Staff

Vanessa Adato
Senior Director of Finance & Administration

Audrey Thao Berger
Programs and Production Associate

Abigail Browde
Artist Advisor

Donna Costello
Performance Workshop Artist Advisor and Teaching Artist

Rodd Denson
Operations Manager

Anthony Fernandez
Technical Director

Kara Gilmour
Executive Director

Lydia Funke
Education Associate

nia love
Artist Advisor
Mia Martelli
Administrative and Facilities Assistant
Briana Raheem
Administrative and Facilities Assistant

Marlène Ramírez-Cancio
Director of EmergeNYC and Practice Lab

Lucia Scheckner
Director of Education and Artist Programs

Ankita Sharma
Marketing Associate

Ashley Renee Thaxton-Stevenson
Senior Manager of Education Programs

Helen Tocci
Performance Workshop Artist Advisor and Teaching Artist

Logan Zemetres
Marketing and Communications Manager

Meghann Trago
Finance and Development Associate

Crane Randle
Administrative and Facilities Assistant

Tyler Renfroe
Administrative and Facilities Assistant
Geneva Frazier
Administrative and Facilities Assistant
Makena C. Croghan
Administrative and Facilities Assistant
Makenna F. Finch
Administrative and Facilities Assistant
Shem Phillip-Peters
Administrative and Facilities Assistant
Founder

Marya Warshaw
Founding Director Emerita
Board

Zohreh Ahmad

Victor M. Brown

Oliver T Fein

Jane Holzka

Raine Martin

Jimena Martinez
Sara Palmer

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.