Agenda-at-a-Glance
Friday, 11/7
1-5pm: Optional pre-forum TLC Gathering for artistic & managing leaders at TCG Member Theatres (lunch served at 12pm), Jerome Robbins Studio, 3rd Floor
5-6pm: Fall Forum begins; Cocktails & hors D'oeuvres, Live Arts Lobby & 3rd Floor Studios
6pm: Welcome from TCG & Artist Keynote featuring Marc Bamuthi Joseph, "Artistic Intelligence, Empathy, and the Other Side of Fear," Live Arts Theatre
7:00-7:30pm: Open social event, Live Arts Lobby
Saturday, 11/8
8am-9:50am: Breakfast gathering for trustees, Jerome Robbins Studio, 3rd Floor
10-11:15am: Plenary session "Capitalization in a Time of Crises," featuring Susan Nelson, Live Arts Theatre
11:30am-12:30pm:
- Breakout Session: "Governance & Audience-Building," with Donna Walker-Kuhne & Cheryl Rosario, Signature Theatre, David R. White Studio, 3rd Floor
- Breakout Session: "Governance & Mergers," with Jorge B. Merced, & Rosalba Rolón, Pregones/PRTT, Jerome Robbins Studio, 3rd Floor
- Breakout Session: "Governance & Capital Campaigns," with Todd Ahrens, Arts Consulting Group, Conference Room, 2nd Floor
12:30-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30-3:15pm: "Understanding, Clarifying, and Reinforcing: The Paths to Intentional Board-Staff Relationships," a plenary session town hall on strengthening board & staff relationships, facilitated by Calida N. Jones & Douglas R. Clayton, Creative Evolutions, Live Arts Theatre
3:30pm-4:30pm:
- Breakout Session: "Governance & Succession," with Amy Chin, Jane Jung, Mei Ann Teo, & Sara Zatz, Pink Fang, David R. White Studio, 3rd Floor
- Breakout Session: "Diagnosing the Effectiveness of your Governance Structure: Is it Time to Redesign?" with Paul Epner, Northlight Theatre & Cynthia Huffman, ACT - A Contemporary Theatre, Jerome Robbins Studio, 3rd Floor
- Breakout Session: "Governance & Deficit Budgets" with Andrea Nellis & Belina Mizrahi, Arts FMS, Conference Room, 2nd Floor
Sunday, 11/9
10:00am-11:15am: Plenary session: scenario planning for theatres & our theatre ecology, featuring Daniel Payne, AEA Consulting, Live Arts Theatre
11:15am-12:30pm: Plenary session: "Avenger Advocacy: Assembling Coalitions and Power for Theatre Futures," Erica Lauren Ortiz & Bertrand Evans-Taylor, Live Arts Theatre
Featured Plenary Speakers
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a TED Global Fellow, an Emerson Collective Dial Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. He is also the winner of the 2011 Herb Alpert Award in Theatre, an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and a 2022 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An internationally renowned cultural strategist, Bamuthi has lectured in 25 different countries and his TED talk “You Have The Rite” has been viewed more than five million times.
Bamuthi has most recently completed commissions for Yale University, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, The Minnesota Orchestra, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and the Washington National Opera. His most recent orchestral work “Good News Mass” with music by Carlos Simon premiered with the LA Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel in April 2025. His latest collaboration with composer Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), The Forgiveness Suite, was released as a live recorded album in August 2025 with Bright Shiny Things.
An emergent on-screen talent, he is among the featured performers in HBO’s screen adaptation of “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehesi Coates. He served as the Vice President of Social Impact at The Kennedy Center from 2019-25. A proud alumnus of Morehouse College, Bamuthi received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts in the Spring of 2022 and was the recipient of subsequent Honorary Doctorates from Middlebury College in the Spring of 2023 and the Kansas City Institute of the Arts in 2024.
Susan Nelson
Susan Nelson, Executive Vice President, has been with TDC since 1987. In her many years with the firm, she has led a wide range of projects that includes mergers, strategic business plans, financial restructuring, and facilities planning. Susan’s practice focuses on the complex challenge of aligning an organization’s strategy, implementation plan, and financial sustainability. Her deep financial analysis skills and hands-on operational experience has given her a special expertise in how to scale an organization to an appropriate size while creating a sustainable financial capitalization plan. She has worked with clients of all sizes across the country in such areas as arts and culture, community development, education, and social services.
Susan also works with foundation clients to develop effective granting programs and strengthen their investments in organizations. She is the author or co-author of a number of publications about capitalization and the nonprofit arts sector, including Getting Beyond Breakeven and its follow-up, Capitalization, Scale & Investment: Does Growth Equal Gain?
Douglas R. Clayton
Douglas R. Clayton brings more than 25 years of experience in the arts and culture industry, specifically within opera, theater, and arts service organizations. Passionate about innovative business models in the arts and culture sector, his driving purpose is to create more equitable and effective ways for talented and committed people to be creative and successful in our society. Prior to founding Creative Evolutions, Doug was a Senior Vice President at Arts Consulting Group working with a variety of national leaders and creative organizations in strategic planning, business analysis, and executive search. Before that, he served in various roles at Chicago Opera Theater, ultimately becoming General Director in 2017. In this role, he redeveloped the organization’s artistic identity and led the creation of a robust strategic planning and community engagement process that reversed a multiyear downward trend in audience attendance and donations. He also strategically prioritized recruitment and retention of key individuals, leaving the organization as the only multimillion-dollar opera company in the United States with an all-female executive leadership team.
As the Director of Programming and Operations for LA Stage Alliance prior to moving to Chicago, he used his multifaceted background to advise hundreds of performing arts organizations throughout the five-county Los Angeles region. He collaborated on multiple national infrastructure and marketing initiatives and was instrumental in the development and launch of the arts and culture focused customer relationship management system. Doug oversaw the complex rules administration and online voting systems for the LA Stage Ovation Awards and initiated an innovative resource-sharing facility in Los Angeles for small and midsized theater companies. Additionally, he served as the Chair of the Host Committee for the record-breaking 2011 Theater Communications Group national conference and was a member of the Directors Lab West’s steering committee. Doug has worked artistically as a stage director, playwright, and performer and has hands-on experience as both an artist and producer with a range of theatrical unions in the United States, including the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Actors’ Equity Association, American Guild of Musical Artists, and United Scenic Artists. Doug holds a bachelor of science from the University of Southern California and earned a master of business administration from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2018 he was named to Crain’s Chicago Business 40 under 40 list as a leading innovator in the business of culture.
Calida N. Jones
Calida N. Jones is an accomplished musician, social justice advocate, entrepreneur, and educator with over 25 years of experience in performance planning, workshop and curriculum development, volunteerism, project management, and teaching in both private and public institutions. Working with arts and cultural organizations nationally, she has led efforts in advance equity, diversity, inclusion, and access. She has built and supported several social change music programs, both in Connecticut and nationwide. Passionate about intentional, purposeful teaching and community engagement, her personal mission is to ensure that children with limited resources have access to musical opportunities and activities. She is also deeply committed to correlating the art of teaching to life skills and community building through the lenses of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility. Calida continues to be a regularly sought-after International Speaker, Coach, Violinist, Conductor, and Music Educator. Calida activates her philosophy of community building, inspiration, actionable solutions, and hope through motivational speeches, workshops, and coaching individuals worldwide. Most notably, she recently had the opportunity to speak to over 500k individuals in Amravati, India. There, she shared the “Impact of Kindness”. A TEDx speaker in San Jose, CA, Calida has had the privilege of speaking at prestigious institutions, including Yale University, Yale School of Music, Duke University, the Connecticut State Capitol, and The Hartt School. She has received numerous honors during her career, including a scholar fellowship at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Elizabeth L. Mahaffey Fellowship, Grammy Music Educator Award nomination, the Connecticut Arts Hero Award for the Waterbury region, and the Father Thomas H. Dwyer Humanitarian Award for her work in Waterbury, Connecticut. Recently, Calida was named an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Yale University.
In addition to being the Founder of CNJ Associates, she has also recently co-founded Creative Evolutions, a human-centered, adaptive ecosystem that provides actionable Solutions for
Creative Individuals and Organizations. Calida has previously sat on many boards, include the Connecticut Arts Alliance (Board Chair), the El Sistema USA board (Secretary), the Sound Crossings Music Board, and as a councilwoman for the Connecticut State Arts Council. Calida holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in violin performance from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master of Music degree in violin performance and Suzuki pedagogy from The Hartt School..
Daniel Payne
Daniel Payne brings experience that merges finance, architecture, and design thinking to the arts, cultural, and creative industries. Since joining AEA Consulting in 2011, he has applied his skills to projects for more than 175 clients in the U.S. and fifteen other countries around the world – including strategy development, financial modeling and business planning, space planning and capital project feasibility, developing new programming and facility concepts, and cultural planning for communities and cities. He was part of the team that helped develop Navigating Uncertain Times: A Scenario Planning Toolkit for the Arts and Culture Sector in 2020, a project funded by the Wallace Foundation.
Daniel gained his first experience in the cultural sector designing and installing exhibitions and installations in venues around New York. He also previously worked in Citigroup’s investment bank, where he advised financial sponsors on capital markets and strategic transactions. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute’s NEXT New York cohort, and he is a mentor for the New Museum’s NEW INC incubator. He has a M. Arch. from Columbia University, and a B.B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin.
Featured Breakout Session Speakers
Todd Ahrens
Todd M. Ahrens (he/him/his) has 30 years of nonprofit experience in the arts, museums, and education sectors, including 15 years in senior-level management positions. In addition to his extensive experience organizing and leading capital and endowment campaigns, his areas of expertise include major and planned gifts, corporate sponsorship, memberships, and grants. He is experienced in revitalizing earned revenue streams, including subscriptions, retail sales, and facility rentals, as well as with marketing, communication, and branding strategies. Since joining ACG, he has provided invaluable support to clients and the field in identifying gifted leaders and strategically advancing capital campaigns and revenue enhancement strategies. Prior to joining ACG, Ahrens spent two tenures with the Toledo Museum of Art. He was involved in a $75 million capital campaign to build a new building and sculpture garden, and later led a $40 million endowment campaign. Additionally, Ahrens developed new strategies to engage art collectors and nearly doubled the number of members in the museum’s acquisition society, providing more than $500,000 annually for art acquisitions. Ahrens has worked in the education sector as Director of Leadership Gifts at the University of Findlay, Director of Advancement at St. John’s Jesuit High School & Academy, and Director of Development for the University of Michigan Museum of Art where he led a $40 million campaign for art. He began his career in the arts at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in finance and marketing. Ahrens has served on the boards of numerous arts organizations, including Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Black Swamp Arts Festival, and Ohio Museums Association. Fluent in German, he completed two internships at Daimler Benz in Stuttgart, Germany, and spent a year studying at the University of Salzburg in Austria. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in international business and German from Simpson College and a master of arts degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Ahrens is credible in the knowledge and application of Target Training International’s Success Insights, per his certification in DISC and 12 Driving Forces®.
Raymond Bobgan
Raymond Bobgan is in his 20th season as Executive Artistic Director of Cleveland Public Theatre. Raymond has produced 79 world premiere full productions and countless workshop productions, a majority of which are by women and artists who are Black Indigenous, and People of Color. As an artist Raymond creates new performances that are bold, multilayered, and highly physical through an ever-evolving ensemble process. Raymond’s work has been seen in Romania, Brazil, Denmark, Serbia, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Canada. Raymond founded STEP, which employs teenagers to devise and perform an original play and co-founded the Y-Haven Theatre Project engaging formerly unhoused adults who are in addiction recovery, to create and perform plays. He initiated Teatro Público de Cleveland, CPT’s Latine group, and Masrah Cleveland Al-Arabi, by, for, and with Arabic-speaking communities. Raymond serves on the National New Play Network Board for which he was President 2018-2020 and he previously served on the board of TCG. During Raymond’s tenure at CPT, the organization has eliminated significant debt, tripled in scale, completed a 7.5 million dollar capital campaign, and is now on their way to complete a 12 million dollar goal capital campaign.
Amy Chin
Amy Chin is a genealogist, arts consultant and researcher. She consults, lectures and conducts workshops nationally and internationally for public institutions and private clients. Ms. Chin is currently a Board member and Officer of Pink Fang (formerly Ping Chong + Co), Theatre Development Fund (TDF), Think!Chinatown, Jezebel Films, and City Lore. She was formerly an Arts Program Specialist at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, co-founded the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation and served as Executive Director of the New York Chinese Cultural Center. Amy is also recognized for the family story she shared, in comic book form, in the New York Historical Society’s groundbreaking exhibition, “Chinese American Exclusion/Inclusion.” It is now available digitally through the NYC Dept of Education’s Civics for All Comics Group as part of the Hidden Voices: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in United States History project. Amy has been honored with a citation from the Manhattan Borough President for her cultural work and served on the Cultural Arts Advisory Commission for the City of New York. Amy holds a degree in East Asian studies from Barnard College and speaks three dialects of Chinese.
Paul Epner
Paul L. Epner, MBA, MEd co-founded the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), a 501c3 healthcare charity, and led the organization as CEO until stepping down in late 2021 after ten years. During his tenure, he created and chaired the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis, a collaborative of more than 70 professional societies, health systems, patient organizations, and organizations focused on improving quality. Currently, Paul provides pro bono consulting to healthcare startups. He also is a Past President of the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA) and was a volunteer leader of various initiatives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prior to the work above, Paul was an employee of Abbott Diagnostics for 31 years in the United States, Japan and China. He started his career as a 7th grade science teacher in Antioch, IL. In addition to his past employment, Paul has been an active volunteer member in his community. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Northlight Theatre where he is also the elected Treasurer and the co-chair of the Strategic Planning Committee. He also sits on the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Committee (AJC). He was recently Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Sepsis Alliance, a national patient safety charity and once served as National Vice President for the Crohn’s Colitis Foundation. Paul was an elected member of the School Board in Millburn, IL and in Shanghai, China. Paul is an avid theater goer. He maintains season tickets to the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Northlight Theatre. For more than 50 years, he has travelled to Stratford and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario where he annually sees 10-15 productions at the Stratford Festival and the Shaw Festival.
Cynthia Huffman
Cynthia Huffman Chairs the Board of Trustees at Union Arts Center, the home of the newly merged ACT Contemporary Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare Company. She joined the board of ACT in 2018, served as Board Chair for 2 years after 3 years as Governance Chair and leading the Board Structure Working Group which proposed the new model for the theater’s governing body. She was on the board of Intiman Theatre from 2007-2016 and served as Board President from 2013 to 2016. In 2019 Cynthia co-founded the Trustee Exchange, a group of trustees from TCG theatres across the country who gather virtually biweekly to discuss the role of theatre boards. In 2015 she initiated the Seattle Theatre Board Leaders group, a quarterly virtual conversation among trustee leadership of 6 local theaters.
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Jane Jung
Jane Jung is Managing Director of Pink Fang (formerly Ping Chong and Company). As Managing Director, she led the development of the organization’s 2022 Strategic Plan and established the Creative Fellowship (2019 - 2023), which supports interdisciplinary artists of color. She has been a Manager and Producer for individual artists and theater projects. From 2014-2017, she was Managing Director of The Civilians. Previously, she was General Manager at Ping Chong and Company from 2010-2014. She has produced new work that was presented at the Abrons Arts Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, The Duke on 42nd Street. She is a board member of Radical Evolution, and was formerly on the board of Musical Theater Factory and the Network of Ensemble Theatres.
Jorge B. Merced
Jorge B. Merced is an acclaimed actor, director, dramaturg, songwriter, and arts educator. As Associate Artistic Director of Pregones/PRTT he plays a key role in the development of the company’s acting and music ensemble, creative methodology, and original repertory, and also leads its lifelong arts learning programs. He studied piano and composition at Escuela Libre de Música in Puerto Rico, theatre at City College-CUNY and EITALC/International Theater School in Cuba, dance/choreography at Alvin Ailey School, and forum theater technique with Augusto Boal. Distinctions include the Dewar’s Young Artist Award, BRIO Award of The Bronx Council on the Arts, and multiple recognitions for his groundbreaking LGBTQ-themed Asunción Playwrights Project and juried play competition.
Belina Mizrahi
Belina Mizrahi comes to Arts FMS from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, where she served as the Director of Finance & Operations. Belina has worked in arts and events administration for over 15 years, holding varied leadership positions in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago. Belina holds an MFA in Theater Management from the Yale School of Drama and a BS in Astronomy & Physics from Yale University.
Andrea Nellis
With over 30 years of service in the Arts, Andrea Nellis launched her consulting practice in 2014. Prior to this, Andrea held financial leadership positions within several major cultural institutions. Most recently, she was the Managing Director of New York City Opera. Prior to NYC Opera, she was the General Manager and Chief Financial Officer of the Public Theater, managing day-to-day operations of a seven-performance space organization. In addition, she has held positions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, BAM Local Development Corporation, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Andrea holds an MFA in Theater Management from the Yale School of Drama and a BFA in Stage Management from Boston University. She has also served as a lecturer in Financial Management at both the Yale School of Drama and NYU Steinhardt.
Rosalba Rolón
Rosalba Rolón is a revered visionary and a passionate creator of musical theater that celebrates Latinx voices and cultures. Co-founder of Pregones and now Artistic Director of Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, she spearheads the sustained development of the company’s acting and music ensemble, creative methodology, and original repertory. An accomplished actor, director, and dramaturg, Rosalba specializes in the adaptation of non-dramatic texts for stage performance and draws from multiple traditions of Caribbean, Latin American, and U.S.-Latino theater to build Pregones/PRTT’s distinct body of work. Salient distinctions include the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, Doris Duke Artist Award, New York Latin ACE Gold Award in Theater, Teer Pioneer Award from National Black Theatre, USA Fellowship in Theater and Performance, and Creative Capital Award, among others. She serves on the boards of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) and United States Artists (USA), is a faculty member of both the NALAC Leadership Institute and the Association of Performing Arts Professionals Emerging Leadership Institute, and is a tenured member of the Nominating Committee for the Tony Awards, presented annually by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League. Rolón’s many theater credits include Torched! about the Bronx fires of the 1970s, ¡Guaracha! adapted from the novel La guaracha del Macho Camacho by Luis Rafael Sánchez, Betsy! with Roadside Theater, We Have IRÉ with Paul Flores and Yosvany Terry, Dancing In My Cockroach Killers with Magdalena Gómez, among others.s.
Cheryl Green Rosario
Cheryl Green Rosario is the Head of DEI and CSR at Munich Re where she leads the commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the US, focusing on building an inclusive culture and leveraging internal and external partnerships to strengthen Munich Re’s social impact. Prior to joining Munich Re, Cheryl founded her own consulting business, CGR Consulting, focused on DEI and philanthropy working with corporations, foundations and nonprofits.
Before starting her business, she served as Vice President of Social Responsibility at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, where Cheryl led the global social responsibility strategy for the Company, in areas of DEI, Human Rights, Philanthropy and Sustainability. Cheryl also spent 10 years at American Express as Director, Philanthropy where she oversaw the global strategic direction and grantmaking for the Arts & Culture & Historic Preservation portfolios.
Prior to joining American Express, Cheryl worked at Morgan Stanley in its Community Affairs division and managed a Board Leadership program for Time Warner. In addition to her corporate and foundation experience, Cheryl has over 12 years of nonprofit experience with an emphasis on women and girls and people with disabilities, working with organizations like Family Justice, Girl Scouts and Learning Ally (formerly Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic).
Cheryl is on the Board of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation, Junior Achievement of New Jersey and the National African American Insurance Association Foundation and Signature Theatre Company. Cheryl speaks and writes regularly on CSR and DEI topics. Most recently, speaking for the Institute for Corporate Social Responsibility, Cercle Magellan in France Talent Management Club and a guest lecturer at Columbia University, New York University and University of Pennsylvania on various DEI topics. Cheryl is an ongoing speaker for the US Department of State and has traveled to China to speak about CSR in 5 different cities and has facilitated virtual sessions for Malta, Slovenia, and other countries across the globe.
Cheryl lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children, a college student and high schooler. She enjoys writing, hiking, yoga, meditation and cheering on her favorite professional sports teams as well as at her children’s soccer games.
Donna Walker-Kuhne
Donna Walker-Kuhne is an award-winning thought leader, writer and strategist for community engagement, audience development and social justice. She is President of Walker International Communications Group, a 35 year old boutique marketing and audience development consulting agency. She was formerly Director of Marketing for both The Public Theater and Dance Theater of Harlem. She was also Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of Community Engagement at New Jersey Performing Arts Center. She provides consulting services to numerous arts organizations throughout the world and has generated over $22m in earned income. She is also Senior Advisor, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion at New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Currently her portfolio includes social justice initiatives and Equity Diversity Inclusion workshops. She is a lecturer and key note presenter for international arts conferences in Blomfontein, South Africa, Croatia, and Australian Arts Conferences. She is an adjunct professor at New York University and Columbia University. She is the recipient of over 50 awards including the 2025 Harlem Stage Ignites Artistic Freedom Award, 2022 Margot Adams Signature Award, 2021 SGI-USA Distinguished Pioneer Award and the 2019 League of Professional Theatre Women Rachel Crothers Leadership Award. Her first book, Invitation to the Party: Building Bridges to Arts, Culture and Community, was published in 2005 and her second book, Champions for the Arts: Lessons and Successful Strategies for Engaging Dynamic Communities will be published October, 2025. She has a weekly blog, Arts and Culture Connections that explores cultural efforts to expand diverse audiences. She is also a Board member for Newark Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Signature Theater (NY), HARLEM WEEK and The Harlem Arts Alliance.
Mei Ann Teo
Mei Ann Teo is Artistic Director, New Work of Pink Fang. Mei Ann is a queer immigrant from Singapore who is an artistic leader, theatre maker, and educator. Teo makes theatre & film at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice. As a director/devisor/dramaturg, they create across genres, including music theatre, intermedial participatory work, reimagining classics, and documentary theatre. They developed and directed world premieres of Jillian Walker’s SKiNFoLK: An American Show at the Bushwick Starr, Ruth Tang’s Building A Character with Rebekah Sangeetha Dorai at Wild Rice’s Singapore Theatre Festival, Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong at Shakespeare’s Globe, Woolly Mammoth,and national tour including The Public, Seattle Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Philadelphia Theatre Company, the Goodman, Portland Center Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Folger Shakespeare Library and the North American premiere of Amy Berryman’s Walden at Theatreworks Hartford that swept the Connecticut Circle Critics Awards including Best Production and Director. Teo’s work has toured the U.S. and internationally including the world premiere of Dim Sum Warriors at Theatre Above in Shanghai by Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo, composed by Pulitzer Prize winner Du Yun, which went on a national twenty-five city tour in China. Teo developed and directed Bryonn Bain’s Lyrics from Lockdown, which has toured Belgium’s Festival de Liege, Singapore’s M1 Festival, National Black Theatre and many prisons and educational institutions across the country. They created Labyrinth for the Beijing International Festival (Top 8 in Beijing News). A recipient of theLeague of Professional Theatre Women’s Josephine Abady Award and the Inaugural Lily Fan Director Lilly Award, they have served as the Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Factory, the Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Work at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Sara Zatz
Sara Zatz is the Artistic Director, Engagement of Pink Fang, where she leads the company’s community engagement programs. Since joining the company in 2002, she has led the Undesirable Elements series, working with a wide range of partner organizations, from regional theaters to community-based arts organizations. She has co-created and produced dozens of works in the series and overseen the creation of an in-school arts education program and training programs to share the methodology of Undesirable Elements with other artists and community members. Recent productions include Generation Rise and Generation NYZ (with Kirya Traber; New Victory), (Un)Conditional, with individuals living with chronic illness (Profile Theatre), Inside/Out: Voices from the Disability Community and Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity (national touring).