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BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE FIELD SAN FRANCISCO
John Baumann, Co-Executive Director
John Baumann has been writing and performing solo theater in San Francisco since 1994. He has shown his work at Bay Area venues including The Marsh, The Mock Cafe, Climate Theater, Venue 9, Studio For, Speakeasy Theatre Co., Cable Car Theater, and Shelton Theater. John has also appeared as an actor in various plays, including 1999 Goldie Award-winner Dan Carbone's There Be Monsters. He is a workshop moderator and a member of the Board of Advisors for the San Francisco Field. He became Co-Executive Director in July 2005.
Jennifer Gwirtz, Co-Executive Director
Jennifer Gwirtz is a multidisciplinary choreographer who has performed in the Bay Area, nationally and internationally since 1995. Her work has been seen at The Marsh, Dance Mission, New Langton Arts, CounterPULSE, at the ICA Boston, The Physics Room Trust in Christchurch, NZ and other venues. She earned a Masters degree in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1997, winning the McMillan Award the same year for the performance/installation, E.E.G.: a chant in the key of alpha. This piece was the first of a series which was critically acclaimed as part of the Neural Notations show. She has co-directed Right Brain Performancelab with husband and co-conspirator, John Baumann since 1998. Baumann and Gwirtz also co-publish Performers'/Artists' Voice, a peer review magazine for Bay Area artists of all genres. Her writing was recently published in the 9th issue of Morbid Curiosity magazine. She joined the Field Advisory Board in 2002, and became Co-Executive Director in July 2005.
Mary Armentrout
Mary Armentrout is a choreographer working in the space between dance, theater and object art. She studied dance and philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College and received her B.A. in 1985. While there, her work was selected to represent Sarah Lawrence College at the American College Dance Festival. She creates work for both conventional and site-specific venues, recently producing solo shows of her work at Dance Mission theater, Dancers' Group Studio Theater and 848 Community Space, as well as creating performance installations at the Luggage Store Annex, Ft. Funston State Park, Dadafest, and the Tenderloin Festival In The Street. Her work has also been presented in both the Womens' Work Jubilee Festival and the Women on the Edge Series. Her work has been featured on the San Francisco TV program "House of Dance" and the WB20 Ten O'clock News. She is the Executive Director of the Performance Alliance as well as a founding member of Terrain, an East Bay choreographers' collective. She is also a board member of Dancers' Group and the FieldSF and currently teaches at Danspace in Oakland.
Susan Donham
Susan Donham is the director of Spinning Yarns Dance Collective, which she co-founded with Apryl Seech in 1998. Her choreography combines release and traditional modern techniques, interweaving a love of dance and storytelling. Spinning Yarns self-produces an annual home season, in addition to performing in showcases and festivals throughout the Bay Area and in West Virginia. In addition to her choreographic work, Donham has performed for other companies, including Eclipse Dance Theater, Khadra International Dance Theater, Right Brain Performancelab, Jenice Acosta Movers, and in the work of Marisa Pugliano, Jen Minore, and Joe Landini. Donham also works as a Development Associate for Quinn Associates, where she has written grants for Bay Area performing arts organizations for six years.
Maxine Moerman
Maxine Moerman , was the director of The Field San Francisco for 10 years. She is a choreographer and artistic director of her company, Maxine Moerman Dancetheatre. Her choreography has been presented in many cities including; London, Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles, Washington DC, San Francisco and extensively in New York City. Ms. Moerman holds an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Her dance work has received support from The Foundation For Contemporary Performance Arts, The Independent Artist Challenge Fund, The Zellerbach Family Fund, The C.A.S.H. Creative Assistance Award and the San Francisco Art Commission.
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