Deputy Director

Michael Robertson

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Michael Robertson is an arts manager, artist advocate, organizational consultant and facilitator dedicated to fostering conversations, supporting training, and promoting systemic change locally, regionally, and nationally around issues of equity, access, and inclusion.

Michael joined the artEquity team in 2015 as a facilitator and then as a full-time staff member in October 2017. Previously he served for 11 years as the Managing Director of The Lark, an international theater laboratory based in New York City, where he oversaw finance, fundraising, human resources, strategic planning, and co-led equity, access, and inclusion planning, policy, and training. He was honored to work for The Lark, an organization dedicated to reinvigorating the theater as a platform for conversation and debate by nurturing visionary playwrights and connecting them with audiences nationally and internationally.

Representing The Lark, he was an inaugural member of the artEquity/Theatre Communications Group Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Institute. As a facilitator he has worked with over 30 organizations including the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Cornell University, Theatre Communications Group, The New School, and Yale University.

Previously he served as Director of Development for Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21), Membership Director of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Managing Director of Assembly Productions, and Director of Annual Fund for Trinity School. He served on the Louisiana School of Math, Science, and the Arts Foundation Board of Trustees for 10 years and has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (ART/NY), The MAP Fund, the Philadelphia Arts Initiative (The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage), New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and Theatre Communications Group

As a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar, Michael spent a year in Bali, Indonesia where he served as a management consultant for the Agung Rai Museum of Art. Training has included workshops with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond and the Interaction Institute for Social Change. Michael studied music at Trinity College and arts management at Carnegie Mellon University. He is originally from Bunkie, Louisiana and currently lives in New York City.

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