Jess Reinke (Sponsorship Activator + Operations Manager)-With a diverse background spanning from event management to digital marketing, Jess is an event producer with nearly 20 years of experience activating brands through engagement. Prior to starting MoonRise Marketing her own marketing and communications business, she served as the event director and property manager at the Donald and Carol Kress Pavilion, where she played a pivotal role in launching and managing the Kress Pavilion, fostering over 700 community events. She spent most of her early career in brand activation based in Portland, Oregon. There she worked with the city's cornerstone music festival, MusicFestNorthwest, launched the beloved Eat Mobile food cart festival, and brought brands to life with Portland Monthly, and Willamette Week.
Lia Smith-Redmann (Volunteer Coordinator)- is a Door County native and a Wisconsin-based artist, dancer, and writer. She studied dance and theatre throughout the Five College Consortium in Massachusetts and is currently pursuing her BA in both Dance and English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is an Undergraduate Research Fellow under the direction of Maria Gillespie. She is a collaborating artist with Hyperlocal MKE and a former member of Ballo Dance Company and Laughing Tiger Tai Chi in Door County, where she also provides production support for the Death's Door Dance Festival and the Door Community Auditorium. She has had the opportunity to work with internationally acclaimed artists, notably Chan Ming Shu, Ailey II, and the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company, and has had the privilege of performing the works of choreographers such as Alfonso Cervera, Maria Gillespie, and Daniel Burkholder. Her work has been performed at the Peck School of the Arts' Dance Collective: Here is Gone (2023) and Threads of Memory (2024), Danceworks’ Get It Out There, the New Dramaworks Short Play Festival, Hampshire College, and the Wisconsin Interscholastic Theatre Festival.
Jane Drumm (Artist Services, she/her)- is a student, dance artist, and choreographer interested in the intersection of physical space, collaborative choreography, and self-knowledge through movement. Raised in Chicago, Jane is a rising senior at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and she is a double major in Dance and Philosophy. Jane grew up in the circus arts at Circesteem, and was also a competitive gymnast before she transitioned to dance. Since moving into the dance world she has performed in new repertoire works by many artists including Tristan Koepke, Kyle Marshall, Staycee Pearl, Kate Marchessault, and Cameron Mckinney. She is one of the two company managers for the Bates Dance Company and works to manage daily studio needs, direct rehearsals, and assist with tech and performance logistics. Jane will be completing her thesis in dance this coming fall and plans to use that research as a stepping stone into the world of arts management post graduation.
Tim Russell (Technical Director, he/him)- lives at the confluence of the aural and the visual. He currently serves as Music Director for the University of Wisconsin Dance Program. In 2019, Tim was selected as one of the Cowles Visiting Artists at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a first for a Musician in the field of Dance. He has a vast catalogue of works specifically for choreography, most of which exist live, in collaboration with movement. His commitment to the nowness in performance led him to co-create/curate, along with choreographer Maria Gillespie, Hyperlocal MKE, a Music and Dance improvisation series that exists to this day in Milwaukee. His current curatorial project: Common Sage Arts, promotes multidisciplinary artists through carefully curated performances. Along with Tim’s long time collaboration with the Gerald Casel Dance, his audio shares the stage with choreographic artists such as: Kate Corby, Abby Crain, Danceworks, Maria Gillespie, Holly Johnston, Stephan Koplowitz, Sara Shelton Mann, Li Chiao Ping, Liz Sexe, Marlene Skog, WildSpace Dance and Jin Wen Yu, bringing Tim and his music across the world from Dock 11 in Berlin to YBCA in San Francisco. He holds an MFA in Music Improvisation from Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied improvisation, electronic music and composition with the likes of Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell and Zeena Parkins. His 2020 album: “Junct”, a collection of improvisational duets with bassist Ari Smith, was included in Tone Madison’s top 20 records of 2020.
Volunteer Advisory Board
Louise Howsen, Jess Reinke, Mickie Rasch, Marise Redmann