Applications are open for our May producer clinic with Jenni Bowman! Apply at our #LinkInBio for a chance to meet with Jenni on Monday, 5/18 between 4-5 PM EST. Talk to Jenni about music, dance, theatre, opera, multi-disciplinary pursuits, and starting your own company.
Jenni Bowman is a Brooklyn-based creative producer working across theater, music, opera, dance, and multidisciplinary performance. She is the founder of ShowShow, a creative producing company dedicated to fully realizing ambitious, artist-driven work rooted in collective liberation. Current projects include a new work by Ben Kimitch; //shrouded\\ by jaamil olawale kosoko; visual artist and composer James Allister Sprang’s LIME and Felt Void; and an Off-Broadway run of Terror Is the Order of the Day, directed by Tea Alagić and opening in 2027.
Jenni brings 20 years of experience producing complex live performance independently and at institutions including Park Avenue Armory, International Contemporary Ensemble, Discovery Green in Houston, and Philip Glass’ Days & Nights Festival in California. Her first job in New York City was producing The Mermaid Parade in Coney Island.
Previously a producer at the Park Avenue Armory and a former stage manager, Jenni helmed the international tour of Glass, Wilson & Child’s Einstein on the Beach and numerous Chekhov productions at Lake Lucille. She currently serves on the board of JACK.
#CIPA #CIPAMember #Producer #ProducerClinic #JenniBowman
Applications are open for our April producer clinic with @jeccabarry ! Apply at our #LinkInBio for a chance to meet with Jecca on Thursday, 4/23 between 1-2 PM EST. Talk to Jecca about developing, producing, and touring new theatre, opera, and dance work!
Jecca Barry is an independent theatre, theatre, film, and music producer. She is the founder and creative producer of Fin Productions, and a co-founder of Up Until Now Collective. Jecca’s practice focuses on developing work with artists that are challenging the conventions of the performing arts industry. From 2012-2022, she served as Executive Director of the acclaimed production company Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) and was a Co-Director of New York’s annual PROTOTYPE Festival from 2017-2022.
Jecca has overseen the commissioning, development, production and touring of over 30 new theatre, music-theatre, and opera works, and has toured those works to over 40 national and 20 international venues. Works Jecca has produced have won a Total Theatre Award and Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Bessie, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, and Elliot Norton Awards in cities around the US. The PROTOTYPE Festival was nominated for Outstanding Festival at the 2019 International Opera Awards. Jecca holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in avant-garde flute performance from the Royal Northern College of Music and New York University.
#CIPA #CIPAMember #Producer #ProducerClinic #JeccaBarry
Back by popular demand — after an abundance of outstanding applicants for our February clinic, Nunally Kersh returns to our producer clinic program for March! Members who have applied previously are encouraged to reapply. Apply at our #LinkInBio for your chance to meet with Nunally Kersh on March 16 between 5:00-6:00 pm EST.
Nunally Kersh is a seasoned curator and producer, with a long track record of commissioning, developing and presenting both visual and performance-based work across a broad range of genres and settings.
As Senior Producer for Live Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, she oversees the artistic planning and production of live performances that serve to amplify the Museum’s permanent collection and special exhibitions. Recent projects have featured artists as diverse as Hamed Sinno (Westerly Breath), Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan (SQURL: Music for Films by Man Ray) and the video artist Jacolby Satterwhite.
Other senior leadership roles have included Executive Producer at Spoleto Festival USA, where she curated and produced a wide range of work across opera, dance, theater, experimental performance, and diverse musical genres and Bard Summerscape Festival where she produced large-scale productions of rarely seen operas and staged concerts. She has also worked extensively as an independent producer and curator with various organizations in New York City. She also frequently serves as a panelist and consultant for numerous private foundations and arts agencies.
Apply by 5:00 PM EST on Friday, March 13 to talk to Nunally about her areas of expertise: contemporary dance, contemporary music, opera, site-specific performance, and performance in a visual arts context.
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Another clip from a fabulous #FolkAlliance showcase by prominent #Serbian #tamburitza player Branko BAKO Jovanovic.
#folkalliance2026 @branko_bako_jovanovic
Last month, our CIPA team attended Folk Alliance International for the first time in New Orleans! We met self-producing artists and producers in the music industry, had lovely conversations after panels and at our booth, and attended an incredibly diverse array of showcases — it was so rewarding to see Lousiana's vibrant musical scene well represented, and especially excellent to observe so many young and emerging professionals engaged across the conference. We'll see you next year at FAI 2027: Chicago! 🎶
Pictured Artists:
🌟 Cecilia Villar Eljuri @eljurimusic
🌟 Nikki 'D' & the @sisters_ofthunder
🌟 @sallybabys.silverdollars
🌟 Panorama Jazz Band of New Orleans @panoramalandnola
🌟 @anaeverling
🌟 @tajmahalblues
🌟 @crystalshawanda
🌟 @terrance_simien & The Zydeco Experience
#CIPA #FolkAllianceInternational #FAI2026 #FolkMusic #IndependentProducer #CreativeProducing
Applications are still open for our February producer clinic with Nunally Kersh! Apply at our #LinkInBio for a chance to meet with Nunally on Wednesday, 2/18 between 1-2 PM EST.
Nunally Kersh is a seasoned curator and producer, with a long track record of commissioning, developing and presenting both visual and performance-based work across a broad range of genres and settings.
As Senior Producer for Live Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, she oversees the artistic planning and production of live performances that serve to amplify the Museum’s permanent collection and special exhibitions. Recent projects have featured artists as diverse as Hamed Sinno (Westerly Breath), Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan (SQURL: Music for Films by Man Ray) and the video artist Jacolby Satterwhite.
Other senior leadership roles have included Executive Producer at Spoleto Festival USA, where she curated and produced a wide range of work across opera, dance, theater, experimental performance, and diverse musical genres and Bard Summerscape Festival where she produced large-scale productions of rarely seen operas and staged concerts. She has also worked extensively as an independent producer and curator with various organizations in New York City. She also frequently serves as a panelist and consultant for numerous private foundations and arts agencies. Talk to Nunally about her areas of expertise: contemporary dance, contemporary music, opera, site-specific performance, and performance in a visual arts context.
#CIPA #CIPAMember #Producer #ProducerClinic #NunallyKersh
One of the best things about this year's Folk Alliance conference in #NewOrleans was the preponderance of #music from #Louisiana. Here's a song from Terrance Simien & the #Zydeco Experience.
I capped off a long January of conferences with my attendance at Folk Alliance, where I got to see a lot of wonderful showcases. Here's a clip from @nanivazana 's showcase.
It was wonderful getting to recognize so many accomplished and influential honorees from across the industry at this year's annual APAP Honors ceremony just two weeks ago! A special congratulations to @emmaorme as this year's recipient of the CIPA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Creative Producing 🥂 Thank you for joining us in NYC to celebrate this well deserved honor!
#CIPA #APAP #CIPAAward #IndependentProducer #CreativeProducing #ProducingExcellence #EmmaOrme
Last week in NYC, CIPA producers gathered with arts professionals from across the industry for a thought-provoking, deeply researched, and especially provocative discussion around Belonging with Intention: Creating and Presenting Amid Adversity. This searingly relevant discourse was led by @lesley302 (@thesaltonstall ), @shanefernandonc (@thalianhall ), @jsbenson72 (Marion Cultural and Civic Center), Cindy Sibilsky (CIPA staff, @injoyentertainment ), Beatrice Thomas (CIPA producer, @authenticartsandmedia ), and moderated by our Operations Leader Justine Bayod Espoz (CIPA, @toritomedia ).
Our in-depth and pluralistic approach to responding to a dynamic moment was met with a deeply engaged, participatory, and responsive audience — we are truly transforming resistance into innovation! Thank you so much to everyone who approached us afterward to tell us this was the best session of the conference 😁
Did you have a favorite moment? Check out these highlights from the discussion!
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