About the Author
An independent creative production company based in New York, Pomegranate Arts is dedicated to the development of international contemporary performing arts projects. Joining Pomegranate as a principal immediately upon its formation in 1998, Alisa has developed projects by Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Taylor Mac, Bassem Youssef, Improbable, Hal Wilner, Virginia Rodrigues, Collective:Unconscious, Sankai Juku, Goran Bregovic, Lucinda Childs and Dan Zanes. She was the Associate Producer of the 2012 production of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach, Available Light by John Adams, Lucinda Childs, and Frank Gehry. Current projects include Robin Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store, and Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music.
Alisa is an active board member of the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) and a member of the Creative and Independent Producer Alliance (CIPA). She has served as a consultant for the National Dance Project/NEFA and Creative Capitol. She has been a guest lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Michigan and the United Nations International School.
Previously Alisa has worked at International Production Associates (IPA) as a project manager working with Philip Glass, Spalding Gray, Twyla Tharp, Meryl Tankard, Sankai Juku, Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, Elizabeth Streb, Lisa Kron and Diamanda Galás. Alisa began her career on the producing team of the International Theatre Festival of Chicago after graduating from Northwestern University with a BA in English Fiction Writing and a Certificate in Integrated Arts
