
Cultural worker and consultant
Ann Marie Lonsdale (she/her) is an arts worker with experience as a producer and administrator working with innovative and experimental live performance. She began her career as a performer, stage manager, and producer in theater and dance in Chicago and New York, with such companies as The Hypocrites, the Vittum Theater (now Adventure Stage Chicago), the side project, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Sitelines dance and performance festival. As an administrator, she worked as Program Manager for the Creative Capital Professional Development Program, as General Manager at CPR - Center for Performance Research, a space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that supports artist working in dance and experimental performance, and as Director of Programs and Deputy Director at A.R.T./New York, a service organization for New York's nonprofit theatre community, overseeing a suite of services including grants, loans, professional development, and convenings. She has also worked in the performing arts community as an educator, facilitator, grant panelist, speaker, and consultant. She has done training with artEquity, and is actively engaged in a national community of practice around anti-racism in the theatre and arts. Ann Marie is a proud graduate of the University of Chicago and holds a master’s degree in Arts Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University. http://www.ghostboatconsulting.com/