Donna Uchizono
Board of Directors
Michael Grimaldi - President, Photographer
Doreen Stone - Secretary, Elementary School Teacher
Levi Gonzales - Dance Artist and Advocate
Rebecca Serrell Cyr - Dance Artist and Educator
Carla Peterson - Writer and Director of MANCC
Staff
Development Director
JT Newman
JT Newman, CFRE, specializes in nonprofit fundraising and small business development in arts, media, and LGBTIA+ issues. She possess deep knowledge in individual and major gift fundraising. Her superpowers include the ability to analyze databases to find hidden donors, creating algorithms to determine donor loyalty and likelihood to give, and creating optimized emails and direct mail for annual fund materials. With experience with multiple performing arts companies across the country, including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Trisha Brown Dance Company in New York City, she is delighted to have joined Donna Uchizono Company as their new Director of Development.
Company Manager
Juli Brandano
Juli Brandano is a dancer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She has collaborated as a performer with Julia Antinozzi, Phoebe Berglund, Kim Brandt, Jessica Cook, Amelia Heintzelman and Leah Fournier, Jennifer Monson, and Cally Spooner, among others. She was a 2020 Lighthouse Works Fellow on Fishers Island and a 2022 Dance Research Fellow at NYPL’s Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Her recent choreographic work has been shown at Pageant, fouroneone, the Westbeth Courtyard, Center for Performance Research, BAX, and Movement Research at Judson Church. She recently started an online publication for artists' writing and reviews called Performance Revue.