The Climate Sing team is a collective of artists and producers who love spectacle, intimacy, maximalism, and theater and who center care, collaboration, community and risk in their practice.

Climate Sing Team

Amanda Cooper

Amanda Cooper is a multi-disciplinary arts producer and advocate, with a deep interest in mission-driven and climate-centered new works. She has supported bespoke projects locally and nationally for over two decades. Based in Brooklyn, she has partnered with many artists and institutions to make visions into reality. Current and recent collaborations include: MƆɹNIŊ [MORNING//MOURNING], Ocean Filibuster, How To Get Free, The Real James Bond…Was Dominican, LOVE FORCE, TERCE, and The Wind and The Rain.

Katie Pearl

Katie Pearl is a collaborative theater maker and co-Artistic Director of the Obie Award-winning PearlDamour (with Lisa D’Amour). Fueled by the belief that making theater and making a society are connected, she regularly devises with artists across discipline on new plays and performance events that range from large-scaled spectacle (the 8-hour performance installation How to Build a Forest; the theatrical fabulation Ocean Filibuster); to intimate encounter (the performance tour for twenty Bird Eye Blue Print); to community-wide collaborations (the five-town Milton, created with and for small towns named Milton across the country).  She is on faculty at Wesleyan University where she teaches directing and alternative theater-making practices.

Lisa D’Amour

Lisa D’Amour is a playwright, educator, interdisciplinary collaborator, and co-Artistic Director of PearlDamour (with Katie Pearl). Her plays have been produced across the U.S., U.K. and in South America, including at Manhattan Theater Club (NYC Broadway), Playwrights Horizons (NYC), Steppenwolf Theater (Chicago) and The National Theater (U.K.). Recent PearlDamour work includes Ocean Filibuster, a genre-crashing human-ocean showdown; MILTON, a performance rooted in 5 U.S. towns named Milton; and How to Build a Forest, an 8-hour performance installation. Lisa’s play Detroit was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. She lives in New Orleans, where she is on the leadership team for Trinity City Comics.

Niegel Smith

Niegel Smith is a Bessie Award and Black Theater Alliance Award winning director and performance artist. He is the Artistic Director of NYC’s Obie Award winning theater, The Flea guiding the organization through its refounding as a hub for experimental art by Black, brown and queer artists. He is a board member of A.R.T./New York and was a ringleader of Willing Participant, an artistic activist organization that whips up urgent poetic responses to crazy shit that happens. Niegel was recently sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for his contributions to queer artistry and community.

Jonathan McCrory

Jonathan McCrory is a Tony Award and Emmy Award nominated producer, two Obie Award-winning, Harlem-based artist who has served as Executive Artistic Director at National Black Theatre since 2012 under the leadership of CEO, Sade Lythcott. He has directed numerous professional productions and concerts.  He has been acknowledged as an exceptional leader additionally through Craine’s New York Business 2020 Notable LGBTQ Leaders and Executives. In 2013, he was awarded the Emerging Producer Award by the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and the Torch Bearer Award by theatrical legend Woodie King Jr. A Washington, DC native, McCrory attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and New York University’s TISCH School of the Arts. www.jonathanmccrory.com.

Saida Joshua-Smith

Saida is a New Orleans-based multi-medium artist with a deep-rooted passion for sound  and storytelling. She holds a B.A. in Music (Experimental Music & Digital Media) from LSU and a Professional Certificate in Sound Technology from Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama. As a freelance live sound engineer and audio technician, she mixes across various genres at venues like Café Istanbul and The New Orleans Jazz Market. Her creative work spans original composition and sound design for theater, short film, and current audio comic adaptation for Trinity City Arts. At the heart of her practice is a belief in art as a tool for community connection—art by everyone, for everyone.

FAILSPACE

(Logo Design)

FAILSPACE is a New York City-based design and communications agency specializing in culture-driven organizations. We craft brand identities, develop marketing campaigns, and build innovative websites that emerge from creative collaboration and strategic vision. We bring creative ideation, copywriting, and marketing consultation to our clients, ranging from performance venues to citywide festivals, local health centers to inventive California wineries. Our team has worked extensively with St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Flea Theater, HB Studio, Under the Radar, PEN America, and many other high-level cultural organizations, venues and individual artists. Together, we bring culture forward.