Awards Advisors
2009 Awards to Generative Performing Awards Advisors:
2008 Awards to Generative Performing Awards Advisors:
- Lisa Cordes, Executive Director, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, educator, and artist
- David Ford, interdisciplinary artist working experimentally in multiple mediums
- Chuck Haddix, Director, Marr Sound Archives at UMKC, host of the “Fish Fry,” on KCUR FM 89.3, and co-author with Frank Driggs of Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop–A History, published by Oxford University Press
- Pat Macdonald, Director of Community Investment, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, former dancer with Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble and other dance companies, and former Executive Assistant to Judith Jamison, artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York
- Paul Rudy, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Composition, UMKC Conservatory of Music, composer, author, sound artist, and teacher
2008 Nominators:
- Jeff Church, Producing Artistic Director, Coterie Theatre, boardmember of Theatre Communications Group, non-profit theatre’s national service organization, and former panelist for National Endowment for the Arts, Missouri Arts Council, and Creative Capital Professional Development Workshops in Kansas City
- Walter Coppage, actor and founding member of Actors Theatre of Kansas City;
- Betty Crow, Director of Operations and boardmember, Mutual Musicians Foundation, Inc. and Executive Director of Historic Jazz Foundation, Inc.
- Michael Joy, Director of Artistic and Educational Programs for Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, dancer with companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, Elisa Monte, and Nanette Beardon’s Contemporary Dance Theater, and original cast member in the Tony award winning Broadway production of The Lion King
- Andrew Zender, Communications Manager, American Jazz Museum
