A roundtable conversation with independent producers.

We will be joined by

"LINDA BRUMBACK

Linda Brumbach (Executive Producer) founded Pomegranate Arts in 1998. She is the executive and creative producer of Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music and the HBO documentary film of the same name, Holiday Sauce, and the ALL ARTS film short Whitman in the Woods. Some of her other productions include the Olivier Award-winning remount of Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach, Lucinda Childs's DANCE and Available Light, Laurie Anderson's Landfall, Delusion, and Homeland, and Robin Frohardt's The Plastic Bag Store. She conceived and co-created the box set edition of the Philip Glass Piano Etudes which received a distinguished honor award for exceptionally outstanding achievement in print music publishing. Current productions include new works by Jlin, Samora Pinderhughes, William Kentridge, Ushio Amagatsu, Robin Frohardt, Ohad Naharin, Machine Dazzle, and Aszure Barton and Ambrose Akinmusire. She received the 2016 ISPA Patrick Hayes Award and the 2025 Danspace Project Rebel Angel Award.

NORA CHELLEW

Nora Chellew (she/they) is a sculptural artist and performance producer, born and based in Brooklyn. Chellew received their B.F.A. in sculpture from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017. Since 2019 she has worked on a plethora of projects at the Museum of Modern Art, produced work for multiple Performa Biennials, and been a producer for two new arts festivals, 2 years running: Sugar Sugar! in Domino Park (NYC) and AIR in Aspen, CO. Chellew has also had the privilege of co-producing the work of Jonathan González at The Kitchen and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Alongside programmatic work, she has assisted the development of scenery and sculpture pieces for: Yve Laris Cohen, Cate McCrea, and Peter Born. Chellew has exhibited her independent artworks at Parent Company, NYC; Spencer Brownstone, NYC; FiveMyles, Brooklyn; Brick Aux, Brooklyn; Spillway Collective, Philadelphia; and Phoenix Athens, Greece. She is also the recipient of a N.Y.F.A. City Artist Corps Grant and has published work with Are.na.

EMMA ORME

BAILEY WILLIAMS

Bailey Williams is a playwright, performer and producer. Recent past productions: The Family Dog, dir. Tara Ahmadinejad, Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks 2026. Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods, dir. Tara Elliott, Rattlestick/New Georges, April 2025 and Exponential Festival, January 2024. Coach Coach, dir. Sarah Blush, Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks 2024. Events, dir. Sarah Blush, The Hearth at The Brick, December 2022. Other works have been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Portland Center Stage, Ars Nova, Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Orchard Project, NACL, the Barn at Lee, and more. She is a New Georges and Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist and a resident of New Dramatists through 2033. She is currently under commission with Playwrights Horizons. MFA: Brooklyn College. baileywilliams.live
She is currently the co-director of The Exponential Festival, a producer at New Georges, a script wrangler at Clubbed Thumb, and a founding member of Privy Producing Collective, which offers resources for self-producing artists. With her partner, Emma Horwitz, she runs a theater company called Two Sisters. They present work created both in collaboration and individually. They also host a reading series called The Ecstatic Peephole every third Monday at Pete's Candy Store. Twosisterspresents.com"