Artists Advisory Council

Claudia Alick
Claudia Alick, Executive Producer and Artistic Director of Smokin Word Productions, is the author of the chap-books "The Haiku Scam", "Disingenuous", hip-hop articals for BUST magazine, and many plays that have been seen on the stages of The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, LaMama ETC, 45 Bleeker, Chashama Experimental Theatre, New... [read more]

Christopher Elam
"A true original, Mr. Elam is one of the most individualistic of modern dance voices today." - The New York Times.

Since founding his six-person modern dance company, Misnomer Dance Theater, Elam's work has been performed in over 100 theaters across the USA, Cuba, Brazil, Indonesia, Ireland and Turkey. Elam's work is an... [read more]

Edward Ficklin
Shying away from the limelight, composer and librettist Edward Ficklin has found his way in the new music world -- and started discovering his voice as an artist -- working with collectives like the New York Composers Circle and the South Oxford Six. Trained in classical composition and English literature at the University of Denver, he... [read more]

James Ford
James Ford is the former Director of Member Services for Fractured Atlas, where he still oversees marketing initiatives. He has been working as an arts administrator in New York City for over eight years. As a consultant, he has produced marketing plans and materials for many prestigious clients including Princeton University, The Public... [read more]

Bill Hayward
Bill Hayward is a photographer and filmmaker whose endeavors have taken him around the world. Hayward has photographed for numerous national magazines, and his portrait subjects have ranged from Bob Dylan for Interview magazine to President Reagan for the cover of Fortune.

Hayward's work is exhibited in galleries and... [read more]

Zachary R. Mannheimer
For The Subjective Theatre Company: Directed Karel Capek's The White Plague and co-produced The UnConvention (2004), Directed Jesse Alick's Sleep Awake (2003), John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (2002), Eugene Ionesco's Victims of Duty (2001, 2002 OOBR Award for Overall Excellence), Set... [read more]

Robbie McCauley
Robbie McCauley is an OBIE Award playwright for Sally’s Rape, and a nationally recognized performance artist and director. An AUDELCO award recipient for acting in The Taking of Miss Janie by Ed Bullins, she also appeared in Fences by August Wilson at the Tyrone Gutherie Theater in Minneapolis.... [read more]

Mark Elijah Rosenberg
Mark Elijah Rosenberg is the Founder and Artistic Director of Rooftop Films. Born and raised in New York City, Mark received his BA in Film Studies at Vassar College before returning to the City to translate his study of film into an artistic and curatorial career. In nine years, Mark has built Rooftop Films from an idea into a... [read more]

Philip Shneidman
Philip Shneidman is the Artistic Director of the little OPERA THEATRE of NY. He has directed Eugene Onegin and Dialogues of the Carmelites at The Mannes College of Music where he is director of the Opera Workshop. His theater directing credits include: A Drowned Girl [1919]; Vladimir Mayakovsky, a... [read more]