Staff
Vanessa Adato
Senior Director of Finance & Administration
Audrey Thao Berger
Education Assistant
Abigail Browde
Artist Advisor
Miranda Brown
Administrative and Facilities Assistant
Donna Costello
Performance Workshop Artist Advisor and Teaching Artist
Rodd Denson
Operations Associate
Sanae Galligan
Youth Education Marketing Manager
Kara Gilmour
Executive Director
Emi Giuseffi
Substitute Administrative and Facilities Assistant
Elisa Hernandez
Administrative and Facilities Assistant
Aviya Hernstadt
Education Programs Associate
Andrew Jannetti
Summer Arts Program Director
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Artist Advisor
Mia Martelli
Administrative and Facilities Assistant
Regine Pieters
Development Associate
Briana Raheem
Administrative and Facilities Assistant
Marlène Ramírez-Cancio
Director of EmergeNYC and Practice Lab
Sara Roer
Senior Manager of Operations
Lucia Scheckner
Director of Education and Artist Programs
Kelindah Schuster
Technical Director and Producer
David Sierra
Artist Programs and Digital Media Coordinator
Ashley Renee Thaxton-Stevenson
Senior Manager of Education Programs
Helen Tocci
Performance Workshop Artist Advisor and Teaching Artist
Ella Wasserman-Smith
Administrative and Facilities Assistant
Logan Zemetres
Marketing and Communications Manager
Marya Warshaw
Founding Director Emerita
Interns
Board
Victor M. Brown
Briana Carlson-Goodman
Jane Holzka
Oliver T Fein
Jimena Martinez
Sara Palmer
Jesse Phillips-Fein
George Emilio Sanchez
Chair
Amy Sumner
Secretary
Leslie Weber
Treasurer
BAX Faculty
Our Faculty is comprised of graduates from some of the finest theater and dance departments in the U.S. and most create and perform professionally. They are selected for their unique understanding of the developmental stages of children and how that translates into the training of a young dancer, actor, choreographer or playwright.
Consultants and Vendors
Ticket Sales
IT Consultant
Filemaker Developer
Statements and Policies
Read BAX’s Accountability and Action Statement in response to and solidarity with uprisings for Black lives and liberation.
Read personal commitments to anti-racist and pro-liberation work from individual BAX staff members.