Staff and Board
Staff
Board of Directors
Amy Chin, President
Arts Consultant
Deirdre Valente, Vice President
Vice-President, Lisa Booth Management, Inc
Lillian Cho, Treasurer
Senior Project Manager, Hester Street
Cathy Barbash
President, Barbash Arts Consulting Services
Kim Chan
Deputy Director, Advancement, National Sawdust
Additional Staff
Arts Financial Management Services, Financial Manager
Leading ChangeMakers, Strategic Plan Implementation Consultant
Kelly Kuwabara, Development Consultant
Flannel & Blade, Strategic Communications Consultant
Blake Zidell and Associates, Press Agent
Mary Sormeley, Accountant
Emeritus
Ping Chong, Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus
Bruce Allardice, Executive Director Emeritus
Associated Artists
PCC is a generative organization centered on collaboration and community engagement. The company incubates new work with and from a broad cohort of multidisciplinary and multigenerational artists, and is committed to supporting emerging artists of color. Many creative collaborators have been mentored by Ping Chong, or through our training programs, including Michael Matthews, Jesca Prudencio, Michael Rohd, Talvin Wilks, Meredith Monk, Jeffrey Rose, Ryan Conarro, and Muna Tseng.
During the early years of Fiji Theater Company, artistic collaborators were Louise Smith, John Fleming, Jeannie Hutchins, Roger Babb, Larry Malvern, and Ric Oquita.
Teaching Artists 2022 –2023
PCC Teaching Artists lead in-school artistic residencies and community workshops using peer interview techniques, writing exercises, and drama activities to explore themes of identity, place, and belonging, and to introduce theatrical tools for self- and community-based reflection. For more about Teaching Artist training, click here.
Amelia Boyce Munson
Andre Chan
Asuka Derfler
C. Meranda Surmanek
Chaesong Kim
Christopher Imbrosciano
ciale charfauros
Claro de los Reyes
Daniella de Jesus
Erin Anderson
Irisdelia Garcia
Jay Beardsley
Jessica Cortez
Karen Alvarado
Kenneth Keng
Manny Dunn
Maria Castillo
Molly Cohen
Nancy Monahan
Noah Murray
Nyles Lattimore
Hassiem Muhammad
Om Raj Raut
Purple (Sheikia) Norris
Rachael Feldman
Raquel Almazan
Rita Liu
Sabeen Shalwani
Sam Funk
Sarah Lazar
Sarah Shin
Tiffany Tan
Val Ramirez
Zakaria Khafagy
Om Raj Raut
Sabeen Shalwani
C. Meranda Flachs-Surmanek
Hidden Voices Curriculum Development Team
Writing Team
Chaesong Kim
Dr. Yvonne Kwan
Dr. Ricco Villaneuva Siasoco
Amy Zhang
Advisory Committee
Celia Kim
Melissa Koh
Vaimoana Niumeitolu
Anu Yadav
Passages Alaska Curriculum Development Team
Ryan Conarro
Justin Perkins
Gary Upay’aq Beaver
Jen Romer
Nita Rearden
Asia Freeman