STAFF

BOARD

ADVISORY BOARD

MEGHAN FINN
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Meghan Finn (she/her) is the Artistic Director of The Tank. She previously served as the Associate Artistic Director at 3LD Art & Technology Center. Her directorial work has been seen at the Tank, the V&A, Serpentine Galleries, The Wexner Center, SCAD, The Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago, Museo Jumex Mexico City, The Power Plant, Canadian Stage, Carnegie Mellon, Brooklyn College, MIT, NYU, the Great Plains Theater Conference and others. She has directed three world premieres by playwright Mac Wellman, including most recently The Invention of Tragedy (2019). Other recent credits include: I Am Nobody a new musical by Greg Kotis (Urinetown) at The Tank; as well as The Nine Dreams: Blake & the Apocalypse by writer Nick Flynn (film). She directed a short film by playwright Peggy Stafford called 16 Words or Less which has been screened at indie film festivals nationally and in Europe. She is a frequent collaborator of conceptual artist and sculptor Pedro Reyes, and directed Doomocracy for Creative Time. Finn collaborated with photographer Mitch Epstein on a live performance with cellist Erik Friedlander as well as celebrated premieres by Erin Courtney, Peggy Stafford, Gary Winter, Ben Gassman, Alexandra Collier, Carl Holder, Eliza Bent and Cori Copp. When We Went Electronic by Caitlyn Saylor Stephens which premiered at The Tank in 2018 toured in 2021 to The Roes Theater in Athens Greece and OnStage! Festival Rome and Milan. She holds a BA in Theater from The University of Southern California and an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College.

MOLLY FITZMAURICE
MANAGING PRODUCER

Molly FitzMaurice (she/her) is a dramaturg, producer, and theater maker. She holds an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism with a certificate in Theater Management from David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, where she is now a doctoral candidate, writing a dissertation on the conceptual turn in American new plays. Previously, she served as co-artistic director of Yale Cabaret, producing director of the Dwight/Edgewood Project, and in the artistic offices of Yale Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and Huntington Theatre Company. As a production and new play dramaturg, she’s collaborated with artists including Nambi E. Kelley, Erika Dickerson-Despenza, Carl Cofield, Rory Pelsue, Aneesha Kudtarkar, Genne Murphy, Shadi Ghaheri, Alex Lubischer, and many others. She has also produced gatherings for The Foundry Theatre, Theater Magazine, the City of New Haven, and Salonathon. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago in humanities and theater, with a focus on archetypal narratives (fairy tales!). She loves running, baking, roller coasters, and her dog Gerda. http://www.mollyfitzmaurice.com/

JOHNNY G. LLOYD
DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT

Johnny G. Lloyd (he/him) is an “entertainingly cerebral” (New Yorker) Brooklyn-based writer and producer. Off Broadway: Patience (Second Stage Theatre). Off-Off Broadway: Or, An Astronaut Play (The Tank). Johnny was the winner of the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (The Problem With Magic, Is:) and has a Drama Desk Award for his affiliation with Theater In Quarantine (created by Joshua William Gelb and KatieRose McLaughlin). He has been commissioned by Clubbed Thumb, Second Stage Theater, and Westport Country Playhouse. Johnny has been in residence at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, The Lark, Liberation Theatre Company, and more. He is the Director of Artistic Development at The Tank and co-founder of InVersion Theatre. MFA: Columbia University. jglloyd.com

PETE BETCHER
TECHNICAL MANAGER

Pete Betcher (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist, and theater maker. He graduated from the University of Montana with BA degrees in Theater and Media Design. Since 2010, the focus of his on stage work has been with The Back Pack; a movement group that focuses on fully original, creative work that often uses media integration. With the group, Pete has produced and performed in more than 50 productions since 2010. In addition to being a primary performer and collaborator, Pete is the Creative Director, visual designer, sound designer, prop designer, and digital media lead. His work with the group has received two B. Iden Payne awards for Best Media, and a Critics Table Award for Best Movement. Outside of the theater world, Pete has designed two board games, takes a rock climbing "vacation" once a year, prefers to commute on a human powered bike, and has been crowned the winner of an ice cream eating contest.

CONNOR SCULLY
MARKETING & AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT MANAGER

Connor Scully (he/him) is a theatrical producer and director currently pursuing his MFA in Theatre Management & Producing from Columbia University. When not at the Tank, Connor is helping other early career artists produce their shows, including recently associate producing Ice Factory at the New Ohio Theatre. He also shows with the group he helped found, DOG STUFF. With DOG STUFF, He’s directed and produced multiple productions including the new works One in Four (Capital Fringe, The Brick) and Wrong Chopped (Firehouse Theatre), as well as an absurdist deconstructed Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Firehouse Theatre). @sculliosis.

ESMÉ MARIA NG
PRODUCING FELLOW

Esmé Maria Ng (they/she/he) is a theater (maker/administrator/educator) who loves heartbreak, new plays, and laughing through the pain. They have worked with Manhattan Theatre Club, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Breaking the Binary Theatre, The Playwrights Realm, and Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Esmé’s plays have earned honors as a 2023 Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow and a two-time Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist. Their critical work was recently published in American Theatre Magazine. Esmé is currently a teaching artist with Girl Be Heard, a member of the American Theatre Group’s BIPOC PlayLab, and a freelance producer/dramaturg.

XIAOYUE ZHANG
PRODUCING FELLOW

Xiaoyue Zhang (she/her) is a multi-skilled performance, video, and image maker from China. She has produced and production managed performances in spaces and venues including REDCAT, AFROPUNK Festival 2023, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, The Getty Villa, and CalArts Center for New Performance. Her performance, movement, and video works have been shown at Theater Mitu(Hybrid Arts Lab), Center for Performance Research, LA Performance Practice, REDCAT New Original Works Festival, Hollywood Fringe Festival, Guangdong Museum of Art (China), and Short Film Corner of the 2018 Cannes International Film Festival. She is currently the Director of Performance Lab at the Orchard Project.

CARLTON V BELL II “CJ”
PRODUCING FELLOW

Carlton V Bell II “cj” (pronouns: they/them) is a Black, queer, southerner creating space + time at the intersections of theatre, film, and cultural organizing to facilitate liberation strategies in marginalized ecosystems. 
Carlton’s practices are rooted in an Afro-Queer paradigm with an emphasis on oral tradition and curating spaces that Investigate, Fabulate, and Document the Black queer experience & aesthetic. As a Lucumí  Aborisa and Hoodoo practitioner; spirituality is deeply rooted at the core of Carlton’s lifestyle and creative practice.
Carlton spends their day to day primarily operating as the Program Associate for the Sex Worker Giving Circle at Third Wave Fund of which they are a former fellow & advisor to its annual grant-making cohort. 
They are also the co-founder of the award-winning Birmingham Black Repertory Theatre Collective, a Black queer led non-profit organization building power and capacity for marginalized artists while catalyzing a culture of Black theatre in the South. 
Carlton also serves as the Development Lead for “Write It Out!”, Founded by award-winning Poz playwright and advocate Donja R. Love in 2019, Write It Out! (WIO!) uses art, advocacy, and accessibility to provide a space for people living with HIV and AIDS to tell their stories. As a New-New Yorker, They are elated to begin collaborating with The Tank NYC. carltonvbell.com for more info.

KATHLEEN CAPDESUÑER
PRODUCING FELLOW

Kathleen Capdesuñer is an immigrant raised and Florida grown, Cuban-American director and producer working in English, Spanish y Spanglish. Kathleen is deeply committed to democratizing modes of creation, increasing accessibility and representation in the industry, and championing the work of living writers. 
Select Credits Include: “SUNSET BLVD.” (SDCF Observer/Broadway), “Los Empeños de una Casa” (Director/Repertorio Español), “The Detour Plays” (Director/Playwrights Horizons & The Parsnip Ship), “Red Bike” (Director/The New School),“Into the Woods” (Community Producer/New York City Center), “True West” (Assistant Director/Broadway), and “SHAME” (Director/Orlando & Edinburgh International Fringe Festivals).
Honors/Affiliations: NYFA Grant, The Civilians R&D Group, Repertorio Español Directing Fellow, MTC Directing Fellow, Roundabout Directing Fellow, McCarter Directing Apprentice, and BroadwayWorld Best World Premiere Regional Award.
Kathleen is currently in residence at Colt Coeur and at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. 

www.kcapdesuner.com 

JESSIE CHAR
PRODUCING FELLOW

Jessie Char A classically-trained cellist, Jessie cut her teeth in the classical music world before accidentally landing a job in tech. She then became a career career-shifter, moving rapidly between various disciplines in tech before founding the Layers design conference which ran in tandem with Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference from 2015-2020. When her practice came to a screeching halt in 2020, she survived the only way she knew how: by developing as many hobbies as she could and seeing what stuck. For reasons she barely understands she stumbled into theatrical design, working on productions like Invasive Species (The Tank, The Vineyard) and JOB (SoHo Playhouse, The Connelly). Her sound design and creative direction have been acclaimed by The New York Times and New York Magazine, and now she’s not entirely sure how to describe what she does for a living.

KYRA DAVIS
PRODUCING FELLOW

Kyra Davis is a dedicated artist from the south. She traded in southern hospitality to take on the city that never sleeps to further her career in acting, writing, and creating. She was a part of the Inaugural class in the Uptown Collective’s Renaissance Playwright Residency. Her play, SugarHill, will be produced by Dramatic Question Theatre in 2025. Sugarhill has been workshopped at The Flea Theater and further developed with Dramatic Question Theatre. She is currently excited about her web series ‘Front of House Faux Paux’ she wrote, produced, and starred in.

Her passion is to create art for underrepresented voices and advancing their opportunities in the industry. Her inspirations are the Black women who came before her and the young Black women who have been forgotten, counted out, and under-estimated. She desires to create works that empower them, fill them with laughter, and encourage them to live their lives unapologetically. Selected credits include: Law and Order: Organized Crime, Jitney (Rena), Intimate Apparel (Esther), and The Christians (Elizabeth).

PATRICIA MARJORIE
MULTI-DISCIPLINE ARTISTIC COLLABORATOR

Patrícia Marjorie (she/her) is a Brazilian Director and multidisciplinary artist based in NYC with experience on different types and scopes of projects in theater. Actor, director and craft master, Patrícia moved to NYC after 19 years of an extensive work in theater productions in Brasília, Brazil's capital and federal district, where she got her Bachelor Degree in Performing Arts by Universidade de Brasília (UnB). Experienced executing measurable creative solutions in arts, design and interactive marketing. Patrícia's theatrical credits have included performing in classical plays like Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (Brasilia 2014), modern adaptations as Heiner Muller's Hamlet- Machine (Brasilia 2001); TV Shows as Rainha da Cocada by Dulce Delight (NYC 2018). As a director, she directed On how to be a Monster by Maria Luiza Muller with At Alia Theatre Company in December 2019, at Casa Italiana (NYU- Tisch); she has been working on her own script A Song to Keep the Wolves Awake that had a staged reading last November at The Tank and soon to be open as a full production when the theaters re-open in NY. Associate artist at interactive Performances as The Other’s Shadow by Rodrigo Fisher at Dixon Place (NYC 2018) and all Galas for The Tank as associate designer. Patricia's NYC craft works include Props Master for Mac Welman’s Sincerity Forever, Sandalwood Box and The Fez recent productions at The Flea Theatre (2019) Black Exhibition by Jeremy O. Harris at Bushwick Starr and Skinfolk by Jillian Walker among others.

Addison Vaughn
INTERN

Addison Vaughn (she/her) is a New York-based director, writer, and producer with a BFA in Theatre from Southern Methodist University. At SMU, she produced over twelve new works as president of the university’s student theatre company. In the Dallas theatre scene, she has worked as an assistant director, production assistant, and stage manager. Her play Catherine was recently featured in Powerstories Theatre Company’s Voices of Women playwriting festival. She is deeply passionate about uplifting underprivileged voices in theatre and providing more leadership opportunities for female and non-binary creatives.

JoJo Knott
INTERN

JoJo Knott (He/Him) is a Playwright and producer who hails from Houston Texas. He is best known for his projects which delve into complex gender issues and deep-rooted religious psychology. He co-founded Rhapsody Riot Plat Festival, a short play festival with a music and audio design focus. He will graduate in the spring of 2025 with a degree in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of Fine Arts.

Kevin Park
INTERN

KEVIN PARK (They/He) is a composer and music director based in New York City. Before moving to New York, he worked on several productions in the Chicago theater scene including Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon (Looking Glass Theatre Company), RENT (Possibilities Theatre), and many shows at the Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern University. He is currently freelancing as a music director for churches and schools in the New York/New Jersey area while continuing to work on a new musical, Last Song on Earth, with his co-authors. Recently his work was seen Off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company with the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals.

Maddie Thorpe
INTERN

Maddie Thorpe (they/them) is a director, arts administrator, producer, and dramaturg from Atlanta, Georgia. They graduated from Emerson College in Boston, MA with a BFA in Theatre, concentrating in Directing and Arts Administration. At Emerson, they directed, produced, and held many other roles in several plays and musicals at Emerson Stage and with student theatre organizations. They’ve also worked with local theatre companies, including OutFront Theatre Company in Atlanta and The Lyric Stage in Boston. Maddie has recently moved to New York City to continue their work in theatre, focusing on uplifting and celebrating the voices of historically underrepresented artists. @maddie.g.thorpe

Sam Javier
INTERN

Sam Javier (she/her) is an NYU graduate student studying Performing Arts Administration. Before coming to New York, she represented the Philippines in the Hip Hop International Championship, winning the Bronze medal in 2017. Her work has always been a labor of love as she coached and mentored an all-girls Hip Hop team, worked as the youth Chairperson in local government, managed a dance studio and organized World of Dance PH. Her passion for the arts drives her to positively contribute to the global performing arts community.

RESIDENTS

RAN XIA
RESIDENT DIRECTOR

Ran Xia is a playwright, director, and interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Shanghai, China (aka soup dumpling dreamland). Her plays have been seen on stages around New York City, including Pomegrenade at IRT; Harmony at HERE Arts Center; De Profundis at Jewel Box Theatre & The Cell; Byron in Velvet Dance Shoes at The Wild Project; Tre ex Machina at the Kraine (also published in Dionysian), [AI] (an adaptation of Ayn Rand's Anthem) at The Brick; North, They Lived in the Attic, Princess Anybody, etc., at Dixon Place. At the Tank, you might have caught her audio documentary performance projects Echo & Siren, as well as Tao at Dark Fest 2018; she also recently directed the world premiere of Ben Gassman's Independent Study, and Ailís Ní Ríain's The Tallest Man in the World. Ran is also a frequent collaborator of Exquisite Corpse Co. (Co-author of The Enchanted Realm of Rene Magritte, audio/visual installation version of Echo at the Memory House on Governors Island); a current Resident Director at The Flea, and a Resident Artist at Access Theater. Assistant Directing credits include: The Great Leap (by Lauren Yee, Dir. Taibi Magar at the Atlantic Theater), Baby Fat: Act I (a Screeching Weasel punk rock musical, Dir. Michael Scholar Jr, at La Mama with Columbia Stages), Two Mile Hollow (by Leah Nanako Winkler, Dir. Morgan Gould at WP Theatre), Kaspar (by Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney, Dir. Sam Pinkleton at the Flea), and Refrigerated Dreams by Carrie Mae Weems, Nona Hendryx, Francesca Harper, and Niegel Smith at Joe's Pub. A staff critic at Theatre Is Easy and Exeunt. ranxia.info| thearcticgroup.or

TROVE
RESIDENT COMPANY

Trove is a New York City-based theatre and live arts collective. Together, we create work that is playful, surprising, and dialectically complex, striving to engage audiences and artists alike as citizens. As emerging artists, we operate from the belief that we already have everything we need, pooling our collective resources (money, people, ideas, space) to create our art. 

Trove produces two main types of work: Trinkets and Treasures. Trinkets are one-off, open-invite, developmental workshops for generative artists who want to invite others into their creative process, born from our view of theatre as a constantly evolving, inherently collaborative thing. These often take the form of play readings, but can also encompass everything from dance workshops to interactive comedy shows. Treasures are more fully-realized projects that offer space for a team of artists to present their work to a larger audience. Past Treasures include a production of Penelope Gould’s Drive the Speed Limit at HERE Art Center as a part of HERE’s Summer Co-Op series and a duet of readings at The Tank for Limefest 2023. TroveIRL.com

JUSTIN KREBS
PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER

Justin Krebs is a political and cultural writer, entrepreneur and organizer. He is the author of 538 Ways to Live, Work and Play Like a Liberal, a book that launched a 65-city tour, and he is a regular contributor to It's A Free Country, the politics website of WNYC, New York's Public Radio. Justin is a founder and National Director of Living Liberally, an organization that creates social communities around progressive politics across the country, including Laughing Liberally comedy shows, Screening Liberally film series, Drinking Liberally happy hours and many more programs. Justin has developed creative campaigns with progressive allies including environmental advocates, labor unions, immigration activists, civil rights groups and good-government campaigns. He is a former Senior Fellow at the New Organizing Institute in Washington, DC, and a former Activist Fellow with CREDO Action in San Francisco. Past experiences also include writing a history of New York City's playgrounds, running a citywide parks advocacy campaign, producing a civic engagement tour that turned into an award-winning PBS documentary and working for then-Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Justin is a graduate of Harvard University, native of Highland Park, New Jersey, and long-time President of the 45th Street Block Association. He serves on the Board of Directors of Immediate Medium, an experimental theater company, and Get In The Game, a non-partisan voter registration organization. He is adviser to Netroots Nation, a progressive blogger and organizer conference, and the Governors Island Alliance. 

ANTHONY SUNGA
SECRETARY

Anthony Sunga is an architectural designer based in Brooklyn working for Global Growth and Concepts, Starbucks. His work focuses on conceptualizing spaces that respond to emerging technology and evolving social behavior and realizes them as proof-of-concepts. He has previously worked for a number of New York architecture and development practices designing a wide-range of projects from tech workspaces to a horse farm.

He holds a master of architecture from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and studied civil engineering and architecture from the University of Texas at Austin and Arlington, respectively. His graduate work took him around the world studying megablock public spaces in China, historic preservation practices in the West Bank and emerging urbanism in South Africa.

PATRICK ROUSSEAU
TREASURER

Patrick Rousseau is an executive producer at Iris MediaWorks, a production company he founded in 2004. He works with storytellers, artists, brands, and agencies to produce content that is meaningful and entertaining. He has produced four feature films and many web series and short films. Patrick has produced content for companies including General Electric, Fisher-Price, L'Oréal, Hewlett Packard, Eli Lilly, Condé Nast, Barclays, ConsenSys, and Techstars, among others. His work has won dozens of awards, including Webby Awards and several Best Picture and Best Web Series awards at festivals around the USA and abroad. When not producing content, he can be found exploring forests, down on the carpet with his toddler, or dreaming of the sailboat he had that one labor day weekend.

Patrick first attended a show at The Tank in 2009, where he saw a production his future wife was directing. He never left.

DANIELLE KING

Danielle King (she/her) is proud to return to The Tank as a board member and continue her service to emerging artists. Danielle is an arts administrator and nonprofit leader committed to championing boundary-blurring, forward-thinking artists and cultivating supportive work environments where artists can create their best work. Most recently at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Danielle worked with leadership, staff, and board to reimagine the operating model of the Festival and produce its first indoor in-person season since 2019. As Managing Producer at The Tank, an 18-year old nonprofit arts presenter and producer committed to breaking economic barriers for emerging performing artists in the creation and presentation of new work, Danielle focused on strengthening the organization's infrastructure and evolving operations to meet the company's rapid programmatic growth after its move to a new two-theater home in 2017. With Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2012-2019), Danielle designed and shepherded programs aimed at helping artists develop their practice and conduct research, and curated and produced platforms for artists to share their work with the public and transform public space, most notably through the annual River To River Festival. She also has supported the development and production of new plays at The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, and Actors Theatre of Louisville, and for Clubbed Thumb, Siti Company, 13P, P73, and the TEAM. She spent six summers facilitating new play development at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference and, with Artistic Director Wendy C. Goldberg, designed and launched the National Directors Fellowship, which supports early-career directors across the country. Danielle is a graduate of the American Express Leadership Academy and was a 2018 Distinguished Speaker at Teachers College, Columbia University. She holds a B.F.A. from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a M.A. in Arts Administration from Columbia University. She has been a panelist for several grant processes, including The Knight Foundation and Jerome Foundation and sits on the Advisory Board of the Front Office Foundation. 

ERIC KREBS

Eric Krebs, whose theatrical producing career spans more than 40 years, founded and directed the Off-Broadway’s John Houseman Theater Center and Douglas Fairbanks Theater for over 20 years. He currently operates the Playroom Theater, www.theplayroomtheater.com. As a producer, he was most recently represented on Broadway by Bill Maher: Victory Begins At Home (Tony nomination for Best Special Theatrical Event). Other Broadway productions include Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party, It Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues (nominated for 4 1999 Tony Awards including Best Musical) and Electra (nominated for 3 Tony Awards). Recent Off-Broadway productions include Laughing Liberally: Electile Dysfunction, For lovers Only, Will Durst: The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing (New World Stages), Toxic Audio (2004 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience), Rounding Third, Langston Hughes’s Little Ham, Golf: The Musical, Tallulah Hallelujah starring Tovah Feldshuh, A Pure Gospel America, The Big Bang, the world premiere of Bash written by Neil LaBute, Serenade The World: The Music and Words of Oscar Brown, Jr., and This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan. Other New York producing credits include: Laughing Liberally, Capitol Steps, Fyvush Finkel From Second Avenue To Broadway, The Passion Of Dracula, Fool For Love, King Of Schnorrers, The Rise Of David Levinsky, By And For Havel and Paul Robeson (starring Avery Brooks). Mr. Krebs produced Geoffrey Ewing’s Ali, the biography of Muhammed Ali, a theatrical production featured at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, as well as at the Mermaid Theater in London. In the not-for-profit theater, he founded and for fourteen years was the Producing Director of the George Street Playhouse, a professional (LORT) theater in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Since 1998, he has been the chairman of Amas Musical Theatre, a not-for-profit theater founded by Rosetta LeNoire and dedicated to the training of “city kids” in the performing arts and the creation of new musicals for multi-ethnic casts. Mr. Krebs is a professor of theater arts at Baruch College, City University of New York, continuing a career as an educator that began in 1969 at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he is professor emeritus. He was awarded the Robert Whitehead Award for excellence in producing in February, 1999. In April, 2007 he performed his own 90 minute adaptation of King Lear, a one person presentation entitled Considering Lear. Eric Krebs is the founder of the informational website www.studentrush.org as well as the owner of the School Theatre Ticket Program, www.schooltix.com. 

JENN DE LA VEGA

Jenn de la Vega is a community manager at Flipboard. No stranger to planting herself in creative environments, Jenn also runs Randwiches an award winning experimental food project ranging from catering to styling – praised by Time, Mashable and the Awesome Foundation. Jenn pioneered communications and social media strategy for The Tank from 2008 to 2013. When she's not making GIFs, she is sneaking bacon, curating events, backing Kickstarters and plotting to roast an animal somewhere in the wilderness. 

JJ LIND

JJ Lind is a Brooklyn-based artist and arts manager, who is currently the Executive Director of Abraham.In.Motion. JJ has also served as the Executive Director of The Civilians theater company and as the Director of Strategic Integration for New York Live Arts. In this latter role, he worked closely with Live Arts leadership to manage the merger and integration of the founding partners. Previously, JJ served as the Director of Development for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, where he was a critical member of the team brokering, funding, planning and executing the merger. Creatively, he is the Artistic Director of Immediate Medium, a performance and producing collective he co-founded in 2002. JJ is a graduate of Yale University originally from Vinita, Oklahoma. 

JOSH LUXENBERG
CO-FOUNDER, SINKING SHIP PRODUCTIONS | CO-PRODUCER, PUPPET PLAYLIST

Josh Luxenberg is a Brooklyn-based writer and director. He wrote Powerhouse, which premiered in Fall 2014 at the New Ohio Theater. He is co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Sinking Ship Productions, a Brooklyn-based theater company. His script for Powerhouse was a Finalist for the 2012 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and with Sinking Ship, he is the recipient of an EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commission for Flatland. Other Sinking Ship projects include: There Will Come Soft Rains and Puppet Playlist, a music/puppet cabaret series that is one of the primary venues for original short puppetry in the United States. Josh is currently the General Manager of the Connelly Theater, and has worked as assistant director at Paper Mill Playhouse, CENTERSTAGE, P73, NYMF, and others. He has also worked in the writers’ office of HBO’s The Wire. Josh is an alum of the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studied acting, and of Oberlin College. Josh has been at The Tank since 2010. He is the co-founder of The Tank ongoing puppet series Puppet Playlist. 

JILL ROUSSEAU
AFFILIATED ARTIST

Jill Rousseau likes to make dance happen in New York. She created and produced the Tank’s unique xyz nyc series, which brings new, emerging, and established artists together in the same evening in a grand competition that's all in good fun; and curates the (kin)aesthetics series, which features sophisticated, fully realized evening-length dance pieces by new and emerging artists. Outside of the Tank, Jill is a member of the production team for the New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival. She’s choreographed and performed her own work at La MaMa E.T.C. and The Tank, and choreographed a video for The Whitest Kids U'Know on the Independent Film Channel. Jill has a BA in Theater and Dance from Trinity College and attended the Trinity/La MaMa program. 

RACHEL SCHWEITZER

Rachel Schweitzer is a fundraiser in New York City. Her Tank origin story begins in the basement on Church Street where she was hired as an intern. Since then, she has been a temp, a part-time employee, an advisory board member, and now a very proud board member. She has over 8 years of experience in professional fundraising with a focus on individual giving and donor stewardship. She currently works as a Major Gifts Officer at Queens College. Her favorite sweater is a gray men's cardigan she rescued from the Tank's lost and found box in 2007.

TIFFANY REA-FISHER

TIFFANY REA-FISHER (Executive & Artistic Director, EMERGE125) is a 7-time consecutive AUDELCO award nominee, an NDP Award winner, 2022 Toulmin Fellow, Creatives Rebuild New York Awardee, John Brown Spirit Award recipient, and was awarded a citation from the City of New York for her cultural contributions. She subscribes to the servant leadership model and uses disruption through inclusion as a way to influence her company's culture. She has extensive experience in choreographing and curating concert dance. As a choreographer, Tiffany has had the pleasure of creating numerous pieces for her company as well as being commissioned by Dance Theater of Harlem, Dallas Black Dance Theater, NYC Department of Transportation, Utah Repertory Theater, The National Gallery of Art in D.C., and having her work performed for the Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg. Her works have been seen on many stages including the Joyce, the Apollo, Joe's Pub, Aaron Davis Hall, and New York Live Arts. Tiffany was the first Dance Curator at the interdisciplinary arts organization The Tank where she now sits on their Board of Trustees. She is the Director for the Lake Placid School of Dance and also curates the Bryant Park Dance Summer Series providing free art access to thousands while exposing upcoming and established artists to a wider audience. In 2023 Tiffany also become the Executive Director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative. Her professional affiliations include being an Advisory Board member of Dance/NYC, COHI INFLUENCER member of IABD, and a proud member of Women of Color of the Arts.

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MIKE ROSENTHAL
CO-FOUNDER & BOARD EMERITUS

Mike Rosenthal is the digital strategist for the band OK Go and runs their independent record label, Paracadute. He is also co-founder of the Manhattan non-profit performance space The Tank, and the organizer behind two international music festivals, Bent Festival and Blip Festival. Mike holds a master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU. 

WES CHOW
BOARD EMERITUS

Wes Chow is CTO at Chartbeat, a real-time analytics company that focuses on publishers and news organizations. He was founder of S7 Labs, Lead Engineer at Songza, and a former founder and managing director of Athena Capital Research. He has also served the Tank, a non-profit arts space, in the capacity of volunteer, manager, artist, board member, and now advisor. Wes holds a BS from the University of California, Berkeley, and lives in Boerum Hill with his wife and daughters. He was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida. 

EMMA MCMULLIN
PAST ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Emma McMullin is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter hailing from the East Coast of Canada. She makes music and friends whenever possible - teaching, playing and curating music with people ages 2 to 64. As a folk musician, she believes in the power of uninhibited intuition and that it ultimately leads to the most genuine truths. In bringing people together for a common cause - be it making music, art or effecting great change - we find something in each other that may have been hidden in ourselves. Through her music series at the Tank, she aims to facilitate a safe environment for fellow musicians to hear and be heard, to come together in a common love, and to discover something of themselves through one another. 

GREGORY RAE
BOARD EMERITUS

Gregory Rae is a Tony Award-winning producer based in New York. His theatrical credits include The Play that Goes Wrong, Allegiance, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014 Tony Award), A Time to Kill, Kinky Boots (2013 Tony Award, 2016 Olivier Award), Clybourne Park (2012 Tony Award), Bare (off-Broadway), and The Normal Heart (2011 Tony Award). He is an executive producer of the films Virgin Territory, Hello Again, The Goldfish, Clutter, The Muslims Are Coming, and Family Remains, and co-executive producer of The Green. He joined Carl White as a partner in Martian Entertainment LLC in 2013. Gregory graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 2000 with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Manhattanville College in 2014. He worked at Google as a software engineer in charge of log analysis until 2006. After leaving Google, he got involved in politics as one of the national leaders of Living Liberally, and has advised several campaigns for marriage equality around the country. In 2008, he was the technical lead for the No On Proposition 8 campaign in California, and in 2010 he served as treasurer of Fight Back New York, a political action committee that successfully targeted three New York state senators who had voted against marriage equality. Gregory serves on the board of trustees of Harvey Mudd College and on the advisory board of the Yale Drama Series. Previously, he served on the board of The Production Farm and the National Leadership Council of Lambda Legal, and is an emeritus board member of The Tank. He is an associate member of The Broadway League.

CLAIRE SILBERMAN
BOARD EMERITUS

Claire Silberman is a philanthropist and former lawyer who supports many progressive organizations. Claire practiced corporate litigation and banking law until 1997. She occasionally consulted in the financial compliance area of Promontory Financial Group, a consulting firm for global financial services companies, from 2002-2006. Claire serves on several non-profit Boards: the Voter Participation Center/Womens Voices Women Vote (working on increasing voting among under-represented populations); the Eagle Academy for Young Men Foundation (which supports a network of public boys’ schools in New York City); the Citizens Union of New York City Foundation; StreetWise Partners (which builds mentoring relationships between low-income individuals and business professionals); the New Leaders Council (a nationwide leadership program for young progressives); the Friends of the High School for Environmental Studies (NYC); and The Tank (a performing arts venue for emerging artists). She is also on the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors and the Tufts University Parents Leadership Council. Claire previously served on the Board of The HOPE Program, a welfare-to-work organization in Brooklyn, New York. Her philanthropy is focused on at-risk populations, progressive organizations and environmental groups.  Claire also volunteers with the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Involved in local politics, Claire serves on the State Affairs Committee of the Citizens Union of the City of New York. She holds a BA and JD from Stanford University, and has lived in Brooklyn Heights with her husband and kids since 1988. She was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama.

JULIANA STEELE

Juliana Steele is the Development Specialist at Fractured Atlas, specifically focused on institutional and governmental support. Previously, she was a Program Specialist for Fiscal Sponsorship at Fractured Atlas, providing support for the fiscally sponsored artists and organizations who raised over $50 million during her tenure. She has sat on numerous fundraising panels in the New York City area, and has presented at the Foundation Center, South by Southwest, and other events and festivals around the country. Prior to Fractured Atlas, she was the Programming Coordinator at The Tank while it was located on Church Street in Tribeca. Before moving to New York, she spent four years managing the historic Byrd Theatre in Richmond, Virginia, a 1400-seat independent movie theater. She received her Master's in Arts and Cultural Management from Pratt Institute and also holds a BA in Art History from Boston University.

ALEX TIMBERS
CO-FOUNDER

Alex Timbers is a Tony-nominated writer-director and the recipient of Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, as well as two OBIE Awards. Credits include: The Pee-wee Herman Show, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (also book writer; Drama Desk, Lortel, and OCC Awards, Tony nomination), A Very Merry Unauthorized Pageant (OBIE Award, Garland Award-Best Director), Gutenberg! The Musical! (Drama Desk nom. - Best Director of a Musical), Peter and the Starcatcher (co-director, OBIE Award- Best Director), Hell House (Drama Desk nom. - Unique Theatrical Experience). Alex was President of the Yale Dramat and is the Artistic Director of downtown company Les Freres Corbusier.