Board of Directors
Spellbound’s Board of Directors collaborates with the Oversight Committee on all decision making related to the budget, fundraising and artistic programming. The board is made up of artists on the Spellbound Ensemble. Contact our board at [email protected]
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Janette Martinez is an arts administrator, facilitator, and multidisciplinary artist from the Bronx, New York. For over 10 years, Janette has built her career at the intersection of education and audience engagement, workforce development, and the employee experience. Most recently as the Head of Staff, Development, and Inclusion with Camp Arcadia, Janette redesigned the Human Resources department for the 100+ year old organization, overseeing staff recruitment, training and development, personnel management, and internal and external communications. She designed and launched the Arcadia BIPOC Fellowship, a program geared towards providing underrepresented outdoor education leaders with the resources and professional development to thrive in the outdoors industry. As a founding member of the management team at Little Island, Janette led the vision and development of the Employee Experience department in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Janette expanded the staff from 13-130 employees in 15 months while concurrently designing the organization’s systems for onboarding and development, workforce partnerships, employee engagement, and the total rewards and compensation strategy. Janette has delivered educational programs around the US with renowned arts and community-based organizations such as Disney Theatrical Group, New Victory Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and DreamYard Project as a member of their education and community engagement teams. Currently, she is a Teaching Artist with Disney Theatrical Group, an Arthur Miller Foundation Mentor, and consulting on the development of the Student Services department and curriculum for Empire Training Center for the Arts. Janette has been the Board President for Spellbound Theatre since 2022, most notably facilitating the organization’s transition to a shared leadership model. Janette has a M.S in Educational Theatre from The City College of New York and is a proud alum of Boston University’s College of Fine Arts and LaGuardia High School of the Arts.
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Emily Baldwin (she/her) is a born-and-bred New Yorker currently based in London. Emily has been with Spellbound since 2016; before serving as Board Secretary she was a deviser, teaching artist, and performer, as well as the Family Engagement Manager through 2021. Emily has a BA in Theatre from Northwestern University and an MA in Applied Theatre from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She’s now an Creative Support Worker for Access All Areas Theatre and she spends her spare time roaming the streets of London in desperate search for good bagels, pickles, and black coffee (so far unsuccessful on all accounts).
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Khalia Davis (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and Artistic Director of Bay Area Children’s Theatre where she recently led the world premieres of a kids play about Racism and The Imaginaries: An Immersive Musical, an original new work created by the newly-formed BACT Writer’s Room. As a director and arts educator, she has worked on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally with prominent theaters such as First Stage, Atlantic Theater Company’s Atlantic for Kids, New York City Children’s Theater, Disney Theatrical Group, Spellbound Theatre and more. Before assuming her new role as Artistic Director, Ms. Davis served as the Director of Inclusion and Education with Brooklyn Children’s Theatre restructuring their children’s musical theater programming through an anti-racism lens. She made her professional theatrical debut at thirteen years old launching a life-long career as a performer splitting her time between California and NYC. Proud board member for TYA/USA, Spellbound Theater, and The Story Pirates. Awards: 2019 Emerging Leader Fellowship-TYA/USA, 2019 NYCCT Leader Fellowship, 2021 Corey Medallion Award-Children's Theatre Foundation of America. BA in Theater Arts from the University of Southern California www.khaliadavis.com!
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Jolene Noelle (she/her) is a Dramaturg and an Institutional Storyteller. She uses her dramatugical toolkit to examine small stories inside theatrical text, big stories told by institutions, and the stories that shape our collective artistic history. She has worked at theaters in Colorado, Texas, Maryland, and throughout New York. She manages Institutional Giving at New 42 and the New Victory Theater, and lives in Queens with her twin toddlers. MFA, Columbia University.
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Robert M. Thaxton-Stevenson (he/him) is a native New Yorker, raised in Greenwich Village and living in Brooklyn. He makes interactive theatre for all ages, works with young people in many settings, and designs for the stage. He has directed projects and work-in-progress showings at New Ohio Theater, New York Transit Museum, The New Victory Theater, Park Avenue Armory, Governors Island, and New York University. He is a company member with Atlantic Pacific Theatre, the Verbatim Performance Lab, and Spellbound Theatre. Robert is currently Drama Teacher & Technical Director at the Chapin School and has previously worked as a Teaching Artist at The New Victory Theater, Met Opera Guild, and New York Theater Workshop. He holds a BS and an MA in Educational Theatre from NYU.
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