Producing Directing Team

This is the day-to-day heartbeat of NET; a collaborative trio of contractors practicing shared leadership absent of hierarchical mappings with the support of additional project-based stewards. These artists and organizers emerged from the NETneXt process, and are leading the organization's ongoing transformation through the messy, beautiful work of building the new NET together.

When you reach out to NET, you're connecting with this team. We’re the ones holding the emails and the meetings, the grief time and the breathing space, the vision work and the logistical love that makes transformation possible.

Dream up what's next with us. We would love to talk through whatever you're sitting with. #TeamNET

Shared Leadership Team

This team is where artistic and ensemble wisdom meets organizational governance. Our hybrid circle brings together Producing Directors and Board Members in monthly practice.

Not your traditional board, but an advisory constellation offering grounding and creative accompaniment to the vision in motion. Members receive stipends because we believe in compensating wisdom, and their insights directly support the infrastructure we're building. We are working on moving beyond consultation and into co-creation with agency.

  • Leslie Tamaribuchi

    (she/her)

    LA Commons

  • Alison DeLa Cruz

    (they/them)

    GREAT LEAP

  • Claudia Alick

    (she/them)

    Calling Up Justice

  • CarlosAlexis Cruz

    (he/them)

    NOUVEAU SUD

  • Rad Pereira

    (they/them)

    New York Stage & Film

Former Staff We Celebrate & Honor

We carry forward the labor, care, and creativity of the many who built NET across its history. Those who bridged, reimagined, and made space when no one funded it. Their contributions live in the foundation of everything we're building today. We hold their work with deep gratitude.

  • Alisha Tonsic (Executive Director)

  • Nicole Shero (Director of Operations)

  • Patricia Garza (Programs Director)

  • Sherinne Azab

  • Park Cofield

  • Mark Valdez (Executive Director)

Board Emeritus

These ensemble theater leaders recently cycled off our board after guiding NET through pivotal transitions over many years. We honor their vision and commitment to an organization in constant motion, and we celebrate both their contributions to our collective work and their continued leadership across the field.

  • Shoshana Bass

    Sandglass Theater (Putney, VT)

  • Carrie J. Cole

    Indiana University of Pennsylvania/Theater by the Grove (Indiana, PA)

  • Gerard Stropnicky

    Individual Artist (Danville, PA)

  • Jonathan Clark

    The Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. (Knoxville,TN)

  • Dipankar Mukherjee

    Pangea World Theater (Minneapolis, MN)

  • Todd London

    Writer, Historian (New York, NY)