NYU PROGRAM IN DRAMATIC LITERATURE

Brandon Woolf is a theater artist and clinical associate professor at New York University, where he directs the Program in Dramatic Literature. Institutional Theatrics, his book on contemporary performance in Berlin, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2021. His newest performance work explores relations between smell, taste, and intersecting systems of power.

THE MERCURY STORE

Claudia Zelevansky (BA Northwestern University, MFA Yale School of Drama, Directing) has 25 years of experience as a director, educator and administrator. Teaching: Yale University, Sarah Lawrence, CUNY, Bard, CalArts, Oberlin. Directing: 35 productions regionally and in NYC. Positions: Associate Artistic Director, Dallas Theater Center; Senior Associate, Martin Vinik Planning for the Arts; and currently, Executive Director, Mercury Store.

NYU SKIRBALL CENTER

Jay Wegman is the Director of NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, where he has been responsible for the artistic direction and leadership since 2016. He previously served as Director of the Abrons Art Center at Henry Street Settlement from 2006-2016.

ONASSIS ONX

Jazia Hammoudi is a curator and XR producer specializing in contemporary art and immersive technologies. She holds degrees in art history and museum studies from the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), and has held positions at Hauser & Wirth Gallery, the Barbican Centre, the Newark Museum, and Artnet.

RAD WORKS

Julian Rad is an award winning creative who has realized experiences about cloud computing, built immersive environments about AI, unleashed theatrical stories about design, designed journeys about products, shipped products that spark memory, made machines to explain search, captured flickering pictures about being human and manifested staged tableaux about whales and imaginary planets.

DOTDOT

Kate Stevenson is a creative producer, experiential director and game designer with a background across live performance, documentary film, multiplayer gaming, filmmaking, dance and interactive storytelling. She co-founded DOTDOT in 2014, an award-winning creative studio focused on generating impact through social and immersive experiences.

EMPAC

Katherine C. M. Adams is a curator and writer based in New York. She is Associate Curator, Time-Based Visual Art at EMPAC, the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at RPI.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Kay Matschullat is an award-winning director, producer, and educator dedicated to deconstructing barriers and exploring inventive collaborations. She has directed world premieres of plays by Nobel Prize winner, Derek Walcott, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Ariel Dorfman, and music-theater by Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik. With her team she catalyzes, supports and produces live arts that integrate and interrogate science and technology.

THE CLEMENTE CENTER

Libertad is an anthropologist, curator, and cultural organizer / producer with vast arts management experience specializing in startup phase and strategic turnaround of community-based cultural organizations with an intersectional approach. She is a co-founder of the South Bronx Unite environmental justice coalition and in 2020, became the the Executive Director of The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center.

BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE (BAX)

Marlène Ramírez-Cancio is a Puerto Rican cultural producer, artist, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. As Artistic Director of BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, a multigenerational arts organization nurturing creative expression and artistic process, she creates spaces of inquiry and praxis for artist-led initiatives.

ONASSIS ONX

Matthew Niederhauser is an artist and educator. His work pushes the limits of emerging AI and XR technologies within a wide range of mediums with premieres at the Venice Film Festival, Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, and IDFA. Most recently, Matthew also became the Technical Director at Onassis ONX in New York.

NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Sayar Lonial is the Vice Dean for External Affairs and Public Relations at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, in Downtown Brooklyn. Lonial’s other current titles include Chair of the DUMBO BID Board of Directors, Secretary for the MetroTech BID and Executive Board member to the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.

ONASSIS USA

Vallejo Gantner has led, and curated for innovative arts organisations in Australia, Ireland and the US for 25 years. Across interdisciplinary live performance, immersive and digitally generated content, cinema, design and hospitality he has championed diverse innovative artists, work, and ideas; engendering unexpected experience and forms of communication for new audiences.