THEATERLAB BOARD OF DIRECTORS

CARLO ALTOMARE (Chair) See Founders.

ORIETTA CRISPINO (Treasurer) See Founders.

JOY LYNN ANDERSEN blissfully discovered Theaterlab in 2005 and has been working with them ever since.  With the company she has appeared in the solo piece, The Spectator, in 2006 and Appearance: A Suspense in Being in 2008.  Joy holds a B.A in theater arts from Tulane University and has been acting and directing in New York for the last four years.  Favorite projects include Andy Warhol's I Said To B, Gertrude Stein's Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights, and Chuck Mee's Big Love.

LIZA CASSIDY is a visual and performing artist who lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. She paints in her Gowanus studio in Brooklyn, and has worked and performed with Theaterlab since 2005. She has also performed with The Living Theatre, Spoke The Hub, and The Actors Theater. Before moving to NYC she toured New England and Russia with Patricia Wilson's Zia Dance Company.  In all of her years of performing and creating she has discovered that art cannot be fully realized until it is given, and is the only means we have (be it spoken word, music, movement or image) to communicate ourselves to one another.  She feels especially dedicated  to the work at Theaterlab as it grows to preserve the integrity and the vitality of this gift.

JOCEYLYN GONZALES serves as the curator of the radio art installations and additional soundscapes. Her work has been featured on WNYC News, Soundcheck, Marketplace, Weekend America, Sound Money, Radiolab, Musicians Radio on XM Satelilite, Ear Studio, Minnesota Public Radio, sTRANGEmUSIC and Re:Sound. She produces the Tech Talk and Book Review podcasts and radio shows for the New York Times and WQXR. She was part of the team that created Studio 360, was the producer for Dish with Ed Levine, Now Hear This! with John Flansburgh (of They Might Be Giants), and The Conversation with Danyel Smith on WNYC. Gonzales is a full-time faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Sound Design Dept.

PATRICK GRANT is a NYC-based composer, performer and producer whose music output ranges from contemporary classical to the post-modern and includes elements of hip-hop and world music. He writes music for concert, theatre, film, and dance. Trained in the classical tradition, he is also equally comfortable performing in rock ensembles of any genre and the Balinese gamelan. He has created musical scores for theatrical visionaries Gerald Thomas & The Dry Opera Co. in Brazil, The Living Theatre, and Robert Wilson. He is an emerging expert in the field of interactive realtime music composition and teaches workshops on the subject internationally. Since 2007 his theatrical scores have taken on an even higher degree of realtime interactivity and these works, have garnered him much attention in the press and invitations to give seminars on music technology. He regularly gives such seminars at the Tisch School of the Arts in NYC. An active member of the new music community he has curated and participated in many events around New York City. As a presenter, Grant has produced dozens of new music concerts in the alternative spaces of New York City, in art galleries, theaters, factory lofts and clubs, and most recently with the One-Two-Three-GO! series including concerts at Theaterlab in 2006. 

SALLY S. KLEBERG manages a family office in Texas overseeing diversified portfolios, and implementing trust management, business, family philanthropic activities, and wealth management literacy training. She consults as a financial educator to family businesses/offices and their service providers addressing financial, organizational, educational and personal communication issues. Formerly a Sr. Vice President of Bankers Trust, New York Owner Managed Business Advisory Services, Ms. Kleberg is the author of The Stewardship of Private Wealth: Managing Personal & Family Financial Assets, a primer and educational reference book for individuals, families and family offices, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1997. She also authored a family oral history entitled, Kineño Christmas in 2003.  She served for many years as Shareholder’s Representative on the Board of Director’s of her family’s company, King Ranch, Inc. in Texas, a diversified agriculture, livestock and minerals company. She studied at Duke University and the University of Texas at Austin earning a BA in History and Political Science with further graduate studies at the Institute of Latin American Studies at UT Austin. She has broad, not-for profit board and management experience including past service on the Board of Trustees of Duke University, and several other cultural and educational boards. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Visitors of The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC; Theaterlab and Battery Park Conservancy Steering Committee, New York, NY.

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