Each project of THE OFFICE is led by a senior member of our team, who is supported logistically and creatively by a deep infrastructure of producers, programmers, and administrators. Throughout our work, we strive for non-hierarchical collaboration across areas of specialization. We believe the expertise of creative producing and programming are mutually instructive, and consistently work across departments to bring the most direct expertise to each project. We believe the arts are stronger together, and nurture dialogue and collaboration between practitioners across disciplines.
José Alvarado is a Honduran-born, NYC-based curator and arts administrator. At THE OFFICE performing arts + film, he has curated programs for venues and festivals including MASS MoCA, The Momentary, Celebrate Brooklyn!, ArtYard and the FreshGrass Festivals, and served as Visiting Co-Artistic Director at Guild Hall of East Hampton. He is the co-creator of Young Masters, a series celebrating a new generation of artistic pioneers, and Desde el Centro, an initiative working to expand the presence of Central American artists and culture across media. As a producer, José has collaborated with artists including Aurelio Martínez, Angélique Kidjo, Julio Torres, Trooko, Ella Bric, Yo-Yo Ma, and many more, and has produced projects for the Rolex Arts Initiative and NPR’s Tiny Desk x globalFEST. In 2026, he joined the inaugural curatorial team at CANYON in New York City. He holds a master’s degree in Arts Administration from Baruch College and undergraduate degrees in Finance and Business Administration.
Noah Bashevkin is a New York–based producer and curator working at the intersection of film, visual art, and live performance. As Director of Film & Media at THE OFFICE performing arts + film, he develops and champions ambitious creative projects that challenge conventions and cross disciplinary boundaries. His producing credits include William Kentridge’s acclaimed nine-part film series Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot, Jennifer Trainer’s Museum Town, narrated by Meryl Streep, and Sky Hopinka’s Powwow People. He has also produced live performance projects with artists including Carrie Mae Weems and curated film and interdisciplinary programs for the American Museum of Natural History, MASS MoCA, and CANYON. Before joining THE OFFICE in 2016, he worked in independent film production, international distribution, and documentary development. He studied literature and religion at Williams College.
Carol joined THE OFFICE adventures in 2016 on William Kentridge’s Refuse the Hour and The Head & The Load, Carrie Mae Weems’ Grace Notes, Kennedy Center’s Reach Opening Festival, Theater of War’s Antigone in Ferguson, Onassis Festival, Bangsokol, Carrie Mae Weems/Robert Wilson’s Crossroads Festival, Mile Long Opera, Powerhouse:International, Lincoln Center’s Run Amoc Festival, Little Amal’s The Walk, For Freedoms. Prior, Carol was The Armory’s Company Manager on Robert Wilson’s Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, Kenneth Branaugh’s Macbeth, Heiner Goebbel’s De Materie, Peter Sellers/Regg Roc’s FLEXN, Richard Jones The Hairy Ape, Wayne McGregor/Olafur Eliasson’s Tree of Codes. Carol was Associate Producer for Philip Glass Days & Nights Festival, Casting Director & Supervisor on productions with The Bolshoi, Kirov, Royal Ballet, Young Vic, Les Artes Florissants, Abby Theatre, Meow Meow Holiday Cabaret, Paris Opera Ballet, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Josie Rourke’s The Machine, White Lights Festival, Royal Ballet, Netherlands Opera, Thomas Ostermeier’s Miss Julie, David Henry Hwangs Silver River, Shirin Neshat’s Logic of the Birds, Royal Court Theatre, Stuttgart Ballet, Universal Ballet and others. Originally a performer, Carol taught, designed curriculum and choreographed in ABT and NYCB's Education Depts. Her choreography was presented at Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center Rose Theater, La MaMa, INTAR, St Marks. Proud member SDC. Carol holds B.A. Dramatic Art - UC Berkeley, M.A. Theatre History & Criticism - CUNY/Brooklyn College.
Professional highlight: Carol has had the privelege and pleasure of aiding (and abetting) countless artists, helping them realize their productions. Carol believes her peak professional highlight with The OFFICE is yet to come! Onwards!
Brendon Boyd is the owner and Principal of BoydDesign Inc, a design, production and consultancy company founded in 2009. BoydDesign specializes in production design and lighting for concerts, theater, festivals, trade shows, special and corporate events as well as lighting for architecture and other themed environments. Brendon and the BD team have been working with THE OFFICE for over a decade and most recently have collaborated on events and shows such as BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival (where he is the Director of Production), The Reach Opening Festival at the Kennedy Center (Washington DC), The Mile-Long Opera (The Highline, NYC), William Kentridge’s The Head & the Load (Tate Modern, London; Ruhr Festival, Germany; NYC), the For Freedoms Congress (LosAngeles, CA), and Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia (Melbourne, Australia; NYC; Boston; Paris; Phnom Penh, Cambodia). BoydDesign provides support for events such as these in the form of production management, technical direction, lighting design and programming, stage management, staffing, and stage building. In his spare time Brendon enjoys riding his motorcycle, camping in our National Parks and traveling around the world.
Professional highlight: Performing Bangsokol for the King of Cambodia!
Raleigh Capozzalo joined the OFFICE team in 2025, where he flawlessly files financial folios to keep the artistic work moving. From reimbursements to bills to contracts, he collaborates with the rest of the finance and general management team to maintain pristine books. After earning his B.S. in Physical Chemistry from Yale College, he opted for the arts over the sciences, teaching videography and later breaking into the New York film crew scene as a Camera Assistant. His crew credits include multiple Tribeca and SXSW finalists as well as major studio TV shows. He volunteers at his local makerspace The Fat Cat Fab Lab as their accountant and tinkers there with electronics, 3D printing, and sewing projects.
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Joining Rachel in 1998, Laurie has been integral to the growth of THE OFFICE from the beginning. She is an original thinker with broad experience as a hands-on producer, a senior strategist, and a programmer across a range of genres including family programming, where she has helped to conceive numerous innovative series—among them Just Kidding!, Film Factory, and Bring You Own Kid. Since moving to the UK in 2009, she has taken the lead on international productions like William Kentridge’s The Head & The Load (Tate Modern, London; Ruhrtriennale, Duisburg) and Philip Miller's REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape, & Testimony (Southbank Centre, London; Baxter Theater, Cape Town), spearheaded ongoing consultancies such as the NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center, and developed international strategies for the company. She has also been a programming consultant for Sound & Music, a UK organization that promotes challenging contemporary music and sound art. Laurie holds a BFA in Painting and Printmaking with a minor in Graphic Design; in a previous life she was a food stylist and private chef. She currently splits her time between Brighton and Southern France.
Professional highlight: Watching Olli break his toe on a tent pole in the Hamptons while cooking jerk chicken for Kool & the Gang in a monsoon.
Olli began working for THE OFFICE in 2001. Since then he has booked countless shows, helped to shape scores of festival lineups and performing arts seasons at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, MASS MoCA, FreshGrass, and elsewhere, and been lead producer on events at major venues and festivals around the world including the Sydney Opera House, the Brighton Festival, Lincoln Center, and the Dublin International Theatre Festival. Olli is the Director of of Programming for the FreshGrass Foundation and the lead programmer and a co-producer of the FreshGrass Bluegrass and Roots Music Festival at MASS MoCA. Along with his programming and producing work, Olli maintains the voice of THE OFFICE, putting our curatorial work into context by creating marketing and promotional copy for our partner institutions and individual productions and overseeing all other written material. Prior to finding his calling at THE OFFICE, Olli was the editorial director of one too many startup Internet companies, a screenplay reader, a reluctant book publicist, a freelance production assistant, and a below average busker. He has a BA from Dartmouth College in English and American Literature.
Professional highlight: 2 AM meal at a diner in LA with Lou Reed and his Tai Chi instructor Master Ren after a show at Royce Hall, where they advised me together on the proper way to eat a hamburger (no bun, no cheese, no condiments, with your hands).
Rachel Chanoff has been working in performing arts and film for 40 years and is the founder and director of THE OFFICE performing arts + film, her New York City-based programming, consulting, and production company. She is the Curator of Performing Arts and Film for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), Consultant to the Feature Film Program for the Sundance Institute, Curator of The New York Jewish Film Festival and The Margaret Mead Film Festival, and Senior Artistic Advisor to the FreshGrass Foundation. She served as the Director of Programming of the CenterSeries at the '62 Center for Theater and Dance at Williams College for 20 years and as the Artistic Director of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival for 30 years. Rachel is proud to serve on the board of the 52nd Street Project and Working Films. She is also a long time participant in the Theater Development Fund’s Open Doors program, which introduces underserved high school students to the New York theater scene.
Professional highlight: Standing shoulder to shoulder with Prince in the wings at Celebrate Brooklyn! before his surprise performance.
Lia Camille Crockett is a passionate curator and creative producer who is most driven by the connective, change-making powers of the live music experience and by expanding opportunities for independent artists. With over 15 years working across sectors of music and media industries, she has consulted consultant on Latin Music Programming for South By Southwest (SXSW), Produced the Tiny Desk Contest for NPR, and is currently the Associate Director of Programming at THE OFFICE performing arts + film, where she leads music programming for various venues and festivals across the United States. She also presents artists under her music discovery platform Parcha Projects. As a curator, Lia enjoys challenging norms and presenting unexpected artists in unexpected places, striving to expose more people to their next favorite artist, and to provide opportunities for independent artists. Prior to consulting and working at THE OFFICE, Lia was the Executive Producer of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Festival and BRIC JazzFest. Lia grew up in Austin, Texas and now splits her time between Brooklyn, NY and San Juan, PR.
Professional Highlight: Handing Roy Ayers his mallets for his unplanned encore performance.
Since joining THE OFFICE in 2017, Catherine has worked as a senior producer and consultant for public programs and events throughout NYC and toured globally with productions including Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia and William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load, Sibyl, and The Great Yes, The Great No. As a founding member of the Artists At Work team, she continues to supports artists and communities across the country with a focus on AAW's program development and fundraising. Previously, Catherine worked with the Performing Arts team at MASS MoCA and at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! While studying English and American Musical Culture at Georgetown, she worked everywhere from college radio stations and record stores to NPR Music and The Kennedy Center. She can usually be found behind her loom, weaving away to the radio.
Professional highlight: Celebrating The Head & the Load’s return to the stage in Miami after 3+ years of pandemic delay by starting the post-show company dance party with truly uncharacteristic verve (at Lynn Koek's behest).
Scout studied Social Policy and Sociology at Tulane University with an emphasis on dismantling the social and public policies that perpetuate ableism in the United States. Scout has worked in the Public Policy field at various New York-based organizations including The Law Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, The Fair Housing Justice Center, and The Innocence Project. She is particularly drawn to the intersection of social justice and the arts. This passion guided her work at both Fotografiska New York City and ArtXNYC. Scout joined THE OFFICE in 2020 and is thrilled to be on a team committed to art and artists facilitating social impact. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, watching movies, spending time with her (hairless) dog, Daisy, and traveling.
Professional highlight: Helping to roll out the ongoing national expansion of Artists At Work!
Soleil (she/they) joined THE OFFICE in May of 2021 as an Intern and made their way back in August of 2022 as a Creative Administrator. She has since worked on an abundance of projects from Yo-Yo Ma’s Our Common Nature and Bach Projects to William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load in Miami and Little Amal's walk across America with The Walk Productions.In their role as a producer, Soleil strives to support and create art for black and queer audiences, especially for those that wouldn't usually be exposed to it. In her free time, she enjoys baking, watching anime, playing video games (especially the Stardew Valley) and spending time by the water.
Professional Highlight: Laying the groundwork for Little Amal’s walk across America from Boston to San Diego.
Nadine rejoined THE OFFICE in 2021 and currently serves as the Managing Director of Artists At Work, a national workforce resilience program that invests in artists and their communities, helping to seed and cultivate sustainable work and local partnerships that leverage creativity for community impact. A strategic and collaborative arts leader, Nadine previously served as Executive Director of Rooftop Films, guiding the organization through the pandemic to continue bringing impactful cultural events to NYC. She was also part of The Shed's inaugural leadership team, contributing to its successful launch. A seasoned executive producer, she has specialized in commissioning and developing new work by luminary artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Björk, Quincy Jones, Steve McQueen, William Kentridge, Claudia Rankine, William Forsythe, and many others. Nadine holds a Master of Public Affairs and a Graduate Certificate in Organizational Leadership, providing a strong foundation for her vision for cultural strategy.
Professional Highlight: It’s a tie – dancing at rehearsal with Quincy Jones and hopping on stage to sing as part of Hal Willner’s Neil Young Project at the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad.
Chloe joined THE OFFICE in June of 2018, and we have little memory of life before her arrival. As General Manager, she coordinates all agreements with our various partner institutions, as well as with the vendors, individuals, venues, and other contracting parties associated with our many productions, and administers all incoming and outgoing financial transactions. She does this with both extraordinary attention to detail and a surprising level of good humor. Chloe graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a double major in Piano Performance and Music Business, and attended the Performing Arts Administration Masters program at NYU. Prior to becoming part of THE OFFICE team she was a development fellow at HERE Arts center, a freelance musician, and a music teacher (she continues the latter two). In her free time she likes to go to shows, eat brunch, and play a lot of music.
Professional highlight: Hanging out in the Tourists hotel lounge latenight after the High Mud Comedy Festival at MASS MoCA with her new favorite comedians Cat Cohen, Sarah Squirm, and Michelle Buteau.
East coast-born and midwest-raised, Zion comes from the Great Lakes State, Michigan, where he found his love for music and theater. After studying Voice Performance and Performing Arts Management & Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan, Zion joined THE OFFICE in 2020 as the NYC distribution coordinator for Carrie Mae Weemsʻ Resist COVID: Take 6 COVID -19 awareness campaign. Since then he has enjoyed working on various OFFICE producing and programming projects across the globe like William Kentridge’s Sibyl, Angelique Kidjo’s Yemandja, Yo-Yo Ma’s Bach Project and Our Common Nature, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, MASS MoCA, Symphony Space Wall to Wall, and many others. He is an advocate for representation and access in the arts and is passionate about story telling and bridging cultural and social gaps through music and shared curated experiences. When not traveling, Zion spends his time cooking, performing, and enjoying NYC parks in Brooklyn, NY.
Professional highlight: Singing for Yo-Yo Ma in a historic Baptist Church in the Smoky Mountains
After studying Musicology in Amsterdam, Lynn naturally found her place as a tour manager and producer of theater, music, tv and film. She joined THE OFFICE in 2016 and has since produced numerous large-scale theatrical productions around the world, including Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, William Kentridge’s Triumphs & Laments, Sibyl, The Head & the Load, and The Great Yes, The Great No, among many others. Within Kentridge’s productions, she particularly enjoys the dual role of Senior Producer and Director’s Assistant, combining the practical challenges of production with being deeply involved in the creative process. Lynn is currently based in the Netherlands. Outside of work, she has a deep love for the planet, with a particular soft spot for the ocean and scuba diving.
Professional highlight: Producing Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia in Phnom Penh, with the King in our audience! And really anytime I get to be in a rehearsal space with our incredible South African artists. There’s nothing like hearing them sing together.
Born and raised in New York City, Ana joined THE OFFICE as an intern straight out of high school and has been part of the team ever since. She attended Tulane University in New Orleans, where she fell in love with the city and worked at the Music Box Village, an experience that deepened her appreciation for creative, community-driven art. As a producer and programmer for THE OFFICE, Ana is drawn to projects that span artistic disciplines. She’s worked on a range of projects, including Little Amal’s walk across the United States, the REACH Opening Festival at the Kennedy Center, the inaugural Powerhouse: International Festival, William Kentridge’s acclaimed nine-part film series Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot, and the Margaret Mead Film Festival. She finds joy and fulfillment in seeing projects come to life and sharing the experience with artists and audiences.
Professional highlight: Traveling across the country for 9 weeks with Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a 10 year old Syrian refugee girl, from Boston to San Diego.
Elly’s interest in the arts began at school, attending small theatre productions and taking part in film production courses in her free time. She studied Film at Southampton Solent University, graduating in 2013. She has since worked as a freelance producer and moved to Barcelona to co-direct a documentary. When she returned home, she took some time out from the arts and had a number of office-based roles. Elly later discovered a passion for sustainability and started her own zero waste business, which grew from traveling to farmers markets to opening her own shop - just before the first lockdown! After her business closed, she worked in a bookshop, before connecting with Laurie and starting work at The Office part time. Within months, she became a full time Creative Administrator, working on William Kentridge projects Sibyl, The Head & The Load and The Centre for the Less Good Idea, and Sabine Theunissen’s White Box and as an assistant to Laurie. In her spare time, Elly can be found reading a good book. She is still passionate about living sustainably and loves long walks with her rescue dog.
Professional highlight: Spending a month in Johannesburg working on The Head & the Load
A native of Italy, Barbara is a general manager and producer with over 20 years of combined experience in the US and Europe, presenting, producing, and touring national and international multidisciplinary performances. Before joining THE OFFICE she worked on Broadway and, off-Broadway for some of the largest not-for-profit performing arts organizations, Lincoln Center for The Performing Arts and The Public theater. At the Lincoln Center Festival Barbara was involved in the artistic planning of the Festival line-up from selecting the shows to presenting and curating the ones produced by the Festival. As Programming Budget Manager at The Public Theater, Barbara was responsible for creating and managing the budgets for all productions, from inception to closeout, for the downtown season (5 theatres), Shakespeare in the Park (Delacorte), Public Works, the Mobile Unit, Public Lab and all the Tour activities. Barbara earned a Dottore in Lettere e Filosofia degree from the Universita degli Studi di Firenze and an MFA in Theatre Management from Brooklyn College. In her spare time Barbara loves to cook, garden, and sit by the sea. Sailing around the world is her next dream to fulfill.
Sarah is an actor and bookkeeper, specializing in arts organizations. Over the years, she has worked in finance for a number of organizations, including Target Margin Theater, The Brick, Rooftop Films, Chickenshed NYC, DOVA Dance, Lezlie Hall Associates, and THE OFFICE. As an artist, Sarah has acted at venues in New York and all over the country, including the Utah Shakespeare Festival, NAATCO, Milwaukee Rep, and Target Margin Theater. At THE OFFICE, Sarah tracks budgets for the Kentridge team and the film department. She also helps handle bookkeeping and accounts payable and receivable for the entire organization.
Professional highlight: standing in as an actor during tech for Good Sex at the Powerhouse Arts Festival.
Meghan Maureen Williams (Mego), AEA, Production Stage Manager, oversees stage management aspects of all The OFFICE shows. Originally trained as a performer and designer, Mego has worked all over NYC in all departments of production and design. A long-time collaborator of THE OFFICE and BoydDesign, some of her credits include The Mile Long Opera, eleven seasons of the Celebrate Brooklyn!, William Kentridge’s Sibyl and Angelique Kidjo’s Yemandja. She was PSM on David Byrne’s Contemporary Color, Neurosociety and the early versions of Theater of the Mind, Nick Cave’s The Let Go, Taryn Simon’s An Occupation of Loss, five BRIC JazzFests and three Great Small Works’ International Toy Theater Festivals. She is also puppeteer, mom to twins, an advocate for neurodiversity, and Associate Artistic Director of award-winning multi-disciplinary theater company Drama of Works.
Professional highlight: The highlights are truly the amazing people that THE OFFICE attracts, and I am so grateful to work and connect with so many of them!
Gabriela Yadegari’s work as an artist and educator is largely informed by their upbringing in Tucson, Arizona where they were raised in a multicultural household. From a young age, their love for art was nurtured by the diverse and creative community of the borderlands. Finding inspiration in their community's resilience and commitment to justice, Gabriela has devoted their professional career to encourage artmaking as a means of expression and connection by contributing to the creation and expansion of public programs for cultural organizations in art and radio. While living in Tucson, they worked for several nonprofit arts organizations including Arts for All, KXCI Community Radio, and Groundworks. Gabriela relocated to Vermont where they received their BA from Bennington College in 2021 with concentrations in Visual Arts, Sound Studies, and Public Action. During their time in Vermont, they continued to pursue their efforts in education and cultural organizations for Bennington College Radio, Molly Stark Elementary School, Burlington Community Justice Center, and MASS MoCA. Gabriela moved to New York City and joined the team at Artists At Work as an Adinistrative Fellow for the Borderlands region in 2022.
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