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Lisa Mount & Cooperating Consultants
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Lisa Mount refuses to specialize. As the Director of Artistic Logistics she works as a consultant with non profit arts organizations . Recent and current clients include Childsplay, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Cornerstone Theater Company, the Neo Futurists, the Network of Ensemble Theaters, and the Maryland Ensemble Theatre. As an independent artist she produces, directs, and appears in contemporary performance work, including the acclaimed community story plays, Headwaters :: Stories From A Goodly Portion Of Beautiful Northeast Georgia and Headwaters: Birth, Death and Places In-Between at the Sautee Nacoochee Center. She toured with the DeLuxe Vaudeville Orchestra as rhythm banjo player from 1994 to 2006. Before embarking on her consulting career in 1997, Lisa served as the Managing Director of 7 Stages theater in Atlanta. She has served as the Board Chair for Alternate ROOTS, the Atlanta Theatre Coalition, and Georgia Shares, a workplace giving campaign. Lisa received the 1996 "Abby" Award from the Atlanta Arts and Business Council for Outstanding Arts Professional, and was named one of the 100 Most Influential Georgians by Georgia Trend Magazine in 2008. In 2009, she was given the first Paula Vaughn Community Arts Lifetime Achievement Award by the Georgia Assembly of Community Arts Agencies. |
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Jo Carson is the author of nine books including Stories I Ain’t Told Nobody Yet which is taught widely in Appalachian Literature courses. In 2008, TCG published Spider Speculations: A Physics and Biophysics of Storytelling, which considers how stories work in our bodies and our lives. Liars, Thieves, and Other Sinners on the Bench is a collection of Jo’s favorite material from the community story plays she has written, published by TCG in 2009. Liars, Thieves… is also performance material for Jo. She has won five national awards for her traditional plays (including the Kesselring Prize for Daytrips) and these plays have been produced widely in this country, including at Hartford Stage Company, the Women’s Project in NYC and the Los Angeles Theatre Center. In addition to the first two Headwaters scripts, Jo has also written more than 30 plays for a variety of communities in this country over the last 18 years. Jo occasionally teaches playwriting at East Tennessee State University, and teaches the how-to’s of story collecting and writing for communities across the country. She lives and writes in Johnson City, Tennessee. |
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Kathie deNobriga is a free-lance consultant for small arts organizations, state arts agencies, and the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. She began her community arts career in 1974 with the North Carolina Arts Council’s Visiting Artist program. Kathie managed a performing arts center in Sanford, NC for nine years, directing community and youth theatre and playing a major role in the successful campaign to renovate a historic vaudeville house. For ten years Kathie directed Alternate ROOTS, a service organization for community-based artists in the Southeast, working closely with rural presenters and artists. She serves on the City Council of Pine Lake, Georgia. |
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Rodger French is an accomplished accordionist, percussionist, and juggler. Since 1978 he has served as a theatre musical director, orchestra musician, Vaudeville entertainer, and clowning instructor. Rodger has performed solo as well as half of the clown team Lenny & LaBanana; most recently, Rodger performed in the Off-Broadway production of "Shlammer," a Jewish-Gangster-Vaudeville written by Dan Froot. To rave reviews, by the way. In addition, Rodger is Editor of "Up from the ROOTS," the quarterly newsletter of Alternate ROOTS, based in Atlanta. A long-time member of ROOTS, he has served on its Executive Committee and functioned for many years as "Camp Concierge," coordinating logistics for ROOTS Annual Meetings. Rodger works as a consultant with Artistic Logistics, and has assisted on large-scale research projects for VSA arts of Georgia, and the Kenan Institute of the Arts. Rodger has also performed at the White House. For no money. Twice. |
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MK Wegmann is President and CEO of the National Performance Network, which supports national and international touring and commissioning; and an independent consultant working with artist-focused organizations in the performing and visual arts fields. Her presenting experience includes 14 years at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and six years as Managing Director of Junebug Productions. She is one of the founders of the Louisiana Presenters Network, a past Board Chair of Alternate ROOTS, and has served on Presenting Panels for the NEA, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Mississippi Arts Commission, and others. Among her consulting clients are Chamber Music America’s Rural Residency program, Urban Bush Women, and the Alabama Dance Council. |
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