Our Collaborators
We’re an ever-growing and changing group of humans who believe in the power of curiosity and its ability to unlock our best and most creative selves.
Ben Seibert - Founder, Lead Collaborator
Ann C. James -
Lead Collaborator
Ben Seibert (He/Him) is a dynamic and nimble arts leader, producer and production manager known for building consensus, nurturing strategic and focused plans of action, advocating for artistic ideals and cultivating an inclusive culture of belonging.
With over 20 years of experience in bringing arts productions to their full form he is a self-driven and inquisitive artist, facilitator, manager and collaborator. In his time with La Jolla Playhouse, Ben has contributed to the development of over 25 world premier musicals and plays including Disney's HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, COME FROM AWAY, JUNK: THE GOLDEN AGE OF DEBT, INDECENT, SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL, ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE, DIANA, Tectonic Theater Project’s HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES and THE OUTSIDERS.
He has also worked with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, The University of San Diego, The Old Globe Theater and in dozens of theaters across the United States on tour. He began his career as a technician in the Chicago area after graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts from Barat College of DePaul University in Lake Forest, IL.
With the belief that anything is possible as a driving force, he brings a spirit of creation and play to his work.
Ann C. James (She/Her) made her debut as the first Black Intimacy Coordinator of Broadway in 2021 for Antoinette Nwandu’s PASS OVER.
James serves as an intimacy and sensitivity consultant for Hamilton (USA) and Hamilton (UK), and is an Intimacy/Cultural consultant in New York City for PARADE, SWEENEY TODD, WHITE GIRL IN DANGER, HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF, COMEUPPANCE, and at LaJolla Playhouse for THE OUTSIDERS, LOVE ALL and THE UNTITLED, UNAUTHORIZED HUNTER S. THOMPSON MUSICAL.
Ann has served as Intimacy Director and Sensitivity Specialist® for the provocative Off-Broadway productions of Moises Kaufman’s Seven Deadly Sins and Here There are Blueberries by Tectonic Theatre Project, Seize the King produced by Classical Theatre of Harlem, Twilight: Los Angeles,1992 and Dominique Morisseau's compelling play, Confederates at Signature Theater. Her company, Intimacy Coordinators of Color, has partnerships with Adelphi University, New York University, Columbia University, American Conservatory Theater, Brown University, Trinity Repertory Theater, A.R.T./New York, and The American Repertory Theater at Harvard.
Dominic Antonio D’Andrea (he/him) is a theatre artist, producer, presenter, and disability/access/inclusion advocate. He works at Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, directing community engagement and presented programming; he’s the elected NY State Representative for The Dramatists Guild of America; and, he serves on the planning committee for The Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP.)
He offers collaboration, thought leadership, and resource sharing for disability/access/inclusion, large-scale project planning, and mental health/creative caretaking. In the disability/access inclusion space, he advises for APAP, The National New Play Network, and dozens of New York and regional theatres, productions, and national panels, coalitions, and partnerships. He co-produced The National Disability In Theatre Convening in 2019 with actor Gregg Mozgala which brought in nearly 300 artists, advocates, artistic leaders, members of the deaf & disability community, government officials, funders, service providers, producers, presenters, and at-large community members to investigate trends and movements in the field. He co-produced Queens Theatre’s Forward Festival of the Arts in 2021, which presented the work of deaf and/or disabled artists in theatre, dance, music, visual art, circus, and experimental genres which centered disability aesthetics and ideas with the support of APAP & The Mellon Foundation’s ArtsForward grant. He produces and facilitates an ongoing series of national and regional mini convening on topics of deaf & disability centered new play work, service providers, mental health, & creative caretaking. He founded & served as producing artistic director of The One-Minute Play Festival (1MPF) for over a decade. 1MPF staged hundreds of hyper-locally focused projects centering community topics and ideas.
He holds an MA and MFA, has served as an instructor at several colleges and universities, and has received fellowships and residences at Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Directors Lab West, Chicago Directors Lab, The Drama League, Manhattan Theatre Club, Space on Ryder Farm, & The Edward F. Albee Foundation in Montauk. Dominic lives in The Hudson Valley, NY with his spouse and daughter. He became an avid runner later in life, having completed Marathons and Half Marathons all across the country and internationally.