NACL Core Staff
Brad Krumholz
EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Brad is a theatre director and scholar. He has created and directed 10 original NACL works, and co-directed 10 seasons of the Catskill Festival of New Theatre. He is currently Assistant Professor and Head of Production for the Department of Theatre at Hunter College. He received his Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance from the Graduate Center of CUNY. His book, Why Do Actors Train? Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers is now available through Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama.
Jessica López-Barkl
TECHNICAL ASSISTANT
Jessica is a founding member of In Strange Company and is currently the Associate Professor of Theater and Speech/Theater Program Director at SUNY Sullivan. She is a freelance actor, director, dramaturg, playwright, and designer. Her work has been seen in NYC; Seattle, WA; Rowayton, CT; Albuquerque, NM; Boulder, CO; Coeur d'Alene, ID; Damascus, PA; Highland Lake, NY; and Sarah Lawrence College.
Lyndsey Anderson
DIRECTOR of ARTIST EXPERIENCE
Lyndsey is a professional SAG actor and theater artist. She is a founding member of the NYC-based theatre company BREAD Arts Collective, and is one half of the comedy rock duo, Veruca & Dex. Lyndsey appears in film and primetime tv, and was 2022 Artist in Residence at North American Cultural Laboratory.
Brett Keyser
DIRECTOR of PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Brett is a graphic designer, writer, and performing artist. He has worked with NACL since 2010 as an administrator and as an artist on many productions, including Struck, The Weather Project, and The Little Farm Show. He is a recipient of an Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, and is a former artist in residence at the American Philosophical Society. His Museum of Un-natural History lies at nightjarapothecary.net
Brendan Regimbal
TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE
Brendan started his career in “Downtown” New York theater. In 2008 he was part of a collective that formed the Incubator Arts Project in St. Mark's Church. After a career in touring production management, Brendan went to Columbia University to open their new multi venue art building, the Lenfest Center for the Arts. Having moved to Highland Lake in 2020, Brendan is excited to turn his artistic efforts towards the artistic communities of Sullivan County.
NACL Board
Thomas Bartscherer, President; Nick Slie, Vice President; Raymond Bobgan, Treasurer; Brad Krumholz, Secretary; Denise Poché-Jetter; Kristin Marting
Advisory Members: Freda Eisenberg, Buck Moorhead
Thomas Bartscherer works in the arts and humanities. Current projects include: Stranger Love, a 6-hour opera he created with composer Dylan Mattingly, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which premiered on May 20, 2023; History of Life, an evening-length performance also created with Mattingly; and the forthcoming critical edition of Hannah Arendt’s last book, The Life of the Mind. Thomas is Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College.
Raymond Bobgan creates new performances that are bold, multilayered, and highly physical. Raymond’s work has been seen in Romania, Brazil, Denmark, Serbia, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Raymond is the Executive Artistic Director of Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT). During his tenure CPT has tripled in budget size and community impact. Raymond has produced 65 world premieres, a majority of which are by women and artists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
Kristin Marting is a director and creative producer of hybrid work based in NYC. She has constructed 36 works for the stage (15 original hybrid works, 9 opera-theatre and music-theatre works, 8 adaptations of novels & short stories and 5 classic plays). She is currently developing 3 opera-theatre works with John Glover/Kelley O’Rourke, Paul Pinto, and Kamala Sankaram. She has premiered works at HERE, 3LD, Ohio Theatre, and Soho Rep. Her work has toured to 7 Stages, Berkshire Festival, Brown, MCA, New World, Painted Bride, Perishable, UMass, Moscow Art Theatre and Oslo. Kristin is the recipient of two prestigious MAP Fund awards, a nytheatre.com Person of the Decade for outstanding contribution, a Leader to Watch by Art Table and a BAX10 Award. She is Founding Artistic Director of HERE and co-founding director of PROTOTYPE festival.
Denise Poché-Jetter was recently Program Director for Performance Space New York and currently serves as Director of HR and Operations for the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY. Following a career as a political strategist in New York City from 1997-2006, fulfilling such roles as Chief of Staff at Bill Lynch Associates, LLC (under former Deputy Mayor, Bill Lynch, Sr.), Poché-Jetter pursued a Ph.D. in Cognitive, Social and Developmental Psychology at the New School for Social Research. During that time, she also held a year-long grant funded position as Research Specialist for the Programming and Education Departments at the American Museum of Natural History. Ms. Poché-Jetter comes to the board of North American Cultural Laboratory with an enduring love of the arts, creative self-expression, and interdisciplinary scholarship.
Nick Slie is a New Orleans-born performer, producer and cultural organizer. He is the Co-Artistic Director of Mondo Bizarro. Since 2002, Nick has toured a wide array of imaginative projects to art centers, universities and outdoor locations in 38 states across the country and abroad. However, he is most proud of the work he does at home, where the land kisses the water. For two decades, he has been passionately engaged in his hometown of New Orleans, collaborating across sectors on a vast array of local performance and arts-based civic engagement projects. From 2004-2008, he served on the Executive Committee of Alternate ROOTS, is the former board chair for the Network of Ensemble Theaters, and currently serves on the board of Goat in the Road.
