Amy Handelsman (she/her)
Executive & Producing Director
Amy Handelsman is a multi-disciplinary executive who combines creative and business skills in equal measure in non-profit management, programming, and story development and production in film, television, dance and theater.  She is also an educator and author. 

In the dance world, she served as Managing Director GALLIM, shepherding productions at Lincoln Center’s Hearst Plaza, New York City Ballet, the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Alvin Ailey II.  She was the Executive Director of David Dorfman Dance and the American liaison for Israeli-based Batsheva Dance Company’s 2018 Summer Tour to Jacob’s Pillow and the Joyce Theater. Handelsman has recently joined the Board of Directors of Dance on Camera. 

Among her positions as a creative executive and producer for films, television movies, series and pilots were those at The Walt Disney Company, Tri-Star, Warner Bros., PBS, ABC, CBS, Showtime and HBO. Her work as a creative consultant can be found at: amyhandelsman.com.

In theater, Handelsman served most recently as the Managing Director of Shakespeare & Co. and  as a consultant for the Adams Theater and Majestic Theater, all in Western MA. In Los Angeles, she was part of Artistic Staff at Center Theater Group (the Mark Taper Forum) under a deal with Showtime, developing cable projects with playwrights, directors, designers and talent.  

Handelsman has worked on projects with a handful of Broadway producers and has been a curator and dramaturge at HBO’s Comedy Arts Festival, the Hip-Hop Theater Festival, CTG’s New Work Festival and FIAF: Crossing the Line Festival. She served for many years on the Artistic Council of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference.

An honors graduate from Harvard University, she received an MFA in Creative Writing & Literature at Stony Brook University; has guest-lectured at Columbia University and was an Adjunct Professor at NYC’s Tisch School of the Arts, teaching in the Dramatic Writing department and at the Game Center.

She takes classes in ballet, hip-hop, samba, salsa and West African dance.

Paige Barnett Kulbeth (she/they)
Digital Marketing Associate
Paige Barnett Kulbeth is a Louisiana/NYC-based dancer and artist from Lafayette, LA, with a Chemical Engineering degree which has never been used from University of Louisiana (2017). After college she began creating dance installations at her local art gallery, Basin Arts, and was soon commissioned to direct the rework of NYC artist Tina Girouard’s Mardi Gras Suites and Quartets (1974/2018). This piqued a new interest in 1970’s post-modern art of New York and she impulsively moved to Brooklyn. Once there, Paige immediately began dancing with Dance Heginbotham, performing with musicians from Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, The Knights, and jazz guru Ethan Iverson. Notable performance venues include Jacob’s Pillow, La Jolla Music Society Festival, Scottsdale Arts, The Ringling Museum, and Bryant Park. Paige has also danced for Karole Armitage in the Marc Jacobs Spring 2020 Fashion show and is currently cast as “Birdie” in Isaac Mizrahi’s annual production of Peter & The Wolf at Works & Process at The Guggenheim. When not dancing, she is always in development of her own choreographic works, experimental art events and movement-based video art. www.vpbarnett.com

Mykel Marai Nairne (she/her)
Artistic Outreach Associate
Mykel Marai Nairne (she/her) is a freelance dance artist, arts administrator, and producer with a vested interest in supporting other artists in the field. Born and raised in New York City, Mykel attended The Dalton School and was a fellowship student at The Ailey School. Mykel earned her BA in Film and Media Studies with a concentration in documentary video production from Dartmouth College in 2016. During a hiatus from dance performance, Mykel worked as a Marketing and Arts Administration Intern for the Alvin Ailey Foundation Inc. and an Education Intern at Mark Morris Dance Center. Most recently, Mykel worked as a Development Fellow at Pentacle in the inaugural year of its fellowship program and as an Associate Producer at New York Live Arts.