan Purath is Co-Director of the Coleman Center for the Arts in York, Alabama. He is a founding member of the non-profit organization Your Art Here, which uses billboards as public art spaces. Driven by the role that art can play in realizing positive change, his work facilitates opportunities for artist and communities while blending modes of art, organizing, and advertising. DEAN PURVIS Dean is a writer, performer, director, and educator co-creating and touring nationally with NPN artist, Lyena Strelkoff. He holds a BFA from Southern Methodist Univ. and an MFA from Univ. of Washington. Currently, he and Ms. Strelkoff are developing "Tandem," a full-length performance piece using story, song, image and dance to investigate the impact of sudden disability on the life of a couple. Along with Strelkoff's acclaimed one-woman play, "Caterpillar Soup" (presenting nationally, including Out North, Sandglass Theater, Flynn Center, Dance Place), "Tandem" is an exercise in truth telling, revealing the intricacies of dis/ability, challenging notions of loss and caregiving, and suggesting alternate cultural responses to adversity. For more info, visit www.lyenastrelkoff.org. LAUREL RACZKA Laurel Raczka has been the Executive Director of the Painted Bride Art Center since 1999. Previously, serving as Program Director of the Bride, Ms. Raczka was responsible for all performance and gallery presentations, educational and community events, she also was the Director of the Bride’s New Forms Regional Grant Program. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Arizona and her M.F.A. from Rutgers University. Laurel has served as a panelist for many funders including the Alpert Award, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has also served on panels on issues of Community Arts, Presenting Innovative Programs, Partnerships, and Leadership Transition. Hip-Hop Theater Festival Marketing and Program Associate 442-D LORIMER ST #195, Brooklyn, NY 11206 718-497-4282 fax 718.360.1930 michael@hhtf.org Pomo Afro Homos Choreographer/Performer 76 Santa Marina Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 213-712-1045 soul.nubian@gmail.com Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People Manager 210 Rivington St. #18, New York, NY 10002 646.265.8226 miguelisatwork@yahoo.com Space One Eleven Artist 2409 2nd Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203 205-499-4288 npurath@gmail.com Lyena Strelkoff writer/performer 5429 Troost Avenue, #1, North Hollywood, CA 91601 310 497-5270 fax 818 766-4663 dean@deanpurvis.com Painted Bride Art Center Executive Director 230 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 (215) 925-9914 fax (215) 925-7402 laurel@paintedbride.org Attendees • Page 30 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES Q. RAGSDALE 606 Lochness Ln., Garland, TX 75044 214.460.2182 q@orangemoonmedia.com Q. Ragsdale has been performing, filming and creating images in and about the world around her for many years. Not content to pick one has left Q with a broad range of talents that have allowed her to work on projects ranging from plays to multimedia productions. Q is Media Coordinator of Fahari Arts Institute and sits on the boards of BUTCH Voices and the Brown Boi Project. Q is currently preoccupied with integrating performance art and video/new media to explore topics ranging from social justice to gender identity and expression. Q is the driving force behind Orange Moon Media, a multimedia production company and Q-Roc.tv an online tv show covering the Queer community. LISA RAMIREZ MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana Curator and Visual Arts Coordinator 510 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 (408) 938-3403 fax 408-998-2817 lisa@maclaarte.org PILAR RAMOS Pilar Ramos is a professional journalist apecialized in cultural issues. Social communicator and producer. She obtained her B.A. in Journalism at the Catholic University of Peru, where she also did Post Graduated Studies in management of cultural affairs. She is the CEO of Diva Producciones, a Peruvian organization that manages, promotes events and productions in scenic arts. A well-known entrepreneur and consultant, she has been involved in a wide range of cultural events. She has also been the curator of art shows for international cultural exchange projects. Member of the Organizing Conmitee of the Muestra Internacional de Teatro de Lima and the Festival de Danza Independiente 100% Cuerpo. She is currently President of La Red de Promotores Culturales de Latinoamerica y El Caribe. KATHY RANDELS Kathy Randels, founding artistic director of New Orleans’ ArtSpot Productions, has written, performed in, and directed numerous original solo and group works for professional, student and incarcerated ensembles in Louisiana and beyond. Awards include the 2007-9 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors, the 2008 V-Day Leadership Award, a 2003 OBIE (Nita & Zita) and numerous New Orleans theatre awards. Recent collaborations include: "Go Ye Therefore…", Loup Garou, and Flight. She collaborated with Serbia’s Dah Teatar from 1997-2003, and is currently creating a new solo performance with director Dijana Milosevic. She founded the Drama Club at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in 1996 and has worked with Students at the Center in New Orleans Public Schools since 1998. RACHELLE RANDOLPH Rachelle S. Randolph is the Program Director for the King Arts Complex. Ms. Randolph has a diverse background and experience in Special Events, Program Facilitation, Education, Development, Community Relations and Public Relations. Rachelle has also been involved with many organizations such as United Way of Central Ohio, Project Diversity, American Red Cross, Ohio Commission on Minority Health, and HIV/AIDS Consortium for People of Color. In Rachelle's role as Program Director, she is responsible for planning and developing the Performing and Cultural Arts Programs based on the mission and long-term goals of the King Arts Complex. A few of her major objectives are to provide programming that vibes with the 18 -35 year old audiences and to incorporate faith-based programming options. ROBERT RANSICK Robert Ransick is an artist who works in a wide range of media and has exhibited in New York City at such venues as Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Exit Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture and White Box Gallery. In addition he has shown at LACE(Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Illinois and at the Palazzo delle Esposizione in Rome, Italy, among others. He has received funding from Franklin Furnace, the Mellon Foundation and the National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network and has been an artist in residence at Eyebeam Center for Art and technology and LACE(Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). He is a full-time faculty member in digital arts at Bennington College. Robert Ransick lives and works in New York. THOMAS REESE on file La RED de Promotores Culturales de Latinoamérica y El Caribe President/ Director Ayacucho 282 Miraflores, Lima, N/A 18 511-4463623 fax 511-4454421 diva@amauta.rcp.net.pe ArtSpot Productions Artistic Director 6100 Canal Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70124 (504) 826-7783 fax (504) 826-7784 kathy@artspotproductions.org King Arts Complex Program Director 867 Mount Vernon Avenue, Columbus, OH 43203-1411 (614) 645-5464 fax 614-645-0672 rrandolph@kingartscomplex.com 37-22 80th Street, 52, Jackson Heights, NY 11372 (917) 476-4437 robertransick@gmail.com Stone Center for Latin America Studies, Tulane University Executive Director Tulane University 100 Joseph Mary Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118 504.865.5164 fax (504) 865-6719 treese@tulane.edu Attendees • Page 31 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES DION REINER-GUZMAN Dion Decibels (Performer) is a Bay Area DJ/ turntablist, sound engineer, producer, teacher and music lover. Dion Decibels is the son of a drummer and a dancer, so it is only natural for him to make and play music for people to enjoy and move to. With 9+ years of DJing and 25 years of musical experience, music is his life’s dedication and he is here to bring you the funk. BARBARA RENAUD GONZALEZ I am a published writer who wants our stories to reach everyone. To this end, I wrote "Remember El Alma," a prose-poem that reclaimed the Alamo as a monument to peace, adapted by Virginia Grise (Yale Drama prize 2010), and produced by Bihl Haus Arts in San Antonio, Texas. More than 3000 people saw this first on-site public performance at the Hemisfair in downtown San Antonio during Luminarias SA! on a Saturday night in March of 2010. For our efforts, we received the Contemporary Arts Month "Drama" prize for 2009-2010. To see one of the photos from the event, please see my blog www.barbararenaud.blogspot.com MARQUEZ RHYNE Marquez Rhyne serves progressive leadership in the U.S. South working on Highlander's Development & Communications Team. He previously served as the Managing Director of NPN Partners Jump-Start Performance Co. and The Carpetbag Theatre, and as Operations/Education Director for The Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, TN. Rhyne performed multiple roles including Board Chair for Alternate ROOTS, a regional organization of cultural workers in the South committed to social and economic justice and protection of the natural environment. A cultural worker, performing artist, and arts educator, Rhyne's passion is weaving tales of wrongs wrought right through theater, dance, spontaneous song and digital media, guiding others in their own journeys of collective liberation through art and culture. CHELES RHYNES Cheles Rhynes is Co-founder and Executive Director for MRP Inc. Mr. Rhynes' multi-faceted experience in technical theater has brought him to Brazil, Lithuania, Croatia, Poland, Bosnia, Serbia, Ireland, Turkey, Amsterdam, Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan. While touring the USA, he has worked in or driven through every state in the country (except Alaska & Hawaii.) Mr. Rhynes worked for six years on staff for the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP)conference, three as the Conference Production Manager. For the last four years he’s been contracted as the Juried Showcase Producer for the South Arts/Performing Arts Exchange annual conference and three years as a Festival & Conference Consultant for Sister Cities International. Mr. Rhynes is the Annual Meeting showcase production manager for NPN. WILLIAM RICHEY Journeyman Ink transcends cultures, creeds and races by awakening the creative soul and developing emotional literacy through the power of shared life experiences on stage and in the classroom. We pursue speaking and performance opportunities unique for their use of original spoken word and melody memory methods (stimulating oral/aural responses through the recitation of songs and mantras). We offer diversity education, character development, and professional consultation that touches on human emotions and empowers each participant to discover his/her own voice. We tailor commission work, multi-disciplinary workshops and presentations for any need while inspiring others to talk to the page, write to be heard, and courageously find inner strength and common ground. DEBORAH RILEY Deborah Riley is an artist-in-residence and Co-Director of Dance Place, furthering the organization’s mission with her leadership for over 25 years. As a dancer, choreographer and educator, career highlights include international touring with Douglas Dunn & Dancers and collaborative choreography with Diane Frank. Her workshop, Moving Affirmations has helped to facilitate healing and recovery in diverse community organizations. In addition to guest artist appearances in various universities across the country, her work has been presented in the U.S, the U.K. and France. She has been honored as Distinguished Alumni in Fine Arts from Ohio University and received the Pola Nirenska Award for Distinguished Artistic Leadership. Ms. Riley is a certified Laban Movement Analyst. BRIAN ROGERS Brian Rogers is a director, video artist, co-founder and artistic director of The Chocolate Factory Theater, which supports the creation of theater, dance, music and multimedia performances at its 5,000 sq ft facility in LIC, Queens. In addition to his own work, Brian curates The Chocolate Factory's Visiting Artist Program (now in its 6th year) which supports the work of more than 100 theater, dance, music and multimedia artists each year. Brian has served on numerous grant panels including NYSCA, Queens Council on the Arts, ART/NY Nancy Quinn Fund, DTW Outer/Space, the A.W.A.R.D. Show, and others; and is a current member of the NY Dance and Performance (a.k.a. The Bessies) Award committee. JORGE ROJAS Jorge Rojas is a multidisciplinary artist and curator whose work centers on the creation and processes involved in artistic production. Rojas uses both traditional and new media as well as performative elements to investigate communication systems and the effect of technology on artistic production, social structures and communities. The Living Word Project Performer/Creator 3020 Curran Avenue, Oakland, CA 94602 415-730-3386 diondecibels@gmail.com Bihl Haus Arts Writer-in-Residence 1117 Perez Street, San Antonio, TX 78207 210.845.0911 anabarbararenaud@gmail.com Highlander Research and Education Center Developmen & Communications Team Member 1959 Highlander Way, New Market, TN 37820 (865) 933-3443 marquezrhyne@gmail.com MRP Inc. Executive Director P.O. Box 5163, Capitol Heights, MD 20791 301-350-0092 fax 301-350-0092 crhynes@mason-rhynes.org Journeyman Ink, LLC Founder, Creative Arts Director P.O. Box 140954, Irving, TX 75014 214.476.6309 will@journeymanink.com Dance Place Director 3225 8th Street NE, Washington, DC 20017 202-269-1600 fax 202-269-4103 deborahr@danceplace.org The Chocolate Factory Theater Co-Founder and Artistic Director 5-49 49th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101 (718) 482-7069 fax 718 4827069 brian@chocolatefactorytheater.org 1407 E. 3010 S., Salt Lake City, UT 84106 (917) 757-7626 keoqui@gmail.com Attendees • Page 32 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES SONDRA RONEY South Dallas Cultural Center Coordinator of Public Relations/Marketing 3400 South Fitzhugh, Dallas, TX 75210-2572 214-670-8117 fax 214-670-8118 sondra.roney@dallascityhall.com KIM ROOT Kim Root is honored to be back with The Pat Graney Company for this tremendous reunion. Kim worked extensively with Pat and co. from 1992-2002, performing in Faith, Sleep, Tattoo, Sax House, Vivaldi and other works. She was involved in the creation process of Sleep, Vivaldi, and The Vivian Girls. Kim has an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University (2000). She was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Wesleyan University from 2003-2009 where she taught modern technique, composition, dance and technology and repertory. Currently living in Louisville, KY with her family, Kim continues to work as an independent dance artist, choreographer, teacher and film maker while raising her 2 young sons. MILDRED RUIZ MILDRED RUIZ-SAPP (UNIVERSES/NPN Board Member) Founding member-UNIVERSES. Credits: AMERIVILLE, THE DENVER PROJECT, ONE SHOT IN LOTUS POSITION, BLUE SUITE, RHYTHMICITY, SLANGUAGE, THE RIDE, and Alfred Jarry’s UBU:ENCHAINED (Teatre Polski, Poland). Awards/Affiliations: 2008 Jazz@Lincoln Center Rhythm Road Tour;TCG Peter Zeisler Award (2008), Career Advancement FellowshipFord Foundation through Pregones Theater (2006), TCG National Theater Artist Residency Program Award (2002-2004 and 1999-2001), and the BRIO Award. She is a co-Founder of The Point CDC; former Board member-Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET); Publications: UNIVERSES-THE BIG BANG (Fall 2010 release, TCG Books). PATRICIA RUIZ-BAYON Patricia Ruiz-Bayon is an interdisciplinary artist; Lives and works in the US-Mexico border BrownsvilleMatamoros. She works, installation, sculpture and incorporates technology in her work. In 1977-99 received an MFA at the University of Michigan; and in 1996 MS in Art from Texas A&M University. In 1980-81 she studied in Poznan, Poland at the State Art University with Magdalena Abakanowicz. In 1976 got her BFA at the Instituto Allende in Mexico. Pat Graney Company Performer 925 E. Thomas St. Suite B, Seattle, WA 98102 (206)329-3705 kim@dingmanroot.com UNIVERSES Theater Company, Inc. CEO/Associate Artistic Director 2038 Cicero Avenue #1, Bronx, NY 10473 646-406-7540 mredruiz@gmail.com P.O. Box 772, Brownsville, TX 78522 956-592-0614 pruizb9@hotmail.com KAREN RUNK Pomo Afro Homos Fierce Love 76 Santa Maria, San Francisco, CA 94110 415-387-7241 krrunk@juno.com ABE RYBECK Executive Artistic Director Abe Rybeck co-founded The Theater Offensive in 1989 and helped build it into New England's leading creator of diverse OUT performance. Abe initiated the True Colors: Out Youth Theater program, the longest running LGBT youth theater program in the country; the OUT on the Edge queer theater festival; the AIDS activist guerrilla troupe A Street Theater Named Desire; and the hard-edged cabaret band Adult Children of Heterosexuals. His many plays and musicals include the Jonathon Larson Award winning Surviving the Nian written with Melissa Li and numerous activist sketches for political demonstrations and gay cruising areas. Abe’s main work now is The Theater Offensive: OUT in Your Neighborhood, collaborating to create OUT culture in every corner of greater Boston FRED SALAS Fred Salas is currently Performance and Literary Arts Coordinator for MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana. In 1994, Fred founded Este Lugar: The Border Film Festival at the Mesilla Valley Film Society in his native New Mexico. Prior to his work at MACLA, he co-directed the San Diego Latino Film Festival for six years and served on the selection panel for the Sundance Institutes Screenwriter’s Lab, where he championed many up-and-coming Latino filmmakers. He served as MACLA's performance and literary coordinator from 2005-06, community outreach liaison from 2006-07, and rejoined MACLA in 2009 after returning to the Bay Area. Fred is a graduate of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Leadership Institute. ANTONIO SALINAS Dancer-actor, choreographer and teacher, graduated form the National School of Classic and Modern Dance of Mexico. He has been awarded the “Premio San Luis 2006 Award” for best play, “Best Dancer” of the XXVI Lila Lopez International Dance festival, “Best Actor in a Monologue 2005” from the Mexican Association of Theater Critics, “Premio Covarrubias 2005” from the University of Colima, “Best Choreographer” of the 2002 Young Choreographer competition from ISSSTE for “Lucas Lucan”, and “Best Dancer” of the XIX Premio Nacional de Danza INBA UAM competition. He has choreographed for the International Cervantes Festival, and for soloists with the National Dance Company of Mexico, among others. The Theater Offensive Artistic Director 29 Elm St. # 2, Cambridge, MA 02139 617-661-1600 fax 617-661-1610 abe@thetheateroffensive.org MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana Program Coordinator Performance & Literary Arts 510 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 408.286.8695 fax 408 998 2817 fred@maclaarte.org International Programs, National Performance Network Independent Artist 866 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 305-519-6877 salinasantonio@yahoo.com.mx Attendees • Page 33 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES AMINA SANCHEZ Skirball Cultural Center Associate Director of Programs 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 900496833 310-440-4644 fax 310-440-4695 amina@skirball.org GERARDO SANCHEZ Oak Cliff Cultural Center Program Coordinator 223 W Jefferson Avenue, Dallas, TX 75208 214.670.3777 gerardo.sanchez@dallascityhall.com CHARLES SANTOS TITAS - Extraordinary Dance and Music Executive Director/Artistic Director 2100 Ross Avenue Suite 650, Dallas, TX 75201 214.978.2852 csantos@titas.org OVA SAOPENG Ova Saopeng is an actor and writer from Los Angeles, he was born in Savannakhet, Laos and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a TeAda Productions Assciate Producer, Teaching Artist and co-creator of "Refugee Nation" a play about the Lao-American experience, based on the stories Lao communities across the U.S. (www.refugeenation.com). He received his B.A. in Theater from the University of Southern California and since then has performed nationally with theater companies including the Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis, Mark Taper Forum/P.L.A.Y., East West Players, and hereandnow. He is a member of We Tell Stories and Water's Edge Theater children's theater companies. STEVEN SAPP STEVEN SAPP Founding member of UNIVERSES Poetic Musical Theater Ensemble; Playwright/Acting credits include:AMERIVILLE, THE DENVER PROJECT, ONE SHOT IN LOTUS POSITION (part of The War Anthology), BLUE SUITE, RHYTHMICITY, and SLANGUAGE. Direction credits include:THE RIDE, THE ARCHITECTURE OF LOSS (Assistant Director to Chay Yew); Will Powers’ THE SEVEN; Alfred Jarry’s UBU: ENCHAINED (Teatre Polski, Poland). Awards/Affiliations: 2008 Jazz@Lincoln Center Rhythm Road Tour, TCG Peter Zeisler Award (2008), TCG National Directors Award (2002), TCG National Theater Artist Residency Program Award (20022004 and 1999-2001), BRIO Awards (1998 and 2002), and the Van Lier Fellow w/ New Dramatists. He is a coFounder of THE POINT Publications: UNIVERSES/THE BIG BANG (Fall 2010) TCG Books, among others. ROELL SCHMIDT Roell Schmidt is the Director of Links Hall, Chicago’s home for independent dance and performance arts. She has sixteen years experience in arts administration at SCT Productions, The Chicago Chamber Musicians and Lookingglass Theatre Company where she served as the Director of Marketing, Development and Artistic Administration (happily never all three simultaneously). She worked in the art department on six features including Zeinabu Irene Davis’ Independent Spirit Award-nominated Compensation. Concurrently she has maintained her writing practice and in 2009 directed and self-produced her cineplay The Rotogravure. She was a 2008 Ragdale Resident Artist. MATHEW SCHWARZMAN Mat Schwarzman is director of Crossroads Institute for Art, Learning and Community; and a practitioner, student, instructor and writer in the field of community-based arts since 1985. He is a veteran presenter, facilitator and workshop leader in meetings, universities and communities across the country. Schwarzman holds a doctorate in Learning & Change in Human Systems from the California Institute for Integral Studies, and has helped established instructional programs in community organizations, high schools and universities across the country. He is co-author with cartoonist Keith Knight of the popular graphic textbook "Beginner’s Guide to CommunityBased Arts" (New Village Press, 2005). TeAda Productions Associate Producer 522 Wilshire Blvd Suite H, Santa Monica, CA 90401 3104351810 ovationx@gmail.com UNIVERSES Theater Company, Inc. President/Artistic Director 2038 Cicero Avenue #1, Bronx, NY 10473 917-549-6106 ucitytheater@aol.com Links Hall Director 3435 North Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657 (773) 281-0824 fax (773) 281-1915 rschmidt@linkshall.org Crossroads Institute Project Director 2514 Dauphine St., New Orleans, LA 70117 504 858-1855 fax 5046177117 schwarzman@xroadsinstitute.org JAMES SCRUGGS Performing Artist 145 6th Avenue, Front 1, New York, NY 10013-1548 (212) 647-0202 x. 320 digitalgriot@hotmail.com Attendees • Page 34 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES CALVIN SEXTON Inner City All-Stars Artistic Director, Musical Director, Performer 4041 W. Wheatland Rd., Ste. 156-143, Dallas, TX 75237 972-360-8225 calvin@innercityallstars.com Calvin Sexton is the founding member and band leader of the Dallas based brass/jazz ensemble, Inner City All Stars, which His talents includes arranging and composing music, booking and managing the band, and being a high energy front man for the band. Mr. Sexton is also an alumni of the University of North Texas where he earned his bachelors degree in Music Performance in 2003.His ensemble performed on Showtime at the Apollo, Toured Japan and Guam, and won "Best Band" for the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities. They also won Juried showcases at 2010 Western Arts Alliance and Performing Arts Exchange. They are also roster artist of the Texas Commission of the Arts and Mid America Arts Alliances Roster. Calvin is a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Eagle Scout,& swimmer. REBECCA SHEAHAN 651 ARTS Marketing Director 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 718-230-2528 fax 718-636-4166 rsheahan@651arts.org LINDA SHEARER Project Row Houses Executive Director P. O. Box 1011, Houston, TX 77251-1011 713 526 7662 fax 713 526 1623 lshearer@projectrowhouses.org KATE SHEERIN CentralTrak, The University of Texas at Dallas Artists Residency Director 800 Exposition Avenue, Dallas, TX 75226 214-824-9302 kate_sheerin@hotmail.com S.T. SHIMI Jump-Start Performance Co. Artistic Director ( Company Programming) 108 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204 (210) 227-5867 fax 210-222-2231 shimi@jump-start.org S.T.Shimi is the Artistic Director of Jump-Start Performance Co., a San Antonio-based theatre company focused on cutting-edge, original work. She is also an arts educator who specialises in long-term, multi-disciplinary projects with a socially conscious edge.Shimi is also a performance artist. She creates solo & collaborative theatre, gets in the spin with her hoop, climbs silks and other vertical equipment, belly-dances, performs burlesque and in general gets down to a banging beat. BETH SHIPPERT-MYERS Contemporary Arts Center Performing Arts Manager 900 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 (504) 528-3805 fax 504.528.3828 bshippertmyers@cacno.org PHYLLIS SLATTERY Dance Umbrella Executive Director P.O. Box 1323, Austin, TX 78767 (512) 450-0456 fax n/a phyllis@danceumbrella.com NICK SLIE Mondo Bizarro Co-Artistic Director 6100 Canal Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70130 225-571-2929 info@mondobizarro.org Nick Slie lives, fights and works on the disappearing wetlands of coastal Louisiana. He is Co-Founder and CoArtistic Director of the New Orleans based performance collective Mondo Bizarro. Nick’s performance work ranges from physical theater to multi-disciplinary solo work, from digital storytelling to collaborative ensemble productions. He creates original works of performance that are rooted in a particular sense-of-place reflecting the needs, desires, memories and possibilities of the community from which it is born. Nick currently serves as board president for the Network of Ensemble Theaters. Attendees • Page 35 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES KAREL SLOANE-BOEKBINDER Karel Sloane-Boekbinder, Assistant Producer for Ashe' Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans, LA is a playwright, author, actor, filmmaker and painter. Karel has been a theatre professional for over 23 years. At Ashe' CAC, Karel assists with stage management, all aspects of assistant producing, and, arts instruction. Some of Karel's performance work can be seen in the Spike Lee film "Miracle at St. Anna" (as "Herb's Wife".) Karel has performed in New Orleans' DramaRama, The Cassandra Project in Portland, Maine and with companies such as Captain New York (at the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway)and New England Academy of Theater. ASHLEY SPARKS Ashley Sparks is a southern theatre maker and cultural organizer. Based in New Orleans she is a director and educator with ArtSpot Productions. As an organizer she currently serves as the Chair of the Board for Alternate ROOTS. Currently, Ashley works for the Network of Ensemble Theaters as the coordinator for their microfestivals. As a director, she has worked across the country on community-based plays as well as touring her ensemble created work. She is an 2008 honoraria of the Princess Grace Award and holds an M.F.A. in Directing and Public Dialogue from Virginia Tech. CAROL STAKENAS Carol Stakenas is the Executive Director of LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). She is the lead curator for Los Angeles Goes Live: Exploring a Social History of Performance Art in Southern California 19701983, an exhibition, performance series and publication project slated for Sept 2011 - Jan 2012. The performance series will feature re-inventions of historical performances and actions staged throughout the city. She is a faculty member at the University of Southern California in Public Art Studies. Previously, Stakenas was the Deputy Director/Curator of Creative Time and produced artwork at sites such as the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Times Square and Grand Central Terminal. JAMES STANLEY The NTUSA design and constructs complex theatrical environments, in traditional and non-traditional spaces, and creates performances to inhabit them. This focus on theatrical environment is matched by a devotion to the exploration of American history and the history of American entertainment. Our works are intensely visual, densely layered spectacles which we lace with the questions and arguments we bring to the exploration of each subject we attend. Through multiplicity of image and argument we invite a complicit audience to engage with each piece as an active participant. MICHELE STEINWALD Michèle Steinwald, Assistant Curator for the Performing Arts at the Walker Art Center--Since retiring as a dancer and choreographer, Michèle Steinwald has managed performing arts projects and professional development programs for On the Boards (Seattle), New England Foundation for the Arts/National Dance Project (Boston), DanceUSA (DC), and the Deborah Hay Dance Company (Austin). Michèle joined the Walker Art Center in October of 2006 and there she manages a third of the performing arts season and co-curates Momentum: New Dance Works with the Southern Theater. She actively supports the local contemporary dance community and uses every occasion to advocate for the Twin Cities dance community nationally. HAROLD STEWARD Harold Steward is an actor, director, playwright, designer and instructor with over thirteen years of theater experience. Mr. Steward studied communication at Newman University in Wichita, KS and playwrighting at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. He directed numerous productions including Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf as a part of Open Stage of Harrisburg's 7th Annual WomenSpeak Festival. He is an accomplished actor and while in Harrisburg, Mr. Steward was a visiting artist and guest lecturer at Pennsylvania State University's Harrisburg campus, Central Pennsylvania College and Harrisburg Area Community College. Mr. Steward is the Performing Arts/Technical Coordinator for the South Dallas Cultural Center. Ashé Cultural Center/Efforts of Grace, Inc. Assistant Producer, Theatre 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70113 (504) 569-9070 fax (504) 525-1605 karel.sloane@gmail.com Network of Ensemble Theaters 1709 N. Avenue 56, Los Angeles, CA 90042 540-558-8744 ashleyasparkles@gmail.com LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) Executive Director 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028 323-957-1777 fax 323-957-9025 carol@welcometolace.org National Theater of the United States of America Co-Artistic Director c/o Elsie Management, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Building 280, Suite 220, Unit 329, Brooklyn, NY 11205 646-322-1542 jpstanley@earthlink.net Walker Art Center Program Manager, Performing Arts 1750 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403 (612) 375-7581 fax (612) 375-7575 michele.steinwald@walkerart.org South Dallas Cultural Center Performing Arts Coordinator 3400 South Fitzhugh, Dallas, TX 75210-2572 214/671-5800 fax 214/670-8118 harold.steward@dallascityhall.com JEREMY STRICK Nasher Sculpture Center Director 2001 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201 214-242-5103 jstrick@nashersculpturecenter.org LISA SUAREZ Jump-Start Performance Co. Artistic Director - Guest Artists 108 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204 (210) 227-5867 fax (210) 222-2231 lisa@jump-start.org Lisa Suarez has been with Jump-Start Performance Co. for over 15 years as a staff member and a company performing artist. Suarez most recently added playwright to her credit with "I'll Remember For You," a semiautobiographical piece about being the primary caregiver to her mother who's been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The play premiered this past September at The Sterling Houston at Jump-Start. Attendees • Page 36 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES QUITA SULLIVAN Quita is the new Program Manager for Theater at New England Foundation for the Arts and is managing a new initiative, the National Theater Pilot. She has had a many-layered career in nonprofits- arts-related and otherwise. She holds a BA and MA in Theatre from Knox College and SUNY Stony Brook, as well as a law degree from Wayne State University. Before law school, she worked as a stage manager in Chicago and later as an Administrative Assistant for a not-for-profit artist management office, creating contracts and managing booking and performing fees for musicians in the Great Lakes area. In 2006, she was accepted into Associated Grant Makers Diversity Fellowship where she became immersed in the intricacies of grant making, including presenting several arts-related grants to Trustees. THERESA SWEETLAND Theresa Sweetland, Executive/Artistic Director of Intermedia Arts, is an experienced director, community organizer, youth worker and leader in the field of community cultural development. Her passion and know-how have brought together diverse sectors of the community, artists and developers, elders and teens, prisoners and poets, to build collaborations and partnerships that expand and enrich lives and build community. She holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Minnesota and a Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning at The University of Minnesota Hubert H Humphrey School of Public Affairs with a concentration on community and economic development. Theresa is a Co-Founding Artistic Director of B-Girl Be, the world’s first international women in hip hop summit ANYA TALBOT Anya Talbot, currently the Project Coordinator for Tigertail, received her MA from the U of Miami in International Administration and her BA from New World School of the Arts/University of Florida in Miami (Magna Cum Laude). She has worked as the Public Policy Liaison for the Thomas Armour Youth Ballet, interned at the 92nd Street Y and Wingspan in NYC, studied ballet in Russia with the Bolshoi Ballet and currently teaches ballet in the Miami area. Anya is a member of the Steering Committee of the Arts Action Alliance; a member of the E-board, Educational Committee of the U of Miami Greater Miami Alumni Club and a member of the E-board of the Russian Round Table. She is fluent in Russian and French. VANESSA TAYLOR Vanessa has an MFA in directing from Ohio University and is the Co-Artistic Director of Limehouse Theatre, which performed at the Prague Int'l Fringe Festival in 2008. For almost a decade she has created performances which create a dialogue about human rights and social justice, create spectacle with raw ingredients, and articulate a call for action To ensure that conversations are not separate from the practice, she has produced and directed performances that engage in a dialogue with local and international service organizations through support, awareness and advocacy. (Artivism). She is currently developing two projects in Dallas. Ni de Aqui ni de Alla focuses on the struggles of first generation immigrants. Neighbor/HOOD is an exploration of the North/South divide in Dallas. New England Foundation for the Arts Program Manager, Theater 145 Tremont St., Seventh Floor, Boston, MA 02111 617.951.0010 ext 531 fax 617.951.0016 qsullivan@nefa.org Intermedia Arts Executive Director 2822 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55408 (612) 874-2808 fax 612-871-6927 theresa@intermediaarts.org Tigertail Productions, Inc. Project Coordinator 842 NW 9th Cour, Miami, FL 33136 305 324 4337 fax 305 324 4337 anya@tigertail.org Limehouse Theatre Artistic Director 1223A Kings Hwy, Dallas, TX 75208 817-437-7407 vanessamercadotaylor@gmail.com PAUL TERUEL Columbia College Chicago Director of Community Partnerships 600 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605 (312) 369-8871 fax 312.369-8015 pteruel@colum.edu SAMUEL THOMPSON Since making his east coast debut at the 2006 New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Samuel Thompson continues to establish a multifaceted career as orchestral leader, recitalist, chamber musician, soloist and journalist. Hailed as a “musician’s musician” by his colleagues and praised for the “skill and sensitivity” (Ambush Magazine) he brings to works of all musical periods, recent seasons have included performances received with great audience acclaim in Seattle, Toronto, New York, Chicago and throughout the southeastern United States. Samuel’s ardent interest in other art forms has led to appearances with Carpetbag Theatre and Rajni Shah Theatre (London). His essays, interviews and program notes have been published both in Strings Magazine and at violinist.com. MORGAN THORSON Morgan Thorson is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow in choreography. She regards dance-making as an occupation of necessity. Through her work, she recognizes a persistent intuitive drive to investigate dance as a purveyor of culturally, socially and perceptually relevant life experience. Her original works mix movement, light, sound and objects to create live performance for audiences; taking into consideration the site of the work, the representation of the body, the work of her collaborators and the history of the field. Morgan lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. PATRICIA TINAJERO Patricia Tinajero is an assistant professor in the department of Art at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and the newest board member of Hola Hora Latina. Born in Quito-Ecuador Tinajero often uses her work to rise questions about cultural identity and social practices. Her focus and expertise involve performance, video, sound, and installation to examine ecological practices in art making that can be applied conceptually as well as practically. Tinajero has participated in many artist residencies, exhibitions and fellowships including the American Academy in Rome with an affiliated fellowship from the University of Tennessee. Her work has been exhibited at the Islip Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Center for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan; and others. 1190 West Northern Parkway, #804, Baltimore, MD 21210 210/385-7991 samuelathompson@yahoo.com Artist/Choreographer 3112 10th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55407 (612) 221-3416 fax 612 221-3416 emorgant@earthlink.net Hola Hora Latina board member 100 Gay Street suit 109, Knoxville, TN 37930 865-363-0889 tinajeromariapatricia@yahoo.com Attendees • Page 37 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES VINCENT TORO Vincent Toro is a poet, performer, playwright, and director from New York. His work has been staged at INTAR, The Point CDC, the Songs from Coconut Hill Festival of Latino Playwrights, the Urban Pop Theater Festival, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and Repertorio Espanol, where he won 2nd prize in their 2009 Metlife Nuestras Voces Playwriting competition. Mr. Toro was also winner of the City of San Antonio’s Best Director award for his staging of Topdog/Underdog by Suzan Lori-Parks, and was a finalist for the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize. MARI TORRES Mari Torres is currently Executive Director of the Arts Council of Puerto Rico, a non profit organization founded in 1993 with the purpose of promoting the arts and culture in Puerto Rico, through cultural, educational and international exchange activities. Since 1975, her professional development has been a combination of Business Administration and the Arts. She currently serves as a member of the Network of Cultural Promoters of Latin America and the Caribbean (LA RED), and the Permanent Fund for the Arts of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation. Ms. Torres was the consultant for the Programa de Las Américas of Arts International, a non profit organization based out of New York, exclusively dedicated to the artistic exchange in all disciplines and all regions of the world. JOSE TORRES TAMA José Torres-Tama is a writer, visual and performance artist who explores the underbelly of the North American Dream mythology. An NEA award recipient and Louisiana Theater Fellow, he received a 2010 Creation Fund from the NPN for ALIENS, IMMIGRANTS & OTHER EVILDOERS, a sci-fi Latino noir and multimedia solo exploring the criminalization of Latino immigrants in the U.S. American Theatre’s March 2009 issue profiled his United Kingdom tour of his critically acclaimed post-Katrina solo titled The Cone of Uncertainty. In 2008, the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New York awarded him publication funds for his first art book, "New Orleans Free People of Color & Their Legacy," which documents his Ogden Museum of Southern Art exhibition of 19th century Creole pastel portraits. www.torrestama.com Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Theater Arts Director 1300 Guadalupe Street, San Antonio, TX 78207 (210) 271-3151 fax 210-2713480 vincentt@guadalupeculturalarts.org Arts Council of Puerto Rico / La RED Member Director ,, (787) 721-3257 marihutch@hotmail.com ArteFuturo Productions Performance Artist 2426 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117 (504) 232-2968 jose@torrestama.com RORY TRAINOR Alverno Presents/Alverno College Logistics Manager P.O. Box 343922, Milwaukee, WI 53234-3922 414-382-6151 fax 414-382-6354 rory.trainor@alverno.edu ROSITA TRAN International Business Senior at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has danced with the UTA Dance Ensemble for four years. CRISTAL TRUSCOTT Cristal Chanelle Truscott (Artistic Director/Playwright) is founder of PROGRESS THEATRE. She has toured as an NPN Artist since 2001 when her premiere play, PEACHES, received an Creation Fund Grant. PEACHES is currently featured in the anthology "Plays from the Boom Box Galaxy: Theatre from the Hip Hop Generation" published by Theatre Communications Group. She is a graduate of the High School for the Performing & Visual Arts (Houston, TX) and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts programs in Drama and Performance Studies, where she served as Assistnat Editor of TDR: The Drama Review. Cristal currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Network of Ensemble Theaters and is Assistant Professor and Director of the Theatre Department at Prairie View A&M UNiversity in Texas. University of Texas at Arlington/UTA Dance Ensemble/Multitudes Dance Theatre 300 w. 1st street, Arlington, TX Tarrant, TX 76016 817-448-5519 rosa.tran@mavs.uta.edu Progress Theatre Artistic Director/Playwright P.O. Box 444, Prairie View, TX 77446 6462989059 cristal@progresstheatre.com MAURICE TURNER Turner World Around Productions Artistic Director 23710 Highway 18, Raymond, MS 39154 (662) 312-5230 mturner@turnerworldaround.org CARLTON TURNER Alternate ROOTS Executive Director 1083 Austin Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307 (404) 577-1079 carlton@mugabee.com Carlton Turner is the executive director of Alternate ROOTS, a 34 year-old southern based member service organization dedicated to supporting artists working in communities across the south. Carlton is also artistic director and co-founder, along with his brother Maurice Turner, of the performing group M.U.G.A.B.E.E. (Men Under Guidance Acting Before Early Extinction) a group composed of two brothers performing a theatrical blend of jazz, hip-hop, spoken word poetry and soul music. M.U.G.A.B.E.E. is currently working with Mondo Bizarro to create a multi-year performance project on issues of race and racism in the United States. Attendees • Page 38 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES BENJAMIN TURNER Hailing from the Bay Area, 'Halo' Benjamin Turner (Performer) is a well-known poet/spoken word artist, writer, lyricist, actor and dancer who placed as a finalist two consecutive years in the Youth Speaks Bay Area-wide poetry slam. In 2008, Benjamin competed with San Francisco team at the Brave New Voices International Poetry slam in Washington DC , helping win the team Honorable Mention at the festival. He later went on to compete the following year in Chicago, reaching final stage and becoming one of the top internationally ranked poets. Benjamin has performed in several venues throughout the nation including, but not limited to, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Opera House, and the Chicago Theater. MICHAEL TURNER Michael Wayne Turner III, better known as MyKeyRoc, is a poet, musician, actor, model, and classically trained dancer. Originally from Houston, Texas, MyKeyRoc has lived in New York, Los Angeles, and now the Bay Area. He was a finalists in the 2009 Youth Speaks Bay Area Teen Poetry Slam and went on to represent the Bay Area at the Brave New Voices International Teen Poetry Slam Festival in Chicago, IL. His poetry has also been featured on/at tour through California and the entire southern region of the united states ...... His most recent works includes a music, and spoken word mixtape with phresh pham .He has also been featured at many universities such as USC, UCLA, Standford, TSU, WKU,UK, MTSU and Columbia College of Chicago. SCOTT TURNER SCHOFIELD Scott Turner Schofield transitioned from NPN Artist to NPN Partner this year when he accepted a job as the Executive and Artistic Director of Out North Contemporary Art House in Anchorage AK (previously VSA Alaska at Out North). The process of installing a working artist in an administrative position was facilitated by Tim Miller. Schofield's passion for socially-engaged art and vision for community engagement for a stronger art market is now transmitted via performance, film, visual art, and music through Out North's mission: Art for Everyone, No Exceptions. See www.outnorth.org to see how. He continues to tour his solo performance work internationally: www.undergroundtransit.com MARK VALDEZ Mark Valdez is the National Coordinator for the Network of Ensemble Theaters, a coalition of U.S. ensemblebased theater companies. He is a director and educator based in Los Angeles. Prior to joining NET, Mark served as the Associate Artistic Director for Cornerstone Theater Company. He has directed across the country, led various workshops and has participated in numerous panels. The Living Word Project Performer/Creator 169 Pescara Blvd., Brentwood, CA 94513 415 685 9897 bturner1116@gmail.com The Living Word Project Performer/Creator 420 Gateway Drive, Unit 1, Pacifica, CA 94044 650 393 3487 micboombiyay@gmail.com VSA Arts of Alaska/Out North Artistic Director 3800 DeBarr Road, Anchorage, AK 99508 (907) 279-8099 fax (907) 279-8100 scott@outnorth.org Network of Ensemble Theaters National Coordinator 1709 N. Avenue 56, Los Angeles, CA 90042 323-255-2124 markvaldez@yahoo.com KINAN VALDEZ El Teatro Campesino Producing Artistic Director 705 Fourth Street, San Juan Bautista, CA 95045 (831) 623-2444 fax (831)623-4127 valdezteatro@gmail.com SAMUEL VALDEZ Theater Director/Playwrite 1033 51st. St., San Diego, CA 92114 619-892-3179 saamul2003@yahoo.com ALICE E. VALDEZ MECA/Multi-Cultural Education and Counseling through the Arts Founder/Executive Director/Artistic Director 1900 Kane St., Houston, TX 77007 (713) 802-9370 fax (713) 802-9403 alicevaldez@yahoo.com Alice Valdez is a graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso & certified to teach instrumental music all grade levels. She performs as a freelance instrumentalist on oboe, flute, and guitar. She is the founder of MECA & has been responsible for the administration of MECA, serves as the artistic director, liaisons with representatives of community-based organizations, and advocates for artists & arts organizations of color.Alice has directed 10 major public mural projects in Houston, Texas and supervises 35 admin and arts staff for In School, After School, Summer Arts Programs for children to adults and senior participants. MECA also provides the Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts and Residency series which is an integral connection to our National Performance Network partnership. MORGAN VON PRELLE PECELLI Performance Space 122 Development Director 150 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 (212) 477-5829 x307 morgan@ps122.org Attendees • Page 39 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES HUONG VU Boeing Company Community Investor, Arts & Culture Global Corporate Citizenship, Pacific NW Region PO Box 3707, M/S 17-MP, Seattle, WA 98124-2207 206-304-4313 huong.vu@boeing.com GAYLE WADEN 11881 GULF POINTE DRIVE #M36, HOUSTON, TX 77089 713.703.4187 fax 281.484.4450 gwaden@yahoo.com Currently a consultant with over twenty-five years experience in the areas of non-profit administrative and program management of community-based social and arts organizations. NPN board member from 1998-2002. SIXTO A. WAGAN DiverseWorks Artspace Co-Executive Director 1117 East Freeway, Houston, TX 77002 (713) 223-8346 fax 7132234608 sixto@diverseworks.org ALLISON WARDEN Uyalunaq Productions CEO 410 West 15th Ave. Apt. B, Anchorage, AK 99501 (907) 242-4663 allisonwarden@gmail.com Allison Warden (AKU-MATU) is an Iñupiaq Eskimo interdisciplinary performance artist and rapper who lives in Anchorage, Alaska. She raps under the name AKU-MATU, and most recently performed a rap concert at the Department of Ethnomusicology at Columbia University in New York City on October 1st, 2010. Her one-woman show, "Ode to the Polar Bear" was showcased at the NPN 2008 conference in Seattle, and is in the process of being re-worked into a longer piece. It focuses on the fight of Indigenous People against multi-billion dollar corporations, global warming and the fate of Alaska's polar bear. In November of 2008, she performed a small role in Guillermo Gómez-Peña's and James Luna's piece, "La Nostalgia Re-Mix: Hits and Outtakes for an Imaginary Bar", at Out North Theatre. THÉRÈSE WEGMANN will submit later MK WEGMANN MK Wegmann, President & CEO, NPN, has 30 years experience in organizational development and artists' services. From 1978-1991 she was Associate Director for the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, and from 1993-1999 as Managing Director of Junebug Productions theatre company. Wegmann serves on Boards of Directors for NPN, Junebug Productions, Performing Arts Alliance (PAA) and the Cultural Alliance of New Orleans. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spring Hill College and a Master of Arts degree from Louisiana State University of New Orleans. DAVID WHITE ARTVENTURES NH (Crotched Mountain Fdn) Executive Director/Producer 474 Crowell Road, Hopkinton, NH 03229 603-224-5957 drw.artventures@gmail.com David R. White is the Director of ARTVENTURES New Hampshire (AVNH), a statewide program of the Crotched Mountain Foundation (CMF), an educational, therapeutic and human services organization based in Greenfield, NH. From 1975 through 2003, he served as Executive Director and Producer of New York's Dance Theater Workshop (DTW), an internationally acclaimed incubator and producer of emerging dance and other performing artists. In 1984, he founded the National Performance Network, and directed it for 15 years under DTW until its spinoff as an independent organization. He also designed the pioneering international Suitcase Fund and New York's Bessie Awards. He currently chairs the National (Artist) Council of Florida's Atlantic Center for the Arts, an artist retreat and teaching community. ASHLEY WILKERSON Performing Artist Actress, Writer, Lover of Life National Performance Network Operations & Data Specialist P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156 (504) 595-8008 fax (504) 595-8006 therese@npnweb.org National Performance Network President/CEO P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156 504.595.8008 ext 205 fax 504 595 8006 mkw@npnweb.org Performing Artist: Actress, Writer 7110 San Mateo Blvd #325, Dallas, TX 75223 212-363-0236 artloveashley@gmail.com Attendees • Page 40 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES HELANIUS WILKINS Helanius J. Wilkins is a choreographer, peformance artist, and teacher based in Washington, DC. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of EDGEWORKS Dance Theater - DC based all male contemporary dance company of predominately African-American men. www.hjwEdgeworks.org WILL WILKINS Will K. Wilkins is Executive Director of Real Art Ways, in Hartford, Connecticut. Real Art Ways supports artists, encourages innovation and builds community, through visual arts exhibitions, public art projects, nightly cinema screenings, performing arts, education, and innovative social events. More info at www.realartways.org C. BRIAN WILLIAMS C. Brian Williams is the founder and executive director of Step Afrika!, the first professional company in the world dedicated t the tradition of stepping. EDGEWORKS Dance Theater Founder/Artistic Director/Choreographer P.O. Box 73396, Washington, DC 20056-3396 (202) 483-0606 fax (202) 483-0555 helanius@hjwedgeworks.org Real Art Ways Executive Director 56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 232-1006 fax (860) 233-6691 wwilkins@realartways.org Step Afrika ED 1333 H Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002 202-399-7993 ext 102 fax 202-399-6761 founder@stepafrika.org TAMARA WILLIAMS AbsolutelyBlooming! 2240 lawndale dr, DALLAS, TX 75211 940-300-0910 tamarakady@yahoo.com KRISTINA WONG Kristina’s last show Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has toured the country the last four years in over 50 engagements and is now available as a broadcast quality concert film (more at www.flyingwong.com). Most recently Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was the kick-off event at the REDCAT for the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Journalism Institute. She is the recipient of awards from Creative Capital, MAPFUND, two Creation Funds from the National Performance Network, three grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation, three Durfee ARC Grants, and four Artist-in-Residence Awards from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. She’s received residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Hermitage in Englewood, FL. www.kristinawong.com E. SAN SAN WONG For more than 20 years, San San has been dedicated to helping artists create work, and to strengthening support systems for independent artists, arts organizations and networks primarily in the United States and the AsiaPacific region. Her current world-wide studies/fascinations include the impact of changing demographics and increased globalism on contemporary artmaking and culture, and developing effective, culturally competent capacity building strategies that strengthen organic artistic and community practices. Since 2007, San San has been the Director of Grants at the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has an international consulting practice, was the Executive Director of the National Performance Network, and has held leadership positions at Theater Artaud, among others. ANDREW WOOD Andrew Wood is the founder of the San Francisco International Arts Festival, which coordinates multiple Bay Area non-profit organizations and artists to produce an annual series of events that comprise the Festival. SFIAF both commissions and produces new work by local artists engaged in international projects and presents the existing repertoire of ensembles from around the world (with many of them making their U.S. debuts at SFIAF). Each Festival takes three years to plan and implement. Since conceiving the idea of SFIAF in January 2001, Andrew has had the good fortune to work with many world class international artists and their equally brilliant local counterparts to present their projects on the Festival’s stages. A native of London, Andrew has lived in San Francisco for 20 years. SAYA WOOLFALK Saya Woolfalk is a New York artist who re-imagines the world in multiple dimensions (sculpture, installation, painting, performance and video). She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA; Deitch Projects; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Studio Museum in Harlem; Momenta Art; Performa09; and has been written about on Art21's blog. With funding from the NEA, her solo exhibition The Institute of Empathy, opened at Real Art Ways in the fall of 2010. 1478 Westerly Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (310) 435-4817 k@kristinasherylwong.com San Francisco Arts Commission Program Director, Cultural Equity Grants Program 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 240, San Francisco, CA 94102 415.252.2590 sansan.wong@sfgov.org San Francisco International Arts Festival Executive Director 870 Market Street, Suite 1256, San Francisco, CA 94102 415-399-9554 fax 415-297-5703 andrew@sfiaf.org 323 W 39th Street Studio 406, NY, NY 10018 6466735004 sayawoolfalk@mac.com Attendees • Page 41 of 42 NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS ATTENDEES ALEXANDRIA YALJ Alexandria Yalj- Managing director of Rosanna Gamson/ World Wide. Holds an MFA in dance and choreography from the California Institute of the Arts. Residing in Los Angeles continues to perform and assist in activating the longevity of art making thru dance. NEJLA YATKIN Nejla Y. Yatkin was awarded a 2009 Special Project Grant by the Princess Grace Foundation in New York and is a 2008 Princess Grace Choreography fellow,. She was named by Dance Magazine as one of "Top 25 to Watch in 2005" and "Outstanding Emerging Artist" by the D.C. Mayor's Arts Award Committee 2006. This award-winning and internationally acclaimed choreographer and dancer graduated with a professional concert dance degree from Die Etage - a Professional Performing Arts Department in Berlin, Germany. Ms. Yatkin is currently commuting between New York, Chicago and Washington, DC pursuing her solo career: dancing, choreographing and giving workshops at international and national festivals. For more information visit www.ny2dance.com SHAY YOUNGBLOOD Shay Youngblood is a novelist, playwright, essayist and visual artist. She is author of a collection of short stories, The Big Mama Stories, the plays Shaking the Mess Out of Misery, Amazing Grace and Talking Bones and the novels, Soul Kiss and Black Girl in Paris. Recently she was awarded a 2011 US/Japan Creative Artists Fellowship and is an artist board member of Yaddo artists colony. She has taught in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University, and was Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi and Texas A&M. She teaches Creative Writing and Book Making Workshops for writers and visual artists. BROOK YUNG Though internationally known as the next face of the hip hop world, B. Yung has recently become a familiar face in the American Spoken word community. In the year 2006, he was offered a slot in "LA's Def Poetry Allstar show" by Stan Lathan, and after excepting, began a very successful career at his new found craft. In 2008, while still keeping a pulse on the local and international Hip Hop community, B. Yung starred in the Russell Simmons HBO documentary "Brave New Voices" ranking 2nd in the Nation with NYC's YouthSlam team at the Brave New Voices National Competition. He also ranked 1st place in Robert Redford Speak Green Competition that was held at the world renown Kennedy Center in Washington D.C which earned him a chance to perform at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. PAUL ZALOOM PAUL ZALOOM: writer, designer and performer; 14 solo puppet spectacles (THE FRUIT OF ZALOOM, ZALOOMINATIOINS, THE MOTHER OF ALL ENEMIES, WHITE LIKE ME, etc.) Awards: OBIE, BESSIE, American Theater Wing design award, L.A. Weekly Theater Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, three UNIMA Awards for Excellence in Puppetry. And: Zaloom plays wacked-out, weirdo scientist Beakman on the science education cult TV classic, BEAKMAN'S WORLD. Current work: WHITE LIKE ME: 2 parts: a toy theater puppet show with video projection (“The Adventures of White-Man”); and a psychological battle with an evil ventriloquist dummy. BEAKMAN ON THE BRAIN: a live stage show about neuroscience for children and families. MIMI ZARSKY NPN's 25th Anniversary marks the 10th Annual Meeting that Mimi has been involved with. A part of the NPN crew since 2001, she's been designing, editing and producing materials and events for nonprofit arts organizations since 1987. Clients have included the National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture, The San Francisco Foundation, Crossroads Project for Art, Learning & Community, and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. She holds a B.A. in Folklore from University of Pennsylvania and is a professional potter. Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, Inc. Manging Director 343 Laveta Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90026 213 250 7500 fax 213 250 7500 tsarina.rgww@gmail.com NY2Dance Artistic Director/Choreographer 158-18 Riverside Drive West Apt: 3F-50, New York, NY 10030 202-210-8247 nejlayatkin@mac.com Youngblood Arts 624 W. University Drive, Suite 228, Denton, TX 76201 940-382-0183 youngbloodarts@gmail.com The Living Word Project Performer/Creator 355 Franklin Ave, Apt 1L, Brooklyn, NY 11238 646 492 9988 brookyung@gmail.com Puppeteer 733 Westmount Drive, West Hollywood, CA 90069 (310) 652-1963 zaloom@pacbell.net National Performance Network Senior Program Specialist - Convenings P.O. Box 56698, New Orleans, LA 70156 (504) 595-8008 fax (504) 595-8006 mzarsky@npnweb.org Attendees • Page 42 of 42

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