Staff
Vanessa Adato
Senior Director of Finance & Administration
Abigail Browde
Artist Advisor
Richard Rodd Denson
Administrative Assistant, Facility Manager, Box Office
Donna Costello
Education Programs Consultant and Lead Facilitator, Teaching Artist, YouthWorks Co-Director
Sanae Galligan
Youth Education Marketing Manager
Kara Gilmour
Executive Director
Aviya Hernstadt
Education Assistant, Administrative Assistant
Andrew Janetti
School Breaks Director
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Artist Advisor
Regine Pieters
Development Assistant
Mia Martelli
Administrative Assistant, Facility Manager, Box Office
Sara Roer
Senior Manager of Operations
Lucia Scheckner
Director of Education and Artist Programs
Kelindah Schuster
Technical Director and Resident Lighting Designer, Teaching Artist, YouthWorks Co-Director
David Sierra
Artist Programs and Digital Media Manager
Ashley Renee Thaxton-Stevenson
Senior Manager of Education Programs
Marya Warshaw
Founding Director Emerita
Interns
Audrey Berger
Education Intern
Taylor Bobb
Production Intern, CUNY Cultural Corps
Zharia George
Marketing Intern, CUNY Cultural Corps
Ayah Hammid
Development Intern, CUNY Cultural Corps
Myasia Mack
Digital Media Intern, CUNY Cultural Corps
Polina Yakubova
Development Intern, CUNY Cultural Corps
Board
Victor M. Brown
Briana Carlson-Goodman
Jane Holzka
Oliver T Fein
Jimena Martinez
Sara Palmer
Jesse Phillips-Fein
George Emilio Sanchez
Chair
Ellynne Skove
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.