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Artistic Director Jessica Heidt
General Manager Cat Rich
Music Box Curator David Kaye
MicroClimate Visual Arts Curator Victoria Heilweil
MicroClimate Visual Arts Curator G. Cole Allee
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Jessica Heidt, Artistic Director jessica@climatetheater.com
Jessica comes to Climate Theater after 9 years at Magic Theatre, where she was most recently Associate Artistic Director. She has directed many world premiere productions including Territories, Pleasure and Pain and The Black Eyed at Magic Theatre and was voted Best Director 2007 by SF Weekly. She teaches at the SF School of Digital Filmmaking, San Jose State, University of SF, and ACT and works as a freelance casting director for film and theater.
David Kaye, Curator, Music Box Series
After playing clarinet badly in grade school, David Kaye quit playing in order to save face and badly mauled ears. After seeing the Balkan folk band Hot Flying Plates playing in a San Francisco alley in 1999, he was inspired to take up the clarinet again, but he noticed that he was still sucky at it. So, taking up the violin in 2000, he began to specialize in bluegrass and Western swing jamming. He now plays pop tunes on button accordion for rich people's parties.
David Kaye is a former radio and club DJ and band manager who has promoted live music in bars and nightclubs since 2000, attempting to expose people to music outside the mainstream. The Climate Theater Music Box series is a chance to book really excellent bands in a venue where the performers are louder than the audience. He is pleased to be be able to showcase some of the world's best players in an intimate environment and at an affordable price.
G. Cole Allee, curator, visual arts
G. Cole Allee is a photo-based artist. Her work explores landscape as cultural iconography and addresses the shifting relationships between place, myth and memory. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA from Reed College. Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, LA and Tokyo.
She has lived in San Francisco for a decade, teaching photography to youth in the Mission District and Bayview/Hunter's Point, and to homeless and low-income residents of the city with the Sixth Street Photography Workshop. While at San Francisco Art Institute she was co-curator for the Swell Gallery, the graduate venue. She is currently exhibition consultant and co-curator for a traveling show of work by the BBE, a support group for low-income African American men funded by the AIDS Foundation, and a visual arts curator for Climate Theater.
Board of Directors:
Matthew Baier
Joegh Bullock
Paul Nathan
Marcus Segal
Lori Shantzis
Jono Williamson
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