Elizabeth Bennett is an arts advocate who has worked in the fields of grantmaking, fundraising, public service, journalism, dramaturgy and education. At ADH&A, she assists with fundraising, research, and content creation. 

She has worked as a fundraiser on staff at 92Y, Park Avenue Armory, and Columbia University School of the Arts. Freelance grant writing clients have included Freshkills Park Alliance, SDC Foundation, Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, ART21, L.A. Theatre Works, Triad Stage, Colt Couer Theater and others. 

From 2016-2021, Elizabeth led Staten Island Arts, the arts council for Richmond County in New York City. In addition to increasing the arts council’s grants available for local artists, she created new cross-sector initiatives to address social justice, racial equity, and disability, and intersect creative placemaking with small businesses. To make those activities possible, she raised an annual operating budget of $1.2-$1.7 million. This work built on her six years as Director of the Program Services Unit in the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, where she was part of the team to distribute $31M in public funds to cultural organizations throughout the city. 

As a dramaturg, she worked on staff at La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, and other NYC and regional theaters. Her writing has been published in SDC Journal, Theater magazine, American Theatre, and, since 1988, the Vineyard Gazette. 

Elizabeth holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and served as a class agent for the school.

Jason is a dedicated arts leader with a decade of experience building dynamic and impact-driven institutions. A Washington, DC native, Jason graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English and Theater Studies, before moving to New York to train and work professionally as an actor. He appeared on many New York and regional stages including Theater for a New Audience and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

During his time in New York, Jason served as founding program director of the Black Arts Institute, an educational platform for artists to learn the techniques and traditions of the Black Arts Movement. He also led the Adler Youth acting conservatory for underserved New York teens, growing program retention by 85%. Jason was selected to the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Create:NYC Leadership Accelerator program, and served as inaugural management fellow for The Black Seed, the first-ever national strategic planning initiative led by and serving the Black theater field.

Jason recently graduated from Yale University, where he received his MFA and MBA from the David Geffen School of Drama and School of Management. While at Yale, Jason was an executive fellow at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and published a governance-focused case study on Portland Center Stage. Jason is a fellow of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, a recipient of the Dean's Scholarship Award, and of the George C. White Prize for excellence in theater management. Most recently, he led the historic Yale Cabaret theater as Executive Artistic Director, growing contributed revenue by 120% and bringing attendance to pre-pandemic sold-out capacity.

Epongue Ekille is a New York City-based violinist and environmentalist. As a baroque and modern violinist, she has toured domestically and internationally and regularly performs across the East Coast. Epongue specializes primarily in early and new music and champions the work of Black classical composers. She has toured with ensembles such as Juilliard415, the National Youth Orchestra of the United States, and the Harlem Symphony.

As an environmentalist, Epongue specializes in community equity and engagement with the climate crisis. She recently graduated from Yale College and the Yale School of the Environment with a Master's of Environmental Management specializing in Environmental Justice. Recent publications include Urban Living Labs: How to Enable Inclusive Transdisciplinary Research? (Urban Transformations) and Energy Justice and Health in a Changing Climate (Yale School of Public Health Center on Climate Change and Health). Her interests are in food and energy justice.

Since 2011, Andrew Hamingson has provided fundraising and strategic planning services to dozens of clients including Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Staten Island Arts, National Sawdust, The New Group, Naked Angels, Theatre Forward, The Civilians, Primary Stages Theater Company, and The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, among others.
 

In 2020, Andy served as Interim Executive Director for Second Stage Theatre. From 2012-2016, he was the first-ever Executive Director at St. Ann’s Warehouse and raised $31.5 million for the company’s relocation to the historic Tobacco Warehouse.
 

As Executive Director at The Public Theater, he oversaw all administrative and fiscal matters, managed the organization’s first-ever $35 million building campaign and renovation project, and supported the Public’s production of Hair, which went on to win the 2009 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
 

Andy served as Atlantic Theater Company’s Managing Director from 2004-2008, where he increased contributed income by 300% and began a $10 million capital campaign to renovate the Mainstage. During his tenure at Atlantic, its world premiere of the musical Spring Awakening transferred to Broadway and won eight Tony Awards.
 

He began his professional theater career at Manhattan Theatre Club, where he worked for 12 years. As Director of Development, he raised $40 million to renovate the historic Friedman Theater.  

He is a Trustee of 59E59 Theatres, Dance Heginbotham, and Building for the Arts. Andy has been a Visiting Professor at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale since 1995.

Teresa weaves experience as a finance director in the design sector with a deep background in research and facility planning, arts administration, and service in the nonprofit sector. 

For 10 years, she led the finance and operations team at Krupp Group, a NYC-based public relations agency, and she managed its expansion into Los Angeles. More recently, Teresa founded Assembly Arts to offer feasibility studies and business plans for arts facility development and has partnered with Victor Gotesman Performing Arts Planning on projects for the Denver Performing Arts Complex, The Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in LA, and a new venue for Waco, TX, among others. Prior to working with VGPAP, she contributed on projects with Webb Management Services, including those in Madison, WI, Boulder, CO, and the renovation of Hancher Auditorium in Iowa. Teresa also contributed to research projects for Lord Cultural Resources and Fractured Atlas. 

Teresa got her start in arts administration through her work at the National Coalition Against Censorship and Theatre Communications Group. She has served on several nonprofit boards. 

Teresa holds a Master of Nonprofit Management from Regis University, a Bachelor of Theatre and Film from the University of Oregon, and a Certificate in Creative Placemaking from New England College. She is a member of the Association for Cultural Economics International and has presented research at its international conference.

Sarah McLellan is a mission-oriented management and fundraising professional who prioritizes process, inclusion, and creativity to develop dynamic solutions for arts organizations. As a consulting partner, her approach is collaborative, discovery-oriented, values-based, and equity-focused.
 
Leadership positions include Director of Advancement for The Field, Executive Director of Ensemble Studio Theatre, Managing Director of Clubbed Thumb, and Assistant Administrative Director of the Juilliard Drama Division. She managed grant programs at Theater Communications Group, worked in education at the Manhattan Theater Club, and spent four years in artistic development at the Williamstown Theater Festival. 
 
Sarah was selected for the 2017 NYFA Emerging Leaders Boot Camp and the 2018-2019 ART/NY Diversifying Our Organizations cohort. She was a member of the Fall 2020 cohort of Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute’s Anti-Racism Leadership Series. Trainings include Undoing Racism & Community Organizing with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, and the Society of Human Resources. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.

Annie Middleton is a Brooklyn-based producer, manager and consultant, with extensive experience in theater management and fundraising. Middleton’s primary work with ADH&A involves comprehensive research for a variety of the firm’s clients. 

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Annie is the current Managing Director of Heartbeat Opera, an indie opera company based in New York City. She previously served as Managing Director of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in the West Village. In addition, she works as a producing and creative partner to a number of individual artists and companies. She is drawn to producing work that centers social issues relevant to the world we live in today, and has a great passion for live music and performance. 

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She is a graduate of Yale School of Drama’s Theater Management MFA program. At Yale, she served as Managing Director of Yale Cabaret, Company Manager for Yale Repertory Theatre, and General Manager for the Dwight/Edgewood Project."

Sibabalwe Mona is a strategy consultant for enterprises that focus on the socio-economic development of Africa and its vast diaspora. 
 

Her diverse experience with global clients includes business model development, creative communications strategy, project management, and event production. She merges creative prowess and academic scholarship to enable visionary impact ideas towards systemic change. 
 

Past projects have included curating the communications strategy for education and community development non-profit Seeds of Africa, directing the New York African Restaurant Week Festival, and screenwriting all digital content for the Ethiopia Pavilion at the 2020 Dubai Expo for Zeleman. 
 

Sibabalwe attended the University of Cape Town in South Africa and earned a BA in Film and Media Production and a BA with Honors in International Relations. She attended The New School in New York City, earning an MA in International Affairs and a MS in Nonprofit Management. 
 

She was part of the inaugural class of The New School’s Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative Fellowship, where she incubated nuAfrica, a consultancy growing Africa’s share of global emerging economies through strategy, messaging, and resource mobilization services. She also co-founded Tropical Jawn, a cultural entrepreneurship venture connecting and celebrating New York's diverse Black diaspora through creative collaboration and event curation. 
 

Sibabalwe’s essays on social inequality and equity have been published on the Skoll World Forum and OkayAfrica.

Gwyneth Muller is a Toronto-based arts consultant and fundraising strategist. 

Prior to working with A.D. Hamingson & Associates, she served as Associate Managing Director of Special Projects at Yale Repertory Theatre, where she produced their No Boundaries performances and coordinated their Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Symposia series. Previously, she was Assistant Managing Director at Yale Repertory Theatre and a Management Fellow at the National Ballet of Canada. 

Before transitioning into arts management and consulting, Gwyneth was a dancer with the New York City Ballet. While with the company, she had the pleasure of originating roles in works by some of today’s most prominent choreographers and performing many leading roles in ballets by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, among others. 

Gwyneth graduated summa cum laude from Fordham University. She holds an MFA in Theater Management from the Yale School of Drama and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Mark Rossier has been working in the not-for-profit arts sector for the past 35 years. Most recently, he was Managing Director and Producer at the acclaimed experimental theater company Elevator Repair Service (ERS). He began there in March 2020 and saw the company through the pandemic, developing productions of The Seagull, Ulysses and Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge during the lockdown while increasing on-line income. All three shows premiered live on stage in 2022 and Baldwin/Buckley and Ulysses are currently touring nationally and internationally. He completed an organizational restructuring and passed the reins to a new team in December 2022.

During his 12 years at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), he served a variety of roles including fundraiser, grant maker, program developer and mentor. As Director of Institutional Giving he raised $2.8 million annually from government, foundations and board members and other individual donors. He also secured a three-year $7.5 million from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment to launch the Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theater which awards $2 million annually for projects by female identified artists. As Director of Grants, he was responsible for the distribution of approximately $3 million to artists and organizations in all disciplines. He also oversaw NYFA’s Fiscal Sponsorship program, which served over 300 artists.

He has an extensive background in the performing arts having spent 12 years at the Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York as Director of Development and Marketing. He was Director of Marketing at the Shakespeare Festival of New Jersey and Capital Rep, a LORT theater in Albany, New York. He was a nominator and voter for the Lucille Lortel Awards for 15 years and has served as a grant panelist for Arts Westchester, The Mellon Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, among others.

He was Secretary of the Board of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and is currently Treasurer of the Board of SITI Company.

Meredith Suttles, Creative Consultant & Arts Strategist | Meredith is an arts leader with an extensive background in creative and performing arts in the areas of development, management, strategic planning, fundraising, and performance. She has held executive and senior leadership roles at Marin Theatre Company, TheaterWorksUSA, Soho Repertory Theatre, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and the New York City Opera. Meredith is a graduate of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and former EmcArts: Arts Leaders as Cultural Innovators (ALACI) Fellow. She is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., serves on the Advisory Circle of the Theatre Communication Group (TCG) THRIVE! Program, and is a Steering Committee Member of the Black Theatre Commons. As a visionary leader known for her ability to win community support, develop key coalitions and build strong relationships with a shared sense of purpose, she is passionate about devising meaningful ways to address and further the goals of organizations within the nonprofit arts and culture sector.

Morgan Lindsey Tachco is an artist and cultural professional who has supported the work of thousands of artists in a multi-hyphenate career that spans creative producing, performance, grant making, fundraising and advocacy. 

Morgan oversaw the allocation of over $2 million in public cultural funds in their eight-year tenure at Brooklyn Arts Council. She has worked as a freelance performance-maker and independent consultant since 2017. As a consultant, Morgan works both independently and with A.D. Hamingson & Associates. Clients with ADH&A include JACK; Staten Island Arts; Andy’s Summer Playhouse in Wilton, New Hampshire and The Barrow Group. Past and current independent clients include Mabou Mines, The Flea Theater, ARTs East New York, NEW INC, Actors Fund Arts Center, Groundswell, CUE Art Foundation, A.I.R. Gallery, and more.

She works as the Managing Producer of The Builders Association, a cross-media performance company; a Performer/Deviser and Creative Producer with the performance company Little Lord; and has worked with Theater in Quarantine as Creative Producer. 

Morgan holds a B.A. from Goddard College in Individualized Studies with a concentration in Performance and Arts Management. She was an inaugural New York Community Trust Leadership Fellow. More information can be found on her website at morganlindseytachco.com

Barbara Toy has been working in the nonprofit sector for the last 25 years. She recently was the
Director of Development for Atlantic Theater Company. She has had lead development positions
at Theatre for a New Audience, Entertainment Community Fund, New York Foundation for the
Arts, American Theatre Wing, The Public, and CUNY TV.

She has extensive fundraising experience for both non-profit arts organizations/social service
agencies and commercial enterprises, centering on fund raising for and management of the arts,
culture and education. She provides strategic planning and change management, marketing,
communication strategies, as well as producing events that engage a general or target audience
and manage diverse groups through results-oriented goal-setting and one-on-one mentoring of
individuals.

In addition, she works as a producing and creative partner to individual artists and companies in
both theater and film. Her focus is on giving a voice to the next generation of artists and
guidance to new and established organizations whose work is reflective of the diversity of
backgrounds and experiences in our community.

She was a nominator and voter for the Lucille Lortel Awards for 11 years and has served as a
grant panelist for The Mellon Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New
York State Council on the Arts, among others. She is an Advisory Board member for Developing
Artists.

Kayte Zhang (she/her) brings over five years experience in development and fundraising for the arts, and a background of over fifteen years as a theater artist, performer, and writer. Kayte has worked in development roles at The Field, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Ma-Yi Theater Company, with experience in grant writing, individual giving, patron services, and special events.

On evenings and weekends, Kayte is a sketch comedy writer and performer and can be seen regularly at the Magnet Theater and other New York City comedy venues, as well as comedy festivals across North America. Kayte has also performed theater and musical theater across the US, worked as a costumer, music and dance educator, spot light operator, Broadway usher, and more. Kayte holds a bachelor of music in vocal performance and musical theater from Arizona State University, and brings her passion and deep understanding of how art gets made to her role as an arts administrator.