BY ARTISTS, FOR ARTISTS
Cannonball was originally created by the award-winning, internationally recognized performance ensemble Almanac Dance Circus Theatre.
The producing team has since expanded to involve even more incredible artist-administrators, working in a Rotating Producer Cohort Model.
With our transition into a Non-profit, we re-organized our Cannonball Staffing Structure, more to come but you’ll be seeing some new and old faces…
The Cannonball Crew
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Terina-Jasmine Alladin (she/her)
Development and Operations Lead
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Colby Calhoun (they/she)
Philanthropic Engagement Lead
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Katherine Desimine (she/they)
Administrative Coordinator
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Ben Grinberg (he/they)
Head of Partnerships
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Skye Fort (she/her)
Mentoring Producer
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Su
Mentoring Producer
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Nick Jonczak (he/him)
5th Year Producer
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Gabriele Preston (they/them)
Associate Producer
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Mason Rosenthal (he/him)
Associate Producer
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Vanessa Kamp (she/her)
Associate Producer
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Frank Creative Solutions
Marketing and Communications
Founding Producers
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Ben Grinberg (he/they)
Founding Producer
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Nick Jonczak (he/him)
Founding Producer
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Mae West (they/he)
Founding Producer
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Lauren Johns (she/her)
Founding Producer
Join the crew!
Are you an artist who is also skilled in event production, development, project management, marketing and media, community building, or another skillset you think would benefit Cannonball? Reach out to us about joining the crew!
The Producer Cohort programs Cannonball, works directly with artists and leads festival staff on the ground. They are the visible faces of Cannonball, and they work within its mission to actualize their visions and empower their communities.
This model is new, and it is an experiment in community curation and peer-to-peer presentation.
Festival as Laboratory
Producing as Learning
Labor as Service
Polyphonic Perspectives as Keystone
Curation as Community Building
Welcoming the Outsider as Practice
Gathering as Medicine
images by Wide Eyed StudiosHERE’S HOW IT WORKS
Each year, members of our larger community join the Producer Cohort.
They start as Associate Producers, and learn by doing as they produce the Festival.
YEAR 1:
YEAR 2:
They become Core Producers, guiding the vision for that year’s Cannonball and making it all happen.
As Mentoring Producers, they document knowledge and pass it on, working directly with Associate Producers to prepare them for their roles.
YEAR 3:
YEAR 4:
They REST. It’s mandatory.
CHECK OUT THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL! (delivered in April, 2023, along with some delicious pizza by our co-founder Ben.)
Rotating Producer Cohort Model
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Rotating Producer Cohort Model ::::
This is a model that fosters support, collaboration, mentorship, and rest (imagine that?!),
and we’re constantly experimenting with it year over year.
The model ensures a constant influx of new perspectives, centers peer-to-peer producing and skill sharing, and has built-in structures designed to ease the transition for new Cannonball producers — and hopefully, avoid the self-immolation that befalls many perennially under-resourced arts administrators. As artist-producers, we view curation as an embodied practice, an extension of each of our artistic worldviews, and an organic extension of our overlapping communities. We view Cannonball as a platform, a catalyst, and a renewable resource that we hope will enrich our community for years to come.
(get it? It’s rotating?)