Board of Directors Dawn McMahan Gerald Ray James Kehl Internship Coordinator Jamaille Williams Oak Tree Arts Center Junior Advisory Team Alissa Jeoma, age 10 Sitkiya Simmons, age 9 Musicians Gregory Scharpen (Composer, Video Designer, Graphics) has been with the company almost since its inception, and has worked with Dawn on creative projects since 2001. Also known as the KALX dj and radio show producer ‘Carnacki’ for the past decade, he is a Bay Area-based experimental composer and sound designer who performs internationally, and won the East Bay Express Award for Best Sound Designer in the East Bay 2005. He has performed with Illuminated Corridor in both the Bay Area and New York, as well as with MOEKESTRA!. Gregory has designed sound for theatre pieces produced by Central Works, TheatreFirst, Shotgun Players, Theatre Rhino, and numerous other Bay Area companies. He has worked extensively with irr. app. ext., Neighborhood Public Radio. A collaborative CD deriving from the score of the PYTHIA piece From Here We Watch the World Go By was released in 2006 by Alethiometer Records, entitled Far Voyage from a Placid Island. He has also been editing with award-winning documentary director Connie Field for the past decade on the multi-episodic film, Have You Heard From Johannisberg? Cheryl E. Leonard (Music Composer, Collaborator) returned last year from creating music from natural sounds in the Antarctic on a grant from the National Scientists Foundation, to work with PYTHIA on A Portrait by Means of the Sun. Cheryl is a composer, performer, improviser and instrument builder. Over the last several years she has focused on creating music and instruments with found natural materials. Many of Leonard’s works explore subtle textures and intricacies of sounds not generally considered musical. Her other interests include collaboration across artistic disciplines, and developing site-specific compositions and instruments. Cheryl holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MA from Mills College, both in music composition.  Her music has been performed at the Exploratorium, Sushi Gallery, Highways, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Butoh Festival, the Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, SoundCulture 96, and the National Conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S., et al.. Her works Instruments in Trees and Ziran have been featured on KQED TV's local arts show Spark, CBS's Evening Magazine, and in Noisy People, documentary about the Bay Area’s music scene. She has been awarded grants from ASCAP, the American Composers Forum (twice), and Meet the Composer, and residencies at the Djerassi Program, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Villa Montalvo and Engine 27. Recordings of her music are available from Great Hoary Marmot Records, NEXMAP, Unusual Animals, Pax Recordings, Apraxia Records, 23 Five Inc, Old Gold Records and The Lab. Other wonderful artists out of our past include: Ri Molnár, Moe! Staiano, Tammy Berlin, Mike Curtis, Chelsea Pegram, Darren Jenkins, Katie Warner, Deanna Williams, Bob Webb, Gretchen Garnett, Akiyo Mineo, Wanda Kraikit, Jeff Mooney, Karen Campbell,  John Segundo, LC Smith, Miriam Wolodarski, Sage Brucia, Marisa Pugliano, Maggie Kelley, Jennifer Dinoia, Jennifer Huang, Marjorie Moore, Lisa Micheli, Alan Perry, Kate Joyca. Rebecca Cheney, Jessica Dalton, Elise Sieffert, Matt Waldron, John Scharpen, Irr. App. Ext., Helen Bea, Missy Frillot, Rob Woodman, Jesse Quattro, Jesse Burson and John Brumit.
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