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Kathleen Pletcher
- Executive Artistic Director
- Kathleen founded FirstWorks in 2004. For ten years, she served as Artistic Director for First Night Providence. From 1985-1992, she founded and led Ragabash Studio, an experimental theatre company in New York City. She has worked internationally, performing and conducting research in Japan, Italy, Indonesia, India and the Nether- lands. An arts education consultant she has launched pilot programs for Arts Alaska, Cleveland‚ University Circle Programs, NY Foundation for the Arts, Teachers & Writers Collaborative and the European Council for English Schools.
contact: kathleen@first-works.org
Peter Bramante
- Managing Director
- Peter brings with him strong leadership, strategic skills and over 20 years experience in the nonprofit sector as an executive, manager, artist and educator. Prior to joining FirstWorks, Peter served as the Executive Director of the Arts & Business Council of Rhode Island (A&BC/RI). Under his leadership the organization expanded local programs and services, created innovative audience development tools and broadened the scope of nationally funded resources aimed at building Rhode Island’s cultural capitol. His interest and ideas around connecting arts to business practices and civic life have been presented at panels for Americans for the Arts, The National Arts Marketing Conference and The Association of Performing Arts Service Organizations. An advocate for experiential, arts-based learning, Peter has held adjunct and associate professorships at Brown University/Trinity Repertory Consortium, Roger Williams University, Rhode Island College and Connecticut College where he received an MFA in Dance Science and Performance studies and while enrolled through a full fellowship.
- contact: peter@first-works.org
Lydia Breckon
- Development Director
- Dr. Lydia Breckon has over 20 years of nonprofit fundraising and program management experience.She has worked for immigrant organizations, a museum and colleges in Massachusetts and California, as a resource developer, program director and educator. An anthropologist (Yale 1999), Lydia specializes in Southeast Asian migration to the US and is particularly interested in cultural resources of immigrant communities. Lydia works to connect funders, donors and the wider public with nonprofit programs that they can wholeheartedly support.
- contact: lydia@first-works.org
Annette Robinson
- Administrative Manager
- Annette produced First Night Providence through 12 festivals as Associate Director. Most recently, she was Human Resources Manager for Sodexho School Services.
- contact: annette@first-works.org
Meredith Cutler
- Marketing/PR Coordinator
- Meredith brings to FirstWorks over 10 years of experience in brand marketing, public relations and creative project management within the non-profit, higher education, consumer electronics and entertainment industries. Also a visual artist, Meredith co-founded the 9yds. art collaborative, which produced multimedia arts events and exhibitions throughout greater Boston from 1998-2002. Her collaborative and solo work has been featured at the BCA Mills Gallery, Allston Skirt Gallery, Zeitgeist Gallery, Wheaton College and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Gallery at Skidmore College. Meredith is also a contributing writer for artscope magazine, (New England's Culture Magazine), covering the region's visual arts news since 2008.
- contact: marketing@first-works.org
Siobhan Callahan
- Community Programs Coordinator
- Siobhan received her Masters in Liberal Studies, with a concentration in documentary photography, from Duke University. As Projects Manager with the Durham Arts Council in North Carolina, she handled event planning, development and graphic design projects. Since beginning at FirstWorks, she has also discovered a talent for community outreach and education. Siobhan sits on the board of Community MusicWorks
- contact: siobhan@first-works.org
With additional support from:
Elena Lledó
- Pixilerations Exhibitions Director
- Dr. Elena Lledó is a contemporary art curator and critic, and has organized a number of art festivals and cultural events in Europe and the US. In addition to publishing criticism for over 15 years, she was the curatorial assistant at the Akademie der Kunste (Berlin), gallery manager at the Galerie carlier | gebauer (Berlin) and director of The Drawing Room (Berlin). After moving to the US, she was the coordinator of the first Digital Arts and New Media Festival in Santa Cruz, CA (2006) and more recently she has lectured art criticism at RISD.
- contact: pixilerations@first-works.org
