MEET THE TEAM

Producer and Programmer, Film

  • Before joining THE OFFICE team in April 2016, Noah studied English Literature and Religion at Williams College, with an emphasis on critical theory and film. Since graduating, Noah has worked in film production, international film distribution strategy, and as an associate with Catapult Film Fund, for whom he still serves as a program advisor. He has served on programming committees for Rooftop Films, Hamptons International Film Festival, and DOC NYC, and served as an application evaluator for Fork Films. At THE OFFICE, Noah produced the feature documentary MUSEUM TOWN, programs High Mud Comedy Festival at MASS MoCA, produced the US Tour of Carrie Mae Weems’ Past Tense, and consults across programming in film, theater, and dance. He mostly watches movies, but enjoys reading a good memoir in his down time.

    Professional highlight: Helping Meryl Streep with pronunciations for her voice work on MUSEUM TOWN.

  • Carol Blanco met The OFFICE team Company Managing Wayne McGregor/Olafur Eliasson’s production of Tree of Codes at the Park Avenue Armory. She was delighted to join in adventures on the road thereafter with projects such as William Kentridge’s Refuse the Hour and The Head & The Load, Carrie Mae Weems’ Grace Notes, The Reach Opening Festival at the Kennedy Center, Theater of War’s Antigone in Ferguson, The Onassis Festival, Bangsokol, Carrie Mae Weems/Robert Wilsons Crossroads Festival, The Mile Long Opera, in venues such as The Tate Modern, The Holland Festival, MASS MoCA, Watermill, BAM and the like. Prior to coming onboard full-time with The OFFICE, Carol worked as Company Manager at The Park Avenue Armory on such productions as Robert Wilson’s Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, Kenneth Branaugh’s Macbeth, Heiner Goebbel’s De Materie, Peter Sellers/Regg Roc’s FLEXN, and Richard Jones The Hairy Ape, to name a few. Further back, she loved being Associate Producer for The Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival in Big Sur, California, and working with Quaternaire of Paris, France. Her life before the glamor of Arts Management was spent as a performer, primarily in dance. She is proud to have taught and choreographed for many years in ABT’s Education Dept as well as NYC Ballet’s Education Dept. Her choreography was presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center Rose Theater, La MaMa, INTAR Off-Bway, and other venues. Teaching, designing curriculum, and proving relatively organized led to jobs casting and coordinating local dancers and actors for many visiting companies (The Bolshoi, The Kirov, The Royal Ballet, The 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, etc) at Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera House Special Events, BAM, City Center, and so on. At the beginning of Carol’s adult origin story, she received her B.A. in Dramatic Art from UC Berkeley and her M.A. in Theatre History and Criticism from CUNY/Brooklyn College. She is a Berkeley native and plays Classical Guitar.

    Professional highlight: Carol hopes her professional highlight with The OFFICE is yet to come!

Company Manager

  • 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!

Director of Production

  • 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. 

Managing Director, Strategy

  • 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).

Managing Director, Programming

  • 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.

Founding Director

  • While studying English and American Musical Culture at Georgetown, Catherine followed her love of music and multimedia storytelling through Washington D.C., working everywhere from college radio studios and record stores to NPR Music and The Kennedy Center. After graduation, Catherine spent four years with the Performing Arts team at MASS MoCA where she offered administrative and front of house support to events from major music festivals to site-specific works in the museum’s galleries and spearheaded local artist outreach.

    Since landing in New York and joining THE OFFICE in 2017, Catherine has been lucky to cross the city and globe working on projects like William Kentridge's Sibyl andThe Head & the Load and Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, among others, and to learn from and work with incredible community-minded artists and organizations across the country as a part of the Artists At Work team. In her off hours, she can usually be found at her loom, weaving away to a good record.

    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.

Producer |
Fundraising + Program Development, Artists at Work

Associate Producer | Program Manager, Artists at Work

  • 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!

  • Born and raised in New York City, Brooklyn-Native Kyla is no stranger to the arts. Growing up, Kyla adopted the art form of dance, finding an energizing expression of self through Modern dance. By high school, she tapped into her love for architecture where she honed into her skills for design and, surprisingly enough, science and math. Kyla graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in Finance and is rapidly approaching the completion of her Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst Certification. Before getting involved with THE OFFICE, Kyla was a part of The Armory for 6 years, both interning and working part-time, where she was able to get behind the scenes insight to numerous performing art projects and installations. An opportunity to offer support for the production Antigone in Ferguson introduced Kyla to THE OFFICE and the rest is history. Since joining THE OFFICE in 2019, Kyla has worked diligently in offering internal database support while also effectively process and analyze financial information. On her off time, Kyla enjoys being a tourist in her city, reading books, and staying active.  

    Professional highlight: Chatting in between scenes with Diamond Jones and Obi Abili during the run of Antigone in Ferguson.

Finance and Operations Coordinator

  • Born in Georgia, bred in Miami, Soleil (she/they) has always had an affiliation for the arts, whether it was jamming out to music in the car or drawing all over the walls as a child. Even after growing up in a sports family, they still had the opportunity to nourish their love for the arts in middle school after attending their first theatre class and falling in love with the craft. 

    Soleil made their way to Baton Rouge, Louisiana where they studied Business Management and Strategic Leadership as well as Arts Administration at Louisiana State University. They then 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.

Associate Producer

  • A strategic and collaborative arts leader, Nadine brings over 15 years of experience realizing complex programs and initiatives across the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Before rejoining THE OFFICE as Managing Director of Artists At Work in July 2021, Nadine served as Executive Director of Rooftop Films, where she successfully led the nonprofit through the pandemic and helped them re-imagine their programming and operations to continue to bring impactful cultural events to NYC. Nadine was also part of the inaugural senior leadership team at The Shed, where she played an integral role in building organizational infrastructure and resources necessary for the successful launch of the new cultural institution. A seasoned 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.  She holds a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Missouri and a Graduate Certificate in Organizational Leadership from UMass Dartmouth.

    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.

Managing Director, Artists At Work

  • 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.

General Manager

  • 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 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 Project, 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

Programmer and Producer

  • While growing up wanting to rescue monkeys from poachers in Central Africa, Lynn was inevitably headed for a career in the arts. After studying Musicology at the University of Amsterdam, Lynn started working as a freelance producer in the Netherlands. She has worked in theater, music, film and visual arts as a producer, programmer, set dresser and director’s assistant. She has toured in the Netherlands, Australia, Italy, the United States, Cambodia and other places around the world. After joining THE OFFICE in 2016 and living in New York for 4.5 years, she is currently based in Amsterdam and holding down the Europe-fort with Laurie. Lynn has worked intensively on many projects, including William Kentridge's Sibyl and The Head & the Load (filling a double role as producer and directors assistant), Triumphs and Laments, Refuse the Hour, Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia and many others. Besides her work at THE OFFICE, she occasionally creates soundtracks, plays Zimbabwean mbira, and has a special place in her heart for oceans and corals. She is also on the board of Stichting Jip Smit.

    Professional highlight: When our The Head & the Load-cast did their warm up at the Tate Modern before the world-premiere. There’s nothing like being in the room when those incredible artists start a song together.

Senior Producer

Producing Intern

  • Raised in the richly diverse culture of San Antonio, Texas, Hashim has always had a strong connection with the creative world. Greatly influenced by his mother’s fashion design business, which annually raised funds for local non-profits, his passion for helping others through the arts motivated him to move to New York City in pursuit of studying film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. At THE OFFICE, Hashim hopes to use his artistic passion to learn the intricacies of producing and filmmaking while learning from the wonderful colleagues and mentors around him. In his free time, he loves cooking to music, discussing movies, and exploring new restaurants.

    Professional Highlight: Casually chatting with Phyllida Lloyd about the lack of diversity in Hollywood during the BAM Rolex event.

  • 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

Creative Administrator

  • 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.

Deputy General Manager, Projects

Associate Producer

  • Indigo Sparks (she/her) is a performance artist, arts administrator, producer, and Broadway Advocacy Coalition member based in Brooklyn, NY. Her deep curiosity for the facilitation of community and the transcendent possibilities of live performance continues to be reflected in her creative work and processes. Sparks trained in dance and vocal performance at The University of The Arts and has danced for choreographers like Bobbi Jene Smith, Staycee Pearl Dance, Helen Simoneau, Gerard and Kelly, and Netta Yerualshalmy. In 2021 she became a Sundance Interdisciplinary Arts Grantee with her short documentary dance film “it’s a matter of the soul”, quickly followed by a choreography commission at Triskelion Arts and an Assistant Choreographer position for the touring musical Yemandja. Her arts administration experience includes company management work for organizations like The Vail Dance Festival, The Public Theater, and the reopening of Girl From The North Country on Broadway.

    Professional Highlight: Performing in the International Amsterdam theater for Yemandja!

  • Sarah is an actor and finance professional, specializing in arts organizations. Originally from Littleton, Colorado, Sarah moved to New York to attend Barnard College, where she graduated with a BA in Theater in 2016. After graduation, Sarah found a love of numbers while working as a Finance Associate at Pentacle. Over the years, she has worked in finance for a number of organizations, including Target Margin Theater, The Brick, Rooftop Films, Lezlie Hall Associates, and, as of 2022, THE OFFICE. As an artist, Sarah has acted at venues in New York and all over the country, including the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the American Shakespeare Center, and Target Margin Theater. While not acting or bookkeeping, Sarah enjoys crocheting, reading, and eating ramen.

General Management Associate

Production Stage Manager

  • Mego (Meghan Maureen Williams), 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.

Program Coordinator, Artists At Work

Managing Director, Producing and Development

  • Erica joined THE OFFICE in 2019. Her initial projects have included lead producer for the Kennedy Center’s 16-day festival launching their expansion campus, The REACH Opening Festival, and producer of the FFCON, the first ever nation-wide convening of For Freedoms. As one of our lead strategists for the overall development of THE OFFICE, Erica also mentors our emerging producers and programmers. For over two decades, Erica was the founding Producer/General Manager of the Lincoln Center Festival, the standard-setting summer global arts festival in New York City where her oversight included producing over 1,500 presentations of music, opera, dance, theater, installations, site-specific work, and multi-disciplinary visual and performing arts, for audiences of 1 to 4,000 in venues from city streets, abandoned warehouses, black boxes, and circus tents to the Park Avenue Armory, City Center, Governor’s Island and the stages of Lincoln Center including the Metropolitan Opera House. Erica holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University. She sits on the Board of the Brooklyn Youth Music Project and the Parents Association of MS 51. In her spare time, Erica tends to her garden, leads a book club and hopes someday to return to playing the harp and throwing pots.

    Professional highlight: Taking a Zumba class with Angelique Kidjo

  • Alyse Tucker Bounds (Indianapolis, IN) is an independent curator, art enthusiast, and co-founder of an artist-run collective called ONE DROP, most known for hosting solo and group exhibitions with artists across the U.S. She also works as an independent curator and consultant for GANGGANG: a cultural development firm where in 2022 she co-curated and cared for over 49 artists at the annual art fair BUTTER. She has worked alongside local and national artists, curators, buyers, collectors, and creatives in Indianapolis and beyond. Alyse holds a Bachelor’s in Art History and Classical Studies from Herron School of Art + Design. Her passion and commitment to curatorial work in both private and public sectors are fueled with ideas that challenge convention, celebrate culture, and advance the careers of artists everywhere.

Artists At Work Program Liaison, Indianapolis

  • Ana was born and raised in New York City and began her journey at THE OFFICE after high school graduation. Over the next six years, she split her time between New Orleans and New York until she returned to her hometown full-time. While in New Orleans, Ana studied at Tulane University and worked at the unique outdoor sonic sculpture garden and concert venue known as The Music Box Village, cherishing every moment of it. Prior to joining THE OFFICE full time, Ana worked as the NYJFF Coordinator and at the Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival. Ana has been involved in many exciting OFFICE projects such as Little Amal’s tour across the US, the Reach Opening Festival at the Kennedy Center, and the Margaret Mead Film Festival.

    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.

Associate Producer

  • 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.

Associate Director of Programming

Programmer and Producer

  • José is an arts administrator and music industry professional from Honduras. In his role as a programmer at THE OFFICE, José has curated programs at esteemed institutions such as MASS MoCA, The Momentary, Symphony Space, and The Wallis Center for Performing Arts, as well as music festivals that include the FreshGrass Festivals, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, Wall to Wall, and the Momentous Electronic Festival. As a producer, Jose has worked on projects such as Yo-Yo Ma's Our Common Nature, The Bach Project, and Angelique Kidjo's Yemandja. Holding an MA in Arts Administration from CUNY Baruch, José advocates for inclusion of Central American artists in all aspects of the culture and entertainment industries.

    Professional highlight: Booking John Legend for the Live on the Green series at The Momentary.