
NANCY AHN serves as Operations Manager for The Field. She graduated from Bennington College with a concentration in painting and literature. An independent comic artist, Nancy illustrated Intro to Alien Invasion (Scribner, 2015) and has been featured in Cornell University's Epoch literary magazine. She also designed Crushing It, a bike lane barrier installation near Brooklyn Bridge Park for the New York City Department of Transportation. Key themes and values in Nancy's work include internet culture, intersectional feminism, bikes, environmental sustainability, dogs, and hip hop. Before joining The Field in April 2017, Nancy supplemented her creative practice by working in pharmaceutical sales as a copywriter, in visitor services at The Museum of Modern Art, and in marketing & e-commerce for an LED lighting retailer. Born and raised in Queens, she now lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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The Field empowered Executive Director, JENNIFER WRIGHT COOK, to cut her teeth twice. First, as a fledgling arts administrator in 1996 when she was an exhausted dancer/waitress/personal trainer in need of a life change and then again in 2006 when her full-time performance life was waning and she was ready to hunker down and test her leadership skills. Her current role as Executive Director is firmly grounded in these two experiences - that The Field can truly change someone’s life. Jennifer officially joined The Field’s staff in 2006 as Development Manager and then Co-Director. In 2007 she was promoted to Executive Director where she oversees organization’s programmatic, technological, financial and organizational growth. Racial equity and social justice are core values in Jennifer’s personal and professional life. She actively participates in anti-racism learning, workshops and groups including PISAB’s Undoing Racism, Race Forward’s Innovation Lab, DCLA’s Diversity Committee and monthly Non-profit Executives Undoing Racism. In 2008 she launched an innovative mentorship program, Economic Revitalization for Performing Artists (ERPA) with multi-year funding from The Rockefeller Foundation. Jennifer's work has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal, Backstage, WNYC Public Radio, and by participation on adjudication panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, emcArts and Dance Theater Workshop. Jennifer is part of the Interim Board for New Yorkers for Arts and Culture and is active advocate for city funding. She has spoken on numerous panels for CUNY Prelude Festival, Alliance of Artists Communities and the Future of Music Coalition. She is also a proud alum of Coro Leadership NY XXI. As a dance/theater performer, teacher and art-maker, Jennifer has performed/created with the San Francisco-based Joe Goode Performance Group (1997-2005) and New York choreographers Neil Greenberg, Sarah Skaggs, Mark Dendy and others. She has performed her own work in Madrid, New York, San Francisco and Portland, OR. She sings in a gospel choir and lives in Brooklyn with her partner and daughter.
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SHAWN RENÉ GRAHAM, Deputy Director, Programs and Services, is a freelance writer and dramaturg from San Jose, California who has worked with many writers including Dennis Allen, France-Luce Benson, Nilo Cruz, Steve Harper, Walter Mosley, Lynn Nottage, Paul Rudnick, Susan Sontag, Dominic A. Taylor, Judy Tate, and Cori Thomas. She has been a guest dramaturg at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, the Crossroads Theatre Company's Genesis Festival, the New Professional Theatre, and African American Women's New Play Festival; and has served on many panels including the National Endowments for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grants Panel in Playwriting, and the Mark Taper Forum's New Works Festival. She is currently the resident dramaturg of The American Slavery Project's Unheard Voices, the Literary Director for the Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Future Classics Series and Playwright’s Playground, and founder of All Creative Writes, an artistic assistance service designed to provide individual artists and performing arts organizations with administrative, fundraising and writing support. Ms. Graham holds degrees from the California State University, Los Angeles and the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. She joined The Field in 2012 and lives in Bronx, NY.
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NATALIE MARMOL joined The Field as Program Associate in October 2019. She is a film and theatrical director with a technical background. Natalie enjoys working with comedies, dramas, fantasies, and new works. If she's not directing you'll find her light designing, stage managing, tech supervising, or co-hosting on an independent podcast called Going Through It. Before joining The Field, Natalie was an audition monitor working hard to get artists into the room. She's thrilled to now help artists, of all kinds, in a much different way. Select Credits Include: Direction - Still Calling by Darilyn (Music Video), Root Channels By Manny Rivera (Play), If it's Still Night When The Sun Rises by Gregory Paul Thomas (Play), The Sweetest Swing in Baseball by Rebecca Gilman (Play); Light Design - H.O.M.E. (Habitat of Meta-Humans Enterprise) at New Ohio Theatre, Flying Fables at Compton Goethals Studios; Stage Management - Mother of Pearl By Nathan Yungerberg, Speak! by Natalie Birriel, MTWorks; and Tech Supervisor - Planet Connections, CUNY City College.
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SARAH MCLELLAN served as Executive Director of Ensemble Studio Theatre and Managing Director of Clubbed Thumb before joining The Field as Institutional-Investor Relationship Manager in September 2020. Prior to Clubbed Thumb, she was the Assistant Administrative Director of the Juilliard Drama Division, Artistic and Management Programs Associate at Theatre Communications Group, and spent four years coordinating the Apprentice and Workshop programs at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. She has served as a panelist for the Brooklyn Arts Council, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the ART/NY Nancy Quinn Fund, and the WP Lab. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she focused on theater production and administration. |
CLAY SCHUDEL is The Field's Finance Manager. He has worked in nonprofit finance management since 1995, with a particular focus on arts and arts-related programs. Before joining The Field in 2014, Clay spent 18 years as the Finance Manager at The Alpha Workshops, a nonprofit organization that trains people with HIV/AIDS to work in decorative and applied arts. Clay is an avid traveler, culture consumer, and student (of Japanese, ceramics, and life in general). He lives with his husband in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
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Artist Services Associate KIRSTEN MICHELLE SCHNITTKER is a dance artist, Feldenkrais teacher and arts manager born in Colorado and based in New York City and Los Angeles. Their improvisational and personally distinctive dances have been presented all over New York City, in Switzerland, and virtually in Los Angeles, CA. Kirsten Michelle collaboratively performs with choreographers Yanira Castro/a canary torsi, Diana Crum, Hadley Smith, and Amity Jones; and has previously been featured in the work of Stevie May, Ilona Bito, Michael Portnoy, Carte Blanche Performance/Shandoah Goldman, Annette Herwander, Andrew Schneider, Sarah A.O. Rosner/the A.O. Movement Collective, and Tara Aisha Willis, among others. Kirsten Michelle is a member of Creating New Futures, a group of arts workers collaborating to expand and radicalize ethics and equity in dance, performance, and beyond. Prior to joining The Field staff in October 2020, they have worked for Danspace Project as a Development Associate, and for many other artists/companies as an assistant and project manager supporting fundraising, grant writing, communications, and marketing.
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